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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 18, 2014

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Illustrative: Members of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) are seen near an IDF soldier in the Israeli Golan Heights near the Quneitra crossing between Israel and Syria, on August 30, 2014. (Flash90)

Future of UN force on Golan in doubt as Syria crumbles

All 1,200 UNDOF peacekeepers now crowded into base on Israeli side of border; ‘their mandate is just not relevant anymore,’ ex-liaison officer says

Islamic State seizes 16 Syrian Kurdish villages

British Muslims plead for Islamic State hostage

By AP

Head of UNIFIL mission says Israel-Lebanon border calm

Iran continues to deny having any nuclear military ambitions.

Why we need Iran to reveal all

By Emily B. Landau

Teheran cannot be compelled to back away from its nuclear military ambitions so long as it denies these ambitions exist.

Israeli minister advocates ‘no deal’ with Iran

By Elhanan Miller

Mahmoud al-Zahar attends a demonstration in Khan Yunis in 2012. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib / Flash 90)

Hamas will not break ceasefire, Gaza leader vows

By Elhanan Miller

Mahmoud Al-Zahar says terror group won’t renew attacks after September 26 deadline for talks, unless Israel fires first; criticizes political leader Mashaal for relocating to Qatar rather than Beirut

Rocket sirens sound across south in false alarm

By Stuart Winer

Arrow II missile missed target in test — report

By Lazar Berman and Mitch Ginsburg

Rivlin visits south, apologizes that rest of Israel sometimes neglects it

King Bibi is wearing the wrong crown

By catering to the far right, Netanyahu has made Israel vulnerable, isolated and without hope for peace

Haviv Rettig Gur

Alan Hoffmann can bring olim, but can Israel?

Haviv Rettig Gur humbly concedes that the Jewish Agency is right, but argues that that’s not nearly good enough

The gas chambers at the Sobibor death camp in Poland (Photo by Yoram Haimi)

71 years later, Sobibor gas chambers unearthed

By Marissa Newman

Yad Vashem announces ‘very important’ find at death camp where 250,000 Jews were murdered over 18 months in 1942-3

Researchers searching for human remains in Wasosz, the site of a massacre of Jewish villagers in 1941. (photo credit: Podlaska Archaeological Laboratory)

Polish Jews split over plan to exhume 1941 massacre victims

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A police officer searches a house in Mount Gravatt, Brisbane, Australia, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014. (Photo credit: AP/AAP Image, Dave Hunt)

IS ordered ‘demonstration killings’ in Australia, says PM

By AP and AFP

Terror group reportedly planned random abduction, beheading; 15 detained in major counterterrorism raids

Illustrative: A woman getting a breast exam. (iStock/monkeybusinessimages)

Women grapple with new breast cancer study results

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Research shows Ashkenazi Jews found to have genetic mutation in random testing have high cancer rates. So should you be tested too?

Remains of what archaeologists believe is a Byzantine monastery found near Beit Shemesh. (photo credit: Assaf Peretz, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

Remains of Byzantine monastery found near Jerusalem

By Ilan Ben Zion

Antiquities Authority uncovers oil and wine presses, mosaics outside Beit Shemesh during expansion of neighborhood

Former interior minister Gideon Sa'ar. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Top minister announces surprise resignation from politics

By Adiv Sterman

Gideon Sa’ar to ‘take a break’ to focus on family, will leave post after High Holidays; Likud will fall to 2nd largest Knesset party

Fitterli team members celebrate the announcement that they won the Intel award (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli avatar tech gets you a perfect fit every time

By David Shamah

Intel likes the 3D ‘on-line fitting room’ technology developed by start-up Fitterli, good for both Internet and stores

Dr. Werner Vogels talks cloud tech at the AWS event (Photo credit: DLD)

Amazon: We’re the secret sauce behind Israeli start-ups

By David Shamah

Saving shoestring-funded start-ups money on IT infrastructure is a factor in helping them succeed, says a top Amazon executive

A couple at the annual gay parade in Jerusalem on August 01, 2013 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Pride and politics

The Jerusalem Gay Pride parade, rescheduled for Thursday after this summer’s war, has been marred by discord in the LGBTQ community

Sir Simon Schama, renowned British historian who made the 5 part epic BBC series, ‘The Story of the Jews,’ speaks at the UK Jewry's annual fundraiser on September 15, 2014. (Blake Ezra Photography)

Simon Schama tells UK Jewry to stop living in a bubble

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A screen capture of former Jordanian MP Sheikh Abd Al-Muni'm Abu Zant in an interview with al-Aqsa TV on September 7, 2014. (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Ex-Jordan MP says Jews use Christian blood to make matzah

Screenshot from a YouTube video from the Robert Ransdell For United States Senate Campaign Kentucky.

‘With Jews we lose,’ reads one Senate candidate’s slogan in Kentucky

By JTA and ToI Staff

Protesters march as they take part in a demonstration against military action in Gaza on August 9, 2014 in New York City (photo credit: Kena Betancur/Getty Images/AFP)

NYPD: Hate crimes up against Muslims, Jews

By Colleen Long

US Vice President Joe Biden (AP/Markus Schreiber/File)

Biden admits Shylock remark ‘a poor choice of words’

By Marissa Newman

Mitch and Janis Winehouse viewing the statue of the late singer Amy Winehouse, their daughter, at its unveiling in London, Sept. 14, 2014 (photo credit: Dave Hogan/Getty Images/JTA)

Amy Winehouse statue features Star of David

By JTA

Artificial sweeteners (illustrative photo: CC BY-SA Mary, Flickr)

Sweeteners boost diabetes risk, Israeli study finds

By Richard Ingham

File: Planes sit on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International airport, near Tel Aviv, on August 21, 2014. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Airport strikes in solidarity with postal workers

By Adiv Sterman

Gideon Sa'ar (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewRiding on the storm

By Ilan Ben Zion

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