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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 5, 2015

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US President Barack Obama talks to the media in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on July 31, 2015. (AFP/Yuri Gripas)

Obama: If Congress kills Iran deal, rockets will fall on Tel Aviv

By Raphael Ahren

President warns US Jews that without nuclear pact, America will have to attack Iran — and Israel will bear the brunt of the response

3 top Jewish House Dems come out against Iran deal

By JTA

US senator: A military strike could send Iran ‘back to day zero’

By Raphael Ahren

Republicans push bill rejecting Iran nuclear deal

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

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

Netanyahu: Iran deal will bring war, ‘nightmare’ atomic arms race

In video talk to American Jews, PM accuses accord’s supporters of trying to ‘stifle debate,’ says alternative is to ‘increase sanctions’

Iran’s deputy FM brands nuclear program ‘big loss’ economically

Iran: Sanctions regime has collapsed, never to return

US: Iran’s threats on Israel, terror support never part of talks

By Raphael Ahren

The entrance to a Second Temple-period mikveh recently discovered in Jerusalem and announced by the Israel Antiquities Authority on August 5, 2015 (Shai Halevy, IAA)

2,000-year-old ritual bath unearthed at Jerusalem kindergarten construction site

By Tamar Pileggi

Mikveh featuring Aramaic inscriptions and drawings discovered during routine Antiquities Authority inspection

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

Live updates (closed)

Obama: My duty is to America, with or without Israel ‘friction’

US president: Iran deal permanently prohibits nukes; Iran nuclear deal ‘as pro-Israel as it gets,’ says John Kerry

We owe it to Shira

Distraught, discouraged and picturing a parallel universe that might show us how to finally get it right

Dear Ari: Help! My child left the fold

Advice for parents: Listen, don’t ask too much, and for God’s sake, don’t go overboard with the religion stuff

Our turn to care for caregivers

The migrant workers who serve our sick, elderly and disabled are themselves exploited and denied rights

An aerial view of the recent discovery made by Israeli Archaeologists. Bar Ilan University announced the discovery of a monumental city gate and fortification of the biblical city of Philistine Gath (home of Goliath) on August 4, 2015. (Griffin Aerial Imaging)

Archaeologists unearth the gate to Goliath’s hometown

Bar Ilan University team says discovery sheds light on Gath’s status and influence in the 10th century BCE

Melanoma cure may be within reach, Tel Aviv U study shows

By David Shamah

‘Now we know the triggers’ that tell skin cancer cells to become aggressive tumors inside body, ‘we know what to block,’ says researcher

Illustrative photo of a far-right Jewish activist in the West Bank, July 27, 2009. (Omer Messinger/FLASH90)

Israel okays detention without trial for Jewish extremist

By Judah Ari Gross

Mordechai Mayer becomes first detainee of three Israelis approved for open-ended imprisonment; Shin Bet nabs second Jewish suspect for ties to illegal organization

Meir Ettinger, the alleged head of a Jewish extremist group, at the Magistrate's Court in Nazareth Illit on August 4, 2015, a day after his arrest. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Far-right activist Meir Ettinger to be kept in detention

Persian Orthodox Jew Pedram Bral, who won a June 18 election to become Mayor of Great Neck, New York (Uli Seit/©Newsday LLC)

Iranian Jewish expats call Islamic regime ‘liars,’ bemoan world’s naiveté

By Lori Silberman Brauner

Minister of Energy and Water Resources Yuval Steinitz presenting the guidelines for regulating the country’s offshore natural gas reserves at a press conference in Jerusalem, June 30, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

After US counterpart says he’d support Iran deal if he were Israeli, energy minister charges pact ensures Iran will be nuclear state

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)

Police plead for public’s help in finding killers of Palestinian baby

By ToI Staff and AP

No arrests reported since Friday’s firebombing of Dawabsha home burned 18-month-old Ali to death, and left his parents and brother fighting for their lives

Naftali Bennett, leader of the Jewish Home party speaks during a party meeting in the Israeli parliament on June 15, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett files complaint over social media ‘incitement’

By Tamar Pileggi

Jewish Home leader calls in police over accusations that his ideology contributes to Jewish terrorism

Yishai Schlissel, who stabbed six people at the annual Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade on July 30, 2015, is seen in the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on July 31, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Pride parade stabber to undergo psychiatric evaluation

By Adiv Sterman

After tests, courts will decide whether Yishai Schlissel, who killed teen girl in Jerusalem attack, is fit to stand trial

Palestinian students take part in a military march organized by Hamas in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 27, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Analysis

Israel assures Abbas it isn’t talking truce with Hamas

By Avi Issacharoff

PA president fears a deal with Gaza rulers could damage his standing among Palestinians; Egypt also opposed

IDF Private Dan Sela, who died of heat stroke in Jerusalem on August 4, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Soldier dies, 8 more hospitalized as sweltering heat continues

By Judah Ari Gross

Baby hospitalized in Safed in critical condition with heatstroke; 150 hikers rescued in north

The Edinburgh Friends of Israel recently set up shop with volunteers handing out pro-Israel advocacy materials on a busy street, irrespective of any pro-Palestinian protest. (courtesy)

Ahead of summer fests, Scotland’s new pro-Israel network stands guard

By Jenni Frazer

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of an Air France Airbus shortly after takeoff (Alf van Beem/Wikimedia Commons, File)

Flying blindAir France ‘deeply regrets’ map snafu omitting Israel

By JTA

A picture of a smooth, brown, egg-sized rock is shown in the printer's manuscript of the Book of Mormon following a news conference Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2015, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Church History Library, in Salt Lake City. (AP/Rick)

Smith's story1st glimpse of stone that ‘translated’ Book of Mormon

By BRADY McCOMBS

Executive Producers Isa Dick Hackett, from left, David W. Zucker and Writer/Executive Producer Frank Spotnitz participate in "The Man in the High Castle" panel at the Amazon Summer TCA Tour at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Monday, Aug. 3, 2015, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Amazon drama imagines Nazi-conquered America

By AP

Annette and Lior Solomon thank the crowd who spontaneously attended their wedding, saving the big day, on Monday, August 3, 2015. (screen capture: Ynet)

Facebook partyIsraeli couple’s wedding saved by social media

Yazidi Iraqi women queue in order to get food at the Bajid Kandala camp near the Tigris River, in Kurdistan's western Dohuk province, where they took refuge after fleeing advances by Islamic State jihadists in Iraq on August 13, 2014. Photo credit:AFP/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

Teenage girls for sale for $124 — IS circulates slave price list

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)

Shas signals opposition to budget ahead of cabinet vote

By Stuart Winer

Shabbat meal in Berlin breaks Guinness record

By JTA

Ben Gurion airport's Duty-Free mall (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israeli app lets travelers deep-dive duty free pricing

By David Shamah

Meir Ettinger, the head of a Jewish extremist group, stands at the Israeli justice court in Nazareth Illit on August 4, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

Hebrew media reviewDetention without trial, determination against Iran

By Ilan Ben Zion

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