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What Matters Most On Friday, August 31, 2018

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Breaking the Silence director Avner Gvaryahu is detained by Border Police near the southern West Bank outpost of Mitzpeh Yair on August 31, 2018. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Breaking the Silence leaders arrested at West Bank outpost

Activists were visiting Mitzpeh Yair, where 5 members of a Jewish-Arab group were reportedly assaulted by settlers last week; police release them after several hours

IDF indicts officer for breaking Italian activist’s cameras

By Judah Ari Gross

Soldiers nab 3 Palestinians with pipe bombs in northern West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross

Court okays eviction of Jerusalem art gallery that hosted left-wing events

By Alexander Fulbright and Sue Surkes

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, left, briefs the media as Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan listens after unveiling the surface-to-surface Fateh-313, or Conqueror, missile in a ceremony marking Defense Industry Day in Iran, August 22, 2015. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

Iran said to give Iraqi militias ballistic missiles capable of hitting Israel

Move seen as a message to regional enemies; Tehran also training Shiite proxies in its western neighbor to build their own missiles

Satellite photos said to show new Iranian missile factory in Syria

UN warns of fresh Israel-Lebanon war as peacekeeping mandate renewed

Decade-old interrogation of Iraqi cleric shows Iran’s part in killing US troops

Illustrative: An Apple iPhone X (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Lawsuits claim Israeli spyware firm helped UAE regime hack opponents’ phones

According to the NY Times, leaked documents show NSO Group and affiliates actively participated in cyberattacks on individuals sought by emirates

A screen capture showing New York City renamed "Jewtropolis" on the Snapchat messaging app after the source map was vandalized by anti-Semites, on August 30, 2018. (screen capture)

Major online services show New York as ‘Jewtropolis’ in vandalism attack

Mapbox, which provides maps for apps such as Snapchat that carried the anti-Semitic label, acknowledges ‘human error’ in failing to catch ‘disgusting’ change

Adolf Eichmann, so-called 'architect' of the Holocaust, in his prison cell during the time of his 1961 trial in Jerusalem (public domain)

Historical rewrite?

The banality of lies: In ‘Operation Finale,’ Eichmann’s falsehoods are validated

By Matt Lebovic

US President Donald Trump (right) alongside his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner during a meeting at the White House, February 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)

Report: US to announce halt to all UNRWA funding within weeks

Washington Post appears to corroborate previous reports, states administration will also reject refugee status of millions of Palestinians

Germany to boost funding to UNRWA as US pulls back

In Germany’s far-right hotbed, fewer migrants but more fears

By Frank Jordans

Amid aid cuts, Jordan to host fundraiser for Palestinian refugee agency

By AFP and ToI Staff

Residents of south Tel Aviv protest the government's failure to remove tens of thousands of African refugees and asylum seekers from the area's impoverished neighborhoods, on August 30, 2018. (AFP/Jack Guez)

AG orders probe after minister’s photo burned at anti-migrant rally

PM decries act, says government ‘working tirelessly’ to deport asylum seekers, and setting alight picture of Aryeh Deri at south Tel Aviv demonstration is ‘illegitimate’

Residents of south Tel Aviv protest the government's failure to remove tens of thousands of African refugees and asylum seekers from the area's impoverished neighborhoods, on August 30, 2018. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Lawmakers call for probe after minister’s photo burned at anti-migrant rally

Protesters in southern Tel Aviv burn a photo of Interior Minister Aryeh Deri to protest the continued presence of tens of thousands of African asylum seekers in their impoverished neighborhoods, August 30, 2018 (Hadashot screen capture)

Minister’s photo burned at Tel Aviv protest against asylum seekers

By ToI Staff and AP

Analysis

As Labour ‘considers’ IHRA anti-Semitism rules, it practices a sleight of hand

In next week’s vote, far-left party members are expected to accede to Jewish community’s demands on racism — and set loopholes to continue inordinate criticism of Israel

Illustrative: Jeremy Corbyn meets with asylum seekers in Glasgow, Scotland, August 22, 2018. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images via JTA)

British MP Frank Field. (UK Parliament official portrait/Wikipedia/CC BY)

Veteran UK Labour Party lawmaker quits, citing anti-Semitism scandal

By AP and ToI Staff

Vanessa Redgrave attends the 75th Venice Film Festival, where she received a Lifetime Achievement Award, Venice, Italy, August 29, 2018. (Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images via JTA)

