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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 23, 2018

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Michael Cohen, former lawyer to US President Donald Trump, exits the Federal Courthouse on August 21, 2018 in New York City. (Yana Paskova/Getty Images/AFP)

Cohen flipped after dad said didn’t survive Holocaust for Trump to ‘sully’ name

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Trump says US economy will tank if he’s impeached

By AP

Et tu, Cohen? Ex-aide could be tip of Trump iceberg

By Jennie Matthew

GOP, and some Democrats, reject talk of Trump impeachment

By LISA MASCARO and Steve Peoples

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with his Lithuanian counterpart Saulius Skvernelis in Vilnius, Lithuania, August 23, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu lands in Lithuania, grandma’s birthplace, in search of European allies

By Vaidotas Beniusis

Ahead of meeting with Baltic leaders, PM says he hopes outreach to Eastern European states will help counter EU’s ‘not always friendly’ ties with Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė in Jerusalem on October 20, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu to meet Baltic leaders in first trip by Israeli PM to Lithuania

By AFP

Headstones toppled and smashed at the Jewish cemetery in Mysłowice, Poland, in August 2018. (Jewish.pl/Facebook screen capture)

Jewish cemetery in Poland vandalized for second time in a month

By JTA

Illustrative: People hold up placards and Union flags as they gather for a demonstration organized by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism outside the head office of the British opposition Labour Party in central London on April 8, 2018. (AFP/Tolga Akmen)

Infinite splits

What’s in a hyphen? Why writing anti-Semitism with a dash distorts its meaning

By Matt Lebovic

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Lithuanian counterpart address a press conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, on August 23, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Petras Malukas)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu applauds European airlines for ending service to Iran

‘That’s good,’ says PM in Vilnius, as Air France and British Airways join KLM in discontinuing flights to Tehran

6:09 pm

IDF official claims Gazan gunman was a nurse for Doctors Without Borders
5:53 pm

Sessions seems to push back against Trump barb
5:41 pm

Netanyahu cheers European airlines for ending service to Iran

US President Donald Trump salutes his supporters after speaking at a political rally at Charleston Civic Center in Charleston, West Virginia on August 21, 2018. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

US, Israel officials downplay Trump’s warning of ‘price’ over Jerusalem moves

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Washington says it will not impose ‘unacceptable conditions’ as sources in Jerusalem point to John Bolton’s reassurance ‘it’s not an issue of quid pro quo’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is greeted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) in Berlin, Germany on June 4, 2018. (Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)

Amid Iran deal tensions, Merkel to visit Israel in October

Ghassan Majali, Jordan's newly appointed ambassador to Israel. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Jordan submits candidate for next ambassador to Israel to fill vacant post

In this photo from August 21, 2018, US President Donald Trump speaks to the press upon arrival at Yeager Airport in Charleston, West Virginia. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Trump asks Pompeo to look into killing of white farmers in South Africa

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US president’s tweet appears to echo a commonly held far-right belief in ‘white genocide’; Pretoria rejects the ‘narrow perception’

Recently arrived migrant families speak with volunteers at the Catholic Charities Humanitarian Respite Center on June 21, 2018 in McAllen, Texas. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/via JTA)

US Jewish groups visit ‘heartbreaking’ border detention centers

By Josefin Dolsten

Samantha Ravich (Screen capture: YouTube)

Trump names Jewish security expert to senior intelligence post

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (r) and his wife Sara at Ben Gurion Airport on August 22, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

PM on Shabbat construction controversy: Highway can’t be closed midweek

In row over building of pedestrian bridge over major Tel Aviv artery, transportation minister claims he has Netanyahu’s full support, blames mayor for politicizing issue

Israel media reviewWalkway to hell: 8 things to know for August 23

By Joshua Davidovich

After outcry, minister delays Tel Aviv pedestrian bridge building for 6 months

Jerusalem fast train, set to open in September, won’t get to Tel Aviv at first

Journalist and author Stephen Shepard. (Courtesy)

Media giant traces secular Jewish roots in the leaves of great American authors

By Rich Tenorio

Hatikva heard around the world

Israel’s anthem is having a moment worldwide, thanks to some very talented representatives of the nation

The destructive overreach of Israel’s rabbinic courts

Muscling in on areas where you have no jurisdiction violates civil liberties and makes a mockery of religious authority

To my adult children: Here’s how you can take care of me

What should you do if I want to spend my final days eating red meat and smoking cigarettes?

