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What Matters Most On Saturday, September 1, 2018

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File: A worker readies a shipment of relief aid to Gaza at the warehouses of the Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organization in Amman, January 22, 2009, in this UNRWA photo. (AP Photo/Mohammad Abu Ghosh)

Netanyahu: Israel backs US move; UNRWA perpetuates conflict

Israel welcomes end of US funding for UN Palestinian refugee agency

By ToI Staff and Agencies

With Trump administration to cut $300 million in planned backing and cease further funds, Yair Lapid says UNRWA ‘provides cover’ to terror, has ‘lost sight of its purpose’

US President Donald Trump speaks during a bill signing event at Harris Conference Center August 31, 2018 in Charlotte, North Carolina. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski

US announces it’s cutting all funding to Palestinian refugee agency

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US President Donald Trump gestures while speaking at the Harris Conference Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Dovish US Jews warn UNRWA cuts endanger Israel’s security

By Eric Cortellessa

File: Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, speaks at a press conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 5, 2017. (Flash90)

Palestinians slam ending of US aid to UNRWA as a ‘flagrant assault’ against them

PA calls on international community to denounce move, accuses America of engaging in ‘annihilation of international law,’ acting on ‘whims of Netanyahu, Adelson’

Palestinians get hair cuts at an UNRWA school in Rafah where they took shelter during the Gaza war, on August 17, 2014 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

UNRWA laments US decision to cut aid, pushes back against criticism

A masked Palestinian protester holding a slingshot stands by smoke rising from burning tyres during a protest near the border with Israel, east of Gaza City on August 31, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Palestinians clash with IDF on Gaza border; 180 said wounded

Musician Lana Del Rey poses for photographers upon arrival at the MTV European Music Awards 2017 in London, Sunday, Nov. 12th, 2017. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Lana Del Rey cancels Israel gig, cites inability to perform for Palestinian fans

American singer capitulates to BDS pressure; had previously said her decision to play Meteor Festival in Galilee was not akin to supporting Israeli government policies

Joint List party leader Ayman Odeh (L) attends a protest against the nation-state law in Tel-Aviv on July 30, 2018 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Arab Israeli MKs said set to appeal to EU to oppose Jewish nation-state law

Israeli security forces are seen at the scene of a stabbing attack in the West Bank settlement of Adam on July 26, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

July saw 15% rise in terror attacks on Israelis — Shin Bet

By JTA

In this Dec. 29, 2016 file photo, released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), a long-range S-200 missile is fired in a military drill in the port city of Bushehr, on the northern coast of Persian Gulf, Iran. (Amir Kholousi, ISNA via AP, File)

Iran plans to boost ballistic and cruise missiles, get new fighter jets and subs

Tehran’s ‘approach to defense diplomacy is based on communication and interaction with all countries, minus the occupying regime of Quds,’ defense official says

Illustrative. Sayyad-3 air defense missiles during inauguration of its production line at an undisclosed location, Iran, according to official information released, July 22, 2017. (Official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Iran rejects French call for talks on missiles, regional interference

By AFP

A woman looks at an exhibit in the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, Poland, on Monday, January 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland computes it lost over 5 million people, $54 billion under Nazi occupation

By AP

Announcement of figures comes amid calls by nationalist government for German reparations over wartime damages

Poland asks US for files on deported ex-Nazi guard

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

German mayor seeks to reassure foreign students after far-right violence

By Frank Jordans

Saxony’s long history with Germany’s far right

By Isabelle Le Page

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US Secretary Of State John Kerry in New York on September 23, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Kerry reveals his lost faith in PM, how Trump choice of envoy influenced UN vote

Obama’s secretary of state lays bare the ups, and numerous downs, of his dealings with Netanyahu; says PM looked ‘under siege, more vulnerable than ever’ during 2014 Hamas war

Naa'imur Zakariyah Rahman. (Metropolitan police)

Islamic State follower jailed for at least 30 years for plot to kill Theresa May

By AP

Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman was convicted last month of planning to blow up the entry gates to 10 Downing Street

Syrians gather at a site of car bomb in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib on August 2, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / OMAR HAJ KADOUR)

