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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 27, 2017

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely speaks a cornerstone laying ceremony for a new neighborhood in the West Bank settlement of Kfar Etzion on June 7, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

End bias or else, Israel threatens UN ahead of chief’s visit

By Raoul Wootliff

Taking hard line, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely says Jerusalem will ‘no longer tolerate’ international body’s slant against Jewish state

Israel to press UN chief on peacekeeper ‘blindness’ in Lebanon

By AFP and ToI Staff

Lebanon’s army declares pause in fighting against Islamic State

By AFP

Israeli envoy says UN must address Hezbollah ‘weapons buildup’

By ToI Staff and AFP

In this Dec. 18, 2013, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks at a news conference at the Sheriff's headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

AJC slams ‘shameful’ Trump pardon for ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio

By ToI Staff and AFP

Widespread condemnation as US president gives clemency to a man who became a symbol of racial profiling

Critics: Trump pardon is another affront against judiciary

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

As Trump struggles, some Republicans talking 2020 challenge

By Steve Peoples and Thomas Beaumont

Police arrest two white supremacists involved in Charlottesville violence

By ToI Staff and AP

US President Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after giving final remarks at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem before Trump's departure, May 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu, Trump to meet on September 17

Government to remove settlers from contested Hebron home, court hears; police find 20 marijuana greenhouses in IDF training areas

Too good to be true: 8-year-old’s ‘rare coin’ not an ancient artifact

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Originally thought to have been minted during the 66-70 CE Jewish Revolt, the piece is actually a worthless, kid-made souvenir from the Israel Museum’s Youth Wing

A Living Church of God congregation in San Diego celebrates the Feast of Tabernacles -- the church's name for Sukkot -- in 2016. (Courtesy of the Living Church of God/via JTA)

'We're obeying God's commandments'

Christians who celebrate Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur a growing trend

Some congregations maintain some of Jesus’s Jewish traditions by following the holiday schedule set out in the Old Testament

US presidential adviser Jared Kushner, left, meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on June 21, 2017 (PA press office)

US denies Kushner’s team told Abbas a settlement freeze would topple Netanyahu

By Eric Cortellessa

Senior White House official says al-Hayat report is ‘nonsense’ and that such comments ‘were never made’

Report: Trump to present plan for reviving peace talks

By Alexander Fulbright

PA shelves plan to fire 6,000 Gaza civil servants

By AFP

Gaza gets its first proper cinema showing in three decades

By AFP

People attend a march against terrorism which slogan is #NoTincPor (I'm Not Afraid) in Barcelona on August 26, 2017, following the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks that killed 15 people and injuring over 100. (AFP PHOTO / PAU BARRENA)

Thousands march against terror in Barcelona

Spain’s king joins those who tended the victims in the deadly attack in leading mass gathering under the slogan, ‘I’m not afraid’

German hurt in Barcelona car rampage dies, bringing toll to 16

By AFP

UK police arrest 2nd suspect in Buckingham Palace sword attack

By AFP

Islamic State claims Brussels stabbing attack

By AFP

Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz (right), slipping the general's rank on Pundak's left shoulder. (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's blog)

Yitzhak Pundak, made a general at 100, dies at 104

By Judah Ari Gross

The deceased officer requested burial at Kibbutz Nitzanim, whose sullied name he sought to redeem

Forget not Elor Azaria

In the battle to defend the IDF’s moral compass from sloganeering populists, defeat is not an option

The right kind of ‘bias’

A Statement Department refusal to endorse the 2-state solution only favors Hamas and right-wing Israeli extremists

Stephen M. Flatow

The unstoppable will of a kindergartener

On his daughter Alisa’s early conviction that she would attend a Jewish day school, and only a Jewish day school

‘Vey is mir, Donald, what next?’

Eavesdropping on the Mah Jongg ladies in Boca

Menny Naftali, center, and Eldad Yaniv, far right, the main organizers of a weekly protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in front of the home of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit in Petah Tikva, August 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

2,000 turn out as protests against Netanyahu resume near AG’s home

By Alexander Fulbright

High Court had limited weekly protest calling for PM’s indictment for corruption to 500 demonstrators; Likud coalition chief slams ‘gross violation of court ruling’

South Tel Aviv residents protest outside Supreme Court Chief Justice Miriam Naor's home in Jerusalem on August 26, 2017. (Yonatan SIndel/Flash90)

Dozens protest at High Court head’s home against African migrants

South Tel Aviv residents accuse judges of ‘foot-dragging’ on deporting illegal immigrants

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party at the Knesset on July 10, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman: Israel won’t release terrorists in any prisoner swap

By Alexander Fulbright

After resignation of official overseeing efforts to return captured Israelis from Gaza, defense minister says Israel needs ‘clear boundaries’ in negotiations with Hamas

An F-35 jet arrives at its new operational base at Hill Air Force Base, in northern Utah, September 2, 2015. (AP/Rick Bowmer, File)

Israel finalizes agreements to buy 17 more F-35 jets

By Judah Ari Gross

New deal will bring IAF’s fleet of the high-tech stealth fighters up to 50, to be delivered by December 2024

This file photo taken on July 9, 2017, shows Bamilo employees working at the e-commerce site's offices in the Iranian capital Tehran. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)

Iranians up in arms as Apple removes top apps

By AFP

American computer giant says applications taken down from store due to US sanctions

Moshe Lazar, right, explaining to a visitor at an etrog orchard in Calabria in 2015 about how to pick kosher fruit. (Esrogim.info/via JTA)

Some Jews are paying upwards of $500 for an Italian etrog this year

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A frost has led to a severe shortage, causing Chabad Hasidim to pony up a pretty penny for the coveted holiday citrons

A Bank Leumi in Jerusalem, November 16, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG orders police to open probe against former Bank Leumi executives

The decision by Avichai Mandelblit comes after the bank already paid $400 million in fines to US authorities over tax evasion affair

Australian, British and American soldiers and sailors raise their cups at a Passover Seder at the YMCA’s Jewish Hut, April 1919. (Courtesy)

The ‘chosen’ Anzacs: Australia’s distinguished fighting Jews gain new recognition

By Rich Tenorio

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Conan O'Brien visits Jaffa, with the Tel Aviv skyline in the background, on August 26, 2017. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Breakfast of champions Conan O’Brien talks shakshuka, Israeli women

A swastika. (Wikimedia Commons)

Paintings with swastikas removed from Rio de Janeiro exhibit

By JTA

In this Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, photo, two Iranian women cross a street while wearing the "chador," a head-to-toe garment, in downtown Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

A cover upChador in, hijab out: Iran VP’s change draws criticism

Theodor Herzl on the balcony of the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland, 1897. (CC-PD-Mark, by Wikigamad, Wikimedia Commons)

Dream team120 Herzls gather in Herzliya

By JTA

Statue of Liberty (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Elcobbola, Wikimedia Commons)

Startup nation urged to put business ties with America first

By Shoshanna Solomon

Dotan Goshen, the owner of a bio-farm in the kibbutz of Hama'apil, in central Israel, walks between rows of vegetables at his organic fruit and vegetable farm on May 8, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

Israelis log out of high-tech jobs for a life offline

By Delphine Matthieussent

A view of the Bedouin town of Segev Shalom, with the city of Beersheba in the background (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Toddler killed by falling ladder in southern Israel

Menny Naftali, center, and Eldad Yaniv, far right, the main organizers of a weekly protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in front of the home of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit in Petah Tikva, August 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Hebrew media reviewProtesting the protesters

By Joshua Davidovich