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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 30, 2018

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Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, speaks during a protest east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on April 6, 2018. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Hamas leader: We’ll fire hundreds of rockets at central Israel if talks fail

Yahya Sinwar says no deal reached yet, but talks continue; reportedly warns terror group can make alarm sirens wail in the Tel Aviv region for six months straight

US President's peace process envoy Jason Greenblatt, left, meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the President's office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

US slams Abbas for trying to torpedo Gaza ceasefire deal

US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman speaks at the official opening ceremony of the US embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US ambassador warns of ‘tremendous prize’ for Hamas if PA is sidestepped on Gaza

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, center, attends a meeting with top decision-making body the Palestinian Central Council, at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on August 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

PA denies TV report Abbas suffering memory loss, limiting work day to 2 hours

After Channel 10 details alleged health woes of Palestinian Authority leader, 83, his office insists it’s ‘business as usual’

As Abbas appears to soften peace demands, PA officials say his views unchanged

By Raphael Ahren

Abbas pans Israel’s ‘racist, apartheid’ nation-state law

In contrast to Trump, US envoy says Israel won’t pay high price for embassy move

Op-ed

Rodrigo Duterte is due in Israel on Sunday. Why are we opening our doors to him?

The Philippines president made headlines with his talk of doing to drug dealers what Hitler did to Jews. Rhetoric aside, apologies notwithstanding, the trouble is it’s not all talk

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte jokes to photographers as he holds an Israeli-made Galil rifle which was presented to him by outgoing Philippine National Police Chief Director General Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa, left, at the turnover-of-command ceremony on April 19, 2018, at Camp Crame in suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son Yair Netanyahu is seen at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on September 17, 2013. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

PM’s son Yair Netanyahu also a suspect in Bezeq probe — TV report

By Itamar Sharon

Investigators said to believe PM’s wife and son may have been involved in deal for positive coverage of family in exchange for illicit benefits

6:33 pm

Netanyahu family rejects as 'absurd' claim PM's son suspected of bribery
6:24 pm

Israeli intel firm: Iran building new missile facility in northern Syria
6:02 pm

Report: IDF officer to be jailed for breaking civilian's cameras in Hebron

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony renaming the nuclear reactor in Dimona to the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center after the late Israeli statesman, on August 29, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

At nuclear facility, Netanyahu lobs stark warning at Iran

By Alexander Fulbright

‘Whoever threatens us with destruction puts himself in similar danger,’ PM says at ceremony renaming Dimona reactor after Shimon Peres

Iran hits back at ‘warmonger’ Netanyahu for warning at nuclear site

By Alexander Fulbright

Liberman: Agreements on ending Syrian civil war don’t apply to Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Top Iran general claims regime could inflict ‘heavy damage’ on US in war

Former British chief rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks (United Synagogue via JTA)

UK Labour: ‘Absurd, offensive’ for ex-chief rabbi to call Corbyn an anti-Semite

Spokesperson dismisses Jonathan Sacks accusation that party chief is a dangerous anti-Semite, says Corbyn’s talk of ‘Zionists’ in 2013 speech was not ‘a synonym for Jewish people’

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival in Tolpuddle, England, Sunday July 22, 2018 (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)

Jeremy Corbyn claimed Israel controls speeches made by British lawmakers

By JTA

The entrance to the Congregation Agudath Achim Cemetery in Freehold Township, New Jersey. (Google Maps)

Tombstones toppled at Jewish cemetery in New Jersey

By JTA

The German Kamelreiterpatrouille, or 'Camel Rider Patrol,' in Southwest Africa, 1906 - 1918. (Budesarchiv Bild); Surviving Herero after the escape through the arid desert of Omaheke in German South-West Africa, modern day Namibia. (Public domain)

Model for murder

Genocide of African tribes was Germany’s Holocaust dress rehearsal, says scholar

By Rich Tenorio

Still no budget for conservation at Western Wall section where boulder fell

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Antiquities Authority says it’s ‘ready to get to work’ shoring up wall adjacent to egalitarian prayer area, but government isn’t transferring necessary funds

