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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 4, 2018

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President Reuven Rivlin (right) and President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, Jerusalem, September 4, 2018 (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Duterte says he’ll buy only Israeli weapons… because there are no restrictions

Meeting President Rivlin, Philippines leader says US, Germany, and China impose limitations on arms sales; Rivlin tells him ‘Hitler was the devil himself’

At Yad Vashem, Philippines’ Duterte pledges to fight ‘insane rulers’ like Hitler

By Michael Bachner

Different strokesDuterte gifts Israeli leaders with oil portraits… of themselves

Duterte, in Israel on official visit, orders arrest of political opponent

By AFP

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

UK Labour expected to adopt international anti-Semitism definition, with caveat

Amid sharp criticism of leader Jeremy Corbyn, main opposition party may clarify that criticism of Israeli policies is a matter of free speech

Rival sides protest as UK’s Labour mulls anti-Semitism definition

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Bennett: Arab MKs are supporting ‘anti-Semitism and terrorism’ by backing Corbyn

From our partnerCorbyn ally reelected to Labour’s ruling body despite anti-Semitism rant

Britain's Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves his house in London ahead of a meeting of the party's National executive Committee, in London, Tuesday Sept. 4, 2018 (Nick Ansell/PA via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Labour pro-Israel group slams ‘free speech’ addition to anti-Semitism definition

After months of criticism, UK’s Labour party adopts Jewish community’s definition, but some are angry that it linked the move to defense of Israel criticism

6:59 pm

IDF chief cancels speech, after reports of Israeli strikes in Syria
6:27 pm

Ancient Torah scroll is safe after fire engulfs an iconic museum in Brazil
6:13 pm

Sweden returns Nazi-looted Kokoschka painting to Jewish heir

(Illustration by Avi Katz)

Analysis

My Days of Awe discovery: I have a half-sister

’We told her a bit about ourselves, then moved to the thing Jean most wanted to know. What was he like, the man who had fathered her and raised us?’

Monica Lewinsky (L) walks out of an onstage interview with Yonit Levi of Hadashot news in Jerusalem on September 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In Jerusalem, Monica Lewinsky walks off stage when asked about Clinton

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Former White House intern says the interviewer violated an agreement not to broach the subject; ‘It is more important than ever for women to stand up for themselves’

Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun with their dogs, June 1942. (Bundesarchiv bild)

Investigation

Putin grants authors partial access to secret Soviet archives on Hitler’s death

By JP O’ Malley

Colombia's outgoing president Juan Manuel Santos, center, welcoming newly sworn-in President Ivan Duque at the presidential palace, after his inauguration ceremony in Bogota, Colombia, August 7, 2018. (Colombia's presidential press office/ via AP)

New Colombian president: Palestine recognition ‘irreversible’

By Raphael Ahren

Ivan Duque says he would have liked more discussion of the matter, but won’t overturn predecessor’s lame-duck decision

In this August 23, 2018 photo, the head of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) Pierre Kraehenbuehl speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

UNRWA head signals US defunding won’t shut down agency

Palestinian students receive new studying books inside their classroom, during the first day of a new school year, at one of the UNRWA schools, in Beirut, Lebanon, September 3, 2018. (Hussein Malla/AP)

Defying funding cuts, UN schools for Palestinians open on time in Lebanon

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative. A Fars Air Qeshm cargo plane. (Wikimedia Commons)

Iran using civilian flights to smuggle arms to Hezbollah – report

Western intelligence officials tell Fox News they tracked two unscheduled flights from Tehran to Beirut this month, believed to be carrying parts for Iranian weapons factories

Despite Trump’s warning, Russian airstrikes batter Syria’s Idlib — monitor

In threat to Iran, IDF general says another war in the north will be the last

By Judah Ari Gross

Netanyahu: Closer ties to Arab world are the silver lining of ‘bad’ Iran deal

Russian Navy Captain Alexander Shvarts stands in front of an artillery system on the Russian missile cruiser Moskva as it patrols in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Syria, on December 17, 2015. (Max Delany/AFP)

Russian drill in Mediterranean expected to disrupt Israel flights this weekend

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Airports Authority says flight paths around Cyprus will need to be redirected, likely causing delays during one of the busiest travel periods of the year

Hasidic pilgrims praying near the burial site of Rebbe Nahman of Bratslav in Uman, Ukraine, September 14, 2015. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images via JTA)

Thousands believed swindled in suspected flight scam to Ukraine holy site

By Stuart Winer

Jewish Home MK Moti Yogev (r) remonstrates with Joint (Arab) List MKs at Ben Gurion airport on September 3, 2018. (Screen capture: Ynet news)

