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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 2, 2018

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) meets with Jason Greenblatt, the US president's assistant and special representative for international negotiations, at Abbas's office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, March 14, 2017. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Says he and Shin Bet head agree on 99% of security issues

Abbas voices support for tripartite ‘confederation’ with Israel and Jordan

By Raphael Ahren

In meeting with Israeli peace activists, PA leader appears to dramatically depart from longstanding insistence on a two-state solution

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

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visiting a school in the community of Yad Binyamin on the first day of the school year, September 2, 2018. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Netanyahu hails US defunding of ‘refugee perpetuation agency’ UNRWA

By Michael Bachner

PM says Israel has integrated people who’ve lost their homes, but the UN agency hasn’t; Foreign Ministry says body’s activities ‘aimed at the destruction’ of Israel

Palestinians consider going to UN over UNRWA funding cut

EU urges US to reconsider its defunding of UNRWA, but also calls for reform

By ToI Staff and Agencies

UN said to warn Gaza health, sanitation services on verge of collapse

The stars of 1980s sitcoms 'Yes Minister' and 'Yes, Prime Minister' outside Parliament, with Nigel Hawthorne (Sir Humphrey Appleby) at left and Paul Eddington (Jim Hacker) center. (Courtesy BBC)

No prime minister

UK’s acclaimed ‘Yes Minister’ writer skewers Corbyn in Times letter on irony

Jonathan Lynn wonders how he could have penned iconic satire, since ‘I am Jewish’ and Labour’s leader ‘says I don’t understand English irony’; episode of show dealt with Zionism

Former UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in an interview with BBC on September 2, 2018. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Former UK chief rabbi warns of ‘existential threat’ to British Jews by Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn at a Labour event in Stretford, England, March 22, 2018. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

UK Labour lawmakers said set to quit party over anti-Semitism scandal

From left to right: 'We Are British Jews' participants Simon, Lilly, Alan, Joseph, Damon, Emma and Ella at the top of Masada, on the final filming day in Israel. (Lion Television/ Strahila Royachka)

Amid rising anti-Semitism, BBC sends 8 British Jews to Israel for new TV show

By Jenni Frazer

In this September 11, 2017, photo, singer/songwriter Paul McCartney performs on stage at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. (Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP)

The long and winding road

Paul McCartney says he ‘saw God’ during psychedelic drug trip

By AP and ToI Staff

Former Beatle was ‘humbled’ by vision while on Dimethyltryptamine, though it ‘didn’t turn my life around’

President Rodrigo Duterte gestures to his security not to provide him an umbrella as he 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, Aug. 8, 2018. With him is Philippine Natinal Police Chief Gen. Oscar Albayalde. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Duterte due in Israel to gun for new arms, honor Philippines’ past saving Jews

By Raphael Ahren

Hardliner president, who once favorably compared himself to Hitler, will lay wreath at monument honoring his country’s work to help 1,300 Jews escape the Nazis

Participants of the Teachers' Lounge coexistence project at a promenade overlooking Jerusalem. (Courtesy: Eyal Tagar)

Where ‘the other’ fears to tread: Teachers learn tolerance, so they can teach it

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) embraces King Abdullah II of Jordan as he arrives to meet with him at the Royal Palace in the capital Amman on August 8, 2018. (AFP/Pool/Khalil Mazraawi)

Live updates (closed)

Amman said to reject US proposal for Jordanian-Palestinian confederation

By Tamar Pileggi

Kingdom ‘not willing’ to discuss Trump administration peace plan, says government remains committed to 2 state solution

6:32 pm

Trump team mum on Palestinian-Jordanian confederation proposal
6:25 pm

Spokesman says US aid cuts will not destroy UNRWA
6:04 pm

Pentagon witholding $300M in aid to Pakistan

A Palestinian man near the UNRWA relief and social program office in Gaza City on January 8, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

Israel media review

Trump’s magical defunding: 7 things to know for September 2

By Joshua Davidovich

The latest US slash to Palestinian aid is celebrated by some in Israel as the beginning of the end to refugee claims, but not everyone agrees

A Palestinian woman sits with a child after receiving food supplies from the United Nations' offices at the United Nations' offices in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, February 11, 2018. (AFP/Said Khatib)

After defunding UNRWA, US said seeking to limit others’ aid to it, then close it

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Pakistani soldiers patrol outside a voting material distribution center in Lahore on July 24, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / WAKIL KOHSAR)

US looking to slash $300 million in Pakistan military aid

By AFP

Bracha Goldstein

The first day of school — a mother’s lament

The kids are out of the house after the long summer break so why am I not ecstatic?

