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What Matters Most On Friday, August 24, 2018

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From left: Latvia's Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Estonia's Prime Minister Juri Ratas, hold a joint press conference following a meeting in Vilnus on August 24, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Petras Malukas)

Netanyahu: EU development aid for Iran a ‘poison pill for the people’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

PM blasts Europe’s ‘distorted’ view of Israel, says EU’s $21 million financial aid package to Tehran to bolster flagging economy ‘a big mistake’

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

Netanyahu lauds European airlines for ending Iran flights, says more will follow

US National Security Adviser John Bolton gives a press conference after a meeting with his Russian counterpart at the US mission in Geneva on August 23, 2018. (AFP Photo/Fabrice Coffrini)

Bolton says US rejected halting Iran sanctions for rollback in Syria

A new chronology

Amanda Borschel-Dan

New carbon-dating tool could pinpoint ancient eruption, gauge if tied to Exodus

Calibration technique aims to show exactly when Thera erupted on Santorini, some 4,000 years ago. Volcanic blast has been linked to rise and fall of civilizations, even the Plagues

Assistant professor of dendrochronology Dr. Charlotte Pearson in her lab at the University of Arizona. (Robert D. Demers)

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 under fresh fire for saying in 2013 ‘Zionists’ don’t get English culture

By JTA and ToI Staff

Jewish Chronicle editor says it’s ‘almost impossible’ to not interpret UK Labour chief’s remark as referring to Jews; video shows Corbyn lambaste Israeli ‘genocide’ by Hamas flag

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

Corbyn praised by former KKK grand wizard and ex-leader of far-right BNP

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks with his Lithuanian counterpart Saulius Skvernelis in Vilnius, Lithuania, on August 23, 2018. (AFP/Petras Malukas)

After meeting Netanyahu, Lithuanian leader proposes closer EU ties

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Saulius Skvernelis calls for cooperation on counter-terrorism, and more direct dialogue to ‘better understand’ Israeli positions

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

Despite honors for collaborators, PM praises Vilnius for Holocaust remembrance

By ToI Staff and AFP

Polish Deputy Justice Minister Patryk Jaki addresses parliament on December 22, 2015. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Polish candidate fires aide over anti-Semitic Facebook post he wrote as a teen

By Katarzyna Markusz

David Pecker, Chairman and CEO of American Media, addresses those attending the Shape and Men's Fitness Super Bowl Party in New York in 2014. (Marion Curtis/AP)

National Enquirer boss said given immunity to reveal Trump cash-for-quash scheme

Tabloid kept a safe with damaging stories it was paid to kill, sources tell AP, as Jewish tabloid owner Pecker reportedly agrees to testify on possible campaign finance violations

Trump rage brings sharp response from Sessions

By Jill Colvin and Zeke Miller

A president who demands loyalty finds it fleeting in DC

By Ken Thomas and Catherine Lucey

All the president’s lawyers: The small army defending Trump

By Jennie Matthew

A construction site in the West Bank settlement of Ariel on January 25, 2017. (Sebi Berens/Flash90)

Analysis

In West Bank settlements, the housing market is booming

Many settlers are ideologically committed to the principle of Jews living in Judea and Samaria, the biblical name for the area. But some are simply drawn by the quality of life

Turkey blasts Israel for new settlement construction

EU blasts settlement homes announcement as Palestinians call for sanctions

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Israel media reviewHigher prices, gutted hopes for peace: 9 things to know for August 24

By Joshua Davidovich

illustrative: A Palestinian doctor exits an operating theater in the Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Tuesday, January 27, 2009. (Illustrative photo: AP/Anja Niedringhaus)

Israel says Gazan gunman was nurse for Doctors Without Borders

Military liaison asks for clarification from aid group over connection to Hani al-Majdalawi, killed Monday while firing at troops on border; organization says it is investigating

FIFA bans Palestinian soccer chief for inciting violence against Messi

By ToI Staff and AP

PA forces said to thwart West Bank bomb attack against Israeli troops

By AFP and ToI Staff

White House hosts Palestinian high school exchange students

In this August 23, 2018 photo, the head of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Pierre Kraehenbuehl speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

UN official says Palestinian refugee issue can’t be ‘wished away’

Pierre Kraehenbuehl says American funding for UNWRA was slashed over Palestinian reaction to US recognition of Jerusalem, rather than the performance of the agency

