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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 2, 2015

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Hundreds mass at Jerusalem vigil for gay pride parade victim

By Ilan Ben Zion

16-year-old girl stabbed in Jerusalem gay pride parade dies of injuries, family mourns ‘wonderful flower’; wildfire west of Jerusalem rages out of control, damages suburb homes

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on August 2, 2015. (Gali Tibbon/AFP/Pool)

Netanyahu slams Abbas after attack on Palestinian family

By Tamar Pileggi

PM says Israel ‘condemns’ such violence, while the PA ‘names public squares after the murderers of children’

Slain baby’s grandfather hopes he was ‘the last casualty of this terror war’

Ya’alon okays administrative detention for Jewish terror suspects

Bennett: Don’t use Jewish terrorists to tarnish settlers

By Itamar Sharon and ToI Staff

President Reuven Rivlin speaks to the press after visiting Ahmed Dawabsha at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer on Friday, July 31, 2015. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Rivlin’s security calls police over death threats

President faces deluge of criticism after expressing ‘shame’ over killing of Palestinian baby in West Bank attack

Steinitz denies signing LGBT petition before Tel Aviv rally

Orthodox protesters said barred from Jerusalem anti-violence rally

By Marissa Newman

PM: Six stabbed in pride parade are ‘children of us all’

Jonathan Pollard speaks during an interview at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, NC, May 1998. (AP/Karl DeBlaker/File)

Why Jonathan Pollard spent 30 years in prison

13 years ago, an investigative journalist met with Pollard in jail, spoke to his attorneys, interviewed key players such as Netanyahu and Caspar Weinberger, and reviewed the evidence. With Pollard now finally to be paroled, here’s a definitive explanation for how ‘a tragedy devolved into a disgrace’

On Iran, a regrettable rush to judgment

The agreement is a good one, and all-out opposition to it threatens critical bipartisan US support for Israel

Lenny Ben-David

That ‘cataclysmic’ US-Israel battle

History shows that after the predicted epic smackdown on Capitol Hill over the Iran deal all will be just fine

A fire rages between Tzur Hadassah and the West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit area on August 2, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Firefighters battle large brush fire outside Jerusalem

Residents of Ein Kerem and Moshav Even Sapir are evacuated as crews struggle to contain blaze

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a press conference, June 10, 2015 (AP/Darko Vojinovic)

Analysis

After fatal firebombing, Abbas threatens to change PA policy

By Avi Issacharoff

Palestinian leader says condemnations are insufficient, Israel must choose between Islamic State-like Jewish terrorism and peace

Former president Shimon Peres speaks at an anti-violence and anti-homophobia ralliy in Tel Aviv, on August 01, 2015, (Photo by Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Peres: Extremist forces threaten to destroy Israel from within

At anti-violence rally, former president calls for ‘war of liberation from madness and madmen’

Nasser Dawabsha, uncle of slain baby Ali Dawabsha, speaks at a rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday, August 1 2015. (Screen capture Ynet)

Slain baby’s uncle: His mother grabbed blanket as she fled fire, thought Ali was in it

‘When will those burnings end?’ asks Nasser Dawabsha, whose nephew was killed in alleged Jewish terror attack Friday, in tearful address to Tel Aviv rally

Palestinian children carry a funeral stretcher with a picture of 18-month-old Ali Saad Dawabsha, the toddler who was burned to death by suspected Jewish extremists, on August 1, 2015 in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, during a demonstration simulating a funeral ceremony and organized by Palestinian Islamist Hamas supporters in reaction to the death of the baby. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Palestinian baby’s killers believed to come from nearby settler outpost

By ToI Staff and AP

Gag order imposed on probe of Friday’s firebombing of Dawabsha home, in which Ali was burned to death, parents and brother were gravely hurt

A Palestinian protester stands amid burning tires during clashes with Israeli security forces on a street leading to Duma village, on August 1, 2015 (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Families of Palestinian terror victims warn of rage on streets

Relatives of toddler Ali Dawabsha, Mohammed Abu Khdeir predict dire ‘consequences’ should Ali’s mother succumb to her wounds

Participants in the gay pride parade in Jerusalem flee stabber Yishai Schlissel, July 30, 2015. (Photo: Koby Shotz)

Pride parade stab victim remains in critical condition

By Tamar Pileggi

Girl, 16, fighting for her life days after attack on marchers at Jerusalem’s annual LGBT march

Illustrative: A trail of smoke from a rocket as it was launched from the Gaza Strip toward the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, August 24, 2014. (Edi Israel/Flash90/File)

Two rockets fired from Gaza, land near border fence

Military yet to determine whether projectiles hit on Israeli or Gazan side of border; warning sirens do not sound

US rapper Kanye West, husband of US reality TV star Kim Kardashian, carries their daughter, North, following a reported baptism ceremony at the Armenian St. James Cathedral in Jerusalem's Old City on April 13, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Kanye West to perform in Israel in October

By Josefin Dolsten

Star rapper said to schedule Tel Aviv concert just months after canceling surprise gig in Jerusalem

A flex-plan: Under a renovation plan spearheaded by Rabbi William Hamilton, Kehillath Israel's sanctuary will replace its fixed pews with stacking chairs. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

Boston shul’s radical renovation rethinks communal Jewry’s future

By Uriel Heilman

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A woman believed to be supermodel Gisele Bundchen arrives at a Paris clinic dressed in a burqa for plastic surgery (YouTube screen capture)

Back in blackSupermodel ‘dons burqa for plastic surgery’

Kiryat Yam mayor’s car hit with bomb

Illustrative: A station in Jerusalem's light rail system. The system is included in the Transport Ministry's public transportation database. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Jerusalem Light Rail workers briefly strike

An untreated bell pepper on the left compared to a Nimitz-treated plant on the right. (ADAMA)

Worm-killer set to save crops worldwide

By David Shamah

Iraqi Ahmad al-Basheer, host of the "Basheer Show", watches a video of his TV show on a computer screen on July 29, 2015 at his studio in the Jordanian capital, Amman. (AFP PHOTO / KHALIL MAZRAAWI)

Iraq’s Jon Stewart combats jihadists with laughs

Palestinians look at the damage after a house was set on fire and a baby killed, allegedly by Jewish terrorists, in the West Bank village of Duma, on July 31, 2015. (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

Hebrew media reviewWhen they awoke, the world was on fire

By Adiv Sterman

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