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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 8, 2016

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Members of the al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, display Qassam rockets during an anti-Israel military parade marking the second anniversary of the killing of Hamas's military commanders Mohammed Abu Shamala and Raed al-Attar on August 21, 2016, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Analysis

Hamas spends $100 million a year on military infrastructure

By Avi Issacharoff

$40 million of the annual total goes to terror group’s tunnel digging work, which employs 1,500 Palestinians

Israel begins work on NIS 2 billion underground Gaza barrier

Netanyahu and Abbas agree ‘in principle’ to meet, Russia says

By ToI Staff and AP

Israel releases last body of East Jerusalem terrorist for burial

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem, September 15, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Clinton rips ‘untrustworthy’ Trump’s Israel policy

By Ilan Ben Zion

Russia says timing critical in possible Israeli-Palestinian talks; London police said to foil ‘significant’ Islamic State attack; Israeli forces find weapons hoard in Hebron home

US president George W. Bush presents Norman Podhoretz (right) with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civil award, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, June 23, 2004 (Susan Walsh/AP)

Interview

Norman Podhoretz, the last remaining ‘anti-anti Trump’ neocon

By Eric Cortellessa

The former editor of Commentary says he has ‘no admiration’ for Trump, but deems him the ‘lesser evil’ compared to Clinton

Mixed messages abound as Trump campaign bids for Jewish voters

By Eric Cortellessa

Trump: US generals ‘reduced to rubble,’ would replace some

By AP and ToI Staff

Clinton defends Iran nuke deal, says US ‘not being played’ by Tehran

By ToI Staff and AP

The GlassesOff app on mobile phones (Courtesy)

App trains your brain to dispense with reading glasses

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israel’s GlassesOff, whose exercises aim to lower ‘vision-age,’ has just reached 1 million global users

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

Promoted content

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

Velvel’s tallit and the essence of Elul

The story of a Soviet Jew’s reckless act of faith drives home humanity’s true purpose on this earth

Stephen M. Flatow

She would have been 41

He accepts that his daughter is gone, but can’t wrap his head around US appeals courts throwing out terror judgments

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Here, there be mermaids

Where you’re both-things and no-thing, unable to go home in the same way again, but not quite settled where you are

A so-called ‘mending wall’

If defacing the physical horizon improves security, so be it, but tackling the political horizon can change the ‘hood

A Palestinian next to an elections billboard in Gaza. (photo credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

Palestinian court postpones long-awaited local elections

October vote had been heralded as first large-scale ballot for Palestinians since 2006; Hamas rejects decision, calling it ‘political’

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)

Soviet documents ‘show Abbas was KGB agent’; Fatah decries ‘smear campaign’

By Tamar Pileggi

Israeli researchers: Notes from USSR archivist who defected indicate PA president was working for Soviets in Damascus in 1980s while Putin’s current Mideast envoy was stationed there

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) shakes hands with his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on April 13, 2015. (Photo credit: AFP/ POOL / SERGEI ILNITSKY)

Ramallah laughs off report Abbas was KBG agent, as Hamas keeps mum

Illustrative photo of an IAF F-16 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flash90)

Israeli jets hit Syrian targets in response to earlier projectile strike

By Judah Ari Gross and Tamar Pileggi

IAF takes out several Syrian army launchers; military says it holds Assad regime responsible for errant shell that landed in Golan Heights

Threats from across the border in a video released by an Islamic State affiliate on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on September 3, 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

Analysis

Israelis have nothing to fear from IS but fear itself

By Avi Issacharoff

Beset by military defeats and a host of other headaches, Islamic State is relying on suicide attacks and nasty videos to keep its credibility intact. Let’s not help them

Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, an IDF soldier who was killed in a stabbing attack in a West Bank supermarket on Thursday, February 18, 2016. (Courtesy)

Posthumous medal for IDF soldier who fought stabbers ‘barehanded’

Widow of Staff Sgt. Tuvia Weissman accepts award on her late husband’s behalf; 2 other soldiers decorated for bravery

