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What Matters Most On Friday, September 1, 2017

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France: North Korea could nuke US, Europe ‘within months’

By AFP

Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian calls situation ‘extremely serious,’ says it could quickly become ‘explosive’

People watch a television news screen showing file footage of a North Korean missile launch, at a railway station in Seoul on August 29, 2017. AFP PHOTO / JUNG Yeon-Je)

Putin warns of looming ‘major conflict’ over North Korea

By AFP

US heavy bombers, jets deliver show of force against N. Korea

By AFP

US ban on North Korea travel comes into force

By AFP

American businessman and investor Sheldon Adelson, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cornerstone laying ceremony for the Medicine Faculty buildings at Ariel University in the West Bank, June 28, 2017. (Ben Dori/Flash90)

'All politicians speak to publishers, editors-in-chief'

Forced by court order, Netanyahu reveals 230 calls to Israel Hayom editor

By Raoul Wootliff

PM also says he had over 100 phone conversations in same 2012-2015 period with the newspaper’s owner, Sheldon Adelson

DC court dismisses case alleging wealthy US Jews support Israeli war crimes

By Eric Cortellessa

Police chief: Criticism on PM probes from right, left proves we’re even-handed

Netanyahu vows to ‘give back’ south Tel Aviv to Israelis

Analysis

Amanda Borschel-Dan

With muddled decision on Western Wall freeze, court appears wary to intervene

Bizarre High Court stance with no teeth asks the state whether the court can legally enforce the pluralistic pavilion plan; leaves petitioners ‘with a lot of questions’

Reform female and male rabbis pray together at Robinson's Arch, the Western Wall site slated for future egalitarian services, on February 25, 2016. (Y.R/Reform Movement)

An Orthodox Jew stands facing the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem on July 24, 2013. (Lucie March/Flash90)

Court demands state justify Temple Mount metal detectors for Jews

A wooden footbridge leads up from the Western Wall to the Mughrabi Gate of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, November 28, 2011. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90).

Far-right activists demand removal of Temple Mount metal detectors for Jews

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks at the UN Security Council on August 29, 2017 at UN Headquarters in New York. (AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR)

'Once again, Iran is showing its true colors'

US takes aim at Iran over support for Hamas military wing

By AFP

Nikki Haley says Yahya Sinwar’s statement that Tehran is ‘biggest supporter’ of terror group is ‘stunning admission’

US to let Iranian-backed militias within 10 km of Golan Heights — report

By Stuart Winer

Hezbollah chief urges recapture of Mt. Dov from Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel says Lebanese officer on Israel border is a Hezbollah ‘plant’ — report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Bedouins from the town of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev, southern Israel, seen in the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, November 20, 2013. (Flash90)

Unexplained bureaucratic error could leave thousands of Negev Bedouin stateless

Israel reportedly stripped hundreds of Arab citizens in the south of their citizenship; Interior Ministry says it’s fixing a decades-old mistake in population registry

Farmers in Israeli south urge defense minister: Let Gazans work for us

Megan Phelps-Roper and David Abitbol in Tel Aviv, April 4, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Movie in works about how Jewish blogger saved ‘God Hates Fags’ church member

By JTA

Film explores how Megan Phelps-Rope left Westboro Baptist religious group after talks with Jerusalem-based David Abitbol

The Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Maryland has increased police presence at both of its campuses in light of security threats. (Courtesy of Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School/via JTA)

Education

Post-Charlottesville, Jewish schools increase security with bomb threats in mind

United Nation's Secretary-General Antonio Guterres inspects a tunnel dug by terrorists under the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel during his visit to the region, August 30, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Analysis

Guterres and Greenblatt outline divergent paths to peace

In Jerusalem, the UN chief strikes a conciliatory tone but espouses traditional positions, while Trump’s envoy pushes grassroots efforts to prepare the ground for reconciliation

President Reuven Rivlin speats at an education conference in Kiryat Ono on August 22, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Festive phone callRivlin, Abbas speak by phone ahead of Muslim holiday

