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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 28, 2016

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Singer Hanna Goor and her bandmates in Ashdod on Friday, August 26, 2016 (via Instagram)

Israeli singer kicked off beachside stage for wearing bikini top

‘Perhaps if my chest were smaller this wouldn’t have happened,’ says Hanna Goor after Ashdod concert organized by Culture Ministry

French resorts defiant as top court suspends burkini ban

By Claudine Renaud and Aurelia End

Why burkini swimsuits are causing controversy

By Angela Charlton

Anti-Islam activists protest atop Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate

By AP

US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) speaks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif after the UN atomic watchdog verifies that Iran has met all conditions of the July 2015 nuclear deal, in Vienna, Austria, on January 16, 2016. (AFP/Kevin Lamarque/Pool)

Iran arrests nuclear negotiator on spying allegations

By AP and AFP

IRNA quotes judiciary spokesman as saying Iranian-Canadian national accused of ‘infiltration,’ released on bail

Flags of Fatah, Hamas and other Palestinian movements atop the West Bank security barrier during a protest in November 2015. (illustrative photo: Muammar Awad/FLASH90)

Analysis

In Hebron, Fatah faces a civil war at the polls

By Avi Issacharoff

While Hamas has a low profile, and just as low stakes, in upcoming local elections, its Palestinian rival is trying to keep other moderates from splitting the secular vote, and preparing for the worst if it doesn‘t succeed

A Turkish army tank and an armored vehicle are stationed near the border with Syria, in Karkamis, Turkey, August. 23, 2016. (IHA via AP)

Up to 75 Kurds said killed in Turkish bombardment in Syria

By Layal Abou Rahal and Stuart Williams

Scores reported injured in attacks on areas used by US-backed forces, as Ankara steps up its cross-border offensive

Children of Syria’s besieged Daraya discover joy of candies

Germany expects 300,000 asylum seekers this year

By AFP

Turkish soldier killed as troops face off against Kurds in Syria

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and PA President Mahmoud Abbas at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, September 15, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Moscow, US both said pushing Israel-PA peace summits

By Raoul Wootliff

Palestinian sources say no talks until Netanyahu agrees to settlement freeze, prisoner release; politicians and public figures offer tributes to former defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer

A man removes cash from a Bank Leumi ATM machine in the Meah Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

8 ways Israel’s 2017-2018 budget may directly impact you

By Marissa Newman

The cabinet has approved more trains, some medical coverage for genetic testing, less funding for Masa scholarships, and taxes for owners of more than 2 apartments. Will MKs give their backing?

Elor Azaria at a court hearing at a military court in Jaffa, August 28, 2016 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebron soldier was right to shoot, civilian security official testifies

Eliyahu Libman says Elor Azaria followed precedent in killing disarmed Palestinian stabber, accuses commanders of failing

IDF opens probe into death of Palestinian said to have charged at troops

Palestinian, 17, arrested carrying knife in East Jerusalem

Hebron soldier’s lawyer predicts ‘surprises’ as trial resumes

The Hasid who became an IDF soldier

The tale of how a young man from the Satmar sect in Brooklyn who knew no Hebrew made his way into an elite army unit

The haters at Edinburgh

Protesters outside a recent co-existence event made it crystal clear their true goal is the elimination of Israel

Elana Stein Hain

A new normal for Orthodox leadership

How the traditional community must fight its (natural) discomfort with the fresh, distinctly female face of its clergy

IsraAID volunteers build a temporary shelter for earthquake victims in Scai, Italy. August 27, 2016. (Courtesy)

Israeli aid group building shelters for Italy quake victims

IsraAID also distributing food and providing grief counseling to families that lost relatives in disaster

Students at the Keshet Eilon mastercourse on Kibbutz Eilon, July 2016 (Sarit Uzieli)

First person

A Stradivarius among the cowsheds

By Simona Weinglass

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at the 2nd annual Joni Ernst Roast and Ride event on August 27, 2016 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump vows to start deportations ‘on Day One’ in White House

By AFP and AP

Candidate also tells supporters that Clinton is waging a ‘war on the American farmer’; draws criticism for tweet about NBA star’s slain cousin

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at the 2nd annual Joni Ernst Roast and Ride event on August 27, 2016 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump draws fire for tweet on slaying of NBA star Wade’s cousin

By ToI Staff and AP

In this Jan. 17, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks about the release of Americans by Iran, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama’s $400m cash payout to Iran is unprecedented, say legal experts

By Bradley Klapper

No other transaction in US history has involved a planeload of bills, say diplomatic historians, raising questions about payment timed to help free prisoners

Transportation Minister Israel Katz during a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem, March 23, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Katz defends ‘unequivocal’ need for train works on Shabbat

Transportation minister dismisses religious anger over construction in Tel Aviv over weekend, says not concerned Netanyahu may fire him to assuage Haredim

Construction on the Tel Aviv Shalom rail line, August 27, 2016. (Israel Railways)

Religious parties demand meet with PM over Shabbat work on train

Illustrative:Two IDF soldiers stand amid a large fire raging near Kfar Sold, caused by missiles fired from the Syrian side of the Israeli-Syrian border and hitting open areas in the Golan Heights in northern Israel on August 20, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

IDF soldiers fire warning shots at suspects approaching Israel-Syria border

No reports on injuries; unknown persons left area, military says

Clockwise from top left: Sarah Nabaggala, Yonatan Loukato, Samuel Matiya Kigondere, Yoash Mayende and Shoshana Nambi were among 13 Ugandan Jews who worked as staff members at Reform Jewish summer camps in the United States. (Jill Peltzman for the URJ/via JTA)

Summer camp ambassadors: Ugandan Jews meet America’s kids

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Ben-Gurion University's road safety simulator experiment (Courtesy)

Cellphones raise kids’ risk at crossings, study finds

By Shoshanna Solomon

Ahmed Dawabsha, the sole survivor of a West Bank arson attack in Duma village, is carried by his grandfather Hussein at the Tel HaShomer Hospital in Ramat Gan, Israel on Friday, July 22, 2016 (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Duma survivor Ahmed Dawabsha taken to home of Hamas terrorist

This image obtained from NASA, shows a color view from NASA's Juno spacecraft made from some of the first images taken by JunoCam after the spacecraft entered orbit around Jupiter July 5, 2016. (AFP/NASA/HO)

By JoveNASA probe makes closest approach yet to Jupiter

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jewish graves at the Belfast City Cemetery (JTA via Eric Jones/ Geograph.ie, Creative Commons)

13 Jewish graves vandalized in Belfast, Northern Ireland

By JTA

A young Palestinian roller-skates on the corniche in Gaza City on August 27, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Youth movementYoung Gazans take up rollerblading

By AFP

A baby white rhinoceros born at the Ramat Gan Safari and named 'Tupak,' August 28, 2016. (Tibor Jäger/Ramat Gan Safari)

On the noseNew rhino named in Ramat Gan safari

By Stuart Winer

John Goodman plays Walter Sobchak in the 1998 Coen brothers film 'The Big Lebowski.' (screen capture: YouTube)

Hebrew media reviewShomer f*cking shabbos

By Ilan Ben Zion

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