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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 21, 2018

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in the cockpit of the "Kowsar" Iranian fighter jet unveiled on August 21, 2018. (Screenshot: PressTV)

Unveiling 1st ‘indigenous’ warplane, Rouhani says Iran preparing to fight foes

By AFP and ToI Staff

Rohr Chabad Center, Chicago (Google Streetview)

US indicts 2 Iranians accused of spying, surveillance of Israeli, Jewish targets

By ToI Staff and AFP

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (R) meets with US National Security Adviser John Bolton in Jerusalem on August 20, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Liberman thanks US for giving Israel ‘room to maneuver’ against enemies

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, touring an IDF military drill in northern Israel, August 21, 2018. (Ariel Hermony/Ministry of Defense)

Downplaying sporadic attacks, Liberman says Gaza calm holding

By Michael Bachner

Defense minister denies deal with Hamas imminent, says Israel acting ‘unilaterally in accordance with reality on the ground’

Hamas chief says lifting of Gaza blockade ‘around the corner’

By AFP and ToI Staff

In first, IDF opens investigations into pair of deaths in Gaza border clashes

Abbas’s son said to tell US envoy he supports one-state formula

Analysis

Is Putin’s Kremlin subverting Israeli democracy? A Russia expert thinks so

A devastating, complacency-shattering interview with Ilya Zaslavskiy, one of the world’s leading experts on Moscow’s overt and covert designs on the West

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, on May 9, 2018. Both men are wearing the orange and black St. George ribbon (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Illustrative: A hacker in action. (BeeBright; iStock by Getty Images)

Microsoft uncovers slew of Russian hacking attacks ahead of US midterm election

By AP

First lady Melania Trump speaks as she attends the 6th Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention (FPBP) Summit at Health and Human Service in Rockville, Maryland, August 20, 2018. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

Melania Trump laments cyberbullying as president sends nasty tweets

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Sky Blu from LMFAO tossing a SodaStream bottle at the Universal Music Latin Entertainment Billboard after party on Thursday, April 25, 2013 in Miami, FL (Marianela Sanchez/Invision for SodaStream/AP Images)

Inside story

How SodaStream went from bubbles to splash with $3.2 billion PepsiCo deal

By Shoshanna Solomon

By riding a wave of health and environmentally conscious consumers, the fizzy water maker rebranded itself with tough talk and star-studded ads

InterviewSodaStream chief says PepsiCo deal will uncap opportunities for massive growth

By Shoshanna Solomon

SodaStream chief hails $3.2 billion sale to PepsiCo as victory over BDS

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israel media reviewFizz fizz, flop flop: 9 things to know for August 21

By Joshua Davidovich

Hundreds attend the funeral of Ahmed Muhammad Mahameed in Umm al-Fahm, August 21, 2018. (Screen capture: Hadashot)

Police to probe, fine family for terrorist son’s funeral attended by hundreds

Cops say Umm al-Fahm burial of Arab-Israeli man who attempted to stab officer in Jerusalem violated terms of agreement to release body

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman tours an army drill in northern Israel on August 7, 2018. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Liberman: Masses at terrorist burial show ‘Umm al-Fahm needs to be in Palestine’

Wa'ed Tamimi (Courtesy: Bassem Tamimi)

Ahed Tamimi’s brother sentenced to 14 months for stone-throwing

In this file photo from April 11, 2018, attorney Michael Cohen walks down the sidewalk in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Live updates (closed)

Former Trump attorney Cohen making plea deal in fraud case — sources

By Alexander Fulbright

US president’s former personal attorney may plead guilty as early as Tuesday as part of agreement that would see him cooperate with government

6:37 pm

UN Middle East peace envoy may depart soon for post in Syria -- report
6:00 pm

Michael Cohen in talks on plea deal in fraud case -- sources
5:56 pm

IDF to further cut male conscripts' service by 2 months -- report

Illustrative: Man holding a handgun. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hundreds of thousands more Israelis okayed to carry guns under new rules

