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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 13, 2015

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PM Netanyahu briefs Democratic congressmen in Jerusalem, August 9, 2015. Steny Hoyer is closest to Netanyahu. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Briefing congressmen on Iran deal concerns, PM provides no ‘Aha!’ moment

By Raphael Ahren

Hosting separate Democratic and Republican delegations, Netanyahu doesn’t tell them how to vote, but says it’s a ‘moral duty’ to defeat the agreement

US Jewish group slams ‘dual loyalty smears’ on Iran deal

By ToI Staff and JTA

Just say noWATCH: Cold War echoes in interfaith anti-Iran deal ad

By Washington Jewish Week via JTA

Official fears US ‘national interest’ being hurt by partisan Iran row

By Andrew BEATTY

The family of Malachy Rosenfeld mourn during his funeral in Kochav Hashachar in the West Bank on July 01, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Israel foiled 17 suicide attacks so far this year, Shin Bet says

By Avi Issacharoff

Security agency reports a steady rise in West Bank terrorism, even as Hamas’s key overseas terror chief plans for the long term

Israel would lift Gaza blockade for truce — report

By Elhanan Miller

Hamas claims to capture Israeli drone

Symbolic soccer match between Palestinian teams back on

By AFP

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

Live updates (closed)

Bennett wants a rabbinate ‘not controlled’ by the ultra-Orthodox

By Jonathan Beck

Jewish Home leader, whose conversion reform was killed following pressure from ultra-Orthodox parties, says he supported alternative reform courts as a ‘tactical’ move

Residents of Memphis's historic Pinch neighborhood, early 1900s, from left to right: Solomon Peiser, Tailor, Mr. Klink, Milkman, Postman, Italian Restaurant Owner, Mr. Nearn, Irish Policeman. (c 2015 Center for Southern Folklore Archives. From The Peiser Family Collection)

Interview

Fact and fiction collide in Memphis’s historical ‘the Pinch’ neighborhood

By JP O’ Malley

A new novel by Steve Stern dips its toes halfway between the real world and fantasy, which is, the author claims, ‘a Jewish thing’

Lawrence Grossman

Gaza didn’t have to end this way

10 years after Disengagement, we have terror tunnels and poverty instead of Palestinian prosperity and peace

Morton A. Klein

Obama’s track record on radical Islam

The US president has a history of overlooking, excusing and siding with religious extremists

One of the ’29 Scientists’ responds

A rebuttal to Emily Landau’s critique: It’s a good deal for the Mideast and for Israel — the alternative is a nightmare

A ‘no’ vote on Iran is no deal breaker

Congressional disapproval could buy time to improve the nuclear deal or build in better safeguards for US interests

Graffiti reading 'administrative revenge' found near an apparent arson attack on a Bedouin tent in the West Bank, August 13, 2015. (Zakaria Sadeh/Rabbis for Human Rights)

Bedouin tent torched in apparent Jewish extremist attack

By Stuart Winer

‘Administrative revenge’ graffitied at scene, in likely reference to recent detention of far-right Israeli activists

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

Israel, FBI probe ‘Nazi’ videos of PM, president

As creator of videos is apparently American, his actions may be covered by freedom of speech laws

The Sabena aircraft that had been hijacked in 1972. (Steve Fitzgerald/Wikimedia Commons)

When the prime ministers took down the hijackers

By Judah Ari Gross

Netanyahu, former premiers Barak and Peres gather to see a new docudrama on the 1972 hostage rescue, ‘Operation Isotope’

The Tianjin port gate is seen in the foreground as smoke rises from the site of a series of explosions in Tianjin on August 13, 2015. (AFP)

44 killed, hundreds injured as huge explosion rocks Chinese city

By Benjamin HAAS

Explosives detonated in warehouse unleash a large fireball over Tianjin, raining debris and sparking fires across town

In this Monday, Aug. 10, 2015 photo, an Iranian man carries a carpet through Tehran's old main bazaar, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

US Jewish journalist tells of relative freedom on rare trip to Iran

The Forward’s Larry Cohler-Esses describes ‘a dynamic push-and-pull between a theocratic government and its often reluctant and resisting people’

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

Abbas to resign within two months, report says

PA president said to tell Egyptian journalist he will announce resignation at next Fatah convention

An aerial view of the Tamar gas-processing rig off the southern coastal city of Ashkelon, June 23, 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel announces deal on offshore gas development

By AFP and ToI Staff

Netanyahu says cabinet to vote Sunday on agreement granting Noble and Delek consortium right to develop Leviathan field

Labour leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn. (YouTube screen grab)

UK Labour front-runner scrutinized for ties to anti-Semites, extremists

By ToI Staff and JTA

Tony Blair warns electing Jeremy Corbyn as leader could lead to opposition party’s ‘annihilation’

Protesters shout slogans during a rally in Paris, France, June 3, 2010, as they demonstrate against Israel's raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship; a man in the foreground wears a T-shirt calling for a boycott on Israel. (Jacques Brinon/ AP /File)

United Church of Canada passes Israel divestment resolution

Will the ‘Hebrew Hammer’ achieve his 2018 Winter Olympics dream?

By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs

More Headlines

IslamofashionSpanish police arrest man for Islamic State clothing line

By AP

File: The 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti, discovered in Egypt in 1912 (YouTube screen capture)

Never say NeferNefertiti’s tomb may have finally been found

Members of the UN Security Council vote to admit Israel to membership in the United Nations (Photo courtesy AP)

Reel Nostalgia, Clip #5WATCH: The Security Council votes ‘yes’ to Israel

By Ramona Tausz

American Alligator (Wikipedia)

River horrorAlligator bites off Florida Jewish swimmer’s arm

By JTA

Evan Handler poses at the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Project's 'Politics, Sex, and Cocktails' event in October 2014 in West Hollywood, California. (Matt Sayles/Invision for /AP Images)

Slam dunkPrimetime space after ‘Sex in the City’

In this picture released by the Hezbollah media department, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, right, meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, left, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015. (Hezbollah Media Department via AP)

Hebrew media reviewDeals, deals, deals

By Marissa Newman

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