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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 28, 2016

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Ex-president Shimon Peres greets US President Barack Obama at a reception held in Obama's honor at Peres's residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2013. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Obama says ‘a light has gone out’ with Shimon Peres’s death

By Raphael Ahren

Bill Clinton, UN’s Ban lead chorus of current and former leaders hailing Israel’s founding father as a champion of peace

Mahmoud Abbas hails ‘brave’ peace partner Shimon Peres

By ToI Staff and AFP

Obama, world leaders to attend Peres’s funeral in Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

Jewish groups around the world praise Peres

By JTA

Shimon Peres at the Peres Center for Peace's football program (Peres Center for Peace Archives)

Live updates (closed)

White House can’t confirm Obama will attend Peres funeral

By Marissa Newman

US president wants to come to Jerusalem ceremony, spokesperson says; Trump says Peres ‘personified dignity and grace’; Pence says elder statesman ‘showed equal courage in war and peace’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with then-president Shimon Peres on October 10, 2012 (Moshe Milner/GPO/FLASH90)

Netanyahu lauds ‘beloved’ Peres, a ‘man of vision’

PM calls late president a man of peace ‘who worked for reconciliation’; Rivlin praises his predecessor, who ‘made us dare to imagine’

Security chiefs step out of the shadows to praise Peres

By ToI Staff and AFP

Cabinet, in special session, honors Peres with moment of silence

By Raphael Ahren

Shimon Peres ‘worked tirelessly for Israel,’ says his son

Shimon Peres in conversation with David Horovitz at The Times of Israel Gala, the Waldorf Astoria, New York, February 15, 2015 (photo credit: Perry Bindelglass / Times of Israel)

Analysis

Shimon Peres, relentless advocate of a better Israel, a better world

By David Horovitz

A personal appreciation of a leader who touched more Israeli lives than any other, and certainly affected mine

Peres: With good will you can achieve peace. With wrong policies, you can postpone it

By David Horovitz

Former president Shimon Peres attends the opening of the 'Mini World Cup for Peace' soccer event at Herzlyia stadium on May 9, 2016. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Shimon Peres urged Israel to dream and innovate

By Shoshanna Solomon

The former president and prime minister, who died Wednesday at the age of 93, embodied Israeli entrepreneurship

President Shimon Peres in 2009 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

ObituaryShimon Peres, 1923-2016, the last of Israel's founding fathers

Beloved abroad, polarizing at home, Peres was the peace-making face of Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Ultimately respected as Israel’s elder statesman, Peres — who was prime minister and president but never won a popular vote — enjoyed a uniquely lengthy and turbulent political career

Shimon Peres, the last of Israel’s founding fathers, dies at 93

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

The man who dared to dream big

Celebrating the couragious spirit behind Shimon Peres’s achievements, as well as his mistakes and failures

The discontented optimist

His former boss Shimon Peres taught him that hard work could make dreams come true and told him to read more poetry

When Shimon said goodbye

As prime minister after Rabin’s assassination, Peres focussed on unity rather than sectoral finger pointing

Shmuley Boteach

My Shimon Peres breakthrough

It took ‘Kosher Sex’ to get Peres’s attention and provide an opportunity to invite the statesman to Oxford

The big orange shofar

Donald Trump’s candidacy is a timely wake-up call to Jews to examine their own prejudices and ethical failures

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks on the phone. (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Analysis

In debate over Hebron shooter, Netanyahu is straddler in chief

By Andrew Tobin

Shimon Peres as a child on a trip with the General Federation of Students and Young Workers (Shimon Peres Archives)

Photo essay

Larger than life: Shimon Peres, a legacy in pictures

By Raphael Ahren

Belarus, Kibbutz Alumot, Dimona, Oslo, the Knesset, and even an email from space — images of the late president’s extraordinary career

Marc Zell, from Republicans Overseas Israel, and Sheldon Schorer, from Democrats Abroad Israel, speaking to journalists in Jerusalem, September 27, 2016 (Raphael Ahren/TOI)

Reporter's Notebook

In Jerusalem, hours after Trump-Clinton face-off, we Americans hear our votes might really matter

