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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 8, 2015

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Yossi Klein Halevi (left) and Imam Abdullah Antepli, at Halevi's Hartman Institute office, August 2015 (DH / Times of Israel staff)

EXCLUSIVE

The partnership: How a bold American imam and his skeptical Israeli host bridged the Muslim-Jewish chasm

By David Horovitz

Since 2013, dozens of young US Muslim leaders have traveled to Israel to learn about Judaism, Zionism and Israel. This is the full story of their high-risk, taboo-shattering initiative — a vital step, they hope, toward Muslim-Jewish healing in America and beyond

Inside the Dawabsha home in Duma. A doll wrapped in a Palestinian flag rests in a stroller to honor Ali. (Eric Cortellessa/Times of Israel)

IDF: Duma attack was definitely ‘Jewish terrorism’

Senior official dimisses speculation that deadly July firebombing may have been carried out by Palestinians

IDF official lauds soldier who scuffled with Palestinian family

Settler pamphlet aims to turn youth against 2-state solution

By Adiv Sterman

2 Jewish teens indicted for setting fire to Bedouin tent

A Palestinian woman and her children wait for the light rail, in the Arab neighborhood of Shuafat in north Jerusalem. (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

State to sue stone throwers who damaged light rail windows

By Jonathan Beck

In precedent-setting lawsuits, prosecutors will demand two Arab residents of East Jerusalem each pay NIS 40,000 for damage caused to train

Illustrative: View from a Jerusalem rooftop of skies fogged up in a sandstorm, September 8, 2015. (Joe Hyams)

Israel shrouded in dense sandstorm

Officials ask Israelis — especially the elderly, young, sick and pregnant — to remain indoors; lengthy heatwave likely

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

They can stay with me

Why she would indeed personally take in a Syrian refugee family

What is the time for aging?

Challenging Yom Kippur’s portrayal of seniors as pathetic: Old age is for joy, gratitude, patience and wisdom

Shmuley Boteach

Friends don’t let friends enable genocide

On the decision by his soul-mate, Cory Booker, to support the Iran nuclear deal

Today’s Israel can be a refugee haven

Those who are convinced the Jewish state can’t possibly absorb migrants are living in Israel’s insecure past

Bowker Vale, Manchester, England. (Google Streetview)

Manchester gang took ‘great joy’ in beating up Jewish kid, says his father

Moshe Fuerst now out of coma; father says he was felled with a punch, kicked in the head, by drunken assailants

Authorities work an active shooting scene on amincola highway near the Naval Reserve Center, in Chattanooga, Tenn. on July 16, 2015. (WRCB-TV via AP)

Terror in US at highest level since September 11 attacks

By Tamar Pileggi

The number of attempted jihadist attacks in the US in 2015 is higher than it has been since 2001, congressional committee warns

CYCI mediator documents the release of a Yazidi woman and her child. (courtesy)

Undeterred by critics, ‘Jewish Schindler’ vows to keep rescuing Yazidis

By Tamar Pileggi

Steve Maman says rampant corruption in Iraq, inaccurate media reports have cast shadow on his efforts to ransom IS-held sex slaves

Blurred photo of a 65-year-old Israeli citizen said to be missing on his way to Yemen via Saudi Arabia (screen capture via Walla News)

Israeli missing in Muslim country, family fears he’s held by IS

Ashkelon resident, 65, ignored travel warnings; wanted to bring brother’s family to Israel

Migrants and refugees walk trough a field towards the Hungarian border near the northern Serbian town of Horgos on August 27, 2015. (AFP/ANDREJ ISAKOVIC)

Growing number of EU states say they prefer non-Muslim refugees

By ToI Staff and AFP

Cyprus joins Bulgaria, Czech Republic and others who claim cultural incompatibility, not discrimination, is behind such statements

Syrians arrive on a dinghy after crossing from Turkey, at the Greek island of Lesbos, Monday, September 7, 2015. (Petros Giannakouris/AP)

