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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 1, 2015

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An IDF soldier tries to arrest a 12-year-old boy, accused of stone throwing, at a demonstration in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh on August 28, 2015 (Eric Cortellessa/ Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

WATCH: In Nabi Saleh, an all too predictable black eye for Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

The ubiquity of the media in the West Bank means that almost every confrontation between IDF soldiers and Palestinians is a viral video waiting to happen

Illustrative: An Israeli soldier from the Givati Brigade searches in the refugee camp in the West Bank city of Jenin, on June 19, 2014 (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Defense minister: Elite cop ‘probably’ hit by friendly fire

Security forces arrest 2 Hamas members, demolish home in arrest operation beset by ‘hundreds’ of Palestinian rioters

Illustrative: The Israel-Gaza border, from the Israeli side, with rockets being fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip into Israel, August 20, 2014. (Albert Sadikov/Flash90)

Sirens blare in Gaza periphery in apparent failed rocket launch

Lebanese young women take pictures as they hold placards before the start of an anti-government protest organised by a civil society frustrated with a political class they see as corrupt and incapable of providing basic services on August 29, 2015 at Beirut's iconic Martyrs Square. (AFP/ ANWAR AMRO)

Live updates (closed)

Senators’ support puts Obama on target for Iran deal tally

Democrats Chris Coons, Bob Casey endorse agreement, giving president 33 out of the 34 senators he needs to halt opposition

Israeli kids wearing backpacks for the first day of school and kindergarten stand outside their home in Jerusalem on August 31, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

More than 2 million Israeli kids begin school year

By Jonathan Beck

Education minister proud of reforms to make classrooms less crowded, of boost to math studies – and of first-grade daughter

Arab Israeli Christian schoolchildren play soccer at the Terra Sancta School in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Ramle, May 26, 2015. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Christian schools won’t open Tuesday, amid funding row

By AFP and ToI Staff

Roger Waters needs some Gaza education

A response to the Pink Floyd frontman’s claim that Hamas rockets might kill ‘only’ one or two people

Oh no! Another start-stop school year

Why oh why must we all keep making believe kids start learning on September first?

Packing a Jewish ritual for college

Along with the stamps and the socks, how exactly does one bring a Jewish ritual to her first dorm room?

The galling absence of the Jewish Nakba

Linking the Holocaust with the Arabs’ suffering in 1948 ignores the horrific persecution of Jews in Arab lands

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

Auschwitz rebuffs criticism of its new sprinklers

In response to The Times of Israel, museum says people shouldn’t take offense over ‘showers’ for overheated visitors

Islamic State fighters pass by a convoy in the town of Tel Abyad in northeast Syria, May 4, 2015. (Jihadist website via AP)

Foreign Ministry: Jewish-Israeli man planned to join IS

21-year-old halted on Turkish border with Syria after family tips off authorities about his suspected intentions

One of the dining halls in Enoteca Pinchiorri, a restaurant to which Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara. (Screen capture enotecapinchiorri.it)

PM slammed for eating at nonkosher ‘gourmet dining temple’

By AFP

Spokesperson says Netanyahu was hosted in Florence by Italian PM Renzi, but did not partake of ‘forbidden foods’

F. Glenn Miller Jr. pictured during his capital murder trial on Monday, Aug. 31, 2015, in the Johnson County Courthouse in Olathe, Kan. (Allison Long/The Kansas City Star via AP, Pool)

Supremacist convicted of killing 3 at Kansas Jewish sites

By Heather Hollingsworth

Frazier Glenn Miller told jurors he’d hoped to ‘die a martyr’ when opening fire last Passover eve; could get death penalty

Iran's former judiciary chief Mohammad Yazdi attends a session of the Assembly of Experts in the capital Tehran on March 10, 2015, before being appointed as the new head of the Assembly. (Behrouz Mehri/AFP)

US remains Iran’s ‘No. 1 enemy,’ says powerful cleric

Despite nuclear deal, Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi says Tehran will always see America as its ‘first enemy’

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Knesset Speaker urges Arab leaders to visit Israel

