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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 30, 2017

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United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres delivers a statement to the media, during a visit to a UN School in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, August 30, 2017. (AFP/MAHMUD HAMS)

UN chief calls Gaza a ‘dramatic humanitarian crisis,’ urges end to blockade

Antonio Guterres, visiting Hamas-run Palestinian coastal enclave, calls on Israel and Egypt to lift border restrictions

UN chief tours Gaza border to see rocket, tunnel threats

By Stuart Winer

Midnight rush for power in electricity-starved Gaza

UN chief said to meet families of Palestinian terrorists in Ramallah

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend an event marking 50 years of Israeli settlements in Samaria, in Barkan, in the West Bank, on August 28, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

White House unfazed by Netanyahu pledge not to evacuate settlements

By Eric Cortellessa

Trump team will continue to push for peace, senior official says, though Palestinians call PM’s comments ‘provocations’

Liberman slams illegal outposts as ‘sabotaging settlement movement’

Arab League chief condemns PM’s pledge to not evacuate settlements

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinians slam Israeli decision to allow MKs on Temple Mount

Volunteer rescuers evacuate people from a flooded residential area during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on August 29, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)

Most of Houston Jewish community hard-hit by Harvey flooding

By JTA

Over 70% of Jews live in area ravaged by storm, federation says, as institutions pitch in with relief efforts

Death toll from Harvey rises to at least 18 as rain forecast improves

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and JUAN LOZANO

Texas Jewish summer camps reopen to host Houston victims

Bennett urges Israelis to help Jews in flood-hit Houston

Illustrative: Young girls peek through a curtain next to the bride at an ultra-Orthodox wedding on January 18, 2016. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Police break up wedding involving 14-year-old girl

Groom and father of bride arrested ahead of ceremony; both are later released to house arrest

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech at a Likud support rally on Wednesday, August 30, 2017 (screen capture: Facebook)

Live blog (closed)

Bolstered by boos, PM launches broadside against ‘fake news’ at rally

By Joshua Davidovich

David Bitan calls for soul-searching among journalists, says 4,000 supporters at event; US airstrike disrupts evacuation of IS fighters under Hezbollah deal

Education Minister Naftali Bennett, left and Education Ministry director-general Shmuel Abuav at a press conference in Tel Aviv, August 30, 2017. (Yossi Zamir)

Bennett unveils NIS 70m plan to get students chatting in English

By Stuart Winer

Education minister says English is a must in high-tech, plans major reform in teaching the language

Rambam doctors during an experimental cardiac implant procedure on August 28, 2017. (Pioter Fliter, RHCC)

Israeli implant to treat heart failure tested for first time

Doctors at Haifa’s Rambam hospital insert device in 72-year-old Canadian man who had run out of treatment options at home

Breakthrough Israeli cancer professor on prowl to ease other ills

By Shoshanna Solomon

Leah (L) and Simcha Goldin, parents of late Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, attend a ceremony marking three years since Operation Protective Edge at the National Memorial Hall at the entrance to the military cemetery on Mount Herzl, July 13, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israelis renew emotional debate on price of a soldier’s body

By Andrew Tobin

Defense minister says Israel cannot afford repeat of 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner swap, again setting off unremitting argument

Israel backs away from shutting Al Jazeera

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at an Israel Bar Association conference in Tel Aviv on August 29, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Mandelblit defends ‘democratic’ anti-Netanyahu demos outside his home

By Alexander Fulbright

After criticism from Likud of protests calling for indictment of PM in corruption cases, AG says right to demonstrate is essential to democracy

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks at the Justice Conference of the Israeli Bar Association in Tel Aviv on August 29, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Justice minister pans High Court for ‘degrading Israel’s Jewish character’

Israelis take part in the first annual Gay Pride parade in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, on June 22, 2017. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

State reverses opposition to same-sex couples adopting children

Hysterical objections to anti-BDS law

No country should tolerate an influx of foreigners engaging its military and police in an active conflict zone

Laurie Zimmerman

I oppose Israel’s ban on BDS activists

When you block Jews from the Jewish state, you desecrate the very essence of a diverse Jewish community

How I left the Antifa

It was just when black bloc anarchy began to fill him with dread that he was arrested and thrown in a crowded cell

