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What Matters Most On Friday, September 4, 2015

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Iranian nuclear negotiator Javad Vaeedi and then-deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Olli Heinonen, after talks in Tehran, July 12, 2007. (photo credit: AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Interview

Parchin inspection plan won’t work, IAEA’s credibility on the line, says ex-deputy

By Raphael Ahren

Oversight of suspect site can’t be done by camera, says Olli Heinonen; calls on agency to publish secret side deals

Iranian general vows to ‘cut off hands and fingers’ of enemies

Biden: Opponents of Iran deal would only be happy with regime change

By JTA

Saudi king due in White House for nuclear deal talks

By AP

Clashes in Hebron, September 3, 2015 (YouTube screenshot)

2 American yeshiva students hurt in Hebron firebombing

Five tourists take wrong turn in West Bank city, are saved by Palestinian local who lets them hide in his home

In this image made from video, Abdullah Kurdi, foreground, the Syrian man who survived a capsizing during a desperate voyage from Turkey to Greece, speaks to reporters from a graveyard after burying his wife and two sons in their hometown of Kobani, the Syrian Kurdish region they fled, on Friday, Sept. 4, 2015. The haunting image of the man's 3-year-old son, Aylan Kurdi, washed up on Turkish beach focused the world's attention on the wave of migration fueled by war and deprivation. Aylan drowned along with his 5-year-old brother Galip and his mother, Rehan while trying to reach the island of Kos. (AP Photo via AP video)

Drowned Syrian boys buried as Europe wrangles over refugees

By AFP

Under fire, British prime minister agrees to take in thousands of Syrian migrants; EU foreign ministers to meet on crisis

Father of dead Syrian boys: ‘All I want is to be with my children’

By Suzan Fraser and Gregory Katz

Hungary shuts border with Serbia after migrants flee camp

By AFP

UN to EU: Admit 200,000 migrants throughout continent

By AFP

Where is that Jewish genius?

Israel has forfeited Judaism’s greatest strategic legacy, the burning passion for open, intellectual inquiry

Why I won’t drag my kids to synagogue

Her children’s Jewish commitment will survive and thrive if she doesn’t turn services into a punishment

The pursuit of joy

The biblical word ‘simcha’ goes far beyond happiness to describe an experience that is never a solitary one (Ki Tavo)

Still photos from a reconnaissance mission by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) of US aircraft carrier in Strait of Hormuz published by Tasnim News Agency (MEMRI)

Iran military plane takes close-up film of US aircraft carrier

WATCH: Revolutionary Guards operation uses navy plane to film and identify American vessel in the Strait of Hormuz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on September 3, 2015. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

Netanyahu defends Iran deal fight after Obama secures support

By AFP

NJ Senator Cory Booker (YouTube screenshot)

Three more Democratic senators back Iran deal

By AP and ToI Staff

Cory Booker announces support for ‘deeply flawed’ accord; Mark Warner, Heidi Heitkamp also throw weight behind pact

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets then-US secretary of state Hillary Clinton at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, November 20, 2012. (Avi Ohayon/GPO via Getty Images)

Hillary Clinton email trove shows concern with Netanyahu’s psyche

Newly released correspondence sees ex-secretary seeking advice on how to deal with PM’s policies… and personality

Tower tombs at Palmyra, Syria (YouTube screenshot)

Islamic State blows up three of Palmyra’s famed tower tombs

By AFP

Syria’s antiquities chief says ‘best preserved and most beautiful’ of sites destroyed, including Tower of Elahbel

As Israeli antiquities authority worker cleans an 1,800 year-old stone sarcophagus outside the Israeli antiquities authority storage facility in Beit Shemesh on September 3, 2015 (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel recovers ancient sarcophagus, after builders tried to hide it

By AFP

Israeli security forces seen near the newly built barrier on the border between Egypt and Israel. June, 2012. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/FLASH90)

Hungary, Bulgaria ask Israel about barrier to keep out migrants

By ToI Staff and AFP

Officials express interest in modeling border fence on Jewish state’s, but are unlikely to receive EU approval

Illustrative photo of a protester holding up a Palestinian flag (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

United Nations set to back Palestinian flag-raising

By AFP

Palestine’s envoy says it has votes to back bid; Israeli ambassador urges UN chief to block move

An aerial view of an Israeli offshore gas rig (Albatross Aerial photography/Noble Energy/Flash90/File)

US energy firm gets tough on stalled Israel gas deal — report

By AFP

Noble Energy said to threaten arbitration if government does not soon implement Leviathan field deal

Economy Minister Aryeh Deri. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Will this ultra-Orthodox minister bend Shabbat rules like Beckham?

