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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 22, 2015

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US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is welcomed upon his arrival in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, July 31, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Mark Wilson, Pool)

‘Israel called off 2012 strike on Iran because it coincided with joint US drill’

Operation was aborted because Israel did not want to ‘force America to be party’ to it, says Ehud Barak; also says he and PM were thwarted by colleagues in 2010 and 2011

Barak: Netanyahu wanted to strike Iran in 2010 and 2011, but colleagues blocked him

Likud MK slams Barak for tapes discussing Israeli plans to attack Iran

Iran says it shot down foreign spy drone

By AFP and AP

An Israeli soldier stands on top of an armored personnel carrier stationed on the Israeli side of the Golan Heights on August 21, 2015. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

US tells Americans to avoid parts of northern Israel

Travel advisory on US embassy website cites ‘launching of rockets from Syria toward Israel and other cross-border activity’

Report: Hezbollah raises alert level along Israel border

Israel to UN: Condemn Iran, Syria for rocket fire

Islamic Jihad: We will respond to IDF strikes in Syria

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Maria Pellegrini, who owns the winery with her husband, grew up in a winemaking family in southern Italy. But because she isn't Jewish, she can't take part in the winemaking in her own winery. (Ben Sales/JTA)

At Tuscany’s only kosher winery, owners can’t touch the Chianti

Terra di Seta’s vintners are meticulously adhering to highest winemaking standards… and Jewish tradition

Rabbis, plumbers and the Iran deal

There are moments, such as the present, of such calamitous potential consequence that rabbis must take a stand

An Orthodox tent for Talia Lavin’s inner self

Reflections on the New Yorker article, ‘Off the Path of Orthodoxy’

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, left, briefs the media as Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan listens after unveiling the surface-to-surface Fateh-313, or Conqueror, missile in a ceremony marking Defense Industry Day in Iran, August 22, 2015. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Unveiling new missile, Rouhani says Iran will obtain ‘any weapons we need’

‘We can negotiate with other countries only when we are powerful,’ says president at ceremony displaying precision solid-fuel rocket

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (AP/Office of the Supreme Leader)

Khamenei urges Islamic unity against real enemies: US and Israel

By Itamar Sharon

Leader suggests Iranians use Mecca pilgrimage to spread truth about ‘bullying powers’ to Muslims worldwide

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York. (Courtesy)

New York Jewish Congressman Nadler to back Iran deal

By Erica Werner and Julie Pace

After personal Obama appeal, Nadler says decision based on ‘perspective as an American Jew who is both a Democrat and a strong supporter of Israel’

A police officer works on a platform near a Thalys train of French national railway operator, SNCF, at the main train station in Arras, northern France, after a gunman opened fire injuring three passengers, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. (AP Photo)

Unarmed Marines overpower Islamist gunman on French train

By AFP and ToI Staff

Moroccan man opens fires, injures US serviceman; suspect said known to intelligence services for radical beliefs

Syrians walk amid the rubble following air strikes by Syrian government forces on a marketplace in the rebel-held area of Douma, east of the capital Damascus, on August 16, 2015. (Sammer al Doumy/AFP)

Analysis

Islamic State has Damascus in its crosshairs

By Avi Issacharoff

The terror group’s advance on Syria’s capital is slow but relentless; one major incident, such as the fall of a base or a strike against a key figure, could bring about the collapse of Assad’s military system

Illustrative: An Islamic State militant destroys ancient artifacts in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, Syria on July 2, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 4)

UN culture chief: IS systematically destroying heritage sites

By Karin Laub and Albert Aji

In this May 26, 2015 file photo, Vice President Joe Biden listens to remarks to the media during a meeting between President Barack Obama and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Decision nearing, Biden mulls mechanics of presidential run

By Josh Lederman

Veep could announce bid for Democratic nomination in September, but would be behind Clinton and Sanders on the campaign trail

Israeli Border Police officers stand guard as Palestinian farmers use tractors to work the land in the village of Qusra in the West Bank, with the Esh Kodesh outpost in the background, on November 19, 2013. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Palestinians clash with settlers, IDF near West Bank outpost

IDF disperses 100 Palestinian farmers after confrontation with settlers from Esh Kodesh outpost; Palestinians hurl stones at troops

Palestinian terror suspect Mohammad Allaan addresses supporters from his Ashkelon hospital bed after he ended his 65-day hunger strike, in a video message released August 21, 2015. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Palestinian hunger striker thanks Israeli Arab ‘brothers’ for support

By Tamar Pileggi

In video from his hospital bed, Mohammad Allaan says fast that led to suspension of his administrative detention was successful

Fighters from the Islamic State group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle down a main road in Mosul, Iraq, on June 23, 2014. (photo credit: AP/File)

Islamic State No. 2 killed in US strike — White House

By AFP

US says Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali, killed in hit on vehicle near Mosul, was IS leader al-Baghdadi’s senior deputy

Matisyahu performs onstage at Park City Live Day 1 on January 16, 2014 in Park City, Utah. (Barry Brecheisen/Invision for Park City Live/AP Images)

Matisyahu to perform at Spain festival after ban rescinded

By AFP

Jewish American singer confirms appearance, writing on Facebook: ‘Today music wins. Freedom of expression wins’

British singer Alison Chabloz (Screen capture: YouTube)

UK artist posts quenelle, questions gas chambers to spite ‘Zionists’

By JTA

More Headlines

Glendon Scott Crawford accompanied by police after his arrest in 2013 (screen capture: YouTube)

KKK member convicted in plot to kill Muslims, Obama with ‘death ray’

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of an El Al flight taking off at Ben Gurion Airport. (Moshe Shai/Flash90/File)

In first, haredi woman accepted to El Al’s pilot training program

By JTA

Jerry Greenfield, left, and Ben Cohen, the founders of Ben & Jerry’s, shown in 2010. (Wikimedia Commons)

The Tehran scoopBen and Jerry back Iran deal

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative: The Knesset, Israel's parliament building in Jerusalem. (Orel Cohen/Flash90)

Brazil ‘Model Knesset’ to explore how Israeli gov’t works

By JTA

Brooklyn Jewish businessman charged with not paying employees

By JTA

US President Barack Obama is seated with Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko as they meet with other countries regarding Ukraine at the NATO summit at Celtic Manor in Newport, Wales, Thursday, September 4, 2014. At rear center is US Secretary of State John Kerry. (photo credit: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Poroshenko to visit Israel for first time as Ukraine president

By JTA

Egypt Muslim Brotherhood chief gets new life term

By AFP

Gene Simmons performing with KISS in 2010. (CC BY/Wikipedia)

Gene Simmons’ home searched in child abuse probe; not a suspect

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