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What Matters Most On Monday, August 29, 2016

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Russian-made, S-300 long-range missiles at the Fordo nuclear site in central Iran, August 28, 2016. (Screenshot/Press TV)

Iran deploys long-range missiles to defend Fordo nuclear site

By AFP and ToI Staff

Protecting nuke facilities is paramount, says Iran air commander as state TV airs images of Russian-made S-300 launchers

Iran to start construction on two more nuclear plants

Iran inaugurates internal version of Internet

By AP

Khamenei warns Iran will ‘hit hard’ in response to US aggression

Binyamin Ben-Eliezer in 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer dies at 80

Ex-general and Labor Party veteran passes away at Tel Aviv hospital; decades-long career ended in December 2014 with allegations of corruption

Labor Party chair Isaac Herzog, right, with MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer at a party meeting, May 12, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Politicians remember Ben-Eliezer as brave fighter, beloved politician

Former minister Yossi Beilin, right, criticizes recently deceased former defense minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, left, during an interview on Channel 1 news on August 28, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Former minister calls politicians hypocrites for praising Ben-Eliezer

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, left, Minister of Social Equality Gila Gamliel and Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel speak to reporters following a tour of Israel's Bedouin communities in the Negev desert on August 29, 2016. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Live updates (closed)

Easing tensions, Syrian Kurds retreat across Euphrates — US

By Joshua Davidovich

Move comes after Turkey vows to continue operation until YPG militia pushed back; Obama to meet Erdogan in China

A 16,500-year-old limestone palette engraved with a bird's head found at Ein Qashish in northern Israel. ( CC BY, PLoS ONE; A Unique Assemblage of Engraved Plaquettes from Ein Qashish South, Jezreel Valley, Israel: Figurative and Non-Figurative Symbols of Late Pleistocene Hunters-Gatherers in the Levant)

Millennia before writing, ancient Holy Land etchings tracked passage of seasons

By Ilan Ben Zion

16,500-year-old bird’s head carved into limestone plaque from Ein Qashish may be among oldest ritual objects ever found in the Levant

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during the inauguration of the Yavuz Sultan Selim bridge in Istanbul on August 26, 2016. (AFP/Ozan Kose)

Erdogan: Turkey will fight Syrian Kurds same as Islamic State

By AFP

Visiting town recently hit by suicide bomber, president says Ankara ‘will not allow any terror activity on or near our borders’

IS claims bombing against Yemen recruits that killed 60

By AFP

Turkey accuses Syrian Kurds of ‘ethnic cleansing’

By AFP

Suicide attack kills 18, including wedding guests, in Iraq oasis town

By Abdelamir Hanoun

Micah Lakin Avni

The Palestinian Scouts hero who murdered my father

The World Scout Org must forbid and condemn the choice of a terrorist as role models for future leaders

Abbas’ election call is a head-scratcher

If there’s a method to the Palestinian president’s madness of asking for public review of his rule, it’s a mystery

So near and yet so far away

Will intriguing new directions suggested by a recent poll of Israelis and Palestinians yield a new political reality?

Funny sort of priest

Will foregoing humor and adopting a more pious style make him a better channel of God’s grace?

Mohammad el-Halabi, a manager of the World Vision charity's operations in the Gaza Strip, was indicted on August 4, 2016, for diverting the charity's funds to the Hamas terrorist organization. (Screen capture: World Vision)

Give arrested aid worker fair trial, Amnesty tells Israel

By AFP

Human rights group demands Israeli authorities investigate claims of abuse, ‘forced’ confession

An Israeli woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group, on August 28, 2016 in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

iPhone spyware spotlights Israel’s secretive surveillance industry

By Jean-Luc Renaudie

Some 27 cyber-snoop firms are headquartered in the Jewish state, fueled by veterans of IDF’s first-rate intelligence units

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, left, Minister of Social Equality Gila Gamliel and Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel speak to reporters following a tour of Israel's Bedouin communities in the Negev desert on August 29, 2016. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Liberman: Israeli media preventing army from fighting terror

By Judah Ari Gross

Commenting on soldiers suspected of killing Palestinians without cause, defense minister says troops can’t consult lawyers mid-mission

Israeli security forces at the scene where Iyad Hamad, a Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli soldiers after running towards a guard post near the West Bank village of Silwad, August 26, 2016. (Flash90)

Military Police question soldier who shot dead unarmed Palestinian

By Judah Ari Gross

Though not formally charged, IDF member reportedly suspected of ‘causing death’ in Friday’s Silwad shooting

Eli Cohen, right, and Avihai Weinstein are suspected of selling arms to Iran. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Israeli to be extradited to US over sale of military parts to Iran

By AFP and ToI Staff

Supreme Court rejects appeal by Eli Cohen, who is facing harsh jail sentence, fine for selling warplane components to Islamic Republic

Symantec's 'Invisible Burglar,' a graphical representation of the cyber-criminals the company seeks to protect its clients from (Courtesy)

Israel ‘lags behind’ world on cyber-rules, privacy, lawyers say

By Shoshanna Solomon

Other countries could impose restrictions if local laws are not updated, Tel Aviv-based attorneys warn

Smoke rises after a house was blown up in a military operation in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on November 20, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Analysis

Sinai attacks decline as Egypt’s fight against IS yields results

By Avi Issacharoff

Through targeted bombings on Islamic State’s Jabal Hilal stronghold, Egyptian military deals strong blow to terror group’s capabilities

Amid talk of new peace pushes, Palestinians hold firm to preconditions

PLO official says US told that Ramallah won’t budge without settlement freeze, prisoner release; second official reports little progress in bid for Moscow-hosted talks

Girma Mengistu (Screen capture/Ynet)

In first, short story on Ethiopian Jewry added to national literature curriculum

Award-winning tale of elderly Ethiopian couple’s journey to Israel by Germaw Mengistu to be taught in Israeli schools

Chef Michael Twitty, left, studies the history of African-American foodways and African-American influence on Southern food. (Jacob W. Dillow/ Courtesy)

In black Jew’s Yiddish gumbo, the secret ingredient is diversity

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

Firefighters work in Amatrice, central Italy, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016. (Roberto Salomone/ANSA via AP)

Italy probes whether negligence played role in quake toll

By Vanessa Gera, Frances D'Emilio and Hakan Kaplan

Jewish-American singer Barbra Streisand in concert at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, on June 20, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Streisand says she’ll move to Australia, or Canada, if Trump elected

By ToI Staff and JTA

Screenshot from a restaurant in a Paris suburb on August 28, 2016 where two Muslim women wearing headscarves were thrown out by the owner after a racist verbal attack.

Paris restaurateur refuses to serve Muslim women: ‘I don’t want people like you here’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Germany's Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel showing the middle finger to a group of far-right protesters, August 12, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

German vice chancellor regrets not flipping two birds at neo-Nazis

By AFP and AP

Still from Cold Play's music video 'Up&Up,' which was directed by Israeli artists Vania Heymann and Gal Muggia. (YouTube screen shot)

Surrealism for the winIsraeli artists bag VMA for Coldplay music video

Illustrative: An Israeli agricultural engineer inspects marijuana plants at the BOL (Breath Of Life) Pharma greenhouse in the country's second-largest medical cannabis plantation, near Kfar Pines in northern Israel, on March 9, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Sell highIsrael to begin exporting marijuana soon — minister

Labor MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewRemember the best and hide the rest

By Joshua Davidovich

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