By Michael Bachner

Eased restrictions, allowing IDF combat vets to carry guns even without proving need, aimed at improving response to terror attacks, minister says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video released by his office on August 20, 2018, blessing Muslims and Druze for Eid al-Adha. (Screenshot: Youtube)

Netanyahu sends Muslims, Druze Eid al-Adha greetings amid nation-state law spat

‘In Israel we have freedom of worship for all,’ PM says, against backdrop of mass Druze-led protests over contentious legislation

Palestinian media: Top Israeli official calls Abbas with holiday greetings

Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha as pilgrims conduct hajj rites

By AP

Got your goatUS stadium: No, animal sacrifice won’t take place at Eid al-Adha event

By AMANDA SEITZ

British lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn addressing a meeting during his election campaign for the leadership of the British Labour Party in Ealing, west London, August 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Corbyn met terror leaders, but not Jews, on trip to Israel in 2010 — report

UK Labour leader, then a backbench MP, broke rules by reportedly failing to declare lobby group-funded visit

Palestinian Authority ambassador to the United Kingdom Professor Manuel Hassassian speaks a conference in Monaco, December 6, 2007. (Lionel Cironneau/AP)

Palestinians hail Corbyn for refusal to ‘give in’ on anti-Semitism definition

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/Pool/Menahem Kahana)

Netanyahu avoids the tough questions in first-of-a-kind Instagram Q&A

By Michael Bachner

PM says no settlements will be evacuated, calls Indian president a ‘close friend’ and says he sleeps 7 hours a night, but ignores hot potatoes on Gaza, graft probes

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and David Bitan sharing a toast at a Likud faction meeting on February 27, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

MK said to claim Netanyahu would make him police minister to curb graft probes

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Dreaming in Hebrew

Ulpan has taken over my waking life, but I'm still waiting for it to invade my sleep

King Henry VIII and the Talmud

Remember that king with 6 wives? The Jews helped unravel his levirite obligation to his first marriage

Uri Avnery led without fear or bias

The pioneer’s mission for peace spanned 7 decades and combined activism, journalism, and politics

Shmuel Herenstein

‘Agunacide’: To kill the phenomenon of agunot

Jewish law has the means to make chaining women in Jewish marriage a thing of the past

Dozens of newly hatched loggerhead turtles dash over Nitzanim beach to the sea on August 20, 2018. (Screen capture: Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Cheer the turtle

Newly hatched loggerhead turtles make dash for the sea

By David Sedley

Nature and Parks Authority warns that plastic bags on the beach can kill the baby turtles, who mistake them for edible jellyfish

More Headlines

An illustrative photo of a spray-painted swastika on a window (ADL/JTA)

Swastikas daubed on Chabad center at movement’s cradle in Lyubavichi

By JTA

Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard, stands in front of a building in the Queens borough of New York, November 20, 2003. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times via AP)

US deports 95-year-old former Nazi camp guard to Germany

By Michael R. Sisak, David Rising and Randy Herschaft

Eyal Bokal (L) and Dolev Zuarez sit while in Thai police custody on January 22, 2018. (Screen capture/Hadashot news)

Israelis sentenced to 25 years in Thai prison for killing underworld rival

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) and Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery at the PA headquarters in Ramallah on January 5, 2017. (Dov Lieber/Times of Israel)

Palestinian leader mourns passing of peace activist Uri Avnery

By Adam Rasgon and AP

Beno Reinhorn, a handball coach who is allegedly accused of sexually abusing more than 140 girls vioa the internet, at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, August 20, 2018 (Flash90)

Suspected internet molester alleged to have targeted female minors abroad

Illustrative: A United Airlines commercial jet taxis away from Terminal C before lift-off at Newark Liberty International Airport, July 18, 2018, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

High-perbolePassenger says Tel Aviv flight delayed after doors close half-second late

US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, April 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump on Israel’s release of Turkish terror suspect: ‘I got that person out’

An MD 530F military helicopter targets a house where attackers are hiding in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban rockets fired at Kabul presidential palace, one hits nearby US embassy

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