Itamar Barnea, 10, with an 11,500-year-old fertility figurine he found in the Upper Galilee in 2016. Photo taken in August 2018. (Assaf Peretz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

8-year-old boy stumbled on rare 11,500-year-old fertility figurine on hike

By Michael Bachner

Judith Colp Rubin

A Jew without a burial site

I would have liked to meet my father at the only place the living can meet the dead, but he insisted on cremation

We need to stop the ’racists’ vs ’anti-Zionists’ slugfest

Ahead of the High Holidays, debates over Israel’s Nation-State bill must become opportunities to listen not to vilify

Redefining ’Palestinian refugee’ is long past due

The unique status afforded to Palestinians is the single biggest stumbling block to achieving peace

Will Kavanaugh overrule Scalia to support religious liberty?

A constitutional ruling by Justice Scalia eradicated prior decisions that protected rituals such as circumcision

Former chairman of IDB Group Nochi Dankner seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on April 23, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Shoshanna Solomon

With ‘king of tycoons’ off to jail, courts signal crackdown on financial crime

Lengthening of Nochi Dankner’s sentence for securities fraud sends clear message that white-collar crime will not be tolerated, say economic observers

Israeli businessman Nochi Dankner at the Tel Aviv District Court on July 4, 2016 (Flash90)

Israel media reviewMessages coded and clear: 9 things to know for August 30

By Joshua Davidovich

The Rosh Hashanah custom of dipping apples in honey had its start among Ashkenazi Jews. (Liron Almog/Flash90)

Making a buzz

Why vegans say it’s a problem for Jews to dip apples in honey on Rosh Hashanah

By Josefin Dolsten

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro addresses a Stand Against Hate rally at Independence Mall in Philadelphia, March 2, 2017. (Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images via JTA)

To lead the charge against Catholic clergy abuse, it helps to be squeaky clean

More Headlines

Yedidya Kellerman, 25, and his wife Kesem (Facebook)

Israeli man, 25, killed on honeymoon in Thailand car crash

Chimpanzee family. (iStock by Getty Images/ apple2499)

Israeli schools largely avoid teaching evolution — report

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan speaks at the Israel Police Independence Day ceremony at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on April 26, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Top Likud minister says early elections likely to be held in March

Former Jordanian prime minister Abdelsalam al-Majali in a TV interview on August 18, 2018. (Screenshot: YouTube/MEMRI)

Jordan PM who signed Israel peace deal: Haifa should be taken by force if we can

By Michael Bachner

Kirk Douglas dotes on his great-granddaughter, Lua Izzy in a picture posted in August 2018. (Cameron Douglas/Instagram via JTA)

Role of a lifetimeKirk Douglas, 101, looks like a loving great-grandfather on Instagram

By Gabe Friedman

The sanctuary at the Washington Hebrew Congregation, a Reform synagogue in Washington DC. (Washington Hebrew Congregation website)

DC police investigate sexual abuse allegations at synagogue preschool

By JTA

Dr. Ronit Almog, left, operating on a C-section delivery alongside local physicians at a hospital in Pindaya, in the Shan state of western Myanmar, August 2018. (Channel 10 screen capture)

Israeli obstetricians bring Western know-how to Myanmar

Illustrative. Young American Jews participating in a Birthright event in Jerusalem. (Dudi Vaknin/ Flash90)

Nearly half of US Jews don’t identify with organized religion, study finds

By JTA

Alma Hernandez is running for the Arizona House of Representatives in November 2018. (Courtesy of Hernandez, via JTA)

25-year-old Mexican-American Jewish woman wins in Arizona primary

By JTA

A photo released by the Israel police shows three bombs captured on the persons of two Palestinian teens at the entrance to a West Bank military court (Israel Police)

Palestinians caught with 3 bombs outside West Bank court

Wings and prayersAs KFC plans an Israel comeback, will the chicken fly this time?

By JTA

The assembly line at Empire Kosher Poultry’s plant in central Pennsylvania is the largest kosher one of its kind in America, with 240,000 chickens and 27,000 turkeys passing through every week. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

1 dead, 17 sick from salmonella in Empire Kosher chicken

By JTA

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