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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 28, 2018

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US President Donald Trump (right) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, July 7, 2017. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

InterviewNew book links Putin, oligarchs, Russian mafia... and Trump

Bestselling US author: ‘Russian asset’ Trump doesn’t truly care for Israel, Jews

By David Horovitz

Craig Unger, author of ‘House of Trump, House of Putin,’ urges Israel to be wary of dangerous, unprincipled US president, and even more so of Russian leader who helped install him

Sen. John McCain of Arizona salutes before addressing the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012 (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

‘Do not despair’: Full text of John McCain’s farewell statement

Senator expresses gratitude and love of country in final letter, and, in parting shot at Trump, implores Americans to put aside ‘tribal rivalries’ and focus on what unites

Trump, under pressure to honor McCain, says he ‘respects’ his service

By Jerome Cartillier and Robyn Beck

McCain takes parting shot at Trump in final message

By AFP

Former Vietnamese jailer mourns McCain: ‘I feel very sad’

By Tran Vah Minh

Members of the Ugandan-Jewish Abuyudaya community in Israel on a Birthright trip organized by MAROM participate in a ceremony celebrating the dedication of a new Torah scroll at the Western Wall's egalitarian prayer pavilion, August 27, 2018. (Courtesy MAROM)

Abayudaya youth on first Israel trip welcome new Torah scroll at Western Wall

By Yaakov Schwartz

Social Equality Minister Gila Gamliel speaks at the weekly cabinet meeting at the PM's office in Jerusalem, March 25, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Likud minister says there should be no religious political parties

By Michael Bachner

Attacking her own ruling party’s coalition partners, Gila Gamliel says ‘politics is a matter of compromise and religion is simply unyielding’

Minister urges prosecution of Arab MK ‘traitors’ who seek UN censure of Israel

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Finance Ministry said ignoring requests to uphold law against state disloyalty

Netanyahu says Likud aiming to win 40 Knesset seats in next election

By Raoul Wootliff

Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives leave the family home, in Baltimore, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018, of the suspect in a mass shooting earlier in the day in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Florida shooting suspect had history of mental illness

By Michael Biesecker and David McFadden

Court records show David Katz played video games obsessively as a young adolescent, often refusing to go to school or to bathe, and was twice hospitalized in psychiatric facilities

Jacksonville, Florida shooting suspect David Katz, alleged to have killed two and taken his own life, August 26, 2018 (YouTube screenshot)

Florida gunman may have pinpointed his victims with a laser dot

By Agencies and ToI Staff

J.K. Rowling at the opening night of the Broadway show “Harry Potter and The Cursed Child” at The Lyric Theater in New York City, April 22, 2018. (Bruce Glikas/Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic via JTA)

J.K. Rowling takes on ‘anti-Semite’ fellow author in Twitter spat over Corbyn

By JTA

Simon Maginn attacks ‘Zionists’ in support of UK Labour Party leader; Harry Potter author challenges, ‘What other minority would you speak to this way?’

BDS uses bloody poster to protest Israeli orchestra in Chile; concert unaffected

Greek anarchists protest deepening Israel ties, US embassy move

By AP and ToI Staff

Pro-Israel donor Adam Milstein denies report that he funds Canary Mission

By JTA

View of the Jewish outpost of Mitzpe Kramim, June 5, 2012. (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Court green-lights legalization of West Bank outpost, paving way for dozens more

In precedent-setting decision, judges apply ‘market regulation’ tactic to regulate Mitzpe Kramim where residents were deemed to have built illegally, but in good faith

6:21 pm

Israel to more than double number of its F-35s in 2019
6:21 pm

Shooting suspect David Katz was able to buy guns despite mental illness
6:02 pm

Russia to hold biggest military drills since Cold War

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi attending a military ceremony in Paris in October 2017. (AFP/Pool/Charles Platiau)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Egypt and Qatar are working on 2 very different deals for Gaza; both are stalled

The rivals are pushing for conflicting sequences en route to a truce with Israel, and for a different end result. Oh, and there’s a battle for credit, too

Hamas official Osama Hamdan (AP/Bilal Hussein)

Hamas official says terror group will continue to arm even if truce reached

Illustrative: A missile launched from Palmachim air base in central Israel on July 4, 2018. (Defense Ministry)

Liberman says Israel developing missiles to hit anywhere in Mideast

By AFP and ToI Staff

IDF forces demolishing the home of Palestinian terrorist Muhammad Yousef in the West Bank village of Kobar on August 28, 2018. (IDF)

