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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 27, 2015

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Detail from a 1947 criminal watch list put out by the secret intelligence wing of the Haganah describing Adolf Eichmann and warning of his ability to infiltrate British Mandate Palestine and pass himself off as a Jew. (courtesy Kedem Auction House)

Secret file reveals Haganah feared Eichmann infiltration post-WWII

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Pre-state intel officers had Nazi on watch list to British Mandate Palestine; rare archive up for sale by Israeli auction house

Illustrative photo of a far-right Jewish activist in the West Bank, July 27, 2009. (Omer Messinger/FLASH90)

Analysis

The blood of summer and our collective sins of omission

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Israel’s government and army are responsible for the murderous attack in Duma, and Israel’s Haredi rabbinic leadership for the murder at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade. Here’s why

View of the settlement of Givat Zeev, near Jerusalem. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Maccabi Tel Aviv to play Chelsea, Porto in Champions League

Team qualifies for group stage of European soccer competition after tying with FC Basel in home game Tuesday

Israeli Air Force Apache helicopters, file (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel strikes Hamas site after Gaza rocket attack

Air force targets weapons facility after projectile explodes in Eshkol region; no casualties reported on either side

Palestinian who stabbed officer was freed in 2013 after murdering professor

Bomb thrown at IDF troops near Jenin

FIFA hosts Israeli, Palestinian football leaders for talks

By AP

Remembering them: One year later

Mourning the loss of life, limb and hopes for co-existence wrought by last summer’s Hamas rockets

Ode to a desert sunrise

From a Manhattan college campus, the dawn sparks memories of cold mornings in the army and hope for the Land

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

Retired police chiefs vow to block commissioner appointment

Former top cops say they’ll turn to PM over ‘delusional’ decision to bring in outside candidate Gal Hirsch; minister says force needs cultural change

Supporters react to a speech by Republican presidential candidate former New York Gov. George Pataki at the 'Stop Iran' protest Wednesday, July 22, 2015, near Times Square in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

900 US rabbis sign petition opposing Iran deal

By JTA

‘Deeply troubled’ by nuclear agreement, clerics exhort Congress to reject it

Argentinian pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim poses for a photograph after launching his new piano, the Barenboim-Maene concert grand, at the Royal Festival Hall in London on May 26, 2015. (AFP / ADRIAN DENNIS)

Israeli conductor Barenboim confirms talks for Tehran concert

By AFP

German FM supports Berlin orchestra performance; Miri Regev says it encourages Iranian delegitimization of Israel

Illustrative photo of Israeli security forces demolishing an illegally built structure in a West Bank outpost (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Stoned by settlers, army destroys 4 buildings in illegal outposts

Security forces arrest 3 people who refuse to evacuate illegal construction in Geulat Zion, near Shiloh

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)

After Spain, Matisyahu performs outside Auschwitz

By JTA

Jewish-American reggae artist plays in small synagogue outside death camp in Poland following festival BDS row

UTJ's Yaakov Litzman leaves a session of his United Torah Judaism party's Council of Torah Sages in Jerusalem on August 27, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deputy Health Minister Litzman to become full minister

By Jonathan Beck

In response to landmark court ruling, ultra-Orthodox lawmaker becomes the first to receive rabbis’ approval to enter cabinet

Ofir Akunis (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Shay Hayak/Wikipedia)

Prime minister taps Akunis as science minister in cabinet reshuffle

Danny Danon approved for UN ambassador post, giving up seat to minister without portfolio and paving way for Knesset to gain record 30th female member

Eliran Douenias, an Israeli fellow with the Joint Distribution Committee based in Kathmandu, joins village members to plant rice. (Eliran Douenias/JDC)

In Nepal, a long road toward recovery

By Melanie Lidman

Illustrative photo of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. (AP/Joe Kohen)

US Orthodox more similar to evangelicals than to other Jews, study finds

By Josefin Dolsten

Community tracks with Christians on questions of religiosity, conservative political beliefs, according to Pew analysis of landmark 2013 survey

Forensic officers stand in front of a truck inside which were found a large number of dead migrants on a motorway near Neusiedl am See, Austria, on August 27, 2015 (AFP/DIETER NAGL)

Up to 50 dead migrants found in truck on Austria highway

Partially decomposed corpses discovered in vehicle with Hungarian plates; minister decries ‘human traffickers’

Global Innovation Awards partners at an event in Tel Aviv on February 2. 2014. (L to R): Steven Katz, EMC Ventures; Xueling Cao, Director, Shengjing Group and Shengjing Fund of Funds; Sherrie Wang, Senior Partner at Shengjing Group and Shengjing Fund of Funds; Tamir Huberman, Yissum (Hebrew University); Kobi Rozengarten, Managing Partner, JVP; Yoav Tzruya, Partner, JVP; Maya Netser, HFN; and Hanan Haviv, Partner HFN (Photo credit: Benny Doutsh)

China stock drop casts pall over million-dollar start-up contest

By David Shamah

2 Israeli start-ups snag top prizes in a prestigious competition, as Chinese investors worry about their country’s financial future

Author Noah Gordon is the most famous writer you've never heard of. (Jamie Beth Gordon)

Noah Gordon is the most successful novelist you’ve never heard of

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Makeup artist Ilana Kolihanov and her dog Ivy (YouTube screen grab)

Bona fido makeoverIsraeli makeup artist transforms herself into her dog

Jewish Yeshivah students unknowingly participate in a social experiment to help costumed actor who collapsed on Hollywood Boulevard on the Jimmy Kimmel show, August 25, 2015. (YouTube)

Seminary live!Yeshiva students to the rescue on Jimmy Kimmel

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom team in Nepal attends to one of four surrogate-born Israeli babies before boarding a Turkish Airlines flight out of the country. (Magen David Adom)

Nepal’s top court orders suspension of surrogacy services

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iranian shoeshine man, Mohammad Ali Hassan Khani, whose nickname is Aliwaxima, drives his racy-red motorized stiletto on a street on August 19, 2015 in the capital Tehran. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)

Foot trafficShoeshine man rolls around Tehran in a red stiletto

By Siavosh GHAZI

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

About face about vaseAncient Roman vase is fixed, but who broke it?

By AP

Israeli creator of 'Homeland' Gideon Raff. (Courtesy)

‘Homeland’ creator to direct movie on rescue of Ethiopian Jews

By Josefin Dolsten

CTWiz screenshot (Courtesy)

What’s the best real estate deal in Israel? New web service says it knows

By David Shamah

Maazouze Allaan (R), the mother of Palestinian prisoner Mohammed Allaan, walks outside her son's room following a visit to the Barzilai Medical Center in the Israeli city of Ashkelon on August 20, 2015. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Brawl erupts in hospital of recovering Palestinian hunger striker

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

Hebrew media reviewCops vs. soldiers

By Marissa Newman

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