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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 4, 2015

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U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz at a Washington briefing on July 31, 2015. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

If I were Israeli, I’d support nuclear deal, says top US official

By Raphael Ahren

Iran agreement ‘does not change one iota who our friends and allies are in the region,’ Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz tells Israeli reporters

Despite White House claims, Israel’s security chiefs are split on Iran deal

By Judah Ari Gross

US pledges to defend Israel if Iran attacks

By Raphael Ahren

Steinitz hits back at Moniz: If I were American, I’d oppose nuke deal

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Friends of Shira Banki mourn at her grave after her funeral on August 3, 2015. 16-year-old Banki was stabbed and critically wounded while participating in the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade on July 31. Banki passed away on August 2, 2015. (Flash90)

Parents bury ‘innocent, gentle’ daughter, stabbed to death at pride parade

By Tamar Pileggi

Classmates, friends and relatives eulogize Shira Banki, 16, a ‘beautiful flower’ killed in a senseless act of hatred

Opposition MKs rap PM at near-empty emergency session on extremism

Tourist assaulted after waving Israeli flag on Temple Mount

By AFP

Video shows Jerusalem light rail guard beating up US tourist

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses US Jews on the Iran nuclear deal in a live webcast, Tuesday, August 4, 2015 (screen capture)

Live updates (closed)

Rivlin tells firebombing victim Israel will ‘stop’ terrorism

AG okays detention without trial for 3 Jewish extremists; US official: Deal never aimed to address Tehran’s terror support

In this July 27, 2015 photo, Orthodox Jewish rabbi Dovid Lepkivker, center, examines a container of Breyer's ice cream, which happens to be kosher, as fellow rabbi Eli Chaikin, left, and Mary Semple look on in Helena, Mont. (AP/Matt Volz)

‘Roving rabbis’ spread across rural US on kosher mission

Eli Lepkivker and Dovid Chaikin aim to reach as many Montana Jews as they can to teach them how to keep Jewish dietary laws

A picture of hope and courage

A photo of two Palestinians protecting a cowering Israeli police woman stirs hope for a better future

Shira Banki lived a life of holiness

He went to the funeral of the teen murdered at a Gay Pride march to make it known that ‘our Torah is a Torah of love’

Home with her son all summer, with and absolutely nothing to do except hope that nothing happens

Meir Ettinger, wearing a white skullcap, is escorted by IDF soldiers out of the West Bank village of Qusra, January 7, 2014. (Rabbis for Human Rights)

In ‘rebel manifesto,’ Meir Kahane’s grandson calls to bring down state

Authorities arrest Meir Ettinger on suspicion of leading cell that carries out ‘price-tag’ attacks against Muslims, Christians

Meir Ettinger, wearing a white skullcap, is escorted by IDF soldiers out of the West Bank village of Qusra, January 7, 2014. (Rabbis for Human Rights)

Meir Kahane’s grandson arrested for far-right activity

Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Ya'alon at the weekly cabinet meeting at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on July 5, 2015 (Emil Salman/Pool)

Ya’alon vows to lead ‘uncompromising’ fight against Jewish terror

Defense minister says Israel will not relent in battle for its good name, praises cabinet approval of administrative detention for Jewish terror suspects

Firefighters extinguish a blazing car after it was hit by a Molotov cocktail near the Arab neighborhood of Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem, August 3, 2015. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Three hurt in Jerusalem firebombing attack

Israeli woman moderately injured by Molotov cocktail near Beit Hanina; police searching for assailants

President Reuven Rivlin (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) cast as Nazis by an online user (YouTube screenshot)

Police to probe depictions of Netanyahu, Rivlin as Nazis

New York man admits to uploading videos, photos of Israeli leaders as SS soldiers, after president slams Jewish terrorists

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki, center, waits on the steps of the International Criminal Court after answering questions of reporters in The Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Palestinians file ICC report over deadly Duma firebombing

By Elhanan Miller and Marissa Newman

Document based on reporting by human rights groups; PA, Jordan set to submit UN Security Council resolution to blacklist settler groups

Maj. Gen. (res) Gershon Hacohen while still in active service on January 17, 2012, during a Paratrooper Brigade drill (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/ Flickr)

After evacuating Gaza, a lonely general of faith struggles for Israel’s salvation

By Mitch Ginsburg

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and others wait for a P5+1 meeting at the Beau-Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 28, 2015. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

Russian FM meets Hamas leader, offers help toward statehood

By Tamar Pileggi

Sergey Lavrov says Moscow supports initiatives seeking a ‘permanent’ home for Palestinians, invites Mashaal to Russia for more talks

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, center, with Finance Ministry director general Shai Babad, right, and ministry budget head Amir Levi as they present the proposal for the state budget for 2015 in Jerusalem, August 2, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As budget battle heats up, Shas threatens mutiny over sales tax

By Stuart Winer

Treasurer heads off fight by boosting education funding, but now faces losing ultra-Orthodox support over zero-VAT coalition promise

A first responder wears a StemRad belt (Screenshot)

Next stop Mars, with Israeli radiation protection

By David Shamah

Together with Lockheed-Martin, StemRad is developing an enhanced version of its protective belt

Dani Peleg, at her home studio with a selection of her 3D printed clothing (Zahava Presser/Times of Israel)

Designer creates clothing collection from a 3D printer

By Zahava Presser

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Rabbi Haskel Lookstein vowing to rebuild after a fire at Kehilath Jeshurun caused major damage to his New York synagogue, July 11, 2011. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images/via JTA)

Celebrated NY shul to begin new era with ‘outsider’ rabbi

By Uriel Heilman

Firefighters stand outside a WWII bunker that caught fire amid an explosion that wounded 21 people in Hamburg, Germany, August 4, 2015. (AFP/DPA/DANIEL BOCKWOLDT)

Dozens injured after blast in German WWII bunker

By AFP

Comedian Amy Schumer (L) and US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speak at a press conference calling for tighter gun laws in an effort to stop mass shootings and gun violence on August 3, 2015 in New York City. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images/AFP)

No jokeAmy and Chuck Schumer urge tougher gun laws

By AFP

Avi Ram’s winning entry in the camouflage challenge during the current season of “Skin Wars.” (Courtesy of Game Show Network)

‘Skin Wars’ Israeli contestant brings IDF training to body painting

By Molly Tolsky

In this Tuesday, July 21, 2015 photo, visitors look over display cases at the "Forever Remembered" exhibit and memorial for the astronauts that perished on the Columbia and Challenger space shuttles, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

For first time, Challenger, Columbia wreckage go on display

By Marcia Dunn and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, New York. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

NY, Boston, Miami are the most Jewish cities in US

By JTA

An undated picture of 16-year-old Shira Banki. (Courtesy)

Laid to rest and under arrest

By Ilan Ben Zion

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