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What Matters Most On Wednesday, August 22, 2018

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a rally August 21, 2018, at the Civic Center in Charleston West Virginia. (AP Photo/Tyler Evert)

Trump: Israel will pay ‘higher price’ in peace talks after embassy move

US president says recognition of Jerusalem will help negotiations: ‘Palestinians will get something very good, because it’s their turn next’

US National Security Adviser, Ambassador John Bolton, attends a press conference in Jerusalem, on August 22, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bolton denies ‘quid pro quo’ in embassy move after Trump warns of ‘price’

By Raoul Wootliff

Likud MK Tzachi Hanegbi at a meeting of the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee in the Knesset. November 19, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Top minister vows to ‘push back’ against Trump’s promised price for embassy move

By Raoul Wootliff

Majdi al-Khaldi, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's senior diplomatic adviser. (Wafa)

Abbas aide: To offset embassy move, Trump must make East Jerusalem our capital

After US president says Israel will now pay ‘higher price’ in talks, Majdi al-Khaldi says Washington needs to recognize State of Palestine, back two-state solution

US President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up after speaking during a rally, August 21, 2018, in Charleston, West Virginia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Israel media reviewTrump price tags Israel: 8 things to know for August 22

By Joshua Davidovich

A photograph of the construction work being done for a new neighborhood in the Ma'ale Amos settlement on June 18, 2017. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Israel green-lights over 1,000 settlement homes

Transportation Minister Israel Katz, left, and Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, inaugurate the model of the new Tel Aviv Light Rail in Tel Aviv on September 13, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

A bridge too far?

After Shabbat work halted, Tel Aviv mayor warns Israel en route to theocracy

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Government slammed for bowing to ultra-Orthodox by canceling sabbath bridge construction; Meretz head plans urgent Knesset meeting as opposition fumes

An artist's impression of the Yehudit Bridge in Tel Aviv. (NCArchitects)

After ultra-Orthodox protest, minister halts Tel Aviv bridge work on Shabbat

By Stuart Winer

Transportation Minister Israel Katz in front of a map of the proposed rail network on April 5, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Transportation minister: Bridge construction to be delayed 6 months

Responding to criticism that he bent to ultra-Orthodox pressure by halting Shabbat work on overpass, Israel Katz says he won’t allow closure of Ayalon highway during week either

6:25 pm

At least 1 killed in Belgium stabbing; mayor says not terror
6:15 pm

Trump says ex-lawyer's hush payments 'not even a campaign violation'
6:07 pm

Polish Auschwitz survivor to take Nazi camp row to EU court

Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer to US President Donald Trump, leaves his apartment building, in New York, Tuesday, August 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Trump’s ex-lawyer pleads guilty — and implicates the president

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Michael Cohen concedes 8 counts at court, admits hush-money payments to women at then-candidate’s direction ‘with the purpose of influencing the election’

Michael Cohen, from loyal fixer to a threat to the president

By Paul Handley

Hard days ahead: What Cohen’s plea and Manafort’s verdict mean for Trump

By AP

Cohen case sheds light on race to cover up Trump’s racy past

Israeli sailor Roy Erez. (Facebook)

Israeli yachtsman said held by Colombian navy after encounter with pirates

By Stuart Winer

Roy Erez, sailing to Jamaica, was forced at gunpoint by crew of local fishing boat to take on unknown passenger; vessel later boarded by soldiers, redirected to Colombia

Ben Kingsley as Adolf Eichmann in 'Operation Finale.' (Courtesy MGM)

Interview

From Schindler survivor to Eichmann, Kingsley says he plays horror’s human face

In ‘Operation Finale,’ hitting theaters August 29, the star portrays one of the key organizers of Hitler’s Final Solution — and dedicates his performance to Elie Wiesel

Ben Kingsley portrays Moses in a 1996 film. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Ben Kingsley’s 5 most memorable Jewish roles, from Moses to Anne Frank’s dad

By Erika Dreifus

Cast of 'Operation Finale.' (Courtesy MGM)

Ben Kingsley says he carried a photo of Elie Wiesel on ‘Operation Finale’ set

By Naomi Pfefferman

US National Security Adviser, Ambassador John Bolton, holds a press conference in Jerusalem, on August 22, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bolton: Putin said he can’t force Iran out of Syria, but wants it gone

By Raoul Wootliff

In Jerusalem, Trump’s national security adviser says he thinks Moscow believes US involvement could push Iranian forces out, but indicates it’s not Washington’s top priority

Israel mocks Iran’s ‘indigenous’ fighter jet as copy of obsolete F-5

By ToI Staff and AFP

US not discussing recognition of Israeli sovereignty on Golan — Bolton

Top Iranian cleric threatens Tehran will target Israel if US attacks

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Judith Colp Rubin

How can someone as nice as you be right-wing?