At airport, Jewish Home MK urges Arab colleagues to emigrate from Israel

View of the train and tracks during a test drive of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv high-speed train in central Israel on January 16, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Disasters drilled on Jerusalem-Ben Gurion fast rail ahead of opening in 3 weeks

Israel Railways mounts exercises to extract ‘blaze victims’ from Israel’s longest tunnel, evacuate injured from underground platform

Twinkle, twinkle, burnt-out star

The Days of Awe force us to seek balance between wonderment at God’s universe and finding a meaningful place within it

This J-Date brings together Israelis and Arabs

The revival of an extinct plant has sown seeds of hope and collaboration between scientists throughout the Middle East

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at a conference in Jerusalem on September 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel’s AG: Nation-state law does not harm fundamental rights of minorities

Avichai Mandelblit says the legislation does not override existing provisions for equality; critics say the law makes groups like Arabs and the Druze second-class citizens

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at a Channel 12 News conference in Jerusalem on September 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG decries attacks on media, in veiled criticism of Netanyahu

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice minister: If Netanyahu wins 40 seats the left will gain power

Young women listen to a party member of the right wing Sweden Democrats in Stockholm, Sweden, Friday, August 31, 2018. (AP/Michael Probst)

Far-right Swedish politicians make anti-Semitic statements, mock Anne Frank

By Agencies and ToI Staff

‘Coolest Jew in the shower room,’ wrote one representative of the Sweden Democrats on a Russian social media network, alongside a picture of the murdered Jewish girl

Israel media reviewThe Nazis you do not see: 9 things to know for September 4

By Joshua Davidovich

Paris man says he was robbed, then beaten because he is Jewish

By JTA

Alleged Brussels Jewish museum attack accomplice jailed for extortion in France

By AFP

More Headlines

Newborn babies at the EMMS Hospital in Nazareth on October 31, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Tamar and Mohammad still on top of Israel’s baby name list

The Israeli Embassy building in Berlin, Germany (Screen capture Google Street View)

Threat letters containing white powder sent to Israeli, US embassies in Berlin

Illustrative: A team of surgeons operating in the hospital (iStock)

Israel, US researchers develop software that predicts blood pressure instability

By Shoshanna Solomon

This March 29, 2017, photo shows the 666 Fifth Avenue skyscraper, center, controlled by Kushner Cos., in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Kushner family firm owes $500k in unpaid fines to NYC

By Bernard Condon

Undated picture of Lisa Jackson Pulver, a Jewish member of the Aboriginal tribe called the Wiradjuri. (From 'Hand in Hand: Jewish and Indigenous people working together' by Anne Sarzin and Lisa Miranda Sarzin.)

Aboriginal Jewish woman appointed deputy vice-chancellor at University of Sydney

By henry Benjamin

In this September 21, 2016 file photo, then Chilean President Michelle Bachelet speaks during the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

New UN human rights chief has survived torture herself

Israel's Netta Barzilai after winning the final of the 63rd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, on May 12, 2018. (AFP/Francisco Leong)

Eurovision demands Israel host event without political, religious restrictions

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

A clip shows an altered photo of Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, a strong government critic and ethnic German, sporting a hairstyle and moustache like Adolf Hitler. (Screenshot/Facebook)

Romania government adviser sparks outrage by comparing president to Hitler

By AFP

People attend a concert to protest far-right rallies on September 3, 2018, in Chemnitz, eastern Germany. (AFP Photo/John MacDougall)

Huge crowds pack anti-racism gig, as Merkel urges Germans to speak out

By John MACDOUGALL and Claudia BATHE

American-born Israeli businesswoman Shari Arison, owner of Arison Holdings, in Jerusalem, March 4, 2013. (Flash90)

Israel’s richest woman to sell controlling stake in country’s largest bank

By Stuart Winer and Shoshanna Solomon

The apartment where 8 children were found living after women in 'Taliban-style" Jewish sect arrested in Jerusalem on suspicion of child kidnapping, neglect, September 4, 2018 (Police Spokesman's Unit)

2 women from ‘Taliban’ Jewish cult held on suspicion of child abduction, neglect

Israeli director Amos Gitai attends a photocall for the film "A Letter to a Friend in Gaza," presented out of competition on September 3, 2018, during the 75th Venice Film Festival, at Venice Lido. (AFP Photo/Alberto Pizzoli)

Director Amos Gitai accuses government of ‘cozying up to anti-Semites’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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