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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 20, 2015

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IAEA inspectors at Iran's nuclear power plant in Natanz on January 20, 2014. (IRNA/AFP/Kazem Ghane)

UN said to let Iran inspect its own alleged nuclear activity site

IAEA reportedly cedes investigative authority of Parchin facility to Tehran; US not a party to agreement, but was briefed on its contents

White House ‘comfortable’ with Iran ‘self-inspecting’ suspect nuke site

By ToI Staff and AP

AnalysisCould Parchin leak sway undecideds on Iran deal?

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Israel, Republicans fume at secret deal that lets Iran inspect its own suspect nuke site

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative photo of Israeli children in a classroom. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

School year to open with classes teaching tolerance

After summer bloodied by racist and homophobic terror, students to spend first week of studies on accepting difference, eschewing violence

Yishai Schlissel, center, an ultra-Orthodox Jew who stabbed a teenage girl to death at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade, is seen at the Jerusalem Magistrates Court on August 5, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gay parade stabber deemed fit to stand trial

By Stuart Winer

View of bombing between Syrian forces from the Israeli side of the border with Syria in the Golan Heights due, on June 16, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Fatalities reported after Israel strikes Syria

Multiple casualties include dead and wounded, Arab media reports; IDF strikes in response to earlier missiles on northern Israel

A spy dolphin walks into a bar…

Fishing for one-liners after Hamas accused Israel of using a unique intel-gathering method

Alcee L. Hastings

Iran can’t be trusted, I will vote ‘no’

The US must reopen negotiations; empower the President to use military force to block Iran nuclear weapons

Israel is not on Royal Jordanian’s map

The airline of a country at peace with Israel flies to Tel Aviv, yet erases the Jewish state’s sovereignty

The new conversion courts are right

The Rabbinate may say Russian immigrants with non-Jewish mothers can’t convert, but Jewish law says they can

Illustrative photo of an integration project which helps children with special needs. March 06, 2014. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)

Israel’s first special needs ‘integration village’ puts down roots

By Marissa Newman

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

High Court halts administrative detention for Palestinian hunger striker

By Adiv Sterman

Ruling could pave way for release of Mohammed Allaan; tests show he may have brain damage

An Iron Dome battery shooting a missile interceptor near Ashdod. (Flash90)

Iron Dome deployed to Ashdod amid fears over hunger striker’s health

Condition of detainee Mohammed Allaan begins to improve, but Israeli officials fear a deterioration could spark revenge missiles from Gaza

Jeffrey Feltman briefing the Security Council at its meeting on the situation in the Middle East on June 24, 2015. (Devra Berkowitz/UN)

UN warns of ‘palpable’ risk of Israeli-Palestinian escalation

By ToI Staff and AP

Senior official criticizes practice of ‘administrative detention,’ calls for terror suspects to be tried or freed

In this Nov. 6, 2014, file photo, an Egyptian armored vehicle is seen on the Egyptian side of the border across from Rafah in north Sinai. (Ahmed Abd El Latif, El Shorouk Newspaper/AP)

Report of possible US pullout from Sinai ‘untrue,’ Israel says

By ToI Staff and AP

American officials were said to be reconsidering deployment over fears of rising jihadist violence in peninsula

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers and security personnel at the scene where an Israeli soldier was wounded by an explosive device at the Panorama military post near Beit Jala, south of Jerusalem, August 19, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Doctors fight to save eye of IED-hit soldier

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Attacker threw improvised bomb at army base south of Jerusalem, leaving enlisted man moderately wounded

US President Barack Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Monday, June 17, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Evan Vucci)

Putin open to meeting Obama at next month’s UN assembly

By AFP

Sergey Lavrov says US officials interested in maintaining contact amid continuing crisis in Ukraine

South Korean soldiers check a military iron fence in the border city of Paju near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas, on March 27, 2013. (AFP/Files/Jung Yeon-Je)

Rival Koreas trade artillery fire across heavily armed border

By AP

After north fires single round into border town, democratic south opens up with barrage at totalitarian arch-foe

