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Israeli rescue workers look for survivors in Mexico City on September 23, 2017, four days after the powerful quake that hit central Mexico; inset: Rabbi Haim (Jaime) Ashkenazi (AFP Photo, Facebook)

Body of rabbi pulled from Mexico’s earthquake rubble

By TOI staff and AP

Haim (Jaime) Ashkenazi of Mexico City’s Kehillat Magen David was in an office building when it collapsed during Tuesday’s massive quake

Illustrative: Israeli rescuers inspect damaged buildings in Alvaro Obregon, an area of Mexico City strongly affected by the September 19 earthquake, on September 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Luis Manuel Perez)

Netanyahu praises work of IDF rescue team in Mexico

By TOI staff and AP

Rescue workers evacuate after a seismic alert sounded in Mexico City on September 23, 2017, four days after the powerful quake that hit central Mexico. (AFP Photo/Pedro Pardo)

New 6.2 magnitude quake shakes central Mexico

By AFP

Iran showed footage on Saturday, September 23, 2017, of a missile test (Screenshot/PressTV)

Israel says Iran missile test a provocation to US and threat to whole free world

By TOI staff and Agencies

Liberman says launch of Khoramshahr, with a 1,250-mile range and ability to carry multiple warheads, shows Tehran’s global ambitions must be thwarted

Iran deal ‘not much of an agreement’ after missile test, Trump says

By TOI staff and Agencies

Netanyahu convenes security cabinet to discuss Iran missile threat

Iraq says it wants world’s help to build nuclear reactor

By AP and TOI staff

Lee Elbaz, former CEO of Yukom Ltd. (Linkedin)

FBI arrests Israeli binary options CEO as she disembarks El Al flight at JFK

Alleged fraudster Lee Elbaz under house arrest in US, faces up to 40 years in US prison for wire fraud

People take part in a demonstration of various left wing groups against German right wing party AfD (Alternative for Germany) in Berlin, Germany, September 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

German electionsTweets from 500 key accounts analyzed

Real-time tracking system measures Russian interference in German elections

Putin backs the far right, according to DC-based Alliance for Securing Democracy, which is using a new ‘dashboard’ to expose ‘online influence networks’ aimed at German voters

German polls open with Merkel heading to win amid fears of far-right gains

By AFP

Last flight home for icon of ‘German Autumn’ of terror

By Frank Zeller

Substitute teacher fired for teaching kids Nazi salute

By AP

German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves the election booth as she casts her vote in Berlin, Germany, September 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Live updates (closed)

AfD entry into German parliament poses ‘big challenge,’ Merkel says

Chancellor vows to win back voters from far-right party after coalition narrows in election victory

9:20 pm

Top German Jewish leader slams nationalist AfD after election surge
9:07 pm

At least 8 wounded in Tennessee church shooting
9:00 pm

Gal Gadot to host 'Saturday Night Live'

Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) speaks with Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 29, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/Sputnik/Michael Klimentyev)

Russian defense minister to make rare Israel visit for talks on Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

In first official trip to the Jewish state, Sergei Shoigu to meet counterpart Avigdor Liberman, discuss security cooperation

Israel, Bahrain could announce normalized ties by next year — report

By TOI staff and Dov Lieber

At UN, Syrian FM accuses Israel of backing ‘terror gangs’

By TOI staff and AFP

Iran guards flex muscle ahead of Kurdish independence vote

By AP and TOI staff

Journalist Amir Tibon and his book, 'The Last Palestinian.' (Courtesy)

Interview'When Arafat spoke, people listened and cheered'

The nonexistent rise and tragic plateau of PA President Mahmoud Abbas

By JP O’ Malley

Journalist Amir Tibon’s latest book examines exactly what makes Arafat’s replacement so tragically ineffectual

Top Palestinian official Saeb Erekat in Washington for lung transplant

By Stuart Winer

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, a U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer, assigned to the 37th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron, deployed from Ellsworth Air Force Base, S.D., prepares to take off from Andersen AFB, Guam, on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017. The Pentagon says B-1B bombers from Guam and F-15 fighter escorts from Okinawa, Japan, have flown a mission in international airspace over the waters east of North Korea. (Staff Sgt. Joshua Smoot/U.S. Air force via AP)

US bombers, fighters buzz North Korea in show of force

By AFP

At the UN, North Korean foreign minister calls Trump ‘mentally deranged person full of megalomania’

Hebrew media reviewNukes of hazard

By Joshua Davidovich

North Korea stages anti-US rally as war of words escalates

By AP and TOI staff

World wonders: Could N. Korea fire nuclear missile over Japan?

