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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 11, 2018

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A large incendiary kite launched from Gaza which was removed from power lines near Kibbutz Sufa, August 11, 2018. (Israel Electric Corporation)

Huge incendiary kite from Gaza lands on kibbutz power lines

IDF strikes cell in northern Strip launching devices as arson attacks continue; flaming balloon lands next to a community dining room in Eshkol Region

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (2nd-L) meet with top IDF generals and Israeli security officials at the military's Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv on August 9, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)

When weighing Gaza actions, ministers reportedly looked to Iran threat in north

A Palestinian uses a slingshot during clashes along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, on August 10, 2018. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

Gaza health ministry says man succumbs to wounds sustained in border clash

Illustrative: A Fateh-110 ballistic missile, displayed at an Iranian armed forces parade in 2012. (military.ir/Wikimedia Commons)

Iran said to test ballistic missile for first time in more than a year

Syrian air defense systems said activated against ‘hostile target’

Iran’s Zarif: ‘There will be no meeting’ with US

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iran TV accused of muting ‘Death to the dictator’ stadium chants at soccer game

By AFP

The site on Ketron Island in Washington state where an Horizon Air turboprop plane crashed Friday after it was stolen from Sea-Tac International Airport is seen from the air, Saturday, August 11, 2018, near Steilacoom, Washington. (AP/Ted S. Warren)

‘Suicidal’ airline employee steals, crashes empty plane in Seattle

29-year-old, identified as Richard Russell, brings down passenger plane on island, killing himself; video shows plane doing upside-down loop while being chased by fighter jets

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks in London on June 30, 2018. (AFP Photo/Tolga Akmen)

Corbyn faces new questions over Tunisia visit to Palestinian terrorists’ graves

Daily Mail photos appear to show Labour leader honoring those he said were ‘killed by Mossad agents in Paris in 1991,’ presumed to refer to masterminds of Munich Olympics massacre

Then-British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson talks at a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Britain in a frenzy over Boris Johnson’s ‘bank robber’ burqa comments

By Florence Biedermann

Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival in Tolpuddle, England, on July 22, 2018. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)

Corbyn accused of likening Israel rule in West Bank to Nazi occupation of Europe

Beverly Barkat in her Jerusalem studio, a few weeks before the final completion and assembly of 'After the Tribes' (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Out of the shadows, Jerusalem mayor’s wife finds her voice in bold strokes

By Jessica Steinberg

Analysis

Progressives say racism is ‘prejudice plus power.’ What does that mean for Jews?

The storm over The New York Times’ hiring of Sarah Jeong highlights activists’ question of whether it’s racism when ‘punching up’

Protesters of a New School panel on anti-Semitism demonstrate outside the event on November 28, 2017. (Courtesy of Jewish Voice for Peace)

Bob Shamansky brought his Jewish sensibility to Congress. (Illustration by Charles Dunst/JTA; photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Remembering Bob Shamansky, the last Democrat to win Ohio’s 12th District

Palestinian children greet fighters from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement, march in the streets in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis on July 20, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB

Senators urged to back bill targeting Hamas, Hezbollah for using human shields

By JTA

Then White House Director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison Omarosa Manigault, right, walks past President Donald Trump during a meeting on healthcare in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, March 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Former Trump aide says he’s a ‘racist’ who often used N-word; White House: Lies

By AFP

Spokeswoman says Omarosa Manigault’s book, in which she claims there are tapes to prove his use of racial slur while filming ‘The Apprentice,’ is ‘riddled with false accusations’

Rabbi Bruce Lustig of Washington Hebrew Congregation is surrounded by clergy of multiple faiths as he helps launch a weekend of counterprotests against white supremacist marchers in Washington, D.C., Aug. 10, 2018. (Ron Kampeas)

DC Jews launch weekend of counterprotests to white supremacist rally

By JTA

Steve West (West campaign website)

Missouri Republican who said ‘Hitler was right’ wins state House primary

By JTA and AP

Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ), the sister organization of The Jewish Vote, march in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2016. (Courtesy Gili Getz)

Taking on centrist Dems

Jewish Democrat group targets US Jews to elect far-left progressive candidates

By Steven Davidson

The Jewish Vote is backing staunchly liberal candidates in New York’s primaries, before targeting Republicans in November’s elections

