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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 27, 2017

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'Palestine is ready...to advance our core values as nations'

In blow to Israel, Interpol admits Palestine as full member

By Raphael Ahren

75 of 133 voting member states back Ramallah’s membership bid in secret ballot, despite vociferous Israeli and US objections

The leaders of the Interpol General Assembly posing at the Beijing National Convention Center, Sept. 26, 2017. (Lintao Zhang/Pool/Getty Images)

Convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled speaks at an event in Beirut in January 2009. (CC BY 2.0, Sebastian Baryli, Wikipedia)

Palestinian terrorist hijacker to speak about women’s rights in EU parliament

By JTA

A replica of the Arch of Titus, handed to UNESCO on September 26, 2017 (Erez Lichtfeld)

Arch criticismIn unsubtle critique, Israel gifts UNESCO Arch of Titus replica

By Raphael Ahren

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opens the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on September 26, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Gali Tibbon)

‘PM to settler leaders: US told Israel not to be a pig on settlement building’

By Jacob Magid and Alexander Fulbright

In meeting with Yesha Council, Netanyahu says DC will tolerate limited construction, won’t distinguish between blocs and isolated settlements; Trump to present peace plan soon

'He jumped on the terrorist and got a bullet in the chest'

In Abu Ghosh, bereaved father says he’s ‘proud’ of son slain protecting Har Adar

Yousef Ottman remembered as friendly and ‘understanding’; was saving money for university and dreamed of becoming a dentist

Friends and family carry the body of Youssef Ottman during his funeral in Abu Ghosh, September 26, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hailed as heroes, victims of Har Adar terror attack buried

By Raoul Wootliff, Tamar Pileggi and Dov Lieber

EU slams ‘reprehensible’ Hamas praise for Har Adar terror attack

By Alexander Fulbright

Hebrew media reviewFighting terror with brooms and hammers

By Joshua Davidovich

Palestinian laborers sit outside the Har Adar settlement after they were removed from the area by soldiers following a deadly terror attack at the entrance to the community on September 26, 2017. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

'Events like this definitely carry a lasting impact'

After deadly attack by cleaner, some in Har Adar rethink Palestinian hires

Many in dovish settlement say they want to maintain friendly relationship with laborers from nearby villages, but admit some things may need to change after terror shooting

Security forces map Har Adar terrorist’s home for demolition

By Alexander Fulbright

Israeli security forces arrest brothers of Har Adar terrorist

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Liberman’s party revives death penalty for terrorists bill after Har Adar attack

By Alexander Fulbright

Elor Azaria in the courtroom at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, August 8, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

IDF chief shaves 4 months off Hebron shooter’s 1.5-year sentence

By Judah Ari Gross

Elor Azaria, convicted of manslaughter for killing incapacitated assailant, to serve total of 14 months in prison

Illustrative photo: Soldiers in the mixed gender Cheetah Battalion participate in a squad exercise in southern Israel on November 16, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flickr)

Soldier to be jailed for 27 months for raping female comrade

By Judah Ari Gross

Rabbi Sharon Brous of Ikar, an independent congregation, delivering an invocation at the inauguration of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, July 2017. (Courtesy of Ikar)

In Trump era, vexed questions of rabbinical responsibility

Why some rabbis used High Holiday sermons to bash Trump, and others demurred

Whether to use the bimah as a bully pulpit has become a particularly burning issue in the first year of a spectacularly divisive presidency

Is Bernie Sanders the Democrats’ new foreign policy maven?

Illustrative. An IDF self-propelled howitzer.
(Israel Defense Forces)

2 IDF soldiers killed, 4 injured in training accident

By Judah Ari Gross

Self-propelled howitzer overturns during nighttime exercise in Golan Heights; military launches probe

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech during a celebration of the 50 years of Jewish settlement in the West Bank and Golan Heights, at commemoration event in the Gush Etzion settlement bloc on September 27, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

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Netanyahu vows not to uproot Jews, Arabs from West Bank

By Tamar Pileggi

At controversial pro-settlement event, PM says southern settlement bloc will ‘always be part of Israel’

6:27 pm

Israel scrambles military helicopters to Jordan border
6:21 pm

Neo-Nazi group founder pleads guilty to explosives charges
6:19 pm

Palestinian arrested after crossing Gaza border into Israel

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Conan and ‘Transparent’ visit Israel

Bland treatment of the Arab-Israeli conflict plus a whole lot of comedy equals sublime publicity for the Jewish state

Rabbi Jack Cohen

Guilt is not a Jewish requirement

When we say ‘I’m a bad Jew,’ we lose the opportunity to reconnect to the goodness in ourselves

Brent Chaim Spodek

Jewish resistance, body and soul

‘When they kick in your front door, how you gonna come? Hands on your head or on the trigger of your gun?’

