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What Matters Most On Monday, September 5, 2016

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Rescue workers evacuate a wounded man from a collapsed parking structure in the Ramat Hahayal neighborhood in northern Tel Aviv, September 5, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

'It felt like an earthquake'

At least 2 killed, 7 trapped as Tel Aviv parking garage collapses on workers

Multiple-story underground structure under construction caves in, reportedly after tractor drives across roof; 24 injured

Workers say they felt rumblings ahead of collapse, as probe opens

Palestinian Authority blames Israel for construction deaths

Before building collapse, MKs pushed stricter safety bill

By Stuart Winer and Raoul Wootliff

Israeli medics and emergency units work at a construction site where an underground car park collapsed on September 5, 2016 in the Ramat Hahayal neighborhood of Tel Aviv (AFP Photo/Gil Cohen-Magen)

Live updates (closed)

Rescuers lose touch with worker trapped in garage collapse

Israel to grant Palestinians 100,000 entry permits over holiday; French Jewry’s president appears to back burkini ban

Rep. Chris Van Hollen testifies before the House Rules Committee on the so-called "cut, cap and balance" plan proposed by tea party-backed House Republicans (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Pro-Israel Dems who backed Iran deal feel the heat in 2016 races

By Eric Cortellessa

Prominent supporters of Jewish state are being attacked for not ‘standing with Israel,’ while some in Jewish community warn against using the deal as a litmus test

Iran banks to set up shop in Germany

By AP

Clinton enters fall with advantages, but Trump team hopeful

As Trump transition chief, Christie taps associates for key posts

By MICHAEL CATALINI

Hamas members watch as a bus carrying Palestinian prisoners arrives at the Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip as part of the deal for the release of hostage Gilad Shalit on October 18, 2011. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Exclusive

In first, Germany admits PA is likely paying terrorists’ families

By Raphael Ahren

Berlin vows to investigate Ramallah’s system of monthly ‘salaries’ for Palestinians held in Israeli prisons for terror-related offenses

Palestinian tries to run over police in East Jerusalem, is killed

World scouts deny ties to branch that praised Palestinian terrorist

By Josef Federman

Palestinian hunger striker rushed to intensive care

Charred olive pits from Khirbet Qeiyafa, which were used to date the site, on display at The Bible Lands Museum, September 2016. (Oded Antman/Bible Lands Museum)

Humble olive pits are prime find at exhibit from ancient city associated with King David

By Ilan Ben Zion

Artifacts from Khirbet Qeiyafa, which dates back 3,000 years to the dawn of the Kingdom of Judah, go on display at Bible Lands Museum for first time

From Holocaust to helpers

A Germany redeemed — rescuer of homeless, granting myriad Syrian refugees the potential for healthy futures

Escape from trash mountain

How a massive landfill became a global model of sustainability, an oasis of green serenity in Greater Tel Aviv

Shabbat can’t be a political chess piece

It’s time for Jewish leaders across denominations to come together to decide what the modern day of rest is all about

The working life

This Labor Day, consider what you can do to help those for whom hard work is just not enough

Dafna Meir, left, with her husband Natan Meir in an undated picture posted on Facebook. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Terror victim’s husband urges adoption of special needs children

In Facebook post, Natan Meir says couple’s son, now starting first grade, is the embodiment of ‘good incarnate’ in the face of terrible evil

A large fire raging near Kfar Sold, caused by missiles fired from the Syrian side of the Israeli-Syrian border and hitting open areas in the Golan Heights in northern Israel on August 20, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Israel shells Syria in retaliation for mortar hitting Golan

By Judah Ari Gross

Opposition media reports barrage in village in demilitarized zone; Syrian state news says planes caused ‘material damage’

Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur (photo credit: Jean-François Paga)

France’s foremost female rabbi takes a stab at the patriarchy

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks to Israeli journalists in the West Bank city of Ramallah, January 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Abbas decries pressure from the US, Russia and the Arab world

‘No one will dictate to us any position,’ PA leader says; Palestinian press suggests he’s irked by demand to reconcile with Dahlan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Zehava Shaul during the funeral of her husband Herzl Shaul at the Poria Illit cemetery in Northern Israel, September 4, 2016 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

At Herzl Shaul’s burial, PM vows to return his son’s remains

Oron Shaul’s brother says his father died of ‘grief and regret’ after mourning the son he lost in Gaza in 2014

COGAT’s Major General Yoav (Poly) Mordechai and the Palestinian Authority’s Minister of Civil Affairs, Hussein al-Sheik sign a Memorandum of Understanding to upgrade the postal service system in Judea and Samaria, September 4, 2016 (COGAT)

