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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 18, 2015

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during his visit to the northern border of Israel on August 18, 2015. Defense Minister Yaalon is behind him. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Iran sending nuke deal money to terror groups on border, Netanyahu warns

By Adiv Sterman

Visiting frontier with Lebanon days after large scale drill, prime minister says Israel is ready to strike ‘at those who try to harm us’

Iran says it will sign deal for Russian air defense system next week

By Jonathan Beck

Senate leader admits little chance Iran deal will be blocked

By AP

340 US rabbis sign letter urging Congress to support Iran deal

By ToI Staff and JTA

Prof. Alan Dershowitz with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office (Courtesy)

Interview'I wouldn't let Obama and Kerry negotiate a 30-day lease'

Dershowitz: ‘Inept negotiator’ Obama gave Iran green light to build nuke

By Raphael Ahren

Self-declared ‘liberal Democrat’ slams nuclear deal on many fronts, but admits that Congress killing it now could make things worse. Instead, he proposes supplementary legislation to ensure no Iran bomb

Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, listens to a question while speaking in Garwood, New Jersey, March 23, 2015. (AP/Mel Evans, File)

Live updates (closed)

Influential Democrat Menendez comes out against Iran deal

Hillel International president apologizes for snubbing J Street student leaders; US Jewish lawmakers divided on Iran deal

Israeli social activists protesting high housing costs near tents on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv on March 1, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Four years after tent protests, hope in short supply for would-be homebuyers

By Simona Weinglass

It costs 148 monthly salaries to buy a home here, compared to 76 in France and 66 in the US. Prices rise 6% per year. Desperate young Israelis are leaving the country. What’s gone wrong, and why can nobody fix it?

Lynette Nusbacher

Matisyahu and the values of Reggae

The ex-Chassid wasn’t moral enough to play alongside LGBT bashers and a band whose frontman beat up his girlfriend

Michael Melchior

There is another way

Against the bleak backdrop of incendiary hatred, there are good people, Jews and Moslems, working for peace

Maurice Ostroff

To force-feed or not to force-feed

Looking at how other hunger strikes played out shows that the ethics of the matter are not so straightforward

Inside Canary Mission

The secretive ‘name and shame’ website is run as a tight ship with just one goal: fighting anti-Semitism

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

Groundbreaking procedure saves Israeli woman during childbirth

Patient suffering from rare pregnancy complication brought back from clinical death, wakes up after month, sees her baby girl

US Jewish rapper Matisyahu seen visiting near Jerusalem's Old City. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Matisyahu: Spanish festival ban is ‘appalling, offensive’

Rapper says organizers tried to coerce him to back BDS Palestine agenda; festival response calls rapper ‘American Hebrew’

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

I met anti-Semites before they were anti-Semites, Labour frontrunner says

Jeremy Corbyn says that Holocaust denier who heads pro-Palestinian group had not made his views public when they met 15 years ago

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Analysis

Where does Bernie Sanders stand on Israel?

Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Allaan, a member of Islamic Jihad, has been on hunger strike for 63 days as of August 18, 2015. (AFP)

Hunger-striking prisoner wakes up from coma

By Adiv Sterman

Doctors say Mohammed Allaan in stable condition and communicative after receiving infusion of salts and liquids

Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh delivers a speech in front of portraits of late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini (left), and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right), at a rally in Tehran, February 11, 2012. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Israel denies holding truce talks with Hamas

PMO: ‘There have been no meetings with Hamas, not directly, not through another country and not through intermediaries’

Military Advocate General Col. Sharon Afek. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

New military advocate general prepared for ICC fight

By Judah Ari Gross

With threat of international lawsuits growing, defense minister names Col. Sharon Afek as IDF’s top attorney

Palestinians gather at the Rafah Border Crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, as they await permission to enter Egypt, June 12, 2015. (Flash90/Aaed Tayeh)

Egypt opens border with Gaza for first time in 2 months

By AP

Director of crossing says 20,000 people applied to leave Strip, as border point opens for four days in both directions

Ephraim Khantsis (Facebook)

Right-wing activist charged with threatening Shin Bet agents

Prosecution seeks detention of US immigrant Ephraim Khantsis, 27; he was previously ordered to be held without trial on terror allegations in 2010

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

Attack ‘lasted seconds,’ recalls officer wounded in West Bank

Border Policeman vows to return to duty after he was stabbed by Palestinian man later shot dead by security forces

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), along with the IDF's then-chief education officer Brig. Gen. Eli Schermeister (right), and several participants in the army's Nativ conversion course on December 15, 2010. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO, File/Courtesy)

Budget dispute halts celebrated IDF conversion course

Army complains it has not received NIS 20 million ($5.22 million) to cover Nativ program’s 2015 budget, cancels upcoming course

Roosje Glaser, left, with her dance students during an excursion in 1942. (Courtesy: Paul Glaser)

When a Dutch Jewish woman taught SS officers how to dance

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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In an August 7 Friday sermon in Jerusalem, Sheikh Issam Amira of Hizb Al-Tahrir responded to a parody news site's report that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump offered to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict by relocating the Palestinians to Puerto Rico. (screen capture/MEMRI)

Promised islandMuslim preacher falls for Trump Palestine satire

Osama bin Laden (photo credit: AP/file)

Al-Can't see the ironyBin Laden got down to Jewish, Zionist singer

Illustrative photo of young American olim who plan to enlist in the IDF as lone soldiers, August 17, 2015. (Nefesh B’Nefesh)

59 IDF volunteers fly to Israel from NYC

Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt (screen capture: YouTube)

‘Sauna rabbi’ Jonathan Rosenblatt to keep Orthodox NY pulpit

By JTA

A yellow scorpion in the Negev Desert (Ester Inbar, public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

Boy hospitalized after stung by deadly scorpion

Josh 'The Fat Jew' Ostrovsky attends the Nike Basketball 3ON3 Tournament - ESPNLA 710 All-Star Celebrity Game held at L.A. LIVE’s Microsoft Square on Friday, August 7, 2015, in Los Angeles. (John Salangsang/Invision/AP)

Big fat liar?Companies deny dropping ‘Fat Jew’ over plagiarism

By Josefin Dolsten

Fifteen Nobel Prize winners greet hundreds of students at the World Science Conference in Jerusalem, August 17 2015 (Courtesy)

From the WebIsrael promotes science education in Ghana

Ehud Barak speaks at the opening of the Globes Business Conference, in Tel Aviv on December 8, 2014. (Flash90)

Report: Police probing money laundering allegations against ex-PM Barak

Destroyed motorbikes pictured at the scene of devastation after a bomb exploded outside a religious shrine in central Bangkok, August 17, 2015. (AFP/AIDAN JONES)

Hebrew media reviewTerrorist attacks far and near

By Ilan Ben Zion

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