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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 16, 2018

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Analysis

Shrugging off critics Trump-style, Corbyn withstands outrage, rises in polls

Despite furor over his stance on anti-Semitism, and new scandal about honoring terrorists, the UK’s Israel-bashing, hard-left Labour chief is still potentially on course to be PM

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves the stage after delivering an address at Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, May 24, 2018. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

Israel’s newest doctors hope to make an impact on overburdened medical system

Amid a shortage of medical professionals and resources, latest immigrants from North America are eager to help fill the gap

Physician Chaim Arias arrives in Israel on an aliyah flight, August 15, 2018. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)

Dr Daniel Azoulay on August 15, 2018. (Screen capture: Channel 10)

Top liver transplant surgeon immigrates to Israel

Illustration of how IceCure Medical's technology freezes tumors using a probe and extremely cold temperatures (Courtesy)

Tumors to meet a frozen end at private Haifa hospital

By Shoshanna Solomon

Nikki Haley speaks during a Security Council meeting on the situation in Palestine, Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at United Nations headquarters, with negotiators Jared Kushner, left, and Jason Greenblatt, right, behind her. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

US warns: No one will be ‘fully pleased’ by Israeli-Palestinian peace plan

By Eric Cortellessa

In joint statement, Trump’s Mideast peace team says only path toward an agreement is for both sides to not get everything they want

In this November 6, 2008 photo, Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat, is photographed outside the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Michigan. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)

Michigan candidate backs 1-state solution, slashing military aid to Israel

By JTA

A photo of Rafah in southern Gaza on August 2, 2014, one day after the abduction and killing of Lt. Hadar Goldin (Hatem Ali/ AP Photo)

IDF clears troops in massive deadly bombardment during 2014 Gaza war

By Judah Ari Gross

A picture taken on July 20, 2018, shows an Israeli Merkava battle tank patrolling along along the border with the Gaza Strip near Kibbutz Nahal Oz in southern Israel. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Israel-Hamas ceasefire to last a year, deal includes sea lane to Cyprus – report

Lebanese TV channel says there will be Israeli security control over cargo boat traffic to Palestinian coastal enclave; Qatar to pay electricity bill for Strip

Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel attends a meeting of Egyptian and Sudanese foreign ministers and heads of intelligence at Tahrir Palace, in Cairo, Egypt, February 8, 2018. (Khaled Elfiqi/Pool photo via AP)

Head of Egyptian intelligence visits Israel to discuss Gaza truce

PA President Mahmoud Abbas delivering a speech on August 15, 2018. (WAFA)

Abbas says Hamas not serious about unity, US lying about Gaza

Israeli soldiers during an army drill in Northern Israel on August 7, 2018. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Israel to boost security budget by hundreds of millions of dollars

Increased military spending set to improve cyber capabilities, missile defense, home front protection, and finance completion of security barriers

IAI to supply Israeli warships with Barak-8 missile defense systems

By Shoshanna Solomon

Defense Ministry working to speed up IDF chief selection, slowed by High Court

By Judah Ari Gross

Commander of IDF headquarters base steps down amid corruption probe

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah July 28, 2018. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP)

Abbas: Palestinians and Arab Israelis united against ‘racist’ nation-state law

PA president blasts ‘absolutely intolerable’ Knesset legislation enshrining Israel as Jewish state

Bennett lashes Lauder over ‘preposterous’ criticism of nation-state law

By ToI Staff and JTA

Shin Bet says prominent author’s claim of border interrogation is not true

By Tamar Pileggi

Shin Bet has denied 250 people entry into Israel this year — report

Lauren Vowells, 29, of Boston, Massachusetts, reads a copy of the Boston Globe at South Station in Boston, August 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Joseph PREZIOSO)

Nearly 350 US newsrooms run editorials denouncing Trump’s attacks on ‘fake news’

By David Bauder

The Wall Street Journal, which is not participating, notes in a column that the effort runs counter to the independence that news outlets claim to seek

Former CIA Director John Brennan testifies during a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing about Russian actions during the 2016 election on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 23, 2017. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

After Brennan, 9 others face losing security clearances, too

By AP

In this May 23, 2017, photo, former CIA director John Brennan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the US House Intelligence Committee Russia Investigation Task Force. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump revokes security clearance from ex-CIA director

