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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 15, 2018

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Op-ed

Israeli democracy isn’t broken, but it is under assault

Minorities are worried, their supporters are besmirched, key hierarchies are undermined, and our most hostile critics are empowered

A man walks past a poster criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu near his residence in Jerusalem, as police investigators arrive to question him on corruption allegations, July 10, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Illustrative: People stand in line to go through passport control at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, September 21, 2008. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israel media reviewBDS and bad mistakes: 6 things to know for August 15

By Adiv Sterman

Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit attends a conference at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute on July 2, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Attorney general to probe Shin Bet’s detainment of civilians entering Israel

In latest report on questionings at airport, Iranian-American author Reza Aslan says he was threatened by agent that he wouldn’t see his kids again ‘for a long time’

Ronald Lauder in Leipzig, Germany, Aug. 30, 2010 (Sean Gallup/Getty Images, via JTA)

Lauder helped make Netanyahu prime minister. Now he’s publicly opposing him

Jon Stewart on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Feb. 27, 2017. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Lack of accommodationJerusalem hostel bans Israel ‘haters’ Jon Stewart, CNN…and ToI

By JTA

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, center, speaks with IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot, right, and other senior military officers during a visit to the Gaza Division on August 13, 2018. (Shahar Levi/Defense Ministry)

After reopening crossing, Liberman tells Gazans: Calm pays, violence doesn’t

By Judah Ari Gross

In Arabic-language Facebook post addressed to residents of the Strip, defense minister says long-term truce depends on return of Israeli captives

Key Gaza crossing reopens as calm along border holds

By Judah Ari Gross

Bennett rejects potential truce deal with Hamas as ‘reward for terrorists’

By Michael Bachner

After Facebook, Hamas turns to Instagram to lure IDF soldiers, army says

By Judah Ari Gross, ToI Staff and Agencies

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman meets with senior IDF officers during an exercise simulating warfare in the Gaza Strip on July 17, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Live updates (closed)

Liberman doubles down on denial of ceasefire deal with Hamas

By Alexander Fulbright

Reports say Egyptian and UN-brokered agreement to return to status quo following 2014 war took effect early Wednesday with reopening of key Gaza crossing

6:14 pm

Liberman doubles down on denial of ceasefire deal with Hamas
5:10 pm

Rights group blasts army over closing of investigation into 'Black Friday'
4:59 pm

Abbas accuses Hamas of lacking will to achieve reconciliation

Australian Federal Independent Lawmaker Bob Katter -- years later head of Katter's Australian Party -- is pictured in his office at Parliament House, in Canberra, Australia, September 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Graham)

Aussie senator’s ‘final solution’ speech backed by party leader as ‘solid gold’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Fraser Anning speaking to Australia's Parliament on August 14, 2018. (screen capture: ABC)

Australian senator excoriated for urging ‘final solution’ to Muslim immigration

My Father's Place, in Roslyn, New York. (Steve Rosenfeld)

How a Jewish kid from the burbs helped launch Springsteen and make music history

By Steven Davidson

Minneapolis Representative Ilhan Omar delivers a speech at the 162nd General Assembly of BIE, in Paris, Nov. 15, 2017 (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Candidate who called Israel an ‘apartheid regime’ wins US Congress primary

Ilhan Omar, a Democrat, wins vote in Minnesota; in 2012 she said Israel had ‘hypnotized the world’ to ignore its ‘evil doings’

Paul Nehlen, a Republican primary challenger to House Speaker Paul Ryan, speaks in Janesville, Wisconsin, August 3, 2016 (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)

White supremacist Paul Nehlen loses Wisconsin primary, but garners 11% of vote

By ToI Staff and AP

Jewish US congressional hopeful Mark Roberts has drawn fire for apparently anti-Semitic tweets. (Twitter via JTA)

US Congress candidate launches ‘anti-Semitic’ Twitter attack — and he’s Jewish

By JTA

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah delivers a broadcast speech through a giant screen, during a rally marking the 12th anniversary of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, in Beirut, Lebanon, on August 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah chief claims terror group stronger than IDF, ready for war

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In speech marking 12 years since Second Lebanon War, Hassan Nasrallah also says Iran sanctions won’t affect support for his organization

Illustrative photo of Lebanese troops (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese army says two soldiers injured by Israeli smoke grenades

By AFP and ToI Staff

Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas on March 29, 2014. President Donald Trump’s pick of Bolton for his next national security adviser stirred up the same burning question Friday in Washington as in anxious foreign capitals: Just how much will his hawkish, confrontational approach rub off on Trump? (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Top Trump security aide Bolton to visit Israel next week

