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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 29, 2016

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Former US president Bill Clinton pays his respects at the lying in state of former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres, September 29, 2016. (Yizhak Harari/Shimon Rivkin/Knesset Spokesman's office)

Bill Clinton pays last respects to Shimon Peres in Jerusalem

By Raoul Wootliff

Former US president joins thousands at the Knesset, where the late president lies in state ahead of the funeral Friday

Israelis pay respects to Peres as he lies in state at Knesset

By Raoul Wootliff

Obama orders US flags be flown at half-staff in honor of Peres

With 80 foreign leaders en route, Israel gears up for Peres funeral

By Stuart Winer

Then-president Shimon Peres, left, meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the World Economic Forum in Amman, Jordan on May 26, 2013. Mark Neyman/GPO/FLASH90)

Analysis

Mahmoud Abbas to attend Peres funeral, ‘send message of peace’

By Avi Issacharoff and Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu said to okay visit after Palestinian leader contacts authorities to coordinate attendance with PA delegation; other Arab heads expected to skip service

Bahrain FM eulogizes Peres as ‘man of war’ and ‘elusive peace’

By Raoul Wootliff

Hamas calls for ‘Day of Rage’ during Peres funeral

By ToI Staff and AP

AnalysisEgypt, Jordan and other Arab rulers silent on Peres funeral

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Israelis line up before paying their respect in front of the coffin of former president Shimon Peres at a plaza outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on September 29, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA)

Live updates (closed)

Peres funeral closed to public as security tightened for Abbas, world leaders

Police chief says several people arrested on suspicion of planning to disrupt ceremony, calls it ‘preventative’ measure

Then-prime minister Shimon Peres meets with the Nahal Brigade on October 16, 1986. (Gil Ne'eh/Bamahane/Defense Ministry Archives)

Peres, a man of peace, made Israel a military powerhouse

By Judah Ari Gross

By bringing fighter jets and, allegedly, nuclear weapons to the Jewish state, Shimon Peres gave the tiny country the tools to survive

Residents of Vishnyeva gather outside Shimon Peres’s childhood home to pay their respects on the day of his death, September 28, 2016. (Courtesy of Limmud FSU)

In Belarus, locals pay respects at Peres’s childhood home

By JTA

Shimon Peres and David Ben-Gurion visit Israel's nuclear reactor in Dimona (Defense Ministry Archives)

A back-dated deal with a toppled French PM: How Peres secured Israel’s nuclear deterrent

By Mitch Ginsburg

The tale of Paris’s consent to build a plutonium reactor for the Jewish state 60 years ago illustrates the indefatigable young Shimon Peres’s capacity for achieving the seemingly impossible

Israel’s quintessential Zionist

Shimon Peres was eternally driven by the principle that Jews must take charge of their own future

Peres did one thing that anyone can do

we can’t emulate all of the late president’s qualities — but he had a habit that everyone can and should copy

Harold Goldmeier

Children as pawns in dirty politics

The sorry state of Israeli schools belies Naftali Bennett’s sweeping pronouncements on his education overhaul

Refugees, Islam and the God of morality

The covenant mentioned in the upcoming weekly Torah reading tasks the Israelites with spreading a universal message

Rachel Weisz, who plays Deborah Lipstadt in the movie, poses with her for a photo. (Liam Daniel/Bleecker Street)

Interview

Amid ‘Denial’s Hollywood fanfare, Deborah Lipstadt stays focused on spreading truth

Ariel Sharon, left, with Shimon Peres in the Knesset in 2005. (photo credit: Sharon Perry/Flash90)

Analysis

While eulogizing Peres, key leaders eschew chance to push two states

By Raphael Ahren

When Ariel Sharon — the hawk turned dove — died in 2014, many dignitaries explicitly urged Netanyahu to follow in his policy path. Fewer are doing so this time

Zvia Valdan, daughter of former president Shimon Peres (YouTube/Media TV Adženda)

Peres’s daughter: My father was passionate, demanding, intriguing

By Stuart Winer

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Toledo, Ohio, on September 21, 2016. (AP/Evan Vucci/File)

Donald Trump says Peres personified ‘dignity and grace’

GOP nominee calls former Israeli president ‘friend of peace-loving people everywhere’; running mate Pence praises his ‘courage in war and peace’

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers in the West Bank on September 19, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF, Shin Bet and cops arrest dozens of Palestinians in raids

By Judah Ari Gross

Nearly 70 people detained for selling illegal weapons, rock throwing and criminal activity in West Bank, East Jerusalem

Rebels in Darfur (Youtube screenshot)

Amnesty accuses Sudan of chemical attacks on Darfur

By AFP

Up to 250 dead, many of them children, says human rights group, describing ‘indiscriminate bombing of civilians’

President Barack Obama speaks to CNN on September 28, 2016. (Screenshot/CNN)

Obama: Congress vote overturning veto of 9/11 legislation ‘a mistake’

By AP and ToI Staff

Bill allows families of victims to sue Saudi Arabia over attack; president says this was ‘basically a political vote’

Catalyst CEL Fund's Yair Shamir presents a GoforIsrael award to Fosun Group's Joe Yizhou He (Courtesy)

Israel-China ties bloom with free trade talks imminent

Talks on eliminating commercial barriers to start soon, as hundreds of Israeli startups meet with Chinese entrepreneurs in Tel Aviv

Visitors on a newly renovated part of the Tel Aviv promenade on February 21, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Rising seas? Let cities control coasts, activists say

By Melanie Lidman

Responsible urban planning for coastal areas may sound like a bore, but it is essential to stave off rising seas from climate change

Dr. Joel Fuhrman, author of the 'Eat to Live' series and founder of the 'nutritarian' lifestyle (Courtesy)

With Borscht-Belt humor, nutrition guru promotes a healthy, unsweetened New Year

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

More Headlines

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with vice presidential candidate Mike Pence on July 16, 2016, during a press conference in New York. (AFP PHOTO/KENA BETANCUR)

Mike Pence to headline rare Trump fundraiser by NY Jews

By JTA

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)

Apple using Israeli R&D to develop ‘iPhone 8’

By JTA and ToI Staff

The southern wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem following the 1946 terrorist bombing (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)

UK opens secret files on 1940s ‘Jewish terrorists’ in Palestine and beyond

By Gregory Katz

Bank Mizrahi Tefahot's YouTube commercial features a preschool teacher who is a telepresence robot. (screenshot)

Bad robotBank pushes human touch by mocking virtual services

By Simona Weinglass

Celebrity chef Amanda Freitag’s fall-themed falafel for Israeli restaurant Taïm, in New York City (JTA/Josefin Dolsten)

Fancy BallsFamous chefs serve new twists on falafel in NY

By Josefin Dolsten

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson speaks at the National Libertarian Party Convention, in Orlando, Florida, May 27,2016 (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Elusive FoxLibertarian nominee has another ‘Aleppo moment’

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Canton Memorial Civic Center on September 14, 2016 in Canton, Ohio. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Quixotic queryTrump asks rally: Can non-‘Christian conservatives’ stay?

By Eric Cortellessa

President Shimon Peres attends the funeral of Meir Har-Zion, one of the best known members of the IDF's commando force Unit 101, on March 16, 2014. Har-Zion died on March 14. (Photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewA pyre of words for a giant of a man

By Joshua Davidovich

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