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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 15, 2016

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The signing of the US-Israel military aid deal in the State Department on September 14, 2016 (screen capture: State Department livestream)

US, Israel sign largest ever military aid deal, hail ‘unbreakable bond’

By Raoul Wootliff and Eric Cortellessa

Agreement inked at ceremony in Washington will see Israel receive $3.8 billion annually — up from $3 billion — from 2018-2028

Touting aid deal, Obama says true Israeli security requires Palestinian statehood

By Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu thanks Obama for ‘historic’ military aid deal

By Tamar Pileggi

Trump adviser says GOP nominee won’t push Israel on peace deal if elected

By Tamar Pileggi

Then-US president Barack Obama, right, Then-IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, left, then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against the backdrop of an Iron Dome anti-rocket battery, March 20, 2013. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

AnalysisWary of Trump, Netanyahu seems to decide to play it safe

An MOU and an IOU? Israel’s $38 billion payday may not come for free

By Raphael Ahren

Jerusalem’s unprecedented defense aid deal with US looks like a big win for PM, though it’s not all he wished for, and it could hand Obama room for Palestine-related initiatives

Barak slams ‘reckless’ Netanyahu, says US aid deal could have been more

By Raoul Wootliff

Opposition MKs: PM’s frosty relations with US reduced military aid

By Tamar Pileggi

IRGC commander tells US to leave Persian Gulf

A Yaser missile is displayed by the Iranian army in front of a portrait of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a parade marking National Army Day at the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini just outside Tehran, Iran, April 18, 2013. (AP/Vahid Salemi, File)

After nuke deal was signed, Iran dissidents came to Israel to discuss its consequences

Unprecedented and secretive conference, convened in wake of pact, brought former Iranian ministers, diplomats, activists and others to Jewish state

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif smiles during a meeting with Finland's Foreign Minister Timo Soini in Helsinki on Tuesday May 31, 2016. (Vesa Moilanen/Lehtikuva via AP)

Iran to meet world powers over nuclear deal ‘differences’

By AP

Former Israeli defense minister Moshe Ya'alon speaks at the 2016 Israel Medical Conference, at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem on August 16, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Ya’alon denies Israeli security officials now back Iran deal

By Marissa Newman

Former defense chief rejects claim by US president that defense establishment has made peace with accord

US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leaves her daughter's apartment building after resting on September 11, 2016, in New York. (AFP/ Brendan Smialowski)

Clinton ‘fit to serve,’ doctor says ahead of campaign comeback

By Michael Mathes

Democratic nominee to return to fray after pneumonia bout at height of White House race; Trump also releases health data

New polls show Trump ahead of Clinton in 2 battleground states

Kaine downplays presidential readiness amid Clinton illness

By Will Weissert

In leaked emails, Powell calls Trump a ‘national disgrace’

By Jeff Horwitz and Michael Biesecker

The peace of the grave

The memorial to fallen Egyptian soldiers in Ashdod is an inspiring monument to diplomatic creativity

That messy, pushy, beautiful land of his people, country of his dreams, where he doesn’t worry about how Zionist he is

The middle of the road is for horses

When Shabbat conflicts with lofty values like human dignity, rabbis may suspend it temporarily, through care and pain

File: Shimon Peres in Tel Aviv, November 30, 2015 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Peres showing ‘real improvement’ two days after stroke

By AFP and ToI Staff

Former president remains in serious condition in intensive care but doctors say he is making progress and continues to respond to prompts

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Sheba Medical Center outside Tel Aviv where he visited Shimon Peres on September 14, 2016, a day after the elder statesman was hospitalized with a major stroke. (Courtesy)

Netanyahu visits Peres in hospital, expresses ‘relief’ at improvement

Nur al-Din Abu Khashiyeh, convicted of killing IDF soldier Almog Shiloni, seen at court in Tel Aviv as he arrives for a hearing on November 24, 2014. (Flash90)

Palestinian who killed IDF soldier in 2014 gets life sentence

By Raoul Wootliff

Court says ‘extreme severity’ of fatal stabbing of Sgt. Almog Shiloni in Tel Aviv warrants maximum punishment

