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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 23, 2015

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Then-defense minister Ehud Barak (holding pen) looks at then-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman (to his right) at a cabinet meeting led by then-premier Benjamin Netanyahu in 2010. (Amit Shabi/Pool/Flash90)

Liberman: Barak revealed ‘state secrets’ on Iran

Former foreign minister says ex-defense minister’s statements on plans to strike nuclear facilities strengthen Tehran

Israel’s leaders ‘furious’ over Barak tapes describing aborted plans to hit Iran

Israel concerned Hezbollah may get new Iran missile

Khamenei urges Islamic unity against real enemies: US and Israel

By Itamar Sharon

Church of St. John the Baptist at Sebastia in the West Bank, scrawled with "There is no God but Allah" in Arabic (Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

Reporter's notebook

At ancient Israel’s capital, politics and neglect squelch historical resonance

By Ilan Ben Zion

For half a century, while quibbling over whose heritage it is, Israel and the Palestinians have both ignored a historical gem at Sebastia

Rabbi Rick Jacobs (photo credit: URJ via JTA)

Interview

With its non-stance on Iran deal, Reform Judaism looks to mend ‘ugly’ rift

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Movement head Rick Jacobs says largest Jewish stream not sitting on fence but taking principled stand to avoid debate tearing community apart

Britain reopens embassy in Iran, with FM on hand

By AFP

Brits foot bill as UK reopens ransacked Tehran embassy

By ToI Staff and AFP

Secret IAEA deal inked with reported ex-head of Iran nuclear bomb effort

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat seen on top of the Tower of David Museum, on April 14, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Jerusalem Mayor Barkat said to seek national office

Gay parade attacker Schlissel to be indicted for murder; Litzman can’t remain a deputy minister, says High Court

Praying between the text messages

If you want to talk to God, put down that smartphone: those dings and whistles are getting in the way

Picking up pieces of my past in Israel

About to return from the US, she reviews lessons learned and the parts of her self she hopes to rediscover

Who wrote the Bible? Who cares

Rejecting the traditional way he’d understood Torah hasn’t diminished his commitment to observance

Jewish American singer Matisyahu performing at the Rototom SunSplash festival in Spain, August 22, 2015 (screen capture: YouTube)

Defiant Matisyahu sings ‘Jerusalem’ at Spain festival

WATCH: Jewish American artist faces down pro-Palestinian protesters after organizers backtrack on move to cancel his performance

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

Palestinian minister opposes prisoner hunger strikes

By Elhanan Miller

Issa Qaraqe says refusing food is too risky for prisoners’ health, but Fatah official claims there’s no alternative

FILE: A masked Jewish settler swings a slingshot as he stands near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Yitzhar, on May 19, 2013. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

Alleged Jewish extremists banned from West Bank, Jerusalem

By Tamar Pileggi

Security services issue administrative restraining orders to 10 right-wing activists in wake of deadly firebombing

Firefighters extinguish a car that caught fire after it was hit by a Molotov cocktail near the Arab neighborhood of Beit Hanina in East Jerusalem, injuring three people, on Monday night, August 3, 2015 (Sliman Khader/FLASH90)

Nine indicted for East Jerusalem firebombings

Palestinians and Arab Israelis suspected in incidents including early August attack near Beit Hanina that wounded 3

Islamic State fighters pass by a convoy in the town of Tel Abyad in northeast Syria, May 4, 2015. (Jihadist website via AP)

Interview

‘IS may be losing on the battlefield, but it’s winning at recruitment’

By Eric Cortellessa

One year after the beheading of American journalist James Foley, terrorism expert breaks down the progress in the fight against the Islamic State

An ultra-orthodox child on a ropes course at Jiminy Peak in August 2015. (JTA/Uriel Heilman)

There’s ultra-Orthodox in them thar hills

By Uriel Heilman

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

Abbas quits PLO leadership ahead of internal election

By ToI Staff and AFP

Decision will not affect his standing as PA president; resignation to take effect only if Palestinian National Council votes on it

Illustrative: An American Airlines Boeing 777 during takeoff (CC-BY-SA Sergey Kustov/Wikimedia Commons)

American Airlines to end Israel flights

Company cites financial considerations as basis for decision to terminate Tel Aviv-Philadelphia route

A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January 1945 shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. (AP Photo/File)

From the web

Study: Holocaust survivors passed trauma to children’s genes

Research offers evidence in favor of epigenetic inheritance theory, which posits life experience can affect offspring, Guardian reports

A Holocaust survivor is interviewed at Yeshiva University High School for Girls. (Names, Not Numbers)

Students perform the mitzvah of posterity in recording survivor testimony

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

Construction workers clear rubble following the destruction of the Maariv bridge in Tel Aviv on Friday August 21, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Auto-da féTerror? Holocaust? Nope, just the light rail

Construction workers clear rubble following the destruction of the Maariv bridge in Tel Aviv on Friday August 21, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Shas head threatens coalition after bridge rubble cleared on Shabbat

The Beit She'an valley. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Stray bullet strikes vacationing woman in head

The Transwheel robots (YouTube screen cap)

Wheeling and dealingIsraeli reinvents unicycle for futuristic delivery scheme

A young observer views an Israel oil derrick in 1955. The nation had just struck oil for the first time in the Heletz area south of Ashkelon. (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)

Reel Nostalgia, Clip #9WATCH: Israel strikes black gold

By Ramona Tausz

Palestinians receive their monthly food aid at a United Nations distribution center in the Rafah refugee camp, in southern Gaza Strip, February 8, 2015 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas MP accuses UN, UNRWA of conspiring against Palestinians

Then-IDF chief Gantz, then-defense minister Ehud Barak, and Maj. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot during a February 15, 2011, tour of the northern border (Ministry of Defense/ Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewBarak makes plans to attack Iran, and the press laughs

By Joshua Davidovich

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