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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 7, 2016

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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton September 5, 2016. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)

Israelis more pro-Clinton than Americans — poll

Republican candidate touts pro-Israel stance, but survey shows residents of Jewish state give 15-point lead to Democrat rival

AnalysisHaredim look to Trump as a pro-Israel, traditionalist tough guy — emphasis on ‘guy’

Donald Trump: Israel will be destroyed unless I’m elected

By JTA and ToI Staff

Trump, Clinton to take break from campaiging on 9/11

By Jonathan Lemire

Cattle lying in excrement on a live transport ship from Australia. (Courtesy Dr. Lynn Simpson)

The sickening journey to your table

By Lynn Simpson

The appalling conditions she saw on ships delivering live animals to Israel were hazardous to consumer health

Mahmoud Abbas in Nicosia, Cyprus, March 31, 1975, during a meeting to discuss the opening of a Palestine Liberation Organization office on the island. (AP)

Live updates (closed)

KGB document said to reveal Abbas was Soviet agent in Syria

By Joshua Davidovich

Israeli researchers say notes from defected archivist Vasily Mitrokhin show Palestinian leader operated under current Putin Mideast envoy Bogdanov in 1983

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Dutch President of the Senate Ankie Broekers-Knol (L) and Parliament Speaker Khadija Arib (R) in The Hague on September 7, 2016 (Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

PM to Dutch MPs: Palestinians won’t accept Israel’s existence

In Holland, Netanyahu says Europe protected by Jewish state’s self-defense; is snubbed by pro-Palestinian lawmaker at meet-and-greet

Top Abbas aide: There were ‘no preconditions’ for Netanyahu meeting

On YouTube, PLO mocks Netanyahu’s claim he cares about Palestinians

By Raoul Wootliff

Dutch PM calls for end to settlements, says BDS ‘protected,’ not backed

By Tamar Pileggi and AFP

Netanya Mayor Miriam Feirberg attends a campaign event on February 24, 2015, in Netanya (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Netanya mayor arrested on suspicion of taking bribes

By Stuart Winer

Police seek to extend detention of Miriam Feirberg, who was grilled under caution over alleged kickbacks from contractors

Head of the regional council of the Arab town of Julis, Salman Amar, seen at the Rishon Leztion court after shooting to death a gardening contractor on September 6, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Arson suspected in village where mayor is accused of murder

Ibrahim al-Hussein is currently swimming just a few seconds over his pre-injury times. (Courtesy United Nations Human Rights Commission)

Refugee Paralympians represent disabled and displaced in Rio

By Rich Tenorio

Showing strength of human spirit over adversity, swimmer who lost leg in Syrian roadside bomb and Iranian asylum-seeking discus thrower meet stringent athletic criteria

When Mother Goose needs a little help

An inadvertent study in cultural differences between Israel and the US — the hard way

Arnold M. Eisen

Jewish pride on campus is under siege

College students: Hold your heads high and fight BDS accusations that are pernicious, but unequivocally false

Is George Galloway an anti-Semite?

A collection of enough of the British politician’s public statements to constitute ‘clear proof’

Soldiers in the IDF Home Front Command fill bags with rubble during the rescue effort at a collapsed parking garage in Tel Aviv's Ramat Hahayal neighborhood on September 6, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

In slow comb through collapsed garage, rescuers cling to scant hope they’ll find the missing

By Judah Ari Gross

Three men are still trapped under the rubble of a Tel Aviv parking structure, as soldiers tunnel to reach them in time

Israeli rescue workers at the site where a building collapsed in Tel Aviv's Ramat Hahayal neighborhood, September 6, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Cousin of family slain in alleged settler attack trapped under collapsed garage

Israeli rescue workers at the site where a building collapsed in Tel Aviv's Ramat Hahayal neighborhood, September 6, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel using new tech in efforts to rescue trapped workers

By Shoshanna Solomon

Res-Q-Cell system developed by Israel Aerospace Industries helps find disaster victims by locating their cellphones; teams also equipped with fiber-optic cables, cameras with voice and visuals

Rabbi Neil Blumofe of Congregation Agudas Achim in Austin, Texas, August 31, 2016. (Ricky Ben-David)

'Traitor' or Trailblazer?