By Simona Weinglass

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (center) imposed mandatory classes in tolerance for the start of the new school year in September 2015, hoping to offset the responses and violence of the summer. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Can tolerance be taught to Israeli students?

By Jessica Steinberg

With the Education Ministry’s call to teach tolerance, several principals talk about what that means in their schools

Female Muslim activists, known as Murabitat, pray outside Temple Mount to protest a government decision banning them from the site during visiting hours, September 2, 2015 (Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

At Temple Mount gate, banned Muslim activists vent their anger

By Elhanan Miller

Still photo from a Vice News video of Israeli soldiers treating wounded Syrian rebels, December 2014. (YouTube: screen capture)

Critically injured Syrian transferred to Israeli hospital

In first such evacuation since fatal June attack on ambulance carrying 2 wounded fighters, man in his 20s airlifted for treatment

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right), September 3, 2015 (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

After outcry, PM to cancel IBA ban on airing political views

By Marissa Newman

Netanyahu says he’ll work to nix controversial clause in state broadcasting law, maintains ethical guidelines need not be part of legislation

Ron Perlman plays vigilante Judge Pernell Harris in 'The Hand of God.' (YouTube screenshot)

Was it divine intervention that saw viewers choose this Amazon series?

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Holocaust denier David Irving (photo credit: public domain via wikipedia)

Camped outHolocaust denier David Irving leads tour of WWII sites

By JTA

Actress and director Natalie Portman and former Israeli president Shimon Peres, seen at the premiere of Portman's movie 'A Tale of Love and Darkness,' at the Cinema City movie theater in Jerusalem on September 3, 2015. (Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Shoot for the starsPortman says new film mirrors family history

Illustrative: United Airlines United Express planes take off at George Bush Intercontinental Airport Wednesday, July 8, 2015, in Houston. (David J. Phillip/AP)

Tie in the skyUnruly passenger tied down on flight from Tel Aviv

Kazan synagogue, Russia (YouTube screenshot)

Kazan synagogue rededication hailed by Muslim, Christian leaders

By JTA

Israel Electric Corporation Vice President, Yasha Hain (second left), and Ofir Hason watch a cyber team at work at the CyberGym school in Hadera, October 20, 2013. AP/Dan Balilty)

European ‘good guy hackers’ to get workout in Israel’s CyberGym

By David Shamah

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and owner Robert Kraft are all smiles after beating the Indianapolis Colts, January 2015. (Elsa/Getty Images/via JTA)

Tom Brady has ‘Deflategate’ suspension tossed by federal judge

By JTA

Pope Francis leaves an eyeglass store on Via del Babuino, in central Rome, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015. Pope Francis slipped out of the Vatican Thursday for a personal errand: New glasses. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Holy sightingPope pops out of Vatican for glasses

By Nicole Winfield

US President Barack Obama looks at an iPad on Tuesday, February 4, 2014 (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Presidential postObama comments on ‘Humans of New York’ photo

By Josefin Dolsten

Syrian migrants walk past Greek and European flags as they head towards the town of Mithimna on Lesbos island, after arriving in an inflatable boat from Turkey on August 22, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / ACHILLEAS ZAVALLIS)

Isle be there Egypt billionaire offers to buy island for migrants

By AFP

Illustrative image of a hacker.(Shutterstock)

Top US cyber-security firm to double Israeli R&D staff

By David Shamah

Omri Ben Harush from the Israeli team fights for the ball during the Euro 2016 qualifying football match between Israel and Wales at the Sammy Ofer Stadium in Haifa, on March 28, 2015. (Flash90)

Pro-Palestinian protesters to picket Israel-Wales soccer game

Hundreds of migrants walk on the Elisabet Bridge after leaving the transit zone of the Budapest main train station, on September 4, 2015 intent on walking to the Austrian border. (AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK)

hebrew media reviewDeath and taxes

By Adiv Sterman

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