Vanessa Redgrave unapologetic about 40-year-old ‘Zionist hoodlums’ remark

By JTA

You’re being punished for your own good

A medieval poet reveals how divine rebuke is a gift for those who deserve it (Ki Tavo)

From fourth grade to kitah daled

Aliyah was hard enough; then my sabra son discovered the pain of living halfway across the world from our families who love us

Michael Feldstein

What my books can tell me

Words that are no less kind or erudite than the published works they decorate inspire me from pages they inscribe

The story we Jews tell about ourselves

In this week’s Torah reading we find the key to why Jewish identity is the strongest the world has ever known

Rivka Michaeli performing onstage. (Reli Avrahami)

Israel’s feisty 80-year-old media ‘lioness’ makes rare NYC appearance

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eldest son Yair Netanyahu is seen at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on June 5, 2018. (Flash90)

Netanyahu’s son also said suspected of taking bribes in Bezeq case

Report says Yair Netanyahu and his mother, Sara, allegedly acted on PM’s behalf to coordinate positive coverage at major news site

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara attends an American Independence Day celebration at Airport City on July 3, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Sara Netanyahu suspected of taking bribes in Bezeq probe, police say

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his dog Kaia at the PM's residence in Jerusalem in December, 2015. (Facebook)

Israel media reviewDead dogs and inactive shooters: 7 things to know for August 31

By Joshua Davidovich

Joint (Arab) List leader Ayman Odeh leads a faction meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem on October 31, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Arab lawmakers blame police neglect for spate of gun killings

After three murdered in Arab towns overnight, legislators say authorities are failing to address rampant violence

The scene of a shooting in Tira, August 30, 2018. (screen capture: Ynet)

Two found shot to death in Tira in suspected double murder

More Headlines

President Rodrigo Duterte, right, reviews the police under a sudden downpour to mark the 117th Philippine National Police Service anniversary at Camp Crame in suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines. Wednesday, August 8, 2018. (AP/Bullit Marquez)

Visit by controversial Philippines strongman sparks ire in Israel

By Charles Dunst

Illustrative photo of people smoking cigarettes. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Ban on smoking in public places to see significant expansion Saturday

Pakistani protesters burn representation of Dutch flags during a protest to condemn the planned anti-Islam cartoon contest, in Karachi, Pakistan, on August 30, 2018. (AP/Fareed Khan)

Dutch anti-Islamist calls off Mohammad cartoon contest after death threats

By AFP

Beck Bennett with Jessy Hodges at the after party for the premiere of HBO’s “Barry” at NeueHouse Hollywood in Los Angeles, March 21, 2018. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images via JTA)

Nostrovia!‘Saturday Night Live’ star Beck Bennett just had a Jewish wedding

By Gabe Friedman

US President Donald Trump throws hats to the crowd during a campaign rally at Ford Center in Evansville, Indiana on August 30, 2018. (AFP/MANDEL NGAN)

Trump claims Russia probe is ‘illegal’

By AFP

US President Donald Trump speaks to a group of supporters at the Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Trump: FBI must start doing its job right or ‘I’ll get involved’

The flag-draped casket of the late US Senator John McCain arrives at the North Phoenix Baptist Church for the memorial service honoring McCain, August 30, 2018 in Phoenix, Arizona. (AFP / Robyn Beck)

McCain called ‘true hero’ in Arizona before final journey to Washington

By Melissa Daniels and Nicholas Riccardi

An employee of the Israeli protection gear manufacturer Masada Armour adjusts a new civilian bulletproof backpack, designed for college students, at the company's headquarters in Julis, in northern Israel, on August 30, 2018. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

Defensive shieldAmericans buy Israeli bulletproof backpacks after Florida shooting

By AFP

Trains belonging to the Nederlandse Spoorwegen national railway company seen at a train station in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Two hurt in Amsterdam rail station stabbing, attacker shot

By AFP

Foreign Ministry workers protesting in Jerusalem on March 24, 2014. The sign reads "Strike here." (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Strike disrupts consular services at Israeli missions abroad

By Raphael Ahren

In this file photograph taken on October 1, 2013, Russian singer and lawmaker Iosif Kobzon attends a press conference in Moscow. (AFP PHOTO / Alexander NEMENOV)

‘Soviet Sinatra,’ who promoted Jewish culture and ties with Israel, dies at 80

By ToI Staff and AFP

Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, New York (screenshot: YouTube)

Man arrested for alleged sexual assault at Brooklyn synagogue

By JTA

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