Hamas warns Israel will ‘pay the price’ if Abbas’s pressure on Gaza continues

Liberman asserts he has ‘nothing to do’ with Gaza ceasefire talk

Israel hails US for halting Human Rights Council funding

By ToI Staff and AP

Black Cube's internet homepage (screenshot)

Analysis

Cambridge Analytica-linked businessman helped start Black Cube, lawsuit claims

Vincent Tchenguiz also helped controversial ‘private intel agency’ apply for Israeli government grant for developing dual-use technologies; Economy Ministry won’t say if it got one

In this file photo dated August 21, 2018, a Facebook start page is shown on a smartphone in Surfside, Florida, USA. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, FILE)

Facebook pulls its Israeli-made security app over privacy concerns

By ToI Staff and AP

In this file photo from January 18, 2011, Iranians work in an internet cafe in central Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Google blocks accounts in ‘influence operation’ linked to Iran

By AFP

Fake News? Shakespeare was all over that

Only in death is there no pretending when it comes to identity — just ask Theater in the Rough’s ’Hamlet’

Social capital and fallen donkeys

When you encounter a stranger in distress, do you stop to help? What if you’re in a big hurry?

Alain Finkielkraut in his Paris home (Robert Sarner/Times of Israel)

Controversial Jewish analyst Alain Finkielkraut is worried for France’s future

By Robert Sarner

Democratic congressional candidate Ammar Campa-Najjar speaks during an interview Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018, in San Diego (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Mexican-Palestinian congressional candidate believes walls are not the answer

West Nile disease is spread by birds and transmitted to animals and humans by mosquito bites. (CC-BY 2.0 hofluk, Flickr)

Health ministry confirms two Israelis dead in mass West Nile fever outbreak

14 people in serious condition after contracting mosquito-transmitted disease; officials say twice as many cases reported than last year

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman at the Knesset, November 26, 2017. (AFP/Gali Tibbon)

Health Ministry blames local councils for string of disease outbreaks

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Director Natalie Portman attends a photocall for 'A Tale Of Love And Darkness' during the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 17, 2015. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images, via JTA)

Dear NataliePortman to play Jewish twins behind famous newspaper columns

By JTA

Australia's Scott Morrison arrives for a party meeting in Canberra on August 24, 2018. (AFP/ POOL / DAVID GRAY)

Scott Morrison named new Australian prime minister

By AFP

A man from East Jerusalem shows his Israeli ID card to vote in the Jerusalem mayoral elections, November 11, 2008 (Daniel Dreifuss/ Flash90)

East Jerusalem’s 360,000 residents to get just 6 polling stations in local vote

By ToI Staff and JTA

Black kites and White storks fly over the Dudaim landfill site near Beersheba, southern Israel, March 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel seeing early flocks of migrating storks amid hot European summer

By AP and Michael Bachner

'Fig Tree,' the award-winning film by Alamork Marsha tells the story of a young Jewish teen and her Christian boyfriend in war-torn Addis Ababa (Courtesy Daniel Miller)

Growing painsOperation Solomon drama ‘Fig Tree’ heads to Toronto film fest

By Jessica Steinberg

United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) in the Knesset on November 24, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Ultra-Orthodox MKs slam PM for apparent support of Shabbat construction work

By Michael Bachner and Raoul Wootliff

Some 300 performers will participate in this year's 20th Piano Festival, taking place in Tel Aviv at the end of October (Courtesy Moshe Chitayat)

Tickling the ivoriesPunk rocker and new Broadway star to perform at 20th Piano Festival

By Jessica Steinberg

David Ben Gurion visits 101 'First Fighter' Squadron. With sunglasses Modi Alon. Behind Alon's left shoulder stands Syd Cohen, and to the left, Gideon Lichtman and Maurice Mann (Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)

US pilot who made history for Israeli Air Force to be buried at Arlington

By JTA

Sintayehu Shafrao, an Ethiopian Jew who participated in the 2018 International Bible Quiz, is seen during a ceremony at the Interior Ministry in Jerusalem on April 16, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Family of Bible quiz contestant from Ethiopia allowed to move to Israel

By JTA

In this photo from October 30 2017, a bumper sign calls for the end of farm killings in South Africa, during a blockade of a freeway in Midvaal, South Africa. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

ADL skewers Trump for tweet on white South African conspiracy theory

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