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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 30, 2015

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Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi (R) seen with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint press conference at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy on August 29, 2015. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

PM: Israel not opposed to a civilian nuke program for Iran

By ToI Staff and AP

In apparent riposte to Obama, Netanyahu says he is only against Tehran’s military ambitions, warns deal puts Iran ‘on threshold of nuclear arsenal’ within 13 years

From the webIran deal opens a vitriolic divide among American Jews

Rouhani opposes parliament vote on nuclear deal

By AP and ToI Staff

Iran deal gives Sen. Durbin a shot at political redemption

By Erica Werner

A female Arab student walks by colorful art hanging in the corridors of the Hebrew University campus in Jerusalem in 2009. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

The deadly war on women that Israel refuses to talk about

By Simona Weinglass

Police and officials won’t use the term ‘honor killing’ anymore, but Israeli Arab women are still being murdered, and feminists are still fighting attitudes and a legal system they say is soft on the phenomenon

Matisyahu performing at the Rototom Festival in Benicassim, Spain, August 22, 2015. (YouTube/via JTA)

Live updates (closed)

West Bank shooting attack survivor thankful for ‘miracle’

‘Largest Mediterranean gas field’ found off Egypt coast; vote tally for Iran nuclear deal rises to 31 in Senate

Oliver Sacks giving a TED talk in 2009. (CC BY Bill Holsinger-Robinson, Flickr)

Neurologist Oliver Sacks, scientific consumer of life, dies at 82

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and ToI Staff

Renowned writer and thinker, born to London Jewish family, succumbs to battle with cancer after life of exploring brain’s mysteries and scientific thrill-seeking

Studying liberal arts in Start-Up Nation

The focus on career training for undergrads leaves Israel short of thinkers who can help solve its toughest dilemmas

Corbyn and British anti-Semitism

On the Labour party’s blind eye for their leader’s associations with racists, Holocaust deniers and blood libellers

The days after Bob Dylan went electric

Playing Forest Hills and the Hollywood Bowl shortly after the rock legend committed the sin of electric guitar

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses the Knesset, Monday, January 20, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash 90)

Pro-Israel Harper faces drubbing as Canada heads toward vote

By ToI Staff and AFP

Incumbent Conservative PM, who is maintaining embargo on Iran, slumps into third place in latest polls

Israeli police investigate the scene of a shooting attack targeting an Israeli car on a road near the Kohav Hashahar settlement in the West Bank, July 31, 2015. (AFP Photo/ Thomas Coex)

One injured in drive-by shooting attack in West Bank

Man lightly wounded after his car is shot at by unknown assailants; evacuates himself to safety in nearby settlement

A Lebanese man waves a national flag as he tries to cross the barbed wire separating the protesters from the governmental palace during a mass rally against a political class seen as corrupt and incapable of providing basic services on August 29, 2015 at the iconic Martyrs Square in Beirut. (AFP PHOTO / STR)

Analysis

Lebanon’s trash could be Hezbollah’s treasure

By Avi Issacharoff

As thousands take to Beirut’s refuse-strewn streets to demand change, the Shiite group is looking to hijack popular discontent

A Lebanese protester raises a placard during a mass rally against a political class seen as corrupt and incapable of providing basic services on August 29, 2015, at the iconic Martyrs Square in Beirut. (AFP PHOTO / STR)

Tens of thousands march in Beirut ‘You Stink’ protest against government

By Maya Gebeily

Israel Broadcast Authority employees march in Jerusalem on August 30, 2015, to protest mass layoffs affecting fellow employees. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Mass layoffs at state broadcaster temporarily averted

Government agrees to scrap clause slashing NIS 10 million from IBA budget, immediately saving 430 jobs

Gal Hirsch (screen capture: YouTube)

Amid new controversy, intended police chief slams critics, vows to fight on

Gal Hirsch’s Defensive Shield Holdings said to feature in FBI, Israeli corruption investigations involving ex-Georgia defense minister, though no direct tie to Hirsch himself

A Palestinian girl (left), bites the hand of an Israeli soldier (center), during clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters, in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah, August 28, 2015. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Parents urge firing of teacher seen at soldier’s mobbing

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Although Ramat Gan school teacher didn’t take part in incident, he was filmed confronting other security forces in West Bank protest

The underground galleries, part of the Nazi Germany 'Riese' construction project under the Ksiaz castle in the area where the 'Nazi gold train' is supposedly hidden underground, in Walbrzych, Poland, on August 28, 2015. (AFP/Janek Skarzynski)

Polish ‘Nazi gold train’ city basks in ‘Loch Ness Monster effect’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Al-Jazeera news channel's Australian journalist Peter Greste (L) and his colleagues, Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fadel Fahmy (C) and Egyptian Baher Mohamed, listen to the verdict inside the defendants cage during their trial for allegedly supporting the Muslim Brotherhood on June 23, 2014 at the police institute near Cairo's Tora prison. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

Egypt’s jailing of Al-Jazeera journalists riles international community

By AFP

Court finds Mohamed Fahmy, Baher Mohamed, Peter Greste guilty of broadcasting ‘false news’ after 2013 military takeover

Illustrative photo of Islamic State militants, with an IS fighter waving the group flag in Fallujah, Iraq, west of Baghdad, June 28, 2015. (Militant website of IS, via AP)

Missing Israeli Arab woman suspected of joining IS

Shfaram resident in her 40s reportedly flew to Turkey in order to join jihadist group in Syria

Screen capture of a satellite image from the UN training and research agency UNITAR taken on August 27, 2015 and showing the remains of site of the Baalshamin temple in Syria’s Palmyra, which was demolished by the Islamic State in August, 2015. (Video AFP)

Satellite images confirm Palmyra temple razing

By AFP

UN training and research agency photos show ancient Baalshamin site vanished after Islamic State demolition

Jerry Narron, a coach for the Milwaukee Brewers and twice a major league manager, will bring his decades of experience to Israel's national team. (Hillel Kuttler/JTA)

Baptist Major League Baseball lifer to join Israel team

By Hillel Kuttler

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A Syrian couple waits with other migrants for the train near a train station at the F.Y.R. of Macedonia's village of Gevgelija on August 29, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS)

3 ‘severely dehydrated’ migrant kids rescued from Austria van

By AFP

The Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

Memorial to saviors of the Jews stirs mixed emotions in Poland

By Vanessa Gera

Illustrative photo of bearded religious soldiers. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Cut it outHigh Court puts kibosh on IDF beard ban

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian listens to translation during a joint news conference with Defense Secretary Ashton Carter at the Pentagon, Monday, July 6, 2015. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

Giddy up 419Israelis said conning Africans by posing as French minister

An illustrative photo of a spray-painted swastika on a window (ADL/JTA)

3 arrested for swastika vandalism at Michigan Jewish camp

By ToI Staff and JTA

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

Hebrew media reviewPutting the ‘miss’ in ‘commissioner’

By Joshua Davidovich

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