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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 14, 2018

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Jeremy Corbyn (second from left) holding a wreath during a visit to the Martyrs of Palestine, in Tunisia, in October 2014. (Facebook page of the Palestinian embassy in Tunisia)

Netanyahu slams Corbyn for honoring Munich terrorists, comparing Israel to Nazis

Prime minister calls for ‘unequivocal condemnation’ of the UK opposition leader ‘from everyone – left, right and everything in between’

Composite image of Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (l) in Brussels on October 19, 2017 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on July 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert and Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Striking back at Netanyahu, Corbyn says Israel killed ‘dozens’ of Gaza kids

By Raphael Ahren

UK's Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn admits he attended a ceremony honoring terrorists behind 1972 Munich Olympics attack on August 13, 2018. (Screen capture: Sky News)

UK Labour denies Corbyn honored Munich terrorists, but he says he was present

Profile

The man behind the curtain in Corbyn’s Oz: A virulently anti-Israel spin doctor

One Labour insider says that because of top aide Seumas Milne, if the party came to power ‘Israel would have to assume diplomatic relations were unofficially null and void’

Seumas Milne speaks to an anti-Israel rally during 2014's Operation Protective Edge. (YouTube)

Chairman of the World Jewish Congress, Ron Lauder speaks during the 6th Global Forum for Combating Antisemitism conference at the Jerusalem Convention Center, on March 19, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jewish leader Ron Lauder slams nation-state law, Orthodox hegemony

By ToI Staff and JTA

In second op-ed critical of government, former Netanyahu confidant writes that recent Israeli policies pose the ‘greatest threat’ to the future of the Jewish people

Randi Weingarten, with megaphone, marches in a New York City rally, June 27, 2018. (Courtesy Professional Staff Congress/via JTA)

To sway the teachers’ union to love Israel, Randi Weingarten criticizes it

Illustrative: Author Peter Beinart waits to speak at an event November 14, 2012, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/ David Goldman/File)

Netanyahu says detention, questioning of Peter Beinart at airport a ‘mistake’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prominent journalist is latest in a string of progressive US Jews questioned about their political affiliations, support for Palestinians, while trying to enter Israel

Fire balloons land in south as Israel considers easing Gaza restrictions

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense minister said to meet with security chiefs on possibility of lifting controls on goods entering Strip, expanding fishing zone

Illustrative. A suspicious balloon in the yard of a house in the southern city of Sderot on June 24, 2018. (Israel Police)

A picture taken on August 9, 2018 shows people inspecting the rubble of a cultural center following an Israeli air strike on Gaza City. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Israel and Hamas reportedly near truce after days of relative quiet

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a press conference on July 19, 2018. (Flash90)

Defense minister’s office clarifies: Not all Gazans killed on fence were Hamas

By Judah Ari Gross

Education Minister Naftali Bennett at farewell ceremony for Issac Herzog at the Knesset, Jerusalem, July 18, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Jewish Home ministers to oppose long-term Gaza ceasefire agreement

Naftali Bennett slams play by Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman to reopen Kerem Shalom Crossing if quiet continues; says such moves give Hamas time to prepare future attacks

6:21 pm

Rivlin to shorten sentence of rape victim who murdered husband
6:01 pm

Appointment of next IDF chief of staff staff delayed -- report
5:48 pm

Firing back at Bennett, Yisrael Beytenu says education minister's criticism on Gaza 'empty slogans'

A picture taken from the Mount of Olives shows the Old City of Jerusalem with the Dome of the Rock shrine in the center, on December 6, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

Support for two-state solution at lowest in nearly 20 years — poll

43% of Palestinians and Israeli Jews back the two-state solution; last year, the Palestinian figure was 52% and the Jewish figure was 47%

Hebron shooter reportedly denied gun license, police say he may be public danger

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

IDF arrests 21 Palestinians, seizes suspected gunsmith tools

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF: Soldiers nab 3 Palestinians with pipe bombs near West Bank settlement

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, right, in New York on September 19, 2017. (Avi Ohayun)

Netanyahu reportedly had secret talks on Gaza with Sissi in Egypt in May

Leaders said to have discussed easing blockade in exchange for ceasefire, PA assuming control of Strip and return of Israelis held by Hamas

