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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 14, 2017

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President Reuven Rivlin and ex-British PM Tony Blair shake hands during a ceremony marking one year since the death of late former president Shimon Peres, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, on September 14, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live Updates (closed)

US Treasury announces new Iran sanctions

Netanyahu backs bill strengthening security cabinet; Russia said to refuse Israeli plea to keep Iran-backed forces well away from border; Peres honored in state memorial

7:17 pm

Bennett, Shaked announce plan that could limit Supreme Court's powers
5:55 pm

US Treasury announces new Iran sanctions
5:22 pm

PM backs bill strengthening role of security cabinet, ability to go to war

Israeli soldiers seen returning after a training drill in the fields near the Israeli border with Gaza on July 24, 2014. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90/ File)

In ‘revolution,’ IDF boosts combat soldiers’ pay to 40% of minimum wage

By Judah Ari Gross

Army touts extra benefits for troops to counteract shrinking motivation to serve in fighting units

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox IDF soldiers at the Peles Military Base in the Jordan Valley. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Liberman says all must serve, as haredim protest ruling against draft dodging

By Stuart Winer and AFP

Israeli soldiers take a shower at a deployment area near the border with the Gaza Strip on August 2, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reivewPeople of the boot

By Joshua Davidovich

Apple's iPhone X with facial recognition (Courtesy)

Is Israeli tech behind iPhone X’s new facial recognition feature?

By Shoshanna Solomon

Apple mum as TV report says Israel team ‘partially responsible’; reports in February said Apple bought Israel’s Realface, a facial recognition technology pioneer

Cornell and Technion institute open high-tech campus in NY

By Josefin Dolsten

Israeli tech chosen to kill off invasive mussel species at Hoover Dam

Tech leadersTech chiefs get seat in ranking of most influential Israelis

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a welcoming ceremony in his honor, as he arrives in Monrovia, Liberia for an official state visit, on June 4, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Interview

Top diplomat: Africa summit’s cancellation actually a sign of Israel’s success

By Raphael Ahren

Foreign Ministry director Yuval Rotem says Arab pressure that prompted the scrapping of major event in Togo paradoxically shows Jerusalem is on the right track

Professional cyclists ride near the Jaffa Gate to Jerusalem's Old City in a race organized by the Jerusalem Municipality, on November 26, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Top cycling race slated for Israel — biggest sporting event ever held here

Tag Meir founder Gadi Gvaryahu gives bouquet of flowers to Mervat Igbaria, a university student who was mistaken for a terrorist while riding on a bus to Beersheba, September 2017. (Gabriel Carrol/Times of Israel)

Wrongly accused

When police were told this student’s phone was a detonator, a nightmare ensued

As she rode the bus to university, a fellow passenger mistook Arab Israeli Mervat Igbaria’s phone for a bombing device; now, strangers hope a belated apology can help soothe scars

Settler teen indicted for pepper spraying Arab bus driver

By Alexander Fulbright

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos shake hands during a ceremony to sign agreements at the Narino palace in Bogota, September 13, 2017. (AFP/Raul Arboleda)

Colombian president thanks Netanyahu for Israeli help clearing landmines

By Raphael Ahren

In Bogota, the two leaders sign tourism cooperation agreement, announce relaunch of defunct innovation fund

Police chief confirms Hollywood mogul gave ‘significant’ testimony in PM probes

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran’s president to address UN amid debate over nuclear deal

By AP

Israeli envoy to preside over UN General Assembly when Netanyahu delivers speech

By Stuart Winer

A Jewish Father

A Jewish Father responds to his critics

It seems my post about not being able to afford to live Jewishly hit a nerve…

Jill Baker Shames

I’m in a disaster zone? No, YOU are

While Florida relatives hunkered through the hurricane, I rode it out from the safety of quiet Israel

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Is Tufts a bad place for Jews?

