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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 8, 2015

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Palestinian men pray over the body of Saad Dawabsha, the father of a Palestinian toddler killed last week when their home was firebombed by Jewish extremists, during his funeral in the West Bank village of Duma on August 8, 2015. (AFP/ JAAFAR ASHTIYEH)

Thousands attend funeral for second Duma attack victim

By ToI Staff and AFP

Saad Dawabsha, the father of the toddler killed in the firebomb attack last week on their home, laid to rest in West Bank village

IDF on alert after second Duma firebombing victim dies

Father of Palestinian baby killed in Duma attack dies of injuries

By ToI Staff and AFP

Justice minister backs death penalty for terrorists who killed Palestinian baby

By ToI Staff and JTA

President Barack Obama is met by Sen. Chuck Schumer upon arrival aboard Marine One at the Prospect Park landing zone in New York on Oct. 25, 2013. (White House/Pete Souza)

White House undaunted by Schumer’s Iran deal opposition

By Joshua Davidovich and AP

Spokesman says announcement by Jewish Democratic senator that he won’t support nuclear pact unsurprising, signals move may imperil impending promotion for lawmaker

Bernie Sanders, after call from Obama, backs Iran deal

Nuke deal a ‘dangerous’ shift in US nonproliferation efforts, senator warns

By Raphael Ahren

Obama defends comparing nuke deal critics to Iran hard-liners

By AP and ToI Staff

Republican presidential candidates Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (left) and Donald Trump participate in the first prime-time presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio, August 6, 2015. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

'This wasn’t in the plan, but I’m very glad it happened'

When it comes to Jewish ties, no GOP candidate trumps Trump

By Uriel Heilman

Presbyterian himself, Republican presidential hopeful’s daughter, two grandkids are Jewish; endorsed Netanyahu; called Obama ‘worst enemy’ of Israel

Charles Schumer

Why I will vote against Iran deal

The Senator expected to be the next Democratic party head says, in a statement: The risk that Iran will use the deal to pursue its nefarious goals is too great

Releasing a Torah of light

This week’s portion has a stern warning against chauvinism and arrogance that can lead to acts of extremism (Ekev)

Reclaiming Zionism

Heading back to college soon to face the unbearable anti-Israel climate and watch Jewish friends hide their identity

Bentzi Gopstein, head of Lehava, in Jerusalem's Old City, October 30, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Catholic Church files complaint against extreme-right group leader

By Adiv Sterman

Bentzi Gopshtain, head of the Lehava organization, advocated burning mosques and churches at panel earlier this week

Yuval Diskin, ex-head of the Shin Bet. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

Jewish terror state already upon us, ex security chief warns

By Judah Ari Gross

Yuval Diskin says crackdown too little too late to stop ‘State of Judea,’ fed by rabbis no longer in control of their charges and years of weak efforts by Shin Bet

President Reuven Rivlin speaks to Channel 10, August 7, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 10)

Rivlin, in attack on Netanyahu: ‘Israel has no leaders’

President says it would be better for entire country, including the PM, if there were other credible figures

PA President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the Palestinian leadership at the opening of a two-day conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah to discuss the future of the Palestinian Authority, on March 4, 2015. (Photo credit: AFP/ABBAS MOMANI)

Analysis

Is Abbas about to quit? Israel had better pray he isn’t

By Avi Issacharoff

Rumors abound that the PA chief could step down next month. Many hardliners might say, ‘Who needs him anyway?’ The answer: Israel does

Smoke rises over Gaza after an Israeli airstrike following several rockets attacks into southern Israel, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

IDF strikes Hamas target in Gaza after rocket attack

Two injured in direct hit on Hamas facility in center of Strip; Salafi group affiliated with Islamic State claims responsibility for firing missile into Israel

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon visits the Israel Aerospace Industries center near Tel Aviv on July 26, 2015. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Ya’alon: Israel ‘not responsible’ for Iran nuke scientists’ lives

By Adiv Sterman

Defense minister hints assassinations may resume, says Israel considering air strikes against nuclear facilities

Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, attends a meeting of Guard commanders in Tehran, Iran, September 17, 2013. (AP/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, File)

US probing if Iranian violated UN sanctions with Russia trip

By Edith M. Lederer

Russia and Iran decline commenting on whether Quds Force commander made journey to Moscow in violation of travel ban

Simon Butler holds a rediscovered transcript of an interview he conducted for a seventh grade history class with two Holocaust survivors, Jack and Bella Bajnon, on July 29, 2015. (Trudi Cohen)

How a rediscovered 7th grade history project ended up in a museum

By Cathryn J. Prince

Almost three decades ago, Simon Butler recorded the testimonial of Holocaust survivors Jack and Bella Bajnon. The story of historical lost-and-found relinked two families, and children to deceased parents

The Pool of the Arches, an underground water cistern, built during the reign of the Caliph Haron al-Rashid in 789 AD to provide Ramla with a steady supply of water. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Israel travels

Improbable Ramle, where gondolas tour underground, and Napoleon killed a muezzin

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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An alleyway in Jaffa's old city (Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

Jaffa luxury apartment complex is ‘for Jews only’

Scene of the shooting outside a kosher bakery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 7, 2015. (screen capture: NBC 10)

Kosher bakery owner shot, robbed in Philadelphia

By JTA

Afghan shopkeepers remove prayer rugs after a powerful truck bomb in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 7, 2015. (AFP/Wakil Kohsar)

44 dead, hundreds wounded in lethal wave of Kabul bombings

By AFP

In this March 29, 2014, file photo, a Saudi woman takes photographs in a park during celebrations to mark the worldwide Earth Hour in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (AP/Hasan Jamali)

Viral video sparks concern in Saudi over harassment of women

An army Zodiac secures the entrance of the new section of the Suez Canal in Ismailia, Egypt, August 6, 2015. (AP/Amr Nabil)

Middle EasterosAt Suez launch, Egypt channels ‘Game of Thrones’

By Stuart Winer

Suleiman al-Assad (Facebook)

No overtaking‘Assad cousin kills officer in fit of road rage’

By AFP

A Frutarom R&D lab in Germany (Courtesy)

Frutarom makes near-record ninth 2015 acquisition

By David Shamah

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