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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 4, 2016

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, seen next to Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz at the weekly cabinet meeting at Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem, September 4, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Inside story

Train crisis goes to heart of religion-state debate, but won’t derail government

By Raphael Ahren

Dispute over what public work gets done on Shabbat has brought chaos on the streets and within Likud, but the Haredim ultimately got what they wanted — and so the coalition will live another day

Traffic unsnarls after train stoppage makes mess of morning commute

PM slams transportation minister as train row reignites internal Likud battle

Meretz petitions court over halt to rail work on Shabbat

Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump wears a prayer shawl during a church service at Great Faith Ministries on September 3, 2016, in Detroit. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)

Fringe candidateFringe candidate

Jews nonplussed as Trump dons tallit at church

Social media users mock, criticize Republican presidential candidate for accepting prayer shawl from Christian bishop

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump isshown during a church service at Great Faith Ministries, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump promises African-Americans jobs, prosperity in visit to Detroit church

By Michael Mathes

Demonstrators protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to cancel all infrastructure work planned by Israel Railways on Shabbat on outside the Tel Aviv's Savidor train station on September 3, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Poll: Public unhappy with PM’s handling of train work crisis

By Raoul Wootliff

Only 25% of public back Netanyahu’s decision to cancel maintenance planned for Shabbat; Jewish, Muslim students at South Carolina high school threatened

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote during local elections at a polling station in the West Bank city of Ramallah, October 20, 2012. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Analysis

Despite gloom in Israel, PA officials insist Fatah will sweep local elections — even in Gaza

By Avi Issacharoff

Abbas’s movement is confident of trouncing its Islamist rival on October 8, and says it has the electoral math to prove it

Mithqal al-Fayez, painted for the family from a 1920s black and white photo. (Courtesy)

How Jordan’s ‘sheikh of sheikhs’ negotiated with Zionists, founded a kingdom

Israeli pens first biography of Mithqal al-Fayiz, the tribal leader who put the Hashemites on the Jordanian throne — a Lawrence of Arabia-esque epic about a desert nomad

On hearing the sins of his fellow Catholics, and being certain God can straighten the spaghetti-mess of the soul

Bradley Shavit Artson

Already forgiven

Judaism’s season of introspection is sweetened by the ancient belief that divine love is greater than divine wrath

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Israel’s train wreck

The government squabble over railway repair on Sabbath made an unholy mess for a whole lot of Israelis

German Chancellor Angela Merkel poses for a selfie with a young man at a Christian Democratic Union party campaign on the eve of state election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in Bad Doberan, eastern Germany, on September 3, 2016. (AFP / Adam BERRY)

Far-right nationalists set for gains in German state election

By Geir Moulson

Merkel’s Christian Democrats could be overtaken by anti-immigration Alternative for Germany party

German Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck speaks during an interview in 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)

Prominent German neo-Nazi convicted of Holocaust denial

By AP

Israeli soldiers stand guard with their tank along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip near the southern Israeli kibbutz of Nahal Oz on May 4, 2016. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Shots fired from Gaza at IDF troops, army returns fire at Hamas post

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

None hurt on Israeli side; three of the terror group’s fighters reported wounded in return shelling

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers in the West Bank (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flash90)

IDF training troops in non-lethal measures against attackers

New program aims to help combat soldiers deployed in West Bank address the ‘changing nature of threats’ facing security forces

The Amos-6, Israel's largest ever satellite, and the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on which it was perched go up in flames after the rocket exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida on September 1, 2016. (YouTube screen capture)

SpaceCom to recoup $173m, plus interest, for destroyed satellite

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Israeli firm will be compensated for launchpad explosion by IAI, SpaceX, but company’s future remains uncertain

US President Barack Obama, right, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hold a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hangzhou on September 4, 2016. (AFP/SAUL LOEB)

Obama says Turkey coup plotters will be brought to justice

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Comment during first meeting between US president and Turkish counterpart since putsch attempt comes as Washington has resisted Turkish demands to extradite cleric Gulen

A ship named 'Lady Leyla' is seen as Turkish government sends humanitarian aid to Gaza after Turkish-Israeli reconciliation deal, in Mersin, Turkey on July 1, 2016. (Photo by Sezgin Pancar/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Turkey says aid sent to Gaza after Israel deal approved

By AFP

Second shipment following Jerusalem-Ankara reconciliation includes wheelchairs, diapers and food stuffs for distribution ahead of Eid

US President Barack Obama, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, June 17, 2013 (Evan Vucci/AP)

US, Russia come up short on Syria deal; more talks Monday

By Josh Lederman and KATHLEEN HENNESSEY

Differences of opinion over who’s a ‘moderate rebel’ prevent Moscow and Washington from reaching resolution

A motorist drives past a government billboard in Cairo, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016, which reads in Arabic: "We sure can...boost our exports and increase our resources. Oh, Egypt, With bold reforms, we shorten the road." (AP Photo/Hamza Hendawi)

New billboards across Egypt’s capital extol austerity

By Hamza Hendawi

IMF loan deal to see end to fuel and food subsidies, possible currency devaluation – and a government fearful of popular unrest

Elissa Altman delivers a 2016 TEDx talk at the University of Nevada at Reno, on the moral imperative to feed senior citizens. (YouTube screen shot)

Rich memoir cooks up Jewish ambivalence with a side of schmaltz

By Judy Batalion

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of newborns (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Induced labor not more risky than natural birth, study says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Irma Escuero, of New York, holds a statue of Mother Teresa prior to the start of a mass celebrated by Pope Francis where will be canonized in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, on September 4, 2016. (Gregorio Borgia/AP Photo)

Pope declares Mother Teresa a saint, model of mercy

By Nicole Winfield

Qylur in use in Rio Games 2016 (Courtesy)

Meet Qylur, the machine greeter and security sniffer

By Shoshanna Solomon

In this Friday, Sept. 2, 2016 photo, a Muslim woman holds her child at a beach in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

French uproar creates opportunity for Israeli burkinis

By Daniella Cheslow

An Iranian man withdraws money from an ATM machine at a Bank Sepah in the capital Tehran on January 19, 2016. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

Iran banks decline to work with Guard-linked firms – report

By AP

Members of the Women of the Wall hold a Rosh Hodesh (New Jewish month) prayer with a Torah Scroll they snuck in at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 7, 2016 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hecklers attempt to drown out shofars at Women of the Wall service

In this Aug. 14, 2006 file photo, music industry veteran Jerry Heller is photographed in New York. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper)

Jerry Heller, N.W.A. manager turned nemesis, dead at 75

The Binyamina train station, February 19, 2008 (Chen Leopold/Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewTrains don’t roll on Shabbos either

By Ilan Ben Zion

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