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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 16, 2015

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Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer on CNN, August 14, 2015. (CNN screenshot)

Dermer: Israel ‘not eager’ to battle Obama on Iran deal, but has no choice

Israel’s US ambassador says Jerusalem-Washington relationship is very important, but so is Israel’s survival

Most Americans would vote against Iran deal, poll finds

‘Schindler’s List’ producer slams Hollywood Jews’ support for nuke deal

By JTA and ToI Staff

Sole GOP senator who weighed support for Iran deal to vote no

By AP and ToI Staff

President Barack Obama, followed by Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., walks through the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013, for his ceremonial swearing-in ceremony during the 57th Presidential Inauguration. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, Pool)

Analysis

Obama’s Iran deal: A fight to a very bitter end

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: The accord’s finest day was July 14, when it was announced. Since then, its flaws, and the president’s approach to its defense, have fueled growing opposition

Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Allaan (AFP)

Hospital: Palestinian hunger-striker in critical condition

Medical center gives Mohammed Allaan intravenous nutrients and water; Palestinian doctor set to examine the patient

In second attack Saturday, Israeli policeman stabbed in West Bank

Man held after yelling ‘Muhammad is a pig’ on Temple Mount

Likud hawk Danon vows he’ll represent PM’s ‘two-state vision’ as UN envoy

Activists protest outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem against the gas agreement on August 16, 2015. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates

Ashkelon entrance reopens as police scatter protesters following clashes

By Joshua Davidovich

Protesters supporting and against Palestinian detainee Mohammed Allaan throw stones and scuffle outside Ashkelon hospital, 13 arrested

Amanda Borschel-Dan's brother, Nick (Courtesy)

My brother died at 22, and saved my life

By Amanda B. Dan

Reflections 20 years after Nick’s death from melanoma: He taught her to embrace life and fear the sun

Obama ‘dog whistling’ about Jews? Ridiculous

The president has not lapsed toward anti-Semitism in his defense of the Iran deal, nor accused his critics of being warmongers, says a former chairman of US Jewry’s umbrella leadership group

The sentimental side of the savages

While a father mourns his daughter, the 2001 Sbarro murders are glorified on social media in the Arab world

A flight of fancy over the reported capture by Hamas of an Israeli UAV

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second left, and Minister Yuval Steinitz, left, attend the weekly cabinet meeting at Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on August 16, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Cabinet approves controversial natural gas deal

Environment minister casts sole nay vote; Netanyahu says agreement will bring in billions of shekels for education, health and welfare

Khaled Mashaal speaks in Doha, Qatar, August 28, 2014. (AP/Osama Faisal/File)

‘Hamas-Israel deal imminent,’ to the dismay of Palestinian factions

By Elhanan Miller

Long-term ceasefire between Hamas and Israel would tear Gaza away from West Bank for good, claims Palestinian communist party official

Palestinian youths at a Hamas military-style summer camp in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 5, 2015 (AFP/Said Khatib)

From the web

Red Cross offers international law workshops to Hamas fighters

Humanitarian organization holds lessons for armed wing of terror group in Gaza on a slew of ethical issues, the New York Times reports

Israelis enjoy the sea at the Southern Israeli city of Eilat, on August 6, 2015. (Flash90)

Temperatures soar as Israel hit with ‘extreme’ heat wave

Forecasters say high humidity levels to intensify heat; Jordan Valley gears up for temperatures up to 48º

A Trigana Air ATR 42 at Labuan Bajo Airport, Indonesia. (Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Indonesian plane with 54 aboard loses contact over Papua

By AFP

Officials say weather is ‘very bad’ in mountainous area where aircraft disappeared

MP Jeremy Corbyn speaking at the 'No More War' event in Parliament Square in 2014 (Hej JMaill, CC BY-via Wikipedia)

UK Labour frontrunner invited radical Israeli-Muslim cleric to Parliament for tea

By ToI Staff and JTA

Jeremy Corbyn praised oft-jailed Islamic Movement’s Sheikh Raed Salah, who defied a ban to visit UK in 2012, as ‘a voice that must be heard’

US Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a memorial service to honor those killed In Chattanooga shooting at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga's McKenzie Arena on August 15, 2015 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (Jason Davis/Getty Images/AFP)

Chattanooga shooter was a ‘perverted jihadist,’ Biden says

By AP

Fiery comments from vice president contrast with official line by investigators who have not yet determined motive behind attack that left five servicemen dead

File: Americans rally in support of Israel, Chicago, November 2013. (photo credit: Courtesy JUF Chicago/JTA)

Chicago Jewish Federation comes out against Iran deal

By JTA

Influential organization representing metro area’s 300,000 Jews joins 17 other communities in opposition to controversial accord

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

Probe of cops’ failure to thwart gay parade stabbing concludes

By Stuart Winer

Police say committee findings to be made public; victims demand full, transparent investigation

Matisyahu on a visit to Israel. (photo credit: courtesy)

Spanish fest cancels Matisyahu gig over refusal to endorse Palestinian state

Under pressure from boycott movement, organizers cut reggae singer — who is not Israeli — from line-up over ‘sensitivity to Palestine’

More Headlines

A firefighter is seen recording the aftermath at the site of the explosions in Tianjin on August 15, 2015. (China out/AFP Photo)

China blast site housed ‘hundreds of tons’ of cyanide

A group of visitors interacting with Ezri Tarazi’s table, 'Remapping,' 2015. (Oded Antman)

At Tower of David, ancient stones host modern art ode to Jerusalem

By Zahava Presser

Then-housing minister Yoav Gallant in the Knesset, June 17, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Housing minister slams former IDF chief as ‘traitor’

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

The white-shirted Israelis face off with Australia for the chance to advance to the 1970 World Cup in Mexico (Screenshot from newsreel footage from YouTube)

Reel Nostalgia, Clip #6WATCH: Israel snags slot at 1970 World Cup

By Ramona Tausz

Israeli soldiers secure the scene after a Palestinian man wounded an Israeli soldier with a knife at a crossing between Israel and West Bank north of Jerusalem, August 15, 2015. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

Hebrew media reviewCutting to the chase

By Joshua Davidovich

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