These days, if you don’t swoon over Obama and foam at the mouth at the mention of Trump, you’re clearly racist and evil

Jonathan L. Milevsky

Reclaiming Clementine

If you didn’t sing about apples dipped in honey for a sweet new year, did Rosh Hashanah happen?

US President Donald Trump (left) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Only 17% of Democrats have favorable view of Netanyahu; 64% of Republicans

Survey of American attitudes to world leaders shows significant gaps between the two parties across the board, with Israel’s leader a particular focus of divergence

AnalysisIs one-state support the future of the Democratic party?

Sheldon Adelson and Miriam Adelson at the ceremony marking the establishment of a new Faculty of Medicine at Ariel University in the West Bank, on August 19, 2018. (Ben Dori/Flash90)

Adelsons pump $25 million into Senate midterm races, topping GOP donors

Husam Zomlot (Courtesy)

Palestinian diplomat rebuffs UK media allegations that he’s a Holocaust-denier

Husam Zomlot, until recently posted in DC as PLO envoy, says he meant in 2014 interview that right-wingers had fabricated claims against Palestinians; says Corbyn is an old friend

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)

Corbyn met with Hamas boosters in UK parliament in 2015 — report

Jeremy Corbyn addresses the crowd in Trafalgar Square in London, England, July 13, 2018. (Niklas Hallen/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Corbyn’s secretary urged voters to avoid candidates who appeared in Jewish media

By JTA

In this Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, frame from video, Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard, is carried on a stretcher from his home in the Queens borough of New York. (ABC via AP)

Groups hail deportation of ex-Nazi guard after years in limbo

By Michael R. Sisak, David Rising and Randy Herschaft

Envoy says Trump made sending 95-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard Jakiw Palij to Germany a priority

In this Monday, Aug. 20, 2018, frame from video, Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard, is carried on a stretcher from his home in the Queens borough of New York. (ABC via AP)

Pundits accuse Trump of showboating Nazi’s deportation

By JTA and AP

John Demjanjuk in a Munich courtroom, March 2012. (AP/Matthias Schrader)

US has deported at least 67 suspected Nazi war criminals

By AP

Ben Fisher’s album 'Does the Land Remember Me?' explores the history of Israel from Israeli and Palestinian viewpoints. (Kendall Rock/via JTA)

Aural history

Seattle singer writes entire folk rock album on Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Gabe Friedman

More Headlines

Iranians surf the Internet at a cafe in Tehran, Iran, on September 17, 2013. (Illustrative photo: AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Facebook, Twitter shut anti-Israel misinformation campaigns tied to Tehran

By AP and ToI Staff

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, right, and Israeli chief of Police Roni Alsheich, second left, at an inauguration ceremony for a newly opened police control center in Nazareth on June 21, 2018. (Meir Vaaknin/FLASH90)

Security minister says police ‘failed’ in allowing terrorist’s funeral

Lana Del Rey arrives at the 2016 Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar Viewing Party at West Hollywood Park on February 28, 2016, in West Hollywood, California, US. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP)

Rebuffing BDS call, Lana Del Rey says she’ll also visit Palestinians

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of legal tech (PhonlamaiPhoto; iStock by Getty Images)

Upstarts nipping at their heels, law firms scramble to offer online services

By Shoshanna Solomon

Bishop Suffragen Gayle Harris of the Massachusetts diocese of the Episcopal Church at a church gathering, August 2018. (YouTube screen capture)

Episcopal bishop sorry for making up Israeli atrocities

By JTA

Illustrative: An unidentified 15-year-old high school student uses a vaping device (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Israel bans Juul e-cigarette, ‘a grave danger to public health’

A New York police officer captures two goats on a city subway line, August 21, 2018. (NYPD Twitter account screen capture)

Moment of zenJon Stewart helps rescue New York subway goats

By AP

Minister of Jerusalem Affairs, Zeev Elkin, speaks at the Jerusalem Center for Public and State Issues, on September 13, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Elkin panned by Likud’s Jerusalem branch in mayoral race

Soldiers smile after 'conquering' a hill as part of a training exercise in the Jordan Valley on November 28, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

IDF said planning to slash 2 months off men’s compulsory service

Travellers seen being transferred from the airplane to the arrival hall of Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, on April 11, 2018. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Israeli officials suspect fraud as Russian tourists’ asylum requests spike

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