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What Matters Most On Friday, September 25, 2015

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Yitzhak and Leah Rabin in the film 'Rabin: In His Own Words.' (screen capture/Channel 2)

In 1976 interview, Rabin likens settler ideologues to ‘cancer,’ warns of ‘apartheid’

Never before heard comments show a prime minister frustrated with ‘one of the most acute dangers’ facing Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 20, 2015. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL/FLASH90)

Ministers toughen measures against stone-throwers

Cabinet approves use of .22 Ruger sniper rifles against rioters who endanger Israelis, backs a minimum four-year prison sentence

Palestinian man shot by Israeli troops dies of wounds

15 tons of sulfuric acid intercepted en route to Gaza

Rivlin, Netanyahu meet for first time in over two months

Illustrative: Jewish merchants come from around the world to buy from Moroccan etrog growers like Mohammed Douch in Assads, September 8, 2015. (Ben Sales/JTA)

As Israel’s groves lie fallow, Morocco captures etrog market

With Moroccan citrons lining international shelves, a look at the country’s long tradition of interfaith cooperation in bringing the fruits to a sukkah near you

A trek into Morocco’s wild Atlas mountains — for etrogs

Pope Francis: The weakness of goodness

This pope, in a misguided act of compassion, may bring an order of anti-Semitic priests back into the fold

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Sukkot and Modi’s guru

The late Swami Dayananda Saraswati was the driving force behind the most important Jewish-Hindu encounter ever

'Empire' co-creator Danny Strong, right, with series star Taraji P. Henson. (Chuck Hodes/FOX/JTA)

Meet ‘that Jewish guy’ behind Fox’s African-American hit ‘Empire’

By Curt Schleier

Egyptian author Ali Salem (screen capture: MEMRI)

Famed Egyptian satirist who drove across Israel dies at 79

Ali Salem, prolific author of one of Arab world’s best-loved comedies, was shunned after bestselling 1994 pro-peace book on Jewish state

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan (L) speaks with Deputy Police Commissioner Bentzi Sau in Jerusalem on September 7, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deputy Shin Bet chief tapped as new police commissioner

By Marissa Newman

Nominee, identified only as R., awaits committee approval; announcement comes 2 days after Erdan drops Gal Hirsch nomination

London City Hall, England, October 22, 2011 (Garry Knight, via Flickr, CC-BY-SA)

Will it be ‘Jew’ vs. Muslim in London’s next mayoral election?

By Jenni Frazer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Orange CEO Stephane Richard in Jerusalem, June 12, 2015. (screen capture/PMO video)

French firm Orange invests in Israeli start-up

By JTA

Months after its CEO spoke of cutting all ties to Israel, telecom giant buys into Hola

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015. (Menahem Kahana/Pool photo via AP)

Netanyahu vows commitment to pluralistic Judaism

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

In letter to US Jewish group, PM repudiates ‘hateful remarks’ by minister that denigrated members of the Reform movement

Relief of Moses as lawgiver in the US House of Representatives (US House of Representatives)

The pope, the Israeli prime minister and Moses in Congress

Both leaders invoked Biblical lawgiver, whose relief overlooks the House chamber, in their message to US lawmakers

An armored personnel carrier, likely a Russian made BTR-82A, firing large-caliber bullets during a battle in Latakia, Syria, is seen in a video posted online on August 23, 2015. (Screen capture YouTube)

Russian ‘visitors’ receive warm welcome in coastal Syria

Assad’s seaside bastion of Latakia sees major military build-up; locals hail ‘the melody of Russian planes’

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani welcomes UN nuclear chief Yukiya Amano for their meeting in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s self-sampling at Parchin was ‘faultless,’ claims IAEA chief

Amano hits back at critics of deal that let Iranian experts provide the evidence to help determine whether regime secretly worked toward bomb

Economy Minister Aryeh Deri. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Economy Ministry bans intercity train construction on Shabbat

Israel Railways says directive, part of apparent labor dispute, sets back $1.5-billion project by two years

'Lilith Lair Triptich' by Siona Benjamin, who painted faces in blue to mirror the displacement she has felt as a brown-skinned Indian Jew in her mostly white town in New Jersey (Courtesy: Siona Benjamin and Flomenhaft Gallery)

Contemporary Jewish art finds respect in Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg

With inspired works of past meets present, Biennale2015 opens throughout the capital with exhibitions of 200 artists from Israel and abroad

A Jewish Brigade soldier carries an artillery shell. The Hebrew inscription on the shell translates as "a gift to Hitler."

British museum sorry for branding Jewish WWII fighters ‘terrorists’

By Tamar Pileggi

Imperial War Museum says it ‘accidentally’ applied label to Jewish Brigade fighters who helped fight Nazis in Europe

Syrian refugee Khalid el-Hassan, right, spent more than 10 days trying to register with authorities after arriving in Berlin, September 17, 2015. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

German Jews fear backlash from country’s welcome of refugees

By Uriel Heilman

Illustrative image of bitcoins (Courtesy BitsofGold)

VC: Despite bitcoin failures, Israeli blockchain tech could change banking

By David Shamah

Santander Bank’s venture capital chief, Mariano Belinky, sees a strong future for Israeli fintech solutions based on a unique technology

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Illustrative: An Israel Air Force F-16 takes off. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

It's a plane!Ultrasound keeps Israeli fighter jets safe

By Stuart Winer

Alana Shultz, the former program director at Congregation Shearith Israel, says she was fired from her job in July 2015 because she was pregnant at the time of her wedding. (YouTube)

NY synagogue fires employee for being pregnant at her wedding

By JTA

South Park launched a graphic attack on US presidential hopeful Donald Trump in its episode "Where has my country gone" that aired on Comedy Central on September 23, 2015. (screenshot: YouTube)

They killed DonaldOn ‘South Park,’ Trump raped to death

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

Sky-highRefaeli weds amid no-fly zone spat

Illustrative photo of a young man building a sukkah. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Jerusalem man, 82, killed while building sukkah

Israeli journalist Moti Kirschenbaum (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Veteran journalist Moti Kirschenbaum dies at 76

Hillary Clinton being interviewed by Lena Dunham for LennyLetter.com, September 2015. (screen capture: Politico)

Just us 'Girls'Clinton talks feminism to Lena Dunham

By Gabe Friedman

President Reuven Rivlin on March 18, 2015. (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO)

Game of phonesRivlin blames mediocre Temple Run score on ‘hacker’

Actor Daniel Radcliffe of 'Harry Potter' fame cuts his hair for a new role as an FBI undercover agent infiltrating a neo-Nazi group. (screen capture: Radcliffe's Google+ page)

All grown up‘Harry Potter’ star shaves head for neo-Nazi role

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative photo: London Metropolitan Police. (CC BY/David Holt London via Flickr.com)

Please deport meIranian tries, fails to get kicked out of UK

By AP

An Eco Wave Power device (Courtesy)

Surf’s up for Israeli wave power

By David Shamah

Illustrative: A Palestinian prepares to throw stones at IDF soldiers guarding the Halamish settlement. (Eric Cortellessa/Times of Israel)

Hebrew Media ReviewBar none, police beat hajj for front page

By Ilan Ben Zion

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