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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 25, 2018

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) listens as US President Donald Trump speaks to the press before a meeting at New York's Palace Hotel during the 72nd UN General Assembly on September 21, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

US slashes aid to Palestinians by more than $200 million

By Eric Cortellessa

State Department says decision came following Trump-ordered review meant to ensure funds were ‘spent in accordance with US national interests’

In this photo from July 17, 2018, Palestinian protestors hold portraits of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and US President Donald Trump during a rally in support of the Fatah party in the West Bank city of Nablus. (AFP Photo/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

Palestinians: Trump using aid cuts in bid to ‘blackmail’ us to abandon Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and Eric Cortellessa

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a remembrance ceremony at the Paneriai Holocaust Memorial near Vilnius, August 24, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / Petras Malukas)

Netanyahu sees ‘no urgency’ in advancing Trump peace plan

Supporters of Julia Salazar (center, in white) back the New York State Senate candidate at a news conference in Brooklyn, New York, on August 6, 2018. (Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Amid controversy, NY State Senate hopeful aims to clarify her Jewish identity

By Charles Dunst

Julia Salazar pushes back on report saying her background is ‘largely self-created,’ says she’s a Jew ‘even if gatekeepers of Jewishness want to deny’ it

Allen Weisselberg, a top Trump Organization official and the company's longtime chief financial officer (screen capture: YouTube)

Trump Organization CFO granted immunity in Cohen probe – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Allen Weisselberg, president’s longtime financial gatekeeper, provided testimony in federal investigation into hush-money payments by legal fixer Michael Cohen

US President Donald Trump speaks to the Ohio Republican Party State Dinner, on August 24, 2018, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump’s bad week: President’s men turn against him

By Jill Colvin and Catherine Lucey

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara Netanyahu, attend a remembrance ceremony at the Paneriai Holocaust Memorial near Vilnius, August 24, 2018. (AFP/Petras Malukas)

Netanyahu honors Holocaust victims, ancestors in Lithuania

By AFP

‘We will never be defenseless again,’ prime minister says at memorial ceremony outside Vilnius

Holocaust memorials in Estonia torched, vandalized with swastika

By JTA

Video game swastikas stir unease in Germany

By David Courbet and Marion PAYET

Poland gives out record numbers of passports to Israelis

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Jews study while taking shelter in an East End wine cellar, London, 1940 (IWM Ministry of Information Second World War Official Collection/ Bill Brandt)

Analysis

As Holocaust raged, UK officials blamed Jews for rising wartime anti-Semitism

A classified file recently released to a British newspaper lifts the lid on complacency and prejudice at the heart of Winston Churchill’s propaganda ministry

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn faces the media after delivering the Alternative MacTaggart lecture exploring the role of the media, at the Edinburgh Television Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, on August 23, 2018. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)

Corbyn defends saying ‘Zionists’ don’t understand English culture

Alec Jay as seen on the cover of the book 'Facing Fearful Odds' by his son John Jay. (Courtesy)

How the comrades of a Jewish-British POW saved him from their Nazi captors

A view onto lower Chernivtsi, where the Jewish ghetto began in World War II. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)

Shprach on

Hitler killed Yiddish — now these scholars are trying to revive the culture

By Yaakov Schwartz

A watch featuring Hebrew letters that belonged to a man who died aboard the Titanic (Twitter via JTA)

Deck hands

Titanic victim’s Hebrew-letter watch put up for auction

By JTA

Online bidding on timepiece that belonged to Jewish Russian immigrant reaches $11,000 Friday morning

Drinks and snacks are sold to passersby outside Damascus Gate. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

israel travels

Museums, markets, caves and concerts: An ancient plaza is reborn in Jerusalem

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Douglas M. Bloomfield

John McCain, straight-talking mensch

The ailing US senator is a stark contrast to Donald Trump in placing national interests ahead of personal interests

This is your brain on Hebrew

You definitely should learn language as an adult, and you can absolutely blame your brain if you’re just not that good at it

Syrian and Russian forces stand guard as civilians enter the Abu Duhur crossing on the eastern edge of Idlib province, on August 20, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / George OURFALIAN)

Russia accuses UK of backing a false flag chemical attack in Syria

By AFP

Moscow claims planned ‘provocation’ by jihadist group in Idlib, with support of British special services, will be used as pretext for Western strikes on Assad

Brian Hook, State Department director of policy planning, fields questions from journalists during the announcement of the creation of the Iran Action Group at the State Department in Washington on August 16, 2018. (Rod Lamkey/Getty Images/AFP)

Washington slams EU for sending ‘wrong message’ with Tehran aid package

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Echoing Netanyahu, new envoy for Iran says ‘more money in the hands of the Ayatollah means more money to conduct assassinations’ in Europe

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

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani addresses the nation in a televised speech in Tehran, Iran, August 6, 2018 (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Under fire for economic hardships, Iranian president calls for unity

By AFP and ToI Staff

More Headlines

This photo from April 6, 2017, shows Old Main on the University of Arizona campus in Tucson, Arizona. (Ron Medvescek/Arizona Daily Star via AP)

University of Arizona accepted $458K from eugenics fund

By Michael Kunzelman

Senator John McCain arrives at Capitol Hill in Washington, July 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Marti)

McCain stopping medical treatment for his brain cancer

By AP

Israeli windsurfer Yoav Omer at the RS:X European Championships in Sopot, Poland, August 24, 2018 (YouTube screenshot)

Israelis win silver, bronze at European windsurfing championships

Illustrative photo of dolphins (Jorge Novominsky/Flash 90)

Flippin cutePod of dolphins spotted off Ashdod coast

Palestinian paramedics carry an injured protester during demonstrations at the Israel-Gaza border, east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 24, 2018. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Palestinians clash with IDF on Gaza border; 189 said wounded

Two pints of beer (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Portugal gets its first artisanal kosher beer

By JTA

Illustrative: View of a beach near Haifa (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Three Arabs hospitalized after alleged beating by Jews at Haifa beach

A view of the village of Nungwi, Zanzibar (YouTube screenshot)

Chabad opens centers in Zanzibar and Cote d’Ivoire

By JTA

The Yitzhak Rabin Border Terminal at the Wadi Araba crossing between Israel and Jordan. (CC BY 2.5, Wikipedia, NYC2TLV)

German man says was detained at border, questioned about ‘Palestinian blood’

A view of the Powell Library at UCLA. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Jewish fraternity at UCLA sued over sexual assault

By JTA

Illustrative photo of an Israir plane on the tarmac at Ben Gurion Airport, August 3, 2013 (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Flight attendant suspected of stealing passengers’ donations to needy

The Steigenberger hotel in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Hurghada on August 24, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)

UK tour operator removes hundreds of guests from Egypt hotel after couple dies

By AFP

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