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What Matters Most On Wednesday, July 22, 2015

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President Barack Obama, left, talks with Jon Stewart, host of "The Daily Show" during a taping on Tuesday, July 21, 2015, in New York. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Obama slams ‘lobbyists, money’ working against his Iran deal

By ToI Staff, AFP and AP

On ‘Daily Show,’ president urges viewers to contact their elected representatives to ensure approval for nuke pact — bitterly opposed by Israel and the pro-Israel AIPAC lobby group

The campaign for (and against) the Iran deal gets personal

Most Americans don’t believe Iran will uphold nuke deal

Iran’s deputy FM: We told world powers we’ll keep arming our allies

By ToI Staff and AFP

Gidi Gov gets into a cab at the fake Tehran airport in Kiev, in Bezeq's 'smart home' ad (Bezeq screenshot)

How Tehran tried to stop Israel’s ‘Stop the Bomb!’ ad

By Eric Cortellessa

When some Iranians wanted to know why pictures of their supreme leaders were adorning a Kiev stadium, an Israeli crew just trying to make a silly commercial for a phone company was forced to think fast

Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky (photo credit: Oren Fixler/Flash90)

Actually, says Sharansky, Israel’s relations with Reform Judaism are improving

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Days after minister said Reform Jews aren’t Jewish, Agency chief claims things are much better than 20 years ago, when religious MKs thought sitting with Reform rabbis would end their careers

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, left, meets with Saudi King Salman at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah on July 22, 2015. (AFP/POOL/CAROLYN KASTER)

Live updates (closed)

Carter says Saudis accept Iran deal, with reservations

By Jonathan Beck

King Salman uncertain about mechanisms for verifying Iran’s compliance and for reinstating sanctions

Jerusalem’s ‘ugly’ golden dome

Can the sheer beauty of the city’s most visible icon show us the way to transcend our deepest divisions?

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

The culture wars of Zion Square

In the heart of Jerusalem, one group is standing up to racist hooligans by sitting down and talking with them

Why I ordained women

An Orthodox rabbi on the need for a new theology based on humility and equal opportunity regardless of gender

Avi Novis-Deutsch

Masorti Judaism is on the rise in Israel

Israelis are joining the movement, not in protest, but because they want Judaism to play a role in their lives

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks in Tehran on July 18, 2015 (Iran Press TV screenshot)

Analysis

Khamenei aims to ensure Iran deal won’t lead to regime change

By Raphael Ahren

If world powers are hoping the influx of Western money and ideals will boost and even ultimately empower reformists, they’ve likely miscalculated

A general view of Iran's parliament in Tehran, Aug. 28, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran’s parliament to review text of nuclear deal

By Nasser Karimi

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, left, meets with Saudi King Salman at Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah on July 22, 2015. (AFP/POOL/CAROLYN KASTER)

Saudis seek US stand against Iran ‘interference’

By Laurent Barthelemy and IAN TIMBERLAKE

Defense chief Ashton Carter arrives in kingdom to continue regional tour aimed at reassuring allies over nuclear deal

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi hold a joint press conference at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on July 21, 2015. (Flash90/Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Italian PM in Jerusalem: No compromise on Israel’s security

Visiting Matteo Renzi defends concessions to Iran, but reassures Netanyahu that Jewish state won’t be put at risk

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Canadian PM Stephen Harper in 2014 (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/ GPO / Flash90)

Israel and Canada beef up free trade agreement

Pact expected to strengthen economic ties by reducing tariffs and other barriers; PM Harper calls Jewish state ‘a priority market’

Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, December 18, 2012. (AP/Robin van Lonkhuijsen, Pool)

International court may not reopen flotilla case, prosecutor says

By Raphael Ahren

Fatou Bensouda also tells The Times of Israel she’ll conduct an ‘independent analysis’ of UN Human Rights Council’s report on Israel-Hamas war

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

Palestinian man shot dead by IDF during clashes, sources say

By AFP and Avi Lewis

Israeli troops open fire during arrest near Jenin after mob starts throwing Motolov cocktails and stones

