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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 30, 2016

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Haifa team sires Intel’s ‘fastest-ever’ processor

By Shoshanna Solomon

Company says its 7th-generation chip is over 70% quicker than 5-year-old PC, promises longer-lasting battery and better security

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

US ‘concerned’ over advanced air defense battery at Iran nuke site

By Stuart Winer

State Department says it’s in contact with allies about stationing of Russian-made S-300 missiles near Fordo nuclear plant

Iran releases jailed Texas graduate student

By AP

Sunken dreamsIranians destroy US Navy with willpower in video

Iran claims to ward off American recon drone

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman tours Bedouin villages in the Negev, southern Israel, on August 29, 2016 (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Liberman said to rule out deal with Hamas for soldiers’ bodies

By Judah Ari Gross

Family of one of the missing soldiers says defense minister has no ‘moral authority’ to retain his cabinet position

Liberman: Israeli media preventing army from fighting terror

By Judah Ari Gross

Charity group urges public trial as Gaza staffer set to face terror charges

Rights group accuses PA, Hamas of abusing journalists

Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich speaks in Tel Aviv on August 30, 2016 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Top cop: It’s ‘natural’ for officers to be more suspicious of Ethiopians

Turkish, Kurdish forces in Syria said to agree to truce; soccer association declares strike in all Israeli leagues

A woman wearing a burkini joins a demonstration outside the French Embassy in London on August 25, 2016, during a 'Wear what you want beach party' to protest the ban on the swimwear on French beaches, and to show solidarity with Muslim women. (AFP PHOTO / JUSTIN TALLIS)

Israel’s ‘modest’ swimmers wade into burkini controversy

By Melanie Lidman

Both Israeli Arabs and Jews insist full-body swimwear isn’t just for religious women, and government has no place making fashion decrees

UN hails suspension of France’s burkini ban, slams ‘stigmatization’

By AFP

A Yom Kippur apology to France’s rabid anti-Semite

The burkini ban may not be the only overreaction: True, Dieudonne is revolting — but he’s just a comedian

Concentration camp and apfelstrudel

How eating apple pastry in Austria became a profound Zionist statement

Actor Gene Wilder listens as he is introduced to receive the Governor's Awards for Excellence in Culture and Tourism at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Connecticut, on April 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Gene Wilder, sad-eyed comedic star of Willy Wonka, Blazing Saddles, dies at 83

Frizzy-haired actor born Jerome Silberman, renowned for roles in Mel Brooks comedies, dies of Alzheimer’s complications

This file photo taken on September 7, 1984 shows US actor and director Gene Wilder of the movie "The Woman in Red" during the 10th American Film Festival of Deauville. (AFP PHOTO / Mychele DANIAU)

Mel Brooks and other stars mourn passing of Gene Wilder

By Gabe Friedman

Julius Streicher, founder of Nazi propaganda paper Der Sturmer, striking a pose in Berlin, August 15, 1935. (Getty Images/JTA)

When a Jewish Holocaust survivor ‘pissed’ on Hitler’s henchman

By Andrew Tobin

IDF soldiers prepare to raze the home of Mohammed Omaireh, who confessed to being part of a terrorist cell which shot dead an Israeli rabbi. The building was destroyed in the West Bank village of Dura, August 30, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson)

Troops raze home of Palestinian who took part in rabbi’s slaying

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

IDF destroys Hebron-area house belonging to Mohammed Omaireh, who confessed to driving the car from which Miki Mark was shot dead in July

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

Hebron soldier’s commander: There was concern about a bomb

By Stuart Winer

Officer at the scene of the shooting says he feared seriously injured stabber was still able to detonate explosives

Lehava summer camp 2016 (Screen capture: Ynet)

In Jewish extremist camp, youths learn to withstand Shin Bet grilling

Exposé of summer course run by right-wing Lehava organization shows military-style training, courses on how to keep Arabs from dating Jews

Nockolay Mladenov addressing the UN Security Council by videoconference on August 29, 2016. (UN/Rick Bajornas)

Settlement building ‘surged’ in recent months — UN envoy

By AFP and Raoul Wootliff

Quartet’s calls to halt construction in East Jerusalem and West Bank ignored by Jerusalem, peace process coordinator says

Republican US Senate candidate Todd Young speaks in Indianapolis, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Senate hopeful won’t say if Trump can be trusted with nuke codes

By AP

Republican Todd Young of Indiana, who says he supports nominee, repeatedly avoids answering reporter’s question

Scene of fatality on Route 2 on August 30, 2016 (United Hatzalah)

Woman killed when driver rams into bus stop

Police investigating why driver swerved into concrete shelter on busy highway north of Hadera in second fatal accident of day

Jalil Dabit, left, an Arab Christian from Ramle, and Oz Ben David, who grew up Jewish in Beersheba, the owners of the Kanaan hummus restaurant in Berlin, smile in an undated photograph. (Toby Axelrod/JTA)

Recipe for success

This Jewish-Arab Israeli duo owns Berlin’s hippest hummus joint

By Toby Axelrod

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The city of Lodz, Poland (CC-BY-SA Jakub Zasina/Wikimedia Commons)

Polish soccer fans burn Jewish effigies

By JTA

Prime minister Golda Meir touring the southern front with Maj. Gen. Ariel Sharon several days after the 1973 Yom Kippur War (Yehuda Tzion/ GPO)

Report of Soviet nukes sent US on highest alert during ’73 war

By JTA

Spider monkey escaping from Hai-Kef zoo in Rishon Lezion (Israel police)

Urban jungleMonkey nabbed after daring escape from Rishon zoo

Students in Kiryat Sharet high school in Holon take their matriculation exams in mathematics, May 21, 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

For second straight year, Druze town has top matriculation rate

By Tamar Pileggi

Police are confronted by costumed party-goers during a Purim party in Jerusalem in March 2016 (Channel 10 News)

Bad SantaWanted fugitives: A clown, a sailor & old St. Nick

An Israel Railways train (illustrative photo: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Restored northern railway sees historic maiden voyage

Israeli singer Rita in 2011 (photo credit: Meir Partush/Flash90)

Singer Rita hospitalized with unspecified infection

Former rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., and his wife, Huma Abedin are pictured after a ceremonial swearing in of the 112th Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, January 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Anthony Weiner dumped by wife amid fresh sexting scandal

Palestinian singer Adel Meshoukhi writing at his home in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, July 29, 2016. (AFP /SAID KHATIB)

Strip showGazan finds internet fame with songs about cat, pants

By Adel Zaanoun

Participants in a Lehava summer camp perform exercises. (screen capture: Ynet)

Hebrew media reviewSchool of hard knocks

By Ilan Ben Zion

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