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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 17, 2017

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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)

Many obstacles to unity still remain

Hamas says it accepts Abbas’s reconciliation demands

By AP and ToI Staff

Gaza-based terror group says it will agree to Palestinian Authority conditions on forming joint government and holding elections

AnalysisHamas’s sudden pragmatism is a mixed blessing for Abbas

By Avi Issacharoff

Israeli soldiers light cigarettes while on patrol at the Anzac Memorial just outside the central Gaza Strip on April 13, 2016. (Corinna Kern/Flash90)

IDF looks to quit selling cigarettes on army bases

By Judah Ari Gross

Military rolling out a series of measures to douse the habit, which is harming soldiers’ operational capabilities

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman meets with settler leaders in the Dead Sea region on September 17, 2017 (Ariel Harmoni/Defense Ministry)

Live updates (closed)

Liberman praises settlement building, rejects illegal outposts

By Marissa Newman

Defense minister says construction in West Bank at highest since 2000

6:28 pm

Liberman praises settlement building, rejects illegal outposts
6:07 pm

French officials don't suspect terror in acid attack
5:36 pm

16-year-old Haredi protester moderately injured in clashes with police

Rabbinical Courts Administration Director Shimon Yaakovi speaking during an interview in his office in Jerusalem, July 27, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/via JTA)

Rabbinate expanding marriage blacklists for ‘questionable’ Jewish immigrants

By Andrew Tobin

Report says Israel is methodically blacklisting olim of Jewish heritage, who are subsequently unable to marry in the Jewish state

State commits to legislate adoption rights for gay couples

Shas MK resigns amid furor over his attendance at nephew’s gay wedding

Police probe interior minister over zoning change – report

Warning: Spoilers

Why Miri Regev should go see ‘Foxtrot’

Op-ed: Samuel Maoz’s award-winning film is bleak, not always fair to Israel, and marked by dissent and despair. Our culture minister would hate parts of it, but she should watch it

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

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)

Second suspect arrested in connection with London tube bomb

By AFP and ToI Staff

21-year-old man arrested in west London, after 18-year-old nabbed at Dover ferry departure area on Saturday

Forensics officers work next to Underground train at a platform at Parsons Green station in London on September 15, 2017. (AFP Photo/Adrian Dennis)

UK experts say London bomb didn’t detonate properly, could’ve left dozens dead

By ToI Staff and AFP

Supporters of the ultra-nationalist Turkish Homeland Party protest outside the Israeli embassy in Ankara against what they claim are attempts to establish a "second Israel" in Iraqi Kurdistan, September 15, 2017 (screenshot: Homeland Party website)

Turkish nationalists protest creation of ‘second Israel’ in Kurdistan

Israeli embassy in Ankara evacuated as demonstrators seek to portray upcoming Kurdish independence referendum as Zionist plot

An illustrative photo of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque or Sultan Ahmet Mosque (Blue Mosque) in Istanbul, Turkey. (iStock/Getty Images)

Israeli teen reported missing in Istanbul

Levi Shapiro, founder of mHealth, at the opening event in Jerusalem on September 14, 2017 (Courtesy)

Startup that detects your ills by analyzing your voice wins contest

Israel’s Healthymize, which uses AI to spot symptoms of diseases such as asthma and heart failure, takes first place in mHealth competition

A screenshot of the Infime website, which allows users to find the best-fitting underwear and swimwear (Courtesy)

How to match bikini to body, without stripping

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 71st UN general assembly debate at the UN headquarters in New York City, on September 22, 2016 (Amir Levy/FLASH90)

Netanyahu gears up for meetings with Trump, world leaders

By Raphael Ahren

PM to meet leaders of Panama, Japan and Rwanda on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, turns down Swedish request for a sit-down

Netanyahu said to refuse meeting at UN with Swedish premier

By Alexander Fulbright

‘Netanyahu to present Trump with specific plan to nix or fix Iran nuke deal’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

WH official: Peace conversations to be kept ‘mostly separate’ from UN meetings

By Eric Cortellessa

Iranian men burn Israeli and American flags during a demonstration against the execution of prominent Shiite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi authorities, on January 3, 2016, outside the Saudi embassy in Tehran. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)