Israel and Palestinians sign deal to improve postal service

International mail will now be transferred to the PA directly at border crossing, cutting costs and speeding up delivery

An Israel Railways train passes the Ayalon Highway, near the Arlozorov Street 'Central' train station in Tel Aviv, August 23, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

After commuting nightmare, trains roll back into service

By Stuart Winer and Raoul Wootliff

Amid ongoing political crisis, daylong travel discord alleviated by reopening of Tel Aviv-Haifa lines

In this file photo taken on Friday, July 10, 2015, Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov gestures at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Ufa, Russia. (AP/Ivan Sekretarev)

Uzbek chief rabbi: No worries for Jews after president’s death

By JTA

Islam Karimov, who died last week, had ‘excellent relations’ with dwindling community of 13,000, last remaining rabbi says

A Turkish army tank stationed near the Syrian border, in Suruc, Turkey, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016. (AP Photo)

Turkey says IS has lost all territory along its Syria border

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and Bassam Mroue

Islamic group now surrounded by hostile forces; supply lines used to bring in recruits and supplies severed

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian security forces, emergency services and residents look at the remains of burned vehicles at the site of a bombing in Tartus, Syria, Monday, Sept. 5, 2016. (SANA via AP)

Multiple bomb blasts in Syrian cities kill at least 43

Government targets struck in at least 5 locations across war-torn country, state media reports

Melbourne, Australia (Wikimedia Commons/Donaldytong/File)

Teen jihadist jailed in Australia over foiled beheading plot

By AFP

Sevdet Besim, 19, sent to 10 years in prison for planning to run over and behead a police officer

Top candidate of the populist right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), Leif-Erik Holm, talks to the media during the regional elections in Barner Stueck, near Klein Trebbow, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, eastern Germany, on September 4, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / dpa / Daniel Bockwoldt)

Rising nationalism boosts Germany’s populist AfD to polls victory

Begun as a eurosceptic party in 2013, the movement has increasingly turned to xenophobia and anger towards asylum-seekers

French far-right party Front National (FN) President and member of the European Parliament, Marine Le Pen gestures as she delivers a speech on September 3, 2016 during a FN political rally in Brachay, northeastern France. (AFP PHOTO / FRANCOIS NASCIMBENI)

France’s Le Pen vows to fight Islamists, seek EU referendum if elected

By PHILIPPE SOTTO

With her presidential prospects rising in polls amid terror attacks, far-right leader pledges to back ‘the forgotten, the abandoned and the voiceless’

A man watches a television screen reporting news of North Korea's latest submarine-launched ballistic missile test at a railway station in Seoul, August 25, 2016. (AFP/JUNG YEON-JE)

N. Korea fires ballistic missiles as G20 meets in China

By AFP

Pyongyang said to launch 3 rockets that splashed down in Japanese waters

Geoff, left, and Mitch Schwartz are the first pair of Jewish brothers to play in the NFL since 1923. (Olivia Goodkin and Lee Schwartz/via JTA)

From matzo balls to footballs, two Jewish brothers recount their NFL journey

By Victor Wishna

More Headlines

Former president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem, November 2, 2015 (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Peres pacemaker surgery successful, full recovery expected

By Raoul Wootliff

Changing a tire (CC BY robmba, Flickr)

Wheel alignmentFree tire change for women is sexist, Israeli judge rules

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 4, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu accepts invitation to visit Down Under in 2017

Illustrative. Chickens for sale. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Not in every potChicken shortage expected as slaughterers vacation

By Judah Ari Gross

'Eagles of Death Metal' lead men Jesse Hughes and Joshua Homme, who met in high school and formed the band 20 years ago (Courtesy Eagles of Death Metal)

Band that survived Paris attack to perform in Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

The scene of a fatal shooting outside the local council building in the village of Julis, September 5, 2016. (MDA spokesperson)

Head of Galilee town shoots man dead outside city hall – report

By Stuart Winer

Italy's players arrive at the Sammy Ofer Stadium in Haifa, on September 4, 2016, on the eve of their Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup European Group G qualifier football match against Israel. )AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

Israel to kick off soccer world cup bid in game vs. Italy

By Stuart Winer

An illustrative photo of James Byrne high school in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. (Facebook via JTA)

Jewish, Muslim students at South Carolina high school threatened

By JTA

US President Barack Obama arrives on Air Force One at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Snarky spooksUS spy agency posts cheeky tweet over China tarmac tiff

By AFP

View of the Shita prison, located in northern Israel, February 28, 2013. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Many innocents likely held in Israeli prisons, new report says

Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting, April 17, 2016. (Flash90/Effi Sharir)

Hebrew media reviewOn the slow train to Firedsville

By Joshua Davidovich

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