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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 25, 2016

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The US destroyer USS Nitze on June 24, 2016. (US Navy Photo)

After chasing US ship, Iran vows to confront anyone in ‘our waters’

By AFP

Defense minister says boats will be warned and then faced down after US complains destroyer was harassed in international territory

US official: Iranian vessels ‘harass’ US destroyer in dangerous encounter

By AFP and ToI Staff

US paid Iran $1.3 billion, two days after $400m cash delivery

By Bradley Klapper

Navy fired at from Gaza shore while arresting suspect at sea

By Itamar Sharon

Hasidic children in Kiryas Yoel throw eggs at a mock Netanyahu convoy during an anti-Israel protest in August 2016. (Screenshot/Yeshiva World News)

Anti-Zionist Hasidic kids pelt eggs at mock Netanyahu car in anti-Israel protest

By JTA

Children chant ‘Israeli government, shame on you!’ at two rival Satmar summer camps in Williamsburg, Kiryas Joel

A high-tech mannequin in one of the Medical Trauma Simulator's single casualty rooms. Trainees can perform operations on the mannequin's neck, and its pupils can dilate to simulate a brain injury. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

When a dummy screams for help, the IDF’s future medics rush in

The army’s high-tech Medical Trauma Simulator prepares troops in the most realistic way possible to treat casualties in the field

Danny Danon, speaks in Jerusalem on January 31, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Rebuffing UN demands, Danon says no ‘immunity to terrorists’

By Raoul Wootliff

United Nations calls for release of aid worker Israel claims helped Hamas; after snub, Israel-linked security firm says no thanks to UK’s Labour

This artist rendering provided by the European Southern Observatory shows a view of the surface of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System. Photo: European Southern Observatory via AP

Earth 2.0? Earth 2.0?

Planet found orbiting nearby star offers hope of life

By Seth Borenstein

Potentially habitable planet ‘next door’ may be reachable by unmanned space probes by the end of the century

Carmit Feintuch, the Rabbanit of Ramban

Appointing a female spiritual leader for his Jerusalem Orthodox synagogue isn’t revolutionary, it’s necessary

Michael Melchior

A rabbi backs the burkini ban? Absurd

Exploiting the irrational fears that terror creates is a blow against the basic values of the French Revolution

Haisam Hassanein

A certain people scattered and dispersed

The jarring encounter when the Jewish and Arab Israeli experiences of the same moment contradict

Children peering out from a doorway as armed soldiers patrol outside their school in the Jewish quarter of the Marais district in Paris, France, January 13, 2015. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images/via JTA)

In Paris, Jewish students find public schools a no-go zone

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy speaks to the media outside Paris on August 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France’s Sarkozy calls burkinis ‘provocation,’ vows religious sign ban

Conservative ex-president, running for job again, says full body swimsuit worn by some Muslim women indicates support for radicalized Islam

Smoke trails mark the path of Palestinian missiles fired from the northeast of Gaza City on August 21, 2014 (AFP/ROBERTO SCHMIDT)

IDF opens 7 criminal cases into Gaza war, shuts book on school shelling

By Judah Ari Gross

Military Advocate General says office will look into looting by soldiers, closes 11 other cases of alleged misconduct during 2014 conflict, determines no wrongdoing in deadly bombings

Rescue personnel attend the scene of a stabbing attack in the A-Tur neighborhood of East Jerusalem on August 11, 2016 (United Hatzalah)

Palestinian teen indicted for East Jerusalem stabbing

Volunteers pause to rest during search and rescue operations in Amatrice on August 24, 2016 after a powerful earthquake rocked central Italy. (AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)

Italy quake toll rises to 247 as rescuers race to find survivors

By AFP

Efforts continue to find and pull victims from rubble in central Italian towns devastated by 6.2 magnitude temblor; aftershocks keep residents from returning home

Rescuers search amid rubble following an earthquake in Amatrice Italy, Wednesday, August 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

PM, president offer condolences, aid to Italy after deadly quake

An Israeli F-16 during an exercise on November 25, 2013. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Israeli warplanes said to hit Hezbollah targets in Syria