By ToI Staff and AP

Yuli Edelstein tells global conference that cooperation on environmental issues would lay foundations for peace; Iran walks out on speech

US President Barack Obama speaking about the Iran nuclear agreement at American University in Washington, DC, August 5, 2015. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/JTA)

Obama says it hurts when he’s accused of anti-Semitism

By ToI Staff and JTA

In push to garner US Jews’ support for Iran deal, president says Jewish community ‘helped shape me into the person I am’

Illustrative photo of a Jewish wedding at the Neve Shalom synagogue in Istanbul, Turkey. (courtesy Turkish Jewish community)

Jews want to see a future in Turkey, but doubts linger

A 30-meter deep shaft dug in the yard of an East Jerusalem home by unidentified people claiming to be municipal workers fixing a water leak. (Israeli Police spokesperson)

Mysterious shaft dug near archaeological museum in East Jerusalem

By Ilan Ben Zion and Stuart Winer

Unidentified suspects told elderly woman they were fixing a leak, excavated 100-foot-deep hole in her yard next to Rockefeller Museum

Joe Uziel, co-director of an Israel Antiques Authority excavation, sitting atop the stepped structure from the Second Temple period in Jerusalem. (Shai Halevy/ Israel Antiquities Authority)

Unique Second Temple-era podium has Jerusalem archaeologists puzzled

By Stuart Winer

The Israel Navy's Dakar (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

After 47 years, Israel Navy presents findings in sinking of submarine

Families of the 69 sailors who went down with the Dakar in 1968 finally receive a complete report on its disappearance

Former US special envoy Martin Indyk. (Miriam Alster/Flash90/File)

In 2010, US envoy said Netanyahu lacks ‘generosity of spirit’

In recently declassified email, Martin Indyk said fear of appearing a sucker prevents PM from compromising with Palestinians

Illustrative image of the Koran (Issam Rimawi / Flash90.)

Quran fragments could predate Muhammad, UK researchers say

Historians say carbon dating on recently discovered text could ‘destabilize’ views on who compiled the Islamic holy book, and when

NeoTop's TopUp Ball System in action (Courtesy)

An Israeli ‘white-ball solution’ to water stress

By David Shamah

Evaporation is a silent culprit that causes major losses of water. Israel’s NeoTop may have found a way to end this deficit.

Atticus Aldridge (Matt Barber) and Lady Rose MacClare (Lily James) in 'Downton Abbey.' (Courtesy of ITV)

Learn Jewish history in the new season of ‘Downton Abbey’

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A November 2012 pro-Israel rally held in front of the Erb Memorial Union (student Union) at the University of Oregon. (courtesy of Oregon Hillel)

On CampusAn Israeli flag on your dorm room wall?

Prime Minister's Office senior adviser Mark Regev (Screen capture YouTube)

PM’s spokesman confirmed as new envoy to UK

The leading men of 'Grace and Frankie,' law partners who come out as longtime homosexual lovers, are portrayed by Martin Sheen as Robert Hansen, Grace’s husband, and Sam Waterston as Sol Bergstein, Frankie’s spouse. (YouTube screenshot)

A will for Grace?Lily Tomlin plays the straight man in Netflix comedy

Tel Aviv students protest France's arms embargo of Israel in 1969 (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)

Reel Nostalgia, Clip #13WATCH: Students protest France’s arms embargo

By Ramona Tausz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with representatives of the Joint (Arab) List party to discuss enlarging the budgets for Arab towns in Israel, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on August 31, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

General strike headed off in Arab towns and cities

Oshri Cohen (Wikimedia Commons/Creativeandromedia/CC0)

Israeli actor cast for ‘Homeland’ role

Raoul Wallenberg Monument in Stockholm, Sweden. (Wikimedia Commons/public domain)

Hundreds hold pro-Israel march in Stockholm

By Stuart Winer

Israeli entrepreneur Tomer Hen is the founder of the mobile marketing company MobCo. (Tomer Hen/JTA)

Amazon chooses Israeli firm for big India rollout

By David Shamah

Children arrive for their first day of school at the Paula Ben Gurion school in Jerusalem on September 1, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewGetting schooled

By Marissa Newman

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