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What Matters Most On Monday, August 24, 2015

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Benjamin Netanyahu toasts Ehud Barak on his 70th birthday in February 2012. (photo credit: Ministry of Defense/Flash90)

Analysis

Barak’s Iran bombshell sounds like a case of premature detonation

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Are we really to believe that an inept chief of staff, some wobbly ministers and an ill-timed US drill combined to prevent an obsessed PM from dealing with the ayatollahs’ nukes?

Author says he leaked Iran tapes because Barak refused to play ball

PM on Barak tapes: Time to end ‘irresponsible’ security talk

Iran is laughing at leaky Israel, says Liberman after new Barak tapes aired

Cartoon by Bahaa Yassin accuses the West Bank and its security agencies of collaborating with Israel (Bahaa Yassin/courtesy/Palestinian Media Watch)

Anti-PA political cartoon goes too far, even for Hamas

By Elhanan Miller

Bahaa Yassin, who used sexual imagery to portray the Fatah-Israel relationship, is summoned for investigation following public uproar

File: An F-35 taking off for its first night flight on January 18, 2012. (US Air Force/ Tom Reynolds)

Live updates (closed)

IDF dramatically improving ability to strike Iran, says defense official

In leaked tape, Barak says Netanyahu opposed Schalit exchange; over 760 rabbis sign letter against Iran deal

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 22, 2015. (AFP/Majdi Mohammed/Pool)

Despite Tehran’s reluctance, Abbas says he will visit ‘sister’ Iran

Palestinian leader says trip will strengthen ties, week after Iranian official says Tehran has rejected repeated requests

UK’s Hammond says Iran too big to overlook from now on

By AP, ToI Staff and AFP

Palestinian FM: EU should ban settlers as well as their products

By Elhanan Miller

Iran rules out diplomatic ties with ‘illogical’ US

By ToI Staff and AFP

Joshua M. Aaronson

I’ll be leaving Iran out of my sermons

Crucial though it may be, the nuke deal is so divisive it threatens to profane the holiness of the synagogue

The method in Obama’s madness

The goal was never to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear state but rather to recalibrate bilateral ties

Ask me something else

She’s an IDF veteran, an Israeli-American dual citizen, a Hebrew speaker, and a Jew — but that’s not all

Israel's Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko celebrates her silver medal on the podium during the victory ceremony for the women's triple jump athletics event at the 2015 IAAF World Championships at the 'Bird's Nest' national stadium in Beijing on August 24, 2015 (AFP PHOTO / GREG BAKER)

Israeli triple jumper wins silver in World Championships

By ToI Staff and AP

WATCH: Hanna Knyazyeva-Minenko breaks personal and national record to bring home Israel’s second ever world athletics silver

President Reuven Rivlin, center, meets with regional councils heads of West Bank settlements at the President's Residence, August 24, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

President to settlers: Our right to land not debatable

By Stuart Winer

Rivlin tells leaders of settlement communities they are ‘pioneers walking ahead of the camp’

Illustrative photo of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, August 17, 2014 (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)

Israel said to import $1 billion in oil from Iraqi Kurds

Jerusalem bought 19 million barrels in May-August, according to Financial Times; Kurds deny selling ‘directly or indirectly’ to Israel

Alt-J in Rishon Lezion in 2015 (AH/Times of Israel staff)

Concert review

Israel’s beautiful youth lifted by the gospel of alt-J

By David Horovitz

Yishai Schlissel. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gay parade stabber indicted for murder, attempted murder

Prosecutors file charges against Yishai Schlissel, who stabbed teen Shira Banki to death and wounded six others

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat (right) hold a press conference at the Mamilla Hotel in Jerusalem, February 23, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Jerusalem mayor said readying Knesset bid, reportedly wants to be PM

Channel 10 says Nir Barkat recruiting supporters, won’t directly challenge Netanyahu; office says he is focused solely on Jerusalem

Israeli DJ Yarin Lidor will play a set at the Prince Charles club in Berlin. (Ben Kirschenbaum/JTA)

Nightclubs in Tel Aviv and Berlin mark 50 years as funky friends

The Temple of Baal Shamin in Palmyra, Syria, 2010 (CC BY-SA, Bernard Gagnon/Wikimedia)

IS blows up 2,000-year-old temple in Syria’s Palmyra

By AFP

Antiquities chief says jihadists destroyed shrine of Baal Shamin, built in 17 CE and expanded in 130 CE

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressees the 69th United Nations General Assembly in New York City, September 29, 2014. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Iran nuke deal monitoring panel to hold first meeting

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Commission members to gather on sidelines of UN General Assembly in September, Iranian news agency says

Tiffany Shlain has quietly become one of the most influential Jewish filmmakers in the country. (Courtesy of Tiffany Shlain/JTA)

The ‘digital diva’ is on a quest for the makings of a mensch

By Gabe Friedman

More Headlines

Illustrative image of a black flag associated with the Islamic State terrorist group printed on a leaflet that was reported to have been distributed in East Jerusalem on June 25, 2015. (Channel 10 screenshot)

All Arabic to meHebrew sign mistaken for Islamist banner in Louisiana

Mayim Bialik (via Shutterstock)

Not the AverageMayim Bialik: Being religious isn’t trendy in Hollywood

By JTA

Illustrative: Jewish refugees in Shanghai during World War II. (screen capture: YouTube/ HongKongHeritage)

Shanghai showcases role in saving Jews during Holocaust

By Bill SAVADOVE

A frame from the 1998 Hollywood blockbuster 'Armageddon,' which tells the story of a team that lands on a massive asteroid to prevent it from destroying the earth (courtesy Touchstone Pictures)

KarmageddonMock trial in Israel to debate who pays when asteroid hits

Intel's Yair Hochberg demonstrates one of Intel's smartphones July 6 2013 (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Intel Israel team mates gestures and 3D in one device

By David Shamah

‘First aid kit’ helps Ashley Madison victims stanch the flow of info

By David Shamah

Illustrative: People watch a board showing price fluctuations at the Tel Aviv stock exchange. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Stocks slump on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange after global dive

By Stuart Winer and AFP

File photo: Then prime minister Ehud Olmert (right) talks to then defense minister Ehud Barak at a cabinet meeting held in July 2007. (Photo credit: Ariel Jerozolimski/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewSweet revenge and sour stocks

By Marissa Newman

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