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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 20, 2016

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara boarding a plane to New York for an official state visit to the US, September 20, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu says he’ll urge ‘uniform’ global fight against terror at UN

By Raphael Ahren

PM heads to New York, will meet with Obama on Wednesday and ‘thank him for the great and important security assistance’

Destroyed buildings in the government-held Jouret al-Shiah neighborhood of the central Syrian city of Homs on September 19, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARA)

Live Updates (closed)

Syria opposition slams ‘total weakness’ of international community

By Raoul Wootliff

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi meets Donald Trump; Obama tells UN Palestinians must ‘reject incitement,’ recognize Israel’

President Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on Wednesday, October 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Analysis

Netanyahu’s (mildly triumphant) last goodbye to Obama

By David Horovitz

Op-Ed: When he bids farewell to the president on Wednesday, Israel’s PM will consider himself vindicated in the two areas where they most disagreed — on the Palestinians and Iran. He’ll also be happily contemplating the fact that, unlike Obama, he’ll be running his country for the foreseeable future

Netanyahu heads to New York for UNGA, meeting with Obama

By Raphael Ahren

Mayor Bill de Blasio, left, and New York Police Department Commissioner James O'Neill, center, arrive for a news conference to announce the arrest of bombing suspect Ahmad Kahn Rahami, right, shown on a display, Monday Sept. 19, 2016, at police headquarters in New York. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

New York bomb suspect charged with attempted murder

By Agencies and ToI Staff

FBI says no indication Ahmad Khan Rahami — who was arrested earlier after police shootout — connected to terror cell, increasing assessment he operated as ‘lone wolf’

Rahami called ‘friendly,’ but changed after Afghan visit

Clinton says Trump gives ‘aid, comfort’ to Islamic State recruiters

By Catherine Lucey and Lisa Lerer

NY mayor: ‘Every reason to believe’ NY, NJ blasts were terrorism

By Deepti Hajela

Israeli security forces at the scene of an attempted stabbing attack outside Bani Na'im, near Hebron, September 20, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Palestinian teen tries to stab soldier, is shot dead — army

By Judah Ari Gross

No Israelis injured; incident at checkpoint outside Bani Na’im, near Hebron, marks a fifth straight day of attacks

2 soldiers lightly hurt by firebomb during West Bank raid

By Judah Ari Gross

Stabbed policewoman still in ‘very serious’ condition

Police arrest brothers of East Jerusalem man who stabbed cops

Members of the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, display a drone during a parade marking the 27th anniversary of the Islamist movement’s creation on December 14, 2014 in Gaza City. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Israel shoots down Hamas drone off the Gaza coast

By Judah Ari Gross

Army says UAV was under surveillance ‘from the moment it took off’

Leon Trotsky in Mexico with some American friends, shortly before his 1940 assassination. (Public domain)

Trotsky’s day out: How a visit to NYC influenced the Bolshevik revolution

By JP O’ Malley

Author Kenneth Ackerman explores the life of the Jewish radical in the weeks leading up to the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Orthodox Judaism’s scandalous cover-up

The erasure of women from the religious public sphere has reached absurd heights and is harming Judaism’s future

France’s prescription for disaster

France is paving a path to Palestinian statehood that bypasses bilateral talks and the need for secure Israeli borders

Rabbis should not endorse candidates

3 reasons his fellow rabbis should stay mum on their pick for political office — and 3 things to do instead

The most important meal of the day

A tribute to the great Shimon Peres, who nearly refused breakfast out of politeness (and what convinced him to eat)

Rabbis in swing states say their High Holidays sermons won't address the election head on, but will touch on more general civic themes. (Lior Zaltzman/via JTA)

One place swing-state voters won’t see Clinton and Trump this season: The pulpit

In this Nov. 11, 2014, file photo, former President George H.W. Bush acknowledges the crowd at his presidential library before his son former President George W. Bush discusses his new book '41: A Portrait of My Father' in College Station, Texas. (AP Photo/Texas Tribune, Bob Daemmrich, Pool)

Former president George H.W. Bush said to back Clinton

He ‘told me he’s voting for Hillary!!’ daughter of late Robert F. Kennedy posts on Facebook after meeting former commander-in-chief