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

The danger of religious exhaustion

This Yom Kippur, we must undergo an ‘ideological repentance,’ and change not only our deeds, but our attitudes

This doesn't fit with 'long way Germany has come' since WWII

Rise of nationalist AfD cause for ‘great concern,’ Israeli envoy says

By Raphael Ahren

Ambassador Jeremy Issacharoff highlights ‘series of anti-Semitic statements’ by Alternative for Germany leaders

Ambassador Jeremy Issacharoff on March 20, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)

What you need to know about the far-right Alternative for Germany party

By Toby Axelrod

Britain’s Labour Party vows to expel anti-Semites, but leaves definition vague

By JTA and ToI Staff

From our partnerUK Jewish Labour Movement: Kick out members questioning Holocaust

Then-Supreme Court chief justice Miriam Naor speaks at a ceremony for newly appointed judges at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on July 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court head doubles down on skipping ‘political’ pro-settlement event

By Alexander Fulbright and Jacob Magid

Responding to petition on choice to forgo jubilee, Miriam Naor says participation at ‘one-sided’ gathering is against court’s ethic rules

An afternoon of outdoor games at Maan Yahad, the French Hill group of Hebrew and Arabic speakers in Jerusalem. (Courtesy Maan Yahad)

'It’s like a kibbutz socially; people say Hi in the streets'

From Arab to Orthodox, Chinese to Korean, it’s love thy neighbor in French Hill

By Jessica Steinberg

The northern Jerusalem neighborhood is home to a spectacularly diverse community, living in even more remarkable harmony

Social piano experiment has Jerusalem passersby keyed up

By Jessica Steinberg

In this file photo from March 29, 2014, a woman drives a car in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as part of a campaign to defy the country's ban on women driving. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, File)

Saudi Arabia to allow women to drive for first time

State media announces royal order introducing change, bringing to end world’s sole ban on female drivers

This file photo taken on October 26, 2014, shows a Saudi woman getting into a taxi at a mall in Riyadh. (AFP Photo/Fayez Nureldine)

Trump hails Saudi Arabia’s ‘positive step’ of allowing women to drive

By AFP

This photoshopped image by Saudi artist Abdullah al-Sheri, known as Shawsheen, of Jedi master Yoda with King Faisal signing the UN charter in 1945, was accidentally included in a school textbook across the kingdom, September 2017. (Abdullah Al-Shehri)

The kingdom strikes backSaudi official, staff axed over Yoda textbook picture

By AFP

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a meeting in Istanbul, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. (Pool photo via AP)

Turkey’s Erdogan threatens ties with Israel over support for Kurds

By Alexander Fulbright

Criticizing Iraqi Kurdistan’s independence bid, Turkish president says Israeli backing won’t grant referendum ‘legitimacy’

Russia urges Iraq, Kurds to keep referendum from destabilizing region

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iranians rail against Israel at funeral for soldier beheaded by IS

By AP and ToI Staff

Iraq warns Kurds as they claim victory in independence vote

By SUSANNAH GEORGE and Qassim Abdul-Zahra

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Sarah Silverman in 'Shrink' (Zach Galler)

What would Freud say?‘Shrink’ web series puts Jewish celebs on the couch

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Rohingya Muslim refugees carry food distributed by the Bangladeshi army at the Balukhali refugee camp near Gumdhum on September 26, 2017. (AFP/Dominique Faget)

Amid genocide allegations, Israel mum on halting arms sales to Myanmar

By Judah Ari Gross

Wallace Falls State Park in Washington seen on July 3, 2014. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons, Steven Pavlov)

Israeli man falls to his death hiking at Seattle-area state park

Men attending a Michigan cultural event to re-enact World War ll caused uproar by posing with a Nazi flag for a photograph that went viral on Facebook , September 24, 2017. (Screenshot)

Nazi flag photo at Michigan history festival sparks outrage

Then-Meretz party chairwoman Zehava Galon seen during a finance committee meeting atthe Knesset on September 11, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Meretz suspends senior member accused of sexually assaulting a minor

Joshua O. Haberman. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Rabbi Joshua Haberman, champion of adult Jewish education, dies at 98

By JTA

The site identified as King David's tomb since the Middle Ages. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Jewish man, 54, sets himself on fire at King David’s tomb

Chairman Bob Corker (Republican-Tennessee) before a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on on Capitol Hill, September 19, 2017. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Foreign policy heavyweight Corker to step down from US Senate

By Richard Lardner and Erik Schelzig

The New Jersey State House in Trenton, New Jersey. (CC BY-SA 4.0, Famartin/ Wikimedia Commons)

Seventy Years' WarNJ politician calls for ending state’s war with Nazi Germany

Police cordon off a parking lot in the central Israeli city of Kiryat Ono after the discovery of the body of man aged around 39 which bore signs of severe violence, September 27, 2017. (Magen David Adom)

DJ shot dead after performing at Taibe wedding

Iranian destroyer Alborz, seen before leaving Iran's waters on April 7, 2015. (Photo credit: AP)

Iranian Navy building new destroyer, nuclear-powered subs, says commander

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Attendees at the Energy Investor Forum in Israel organized by UK's Department for International Trade (DIT). Sept. 26, 2017 (Courtesy: Kobi Wolf)

Britain calls on Israel to invest in energy projects in the UK

By Shoshanna Solomon

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