Simone Zimmerman. (YouTube screenshot)

Left-wing activists claim Israel trying to intimidate them at border

Jordan Peterson chooses choice over fate

You stand before a blessing and a curse, and you can prevent yourself from becoming a victim

Marie van der Zyl

Jeremy Corbyn must come out of hiding

For starters, he must adopt the IHRA definition in full and open Labour’s disciplinary process to independent review

Dafna Michaelson Jenet says her experiences in BBYO and Hadassah gave her 'the underpinnings I needed to be a legislator.' (Sophia Laster/via JTA)

Judaism and a yearlong road trip inspired this Colorado woman to run for office

By Josefin Dolsten

A burning Ferrari sports car is seen on Route 6 near the southern city of Kiryat Gat on August 10, 2018. (Israel Fire and Rescue Services Southern District)

Hot ride

Ferrari bursts into flames on main Israeli highway

Firefighters on Route 6 extinguish burning sports car estimated to have cost some NIS 800,000; unclear what sparked blaze

This photo provided by NASA shows the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Parker Solar Probe onboard shortly after the Mobile Service Tower was rolled back Aug. 10, 2018, Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)

2 minutes before launch, NASA delays flight of first spacecraft to explore Sun

Space agency says will try again Sunday; unmanned probe’s main goal is to unveil the secrets of the corona, the unusual atmosphere around the star

FILE- In this Oct. 17, 2014, file photo, a thick blanket of smoke is seen against the setting sun as young ragpickers search for reusable material at a garbage dump in New Delhi, India (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

Fossil fuel pollution will render parts of Earth uninhabitable, warn researchers

By Kerry SHERIDAN

More Headlines

US President Donald Trump (L) talks to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) as they arrive for the NATO summit, at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, July 11, 2018. (Tatyana ZENKOVICH/AFP)

Erdogan warns Turkey’s partnership with US ‘in jeopardy’

By Fulya Ozerkan

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid heads a party faction meeting at the Knesset on July 16, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid praises Trump as US president announces fresh tariffs on Turkey

By ToI Staff and AFP

On the 100th anniversary of Hydrox in 2008, Kellogg’s briefly resumed distribution of the original sandwich cookie under the Sunshine label. (Wikimedia Commons)

Crumbs!Hydrox, the original kosher sandwich cookie, accuses Oreo of sabotage

By JTA

A baby seen sleeping in a cradle, illustrative photo (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Israeli hospitals witness record-breaking baby boom

By JTA

Bucharest, Romania. (CC-BY-SA Mihai Petre/Wikimedia Commons)

Romania police arrest 3 Israelis following brawl at Bucharest hotel

Police officers patrol outside the Maryina Roscha synagogue in downtown Moscow, January 12, 2006. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Moscow police claim anti-Semitic books found in office of Likud representative

In this July 18, 2015, file photo, Chinese Hui Muslims pray during Eid al-Fitr prayers at Niujie Mosque in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Thousands in China mosque standoff over demolition plan

A company in Russia’s Tartarstan region sells an ice cream cone named 'Poor Jews' (Slavitsa via JTA)

Poor tasteRussian court orders ‘poor Jew’ ice cream line pulled

By JTA

A view of the Stadspark pond in Antwerp, Belgium. (Tony Wicks/Facebook via JTA)

High water or hellAntwerp to refill dried up pond for Rosh Hashanah ‘tashlich’ ritual

By JTA

Emergency vehicles are seen in Fredericton, New Brunswick, following a shooting in the eastern Canadian city on August 10, 2018. (Screen capture: Facebook)

4 killed, including 2 cops, in eastern Canada shooting

By AP

A plume of smoke rises from the remains of a building west of Gaza City that was targeted by the Israeli Air Force in response to a rocket attack that hit southern Israel earlier in the day on August 9, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

EU blasts Hamas rocket attacks, warns sides ‘dangerously close’ to new conflict

By AFP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump (C) is accompanied by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) and US National Security Adviser John Bolton (R) as he addresses a press conference on the second day of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Brussels on July 12, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski)

Fearing Trump’s wrath, US officials pushed for speedy NATO agreement

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