The American rabbi who dared consider a visit to Arafat’s grave

By Ricky Ben-David

Then-US Secretary of State John Kerry with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif April 19, 2016, at the United Nations in New York. (AFP/Don Emmert)

US payment of $1.7 billion to Iran made entirely in cash

By Richard Lardner

$400 million used as leverage to free American hostages; remaining money paid from Treasury discretionary fund

Then-finance minister Yair Lapid with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset in 2013 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll shows Yesh Atid winning more seats than Likud if elections today

Channel 2 survey is first ever to show centrist party ahead of Likud, 24 seats to 22, but Lapid would still have a hard time forming a coalition

A vehicle shot by Border Police officers in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem on September 5, 2016. A passenger in the vehicle was killed, while the driver was moderately wounded.

Police shoot and kill Jerusalem Arab, blame his cousin

By Judah Ari Gross

Officers say they shot at car that wouldn’t stop and accuse the driver in passenger’s death; Justice Ministry investigating

BMW, Intel, Mobileye announce cooperation for driverless car, July 2016 (Courtesy)

Mobileye tops list of auto tech exits

By Shoshanna Solomon

Jerusalem-based maker of driver assistance and autonomous car systems tops CB Insights ranking for VC-backed auto tech exits in 2012-16

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)

Israeli government okayed sale of spyware that exploits iPhones

Permission granted to tech firm to sell product used to track a prominent UAE rights activist; officials slam move

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir addresses the National Consultative Council in the capital Khartoum, October 21, 2014. (AFP/Ashraf Shazly)

Israel said to encourage Western ties with Sudan

Jerusalem reportedly seeks to boost Sunni alliance to undermine Iranian influence, sees Khartoum as potential friend

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman tours Bedouin villages in the Negev, southern Israel, on August 29, 2016 (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

If quiet persists, Liberman says he would allow Gaza workers back into Israel

Almost 10 years after imposed blockade, defense minister says Israel would like to ease humanitarian situation but not at expense of security

Trumpeter and artistic director Avishai Cohen at the Jerusalem Jazz Festival in 2015 (Courtesy Yossi Zwecker)

Something for everyone at upcoming Israeli festivals

By Jessica Steinberg

Teddy Kollek founded the Jerusalem Foundation and served as mayor of Jerusalem for 28 years. (Courtesy Jerusalem Foundation)

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Jerusalem Foundation celebrates 50 years of enhancing the capital city

By Yaakov Schwartz

Iconic mayor Teddy Kollek envisioned a streamlined and transparent process for advancing Jerusalem; 4,000 projects later, it’s still going strong

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Former prime minister Ehud Barak speaks at a conference for the Darkenu organization in Rishon Lezion on August 17, 2016. (Neri Lider)

Mystery billboards urge Barak to make a comeback

A Syrian man suffering from breathing difficulties is treated at a make-shift hospital in Aleppo on September 6, 2016. AFP/ THAER MOHAMMED)

Syrian warplanes drop chlorine bombs on Aleppo — activists

By AP

Air Serbia Airbus A319. (CC-BY-SA-2.0 Aleem Yousaf/Wikipedia)

Flight of fancyIsraelis fume over Belgrade call for ‘flight to Palestine’

Impact First has invested in healthcare companies such as AngelSense, a wearable device and app that monitors the safety and wellbeing of special needs children. (YouTube screenshot)

Fund seeks to shift Israel from startup nation to impact nation

By Shoshanna Solomon

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in The Hague. (AFP PHOTO / ANP / Robin UTRECHT)

Dutch to help Israel build Gaza gas pipeline

By AFP

Israeli sailors marching in Manhattan during the 1976 festivities for the bicentennial and Operation Sail. (Courtesy of Hadar Shalev/via JTA)

Calling all Israeli sailors from ’76 NY celebration: It’s reunion time

By Hillel Kuttler

Naz Shah speaks in the House of Commons, April 27, 2016 (Guardian screenshot)

British lawmaker who shared anti-Semitic posts under investigation

By JTA

Natan Sharansky in a 2011 photo (The Jewish Agency for Israel/Flickr, CC BY 2.0)

Natan Sharansky won’t seek new term as head of Jewish Agency

By JTA

Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on September 4, 2016 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Transportation minister: Fast Tel Aviv-Jerusalem rail link due in 2018

By AFP and ToI Staff

Screenshot from a pro-Palestinian protest against Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat at San Francisco State University.

SF State president: University failed students in protest of Jerusalem mayor

By JTA

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz, left, seen with mayors of the southern Israeli towns on an Ashkelon-Beersheba train leaving from the southern Israeli city of Netivot, September 17, 2015. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Hebrew media reviewPolls, trains and engineers

By Joshua Davidovich

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