Building communities through the stories of individuals

The Vilna ghetto diary of Yitzhok Rudashevski shines a light on the strength with which Jews coped with suffering

Prof. David Crane giving a lecture in October 2017 at Syracuse University (YouTube screenshot)

Head of UN probe on Gaza clashes resigns for ‘personal reasons’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Human Rights Council says it will begin search to replace David Crane, who unlike past jurists didn’t draw criticism from Israel when he was appointed

UN official urges Israel not to hold Gaza aid ‘hostage’ to politics

By Edith M. Lederer

UN says it has run out of money for fuel, medicine in Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

Report: UN Middle East envoy may soon leave post, sparking concern in Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Amanda Weiss, director of the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, with a 2,600-year-old clay tablet bearing the name "Benayahu ben Netanyahu" which is being loaned to the Prime Minister's Office for the coming year, August 21, 2018 (GPO)

You name it

Museum loans prime minister 2,600-year-old ‘Netanyahu tablet’

Ancient cuneiform Babylonian artifact bearing name ‘Benayahu ben Netanyahu’ will be shown to visiting dignitaries

A reconstruction of a Neanderthal man at the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, Germany. (Neanderthal Museum)

Mom was Neanderthal: Fossil shows mix of humankind’s cousins

By Frank Jordans

Skeletal fragment from half-Neanderthal, half-Denisovan young girl suggests interbreeding between human species may have been more common than previously believed

More Headlines

This file image made from video posted on a militant website July 5, 2014, shows the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq. (AP/Militant video, File)

IS chief urges followers to wage ‘jihad’ in new recording

By AFP

Illustrative: Police officers stand guard after a knife attack August 23, 2018 in Trappes, west of Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Man kills mother, sister in Paris suburb; France sees no apparent terror tie

Russian Su-25 ground attack jets prepare to land after return from Syria at a Russian air base in Primorsko-Akhtarsk, southern Russia, on March 16, 2016. (Olga Balashova/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia says its air force has killed ‘over 86,000 militants’ in Syria

By AFP

Illustrative image of a mosquito biting through skin. (iStock by Getty Images/nechaev-kon)

68 hospitalized with West Nile fever; teenager in critical condition

Zehava Galon (R), MK Dov Khenin, Joint (Arab) List leader Ayman Odeh, senior Palestinian official Nabil Shaath and Meretz party leader Tamar Zandberg attend the funeral service of late writer and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement Uri Avnery in Tel Aviv on August 22, 2018. (Flash90)

Israelis, Palestinians pay respects to late peace activist Uri Avnery

By AP and ToI Staff

GlucoMe's app provides users with analytics and treatment plans. (YouTube screenshot)

Israel’s GlucoMe joins Merck in venture to battle diabetes in Vietnam

By Shoshanna Solomon

Eli Bar Zakai, the driver suspected of causing the death of Eylon Shalev-Amsalem, speaks to reporters at Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on August 5, 2018. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Driver downed bottle of vodka before killing 13-year-old — indictment

The headquarters of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is seen in Washington, DC, on August 22, 2018, after reports indicated that the DNC notified the FBI of an attempt by hackers to infiltrate the organization's voter database. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)

DNC says it thwarted hacking attempt on its voter database

Moshe Hogeg, an Israeli businessman and the new owner of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer club, visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on August 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New Beitar owner says ‘religion’ no longer a factor in signing players

By AFP

Qatar's Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani speaks during a luncheon hosted by the Arab Center of Washington, DC on June 29, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Liberman met with Qatar foreign minister on sidelines of Gaza talks — report

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Researchers at Technion have cured fungal infections using a soil-dwelling bacteria which survive in a gel they have prepared; Technion University screenshot)

Technion researchers use soil bacteria to tame fungal infections

By Shoshanna Solomon

This image released by CBS shows Kunal Nayyar, from left, Simon Helberg, Melissa Rauch, Jim Parsons, Mayim Bialik, Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco appear in a scene from the long-running comedy series "The Big Bang Theory." (Erik Voake/CBS via AP)

Out with a bang‘The Big Bang Theory’ to end in 2019 after 12 seasons

By AP

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