Truckers and farmers block the highway near Calais, northern France, Monday Sept. 5, 2016. (AP/Thibault Camus)

Britain to start building anti-migrant wall in Calais

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Construction on 4-meter high concrete barrier to begin this month, as Europe struggles with biggest influx in decades

Sidney Shachnow at The Pierre Hotel in New York City, Oct. 3, 2012. (JTA)

Meet the Holocaust survivor who organized the generals’ endorsement of Trump

Maj. Gen. (ret.) Sidney Shachnow, who lived through WWII in Lithuania, says GOP nominee ‘has temperament to be commander-in-chief’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Likud MK Avi Dichter (right), former head of the Shin Bet, in 2016 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

MK likens unilateral West Bank pullout to 9/11 jumpers

By Raphael Ahren

Like diving from the burning Twin Towers, a hasty evacuation of settlements would be certain suicide, ex-Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter says

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

Shabbat train work to resume this weekend despite political feud

By ToI Staff and AFP

Labor minister says Israel Railways will continue infrastructure, repair work on Jewish day of rest, sparking ultra-Orthodox anger

Danya Cebus CEO Ronen Ginsburg, second left, at a Knesset hearing on September 8, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Collapsed garage passed inspection in June, Knesset inquiry told

By Marissa Newman

Construction site where 3 were killed in Tel Aviv on Monday was not found to have ‘significant flaws’; engineering failure likely to blame

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, confers with then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit during a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on December 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police divided as A-G halts Netanyahu-linked probe

Mandelblit says investigation into alleged corruption involving PM, ex-chief of staff is going nowhere, but not all cops agree

Mark Wilf, a co-owner of the Minnesota Vikings, at the team's gigantic Nordic horn in its new $1.1 billion stadium. (Hillel Kuttler/via JTA)

Minnesota Vikings’ owner thinks big with new stadium and Holocaust philanthropy

By Hillel Kuttler

More Headlines

Professors Aharon Razin (L) and Howard Cedar (courtesy)

Hebrew U scientists win prize seen as precursor to Nobel

By JTA

The Satmar Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel. (JTA/Uriel Heilman)

Rabbi charged in NY plot to murder divorce-refusing husband

By AP and ToI Staff

$British musician and composer Brian Eno. (CC-BY cosciansky\Wikimedia commons)$

Pioneering English musician bars Israeli dancers from using his work

By Stuart Winer

Dutch Parliament Member Tunahan Kuzu refuses to shake hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the States General at the Binnenhof as part of Netanyahu's visit to the Netherlands at the Binnenhof, in the Hague, on September 7, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / ANP / Bart Maat)

Stirred, not shakenDutch Muslim MP refuses to shake Netanyahu’s hand

Illustrative: Diners sit in the Abu Ghosh Restaurant, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, November 20, 2013. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Abu Ghosh hummus joint slammed for billing Chinese tourists NIS 16,500

WSC Sports Technologies's video platform (Courtesy)

Israel’s WSC Sports nabs Intel investment for growth

By Shoshanna Solomon

The stable’s interior. The round stone basins were apparently used for storing food and water for the animals (Israel Antiquities Authority/Courtesy)

Holy crap!Meter of manure confirms 1,500-year-old stable

Clothing ad for Shan and Toad. (Shan and Toad Instagram)

Final SaleIs this kids’ store discriminating against Haredi Jews?

By Lior Zaltzman

American snowboarder Amy Purdy dances with a robot at the September 7 opening ceremony of the 2016 Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro (Courtesy YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP)

Pas de deux ex machinaAt Paralympics, a 3D-printed dress for a dance with a robot

By Jessica Steinberg

Michael Dell, founder and chief executive officer of Dell. (Courtesy)

Dell-EMC merger creates giant $74 billion tech company

By Shoshanna Solomon and Luke Tress

A newspaper in printing process at a newspaper printing plant in Tel Yitzhak (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewReporting the reported and scooping the scooped

By Raoul Wootliff

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