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What Matters Most On Friday, August 28, 2015

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Migrants rescued by Libyan coastguard after their boat sank on August 28, 2015, sit in a security center between the coastal cities of Subrata and Zuwara, west of the capital Tripoli. (AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD TURKIA)

200 feared dead in latest migrant disaster off Libyan coast

By MOHAMED BEN KHALIFA

Red Crescent official says at least 105 died when their boat capsized, bodies found trapped inside vessel

Austrian police: Bodies found in truck likely of Syrian refugees

By AFP and AP

Discovery of dead migrants in truck underlines scale of Europe’s refugee crisis

Doctor recounts horrific discovery of migrant boat dead

By AFP

Lt. Hadar Goldin, killed in Gaza on August 1, 2014. (Courtesy)

Family of soldier killed in Gaza dismisses new ‘Hamas lies’ about fatal clash

By Stuart Winer

Islamist terror group sets out its version of events in which Hadar Goldin was slain and his body abducted; family says it fully trusts the IDF

Hamas shows off rebuilt Gaza tunnels in new video

By Stuart Winer

Abbas building $13m. presidential palace near Ramallah

Gaza beach corn vendor attempts suicide after Hamas ‘harassment’

US President Barack Obama speaks to CNN on August 7, 2015 about the Iranian nuclear deal. (Screenshot/CNN)

Obama to appeal to US Jews with webcast on Iran deal

By JTA

Friday’s live broadcast is co-sponsored by American Jewish groups, follows anti-deal online message from Netanyahu

Satellite image of the Parchin facility, April 2012 (AP/Institute for Science and International Security)

IAEA says Iran has expanded Parchin nuclear facility

UN agency’s report says regime’s activity at suspect site has undermined capacity to ‘conduct effective verification’

US sanctions czar due in Israel for Iran deal talks

Saudi king to visit White House in September

By AFP

Swiss envoy: Invest in Iran, ‘a pole of stability’

Learning modern Zionism from modern dance

In the US, she could manage her identities as a performer and practicing Jew — In Israel her worlds came together

To the third and fourth generations

People pay for their own sins, but the Torah’s culture of collective responsibility should be a wake-up call

Eric Cortellessa

Israel’s battle with itself

Not only is imprisonment without filing charges unlawful, it actually threatens Israel’s security

A Tel Aviv banner advertising the opening of an Iranian embassy, which was later revealed as a PR ploy for upcoming movie "Atomic Falafel." (Simona Weinglass/Times of israel)

Tel Aviv ‘Iran Embassy’ sign revealed as PR stunt for new film

By Josefin Dolsten

US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power speaks after Security Council members voted on the Iran resolution at the UN headquarters in New York on July 20, 2015. (AFP/JEWEL SAMAD)

UN envoy: US will be isolated if Iran deal rejected

By AFP

Samantha Power argues that a Congress ‘no’ vote would make it difficult to drum up support for new sanctions

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech as a security guard stands near him during a visit at the Universal Exhibition 2015 (Expo Milano 2015 or World Exposition 2015) in Milan on August 27, 2015. (Giuseppe Cacace/AFP)

Visting Italy, PM says Israel to seek bigger role in African development

By Angus Mackinnon

Cooperation with Italy on Africa’s agricultural tech tops Netanyahu’s agenda on first major trip since his reelection

Doron (left) and Yoav Paz at a Jerusalem Festival premiere screening of their new English-language horror flick, 'JeruZalem.' (courtesy)

It’s the Talmud — with zombies! — in new Israeli horror film

By Lauri Donahue

A man looks out of a window of building where Israeli flags fly from the roof, in the Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem on August 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Jewish group moves into building in East Jeruslem

By Stuart Winer

Ateret Kohanim says site was once owned by Jews; Peace Now accuses government of supporting settlement activity

Israel Zangwill (third from right in the front row) with a group of early Zionist thinkers (Copyright Jewish Museum, London)

Early Zionist thinker’s whodunnit republished by HarperCollins

By Jenni Frazer

Nazi officers at the Stalag Luft III POW camp, the scene of the 'Great Escape' mass breakout (YouTube screenshot)

Australian survivor of WWII ‘Great Escape’ dies at 101

Paul Royle, ex-Royal Air Force pilot, ‘disliked intensely’ the Hollywood film on the escape; only one survivor of mass breakout still living

Brothers Nick and Simon Goodman holding a reclaimed Degas landscape, Chicago, 1998. (Courtesy of Goodman family)

After father’s death, sons find they are heirs to huge Nazi-looted art collection

Minister of Internal Security Gilad Erdan during a visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, July 31, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bereaved families suspend protest against controversial new police chief

After meeting with public security minister, relatives of soldiers killed under ex-army officer Gal Hirsch’s watch believe Erdan will think again

Illustrative photo of pharmaceutical pills. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hebrew U’s ‘liver-on-a-chip’ research flags new Tylenol danger

By David Shamah

New research model that could replace animal testing yields an important discovery

A Codex Sinaiticus manuscript, right, the earliest complete New Testament, from 4th century Egypt or Judea on display in the 'Sacred : Discover what we share' exhibition at the British Library in London, Wednesday, April 25, 2007 (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Oldest complete New Testament to go on display at British Museum

By Ilan Ben Zion

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A pleased Yosef Abramowitz greets Bono at a Rwandan solar field this week (Courtesy Yosef Abramowitz)

PrideBono anoints Israel’s solar power ‘king’

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli children (illustrative photo: Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Parents' paradiseIsrael fourth in list of family friendly countries

A Hebrew National ad suggesting a recipe, with bacon, for a Hog Wild Stack. (Screenshot: YouTube)

No more bacon tipsHebrew National goes kosher on videos

By JTA

Chelsea's owner Roman Abramovich (right) applauds as striker Didier Drogba holds up the Champions League trophy, May 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Maccabi Tel Aviv to face Chelsea in Champions League

Princeton University (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, Wdwdbot)

Princeton University to install ‘eruv’ on campus

By JTA

Iranian director Majid Majidi holds a press conference for the world premiere of his movie 'Muhammad' during the Festival des Films du Monde in Montreal, August 27, 2015. (AFP/Clement Sabourin)

Muhammad the movieBig-budget Iran epic on prophet premieres

Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, speaks at the Pensacola Bay Center in Pensacola, Fla., Wednesday August 26, 2015. (Mark Wallheiser/AP)

Jeb Bush said assembling Jewish leadership team

By JTA and ToI Staff

Israelis stand in front of a sign for the hi-tech company Intel. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Intel doubles recruitment bonus for female employees

By David Shamah

Matthew Kuppe (center) in a Facebook post dated Aug. 9, 2015 with the caption, “This is how you celebrate 21!” (Screen capture Facebook)

JCC camp counselor was allowed to work despite child porn warning

By JTA

A memorial commemorating Jews who fought for the British Commonwealth during the two world wars is unveiled in Britain in 1961 (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)

Reel Nostalgia, Clip #11WATCH: First Jewish war memorial unveiled in UK

By Ramona Tausz

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

Hebrew media reviewHirsch appointment subject to harsh criticism

By Adiv Sterman

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