Secretary of State John Kerry speaking in New York City about the Iran deal, August 11, 2015. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images/via JTA)

Where dozens of local Jewish groups stand on the Iran deal

President Barack Obama speaks about the nuclear deal with Iran, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015, at American University in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

25 US Jewish leaders announce support for Iran deal

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

New York Times ad urges Congress to support agreement while voicing concerns over Tehran’s anti-Semitism, backing for terror

New York Times columnist, Thomas L. Friedman. (Rebecca Zeffert/Flash90)

IDF rejects Friedman’s NYT comparison of Gaza war to Assad’s Syria massacre

By Judah Ari Gross

Army legal expert dismisses columnist’s ‘ludicrous’ accusation it wages ‘war without mercy,’ notes higher civilan casualty ratios in US campaigns in Pakistan and Yemen

J Street U's new president Amna Farooqi, a Muslim-American student of Pakistani descent. (Courtesy)

J Street U elects Muslim student as president

By JTA and ToI Staff

Maryland senior Amna Farooqi, of Pakistani descent, named new leader of national student board

Former Iran correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Farnaz Fassihi. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Wall Street Journal denies Iran’s conspiracy accusations against its reporter

By AP

Paper says allegations about former Tehran correspondent ‘are false, outlandish and irresponsible’

Meretz leader MK Zahava Galon, June 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jerusalem sees backlash over Shabbat shop closures

Store owner says he won’t shutter shop on Sabbath; Meretz head claims policy ‘punishes’ secular Jerusalemites

Scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1 budding (in green) from cultured lymphocyte. This image has been colored to highlight important features (Wikimedia Commons, public domain/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Image Library)

Sharp rise in heterosexuals contracting HIV

By Adiv Sterman

Men make up about 70% of new carriers in Israel in 2014; about 42% of them engaged in homosexual relations

Ariadne Greif as Yaga the Witch in Matti Kovler's 'Ami and Tami' on July 19 at Outside the Box in Boston. (Outside the Box)

Boston goes into the woods with Israeli opera ‘Ami and Tami’

By Penny Schwartz

More Headlines

Ashley Madison leak could expose 170,000 Israelis

By ToI Staff and AP

Illustrative photo of an Israeli diver swimming with a dolphin at the Dolphin Reef of the Red Sea in Eilat.
(Nati Shohat /Flash90)

RoboDolphinIran media outlet: Captured ‘Mossad dolphin’ a robot

Iranian police officers trying prevent protesters from storming the British Embassy, as others stand on the gates holding a satirized British flag and Islamic flags, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011. (Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Britain to reopen embassy in Tehran this weekend, after four years

By ToI Staff and AFP

A girl holds a snack at a school, during the visit of Pierre Krahenbuhl, commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), background left, in Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, April 12, 2015. (AP Photo)

UN’s Palestinian refugee schools to open despite cash crunch

By AFP

Illustrative photo of a woman on a scale. (Shutterstock)

Scientists find how obesity gene works, a clue to treatment

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE

A crew works on Tel Aviv's partly destroyed Maariv bridge -- which was completely demolished on August 21 -- on August 19, 2015. (Flash90)

Tel Aviv set to bid farewell to landmark Maariv bridge

Illustrative photo of a statue of Satan unveiled by a Satanic temple in Detroit. (YouTube screen capture)

Spanish public broadcaster says Jews promote Satanism

By JTA

Illustrative: A farmer returns from work in the greenhouse of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, near the Israel-Gaza border. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Farmers across country protest tariff reforms

Jordanian UN official Rima Khalaf who heads the Beirut-based U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. (YouTube/UNESCWA)

Israel urges UN to probe official for ‘modern day anti-Semitism’

By AP

Humans of New York photographer Brandon Stanton (photo credit: Youtube screenshot)

People over politics‘Humans of New York’ heads to Iran for second time

Doron Myersdorf, CEO of StoreDot (BBC screenshot)

Samsung, others wooed by 5-minute electric car recharge dream

By David Shamah

Hebrew media reviewHemming and hawing on the way to disaster

By Joshua Davidovich

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