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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 12, 2017

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A jumble of bones found at the Khirbet el-Maqatir archaeological dig in 2013. (Steven Rudd)

Underground operation'These people were eyewitnesses of the Second Temple'

A 2,000-year-old murder leads to an illicit burial in the heart of the West Bank

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

When archaeologists said 7 women and a youth found in caves were slain by Romans during the Great Revolt, settlers secretly stepped in to illegally pay their last respects

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara take part at a ceremony at the site of the 1992 attack at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 11, 2017 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Netanyahu in Buenos Aires

At sites of bombings, PM vows Israel will relentlessly confront Iranian terror

By Raphael Ahren

114 people died in Iran-orchestrated embassy and AMIA attacks; wife of guard killed in 1992 blast praises ‘Paris of South America’ and says ‘we chose life’

25 years after embassy blast, an Israeli who lost her husband returns

By Raphael Ahren

Trump considering more hawkish approach to Iran — report

By Alexander Fulbright

Hebrew media reviewA break from Bibi

By Tamar Pileggi

Analysis

Yair Netanyahu exposes Israel’s own version of the ‘alt-right’

Inspired by US provocateurs, some in young, online, right-wing Israeli community make use of anti-Semitic and Nazi imagery to mock and malign Israeli and Jewish leftists

The cover photo for the Tight Memes Facebook page, September 11, 2017. (Facebook)

In Herzliya, ex-Trump aide Gorka defends war on ‘wrong versions of Islam’

By Judah Ari Gross

Austria domain name rejects neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer

By AP

ADL: White supremacist group launching campus recruitment effort

By JTA

Soldiers run to a helicopter during an exercise in northern Israel simulating a war with the Hezbollah terrorist group in September 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

'A future war will be more complex than the last one'

Simulating war with Hezbollah, IDF looks to avoid past mistakes

By Judah Ari Gross

After war games with mock terrorist ‘killing sprees’ in Israeli communities and a counterattack in southern Lebanon, army bringing to a close its largest drill in 19 years

Russia says Syrian forces seized most territory from IS

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA

After alleged Israeli airstrike, Liberman warns Syria: ‘Don’t test us’

By Judah Ari Gross

Russia reassures Israel over Iranian presence in Syria — report

By Alexander Fulbright

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri leads a Shas party faction meeting at the Knesset on July 3, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Interior minister blasts court decision on ultra-Orthodox draft

Deri says ruling ‘proves yet again the grave disconnect between the High Court of Justice and the Jewish people’

6:23 pm

Russia touts Syrian gains 2 years after intervention
5:52 pm

Lapid welcomes court decision on ultra-Orthodox draft
5:28 pm

Neo-Nazis plan to march near Swedish synagogue on Yom Kippur

Lior Ashkenazi (foreground), stars as a grieving father in Samuel Maoz's award-winning film 'Foxtrot' (Courtesy 'Foxtrot')

Acclaim for controversial film puts Regev in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot situation

By Jessica Steinberg

The culture minister is on the attack against Samuel Maoz’s ‘Foxtrot,’ which won a top prize at the Venice Film Festival and could sweep Israel’s Oscars

After walkout last year, culture minister snubbed by Israel’s Oscars

Lebanese court frees director arrested for filming in Israel

By AFP

Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con. (CC 2.0 Gage Skidmore)

As director Jenkins signs up, Gal Gadot heads to ‘Wonder Woman 2’

Patty Jenkins said to become highest-paid female director for the sequel, set for end of 2019, with Warner Bros agreeing to a fee of $7 to $9 million

Screen capture from the movie 'The Prince and the Dybbuk' that documents the life of Hollywood producer and directory Michael Waszyński. (YouTube/Wide House)

Documentary on Yiddish filmmaker wins Venice Festival award

By JTA

Felix Kjellberg, known by his YouTube name of PewDiePie. (Screen capture: YouTube)

VloggedYouTube star PewDiePie in hot water again, over the ‘N-word’

By AFP

Miss North Dakota Cara Mund reacts after being named Miss America during Miss America 2018 pageant, Sunday, Sept. 10, 2017, in Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

Not quite world peace

Miss America contestants pan Trump over Charlottesville

By ToI Staff and AFP

Miss Texas Margana Wood and eventual winner Miss North Dakota Cara Mund win plaudits for forgoing bland responses

German court drops case against ailing Auschwitz medic

By AFP

Croatia government under fire for failing to tackle pro-Nazis

By Lajla Veselica

Family home of NY State assistant AG daubed with anti-Semitic graffiti

By JTA

Founders of the Palestinian Students Scholarship Fund with Ron Robin, Professor Mouna Maroun, Sheren Falah and Dima Ghazali, previous scholarship recipients. (Courtesy)

Chicago businessmen raise funds to send Palestinians to an Israeli university

By Eric Cortellessa

Palestinian Students Scholarship Fund has a partnership with the University of Haifa, providing scholarships for underprivileged Palestinians and Israeli Arabs

Palestinian Kholoud al-Faqih, who became the Middle East's first female sharia court judge, featured in the movie 'The Judge,' released September 11, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

First Palestinian woman sharia court judge stars in Toronto festival doc

By Michel COMTE

Illustrative photo of cars being transported near the Erez Crossing into Gaza. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

With reforms, Palestinian economy could grow 7% each year — World Bank

A Jewish Father

I can ‘do Jewish’ for $40,000 a year

The cost of religious life was leading to financial ruin — the solution was to drop out

Sharon Beth-Halachmy

A happy geriatric bat mitzvah!

