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What Matters Most On Monday, September 21, 2015

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit and Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein (left to right) at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, November 2014. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool)

PM vows tougher penalties for rioters, despite judicial opposition

Attorney general comes out against mandatory minimum sentences, change in rules on use of live fire against stone-throwers

Shaked: A-G’s opposition to harsher penalties for rioters not binding

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israeli motorists pelted with stones in several West Bank areas

4 Palestinian teens indicted for throwing stones in Jerusalem

Hezbollah fighters hold party flags during a parade in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon (AP/Hussein Malla/File)

Analysis

Boosted by nuke deal, Iran ups funding to Hezbollah, Hamas

By Avi Issacharoff

Operating on assumption sanctions will be lifted, Tehran increases support to proxies, while freezing out Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal

IAEA satisfied with samples from Parchin drawn by Iran

By AP

UN nuclear chief pays ‘ceremonial’ visit to Parchin site

Iran appoints permanent envoy to Britain

By AP and ToI Staff

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence, in Moscow, on September 21, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/POOL/IVAN SEKRETAREV)

Live updates (closed)

Activists clash with ultra-Orthodox over chicken-waving rite

Animal rights protesters use tear gas to stymie controversial practice of swinging fowl over head ahead of Yom Kippur

Idan Barir and a member of the Yazidi resistance hold a Yazidi flag. (Courtesy)

Israel’s Yazidi ‘ambassador’ explains why so many want to join the IDF

By Simona Weinglass

Every day, Tel Aviv PhD student Idan Barir communicates with scores of Yazidis on Facebook. Israel should absorb a ‘symbolic number’ of the beleaguered Iraqi minority, he says

At al-Aqsa, a sentinel moment for Islam

Barring Jews from praying at their holiest site perverts Islam and profanes the God it shares with Judaism

Abba, can you hear me?

Pondering whether his father’s incoherent shouts might have been the purest of prayers

Appoint an Arab!

Israel’s Equal Employment Opportunity Commission needs a leader who will tackle nationality discrimination

‘Who by fire and who by water?’

This past year illustrated far too well the High Holiday prayer’s catalogue of all the terrible ways to die

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits with IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot during a visit to the northern border of Israel on August 18, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Analysis

In Moscow, presence of IDF generals sends a message of military urgency

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative. A trail of smoke is seen as rockets launched from the Gaza Strip streak towards the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on August 24, 2014. (Edi Israel /Flash90/File)

Rocket from Gaza hits greenhouse in south; no injuries

Sirens didn’t sound as solitary rocket strikes open field in Ashkelon region, just hours after Iron Dome batteries deployed

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the Executive Committee of the PLO in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on September 1, 2015. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

‘Abbas’s UN speech won’t announce end of PA’

Israeli official says European diplomats were told Palestinian Authority president won’t terminate Oslo Accords

Palestinians shout in front of Israeli security forces who block a road leading to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City on September 13, 2015. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

Ditching school, Israeli-Arab students rally against Temple Mount rules

By Stuart Winer

Hundreds of Sakhnin teens protest policies at al-Aqsa Mosque; call for intifada, wave Palestinian flags

Representatives from the Canadian Embassy (left) and the American Embassy lay a memorial wreath at the AACI memorial forest outside Jerusalem on Sunday, September 20, 2015. (Melanie LIdman/Times of Israel)

Celebrate unity, not division, terror victim’s family urges

By Melanie Lidman

Jeffrey Farrow, the part-time executive director of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of American’s Heritage Abroad, is under fire. (El Nuevo Dia via AP Images)

Washington scandal exposes politics behind Europe’s Jewish memorials

Head of commission tasked with preserving American heritage abroad comes under fire for ‘extravagant’ income

Greece's Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras speaks with supporters after his party's victory in the Greek general elections at his campaign headquarters in Athens on September 20, 2015. (AFP Photo/Louisa Gouliamaki)

Comeback kid Tsipras storms to victory in Greek election

By Claire Rosemberg and John Hadoulis

Despite austerity deal, left-wing Syriza party leader wins second mandate of the year, warns of ‘difficulties ahead’

File: Jews at prayer in Joseph's Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus as IDF soldiers stand guard. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

IDF soldier injured in skirmish near Joseph’s Tomb

Palestinians throw rocks, Molotov cocktails at Israeli forces at shrine outside Nablus

Police capture Palestinian seen wielding ax in Jerusalem

Officers fail to find weapon after chase of about 8 km north of capital; second suspect not caught

A child walks past the newly-named Umm Kulthum street in East Jerusalem, October 24, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Bernat Armangue)

30 East Jerusalem streets given Hebrew names, enraging Arab residents

Defending decision, municipality says 800 roads given Arabic names; Arab MKs slam attempt to ‘Judaicize al-Quds’

Curiyo screenshot (Courtesy)

After $127-million exit, entrepreneur wants users’ 2¢, too

By David Shamah

‘Answers’ man Bob Rosenschein’s new Curiyo offering is a step up in content and engagement, he believes

Israeli-American artist Ori Alon helps a passerby fill out the necessary paperwork for a forgiver's licence at his makeshift office on Main Street in Beacon, New York. (courtesy)

Just in time for Yom Kippur, Israeli-American artist issues ‘forgiver’s licenses’

By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs

More Headlines

'Blood moon' lunar eclipse, April 15, 2014 (Photo: CC BY-SA Tomruen, Wikipedia)

Red Moon Rising‘Blood moon’ on Sukkot sparks doomsday fears

By Raoul Wootliff

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter defending a tweet referring to 'f---king Jews' in an interview with Fox News, September 16, 2015. (YouTube: screenshot)

Jewish publication may drop Coulter over ‘F-ing Jews’ tweet

By JTA

A performance on stage during the last night of the Proms at The Royal Albert Hall in west London, September 12, 2015. (AFP/JUSTIN TALLIS)

BBC apologizes for ‘anti-Semitic’ cartoon in music program

By Stuart Winer

Israeli model Bar Refaeli in Jerusalem, June 18, 2015 (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Open-air eventThe sky not to be the limit for Bar Refaeli wedding

By AFP

Yael Ilani's passport photo which was rejected, left, because it showed bared shoulders (courtesy)

Cold shoulderNo passport for Israeli woman with ‘naked’ photo

Selfoss waterfall, Iceland (Wikimedia commons/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Israeli tourist falls to his death in Iceland

Israeli-born Oz the Sumatran tiger at Hamilton Zoo in 2013 (YouTube screen capture)

Big catIsraeli-born tiger Oz kills New Zealand zookeeper

Damage to a car pelted with stones outside Jerusalem on September 20, 2015. (Courtesy)

Hebrew media reviewLike a throwing stone

By Joshua Davidovich

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