By KIM TONG-HYUNG

One of the greenhouses at Breath of Life Pharma near Beit Shemesh, where producers are anticipating the passage of a law that would allow them to export medical cannabis. (Courtesy)

Startups seek to cash in on cannabis, but some fear Israel will take a hit

By Simona Weinglass

A proposed law to permit medical marijuana exports to the world is expected to generate a windfall for producers. Could it just be a pipe dream?

Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Regev urges Arab Israeli director probed for saying Israel ties are treason

By Stuart Winer

Culture minister asks attorney-general to look into comments by Mohammad Bakri, made while visiting Lebanon, against Arabs normalizing relations with Israel

Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders play in Tel Aviv on September 23, 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

In Tel Aviv gig, Pretenders’ Hynde waves Israeli flag, sings for cows

By David Horovitz

Lawrence Feldman

The librarian’s bun

That time I tried to escape the high price of an overdue library book

The Shabbat Lindsey Graham lied to me

He told me not to worry about my disability coverage when I was worried about millions of fellow Americans

The KGB arrested me and launched my career

Those police did warn me not to write about my time in the Soviet Union….

He was a giant in Jewish education

3 ways Rabbi Dr. Chaim Feuerman z”l turned me into a better educator

Illustrative photo: Saudi women attend the International Coffee and Chocolate Exhibition in Riyadh on December 15, 2014. (photo credit: Fayez Nureldine/AFP)

Sexist Sermon

Saudi cleric says female brains a quarter the size of men’s

By AFP

Saad al-Hijri suspended after saying women lose their minds when they go shopping and that’s why they should not be allowed to drive

A man looks at the Houthi-controlled headquarters of the Yemeni army destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, September 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Saudi Arabia shoots down ballistic missile from Yemen

Saudi women sit in a stadium to attend an event in the capital Riyadh on September 23, 2017 commemorating the anniversary of the founding of the kingdom. (AFP PHOTO / Fayez Nureldine)

In first, Saudi Arabian women allowed into sports stadium

By Anuj Chopra and Rania Sanjar

More Headlines

LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers looks on during the trophy presentation after Game Five of the 2017 NBA Eastern Conference Finals, May 25, 2017. (Elsa/Getty Images/AFP)

US sports world hits back at ‘bum’ Trump after tirade

By AFP and AP

US President Donald Trump speaks during a rally for Alabama Republican Senator Luther Strange in Huntsville, Alabama, on September 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Trump on NFL anthem protests: ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field’

By Jill Colvin and Catherine Lucey

SAP's new building in Ra'anana, Israel (Courtesy: Uzi Porat)

SAP reportedly buys Israeli-founded Gigya for $350 million

By Shoshanna Solomon

Ben-Gurion University campus, August 2014. (Dani Machlis)

Ben-Gurion University signs research deals with Arizona, Mexico counterparts

By Shoshanna Solomon

Nazi symbols sprayed onto the walls of an abandoned building in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, September 24, 2017.(Israel Police)

Police open probe into Nazi graffiti in Jerusalem

The Tamar gas rig, located 23 kilometers (14 miles) west of the city of Haifa in northern Israel. (AP/Albatross Aerial Perspective)

Officials hope natural gas supply to resume by Wednesday

Stratford Centre in London in 2012. (CC BY-SA Simon Haytack, Flickr)

Several hurt in suspected London acid attack

By AFP

Flyers and a booth on Sproul Plaza calling for protesters to "Shut Down Milo Yiannopoulos," at the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California, on September 21, 2017. (AP/Jocelyn Gecker)

Right-wing troll pushes ahead with Berkeley rally plans

By AP

Shari Arison (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Shari Arison to sell half of her stake in Bank Hapoalim to US investors

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative. Israeli police forcibly evacuate a young man from the synagogue of the illegal outpost of Amona on February 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Settler sics dog on border guard during outpost demolition

By Judah Ari Gross

Pavel Preida, a Roma Holocaust survivor in Moldova, and the document that states he was an inmate in a concentration camp. (Courtesy Roma National Center from Moldova)

Holocaust Reparations'They were second-class victims'

Roma Holocaust survivors look to Jews as model for recognition — and reparation

Despite the murder and confiscation of property during WWII, illiteracy, lack of organization and racism prevent the community from receiving proper compensation

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