Poll shows few Israelis willing to take in Syrian refugees

Respondents split on Europe’s responsibility to take in tide of people fleeing war-torn country

One of the 2,500 migrants and refugees who have found shelter at Milano's Holocaust Memorial over the summer. (Adil Rabhi)

Moved by own history of woe, Italy’s Jews extend refugees an open hand

By Rossella Tercatin

Recalling their expulsion from Arab lands and horrors of the Holocaust, communities are helping a new wave of migrants in search of a better life

Illustrative: Refugees wait outside the refugee camp in Traiskirchen, Austria, Friday, July 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

As crisis grows, US faces pressure to take in more refugees

White House says it’s considering a ‘range of approaches’; Washington has only resettled 1,500 Syrians since 2011

Jamal Zahalke (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab MK blasts left wing’s ‘quiet racism’

Jamal Zahalka says Labor has done far more damage to Israel’s Arab population than Likud, tells Stav Shafir: ‘You won’t even say hello to me’

Oscar Isaac, center, plays Yonkers mayor Nick Wasicsko in the HBO miniseries 'Show Me a Hero.' (Courtesy of HBO/via JTA)

Civil rights and tikkun olam the same ‘thread’ to journalist behind new HBO show

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with British Prime Minister David Cameron in London, April 17, 2013. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

UK activists denounce Netanyahu visit, urge Israel sanctions

Union leaders and anti-Israel advocates plan rallies against PM during visit this week, call for arms embargo on Jewish state

British jihadist Reyaad Khan in a video produced by the Islamic State (YouTube screen capture)

Two British jihadists planning attacks killed in UK drone strike in Syria

By AP and ToI Staff

In a first, Cameron says he eliminated terrorists ‘directing murder on our streets’; one plotted to attack event attended by the Queen

A Hermes 900 (courtesy Elbit Systems)

Switzerland to buy 6 Israeli-made surveillance drones

By AFP and ToI Staff

Critics of deal with Elbit Systems say Bern should not do business with a country that ‘violates’ human rights

Members of the Eitan Unit, who search for missing bodies, collect blood samples as part of a training exercise. (Eric Cortellessa/Times of Israel)

For the IDF, leaving no one behind is more than a mission

By Eric Cortellessa

More Headlines

An EarlySense system in action (Courtesy)

‘Smart bed’ lets you sleep better, and makes coffee, too

By David Shamah

Einat Shlein, Israel's new ambassador to Jordan, is welcomed by King Abdullah in Amman, September 7, 2015 (Courtesy)

First female Israeli envoy to Arab country presents credentials in Amman

Israeli soccer player Obeida Khatab (screen capture:YouTube/Omar Khtab)

Shabbat soccer in Israel about to be ruled offside

Wales's midfielder Gareth Bale (R) takes an unsuccessful freekick during the Euro 2016 qualifying group B football match between Wales and Israel at Cardiff City Stadium in Cardiff, south Wales, on September 6, 2015. (AFP/ GEOFF CADDICK)

Hex it like Ben HaimIsraeli flagged for ‘jinxing’ Welsh striker during kick

Charee Stanley, a US flight attendant who says she was suspended for refusing to serve alcohol to passengers (YouTube screen grab)

Bitter consequencesMuslim ‘suspended for not serving alcohol’ on flights

By AP

Footage of vehicle traveling against the direction of traffic on Highway 2 north of Tel Aviv, early Tuesday, September 8, 2015. (screen capture/Ynet)

Elderly man killed in crash after driving against traffic

The Nuclear Research Center NEGEV, located in Dimona. (screen capture: YouTube, via Channel 10)

Israel develops palm-sized flying nuclear detectors

Then-IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Navy ceremony on September 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Former IDF chief of staff goes high tech

By David Shamah

View of the port in Acre, northern Israel, (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

Man killed in Acre beach shooting

A plenum session on the 20th Knesset, September 7, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewGut feelings

By Joshua Davidovich

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