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 20, 2017. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Analysis

A Palestinian attempt to oust Israel from the UN would be quixotic — and fail

Israeli paper claims PA may bid to boot Israel from world body. Ramallah knows it wouldn’t succeed, but that’s never stopped it from trying such gambits, or Jerusalem from fuming

Israel said to formally protest ICC’s unusual appeal to ‘Palestinian victims’

By Michael Bachner and Raphael Ahren

Palestinians scramble to deliver 10 tons of mail blocked by Israel for years

By Hossam Ezzedine

In apparent first, Interpol member state arrests fugitive at PA’s behest

Put me on the list

Everyone has the right to deny access to those they consider dangerous, but that doesn't make it the smart move

Menachem Margolin

Israel is the only Jewish state we have

The vast majority of Diaspora Jews know that helping Israel may be the best investment for their own futures

Making peace with oneself — and others

It takes courage to ask – and to grant – forgiveness (Elul)

Taking the whole family to the ER

Believe it or not, this is a heartwarming tale of medical bureaucracy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office, August 12, 2018. (Jim Hollander/Pool via AP)

Police said likely to recommend bribery charges against PM in Bezeq case

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Netanyahu to face final round of questions in the case on Friday; AG only likely to rule late in 2019 on whether to press charges against him in three probes

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at a conference in Lod on March 4, 2018. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Rivlin grants clemency to teen bride who killed abusive husband

Jerusalem mayoral candidate Moshe Lion at the opening of his campaign headquarters in Jerusalem on August 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prosecutors close graft case into Jerusalem mayor candidate

An illustration of the DayTwo app in action (Courtesy)

Diet advice via gut bacteria coming soon to Israel’s largest healthcare provider

By Shoshanna Solomon

DayTwo startup signs deal with Clalit Health Services; patients will courier their stool to a lab and get personalized nutrition tips

Warren Buffett boosts bet on ailing drugmaker Teva

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli universities rise in global ranking, with Technion, Hebrew U in top 100

By Michael Bachner

Technion team breaches Intel’s new security wall for processors

By Shoshanna Solomon

Evelien Gans was one of the Netherlands’ foremost scholars on anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. (Courtesy of Daniel Staal/via JTA)

Before her suicide, Dutch Holocaust scholar saw deep threats to her life’s work

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Illustrative: Border Police walk through Jerusalem's Old City on October 11, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Police say terror attack thwarted last week in Jerusalem Old City

By Michael Bachner

Israeli soldiers confiscate machinery from a suspected gun manufacturing workshop in the village of Yatta in the southern West Bank on August 14, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli forces arrest Palestinian man who filmed IDF troops, citing ‘incitement’

Police recover the car that crashed into security barriers from the scene outside the Houses of Parliament, Westminster in London, August 14, 2018. (Victoria Jones/PA via AP)

Police name London attack suspect as Briton originally from Sudan

The Tamar gas rig, located 23 kilometers (14 miles) west of the city of Haifa in northern Israel. (AP/Albatross Aerial Perspective)

Energy Ministry agrees on role for public in supervising natural gas

Illustrative: Israelis enjoy kayaking in the Jordan River in northern Israel. (Basal Awidat/Flash90)

More Golan waterways, including Jordan River, may be contaminated

By Michael Bachner

A view of a soap factory dating to the 19th century found during work at the new Uri Geller Museum in Jaffa. (Dlila Bar-Ratson/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Cleaning up his actOttoman-era soap factory unearthed under Uri Geller’s Jaffa museum

Netta Barzilai celebrates after winning the Eurovision Song Contest grand final in Lisbon, Portugal, May 12, 2018. (AP/Armando Franca)

Last-minute deal reached to ensure Eurovision will be held in Israel

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Likud MK Oren Hazan speaks at the Likud founders conference at Jabotinsky house in Tel Aviv, March 25, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Maverick Likud lawmaker thinks he can become mayor of Tel Aviv

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Moshe Hogeg, businessman and Beitar Jerusalem owner, visits the Western Wall in the Jerusalem, on August 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Beitar Jerusalem soccer club sold to Blockchain entrepreneur

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Jill Kargman attends the Brooks Brothers Bicentennial Celebration at Jazz At Lincoln Center on April 25, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Brooks Brothers via JTA)

Jewish actress says son was victim of anti-Semitism at exclusive New York school

Illustrative: Israeli kids wearing school bags for first day of school outside their home in Jerusalem (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem parents call to bar East Jerusalem school bus drivers

Illustrative photo of swastika graffiti (Flash90)

Petah Tikva synagogue daubed with Nazi graffiti

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