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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 20, 2017

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses world leaders at the 72nd UN General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 19, 2017. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Netanyahu slams Iran deal in fiery UN speech, urges world to ‘fix it or nix it’

By Raphael Ahren and Alexander Fulbright

Praising Trump and hailing Israel’s world standing, PM warns Iran faces ‘mortal peril’ for tangling with Israel, says Iranian ‘curtain of tyranny and terror’ descending over region

‘Flawed’ Iran nuke deal must be reworked, Tillerson says

By AFP and ToI Staff

Full text of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s UN speech

US will ‘lose world support’ if it withdraws from nuke deal — Rouhani

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses world leaders at the 72nd UN General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Timothy A. Clary)

Analysis

With US president in his corner, Netanyahu brings new swagger to his UN address

Ridiculing the UN, hailing Israel’s growing circle of friends, and appealing to Iranians over the heads of their regime, PM spoke like a leader who feels his time has finally come

AnalysisWhy Trump’s UN speech thrilled Netanyahu — for the moment, anyway

AnalysisUrging end to Iran deal, Netanyahu envisions march of the sanctions

By Raphael Ahren

AnalysisOmitting Mideast peace from speech, Trump opts again for the unorthodox

By Eric Cortellessa

Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority president, addresses the 72nd UN General Assembly on September 20, 2017, at the United Nations in New York. (AFP PHOTO / ANGELA WEISS)

General Assembly, Day 2

Live: Rouhani and Abbas have addressed General Assembly

By AFP and ToI Staff

Wednesday’s session comes a day after Trump and Netanyahu ripped into Iran, barely mentioned Palestinians

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (C) leaves the parliament after proposing his new cabinet, in Tehran, Iran, August 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran in UN spotlight as Trump threatens nuclear deal

Brazilian President Michel Temer, left, is greeted by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres before a meeting Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Nations start signing nuke ban treaty opposed by big powers

By Edith M. Lederer

Netanyahu lauds most 'courageous' UN speech in decades

In UN debut, Trump blasts ‘murderous’ Iran, says may have to destroy N. Korea

By Alexander Fulbright

US president condemns Tehran’s support for terror, calls nuke deal ’embarrassing’; slams ‘Rocket man’ Kim and his treatment of Jewish-American Warmbier; no mention of Palestinians

US President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd Annual UN General Assembly in New York on September 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Full text of US President Trump’s UN speech

Netanyahu hails Trump’s ‘courageous’ UN speech blasting Iran

By Alexander Fulbright

Iran’s Zarif blasts Trump’s ‘ignorant hate speech’ at UN

By AFP

Soldiers in the IDF Home Front Command's search and rescue units carry a stretcher during a large-scale exercise in Zikim near the Gaza border on July 3, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF to send 50-person delegation to earthquake-hit Mexico

By Judah Ari Gross

Home Front Command engineers will assess integrity of buildings hit by tremor; small number of rescuers will assist local efforts

A man is pulled out of the rubble alive following a quake in Mexico City on September 19, 2017.(AFP PHOTO / Ronaldo SCHEMIDT)

Mexico quake death toll surges to 248, including 21 children

By AFP and ToI Staff

Volunteers search a building that collapsed after an earthquake, in the Roma neighborhood of Mexico City, Tuesday, September 19, 2017. (AP/Eduardo Verdugo)

Powerful earthquake rocks central Mexico, killing over 100

By AP

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)

In response to court, state shuts door on Western Wall deal

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Asked to rethink freeze on implementing 2016 compromise agreement, and whether it could be forced to implement the plan it agreed to, government answers with a no and a no

Orthodox Jews try to prevent a group of American Conservative and Reform rabbis and the Women of the Wall movement members from bringing Torah scrolls into the Western Wall compound during a protest march against the government’s failure to deliver a new prayer space, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, November 2, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Sanders, 6 other Jewish US senators urge PM to implement Western Wall deal

By JTA

President Reuven Rivlin issues a Rosh Hashanah greeting to world Jewry in a video released September 19, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

In Rosh Hashanah video, Rivlin urges Diaspora to fight terror, racism together

Michael Andron blows the shofar as he prepares for Rosh Hashanah, as his wife Lillian watches as they use a battery powered lantern to illuminate the room at their home, Tuesday, Sept.19, 2017, in Miami. (AP/Alan Diaz)

Rosh Hashanah'We just want to get in touch with the infinite'

After Irma, High Holy Days take on new meaning for Florida Jews

By Rachel Zoll and TERRY SPENCER

Storm’s awe-inspiring strength, havoc-wreaking damage and diaspora-creating evacuation inspires reflection and community rebuilding

‘Extremely violent’ Hurricane Maria pummels Puerto Rico

In Puerto Rico, synagogues cancel High Holiday services ahead of Hurricane Maria

By Larry Luxner

250 volunteer shofar blowers, 300 prayer leaders to provide services in Israel

By JTA

Sasson Gabai, left, hands an award to film director Samuel Maoz at the 2017 Ophir Awards ceremony on September 19, 2017. (Flash90)

Best actor Ashkenazi hails 'most Israeli film in years'

‘Foxtrot’ film sweeps Ophir Awards as politics stay in spotlight

By Jessica Steinberg

Movie about grief and IDF wins eight prizes, including best picture, actor and director at Israeli version of Oscars, as speakers blast absent Regev

Culture Minister Miri Regev in a mock TV address posted on her Facebook page and timed to coincide with the Israel Film Academy's Ophir Film Awards to which she was not invited, September 19, 2017. (YouTube screenshot)

Barred from awards, minister uses Facebook pulpit to slam film industry

Illustrative: A Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail, October 2011 (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90/File)

'First came the beatings...'