Israel media reviewStrip-search: 9 things to know for August 14

By Joshua Davidovich

Ministers said to reject plan to return PA control to Gaza

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Israel said to nix German plan for garbage dump to be used only by Palestinians

Car hits pedestrians outside UK Parliament in terror attack

Two injured; London police arrest driver, treating incident as terror; witnesses say crash appears to have been deliberate

A police officer stands by the Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona on August 20, 2017, before a mass to commemorate victims of two devastating terror attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils. (AFP PHOTO / PASCAL GUYOT)

Questions, open wounds remain on anniversary of Catalonia jihadist attacks

By AFP

Team of surgeons implant CartiHeal's scaffold into a 30-year-old woman's knee at Hadassah Medical Center, August 2018 (Hadassah Medical Center)

First Israeli patient gets startup’s knee cartilage-regrowing implant

By Shoshanna Solomon

Procedure is part of global clinical trial for technology developed by Israel’s CartiHeal, which hopes to bring relief to millions of sufferers of knee pain

"Save Educational TV" (via Facebook)

Analysis

Rochelle Furstenberg

Educational TV takes its final breath — what a pity

Israel’s oldest broadcast company shaped generations of kids with intelligent, sensitive programming. It was axed for no good reason

Every day with no siren is a gift

As a student in Sderot, I strive to enjoy the calm between rocket attacks — and carry anti-anxiety pills in my wallet

Religious revelations from the slaughterhouse

The OU's decertification of 'shackle and hoist'-slaughtered meat shows how Jewish ethical precepts can be elevated

“BlacKkKlansman” tells the story of two cops infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in 1972. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Warning: Spoilers

Why Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ is a cautionary tale for 21st-century Jews

By Charles Dunst

The poke bowl dish at The Avocado Show in Amsterdam is among the the many images patrons share on social media. (Courtesy of The Avocado Show)

Europe is going bananas over this Israeli guy’s avocados

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

People swim in one of two freshwater pools under a large waterfall on a trail called the Upper Zavitan on July 4, 2006, at Yehudia, a park in the Golan Heights. (Phil Sussman /Flash90/File)

Amid bacterial disease scare in Golan streams, hikers urged to seek treatment

By Michael Bachner

Israelis celebrate the victory of Netta Barzlilai at the Eurovision 2018 song contest, Tel Aviv, May 12, 2018. (Flash90)

Tel Aviv mayor says municipality will pay venue cost for Eurovision song contest

Israeli Paralympic swimmer Inbal Pezaro (Razi Livnat/Wikipedia)

Israeli swimmers bag 2 gold medals in European para championship

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative: Bingo Chairman Mike Muldoon removes old instructions from a game board at the Elks Lodge in Hot Springs, Ark., on July 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

B-U-N-C-OMan charged with fraud for fixing New York synagogue bingo game

By JTA

Stephen Miller talks to reporters at the White House on August 2, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/ Getty Images via JTA)

Stephen Miller’s uncle calls him an ‘immigration hypocrite’

By JTA

Members of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) enter Syria from the Quneitra crossing between Israel and Syria on August 30, 2014. (Flash90)

Russia deploys police to help UN patrol Israel-Syria border

By ToI Staff and AP

South Euclid Police SWAT Team on the scene where two persons of interest were found dead, August 11, 2018 (YouTube screenshot News 5 Cleveland)

2 men found dead after standoff were sons of slain Cleveland Jewish doctor

By ToI Staff and AP

Ruth Bader Ginsburg action figure is being sold by a Brooklyn-based company. (Fctry via Kickstarter/JTA)

Supreme Court iconLooking for a little justice? RBG now has her own action figure

By JTA

The Israeli Embassy building in Berlin, Germany (Screen capture Google Street View)

Israeli, US embassies in Berlin receive letters with powder

By AP

An unrecognized Bedouin village in the northern Negev (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash 90)

Israel approves construction of housing for Bedouin, disabled populations

By JTA

An Israeli beaten by Romanian police in Bucharest on August 10, 2018. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Israel protests to Romania after tourists beaten by police

By AP and ToI Staff

File: A construction site in Petah Tikva where three workers were seriously injured in a fall, June 14, 2018 (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Deadly day on Israeli construction sites as 3 workers fall to their deaths

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