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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 22, 2017

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Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi, who is also a member of Iran's nuclear negotiating team, speaks with journalists upon his arrival to Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, Iran, July 15, 2015. (AP/ Ebrahim Noroozi)

'We are able to resume 20%-enrichment in at most five days'

Iran warns it can make weapons-grade material in days if nuke deal scotched

By Nasser Karimi

Statement seen as indication Tehran willing to push back against Trump, who has threatened to scrap the 2015 sanctions-lifting agreement

Illustrative: A white supremacist carrying a Nazi flag into Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017. (AP/Steve Helber/File)

Nearly 1 in 10 Americans think neo-Nazi views okay, poll finds

Number of those not opposed to white supremacist ideology rises to 17% among Trump supporters, says Washington Post/ABC survey

Austrian soccer fan gets 18 months for Nazi salute

By AFP and ToI Staff

ADL reports ‘1,000%’ surge in donations after Charlottesville

By AFP

Texas man arrested for trying to blow up Confederate statue

File: Catalan police officers detain a suspect in Ripoll during a search linked to the deadly terror attacks in Barcelona and the seaside resort of Cambrils, on August 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pau Barrena)

Live updates (closed)

Barcelona terror cell planned big attack on monuments – report

Chief Rabbinate challenges court jurisdiction to rule on Western Wall deal; Netanyahu to raise Iran’s presence in Syria with Russia’s Putin

In this watermarked frame grab from CCTV released by the Spanish newspaper El Pais on Monday Aug. 21, 2017, a suspect. believed to be Younes Abouyaaqoub is is captured by a security camera walking through La Boqueria market seconds after a van crashed into pedestrians in Barcelona last August 17. (EL Pais, via AP)

Catalan police confirm Barcelona van terrorist shot dead

By AFP

Suspect was wearing explosives vest; Younes Abouyaaqoub, 22, had been target of massive manhunt since deadly vehicle-ramming

Surviving Spain terror suspects face charges in Madrid court

By AFP

The imam who ‘ate up the brains’ of youths

By Laurence BOUTREUX

Alleged Barcelona terrorist was ‘a normal factory worker’

By Laurence BOUTREUX

This undated photo provided by Kianna Kaizer, shows Jeremy Himmelman and his girlfriend Kianna Kaizer. (Kianna Kaizer via AP)

Posers or terrorists? Deaths put spotlight on Florida neo-Nazi group

By JASON DEAREN and Michael Kunzelman

How seriously to take roommates from obscure Atomwaffen Division who planned to bomb synagogues and nuclear facilities?

Shani (R) and Ran Maaman enjoy the company of camels at their wedding in the Judean Desert, May 11, 2017. (Dana Bar-On/JTA)

Cue the camels! Israelis are throwing themselves one-of-a-kind outdoor weddings

By Andrew Tobin

Young couples have become dissatisfied with the ‘copy and paste’ approach of wedding halls, which they view as inauthentic

ABC News Australia graphic with Palestine and no Israel (ABC screenshot)

Australian broadcaster explains why it left Israel off the map

By JTA

ABC says its graphic illustrated a story, unrelated to Israel, on laws regarding rape victims in 11 Muslim-majority countries and the Palestinian territories

The sun's corona is visible as the moon passes in front of the sun during a total solar eclipse at Big Summit Prairie ranch in Oregon's Ochoco National Forest near the city of Mitchell on August 21, 2017. (Robyn Beck/AFP)

Moon blots sun out of sky as historic eclipse mesmerizes US

First eclipse of the social media era to pass through heavily populated area is ‘like nothing else you will ever see’

US President Donald Trump points to the sun as he arrives to view the solar eclipse, on August 21, 2017, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

What a view‘Don’t look!’ shouts staffer, as Trump gazes at eclipse

A spectator looks skyward during a partial eclipse of the sun on August 21, 2017 at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images/AFP)

Bright eyesBonnie Tyler to ‘Goatality’: the Great American Eclipse

By AP

Crowd at the Shepherds Beer Festival in Bethlehem watches Arab-israeli rapper Tamer Nafar on August 20, 2017. (Luke Tress)

'Come to Shepherds, it’s poppin’; I swear to Allah.'

Palestinians flock to Bethlehem Shepherds fest to celebrate newest brewery

By Dov Lieber and Video by Luke Tress

8,000 show up for two nights of music, drink and dance in second annual beer festival

Craving memory in Pushalot, Lithuania

He is the great-great grandson of a Lithuanian egg peddler and the father of Israeli soldiers

Victor Sorenssen

We Barcelona Jews are not doomed

A call to flee Spain for Israel inflates the terror threat and underplays the city’s rich Jewish life

The selective rage of the Left

Neo-Nazi assaults get the righteous backlash they deserve; not so for attacks spurred by hatred of Israel

My decade in Charlottesville

Welcome to the South, where anti-Semitism is a tradition, but an unresponsive police force suggests a tipping point

