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What Matters Most On Monday, August 27, 2018

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Jacksonville shooting suspect David Katz at a tournament in 2017. (screen capture: YouTube)

Gunman David Katz kills 2, takes own life at Florida video game tournament

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Jacksonville police say 24-year-old shooter is among the three who died at the scene; Katz is reportedly a gamer who competed and lost

Reported Jacksonville shooter David Katz plays Madden NFL game (video screenshot)

Jewish suspected gunman in gamer tourney shooting described as loner

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A heavy police presence remained into the night at the shooting outside Jacksonville Landing on August 26, 2018 in Jacksonville, Florida. (Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images/AFP)

Shooting at video game tournament prompts demands for better security

By Tamara Lush and Russ Bynum

Palestinians at the Erez crossing with Israel near Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, August 27, 2018. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Court rules state must allow Hamas relatives into Israel for cancer treatment

Rights groups hail decision but say thousands at risk from ‘restrictive access policy’; right-wing MK slams ‘lack of responsibility shown by judges’ for country’s security

Israel reopens Erez crossing with Gaza after period of relative calm

By ToI Staff and AFP

Police to be deployed along coast amid fears of Hamas infiltration — TV report

Hamas official says factions postpone Cairo talks on ceasefire, reconciliation

Arab Israelis carry banners during a demonstration to protest against the nation-state law in Tel Aviv on August 11, 2018. (AFP/ Ahmad GHARABLI)

Arab MKs said working with PA to condemn Israel at UN for nation-state law

Combined effort intended to ‘sully Israel and damage its image’ ahead of next month’s UN General Assembly, with comparisons to apartheid

Refugees protest against the US for withholding $65 million from Palestinian aid programs, in front of the UNRWA offices in the Nusseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, January 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israeli defense officials said to fear UNRWA cuts may strengthen Hamas

By ToI Staff and Eric Cortellessa

PLO Executive Committee member Ahmad Abu Holi (Screenshot/Youtube)

PLO official raps reported US plan to cancel ‘right of return’ as nonsense

Illustrative image of the destruction of a leukemia cell (Dr_Microbe, iStock by Getty Images)

New drug brings hope in acute leukemia battle, Hebrew U researchers say

By Shoshanna Solomon

Tests show 50% cure rate in lab mice; single molecule targets many leukemia proteins, and activates a tumor suppressor gene; clinical trials hoped to start in US in 2019

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian president Bashar Assad, right, meeting with Iran's Defense Minister Amir Hatami, in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018. (SANA via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Iran inks deal to help rebuild Syrian army, says Assad allies ‘ready to respond’

By Tamar Pileggi

Tehran official claims Netanyahu keeping Mideast in state of conflict to damage Tehran’s economy, calls his threats to strike Iranian forces in Syria ‘far from reality’

6:31 pm

McCain, in posthumous message, warns of hateful 'tribal rivalries'
6:23 pm

Police arrest third suspect in violent anti-Arab hate crime
6:12 pm

Hamas official says group will continue to strengthen even if truce reached

Illustrative photo of Israelis enjoying the beaches of the Sea of Galilee, northern Israel, on April 1, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel enters 6th year of worst-in-a-century drought, girds for even worse

Israelis, as yet largely unaffected due to mass desalination, urged to conserve in Water Authority ad campaign as officials warn water use may be curtailed next year

People swim in two freshwater pools that rest under a large waterfall of the Nahal Zavitan. (Phil Sussman/Flash90)

Zavitan Stream reopens to public after danger of bacterial infection passes

Nahal El Al (Screen capture: YouTube)

Golan Heights stream closed to waders over E. coli fears

A Yiddish newspaper comic depicting a noted intellectual as praying to Karl Marx. (Yale University Press)

How the stereotype of Jews and money goes beyond the Pale (of Settlement)

By JP O’ Malley

Advanced rocket purchased by the Defense Ministry on August 27, 2018. (Israel Military Industries)

Defense Ministry inks deal with Israeli firm for new precision rockets

Surface-to-surface missile system more exact than artillery fire and ostensibly safer than aerial attacks, which can require planes to enter enemy territory

Syria, Iran agree to expand defense ties, amid efforts to remove forces

By ToI Staff and AFP

Macron: Europe can no longer depend on US for security

By AFP

Iran urges UN court to halt ‘economic strangulation’ by US

Yossi Kuperwasser

Time to admit it: the PA sponsors terror

Israel claims it does everything to protect its citizens, but won’t call the PA out as a ’terror-sponsoring entity’ or change tactics accordingly