By Jill Colvin and Zeke Miller

Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan (2nd right) speaks with a soldier at the scene where an Israeli woman was run over and killed by a Palestinian driver, near the northern West Bank settlement outpost of Havat Gilad on August 16, 2018. (Roi Hadi/Samaria Regional Council)

Live updates (closed)

PA official says driver in West Bank car death will stay in Palestinian custody

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Man surrenders to Palestinian police after hitting, killing Israeli woman near Nablus, claims incident was an accident

7:50 pm

PA official says driver will remain in Palestinian custody
7:45 pm

Palestinian driver who hit woman turns himself in, claims incident an accident
7:41 pm

Settler leader says car-ramming is a 'terror attack, a cold-blooded murder'

Beinart’s airport grilling was no mistake

Netanyahu doesn't think the policy is wrong — he's just sorry it was applied to a prominent Jew

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Strangers on a plane

I noticed the woman looking at me while I spoke. 'Are you Israeli?' she asked

Yes, our enemies' safety is our concern

Despite efforts to discredit Yair Golan for Chief of Staff, Jews have always considered morality an issue in fighting wars

A tale of two pundits: Prager and Shapiro

It's because I don't agree with their politics that I think we must mark the differences between Ben and Dennis

A would-be robber in the post office in Ashdod (screen capture: Channel 10)

Spelling his doom

Would-be bank robber undone by a typo

Note reading ‘Giv [sic] me 20,000 shekels or I will throw a grenade’ reminds police of identical error in previous heist, leading to suspect’s arrest

Portrait of Cipe Pineles by Trude Fleischmann. (RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection); 'Leave Me Alone With the Recipes,' edited by Sarah Rich, Wendy MacNaughton, Maria Popova, and Debbie Millman. (Courtesy)

Lost for decades, retro illustrated cookbook makes Jewish cuisine great again

By Rich Tenorio

Gaza fisherman battles poverty with plastic bottle boat

By Adel Zaanoun

The 700-bottle craft is capable of carrying up to eight people out to sea, according to its skipper

More Headlines

Athlete Noa Hayat speaks to a Haifa local news channel (YouTube screenshot)

Young athletics star killed in Haifa cycling accident

Oscar the Grouch, left, and his Israeli cousin Moishe Oofnik visited the Jewish federations’ General Assembly in New Orleans to promote 'Shalom Sesame,' a version of 'Sesame Street' created for Israel’s Educational Television channel, November 2010. (Daniel Sieradski via JTA)

Hebrew Educational TV goes off the air after 50 years

By JTA

Anthony Russell started studying to perform in Yiddish in 2011. (Max Eicke via JTA)

A former opera singer fuses African-American and Yiddish music

By Josefin Dolsten

Natan Skop, left, as Hamlet, and Ira Skop as Ghost, in Theater in the Rough's production of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet.' (Yitz Woolf)

Times of Israel PresentsThis production of ‘Hamlet’ is a literal walk in the park

By Matthew Kalman

An illustration of Seedo’s technology for the automated growing of cannabis. (Seedo)

Israeli firms team up to create kits for growing medical cannabis at home

By Shoshanna Solomon

Cartoonist Art Spiegelman attends the French Institute Alliance Francaise's "After Charlie: What's Next for Art, Satire and Censorship at Florence Gould Hall on February 19, 2015 in New York City. (Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images via JTA)

Prize drawing‘Maus’ creator Art Spiegelman wins prestigious MacDowell award

By JTA

Erika Rudin-Luria will serve as the president of Cleveland’s Jewish federation starting on Jan. 1. (Courtesy of Jewish Federation of Cleveland via JTA)

Cleveland Jewish federation appoints its first female president

By JTA

Illustrative: A swastika spray-painted at a playground in Lakewood, New Jersey, August 2016. (AP)

Nazi graffiti suspect attacks arresting cops with power tool

Illustrative: A housing construction site in Jerusalem, October 27, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem municipality inks deal to build 20,000 apartments

By Stuart Winer

New York University professor Avital Ronell. (Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft/Facebook via JTA)

NYU suspends Jewish professor after sexual harassment complaint from ex-student

By JTA

Illustrative: Kashrut supervisors inspect produce at a fruit and vegetable warehouse on March 20, 2016. (Yaakov Naumi/FLASH90)

Attorney general threatens rabbinate’s kosher certification monopoly

Eritrean migrant Ghrmay Negassi works at a barbershop in Tel Aviv, Israel, August 8, 2018. (Caron Creighton/AP)

African migrants reel as Israeli law cuts into their salaries

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