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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 25, 2015

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Hussein Sheikholeslam (screen capture: YouTube)

‘Israel should be annihilated,’ senior Iran aide says

Adviser to parliamentary speaker rejects British foreign secretary’s suggestion that Rouhani indicating ‘more nuanced approach’ to Jewish state

Hammond says ‘perfectly normal’ Iran seeks to ‘turn a page’ with West

By ToI Staff, AFP and AP

IDF ‘more ready than ever’ to strike Iran, security official says

In travel advisory, Israelis urged to avoid Sinai, Turkey

By Marissa Newman

President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office in 2009. (photo credit: Official White House Photo /Pete Souza)

Analysis

Netanyahu’s Iran lobbying causing invisible but severe damage

By Raphael Ahren

The US is promising not to punish Jerusalem for lambasting the deal, but the bitter quarrels will take their toll

UN nuke watchdog: Iran arrangements ‘technically safe’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Nuclear watchdog says it needs more money to inspect Iran sites

By AP

Wind at back, Iran deal boosters eye outright victory in Senate

By AP

Aerial view of Harish, August 2015 (Facebook)

New town Harish harbors hopes of being more than another Pleasantville

By Simona Weinglass

Boosters of a planned city being built from scratch 45 minutes northeast of Tel Aviv insist it’s not just a bedroom community, but a grand social experiment in tolerance and sustainable living

Former IDF Brig. Gen. Gal Hirsch (Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Erdan defends decision to appoint outsider to head police

By Jonathan Beck

Other cops, families bereaved in 2nd Lebanon War criticize choice of ex-IDF general who led division during 2006 campaign

My Ben & Jerry’s belly ache

Vermont performers targeted the ice-cream makers for selling to Israel, and things went downhill from there

Stop UNRWA’s vile anti-Semitic cartoons

Calling on UN chief Ban Ki-moon to shut down the aid agency’s terror-inciting Facebook campaign

African migrants carry their belongings following their release from the Holot Detention Center in the Negev desert, on August 25, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA)

Arad mayor orders police to block migrants from city

Fearing hundreds of newly freed detainees will flock to southern cities, mayor urges residents to help keep them out

African migrants protest outside Holot detention center in the Negev Desert, southern Israel. February 17, 2014. (FLASH90)

Migrants begin to be freed from detention center

Illustrative photo of signs calling for the boycott of Israel at an anti-Israel protest in San Francisco, April 2011. (CC BY-dignidadrebelde, Flickr)

BDS gains campus cred in US, but pro-Israel efforts improving, report says

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

As the new academic year gets underway, Israel on Campus Coalition says ‘disheartening media reports’ have been exaggerated

File: Alleged young Jewish extremist seen escorted by police in the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court where he was brought on suspicion of burning a house in Sinjil, a village in the West Bank, November 2013. (Flash90)

Complaint claims US taxpayer dollars subsidizing Jewish terrorism in Israel

By Uriel Heilman

New York-based Honenu supports Jews accused of violence against Arabs. Now a Jewish human rights group wants it investigated

File: Men praying in Joseph's Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus in 2011 (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Attack on worshipers at Joseph’s tomb foiled — Shin Bet

Authorities arrest Islamic Jihad cell based in West Bank that planned to place bombs, shoot Jewish pilgrims at holy site

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch (YouTube screen capture)

Rupert Murdoch suggests Michael Bloomberg run in 2016

By JTA

Media tycoon’s tweet says former NY mayor should seek presidential bid in light of Trump’s early success

An explosion at the ancient archaeological site in Tadmor, Syria, known as Palmyra, on Sunday August 23, 2015.

IS publishes images of Palmyra temple destruction

By AFP

Islamic State releases screenshots presumably from video, showing demolition of ancient Baal Shamin temple

Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks to the BBC in an interview aired February 10, 2015. (screen capture: BBC)

Assad: First we’ll deal with the rebels, then Israel

Syrian president indicates there will be no immediate retaliation for last week’s cross-border clashes

Released Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit (second right), walks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second left), then-defense minister Ehud Barak (left), and ex-chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz (right), at the Tel Nof air base in southern Israel, October 18, 2011. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry/Flash90)

Barak: ‘Childish’ Netanyahu opposed Shalit deal, took full credit

By Marissa Newman

In latest leaked recording, former defense chief says PM tried to keep him out of first photos of soldier’s return

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon attend the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on August 5, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90/Pool)

Moody’s: Weak government in Israel means weak economy

By David Shamah

Commenting on Israel’s poor GDP growth in Q2, the ratings agency says Israel faces considerable economic challenges

A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on August 24, 2015 in New York City (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

TA stocks see sharp drops on day of market falls worldwide

By ToI Staff and AP

TA-25 dives 3.5 percent, while TA-100 finishes the day down 3.9%; Bank of Israel keeps interest rate unchanged for September

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (photo: Flash 90)

Rabin disobeyed Ben-Gurion to meet Palmach veterans, papers reveal

Former prime minister among officers who attended 1949 fighters’ conference despite ban on their attendance, documents released Tuesday show

Rabbi Steven A. Fox, Chief Executive of Central Conference of American Rabbis, addresses an audience at a Chicago Convention. (Central Conference of American Rabbis)

Politics from the pulpit on the menu for this Jewish New Year

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

Blown-glass kantharos on flaring foot Italy, 1st century CE from the Belfer Collection (photo credit: © The Israel Museum Jerusalem, Elie Posner)

Things fall apartMuseum gracious after kid breaks 2,000-year-old vase

Illustrative: A child decapitates a teddy bear in an Islamic State-style video (YouTube screen grab)

A grudge to bearToddler decapitates teddy in IS-style video

Scott Cooney, 36, is jailed for 15 months after he carved a swastika on his neighbors' lawn in Lakewood, New Jersey (YouTube screenshot)

Grassroots vandalismNJ man jailed over swastika on neighbors’ lawn

By JTA

Director and actress Natalie Portman poses for photographers at the photo call for the film 'A Tale of Love and Darkness,' at the 68th international film festival, Cannes, France, May 17, 2015. (AP/Joel Ryan/Invision)

Natalie Portman: Jewish community too focused on Holocaust

By JTA

Jon Stewart at the WWE SummerSlam (YouTube screen capture)

Hard-hitting comicJon Stewart chair-slams wrestler at WWE match

By Josefin Dolsten

An Illustrative image of WWII-era Soviet bomber planes. (screen shot: YouTube)

Soviet WWII plane, crew remains found in Polish riverbed

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

NFL star Julian Edelman praying at the Western Wall during a trip to Israel (screen capture via Youtube)

Deflating BDSJewish NFL star Julian Edelman visits Israel

By Josefin Dolsten

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks on August 19, 2015 in Derry, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm, File)

For tale of Jewish child ‘saved’ by Trump, a tragic end

By Cathryn J. Prince

A newborn square-lipped rhinoceros is seen with her six-year old-mother, Keren Peles, at the Ramat Gan Safari zoo near Tel Aviv on August 24, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA)

Horned and readyRamat Gan Safari welcomes baby white rhino

Worker at a Jerusalem pharmacy (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Pharmacy offers Arabs career boost, enhanced ties with Jews

By David Shamah

Illustrative photo of a board showing stock fluctuations at the Tel Aviv stock exchange (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewLosing value, winning silver

By Ilan Ben Zion

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