Nehama the Louse, from the book of the same name by writer Meir Shalev, has become a beloved character in Israeli children's literature (Courtesy Am Oved)

New school year renews quest for nit-picking

By Jessica Steinberg

When it comes to lice, Israeli parents sigh, suffer and seek solutions

2.2 million Israeli students head to class as school year begins

Illustrative: President Reuven Rivlin visits first grade students on the first day of school in Ma'ale Adumim, September 1, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew media review

Wringing in the school year, ringing up the news

By Joshua Davidovich

Papers try to squeeze a bit of newsiness out of the decidedly un-newsworthy return to the classroom, and mull what Netanyahu is and isn’t telling the public

A general view of the West Bank city of Hebron with the Tomb of the Patriarchs, on January 18, 2017. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

Army gives Hebron settlers new municipal powers

Head of IDF Central Command transfers jurisdiction of infrastructure services for city’s settlers from the PA to Israeli Interior Ministry

View of homes in the Netiv Ha'avot outpost in the Etzion Bloc. September 2, 2016. (Gerhson Elinson/Flash90)

Illegal outpost residents ask court to save parts of homes set to be razed

Illustrative: A man stands outside the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

'Divorce laws in this country are a human rights violation'

Jerusalem rabbinical court refuses to grant couple a ‘get’ until prenup voided

By Yaakov Schwartz

Penalizing a man for refusing to grant his wife a divorce constitutes coercion, ruling states, even if both parties agree to such a stipulation

Messianic Israeli couple cannot marry in Jewish ceremony, rabbinical court rules

By JTA

How Rabbi Shai Held is shaping the conversation around love and politics

Nicole Jansezian

Inclusion is for the brave — and stupid

Mainstreaming is often the best ‘special education’ for kids like hers, so why does Israel presume it’s doomed to fail?

Two types of hate

Egypt hated the Israelites out of fear, so they got over it; Amalek’s irrational hatred will never end (Ki Teitzei)

Where will the Haredim live in 2040?

Ultra-Orthodox integration in society can begin in local cities and towns — with safeguards for both populations

Joshua Hammerman

A flood of biblical proportions

What is really noteworthy is how people all over the world reach out to help those hit by natural disaster

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Illustrative: Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak. (CC-BY-SA 3.0/Wikimedia/Nanking2012)

UN atomic energy agency: Iran complying with nuclear deal

By AP and ToI Staff

Hundreds demonstrate in a protest outside the Rotterdam Centraal Train Station on July 22, 2017, against the latest Israeli restrictions on Palestinians entry to Al-Aqsa mosque (Abdullah Asiran/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images via JTA)

Protesters chanted about killing Jews at Netherlands rally

By JTA

Israeli-founded 888.com gambling website. (Screen capture)

Israeli-founded gambling company hit with record fine in UK

The ammonia storage tank in the northern city of Haifa. (Courtesy of Environmental Protection Ministry)

Haifa ammonia tank emptied after years-long saga

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers on the Golan Heights, Northern Israel, July 4 2007. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

After search, soldier missing in Golan Heights found dead

French comedian Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala gesturing to the media as he leaves a Paris court house, February 4, 2015. (Michel Euler/AP Images/via JTA

Quenelle horreurAnti-Semitic French comedian to travel to North Korea

By AFP

The Oval cricket ground, London, on 17 April 2005. (Public domain, Wikimedia commons/Jguk)

DuckLondon cricket ground evacuated after bizarre arrow attack

By Julian GUYER

Main building of the University of Pretoria. (CC BY-SA Mike Prince, Wikimedia Commons).

‘Gas All Jews,’ swastika drawn on South African campus

By JTA

Illustrative: A monument at a Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland is found desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti, March 2012 (Jedrzej Wojnar/AP)

European Jewish group pans Poland’s ‘lack of concern’ over anti-Semitism

By JTA

Illustrative: A man typing on a computer keyboard, January 24, 2017. (Flash90)

Israeli-British man in court for cyber-attack on UK banks

By AFP

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