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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 19, 2015

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A Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system on display at an undisclosed location in Russia (AP)

Russia, Iran close deal on delivery of advanced anti-aircraft weapons

Moscow says it will hand over S-300 long-range surface-to-air missile systems to the Islamic Republic as early as this year

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

Menendez: I will vote against Iran deal, support veto override

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Joining fellow Democratic Senator Schumer, NJ lawmaker rebuffs Obama’s claims, warns deal guts ability to snap back sanctions

In Israel, Huckabee defends Iran deal ‘ovens’ remark

By AP and ToI Staff

Report: Iran ‘would have harmed’ IAEA chief for revealing nuke activity

By Tamar Pileggi

Iran says all UN inspectors must receive stamp of approval

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

Spanish festival flipflops on ban, re-invites Matisyahu

Organizers say original misstep came after anti-Israel group threatened to ‘seriously disrupt’ the festival

Matisyahu ‘expelled’ even as Spain says it’s making nice to Jews

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Spain pans music festival’s ‘discrimination’ against Matisyahu

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jewish school in London vandalized for second time

By JTA

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

Live updates (closed)

Hunger striker put back in coma as court lifts detention

By Marissa Newman

Ruling says Mohammed Allaan to remain in hospital; doctors report deterioration in condition, but say he’s stable

Illustrative photo of dolphins (Jorge Novominsky/Flash 90)

Jonathan Flipollard

Hamas claims to nab Israeli spy dolphin

Islamist group’s naval unit says it captured mammal equipped with espionage equipment, including cameras

Mame Bougouma LP Diene

Tel Aviv and Gaza at the Seine

A pro-Palestinian protest against an Israel-themed beach party should have offered much more than mock corpses

Hope blooms here

A kibbutz, deeply scarred by Gaza’s rockets last year, is healing with the addition of 10 new member families

My awesome failed summer-camp romance

A relationship deferred, and grounded in the shared experience of team captains, camp food, and the August sun

Steve Maman: A Jewish Oskar Schindler

A Montreal businessman is a savior for Yazidi women and girls subject to rape, torture, and unspeakable abuse

MK’s official email listed in Ashley Madison website leak

By ToI Staff and AFP

Joint (Arab) List MK Taleb Abu Arar denies registering on marital affair website, says his work account was signed up to besmirch him

The Baker nuclear test at Bikini Atoll on 24 July 1946. (US Department of Defense/Wikimedia Commons)

The Israeli slowly poisoning herself to save us all from nuclear fallout

By Mitch Ginsburg

In this undated photo released Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, one of Syria's most prominent antiquities scholars, Khaled al-Asaad, speaks in Syria. Islamic State militants beheaded al-Asaad in the ancient town of Palmyra, Syria, then strapped his body to one of the town's Roman columns, Syrian state media and an activist group said Wednesday. The killing of 81-year-old al-Asaad was the latest atrocity perpetrated by the militant group, which has captured a third of both Syria and Iraq. (SANA via AP)

Antiquities scholar beheaded by IS in Palmyra, refused to say where treasures hidden

By AP and ToI Staff

Top Syrian expert Khaled al-Asaad, 81, had run ancient site for four decades; terror group hangs his decapitated body from a Roman column

Israel's border with Egypt's Sinai Peninsula (Public domain/Wilson44691/Wikimedia commons)

US may pull out Sinai force that helps keep Israel-Egypt peace

By Bradley Klapper and Julie Pace

Increased terrorist activity has led administration to consider various ways to protect troops, including bolstering weaponry, withdrawing altogether

Men walk past destroyed buildings in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus on April 6, 2015. (AFP/Youssef Karwashan)

At least 9 Palestinians drown fleeing from Syria to Turkey

By AP

Boat carrying some 40 refugees from Yarmouk camp capsizes en route to Turkey, Lebanese media says

Steve Maman (left) shakes hands with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. (Courtesy Steve Maman)

Montreal Jew frantically negotiates for release of IS’s Yazidi sex slaves

By Cathryn J. Prince

Palestinians and Bedouins demonstrate for the release of Palestinian prisoner Mohammad Allaan, in the Bedouin city of Rahat in south Israel, on August 18, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Lawyers say free hunger striker now, after state offers November release

By AFP, ToI Staff and Elhanan Miller

Palestinian Prisoners Club official says Mohammed Allaan’s deteriorating condition requires his immediate release

Islamic Jihad said weighing mass hunger strike by prisoners

By ToI Staff and AFP

Hunger striking prisoner ‘not of sound mind’ after coma, lawyer says

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinian hunger striker: Resolve my case or I’ll step up fast

By AFP

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah, July 31, 2015. (Flash90)

Abbas not welcome in Tehran, Iranian official says

By Elhanan Miller

Islamic Republic seeking to re-warm ties with Hamas, says parliament adviser, who adds, ‘We reject the existence of any Israeli on this Earth’

Former US president Richard Nixon. (photo credit: National Archives & Records Administration, public domain)

Nixon-era documents show US sought to curb Israeli nuke ambitions

By Marissa Newman

Declassified 1969 Kissinger memo outlines concerns about Israel’s program, shows US tried to persuade Jerusalem to sign NPT

A scene from the ABC show 'The Goldbergs,' starring Jeff Garlin, Wendi Mclendon-Covey and George Segal. (photo credit: ABC/Eric McCandless)

Ahead of a very Jewy Emmys, a short history of TV’s Jewification

View of the Ben Yehuda street in the center of Jerusalem on February 28, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem city council to force kiosks to close on Shabbat

A number of small convenience stores in secular downtown to be shut on the Sabbath, municipality says, days after ultra-Orthodox protest Shabbat infringements in a new cinema complex

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Egyptian student Haisam Hassanein at Tel Aviv University (YouTube screen capture)

Talk like an EgyptianWATCH: Egypt student impresses in TA University speech

By JTA

Goldie Steinberg celebrating her 112th birthday in Long Beach, New York, on Jan. 13, 2013. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Goldie Steinberg, reportedly the world’s oldest Jew, dies at 114

By JTA

Rotem the sand cat with her three new cubs at the Ramat Gan Safari, August 18, 2015. (courtesy)

Purrpose of lifeWATCH: Newborn sand kittens delight at Israeli zoo

Raffi Freedman-Gurspan (Facebook)

Jewish woman becomes first openly transgender White House official

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

Adrien Brody arrives at the 30th Film Independent Spirit Awards, February 21, 2015, in Santa Monica, California. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

The Amazing AdrienThe magical world of Adrien Brody

In this March 27, 2012, photo, Leonard Robinson, dressed as Batman, poses for a photo outside his home, in Owings Mills, Md. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via AP)

Batman impersonator known for charity work killed on roadway

By AP and ToI Staff

The city of Lodz, Poland (CC-BY-SA Jakub Zasina/Wikimedia Commons)

Lodz to have first Jewish kindergarten in decades

By JTA

This May 28, 2012 file photo shows a newspaper with a photograph of Etan Patz at a makeshift memorial in the SoHo neighborhood of New York where Patz lived before his disappearance on May 25, 1979. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Retrial for confessed Etan Patz murderer reset for winter

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a tour of the northern border, August 18, 2015. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Hebrew media reviewOn the border of terror

By Adiv Sterman

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