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What Matters Most On Monday, August 28, 2017

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) welcoming UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, August 28, 2017. (GPO)

Greeting Guterres, Netanyahu rips UN, says Iran turning Lebanon, Syria into warfronts against Israel

By Ilan Ben Zion

With secretary general by his side, PM accuses United Nations of bias against Israel and of allowing Iran to build missile sites and Hezbollah to smuggle arms

UN chief in Jerusalem: Calls for Israel’s destruction are ‘modern anti-Semitism’

By Alexander Fulbright

Facing pressure over ‘bias,’ UN chief lands in Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

Iran says S-300 air defense system now ‘fully integrated’

File: Education Minister Naftali Bennett attends a committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem on August 23, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

After Charlottesville, Diaspora minister says Israel can’t protect all Jews

By Marissa Newman

Naftali Bennett insists the ‘lion’s share’ of anti-Semitism in the US is ‘BDS, pro-Arab, anti-Israeli anti-Semitism which is on the rise’

Ousted Trump aide Gorka to work with Bannon at Breitbart

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Black-clad anarchists storm Berkeley rally, assaulting 5

By Paul Elias and Jocelyn Gecker

Oklahoma police chief resigns over alleged neo-Nazi ties

US Vice President Joe Biden. (JTA/Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Biden says America must declare: Hatred of blacks, Jews, immigrants won’t be tolerated

Former vice president slams Trump for emboldening white supremacists

San Francisco rabbis gather against bigotry after far-right rallies cancelled

By JTA

Tillerson says Trump ‘speaks for himself’ on racial violence

By AP

Ironic ‘Adopt-a Nazi’ fundraiser surpasses $150K goal

By JTA

Lior Lotan speaking to Channel 2 television in 2011. (screen capture:Channel 2)

Israel should kidnap enemy fighters to use in prisoner swaps – negotiator

By Alexander Fulbright

Lior Lotan, who was in charge of efforts to return IDF soldiers’ bodies held by Hamas, says in recording he wants to play ‘with a full hand’ in talks

Father of fallen soldier held in Gaza blasts ‘weak’ Liberman

By Raoul Wootliff

Military court convicts Halamish terrorist’s family for not turning him in

By Judah Ari Gross

Radicalized Yavneh stabber meticulously planned every aspect of attack – indictment

By Raoul Wootliff

Houston residents living like ‘cavemen’ because of Harvey, Israeli consul says

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Gilad Katz, head of Israel’s diplomatic mission in flooded city, says no indications that any Israelis are in danger from days-long downpour

Catastrophic floods strike Houston; thousands flee homes

By AP

Houston Jewish community ‘impacted’ by Hurricane Harvey

By JTA and ToI Staff

Texas floods spark increasing chaos, with more rain still to come

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during an innovations event at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on August 28, 2017.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

No more settlements will be evacuated, Netanyahu vows

By Marissa Newman

UN chief: Disagreeing with Israel’s policies not anti-Semitism; Israeli-founded US cancer treatment company sells for $11.9b

Ultra-Orthodox Jews perform the kaparot ceremony on October 10, 2016, in the neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

French authorities warn farmers of Jewish thieves ahead of Yom Kippur

By JTA

Municipal veterinary service says Jews and Muslims may try to steal chickens and sheep to use in ‘unauthorized sacrifices’ for holidays

Illustrative: A family enjoys a picnic in the grass, near the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Tur on April 8, 2016. (Corinna Kern/FLASH90)

Surge of East Jerusalemites getting citizenship still leaves lion’s share in limbo

More Palestinians in Jerusalem became Israeli in 2017 than in the last 3 years combined, but a massive backlog remains; Supreme Court has ordered the Interior Ministry to explain why process takes so long

Illustration (iStock)

Israeli firm sees the spy agencies behind the sexy images

By Shoshanna Solomon

Tel Aviv-based ClearSky tells tale of pretty women luring social media friends into networks of deceit in bids to steal data

L-R: Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer, US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategy Dina Powell and US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman meet in Tel Aviv on August 24, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

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Trump team, Netanyahu renew talks on US embassy move to Jerusalem

By Raoul Wootliff

Hot-button issue was ‘brought up by both sides’ in discussions last week between the PM and US envoys Kushner and Greenblatt

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and US President Donald Trump, right, speak at Ben Gurion International Airport prior to the latter's departure from Israel on May 23, 2017. (Koby Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu said set to meet Trump in the US in September

In this Feb. 26, 2015 photo former nurse Niels Hoegel., accused of multiple murder and attempted murder of patients, covering his face with a file at the district court in Oldenburg, Germany. (Carmen Jaspersen/dpa via AP)

German killer nurse murdered ‘at least 90 patients’ – police

By AFP

Niels Hoegel suspected of injecting intensive-care patients with drug that causes heart failure and then attempting to revive them

There are no ‘minor’ anti-Semitic acts

7 reasons to not try sorting the “serious cases” of Jew hatred from those that are mere “annoyances”

Judaism is built to last

When a changing reality conflicts with Jewish law, the Torah requires leaders to provide new answers

Distorting the vision of a Jewish state

An Israel that is willing to abandon Diaspora Jews for its own immediate political needs is a contradiction in terms

Dogs and owners congregate at Tel Aviv's Ganei Yehoshua Park for the city's annual Dog Day, August 26, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Pooch appreciated

Tel Aviv fetes four-legged friends with dog day afternoon

‘Kelaviv,’ the city’s annual Dog Day event, draws hundreds, featuring designer shampoos, health foods and more

Israeli soldiers guard the Machpela House in the West Bank city Hebron, on July 26, 2017. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)

State agrees to evacuate squatters from Hebron building

Attorney general acknowledges 15 settler families populated the Machpela House without having completed its purchase

Muslim pilgrims join one of the Hajj rituals on Mount Arafat near Mecca early on September 11, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

Two million Muslims converge on Mecca for the hajj

By Nadera Bouazza

Iranians return to Saudi Arabia to participate in Islam’s annual pilgrimage after skipping 2016 rite over deadly stampede

Relatives of Lebanese soldiers taken hostage by jihadists in 2014 sit inside a tent as they gather in downtown Beirut on August 27, 2017 awaiting news of their loved ones. (AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO)

Lebanon finds remains believed to be soldiers kidnapped by IS

By AFP

Hours after ceasefire begins on Syria border, Islamic State fighters who surrendered lead troops to site of bodies

Chillent live onstage. (Courtesy Sruli Broocker)

Since finding God, band Chillent doesn’t need to get stewed to feel high

By Madison Margolin

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The Presidential Palace planned to be built near Ramallah, in a computer-generated image on the website of PECDAR, the Palestinian Economic Council for Development and Reconstruction. (Screen capture)

Lavish PA presidential palace to be used as library

Masoud Shojaei. (CC BY-4.0 Tasnim/Wikipedia)

Iran soccer captain barred from qualifier after playing Israeli club

By AFP

Mohammad Ali Taheri, founder of a New Age version of Shiite Islam and a proponent of alternative medicine, who has been repeatedly sentenced to prison and death by Iranian courts. (YouTube screen capture)

Founder of New Age version of Shiite Islam sentenced to death in Iran

By AP

Palestinians walk on a street at the Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City during a power outage on June 11, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Hebrew media reviewIn a bad place

By Joshua Davidovich

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