Hebrew media review

Talking about Iran, for a change

By Joshua Davidovich

With Netanyahu and Trump set for a get-together, papers look to who won’t be in the room but will be at the center of their talks

Israel, US deny McMaster chewed out Israeli officials

By Sue Surkes and Tamar Pileggi

Khamenei says Tehran won’t bow to US ‘bullying’ on nuclear deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iranian Revolutionary Guard says it has ‘father of all bombs’

Dasee Berkowitz

How I snapped out of my mom boredom

The shofar blasts a clarion call that jolts you into being ‘present’ in your routine

‘We must walk barefoot to the Selichot’

An Iraqi Jew in New Mexico remembers midnight prayer in the ghetto

Doing Jewish — at shul

The shareholders of Judaism focus on the synagogue, Jewish education, kashrut — and the earthly pressure of funding it all

The right to ride the bus on Shabbat

The divide between those who can get away on weekends and those who can’t is a matter of social injustice

Will ‘A Jewish Father’ have Jewish Grandchildren?

Pulling kids out of day school to cut expenses could have a devastating long-term cost

The ultra-Orthodox draft

Most Haredim belong in the IDF; or they insult the Torah study of those few elite scholars who should be exempt

Mark Zuckerberg with his daughter Maxima in front of the Shabbat candles, September 15, 2017. (Facebook)

Cup runneth over

Mark Zuckerberg gives family heirloom kiddush cup to daughter

In a Facebook post, world’s richest Jew says he’s passing down his great-grandfather’s ritual goblet to 2-year-old Maxima

More Headlines

Culture Minister Miri Regev speaks to a crowd at the Jerusalem Film Festival on July 8, 2016, and receives boos in return (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Regev vows to revolutionize state funding for films

An Israel Railways train (illustrative photo: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

New Karmiel-Tel Aviv train line to open, with access for Israeli Arab towns

Mitchell Flint standing in front of his P51 Mustang fighter plane in Israel in 1948. (JTA/Tom Tugend)

1923-2017US aviator who helped form Israeli Air Force dies at 94

By AP and ToI Staff

Avi Gabbay at a press conference on July 11, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Labor head: Shaked-Bennett proposal will ‘destroy independence of judiciary’

Protesters are engulfed in flames as they throw petrol bombs at police during an anti-fascist rally, commemorating the killing of Greek rap singer Pavlos Fyssas, in Athens, September 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

Anti-fascist protesters gather at anniversary of Greek rapper’s murder

A picture taken on September 14, 2017 shows bottles of wine with pictures of Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin and Stalin at a shop in the center of Rome. (AFP Photo/Alberto Pizzoli)

Italian parliament floats legislation to ban fascist propaganda

Illustrative image of a British Airways plane at London's Heathrow Airport (Panhard/Wikimedia Commons)

British Airways flight evacuated in Paris after bogus threat

By Angela Charlton

The IDF ambulance attacked by Druze Israeli residents in the Golan Heights as it ferried Syrian war casualties for medical treatment in Israel, June 22, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Two Israelis convicted of attacking ambulance carrying Syrians

Detail from vintage post card from The Green Park hotel in Bournemouth, England (Courtesy)

It was the place to see and be seen, and be embraced by Jews

‘Greatest Name in Jewish Hotels’ captured in documentary film on British Jewry

By Renee Ghert-Zand

With its class and kosher food, The Green Park was the seaside vacation destination for post-war England’s upwardly mobile religiously observant

Sarah Chandler leads a twist on the kapparot ritual in which participants hug chickens rather than swinging them over their heads. (Courtesy of Chandler/via JTA)

Observance 2.0

Hug a chicken and 4 other twists on traditional High Holidays rituals

Illustrative: Scott Sokol, head of school at MetroWest Jewish Day School in Framingham, Massachusetts, leads morning circle, one of several camp-like elements the school has adopted. (Courtesy of MetroWest Jewish Day School/via JTA)

Jewish education'It’s taking Jewish experiences and making them exciting'

Why Jewish day schools are trying to be more like summer camp

Studies show that strong bonds with mentors and project-based learning cultivate independent students who are less prone to stress

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