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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 26, 2017

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White House denies US officials told Abbas settlement freeze would topple Netanyahu

Al-Hayat report quoted PA officials saying Kushner delegation indicated building would have to continue because of domestic Israeli considerations

Jared Kushner was in the Middle East. Did Trump’s A team bring a peace plan?

Putting skepticism on hold, Abbas backs US peace push in Kushner meeting

Democrats chide White House for refusing to back two-state solution

By Eric Cortellessa

Police officers stand guard at a police cordon next to London's Buckingham Palace following an incident where a man armed with a sword was arrested outside the palace in an apparent attempted terror attack on August 26, 2017. (AFP/Chris J. Ratcliffe)

Buckingham Palace attacker had ‘4-foot sword,’ shouted ‘Allahu akbar’

By AFP

Police say three unarmed officers were injured in London attack; 26-year-old assailant arrested under UK Terrorism Act

Brussels knifeman shot dead in ‘terrorist’ attack on soldiers

By Cedric Simon

‘Not afraid’: Defiant Barcelona to march against terror

By Laurence BOUTREUX and Anna Cuenca

Radical Jamaican cleric indicted in US on terror charge

By Karen Matthews

Sebastian Gorka, center, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 24, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Controversial Trump aide Gorka ‘fired’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Official says deputy assistant to president accused of ties to far-right groups did not resign, but was rather relieved of his White House duties

Upset with Trump’s response, Jewish economic aide mulled quitting after Virginia

By Jonathan Lemire and Catherine Lucey

Right-wing groups cancel San Francisco Bay Area weekend rallies

Mnuchin: I would never quit over Trump and Charlottesville

By Eric Cortellessa and Agencies

Illustrative image of American Muslim men praying at a mosque in Jersey City, New Jersey, on December 7, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/JEWEL SAMAD)

'Any religious institution can be a target'

US Muslims want to increase mosque security, are turning to Jews for help

Cooperation between two communities grows, focusing on how to prevent attacks and handle hate crimes

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks to reporters at U.N. headquarters, Friday, Aug. 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

US says UN Lebanon commander ‘blind’ to Hezbollah arms

By AFP

Ambassador Nikki Haley accuses 10,500-strong UNIFIL force of ‘not doing its job effectively’

From the webHaley says nuclear inspectors should have access to Iran military bases

Iranian army chief warns Israel will not survive next 25 years

Iraqi forces recapture Tal Afar center from Islamic State

By Ali Choukeir and Valerie LEROUX

Working in Kaima's cherry tomato fields. Tomatoes and cucumbers are two of the farm's staples. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Outside Jerusalem, troubled teens find a place in the farmlands

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

The non-profit Kaima farms provide a home, and structure, for Israeli youth with nowhere else to go. And it’s working

Dr. Omri Emody with a patient and his mother in Ghana (Courtesy).

Israeli doctors return smiles to African children’s faces

Rambam Medical Center surgeons join US mission to correct facial deformities of Ghanaese children

Clockwise from left, 'Ritchie Boy' Werner Angress in his paratrooper uniform ca. 1944. Angress died in 2010 at age 90; The Holocaust Center at which Guy Stern still works in Farmington Hills, Michigan; Stern reenacting his old role. (Courtesy Henderson/Stern)

They fled the Nazis for the US, then served their new country to take down Hitler

By Rich Tenorio

In his new book, Bruce Henderson talks about the German-speaking Jewish soldiers who escaped WWII Europe, only to go back in uniform to collect intelligence

Illustrative: Inclusivity in advertising. (Campaign photos courtesy of Nechama Orah Photography; Makeup by Makeup by Ester Boutique School.)

By the way, Hallel has Down Syndrome

By Gaby Shine Markowitz

Her daughter has taught her that difference is wonderful and acceptance makes the world a better place

'The Unbowed Man' statue at the Khatyn Memorial in Belarus commemoratesYuzif Kaminsky, a survivor of Nazi atrocities, and his slain son Adam. (John Oldale/Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)

Belarus Holocaust monument is haunting — and subversive

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The tribute is unusual for the former USSR both in its recognition of individual suffering, and in its Jewish creator

Belarus court authorizes building apartments atop Jewish cemeteries

By Cnaan Liphshiz

My fellow Muslims, look in the mirror

His anti-Israel co-religionists are “totally self-unaware cry-bullies in the school playground”

A Museum of Jewish Montreal staffer giving a walking tour of the city's Sephardic history. (Courtesy MJM)

Take a walk through Sephardic Montreal’s illustrious history on a new urban tour

Mohammad Dahlan in 2006 (Michal Fattal/Flash90)

Analysis

After summer vacation, Middle East gears up for conflict as usual

By Avi Issacharoff

Between renewed tensions over the Temple Mount, Palestinian prisoners threatening a new strike and Gaza sinking further into despair, the coming weeks promise to be difficult

Israeli security forces stand before Palestinians on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on July 27, 2017, with the Al-Aqsa mosque appearing in the background. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

Terrorist attacks on Israelis doubled in July

By JTA

Illustrative: A South Korean army soldier walks by a TV news program showing a file image of missiles being test-launched by North Korea, at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, May 14, 2017. (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

Seoul: N. Korea fires ‘unidentified projectiles’ to sea

By AFP

US and South Korean intelligence authorities analyzing trajectories of the unknown objects

Palestinians spend time next to sewage-polluted waters on a beach in Gaza City on July 3, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Death of Gazan boy puts spotlight on polluted water

By Adel Zaanoun

Amid ongoing power crisis and blistering summer heat, Strip residents continue to swim in a sewage-infested sea to cool down

Medical emergency services surround a car after a crash in the Jordan Valley on April 24, 2016. (MDA)

Palestinian girl killed after being struck by car in West Bank

Illustrative: Rabbi Mychal Copeland of Congregation Sha'ar Zahav. (Norm Levin/J. The Jewish News of Northern California/via JTA)

Iconic San Francisco synagogue is no longer ‘just’ for LGBT Jews

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Strong winds batter a house on Padre Island before the approaching Hurricane Harvey in Corpus Christi, Texas on August 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mark Ralston)

Texas hunkers down as Hurricane Harvey lashes Gulf Coast

By Mark RALSTON and Katie Schubauer

In this Dec. 5, 1931 file photo, Adolf Hitler, leader of the National Socialists, is saluted as he leaves the party's Munich headquarters. (AP, File)

Officials nix plans for Hitler’s desk at upstate NY gun show

By AP

Illustrative photo of a Polish police officer, accompanied by two service vehicles, performing spot checks on passing traffic. (GFDL Cezary p/Wikipedia)

Israeli citizen charged in knife attack on Polish policeman

By AP

US President Donald Trump speaks at the National Convention of the American Legion on August 23, 2017, in Reno, Nevada (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump signs memo banning transgender troops

By AFP

People stand for the Pledge of Allegiance during a meeting of the standing committee on rules at the Republican National Committee summer meeting, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, in Nashville, Tenn. (Mark Humphrey/AP)

RNC votes to condemn white supremacists, amid some grumbling

By Thomas Beaumont

A Flytrex drone in Reykjavik, Iceland. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Reykjavík getting food delivered by Israeli drones

By JTA

Diana Babish, an ex-banker from the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, carries a dog at the first dog shelter in the West Bank, in the town of Beit Sahour, on August 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Musa Al Shaer)

Palestinian ex-banker devotes her life to West Bank dogs

By Majeda El Batsh

A still from the piece by Larissa Sansour. (Courtesy of the artist)

From the webBarbican accused of showing anti-semitic film in science fiction season

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