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What Matters Most On Monday, August 31, 2015

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Alleged head of a Jewish extremist group Meir Ettinger appears in the Magistrate's Court in Nazareth Illit, August 4, 2015. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Analysis

Month after fatal firebombing, jury is out on fight against Jewish terror

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Defense minister claims jailing suspects without trial has prevented a further wave of grave attacks on Arabs. Dare we believe him?

Illustrative photo of a masked Jewish extremist swinging a slingshot outside the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar in 2013. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

Israel has failed to reform Jewish radicals, critics charge

By Daniel Estrin

Religious Jews visit Temple Mount, August 25, 2015. (Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

On Temple Mount, some see a dome and imagine an altar

By Elhanan Miller

More and more religious Jews are visiting the holy site, part of a movement defying a centuries-old rabbinic ban and stoking tension with Muslims who also lay claim to the esplanade

An aerial view of the Tamar gas-processing rig off the southern coastal city of Ashkelon, June 23, 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Israeli gas stocks tumble, losing nearly $1.5 billion

By Jonathan Beck

Egyptian natural gas find shakes energy market; Egypt prime minister calls massive gas field a ‘message from Allah’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with then-economy minister Aryeh Deri in the Knesset, June 29, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu delays vote on contentious gas deal

By Adiv Sterman and Stuart Winer

PM’s announcement comes after discovery of massive offshore reserve near Egypt

After massive Egypt find, coalition to push gas deal through Knesset

Steinitz: Egypt gas find is wake-up call for Israel

‘Largest Mediterranean gas field’ found off Egypt coast

By AP and ToI Staff

Wrestling Jerusalem

Presenting the Israel mess in 17-part disharmony: An excerpt from a one-man show

Israel and its refugees: What’s next?

A 5-point plan that prizes human dignity to replace the government’s strategic inaction toward asylum seekers

The next great Jewish Renaissance

Locally trained Reform rabbis will meet the needs of the next generation of Jews in the Former Soviet Union

4 tips for Jewish first-years on campus

College offers great opportunities to find community and engage meaningfully with Judaism

Railway tracks lead to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Tourists pour cold water on Auschwitz ‘showers’

By Stuart Winer

Israelis offended over installation of refreshing sprays for visitors at concentration camp

African migrants walk out of the Holot detention center in the Negev desert in southern Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Out of Israeli detention, an asylum seeker seeks a better future

By Simona Weinglass

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on August 16, 2015 (Abir Sultan/AFP/POOL)

Netanyahu: Embattled nominee Hirsch ‘best man’ to head police

Cabinet approves 45-day extension for acting police commissioner Sau, as outrage over new pick persists

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

US industry union votes to boycott Israel

By JTA

United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers union joins BDS movement, accuses Jewish state of ethnic cleansing

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends a Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) executive committee meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 22, 2015 (Flash90)

Report: Abbas searching for candidates to replace him as PA head

By Elhanan Miller

Palestinian president’s party is trying to prevent him from stepping down, Hamas daily claims, as rumors swirl of imminent resignation

Illustrative: Ketziot Prison, August 2009. (Moshe Shai/Flash90/File)

Palestinian prisoners launch fresh hunger strike

Lawyer says 5 detainees are giving Israel until Tuesday to end policy of holding suspects without trial or they will ratchet up refusal

Up to 1,000 people gathered outside the Massachusetts State House in Boston to protest the proposed nuclear deal with Iran on August 30, 2015. Addressing the crowd is WRKO radio host Jeff Kuhner, host and convener of the rally. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

‘Nuke the Iran deal,’ Boston rally tells US Congress

By Matt Lebovic

Making frequent references to the Holocaust, up to 1,000 Bostonians gather on Beacon Hill to protest the Obama administration’s ‘disgraceful and dangerous’ nuclear accord

Debbie Wasserman Schultz speaks onstage at the FORTUNE Most Powerful Women Summit, October 16, 2013 in Washington, DC. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for FORTUNE/via JTA)

Wasserman Schultz reportedly nixed Dems’ vote on backing Iran deal

By JTA

A picture taken on March 14, 2014, shows a view of the external courtyard of the sanctuary of Baal (also written Bel) in the ancient oasis city of Palmyra, 215 kilometers northeast of Damascus. (AFP PHOTO/JOSEPH EID)

Palmyra’s Temple of Bel largely intact after blast

By AFP

Syria’s antiquities chief says ancient site does not appear to have sustained major damage in explosion

In this handout image made available by the photographer, American journalist Steven Sotloff, center with black helmet, talks to Libyan rebels on the Al Dafniya front line, about 15 miles from Misrata, Libya, June 2, 2011. Sotloff was beheaded in September 2014 nearly a year after being kidnapped in Syria. (Etienne de Malglaive via Getty Images/JTA)

Steven Sotloff’s parents open up as first anniversary of his murder looms

By AP and ToI Staff

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)

Family ‘proud’ of soldier’s restraint in West Bank scuffle

Father says tussle with Palestinian women, children who stopped his son arresting a boy could have ‘ended very differently’

Palestinian terror suspect Mohammed Allaan addresses supporters from his Ashkelon hospital bed after he ended his 65-day hunger strike, in a video message released August 21, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

Palestinian hunger striker’s father wants him out of ‘hostile’ Israel

By Tamar Pileggi

Turkish economist Guven Sak speaking at the 2013 Euromed Forum in Barcelona (screen capture via YouTube)

Israel to receive first Turkish visit since Marmara crisis

Delegation will meet with Israeli deputy minister on joint plans for new Palestinian industrial zone

Rabbi Barbara Aiello speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, August 13, 2015. (Menachem Wecker/JTA)

Don’t mess with Italy’s missionary woman

By Menachem Wecker

More Headlines

Timothy Paul Jacobs-Woodworth in Syria, with his Hebrew-language graffiti (Facebook)

K Kur Kurd KurdistanShoah survivor’s grandson fights IS, daubs Hebrew

By JTA and ToI Staff

Jewish American singer Matisyahu performing at the Rototom SunSplash festival in Spain, August 22, 2015 (screen capture: YouTube)

From the webHas Jewish music star Matisyahu got a Middle East problem?

Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs (Meshulam/Wikipedia)

Dutch authorities advised chief rabbi to avoid train travel

By JTA

Leader of the Joint (Arab) List MK Ayman Odeh (center) seen with MK Masud Gnaim (left), and MK Ahmad Tibi (right) in the Knesset, Jerusalem, June 29, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Threatening strike over money woes, Arab MKs to meet Netanyahu

By Stuart Winer

An Afula 'smart garbage can' (Afula Municipality)

Afula’s ‘smart garbage cans’ send out distress signal when full

By David Shamah

Former president Shimon Peres poses with two students on a recruitment poster for the Education Ministry's new 'Five Unit' math training program. (Education Ministry)

‘Skills panic’ prompts new government effort in math education

By David Shamah

Israel's national American football team plays against NCAA Division III team Maranatha Baptist Bible College at the Baptist Village sport complex near Petah Tikva in 2012. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

Israel’s football team wins first international game

By JTA

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan. (Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewWill Erdan back down on his police chief pick?

By Marissa Newman

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