The Security Council Chamber as Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein (shown on screen), UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, addresses via video conference the Council's open debate on the victims of attacks and abuses on ethnic or religious grounds in the Middle East on March 27, 2015, in New York. (UN photo)

US trying to thwart UN blacklist of settlement-friendly firms

By Tamar Pileggi

State Department says ‘counterproductive’ Human Rights Council’s measure will not facilitate Israeli-Palestinian peace

The North Korean Military Parade Pyongyang on April 15, 2017. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

North Korea chemical weapons said intercepted en route to Syria

By Tamar Pileggi

Confidential UN sanctions report says the blocked shipments are part of a Damascus-Pyongyang arms deal

New prefabricated homes are seen under construction in the West Bank between the now-evacuated illegal outpost of Amona (background) and the Israeli settlement of Ofra, north of Ramallah, on January 31, 2017. (AFP/ Thomas Coex)

State says outpost legalization law protects Palestinians

By Jacob Magid and Alexander Fulbright

Responding to petition from left-wing NGOs, government insists preventing additional outpost evacuations is in Israel’s ‘national interest’

Israeli forces remove illegal mobile homes next to the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar on August 22, 2017. (HaKol HaYehudi)

Soldiers, settlers clash during removal of illegal homes in Yitzhar

By Alexander Fulbright and Jacob Magid

Army removes six prefab structures placed on private Palestinian land next to West Bank settlement

American billionaire Sheldon Adelson (left), with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a ceremony at Ariel University in the West Bank, on June 28, 2017. (Ben Dori/Flash90)

PM asks Supreme Court for new hearing on revealing Adelson phone calls

By Alexander Fulbright

Netanyahu attorney says ruling ordering him to release the dates of his talks with casino mogul a ‘fatal violation of the right to privacy’

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri speaks during a conference of the Shas Party in Jerusalem, July 30, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shas leader: Modern Orthodox communities are ‘borderline Reform’

In closed-door talk with ultra-Orthodox rabbis, Aryeh Deri charges that Tzohar rabbinic group seeks to ‘destroy’ the state rabbinate

Jordan's King Abdullah II (R) meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the royal palace in Amman on August 21, 2017. (AFP Photo/ Khalil Mazraawi/ File)

Turkey, Jordan call for ‘serious’ Israel-Palestinian peace talks

By AFP

Leaders call for resumption of negotiations ‘based on international resolutions’ and a ‘precise timetable’

Footage from a video said to show bombs being dropped along the Lebanon-Syrian border by an attack drone belonging to the Hezbollah terror group. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Hezbollah says it used drones to bomb Islamic State in Syria

Media outlet linked to terror group says unmanned craft struck jihadist targets during fighting along border

Israeli police (foreground) gather in the unreocgnized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Deal reached between state, residents of demolished Bedouin village

80 families displaced from Umm al-Hiran will see new neighborhood built for them in nearby city of Hura

The Israeli army's new Southern Regional Medical Center, which opened its doors in July 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Army opens new medical center to treat masses of troops flocking south

By Judah Ari Gross

More Headlines

This Aug. 17, 2017 image from video shows a Confederate flag, right, displayed alongside an Israeli flag and a colonial-era American one in the seventh-floor windows of an apartment in the East Village neighborhood of New York. (PIX11 News via AP)

After rocks and rage, Confederate, Israeli flags vanish from NYC window

By Jennifer Peltz

The ammonia storage tank in the northern city of Haifa. (Courtesy of Environmental Protection Ministry)

Haifa Chemicals reportedly to shut down northern factory

Mapped human gene (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli gene-crunching firm aims to cut data down to size

From left: Rabbi Shalom Stembler, head of Chabad Poland; Polish actor and director Artur Hofman; Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of Poland's Law and Justice party; Jonny Daniels, head of From the Depths; and Rabbi Eliezer Gurary, head of Chabad Krakow, following their meeting in Warsaw, August 16, 2017. (Courtesy of From the Depths/via JTA)

Polish Jewish feud intensifies as one leader calls others ‘court Jews’

By JTA

Detroit Tigers second baseman Ian Kinsler (3) stands by second as umpire Angel Hernandez, right, watches play during the second inning of the Tigers' baseball game against the Texas Rangers on Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, in Arlington, Texas. (AP/Tony Gutierrez)

Crying foulTiger Ian Kinsler gets big-league fine for ump trash talking

By Yaakov Schwartz

Lebanese Interior Minister Nohad Machnouk at the police headquarter in Beirut, Lebanon, November 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon says four nationals behind failed plot to down plane in Australia

By Bassam Mroue

Sheikh Raed Salah arrives at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on August 15, 2017. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Court extends firebrand cleric’s detention over incitement

By ToI Staff and AFP

People watch the start of the solar eclipse and raise their hands in prayer in an eclipse viewing event led by Native American elders, at Big Summit Prairie ranch in Oregon's Ochoco National Forest near the city of Mitchell on August 21, 2017. (Robyn Beck/AFP)

Hebrew media reviewSunny side up

By Joshua Davidovich

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