Occupation blindness

5 reasons most Israelis tread the path of ignorance when it comes to their neighbors in the West Bank and Gaza

Matt Nesvisky, a journalist of rare talent

The sharp-witted reporter and critic engaged readers and entertained colleagues — no matter which name he wrote under

Yaron Fishelson

Stanford’s new defense of Zionism

Those who bully students based on their country of origin, national pride, or political affiliation are no longer welcome on the Farm

John McCain (with Joe Lieberman) visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City March 19, 2008. (Nati Shohat /FLASH90)

Israel media review

An officer, a gentleman and a true friend: 5 things to know for August 27

By Tamar Pileggi

Death of John McCain is a rare unifying moment for Israeli politicians, as both the right and left honor the veteran US senator for his stalwart support of Israel

McCain services set for Phoenix, Washington and Annapolis

By Laurie Kellman

From the webReport: Trump refused to issue statement praising McCain

McCain’s life of nonconformist politics exemplified by one vote

Backpiece by 'Lew the Jew' Alberts on San Francischo tattooer C.J. 'Pop' Eddy's promotional flyer, c. 1920. (Courtesy/ Don Ed Hardy)

Indelible legacy

How a nice Jewish boy helped break America’s tattoo taboo

By Rich Tenorio

In this file photo taken on July 27, 2006 playwright Neil Simon speaks onstage during the 2006 Summer Television Critics Association Press Tour for PBS held at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, California (AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / FREDERICK M. BROWN)

Appreciation

Gentle humor was the lifeblood of playwright Neil Simon

Audiences embraced the Jewish writer’s work, which often focused on middle-class, urban life, many of the plots drawn from his own personal experience

American playwright Neil Simon answers questions during an interview in Seattle, Washington, on September 22, 1994. Simon, a master of comedy whose laugh-filled hits such as "The Odd Couple," "Barefoot in the Park" and his "Brighton Beach" trilogy dominated Broadway for decades, died on August 26, 2018. He was 91. (AP Photo/Gary Stuart, File)

1927-2018Neil Simon, Broadway’s prolific master of comedy, dies at 91

By Mark Kennedy

More Headlines

SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum (l) and PepsiCo’s CEO Ramon Laguarta at the SodaStream factory in Israel’s Negev Desert next to the city of Rahat on August 20, 2018. (Eliran Avital)

SodaStream to give out bonuses to mark $3.2 billion sale to PepsiCo

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: A smart phone with a warning of a hacking attack. (iStock from Getty Images/ CarmenMurillo)

Hackers send hundreds of thousands of fake texts from Cellcom, McDonald’s

Riot police following the cancellation of a city festival on August 26, 2018 in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, after a 35-year-old German national died in the hospital following a "dispute between several people of different nationalities," according to the police. (AFP Photo/dpa/Andreas Seidel)

Merkel condemns ‘hunting down’ of foreigners as far-right calls new protest

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures while addressing police force to mark the 117th Philippine National Police Service anniversary at Camp Crame in suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines, on August 8, 2018. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Philippines president denies his Israel trip next week is for medical reasons

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A view from the entrance of the Robinson's Arch prayer platforms, April 2018. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/ToI)

Egalitarian Western Wall plaza said to get swift approval through legal loophole

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

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)

Thousands sign petition seeking Corbyn’s ouster over Labour anti-Semitism

The Kehilat Yonatan progressive congregation at prayer in the central Israeli city of Hod Hasharon. (Kehilat Yonatan website)

Reform congregation wins right to build synagogue in central Israeli town

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks, visiting the the Choral Synagogue in Vilnius, on August 26, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Petras Malukas)

At Vilnius synagogue, Netanyahu warns Jews are still under threat

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

Haredi party says it wouldn’t have toppled government over Tel Aviv bridge

By Raoul Wootliff

A woman walks toward the Russian Orthodox Church headquarters in the St. Daniel Monastery in Moscow, Russia, Aug. 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Russian US election hackers targeted Orthodox patriarch, Ukrainian Jewish leader

By Raphael Satter

Illustrative: A girl sitting on a couch. (iStock from Getty Images/Wandeaw)

Couple charged with streaming bedroom, bathroom video of their children

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and his wife Sara in Jerusalem, on May 16, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Attorney general said to reject Sara Netanyahu plea deal in expenses case

By Raoul Wootliff

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