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What Matters Most On Tuesday, July 21, 2015

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US President Barack Obama arrives to speak at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference in Washington, Sunday, May 22, 2011 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

AIPAC girds for rare high-noon showdown with White House

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Iran deal marks first open rift in more than 20 years over a president’s major foreign policy initiative. Precedents indicate the pro-Israel lobby has cause for concern

White House set to lobby House Democrats on Iran deal

Kerry: Khamenei’s anti-American remarks ‘disturbing’

By Tamar Pileggi

In Israel, Pentagon chief meets PM to ease Iran tensions

By AFP

German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel, left, stands with Iran's president Hassan Rouhani at his office in Tehran, Iran, July 20, 2015 (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran dismisses Germany’s call for Israel recognition

By ToI Staff and AP

Spokeswoman in Tehran rejects entreaties by Berlin official, says countries have ‘totally different views’ on the Jewish state

Iran FM: Netanyahu’s opposition to nuclear deal weakens Israel

By Tamar Pileggi

Iran general: US will use nuke deal as pretext for attack

By Tamar Pileggi

Biden defends Iran deal in call with Jewish leaders

By JTA

A scrap of a torched Torah scroll being shown by staff in a lab of the Israel Antiquities Authority on July 20, 2015. (Flash90)

CT scan of charred scroll yields oldest Biblical remnant after Dead Sea Scrolls

By Ilan Ben Zion

High-tech deciphering of parchment found in ancient Ein Gedi synagogue, excavated 45 years ago, yields text from Book of Leviticus

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi arrive to a joint press conference at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem on July 21, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Live updates (closed)

PM: World was wrong on North Korea, it could be wrong on Iran

Just as the international community failed to prevent Pyongyang from acquiring nuclear weapons, it may fall short from stopping Iran’s bomb, Netanyahu says

Abraham H. Foxman

Why Congress must reject the Iran deal

A ‘no’ vote, though only symbolic, would send a clear message that the entire nuclear deal is based on a lie

Bibi the Terminator

Netanyahu’s all out war on the deal has isolated Israel and obscured the fact that the region is now a safer place

Avi Issacharoff

One prisoner swap too many

Is a soldier’s blood redder than that of the Israelis murdered by the terrorists released in the Shalit deal?

Julius Rosenwald with students from a Rosenwald School (Courtesy of Fisk University, John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library/ via JTA)

Meet the Jew who built 5,300 schools for black children in the 1900s Deep South

By Lisa Hostein

In this August 2, 1936 photo, Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goering are seen watching events at the Olympics in Berlin. (AP)

Iconic Nazi-built Berlin stadium to host Maccabi games

By David Rising

Under tight security, Europe’s largest Jewish sporting event to bring 2,000 athletes to scene of 1936 Olympics

EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini speaks to journalists at the European Union headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, July 20, 2015. (AFP/John Thys)

EU to pitch new formula in bid to jump-start peace talks

By AFP

Mogherini proposes ‘international support group’ for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, will explore plan to get initiative off ground in coming weeks

IDF forces seen in the Golan Heights, file photo (Basal Awidat/Flash90)

Divisive government report calls for deep reforms in army

Locker Commission recommends cuts to pensions, reduction of mandatory service time; army official says plan ‘suitable for Switzerland,’ not Israel

Illustrative: Palestinian youth throw stones at Israeli police during a clash in East Jerusalem, in July 2014. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Knesset increases stone-throwers’ sentences

By Daniel Bernstein

Plenum passes bill which will see assailants jailed for up to 10 years even if state doesn’t prove harmful intent

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, celebrating his 64th birthday at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, October 20, 2013. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Attorney general orders criminal probe into PM’s Residence expenses

Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu not currently expected to be included in investigation; PMO official may be suspended

Naftali Bennett, July 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett scolds Lapid for Iran inquiry call

‘If you don’t want to help, don’t interfere,’ Jewish Home leader says after Yesh Atid chief blasts PM’s handling of foreign policy

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in Doha on August 21, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/ PPO / THAER GHANEM)

Analysis

In Hamas’s embrace of Sunni Saudi Arabia, a slap to Iran

By Elhanan Miller

Gaza-based group may try to downplay its rapprochement with Riyadh, but Tehran remains deeply offended

The United Nations Security Council votes on a resolution (illustrative photo: AP/Craig Ruttle)

UN upholds accreditation for group said linked to Hamas

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli resolution against London-based Palestinian Return Center fails, with only 13 countries supporting, 16 opposing

UN observers atop Mount Bental on the Israeli side of the border with Syria, close to the city of Quneitra, on May 30, 2015. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israel says it no longer treats Syrian Islamist rebels inside country

As army intensifies border checks, al-Nusra fighters will be given care by physicians at the scene, army says

Helena Colomerecki, right, was a Polish-born Jew who changed her name from Malie Rothenberg. (Courtesy of Jennie Workman Milne/via JTA)

In Scotland, a desperate bid to reclaim a long-unknown Jewish identity

By Hillel Kuttler

The Technion team shows off the TracTech at the IQS Tractor Student Design Competition in Batavia, Illinois, July 14 2015 (Courtesy)

Technion’s TracTech takes top prizes at tractor faceoff

By David Shamah

Israeli team showed extreme ‘professionalism and originality’ with its quarter-scale farm vehicle, said judges in Illinois

Young filmmakers work on a scene at the Mamilla Mall during the Jerusalem Film Festival, July 2015. (Hadas Parush)

Issues of faith win over judges at Jerusalem Film Festival

By Jessica Steinberg, Zahava Presser and Eric Cortellessa

More Headlines

Jewish actor Lizzy Caplan has catapulted her career portraying legendary human sexuality pioneer Virginia Johnson. (YouTube screenshot)

A very human responseFrom nice Jewish girl to master of sex

An exterior view of the Google office in Mountain View, California. (Google office image via Shutterstock)

Court, MKs: Google responsible for preventing ‘trash talk’

By David Shamah

Tourists visiting part of the ancient Roman amphitheater in the Jordanian capital, Amman on June 30, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / KHALIL MAZRAAWI)

Jordan battling to rescue its key earner — tourism

Zoey Tur, left, and Ben Shapiro on Dr. Drew (YouTube screen capture)

He said, she saidJewish pundit, trans journalist in on-air spat

By Andrew Tobin

Paul Singer of Elliott Management is seen during the 'Global Financial Context - Reinforcing Critical Systems' session at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2013. (Remy Steinegger/Wikipedia/World Economic Forum/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Samsung merger that sparked anti-Semitism approved

By JTA

Alia Salem, executive director of the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations poses for a photo by an open-air pavilion in the Islamic Garden, a burial site for members of the Muslim faith that is part of the Restland Cemetery, Friday, July 17, 2015, in Dallas. (Tony Gutierrez/AP)

Texas residents condemn plan for Muslim cemetery

By David Warren

High mountain lake Laguna 69 in the Peruvian Andes (CC BY SA Léo Guellec/Flickr)

Israeli hiker dies during Peru trek

Former Or Yehuda Mayor David Yosef at the Rishon Letzion Magistrate's Court on May 26, 2015. (Flash90)

Bali-hooDisgraced mayor’s lover denies he named street for her

Steven Spielberg's sold Malibu compound, bordering the Pacific Ocean, which he sold for $26 million. (Rex)

Cash me if you canSpielberg sells Malibu property for $26 million

By JTA

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Hebrew media reviewThe Locker hurt

By Joshua Davidovich

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