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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 18, 2016

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File: Israeli soldiers block the exit to the settlement of Efrat following a shooting attack in the area on July 9, 2016. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

IDF officer moderately hurt in stabbing attack in Efrat

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian assailant shot by troops, taken to a Jerusalem hospital, in sixth such attack in two days

Woman arrested with knife outside West Bank settlement

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

IDF soldiers pelted with rocks during Nablus raid

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian woman joined attack ‘to atone for relationship’

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, September 18, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / POOL)

Netanyahu fires back at critics of US military aid deal

By Stuart Winer and Dov Lieber

Former ambassador to US says Jewish state seems ungrateful, greedy in Washington for crying over $38 billion package

US official: It’s possible Iran deal animus affected military aid agreement

Top official slams politicians’ criticism of US aid deal

Amid West Bank terror spike, IDF boosts forces in Hebron

By Judah Ari Gross

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, right, visits the scene of an explosion on West 23rd Street September, 18, 2016 in New York. (AFP/Bryan R. Smith)

Live updates (closed)

Terror link probed in Minnesota as New York still baffled by bomb

By Joshua Davidovich

Police say no connection seen between Saturday attacks; Putin party looks set to crush parliamentary poll in Russia; Netanyahu to thank Obama for defense aid, discuss 2-state solution in meeting outside UN confab

Police and firefighters work near the scene of an explosion in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, in New York, September 17, 2016. (AP/Andres Kudacki)

New York blast that injured 29 confirmed as ‘intentional act’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Second suspicious device found four blocks away; Mayor de Blasio says incident not terror-related

Video catches chaotic moment of New York dumpster blast

By ToI Staff and Agencies

8 injured by Minnesota stabber who ‘referred to Allah’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pipe bomb explodes before Marines charity run in New Jersey

By AP

Jerusalem Minister Zeev Elkin (L) speaks with Welfare Minister Haim Katz outside a meeting of the Likud secretariat in Maccabiah Village, near Tel Aviv on August 16, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Off his back

PM boots minister from cabinet meeting over polo shirt

Haim Katz reprimanded by Netanyahu, asked to leave after he shows up to weekly session in casual wear

The signing of the US-Israel military aid deal in the State Department on September 14, 2016 (Israeli Embassy, Washington)

Analysis

Ungrateful Israel owes the US a simple thank you

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Nobody put a (US-funded) gun to our heads. We chose to sign the $38 billion military aid deal. We should stop moaning about it

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is presented with a gift during an event with The Remembrance Project, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016, in Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump says ‘open borders’ cost lives and ‘this will end’

By Jonathan Lemire

GOP candidate tells group campaigning against illegal immigration that ‘politicians ignore your cries, but I never will’

Ex-Pentagon chief Gates: Trump is ‘unfit,’ ‘beyond repair’

By AFP

Sanders urges turned-off voters to turn out for Clinton

By JULIE CARR SMYTH

Rob Reiner says those who support Trump aiding racism

By AP and ToI Staff

The pain of hearing shofar

The blasts of a ram’s horn, central to the observance of Rosh Hashanah, pose a dilemma for her family

Stop overcooking for the holidays

Relax! You do not need to prove your love by serving 10 dishes at the Rosh Hashanah table

Peace efforts need female voices

After years of failed negotiations, it’s time to bring ‘feminine’ empathy, respect, and compromise to the table

Milan Chatterjee said the UCLA administration was working in collusion with activists of the BDS movement. (Courtesy of Chatterjee)

Indian-American student becomes pro-Israel symbol for trying to stay neutral

By Gabe Friedman

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

Syrian government soldiers walk in the damaged al-Farafira souk in the government-held side of Aleppo's historic city center on September 16, 2016. (Youssef Karwashan/AFP)

US admits coalition airstrike against Syrian military position

By AFP

Moscow estimates death toll at 62, but monitoring group counts 83; US ‘relayed our regret’ to Damascus through Russia

Former president Shimon Peres speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem, November 2, 2015. (AP/Dan Balilty)

Doctors working to gradually wean Peres off life-support

Following CT scan Sunday morning, former president’s condition still ‘serious but stable’

Joint (Arab) List members Jamal Zahalka (left), Basel Ghattas (center) and Hanin Zoabi (right) at the weekly Joint (Arab) List meeting at the Knesset, on February 8, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Arab-Israeli party suspected of multimillion-shekel fraud

More than 20 suspects arrested in massive sweep; Balad calls allegations ‘baseless,’ part of ‘persecution campaign’

This May 18, 2016 photo shows buildings in Amona, an Israeli settlement outpost in the West Bank, east of Ramallah. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Likud ministers, MKs urge legalization of illegal outposts

25 legislators call on Netanyahu to push bill resolving status of Amona, other settlements, despite objections of attorney general

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

Jordan condemns ‘barbaric’ killing of knife-wielding Jerusalem attacker

Muslim Brotherhood calls on Amman to close Israeli Embassy over ‘execution’ of man police say tried to stab officers

Congregation Shirat Hayam of Santa Marta by the Mikveh Beach, or, 'Playa Mikveh.' (Peter Svarzbein)

With the Caribbean as their ritual bath, Colombian converts flow to Judaism

By Rich Tenorio

More Headlines

Wilton Park, South London, UK (courtesy)

Israelis, Palestinians tackle water shortage with tech

By Shoshanna Solomon

Former US president Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy, at a luncheon in New Orleans in honor of her work to combat drug abuse, August 15, 1988. (AFP/Mike Sargent)

Win one from the GipperNow you too can own a piece of Reagan

By Jennie Matthew

Illustrative photo of police in central Paris. (screenshot: YouTube)

Paris briefly shaken by false terror alert

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Israeli schoolchildren, August 27, 2013. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90/File)

Tel Aviv University says exchange program for kids fights racism

By Shoshanna Solomon

Iranian cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad (CC BY Tasnim/Wikimedia Commons)

Iranian cyclist dies after crash in Paralympics race

By AP

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and US President Barack Obama. (CC BY 4.0 Erfan Kouchari/Wikipedia; Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

Non-original sinNigeria’s president sorry for plagiarizing Obama

By MICHELLE FAUL

Israeli soldiers and security forces at the scene of a stabbing attack in Tel-Rumeida in the West Bank city of Hebron, September 17, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewIt’s the most terrorful time of the year

By Joshua Davidovich

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