Students in Kiryat Sharet high school in Holon take their matriculation exams in mathematics, May 21, 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Just half of Israeli teens pass 2014 matriculation

Only 52.7% of 17- and 18-year-olds receive graduation certificate, slightly less than previous year

Gery Shalon, suspected of being involved in several fraud schemes tied to the NYSE and a massive data breach at JPMorgan Chase & Co., seen at the Jerusalem Magistrates' Court, July 22, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Stock fraud suspects appear in court as US seeks extradition

By Stuart Winer and AP

Two Israelis stand accused of pumping up penny stock prices in cyber-crimes that also saw top banks hacked

Illustrative image of the Koran (Issam Rimawi / Flash90.)

Quran fragments from Muhammad era found at UK university

1,370-year-old manuscript sat unrecognized in Birmingham University library for a century; said to be one of oldest Islamic texts on record

Finance Minister, Moshe Kahlon (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Finance minister eyes IDF budget cuts despite army outcry

By Stuart Winer

Kahlon convenes treasury officials to discuss implementing recommendations, as authors defend report against military ire

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deputy foreign minister warns Europe to stop funding left-wing groups

By Judah Ari Gross

Hotovely says B’Tselem, other NGOs are working to ‘blacken Israel’s name’; threatens ‘foreign agents’ legislation

Tickets for Mariah Carey's upcoming concert on August 18 in the Rishon Lezion arena went on sale Wednesday morning (Photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Against all odds

Mariah Carey to perform in Israel on August 18

By Jessica Steinberg

Rishon Lezion concert brings pop superstar back to Israel less than two months after her first-ever visit in June

Finley Quaye noodles in Jerusalem's Yellow Submarine, July 4, 2015 (Michelle Laufer)

Analysis

In defense of Finley Quaye

By David Horovitz

More Headlines

Lou Lenart, left, and other fighter pilots in front of the Avia S-199 plane. (Courtesy of Boaz Dvir via JTA)

Lou Lenart, US pilot ‘who saved Tel Aviv,’ dies at 94

By JTA

In this 2012 file photo, actor Theodore Bikel poses at the opening night performance of 'November' at the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. (Ryan Miller/Invision/AP, File)

Theodore Bikel, face of ‘Fiddler’s’ Tevye, dies at 91

By Mark Kennedy

E. L. Doctorow. (Mark Sobzcak/Wikimedia)

Jewish-American novelist E.L. Doctorow dies aged 84

By AFP

Chicken bones found at the archaeological sit at Marsha (Haifa University)

Sorry colonel, Israel had real original recipe chicken

By David Shamah

Comedian Simon Brodkin prepares to attack FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter (R) with money during a press conference at the Extraordinary FIFA Executive Committee Meeting at the FIFA headquarters on July 20, 2015 in Zurich, Switzerland. (JTA/Philipp Schmidli/Getty Images)

Make it rainIn spoof, Jewish comic showers Sepp Blatter with cash

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Official White House Twitter account to lobby for the Iran deal (screen capture)

It's personalIran deal gets own Twitter handle in White House push

By Gabe Friedman

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) addresses hecklers and supporters at the Netroots Nation 2015 Presidential Town Hall in Phoenix, Arizona, July 18, 2015. (Charlie Leight/Getty Images/AFP)

White House putschRighty magazine calls Bernie Sanders a Nazi

Talia Lakritz as one of the characters she assumes for her "18 Things" YouTube video (Courtesy YouTube screen grab)

The feminine mystiqueA YouTube ode to Orthodox Jewish feminists

By Zahava Presser

The SimilarWeb team (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Web rank site SimilarWeb buys adtech start-up Swayy

By David Shamah

Committee chief Maj. Gen. (res) Yohanan Locker, center, stands alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after presenting his commission's recommendations for the defense budget. (Amos Ben Gershon/ GPO)

Hebrew media reviewThe budget battle book

By Ilan Ben Zion

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