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What Matters Most On Saturday, September 17, 2016

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Palestinian assailant Hatem Abdel-Hafiz al-Shaloudi attacks Israeli soldiers with a knife in Hebron on September 17, 2016 (screen capture)

Video shows Palestinian give soldiers papers, then lunge with knife

Footage of Saturday morning’s stabbing in Hebron reveals dramatic moments of attack that left a soldier wounded and his assailant killed

Israeli soldier lightly wounded in Hebron stabbing, attacker killed

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF surrounds home of assailant who stabbed soldier in Hebron

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli soldier slashed in face in Hebron; assailant killed

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli security forces near the body of a Jordanian attacker at the scene of an attempt stabbing attack at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on September 16, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Weekend’s surge in Palestinian terror shows ‘contagion’ is still at work

By Avi Issacharoff

One attack sparks another, underlining the ever-present threat of escalation — even though Israel and the PA have had security success in recent months, and as economic ties have warmed

On day of violence, Abbas aide says IDF killing of attackers is ‘execution’

Israeli soldiers patrol near an Iron Dome defense system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, in the Golan Heights, on January 20, 2015. (AFP/Jack Guez)

In first, Iron Dome intercepts 2 projectiles fired from Syria

Defense system successfully neutralizes threats over Golan Heights, as Syrian fighting once again spills over to Israel

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the James L. Knight Center, Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, in Miami. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump says Clinton’s guards should drop their guns ‘and see what happens to her’

By Jonathan Lemire

Attacking opponent’s stance on Second Amendment, Republican presidential candidate’s office declines elaborating on apparent support for violence

Michelle Obama makes campaign trail debut for Clinton

After years of ‘birther’ claims, Trump says Obama ‘born in US, period’

By AP

Third-party candidates won’t take part in first presidential debate

By Nicholas Riccardi

A Roman coin showing the Emperor Nero, which was found in Jerusalem and is believed to date back to 56 CE. (Courtesy University of North Carolina)

Gold coin with face of young Nero found in Jerusalem, dated to soon after crucifixion

‘Exceptional’ find featuring Roman emperor dates from 56CE — 23 years after Jesus was crucified, 14 years before Second Temple destroyed

Kibbutz secretary Jossef (Joha) Engel near ruins dating back to the 8th century BCE at Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

The kibbutz outside Jerusalem built atop an ancient palace

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Ramat Rachel’s Archaeological Gardens tell the story of the Roman legionnaires, Judean kings and Assyrian conquerors, and others who lived and built there

Israel’s political tourism black hole

Visitors who come to learn the real story behind news headlines are getting only one side — and it’s the wrong one

The limits of love

The impartiality of law protects against strife, envy and a spiral of violence and revenge (KI Teitzei)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US Senator Lindsey Graham in Jerusalem on May 27, 2015 (Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO)

GOP senator: Israel made a mistake by signing US defense deal

By Richard Lardner

Lindsey Graham says Netanyahu should have waited until Obama left office before agreeing to memorandum of understanding

In this photo taken Nov. 9, 2011, former Secretary of State Colin Powell speaks in New York. (AP Photo/Eric Reichbaum)

Israel, US mum on Powell’s assessment that Israel has 200 nukes

By Judah Ari Gross and AP

After leak of email in which he gauges size of Jewish state’s alleged atomic arsenal, former secretary of state stresses it was sent 10 years after he left office

File: A general view of a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Modiin Illit, taken March 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Despite relentless Obama criticism, settlements grew as much in his years as in Bush’s

By Josef Federman

12,288 new buildings were started in West Bank during president’s term up to June 30

A fighter from the Jaish al-Islam (Islam Army) runs to avoid sniper fire, in the village of Tal al-Siwan area of the rebel-held stronghold of Douma, on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria on September 5, 2016. (AFP Photo/Sameer Al-Doumy)

Intermittent shelling, clashes reported across Syria

By AFP

Fighting erupts between rebels and pro-regime forces despite truce brokered by Russia and US

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a clip posted on Facebook on Friday, September 9, 2016. (Screen capture Facebook)

How all sides view Netanyahu’s ‘ethnic cleansing’ remarks

By Andrew Tobin

While PM envisions peace deal allowing settlers to stay put, the possibility of such a scenario playing out is unlikely

Ahmed Shafik in Rio, Monday September 12, 2016. (Joe Kusumoto Photography)

Iraqi-born US Army vet powers through polio at Paralympics

By Rich Tenorio

The charred outside of the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, Fla., following an arson attack, Sept. 12, 2016. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/JTA)

Arsonist who torched Orlando club shooter’s mosque has Messianic Jewish ties

By JTA

Joseph Michael Schreiber, who confessed to starting the fire, displays messianic imagery on his Facebook page

Election posters of the right extremist NPD (top) and the populist AfD parties for regional elections in Berlin are seen in Berlin's Schoeneweide district on August 15, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Yann Schreiber)

Berlin fears AfD win will undo efforts against far right

By Yann Schreiber

Many in Germany’s left-leaning capital are terrified by likely strong showing for the populist party in Sunday elections

Illustrative: BDS supporters protesting in New York, October 2015. (BDS Facebook page via JTA)

NY City Council approves anti-BDS resolution

By JTA

Motion condemns all efforts to delegitimize Israel and the global movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Jewish state

1936 photo of Sir Victor Sassoon and three dancers who appeared at his Shanghai nightclub, Ciro's. (Courtesy)

How Jews once ran Shanghai, the ‘wicked old Paris of the East’

By Robert Sarner

More Headlines

Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw, Poland. (CC BY-SA/Adrian Grycuk/Wikimedia Commons)

Warsaw Ghetto archives to open, be available online

By JTA

IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot attends a State Control committee meeting at the Knesset on August 16, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF chief to Druze leaders: Israel has no ties to extremist Syria rebels

'Kosher By Design' guru Susie Fishbein is ready to open another chapter. (Facebook)

Susie Fishbein says goodbye to iconic ‘Kosher By Design’ series

By Lisa Cohen Blatter

Brigitte Herremans (Broederlijk Delen via JTA)

Belgian charity official: Israel allies vastly inflate anti-Semitism problem

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a clip posted on Facebook on Friday, September 9, 2016. (Screen capture Facebook)

Fail to the chiefWhat do Americans think of Netanyahu — as US president?

By Josefin Dolsten

Covilha, Portugal (Feliciano Guimarães/ Flickr, CC BY 2.0)

Portuguese city unveils 16th-century Torah used by crypto-Jews

By JTA

Israeli soccer star Eran Zahavi celebrates his first goal in his debut match in China, July 2, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Israeli player announces Pope Francis’ 2nd Soccer for Peace match

By JTA

The statue 'Birth' by late Israeli artist Menashe Kadishman, in Ramat Gan National Park (Avishai Teicher, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY SA 4.0)

Fertile Crescent Ramat Gan statue attracts women hoping to conceive

By JTA

File photo: A picture taken on April 28, 2015, shows a barbed wire fence at a former Nazi concentration camp. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

Fund begins reimbursing survivors shipped to Nazi camps via French rail

By JTA

The scene of a car accident on Route 1 between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Saturday, September 17, 2016 (YouTube/Times of Israel Staff)

One killed, two severely injured in Route 1 accident

American singer Adam Lambert performs live with British band Queen at a concert in Hayarkon Park, Tel Aviv, September 12, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Rock youAdam Lambert prays at Western Wall

By JTA

Illustrative photo of a teen holding an Islamic State flag on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in August 2014. (Facebook)

DevilryBritish man jailed for IS murder of ‘black magic’ imam

By AFP

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