Spiritual fugitives

When you come to reinvent yourself, expect to experience discomfort in the self-confrontation that will make you new

Ambassador Yehuda Avner affixes a mezuza to the front door of The Times of Israel offices in Jerusalem, February 2012. (photo credit: Amanda Borschel-Dan/The Times of Israel)

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s upgraded site

By David Horovitz

We’ve redesigned our homepage and article pages to display our content more effectively and attractively. And there’s more to come

A picture taken on an army-organized press tour shows Lebanese army soldiers with the 6th Brigade standing on tanks flying the Lebanese flag in an area they recently took from the Islamic State (IS) group on the Syrian-Lebanese border, August 28, 2017. (AFP/PATRICK BAZ)

US official blasts deal that moved Islamic State fighters from Lebanon border

By AP

Lebanese army buses hundreds of jihadists out of combat zone in return for info on missing soldiers

Lebanon rejects changes to mandate for UNIFIL peacekeeping force

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran dismisses US ‘dream’ of military site inspections

By AFP

Lebanon’s negotiated IS evacuation angers many

By Zeina Karam and Sinan Salaheddin

Syrian protesters take part in a demonstration outside the United Nations office in the capital Damascus, on April 11, 2017, in support of the country's strongman Bashar Assad, depicted in the portrait. (AFP Photo/Louai Beshara)

Hebrew media review

The muddle east

By Joshua Davidovich

From Mizrahi heritage to Assad’s rule to African migrants under threat to North Korea tensions, Israeli papers take a break from their normal Western focus

American television host, comedian and producer Conan O’Brien visits the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, August 28, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Incognito mode

Conan goes undercover for hit Israeli TV series

US talk show host tweets he filmed a scene for the ‘Fauda’ television drama about a covert security unit

FloodusMelania sparks storm with stilettos, FLOTUS hat

By AFP

GOY spottingBureau of Motor Vehicles sends a Jew on a ‘goy’ ride

By Marshall Weiss

Who's a good boy?Dogs vacation for free in Israel, owners welcome

By Jessica Steinberg

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Ivanka Trump with her business partner Moshe Lax in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 29, 2014. (Bryan Steffy/Getty Images for DuJour Magazine via JTA)

Ivanka’s ex-business partner faces ‘mountain’ of legal woes

Israeli Ambassador to Egypt David Govrin at his home in Mevasseret Zion, near Jerusalem, on June 5, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel’s ambassador returns to Egypt after 8 months away

By AP and ToI Staff

Chevra Anshei Lubavitch synagogue (Screenshot from CBS New York via JTA)

NY judge blocks demolition of historic synagogue

By JTA

Illustrative image of Hungarian Jewish women and children from Carpatho-Ruthenia arrive at Auschwitz in May/June 1944. (photo credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-N0827-318/CC BY-SA)

Hungarian monument to Jewish Holocaust victims smashed

By JTA

Illustrative image of an El Al plane at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

3 El Al ex-employees suspected of stealing from airline

Israeli band The Magical Mystery Tour covers The Beatles at a Tel Aviv Museum of Art event (Courtesy Rafi Pinto)

Cover lovers’60s and ’70s come to life with musical tribute series

By Jessica Steinberg

An Aeronautics Defense Systems Ltd. Orbiter 1K drone. (Screen capture: YouTube/Practical Information)

Drone sale to Azeris halted as maker accused of bombing Armenia in demo

By Judah Ari Gross

Jenna Van Gelderen (Facebook via JTA)

Atlanta Jewish woman, 25, missing for 12 days

By JTA

Israeli wins bronze at World Judo Championships

Japan's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso posing before a meeting during a G7 summit of Finance Ministers in Bari, May 13, 2017. (AFP/Alberto PIZZOLI)

Japan’s deputy PM retracts remark seeming to praise Hitler

By AP

The shawarma shop where a Palestinian man stabbed an Arab-Israeli bus driver in Petah Tikva, July 24, 2017 (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Palestinian charged over Petah Tikva stabbing attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli F-35 fighter jets perform during an air show over the beach in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on May 2, 2017. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Delivery of two F-35 jets delayed over issue in different model

By Judah Ari Gross

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