Israelis gather at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on June 5, 2016 with flags to celebrate Jerusalem Day, which marks Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Palo Alto confab to take penetrating look at ‘next stage’ of Zionism

By Eric Cortellessa

UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov talks to reporters at the UN headquarters in New York on June 30, 2016. (screen capture: UN)

Liberman orders Defense Ministry to blackball UN Mideast envoy — report

Defense chief said to instruct staff to boycott Nickolay Mladenov in retaliation for agency criticism of Israeli home demolitions

A Palestinian family whose house was demolished by Israeli bulldozers walk past a tent on April 21, 2015, in the southern West Bank village of Ad-Deirat Rifaiyya. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Jerusalem hits back at France for criticizing West Bank demolitions

By Raphael Ahren

After Paris decried ‘unprecedented’ rise in destruction of facilities it funds, Israel says donor countries must not aid ‘provocations’ meant to create facts on the ground

Illustrative: An Israel Air Force F-16 fighter jet fires off flares during a demonstration on December 31, 2015. (Hagar Amibar/Israel Air Force/Flickr)

Analysis

No, Syrian rebels aren’t tricking the IDF into providing aerial support

By Judah Ari Gross

Smoke rises following an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 5, 2016. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Israel strikes Gaza in response to earlier mortar fire

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

IAF jets hit 3 Hamas targets in northern part of Strip; military says it holds ruling terror group responsible for all attacks from Palestinian enclave

Israeli soldiers checking Palestinian IDs at the Qalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem, July 1, 2016. (Flash90)

Hundreds of Israeli intellectuals to world Jewry: ‘End occupation for Israel’s sake’

By ToI Staff and AP

Signatories of letter include seven high-ranking IDF officers, 20 former ambassadors, authors David Grossman, Amos Oz

Shirin Yakubov visiting the main synagogue of Bukhara, Uzbekistan, with her son, in orange shirt, his friend and the site's two Muslim caretakers, September 9, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Why Uzbekistan’s Jews already miss the iron fist of their late ruler

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Rachel Freier is the first Hasidic woman elected to serve as a Civil Court judge in New York state. (Rachel Freier Civil Court Judge Campaign)

In first, Hasidic woman elected to serve as Civil Court judge in NY state

By JTA

Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, confirmed in March 2016 as the oldest man in the world. (Courtesy of family)

Better (very) lateWorld’s oldest man to have bar mitzvah, 100 years late

By JTA

Agent Vi's video analytics software can help authorities find certain people or vehicles in their cities. (YouTube screenshot)

lsrael video analytics firm gets Kuang-Chi investment

By Shoshanna Solomon

Democratic congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee at the the US House Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 18, 2015. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congresswoman cancels Capitol Hill BDS event, denies prior knowlege

By JTA

Investigators with the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office work in a yard Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, at the Fort Pierce Islamic Center in Fort Pierce, Fla., after an apparent arsonist started a fire at the back of the center earlier that morning. (Adam Sacasa/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)

Jewish man arrested for arson at Florida mosque

By TERRY SPENCER

Leila Hatoum (YouTube screenshot)

Newsweek Middle East editor posts anti-Semitic invective

By JTA

Italian Coast Guard ship Bruno Gregoretti, carrying survivors of the boat that overturned off the coasts of Libya Saturday, arrives at Catania Harbor, Italy, Monday, April 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Carmelo Imbesi)

UN says 235,000 migrants ready to flee Libya for Italy

By AFP

Saeed, whose name is Arabic for 'happy,' a 22-year-old hamadryas baboon, sits at the Sabil park in the government side of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on September 14, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Youssef KARWASHAN).

Don't worry, be HappyIn Aleppo, Happy the monkey is zoo’s last resident

By Maher Al-Mounes

Rabbi Donniel Hartman, dean of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. (Courtesy of Shalom Hartman Institute)

Hartman Institute receives $1m grant for Israel engagement programs

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to doctors at the Sheba Medical Center outside Tel Aviv where Shimon Peres is hospitalized after suffering a stroke, September 14, 2016. (Courtesy)

Hebrew media reviewBlinking and inking

By Joshua Davidovich

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