How one New Jersey girl’s celebration brought song and color to some seniors in Israel

Facing new hate on 9/11

When the world seems to be plunged into a dark morass, trust in a moral universe that bends towards justice

Illustrative: A Jewish couple getting married. (Justin Oberman/Creative Commons)

In good times and bad

UK Jewish couple hold ad-lib wedding after bomb threat clears hall

By Josefin Dolsten

With all 2018 guests forced to evacuate hotel, Gaby and Dan Rosehill put together an impromptu ceremony, chuppah and all

Water rises in a neighborhood after Hurricane Irma brought floodwaters to Jacksonville, Fla., Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

After Harvey and Irma, Jewish groups renew push for FEMA houses of worship aid

By Eric Cortellessa

While the Orthodox Union and American Jewish Committee want a rule change, Interfaith Alliance Rabbi Jack Moline says it would violate separation of church and state

A man looks out over storm surge flood waters from Hurricane Irma along the St. Johns River on September 11, 2017 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images/AFP)

‘Devastation’ in Florida Keys, Irma weakens

By Leila Macor and Sébastien BLANC

MK Tzachi Hanegbi during a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 15, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Defying Netanyahu loyalists, Likud minister encourages rebel party faction

‘Nobody can stop you,’ Tzachi Hanegbi tells New Likudniks, promising to block attempts to deny them votes in primaries

The INS Rahav, a Dolphin class made by German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp, sets off from the German port of Kiel toward Haifa, December 17, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Case 3000Brother-in-law, ex-aide to Likud minister named in expanding submarine case

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Members of the Reform and Conservative Jewish movements hold torah scrolls during mixed men and women's prayer at the public square in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

600 Conservative rabbis, leaders demand Netanyahu honor Western Wall deal

By JTA

Illustrative. A man's hands in handcuffs. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

East Jerusalem man suspected of raping American tourist in Bethlehem

A prototype of the Anabella breast pump developed by husband and wife Masha and Senia Waldberg (Courtesy).

Milky wayIsraeli-designed breast pump promises to suckle where others just suck

An Israeli worker walks by the offices of Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva Industries in Jerusalem, October 11, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

RegroupingTeva offloads contraceptive brand for $1.1 billion

By Shoshanna Solomon

North face of Greece's Mount Astraka covered in fog. (CC BY-SA Kkostagiannis, Wikimedia commons)

Search team rescues 2 Israelis trapped on Greek mountain

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, center, and spokesman Fawzi Barhoum attend a protest in Gaza City on July 22, 2017, against new Israeli security measures implemented at the holy site, which include metal detectors and cameras, following an attack that killed two Israeli policemen the previous week. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

In Cairo, Hamas says it’s ready for Palestinian unity government

Shimon Peres during an interview in the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, April 10, 2013. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images/JTA)

Peres memoir to be released as Israel marks year since death

By Jonah Mandel

The scene of a suspected gangland bombing in Ashkelon on June 27, 2017. (Israel Police)

Murdered bodyguard revealed as police agent who helped foil gangland hits

One of the homes set to be demolished in the Netiv Ha'avot outpost in Gush Etzion, September 2, 2016. (Gerhson Elinson/Flash90)

In partial victory for settlers, state backs bid to save 6 of 15 outpost homes

Illustrative: Doctors performing an organ transplant. (Flash90)

Kidney traffickers selling organs to Israelis go on trial in Costa Rica

By AFP and ToI Staff

A knife found on a Palestinian minor by Border Police officers at a checkpoint in the West Bank city of Hebron on September 12, 2017. (Police spokesperson)

Palestinian teen arrested with knife at Hebron checkpoint

Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN high commissioner for human rights, is pictured on a TV screen during the opening of the 36th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on September 11, 2017. (Laurent Gillieron/ Keystone via AP)

UN rights head accuses Israel of ‘serious violations’ of international law

Bram Presser of the band Yidcore blowing a shofar at a Judaica store in Melbourne, Australia. (Peter Haskin/via JTA)

Dozens of Jewish punk bands emerged, mostly in past 20 years

Punk bands prove shofar isn’t just for the High Holidays

By Michael Croland

Groups make mayhem while honoring the musical horn’s traditional uses, including excommunication ceremonies and danger warning

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)

Trump administration okay with Israel keeping aid boost from Congress

By JTA

President won’t stand in way of additional defense assistance or enforce Israeli pledge to ensure funds returned

Illustrative: Outside the US Supreme Court, after it was announced that the court will allow a limited version of US President Donald Trump's travel ban to take effect, June 26, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images/ AFP)

US Supreme Court issues temporary order upholding Trump refugee ban

By Mark Sherman

Senior Adviser Jared Kushner (l) and Ivanka Trump wait on the South Lawn of the White House during a memorial service for the 9/11 terrorist attacks September 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski)

White House lawyers reportedly discussed getting Kushner booted

David Rozenson, CEO of Beit Avi Chai in Jerusalem. (Courtesy)

'A Jewish person has all of these treasure chests'

After escaping USSR aged 7, cultural director went back to establish Jewish life

By Yaakov Schwartz

As head of Beit Avi Chai in Jerusalem, David Rozenson works to unite — and educate — Jews through varied programming

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