Dear rabbis: Please aim to offend us all

We don’t have time to see whether civil discourse alone will solve the slew of problems wrought by racism, greed and xenophobia

Sivan Rahav Meir

Trump gets UNRWA better than Israel does

The 5 million fake-refugees are getting in the way of the Palestinians in real need of funds for education and infrastructure

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Too few Jews, Pew! Where are the ‘secular maximalists’? The Sunday brunchers?

The US research center established a new typology of religion with seven categories — wait, only seven?

Zvi Frank, a former pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and now the CEO of the startup Zemingo, at his office in Herzliya; in the background is a poster of his daughter with his do,. August 20, 2018 (Shoshanna Solomon; Times of Israel)

A day in the (tech) life

Entrepreneurs don’t have to make the wave; they must surf it, says Zemingo CEO

By Shoshanna Solomon

Zvi Frank, whose startup makes software that makes objects ‘smart’, is a former air force pilot; being an entrepreneur is a ‘disease’ he loves, and he also has an Emmy award

Students walk through the Tel Aviv University campus in Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Tel Aviv University produces most entrepreneurs in Israel, PitchBook says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Hasidic history

A tiny Russian village of Chabad fame dreams of becoming Jewish pilgrimage site

Running water, gas and electricity are not readily available in the birthplace of one of the world’s biggest Hasidic movements, but rising tourism may change that

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar in the Jewish Museum in Moscow, on June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

‘Putin’s rabbi’ said to have secretly visited Iran

More Headlines

Illustrative. An explosion reportedly caused by an Israeli strike is seen at the Mazzeh military base near Damascus, Syria, on September 2, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

2 pro-regime fighters said killed in purported Israeli strike in Syria

By AFP and ToI Staff

First-grade students sit in a classroom on their first day of school at Efrata elementary school in Jerusalem, on September 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

2.3 million Israeli kids back in class as school year begins

Screen capture from a video message by Rabbi Rachel Cowan to Congress asking lawmakers to not repeal the Affordable Care Act, July 20 2017. (YouTube/Auburn Seminary)

‘Mother of Jewish healing’ dies after battle with cancer

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

Joe Lieberman lauds McCain’s sensitivity to Jewish observance, love of Jerusalem

Security forces search the Tekoa settlement after a Palestinian man attempted to attack an Israeli man nearby on September 2, 2018. (Screen capture)

Palestinian man tries to attack settler with metal rod – IDF

By Judah Ari Gross

Thousands attend a protest in Tel Aviv, against the plan to build gas rig 10 kilometers from the Israeli coastline on September 1, 2018. The signs read 'don't poison us.' (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Thousands in Tel Aviv rally against gas platform being built near coast

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi (YouTube screenshot)

Tehran denies providing ballistic missiles to Iraqi militias

A animation showing the 1944 sinking of the ferry SF Hydro, that was being used by the Nazis to transport heavy water from Norway to Germany (screen capture: YouTube.)

U-turnTV show examines boat sinking that halted Nazi nuke program

Lana Del Ray attends the 2015 Billboard Women in Music honors at Cipriani 42nd Street on Friday, Dec. 11, 2015, in New York (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Israeli festival organizers accuse Lana Del Ray of publicity stunt in nixed gig

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak (R) in a photo that went online on August 31, 2018. (Twitter)

Leaked photo of frail Hosni Mubarak sparks social media furor

Beno Reinhorn, a youth sports coach suspected of molesting dozens of underage girls online, is seen at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on August 20, 2018. (Flash90)

Sports coach to be charged with molesting dozens of girls online

Rescue workers are seen at the scene of a fire at a building in Jaffa on September 2, 2019. (Screen capture: Ynet)

Couple killed by fire in Jaffa building

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