By Joel Chasnoff

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert leaves the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on February 10, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool)

Former PM Olmert to serve 8 more months in jail

‘It’s all over,’ says Supreme Court justice after rejecting Olmert’s appeal against conviction and sentence in Talansky affair

An 8th century BCE 'symbolic' toilet found at Lachish during the 2016 excavation by Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists. (Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

Iron Age toilet is evidence Judean king dumped on the gods

By Ilan Ben Zion

‘Throne room’ found in Lachish’s monumental gateway dates to period when Hezekiah centralized cult worship in Jerusalem

IDF soldiers and medical personnel at the site of an accidental grenade explosion near the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on July 17, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / JALAA MAREY)

IDF chief reprimands officers of soldiers killed in accident

By Judah Ari Gross

Sgt. Shlomo Rindenow and Staff Sgt. Hussam Tafesh died when grenade Tafesh was ‘playing with’ detonated, military official says

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at an official welcome ceremony which included an honor guard and military parade at the Ukrainian Parliament, September 27, 2016 with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. (Haim Zach / GPO)

In Ukraine, Rivlin warns against ‘sin’ of forgetting Nazi atrocities

By Tamar Pileggi

Israeli president speaks before Ukrainian Parliament session commemorating 75th anniversary of Babi Yar massacre

Yitzhak Gabai, a member of the extreme right-wing Lehava organization, at the District Court in Jerusalem on December 1, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sentence increased for man who torched Arab-Jewish school

Lehava activist Yitzhak Gabai, convicted in 2014 for Jerusalem hate crime, gets 4 more months in jail

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addresses Lebanese TV viewers in a speech broadcast Tuesday, February 17, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)

Nasrallah: Wahhabism ‘more evil’ than Israel

Hezbollah leader criticizes ultra-conservative Sunni sect for destroying everything ‘that has to do with Islam’

Illustrative photo of an Iranian warship (Alex Hicks, Wikimedia Commons)

Looking to boost trade, Italy drills with Iran in strategic strait

By AFP

Joint maneuvers in Hormuz come after Italian frigate makes rare stop in Bandar Abbas, as Rome seeks to reclaim position as top economic partner

Nadim Khoury, co-founder of Taybeh Brewery in the West Bank. September 25, 2016. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Straight outta Taybeh: Beer, good times flow at Palestinian Oktoberfest

By Dov Lieber and Luke Tress

More Headlines

TV Personality Kim Kardashian West attends the 20th Annual Webby Awards at Cipriani Wall Street, New York City, May 16, 2016. (Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images/AFP)

Kim Kardashian urges donor match for Jewish cancer patient

By Stuart Winer

Jackie Walker, vice chair of the Labour group, Momentum (Youtube screenshot)

Corbyn ally under fire for questioning Holocaust Day

President Barack Obama talking on the phone in the Oval Office, July 15, 2016. (Pete Souza/ Official White House Photo)

In call with rabbis, Obama says Jewish role in civil rights can inspire healing

By JTA

In this undated photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks with Leader of the Zionist Union party Isaac Herzog (C) and Leader of the Joint (Arab) List, Ayman Odeh in the Knesset. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu polls ministers about bringing in Zionist Union

Cyber-attack (Shutterstock)

Poll finds poor cybersecurity habits persist worldwide

Illustrative: computer security (cyber security image via Shutterstock)

FBI investigates hackers targeting Democrat phones

Participants of French hackathon at DLD Tel Aviv with entrepreneur Yossi Vardi, center. (Courtesy Aviv Hoffi).

Oh la la! French, Israeli startups vie for top prize

By Shoshanna Solomon

Border policemen stand guard outside at Damascus Gate, a main entrance to Jerusalem's Old City, late on May 2, 2016, following a stabbing attack that moderately wounded an Israeli man. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Cops give Jerusalemites the all-clear after terror scare

By Judah Ari Gross

President Shimon Peres at the President's residence in Jerusalem, April 28, 2014. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewPeres, caught in the amber between life and death

By Joshua Davidovich

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