Donald Trump, Jr., son of Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump, speaks during the second day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Tuesday, July 19, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sweet analogy, broTrump Jr. compares refugees to chewy candies

Sheldon and Miriam Adelson at the opening event for the Adelson School of Entrepreneurship, 2013 (Courtesy)

Adelson said to contribute $5 million to Trump campaign

By JTA

Billionaire originally pledged a total of $100 million to GOP contender to strengthen Republicans in last stretch of election race

US president Barack Obama delivers a statement on the bombings in New York and New Jersey, in which he warned Americans not to succumb to fear, during a visit to New York on September 19, 2016. (AFP/JIM WATSON)

After spate of attacks, Obama urges Americans ‘not to succumb to fear’

President stresses there is no connection so far between East Coast bombings and Minnesota stabbing

Flowers and messages placed along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice on July 20, 2016, to honor the victims of the Bastille Day truck attack. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

France arrests 8 over July truck attack that killed 86 in Nice

By AP and ToI Staff

Tunisian and French suspects all linked to Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, who plowed vehicle through crowds on Bastille Day

Syrians sit and look at the rubble following an air strike in Aleppo's rebel-controlled neighborhood of Karm al-Jabal, September 18, 2016. (AFP/Karam al-Masri)

Airstrikes hit 20-truck Aleppo aid convoy hours after Syria truce ends

By AFP and AP

Kerry calls on Russia to rein in Assad, as US says will work with Moscow to reinforce ceasefire, expand aid deliveries

UN Special Coordinator Nikolay Mladenov, February 9, 2015. (CC BY-SA Ottokars, Wikipedia)

As terror returns to Israel’s streets, UN envoy urges restraint

After 8 attacks since Friday, Mladenov says sides ‘must take measures to preserve calm’; Herzog blames government for renewed violence

Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi speaks at the Herzliya Conference at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on June 15, 2016. (Screen capture: IDC Herzliya)

Commanders of drowned IDF soldier to be dismissed

By Stuart Winer

Army investigation into death of Ilan Yankilevich finds problems with senior officers’ command, routine safety procedures

The MOBILAB app in action (Courtesy)

Israeli app brings smartphone repair to the home

By Shoshanna Solomon

MOBILAB offers a network of trusted technicians who make house calls, will turn up at your doorstep in an hour

Illustrative: Cancer cells. (Pixabay)

TAU study shows promise in fight against breast cancer spread

By Shoshanna Solomon

Tel Aviv University researchers say genetic therapy with chemo in mice ‘extremely effective’ in preventing breast cancer metastasis

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Utah state senator Jim Dabakis. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Utah state senator’s summer visit to Iran sparks firestorm

By Jon Gambrell

Jewish winemakers inspecting grapes at a winery in the West Bank settlement bloc of Gush Etzion, September 8, 2014. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)

Sour grapesSettlement wine gaffe leaves US embassy red-faced

By Stuart Winer

The University of California, Berkeley. (Charlie Nguyen/ Flickr, CC BY 2.0/via JTA)

UC Berkeley lifts suspension of course labeled anti-Israel by critics

By JTA

Archaeologists in Poland uncover a capsule from 1934 containing images of Adolf Hitler, newspapers and other artifacts. (Screenshot)

Archaeologists in Poland dig up Nazi time capsule with war-era artifacts

By JTA and ToI Staff

Ta’alin Abu Hanna, shortly after winning the Miss Trans Israel pageant on May 27, 2016. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Oh you pretty thingsIsraeli comes second in Miss Transsexual final

By Daniel BOSQUE

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks with Israel's president Shimon Peres after a joint press conference at the president residence in Jerusalem, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

UN chief sends get-well message to Peres

By Stuart Winer

Students and their campus rabbis following a havdalah ceremony at the Chabad on Campus International Shabbaton in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York, November 8, 2014. (Chabad.edu/Bentzi Sasson via JTA)

Down the rabbi hole6 surprising findings about Chabad on campus

Paramedics and police at the scene of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem on September 19, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewNow the knives are out

By Joshua Davidovich

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