IDF razes home of terrorist who killed Israeli in West Bank settlement

By Michael Bachner

A month after deadly stabbing attack, defense minister says he made good on his promise to family of late Yotam Ovadia

Illustrative: Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces as demonstrations near the Hawara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus May 14, 2018. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

IDF fires on car speeding toward troops at Joseph’s Tomb in West Bank

Karen Alkalay-Gut

The blank spot where my poem once hung in Yad Vashem

I wrote about seeing my grandmother in a photo through the eyes of a German WWI soldier — some visitors saw it as a mirror

Yossi Klein Halevi

Dear Raja, I want to be your neighbor not your occupier

I don’t need you to adopt my narrative, I need you to know that peace won’t be possible unless we recognize each other’s right to exist

Avidan Freedman

Myanmar has learned the lessons of the Holocaust. All too well.

’Never again’ must also mean that Israel will not abet a genocidal regime

The real culprit contaminating Golan Heights streams

Don’t blame the rats and cows — the cause lies in low rainfall linked to climate change

Ivanka Trump, center, and White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, right, listen to US President Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House, in Washington, November 20, 2017. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Analysis

As US buries era of evenhandedness, will shift bring Palestinians to the table?

US analysts are divided on whether cutting aid to the PA and rejecting UNRWA’s definition of refugees is the right move, or whether it will further alienate Palestinians

Netanyahu says he sees path to Palestinian peace through ties with Arab states

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel media reviewKeeping the peace: 8 things to know for August 28

By Joshua Davidovich

Iran minister says Netanyahu keeping Mideast unstable to harm Tehran’s economy

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iran's army chief of staff Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, left, looking into binoculars, and other senior officers from the Iranian military, visit a front line in the northern province of Aleppo, Syria, on October 20, 2017. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP, File)

Hezbollah-linked site says US offered to leave Syria if Iran withdrew from south

Damascus said to reject secret American proposal, which also demanded oil and info on terrorists, citing ‘strong relationship’ with allies Tehran and Hezbollah

Iran lawmakers grill Rouhani on economic woes, reject his answers

By AFP

Iran, Syria sign defense, reconstruction deal

By AFP

US rejects UN court jurisdiction in Iran sanctions case

By Roland Lloyd Parry

More Headlines

Protesters gather for a far-right protest in Chemnitz, Germany, August 27, 2018, after a man died and two others were injured, in an altercation between several people of "various nationalities," in the eastern German city of Chemnitz on Sunday. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

German police keep protesters apart after killing blamed on foreigners

By AP

Illustrative: Security seen at the departure hall of Ben Gurion International Airport on July 23, 2013. Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Ben Gurion Airport to fire guard who tear-gassed Druze family

Likud MK David Bitan attends a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset, February 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-coalition whip grilled for 9th time in bribery probe

Emmanuel mayor Ezra Gershi speaks in his office in December 11, 2011. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Mayor of ultra-Orthodox settlement charged with buying votes

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Hate crime victims Muhammad Yusifin, Muatasim Ayoub and Mawd Ayoub at a solidarity event in Shfaram, on August 28, 2018. (screen capture: channel 10)

Arab hate crime victims say outpouring of support ‘gives them hope’

French parliament member Meyer Habib. (Erez Lichtfeld)

French parliament evacuated over white powder sent to Jewish lawmaker

By JTA

The Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Half-bakedAfter outcry, Amsterdam’s Anne & Frank Bakery gives up name

Illustrative image of an equestrian event. (Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images via JTA)

Israeli equestrian pulls out of world championships due to Yom Kippur conflict

By JTA

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

Ben Kingsley: I wanted to nail Eichmann to the gates of Auschwitz

By John Carucci

A mosquito bites a person. (iStock from Getty Images/fotomarekka)

Health Ministry announces third death in West Nile fever outbreak

Ambassador Princeton Lyman in the Treaty Room at the Department of State, Washington, DC, March 31, 2011. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images via JTA)

Princeton Lyman, diplomat who helped plan Ethiopian Jewish airlift, dies at 82

A Jewish Israeli teen is brought for a court hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, on suspicion of issuing fake bomb threats against Jewish institutions in the US and around the world, on March 23, 2017. (Flash90)

Father of JCC bomb hoaxer claims son went on hunger strike over jail conditions

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