US envoys to Syria due in Israel for talks ahead of final battle for Idlib

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party at the Knesset on June 18, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman says Iran’s military activities in Syria significantly reduced

Sarah Tuttle-Singer, on the roof where the four quarters meet, one of her favorite places in the Old City. (Courtesy Karen Brunwasser)

Tuttle-Singer engages readers and trolls with warts-and-all portrayal of Israel

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Rosh HaShanah: What really counts

No small deed goes unnoticed, and no second that passes can be reclaimed

Joshua Hammerman

The rabbis’ moment of ‘truth is truth’

Rome is burning, and religion is relevant again — missing our chance from the pulpit would be spiritual malpractice

Illustrative image of pizza (Public Domain)

Diets that involve shrinking your plate size don’t work, Israeli study says

When you’re hungry, new Ben-Gurion University research shows, your brain is too focused on the food to be fooled by a smaller plate

Robert Goodkind, second from left, a member of the board of the Israel Policy Forum, and Daniel Goodkind, right, his grandson and IPF Atid New York Steering Committee member, attend an event in New York on Israeli Security and Palestinian Politics, September 2017. (Gili Getz/Israel Policy Forum/via JTA)

These millennials still believe in a two-state solution. Are they too late?

By Charles Dunst

Thousands line up to say goodbye to John McCain at US Capitol

By LAURIE KELLMA and Matthew Daly

President Donald Trump, who mocked the longtime senator for being captured during Vietnam War, was asked to stay away from the service

Former US President Bill Clinton plays an Aretha Franklin song on his phone during Franklin's funeral at Greater Grace Temple on August 31, 2018 in Detroit, Michigan. (AFP PHOTO / Angela Weiss)

Say a final prayer: Stars, dignitaries mourn Aretha Franklin at Detroit funeral

By Jennie Matthew

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MEDFORD, MA - AUGUST 31: The Tufts University campus in Medford, MA is pictured on Aug. 31, 2017. (Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

US students say ‘Colonizing Palestine’ university class demonizes Israel

By Penny Schwartz

Lawsuit lays bare use of Israel-made hacking tools in Mideast, Mexico

By Raphael Satter

Illustrative: People hold up placards and Union flags as they gather for a demonstration organized by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism outside the head office of the British opposition Labour Party in central London on April 8, 2018. (AFP/Tolga Akmen)

Former UK minister: Anti-Semitism row risks chances of next Labour government

Illustrative: A Jewish worshiper holds the four plant species as he attends the annual priestly blessing during the Sukkot holiday at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 8, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel bans entry of Sukkot-related plants over disease fears

By JTA

In this Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017photo, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks to members of the media after meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Cuomo said to have frozen Weinstein probe following campaign donation

By JTA

Fabien Di Filippo in the garden of the Quatres Colonnes in the Palais Bourbon, Paris, France, June 21, 2017. (Antoine Lamielle/Wikimedia Commons/JTA)

French Jewish leader blasts politician who called Macron ‘President Rothschild’

By JTA

This undated self-portrait posted on Instagram shows actress Vanessa Marquez (Vanessa Marquez via AP)

‘ER’ actress fatally shot after pointing fake gun at police

By Amanda Lee Meyers

In this September 24, 2015 photo, Aurea Vazquez Rijos, who was accused more than a decade ago of the murder of her husband, the Canadian Adam Anhang, is taken to the Federal Court in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico (Carlos Giusti/El Vocero via AP)

Puerto Rico woman accused of murder-for-hire faked papers to show she was Jewish

The memorial ceremony marking the second anniversary of the death of Shimon Peres, Israel’s ninth president, August 31, 2018 (Flash 90)

Two years after death, Peres remembered as visionary who strived to unite nation

Actress Emmy Rossum attends HBO's Official 2016 Emmy After Party at The Plaza at the Pacific Design Center on September 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

Moving outEmmy Rossum to leave Showtime’s Shameless

A view of the Ramaz school in New York. (Google Street View via JTA)

Prestigious New York Jewish school apologizes for ignoring molestation reports

By JTA

Dutch police officers near the scene of a stabbing attack near the Central Station in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on August 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Alex Furtula)

Amsterdam police study possible terror motive for stabbings

By Aleksandar Furtula

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