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What Matters Most On Friday, September 15, 2017

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Armed British police officers stand on duty outside Parsons Green underground tube station in west London on September 15, 2017. (AFP/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

22 injured as blast rocks London Underground in terror attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Police forensics officers works next to an underground train at a platform at Parsons Green underground station in west London on September 15, 2017, following an explosion, later claimed by Islamic State, which injured 29 people. (AFP/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

Trump suggests UK police should have stopped attack by ‘loser terrorist’

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: French police officers stand near the scene where French soldiers were hit and injured by a vehicle in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret near Paris, France, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

Knife-wielding man attacks soldier in Paris, no injuries

By AFP

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

Interview'We're in a unique position in America'

Rahm Emanuel to US Jews: ‘This is our moment’ to defend the values that aided us

By David Horovitz

Mayor’s grandfather arrived in Chicago from Eastern Europe in 1917. A century later, with immigrants being targeted, he says American Jews must speak out

Trump signs Congressional resolution condemning white supremacists

By AFP

Jewish groups that snubbed Trump not invited to High Holidays conference call

Trump again blames both sides for Charlottesville violence

By JTA

Huma Abedin at the 2017 CFDA Fashion Awards at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York CIty, June 5, 2017. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images via JTA)

Anthony Weiner’s wife pleads for lenient sentencing for his sex crime conviction

By JTA

In letter to federal judge, Huma Abedin cites disgraced congressman’s love for the couple’s son

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, right, and his Syrian counterpart Bashar Assad are seen during a meeting in Minsk, Belarus, Monday, July 26, 2010. (AP/Nikolai Petrov, BelTA)

Under the radar, Belarus seen quietly helping Assad boost missile program

By Judah Ari Gross

Analyst Ronen Solomon links Minsk to Syrian military facility allegedly bombed by Israel this month

Israeli official denies Moscow rebuffed plea to keep Iran away from border

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Bin Laden’s son calls for jihad in Syria

By AFP

Turkish media claims Israel is sending Jewish Kurds back to Kurdistan

By Sue Surkes and AFP

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz holds a press conference, after being appointed as head of the country's center-right People's Party (OeVP) on May 14, 2017, in Vienna, Austria. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

Austria’s ‘wonder boy’ on course for election win at just 31

By Simon Sturdee

Sebastian Kurz, described as country’s most talented politician since Haider, follows hard right line on immigration

Top candidate of Germany's anti-Islam, anti-immigration AfD party for upcoming general elections, Alexander Gauland (C), attends an election campaign event in Frankfurt/Oder, eastern Germany, on September 11, 2017. (AFP/Odd Andersen)

Anger after German AfD leader urges ‘pride’ in wartime troops

By AFP

Polish President Andrzej Duda at the presidential palace, Warsaw, April 10, 2016. (Mateusz Wlodarczyk/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)

German, Polish presidents eye ‘calm’ talks on war reparations

By AFP

Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) subway station stands in Manhattan on June 29, 2017 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via JTA)

NY Jewish women mistaken for Muslims assaulted in suspected hate crime

By JTA

Mother and daughter punched and spat at; one told to ‘get out of my country you dirty Muslim’

Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett (R) with Jewish Home MK and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked in the Knesset plenum, on November 16, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shaked, Bennett propose constitutional law to circumvent Supreme Court

By Marissa Newman

Jewish Home leaders say Basic Law would allow Knesset to re-legislate bills struck down by top court; comes after court disqualifies new laws in series of rulings

Hebrew media reviewWho turns over the overturners?

By Joshua Davidovich

Netanyahu supports law to allow cabinet to declare war

By Raphael Ahren

Changing party charter, Gabbay deepens his control over Labor

By Marissa Newman

Taylor Force, murdered in Israel by a Palestinian terrorist in March 2016, gave his name to the Taylor Force Act, legislation proposing to halt US aid to the Palestinian Authority until the latter stops paying stipends to terrorists and their families. (Facebook)

Trump administration declares support for Taylor Force bill

By Richard Lardner

Bill would suspend US support to Palestinian Authority until it stops paying stipends to terrorists and their families

Screenshot from an Iranian TV report purporting to show a new Hamas tunnel that reaches into Israeli territory, June 28, 2015. (Screenshot/Al-Alam)

2 Hamas fighters die in separate Gaza tunnel collapses

By AFP and ToI Staff

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)

Defense officials disagree with PM over canceling Iran deal — report

Netanyahu wants Trump to revoke accord in October, but Israeli intelligence officials reportedly fear repercussions

Iran relaunches space ambitions after uproar over satellites

By Eric RANDOLPH and Ali Noorani

Trump says Iran breaking ‘spirit’ of nuclear deal

By AFP

Iran: US ‘seeking excuses’ to destroy nuclear deal

By AFP and ToI Staff

Pedestrians walk in front of a large video screen in Tokyo broadcasting a news report about North Korea's missile test that passed over Japan on September 15, 2017. (AFP Photo/Toru Yamanaka)

US nuclear commander ‘assumes’ North Koreans tested H-bomb

By Robert Burns

General John Hyten, head of Strategic Command, comes close to confirming Pyongyang’s advanced nuclear capabilities

TV monitors show the J-Alert (warning siren) at an office of Kyodo News in Tokyo Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. South Korea's military said North Korea fired an unidentified missile Friday from its capital Pyongyang that flew over Japan before landing in the northern Pacific Ocean. (Toshiyuki Kuwana/Kyodo News via AP)