Tortured by the PA for foiling terror, Palestinian finds remedy in Israeli court

Former Shin Bet agent Walid, one of 52 men who won an unprecedented lawsuit against Ramallah over horrific abuse in West Bank jails, recounts a nightmarish story of captivity

IDF seizes M-16s, pistols, pipe bombs in overnight West Bank raids

By Judah Ari Gross

9 East Jerusalem teenagers charged in firebombings, stonings

Israel announces West Bank, Gaza closure for Rosh Hashanah

By Judah Ari Gross

Hamas Chief Ismail Haniyeh flashes the victory gesture upon his arrival at the Rafah border crossing, from Egypt after reconciliation talks with the Fatah movement mediated by Egyptian intelligence, in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 19, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

Hamas invites Abbas to resume control of Gaza

Terror group head says he will dismantle committee that had been governing Gaza in bid to show seriousness of rapprochement effort

UN chief: Two-state solution remains the ‘only way forward’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Egypt’s Sissi makes impromptu plea at UN for Israeli-Palestinian peace

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Quietly, Israeli high-tech companies contract Gaza engineers

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 72nd session of the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York September 19, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Jewel SAMAD)

Hebrew media review

Speech impediment

By Joshua Davidovich

Netanyahu and Trump’s speeches at the UN may have been fine, but with pundits trying to figure out who the intended audience was, it’s not clear what message got across

US President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd Annual UN General Assembly in New York on September 19, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Jewel SAMAD)

AnalysisTrump’s fiery UN address redefines US role in the world

By Andrew BEATTY

Illustrative: A hangman's noose (iStock)

Crowd cheers as Iran hangs man for rape, murder of young girl

By AFP

Held in public ‘to restore citizens’ sense of security,’ execution also shown on state broadcaster’s website

Mahvash Sabet (Facebook)

Iran frees one of seven Baha’i members jailed for spying for Israel

By AFP

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara sign the guest book during a visit at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 11, 2017 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

New Year's survey

Most Israelis don’t believe Netanyahus’ claims of innocence

Nonplussed by Iran threat, Israelis are optimistic, satisfied with life, see cost of living as more worrying than security situation, want ultra-Orthodox drafted into army

Arnon Milchan, left, and Benjamin Netanyahu on March 28, 2005. (Flash90)

PM tried to help Hollywood mogul secure interest in Channel 2 — report

Rosh Hashanah is not the same in the US

When you’re an Israeli outside of Israel, the real challenge is taking Jewish secularism for granted

Er, Grandfather-in-heaven, if you please

The very existence of Judgement Day expresses God’s confidence that people can achieve more than they already have

We’re all open-minded…until we’re not

How ‘A Jewish Father’ led the way out of the echo chamber

Ori Hanan Weisberg

Will Israel be a light unto the Rohingya?

May 5778 see religious and secular Jews stand together against the aiding and abetting of crimes against humanity.

Betsalel Steinhart

Shanah tovah cards and social media

It’s not that they’re interesting (the new year wishes are really always the same), but that they are sent…and received

Miles of color for those lost to suicide

Everyone deserves to walk out of the darkness and into a new day

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Col. Liran Cohen, head of the IDF's air defense school, left, and Col. David Shank, of the US 10th Army Air & Missile Defense Command, cut the ribbon to open the first American military base in Israel, inside the Mashabim Air Base, on September 18, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Contradicting IDF, US says it didn’t establish military base in Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Former Soviet missile defense forces officer Stanislav Petrov poses, at his home in Fryazino, Moscow region, Russia, on August 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin/File)

‘The man who saved the world’ from nuclear war dies at 77

By Vladimir Isachenikov

Kenneth James Gleason is escorted by police to a waiting police car in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Louisiana man with Hitler speech accused of killing 2 black men

By Michael Kunzelman

Twin brothers Brandon-Lee Thulsie and Tony-Lee Thulsie (Facebook)

S. African twins put on terror list for plot to bomb Jewish targets, US embassy

By AFP

Ambulances and police are seen at the at Parsons Green subway station in London after a bombing on the London Underground on September 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

British police arrest 2 more suspects in subway bomber hunt

By AP

Rabbi Marc Schneier, right, and Imam Shamsi Ali (AP Richard Drew, via JTA)

Marching togetherIn first, rabbi to lead Sunday’s New York City Muslim Day Parade

By JTA

Rasmea Odeh stands outside the Theodore Levin US Courthouse in Detroit, on August 17, 2017, for a final court hearing before she was deported for concealing her convictions in two Jerusalem bombings. (Carlos Osorio/AP)

Slamming ‘unjust’ US ruling, Palestinian terrorist deported to Jordan

Illustrative: A Belarus' military helicopter flies during the Zapad military exercises, near the town of Ruzhany, some 235 km (147 miles) south-west of Minsk, on September 17, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Sergei Grits)

Russian army helicopter accidentally fires at spectators

By AP

Illustrative: The Wheaton College football field in Wheaton, Illinois. (Courtesy)

Football players at US Christian college charged in anti-Muslim beating

By AFP

Saudi men trying out smartphones at a conference. (YouTube screenshot)

Good callSaudi Arabia to unblock WhatsApp, Skype

By AFP

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