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What Matters Most On Monday, August 17, 2015

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with university students in Tehran, Iran, July 2015. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei: Fate of nuclear deal unclear, US wants to use it ‘to penetrate’ Iran

By AP and ToI Staff

US won’t be allowed ‘economic, political, or cultural intrusion’ of the country, says supreme leader

Trump: Iran deal will lead to ‘nuclear holocaust’

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Huckabee heads to Israel to raise money, talk Iran

Kuwait busts terror cell with reported Hezbollah, Iran ties

By AFP and AP

Illustrative photo of Border Police officers at the Tapuah Junction near Nablus, August 15, 2015. (Flash90)

Border police officer stabbed in West Bank, attacker killed

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

25-year-old Muhammad Bassam Abu-Amsha el Atrache pulls out knife after asking for water at Tapuah Junction, according to initial report; knifing is third such incident since Saturday

AnalysisThe IDF as leader of the Palestinian Authority?

By Avi Issacharoff

Ex-Shin Bet chief calls for West Bank road segregation

By Tamar Pileggi

Egypt president signs new tough anti-terrorism law

By AP

Israeli soldiers argue with Palestinian protesters blocking a road near the village of Palestinian prisoner, Mohammad Allaan, near Nablus, August 15, 2015 (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Abbas says Israel and Hamas reps met in Africa

By Adiv Sterman

PA president’s statements come after Jerusalem denied truce negotiations with terrorist group; explosion rocks Bangkok, killing dozens and injuring many

Yehoshua Sofer and his students (Courtesy)

Self-defense, King David-style?

By Eliyahu Kamisher

In a classroom at Jerusalem’s Teddy Stadium, Yehoshua Sofer, an intense bearded man in his 50s who used to be a rapper, trains a group of adherents in what he says is a biblical martial art

‘Die all you f**kers’

On discovering that the Facebook troll who sincerely wants him and his pals dead has a kinder, gentler side

Netanyahu’s diplomatic debacle

The PM continues to systematically dismantle the Foreign service and imperil Israel’s global standing

Who goes to the Jerusalem Wine Festival?

Monday iconoclast, Tuesday hipster, Wednesday parent, or Thursday partier? The Jerusalem event welcomes all

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Rabbi Kook: The religious genius of love

80 years after the first chief rabbi’s death, his validation of all religions is a crucial message for today

Maazouze, the mother of Palestinian hunger striker Mohammed Allaan, holds a portrait of her son during a rally calling for his release in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on August 9, 2015. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

State to consider freeing hunger-striker if he leaves country

By Marissa Newman and ToI Staff

Responding to High Court appeal, Jerusalem says Mohammad Allaan would have to pledge to spend the next 4 years abroad

Pro-Palestinian protesters rallying for Mohammad Allaan in Ashkelon, August 16, 2015. (screen capture: Ynet)

15 arrested in Ashkelon protests over Palestinian hunger striker

The brother of Avraham Mengistu speaks with the media at their home in Ashkelon, after a gag order was been lifted over Mengistu's disappearance in the Gaza Strip, on July 8, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Family of Israeli held in Gaza stages protest outside prison

By Marissa Newman

First demonstration in support of Avraham Mengistu aimed to coincide with visits by Palestinian families to detainees being held by Israel

Thai rescue workers carry an injured person after a bomb exploded outside a religious shrine in central Bangkok late on August 17, 2015. (AFP Photo/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)

18 confirmed killed as bomb rocks central Bangkok

By AFP, AP and ToI Staff

Devastating blast goes off outside popular shrine in downtown district; Jerusalem: No Israeli casualties reported

Illustrative: The Israel-Gaza border, from the Israeli side, with rockets being fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip into Israel, August 20, 2014. (Albert Sadikov/Flash90)

Fiberglass said destined for Gaza rockets intercepted at Egypt border

By Stuart Winer

Tax and security agents thwart bid to smuggle rolls of material from Egypt through Israel, heading to Strip

Presenters speak to their audience at Limmud Jerusalem, May 22, 2012 (courtesy/Warren Burstein)

Limmud learnathon offers some salve for a bloodied Jerusalem

By Elhanan Miller

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon seen with Colonel Asher Ben-Lulu, commander of the IDF's Kfir infantry brigade, during an army exercise in the Golan Heights on April 02, 2015. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense)

IDF plans for possible Syria operation as jihadist, Hezbollah threats mount

Military drilled last week for advance into Syria, evacuation of northern civilians, in response to Islamist attack; Israel says Iran directing Hezbollah activity in Golan

Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon speaks at the 4th Likud Party conference at the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds, May 7, 2014. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Analysis

Despite professed turnaround, Israel’s new UN envoy Danon doomed to ineffectuality

By Raphael Ahren

Israel should annex the West Bank if the UN votes on Palestinian statehood, the hawkish Likud MK urged not long ago. His purported about-face won’t be enough to gain other diplomats’ trust

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Hamas leader Khaled Mashal, left, prior to their meeting at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, August 12, 2015 (AP/Press Presidency Press Service)

Turkish-Israeli detente contingent on Gaza ceasefire, official says

By Elhanan Miller

Hamas delegation awaits Egyptian okay to leave Strip and discuss purported Israel truce with Qatar, Turkey, Egypt

Accused Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade attacker Yishai Schlissel is escorted by police after his hearing at the Jerusalem District Court on August 11, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Probe into fatal stabbing at gay parade calls for dismissal of 3 senior cops

By ToI Staff and Stuart Winer

Officers censured for failing to prevent murder of Shira Banki by newly released convict who’d made clear he planned to strike again

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon attend the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on August 5, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90/Pool)

Analysis

To pass the budget and save his government, Netanyahu must weave a tangled web

By Haviv Rettig Gur

With a razor-thin coalition, the PM and finance minister are playing fast and loose with the public purse to prevent new elections

Members of ZAKA rescuing a Torah from Congregation Beth Israel after Hurricane Katrina hit, August 2005. (Courtesy ZAKA)

10 years on, Katrina still fosters a bond for New Orleans Jews

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The Magen David Synagogue in central Mumbai, in a photo taken in February 2014. (photo credit: Joshua Davidovich/Times of Israel)

India looking to attract ex-pats with Jewish heritage tours

By Stuart Winer

Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr. appears at his arraignment on capital murder and first-degree murder charges on April 15, 2014 in New Century, Kansas. (photo credit: David Eulitt-Pool/Getty Images/JTA)

Murder trial to begin in Kansas Jewish site shootings

In this screenshot from the video, an Israeli IDF soldier undergoes parachute training (Photo courtesy AP)

Reel Nostalgia, Clip #7WATCH: Israeli paratroopers train in 1957

By Ramona Tausz

Illustrative photo of an operating room. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israeli surgical sealant company keeps body’s innards inside

By David Shamah

Illustrative: Housing construction in Beit Shemesh in May 2012. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Rise in housing prices accelerating, says state report

Ben Carson speaks during the Freedom Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, on January 24, 2015. (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

GOP candidate Carson accuses Obama of using ‘anti-Semitic themes’

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (screengrab: YouTube/BBC News)

Iraq PM scraps third of cabinet posts in reform drive

Palestinians protesters clash with Israeli police during a demonstration in Ashkelon on August 16, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe unconscious prisoner’s dilemma

By Adiv Sterman

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