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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 18, 2018

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US Ambassador Danny Danon addressing the UN General Assembly, June 13, 2018 (screen shot UN)

Denouncing UN chief, Danon says Gazans need protection from Hamas, not Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israel’s UN envoy derides ‘delusional’ proposals by Guterres to protect civilians in Gaza and West Bank; says terror group governing Strip ‘uses the people in Gaza as hostages’

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during a press conference after his meeting with the Russian foreign minister in Moscow, June 21, 2018. (AFP Photo/Yuri Kadobnov)

UN chief proposes military force to protect Palestinians from Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Former United Nations (UN) secretary-general Kofi Annan poses during a photo session in Paris, December 11, 2017. (JOEL SAGET/AFP)

ObituaryFormer UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan dies at age 80

By AP and ToI Staff

Ahmed Muhammad Mahameed, who was shot dead by police when attempting to stab an officer in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 18, 2018. (Courtesy)

Family of Arab-Israeli shot dead stabbing Old City cop says he was mentally ill

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Umm al-Fahm municipality condemns ‘cold-blooded murder’ of attacker, says police could have avoided killing him; authorities dismiss complaints, say officers behaved appropriately

An assailant armed with a knife is seen attempting to stab a policeman in Jerusalem's Old City, August 17, 2018 (Israel Police)

Arab Israeli attempts to stab cop in Jerusalem’s Old City, is shot dead

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Ahmad Issa Habib (Courtesy)

Head of Syrian intel’s ‘Palestine Department’ said assassinated

Ahmad Issa Habib reportedly shot in head by unknown assailants; he was responsible for ‘the struggle against Israel’

Some find the 'Lucky Jew' phenomenon anti-Semitic, others find it harmless and rooted in nostalgia. (Jason Francisco/via JTA)

Why ‘Lucky Jew’ imagery is so popular in Poland

By Cnaan Liphshiz

IDF chief of staff, Gadi Eisenkot (R), visits the Druze tomb of Sheikh Amin Tarif in the village of Julis on August 17, 2018. (IDF spokesman)

IDF chief hails minority troops amid effort to allay anger over Jewish-state law

Gadi Eisenkot says Druze soldiers increasingly integrated, Bedouin recruitment up 30% this year; tells community leaders defending Israel a ‘shared responsibility’

Mark Lewis (L) and his partner Mandy Blumenthal in an interview with the BBC. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Citing rising anti-Semitism, leading lawyer to leave UK for Israel

Mark Lewis and his partner say social media helped launch Jew-hatred into the mainstream, and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has a ‘very loud part’ in its rise

Jeremy Corbyn speaks at a 2015 conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland, hosted by the Sinn Fein party. The now UK Labour Party leader expressed support for boycotting Israel in his remarks at the conference. (Screen capture: YouTube)

UK’s Corbyn endorses boycotting Israel in 2015 video

By JTA

Dr Dvory Namdar, the chief chemist and research associate at the government's marijuana greenhouses at the Volcani Center in Rishon Lezion, holds a flowering cannabis plant on June 27, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Weed firms fume as government rolls with cannabis research but stubs out exports

By Melanie Lidman

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

Circumcising babies increases risk of cot death, contested new study suggests

By JTA

Israel-born genetics scholar asserts trauma of procedure tied to prevalence of SIDS, though his claims are rejected as ‘nonsense’ by one pediatrician

Amy Siskind. (Courtesy of Amy Siskind/via JTA)

Liberal critics claim anti-Trump poster child Amy Siskind is an impostor

Renee Garfinkel

See Me! (but don’t look at me!)

The 'Khamsa, Khamsa, Khamsa,' exhibit at the Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem emphasizes the power of the gaze

A Catholic nightmare and the comfort of faith

Revelations of horrific sexual abuse by priests highlight religion's role as a double edged sword

A white mass identified as ancient Egyptian cheese (University of Catania and Cairo University)

Mummified milk

World’s ‘most ancient’ solid cheese found in dug up Egyptian jar

Scientists say whitish solidified mass discovered in ancient tomb is 3,200 years old, made of cow and goat milk

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Matan Peleg, CEO of Im Tirtzu, attends a Knesset discussion on 'Breaking the Silence' organization's presence in Israeli schools on December 28, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Rightist group demands local politicians disclose ties to New Israel Fund

Former CIA Director John Brennan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 23, 2017, before the House Intelligence Committee Russia Investigation Task Force (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

In unprecedented move, ex-CIA heads slam Trump for trying to stifle free speech

By AFP

Illustrative: Migrants enter a train heading to Salzburg at Nickelsdorf, eastern Austria, on September 6, 2015. (AFP/VLADIMIR SIMICEK)

Austria rejects Afghan asylum seeker because he didn’t ‘act’ gay — report

By AFP

Illustrative: The Iranian warship Alborz, foreground, prepares to leave Iran's waters at the Strait of Hormuz, in this photo released April 7, 2015. (AP/Fars News Agency, Mahdi Marizad)

Iran says warships to be equipped with advanced defense system

Khaled Fawzi (3rd-L) head of the Egyptian Intelligence services, shares a laugh with Hamas leader Izzat al-Rishq (2nd-L) and Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad (C) following the signing of a reconciliation deal in Cairo on October 12, 2017. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

Hamas says ceasefire talks on hold until after Eid al-Adha holiday

Illustrative image of Hamas security forces standing guard at the Erez border crossing into Israel, in Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip on March 26, 2017. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Israel allows Gaza mother to join son for cancer treatments after months’ delay

Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat from Michigan running for the US House of Representatives, is interviewed by Democracy Now! on August 16, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

J Street drops endorsement of Michigan candidate for backing one-state solution

By JTA

An unopened letter to Anne Frank’s father from an insurance firm is up for auction in Amsterdam. (Corinphila Auction House via JTA)

Unopened letter mailed to Anne Frank’s home to be auctioned

By JTA

Congregation Shaarey Tefilla, Carmel, Indiana (Google Streetview)

Cops arrest two in Indiana synagogue vandalism

By JTA

Ivanka Trump with her business partner Moshe Lax in Las Vegas, Nevada, May 29, 2014. (Bryan Steffy/Getty Images for DuJour Magazine via JTA)

Ivanka Trump’s ex-business partner ensnared in federal fraud probe

By JTA

In this file photo taken on August 13, 2018 Yemeni children vent anger against Riyadh and Washington as they take part in a mass funeral in the northern Yemeni city of Saada, a stronghold of the Iran-backed Huthi rebels, for children killed in an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition last week. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)

US reportedly supplied bomb that killed 40 Yemeni children

By AFP

Illustrative: Israelis swim at an unauthorized beach in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Paramedics say 2 drown in beaches off Israeli coast

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