US urges China, Russia to act after ‘reckless’ N. Korea missile launch

In this July 28, 2017, file photo distributed by the North Korean government on Saturday, July 29, 2017, shows what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

North Korea fires unidentified missile over Japan

By AFP

Alberto Nisman, the late prosecutor who investigated the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center, talks to journalists in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina experts said to confirm Alberto Nisman was murdered

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

State investigators reportedly establish that prosecutor investigating deadly AMIA Jewish center bombing did not commit suicide

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto meet in Mexico City, September 14, 2017 (Avi Ohayun/GPO)

In Mexico, Netanyahu seeks a ‘pardon’ — for not visiting sooner

By Raphael Ahren

Months after sparking anger by tweeting support for Trump’s border wall, PM hails Mexicans as a ‘great people’

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 71st session of United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 22, 2016. (AFP/Jewel Samad)

Netanyahu to meet with US Jewish leaders on sidelines of UN

By JTA

Eli Mordechai showing off a crocodile-skin kippah at his Fifth Quarter store in Jerusalem, Sept. 12, 2017. (Screenshot from Facebook via JTA)

A luxury kippa for that Russian oligarch look

Why Israel went wild over $1,000-plus crocodile-skin kippas

By Andrew Tobin

Exotic animal leather Judaica sold in Jerusalem raised ire of animal rights activists, confiscated by Nature and Parks Authority

Elul and the shipwrecked sailors

How a Nova Scotia ocean cliff burial site inspires one-way acts of kindness

In the desert, I can see all the stars

A month after arriving in Israel, everything — clouds, roads, barbed wire, Eilat — is breathtaking

Brenda Stein Dzaldov

Me, my daughter, and IDF Heblish

When learning the army’s lingo is a labor of love

When we return to God, we’re never alone

Turn yourself in the way you mean to go, and the Divine will help you get there (Nitzavim-Vayelech)

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New York Assemblywoman Nily Rozic. (YouTube screenshot)

Israel-born NY politician gets hate mail for bid to rename Trump Park

By JTA

In this photo taken Saturday, July 2017, South African musician Johnny Clegg, middle, and the dancers perform during "The Final Journey" concert at the Grand Arena in Cape Town, South Africa. (AP Photo)

Final journeySouth Africa’s Jewish Zulu Johnny Clegg begins last international tour

By Christopher Torchia

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin stands in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, during an event for President Donald Trump to sign a memorandum calling for a trade investigation of China. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Secure marriageUS Treasury chief sought Air Force jet for European honeymoon

By AFP

Former defense minister Moshe Ya'alon speaks at a cultural event in Ra'anana on July 15, 2017. (Flash90)

Ex-defense minister insists he partly blames Israel for terror attack

By Stuart Winer

One of the olive trees in the Palestinian village of Burin that was uprooted by Israeli settlers on September 13, 2017. Spray-painted on the trunk is the Hebrew for "administrative" in reference to the administrative orders issued against hilltop youth. (Courtesy)

Settlers uproot olive trees in village south of Nablus, Palestinians say

Lebanese-French director Ziad Douieri (R) poses with actor Adel Karam at the pre-screening of "The Insult" in Beirut on September 12, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO)

Old wounds‘The Insult’ takes on taboos of Lebanon’s civil war

By Rita El Hage

Part of the route of the Bible Marathon, from Rosh Ha’ayin to Shiloh. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israel protests international marathon body’s exclusion of West Bank race

By AP

Jewish protesters outside an event featuring right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro at the Hebraica club in Rio, April 3, 2017. (Hebraica)

Leftist Jewish youth groups in Rio boycott Israeli folk dance festival

By Marcus M. Gilban

Illustrative: Protesters shout before conservative Jewish pundit Ben Shapiro speaks, on the campus of the University of California Berkeley, on September 14, 2017 (AP Photo/Josh Edelson)

Jewish conservative’s Berkeley talk held under tight police security

By SUDHIN THANAWALA

Stosh Cotler, CEO of Bend The Arc speaks on TJC's 'The Salon' in 2014. (Screen capture: YouTube)

US Muslim group honors Jews for empowering Muslims

By JTA

Illustrative image of participants in the Unity Rising Spirit Festival, 2014. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Man dies in fall from military building after music festival

Illustrative: Hapoel Beersheba's Israeli midfielder Daniel Einbinder reacts after scoring during the UEFA Europa League football match between Hapoel Beer-Sheva FC and FC Lugano on September 14, 2017 at the Turner Stadium in Beersheba. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

Hapoel Beersheba defeats Swiss team Lugano 2-1 in Europa League

Henry Cavill portrays Superman in 'Man of Steel.' (AP/Warner Bros. Pictures, Clay Enos)

Superman confronts a new villain: White supremacists

By AFP

In latest edition of Action Comics, which has published his adventures since 1938, ‘Man of Steel’ stops a jobless factory worker from killing immigrants

Facebook called out for enabling ads aimed at ‘Jew haters’

The three children of former president Shimon Peres at a memorial service for marking a year since his death, September 14, 2017. (Josef Avi Yair Engel)

Shimon Peres, 1923-2016

One year after death, Peres remembered as pioneer and incessant dreamer

By Raoul Wootliff

At series of memorial events, world dignitaries salute the former president’s dreams for peace and 65-year contribution to Israel

Then-defense minister Shimon Peres (c), along with former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (l), meets the hostages released from Entebbe as they land in Israel on July 4, 1976. (Uri Herzl Tzchik/IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Defense Ministry Archives)

In audio released year after his death, Peres greets Entebbe hostages, rescuers

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