The left has an Israel problem; that doesn’t necessarily mean colleges have an anti-Semitism problem

The next BDS battlefield

‘Socially Responsible Investing’ is being used to block funding of Israel-linked companies

Gabriel Birnbaum, senior researcher at Historical Dictionary Project at Israel's Academy of the Hebrew Language in Jerusalem, shows an old Hebrew text on his personal computer at his office in Jerusalem, August 23, 2017. (AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA)

Epic quest is documenting the ‘miracle’ of the Hebrew language

Researchers are painstakingly building lexicon of every word in ancient tongue through to its modern incarnation

A Palestinian woman ironing clothes during the few hours of electricity supply that Gaza receives each day, at Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, July 31, 2017. (AFP/ SAID KHATIB)

Israel threatened to charge PA for Gaza power, to avert humanitarian crisis

By Avi Issacharoff

Defense official sent warning to Palestinian minister sum will be deducted from the taxes Israel collects on Ramallah’s behalf

Egypt said to offer formula for Hamas-Israel prisoner swap talks

Police arrest member of Jerusalem terror group

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Court rules state had no authority to revoke Hamas lawmakers’ residency

A full size replica with original parts of an "Aggregat 4 (V2) liquid fuel rocket" on display at the Technical Historical Museum on the site of the Nazi largest weapon development complex in Peenemuende, northern Germany, on August 18, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ)

German birthplace of Nazis’ V2 rocket embraces far-right

By Deborah Cole

Tiny town of Peenemuende, population 250, has no refugees, but plurality of residents voting for anti-migrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party nonetheless

Ax used on Trotsky, Nazi fake money printer, among donations to US spy museum

By Deb Riechmann

German right-wing party on course to enter parliament

By Frank Jordans and CHRISTOPH NOELTING

More Headlines

Shas MK Yigal Guetta in Jerusalem, February 16, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shas sages said ‘divided’ over resignation of gay wedding MK

Beitar Jerusalem head coach Eli Cohen, center, flanked by Gabriel Kadiev, left, and Zaur Sadayev at a press conference, January 31, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Beitar soccer club adviser quits after saying he wouldn’t sign Muslim player

Stephen Schwarzman (Screenshot)

Jewish Trump ally hounded online as ‘Nazi’ after Charlottesville

By JTA

Thomas Lopez-Pierre on the show 'Meet the Faith' in BET studios, New York City, 2006. (Johnny Nunez/WireImage/Getty Images via JTA)

NY council candidate who called out ‘greedy Jewish landlords’ loses vote

By JTA

The Andalusian Orchestra Ashdod hosts a free outdoor concert at the Tel Aviv port in the days in between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, 2017 (Courtesy Andalusian Orchestra)

Sorry not sorryWith ear to High Holidays, concert series serves up penitential hits

By Jessica Steinberg

Setting the stage with Eviatar Banai at a sunset Mekudeshet concert (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Banai and the bandEviatar Banai plays to the sunset at the Tower of David

By Jessica Steinberg

Russian-Ukrainian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin, seen in a September 2014 video. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israeli blogger, pardoned by Azerbaijan, lands in Tel Aviv

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Five residents of a Hollywood Hills, Florida Rehabilitation Center died and many more were evacuated after Hurricane Irma cut power for several days, September 13, 2017. (Screenshot)

Five dead at Florida nursing home after Irma cuts power

By AP and ToI Staff

Belarusian army vehicles prepare for war games at an undisclosed location in Belarus on Sept. 11, 2017. (Vayar Military Agency photo via AP)

Rattling neighbors, Russia launches war games on NATO’s eastern flank

Shloime Newmark, Rabbi Michoel Alterman and Joel Alpert catch their breath while responding to an emergency Sept. 11 at Beth Jacob Atlanta: When the power went out, hundreds of pounds of food needed to be moved quickly from the synagogue refrigerators into a cooler truck provided by Quality Kosher. (Atlanta Jewish Times)

From our partnerFlorida evacuees weather Irma in Atlanta synagogues

By Sarah Moosazadeh

Ralph Friedman in 'Street Justice: The Bronx' on the Discovery Channel. (Courtesy of the Discovery Channel via JTA)

2,000 arrests; 255 awards; cut by knives, razors; never shot

From New York’s toughest cop to reality TV star

By Curt Schleier

Starting next week, ‘Street Justice: The Bronx’ traces the career of Ralph Friedman, NY’s most decorated officer and a member of the NYPD Shomrim Society

Many young American Jews feel their communities have turned their backs on their mental health disorders. (Miriam Jacobson/JW)

From our partner

Young Jews demand communities lift shroud of silence on mental health disorders

By Hannah Dreyfus

The New York Jewish Week: First in a three-part series on how Jewish communities address — or ignore — addiction, depression and suicide

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