Arab media reports airstrikes target military posts of Shiite terror group along near Lebanese border; Hezbollah denies, Israel mum

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the weekly cabinet meeting at Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 31, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

Netanyahu: I can’t fire Liberman, Bennett over Gaza war criticism

PM says delicate coalition system makes move impossible, dismisses state comptroller probe into 2014 conflict as ‘unnecessary’

Israeli settlers walk by an IDF base in Hebron that will be partially removed in order to make way for a new apartment complex for settlers. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

US ‘deeply concerned’ over Hebron housing plan

By JTA

State Department spokesman also defends Israel’s use of administrative detention, but questions lengthy confinements

Illustrative image: Doctors remove a kidney from a patient at Modarres Hospital in Tehran, Iran, July 2, 2016. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iranian kidney-selling straddles line between efficiency, exploitation

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

Unique program eliminates waiting lists and allows poor to pad wallets, but doctors and ethicists warn of slippery slope

Turkish Army tanks driving to the Syrian Turkish border town of Jarabulus, August 25, 2016. (AFP/BULENT KILIC)

Syrian Kurds rebuff retreat demand as Turkey threatens to intervene

By AFP and ToI Staff

US-backed YPG forces vow to remain west of Euphrates River in defiance of Washington and Ankara, setting up possible confrontation

A man being treated at hospital after a suspected chemical weapons attack in Idlib province in Syria, August 1, 2016. (Screenshot/YouTube)

US vows to ‘seek accountability’ for Syria chemical attacks

By AFP

National Security Council head says ‘impossible to deny’ regime’s use of chlorine in assaults against civilians, after UN report finds chemical weapons used by both Assad forces, Islamic State

The beloved, and kosher, Jericho Dairy Bar in Lake Como, Pennsylvania (Courtesy Jericho Dairy Bar)

Glatt grub

A kosher corner for campers in Lake Como, PA

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

A hand grenade thought to be hundreds of years old, recently given to the IAA, in a photo released August 22, 2016. (Amir Gorzalczany/ Israel Antiquities Authority)

One! Two! Five!Crusader-era grenade dug out of central Israel home

Illustrative image of a Brussels Airlines Airbus A319-100 at the Brussels Airport on October 28, 2007. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons)

Brussels Airlines denies boycott as minister fumes over sweets retreat

By Tamar Pileggi

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio at City Hall, Sept. 21, 2015. (Seth Wenig/AP)

Defending Israel from BDS is ‘consistent with progressive values,’ says NY mayor

By JTA

Olympic beach volleyball contender Doaa Elghobashy smiles for a photo as a woman wearing an Israel flag poses behind, August 2016, Courtesy Facebook

FlashpointIsraeli photobomb angers Egyptian Olympian

Reggae singer Matisyahu performs at a Jewish Orthodox summer camp in Pennsylvania in August 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

Daddy coolMatisyahu sings at his kids’ Jewish summer camp

By JTA

Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel arrives for a roundtable discussion on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC March 2, 2015. (Win McNamee/Getty Images via JTA)

Russian Jews posthumously honor Elie Wiesel

By JTA

An Argentine Air Force historical photo of the IV Air Brigade A-4C Skyhawk 'C-313' during the Falklands War. (photo credit: public domain)

UK opens files on Israeli arms sales to Argentina during Falklands War

A post on a Facebook page connected to Fatah from 2015 of a gun and the party's flag on top of a pile of skulls with Stars of David on them, alongside the text, “lingering on your skulls.” (Screenshot: Facebook)

Social media failing to filter extremist content, UK lawmakers charge

By AFP

A jam session at the 2014 Red Sea Jazz festival (YouTube screenshot)

Red sea, blue noteIsraeli jazz fest trumpets local talent

By AFP

French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel attends a ceremony in Paris, France, Novembe 26, 2013. (Christian Hartmann, Pool via AP)

Jewish French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel dies at 86

By AP

A man reacts to his damaged home after a strong earthquake hit Amatrice, Italy, on August 24, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)

Seismic world news buries domestic coverage under the rubble

By Raoul Wootliff

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