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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 5, 2018

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Rabbi Eliezer Berland shrouds himself with his talit (prayer shawl) at the Magistrates Court in Jerusalem, as he is put on trial for sexual assault charges, November 17, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

ToI investigatesThe #MeToo moment of the Bratslav Hasidic community

The ex-aides of a messianic, sex-convict rabbi fight from within to cast him out

By Marissa Newman

Bratslav hasidic leaders have issued a rare ban on Eliezer Berland, a cult leader seen as a modern ‘Sabbatai Tzvi’; the rest of the Haredi world is proving reluctant to follow suit

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 ‘Jewish Taliban’ moms remanded on suspicion of child abduction, neglect

Illustrative: The Ramaz School’s Morris and Ida Newman Education Center in New York City. (Manhattan Sideways via JTA)

‘It made me want to cry’: Ramaz school reacts to report on sexual abuse

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)

Jewish leader: Corbyn fought for the rights of anti-Semites

Corbyn tried in vain to give Labour the okay to say Israel’s existence is racist

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Party leader, himself accused of anti-Semitism, was rebuffed when asserting it should not be regarded as anti-Semitic to call Israel, or the circumstances of its foundation, racist

UK Labour adopts full anti-Semitism definition, but adds ‘free speech’ caveat

By ToI Staff and Agencies

UK Jewish groups divided on Labour’s adoption of anti-Semitism definition

By Michael Bachner, ToI Staff and David P. Alexander

‘Cancer, Jew boy’: UK police probing dozens of Labour anti-Semitism allegations

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)

IDF says it has bombed over 200 Iranian targets in Syria since 2017

By Judah Ari Gross

Military warns US ending support for UNRWA could further destabilize Gaza, as ceasefire talks with Hamas appear precarious

Israel media reviewTwo-hundred-and-two and counting: 10 things to know for September 5

By Joshua Davidovich

Israeli planes said to attack Iranian military sites in Syria

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Military chief touts readiness for war in letter to ministers

Live updates (closed)

Trump denies he discussed assassination of Syria’s Assad

By Tamar Pileggi

US president says account in explosive tell-all book by journalist Bob Woodward a ‘work of fiction’

6:41 pm

Trump denies he discussed assassinating Assad
6:27 pm

Rockers Of Montreal bolt Israel festival, denounce 'apartheid'
6:25 pm

Hamas operative said killed in Gaza explosion

US Ambassador David Friedman speaking during a reception to mark the Jewish New Year on September 5, 2018. (Screencapture/US Embassy video)

Friedman: We’ve thrown $10b at Palestinians; peace isn’t a millimeter closer

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Explaining why Trump defunded UNRWA, ambassador to Israel complains that US taxpayers’ funds were used to perpetuate refugee problem; also slams PA stipends to terrorists

Abbas said to rebuff Trump request to meet; wants Kushner, Greenblatt fired

Spain says US losing Mideast mediator role due to ‘alignment’ with Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

UK to boost its funding of Palestinian refugee agency

Palestinians chant slogans and wave flags during clashes at the Erez Crossing along the border with Israel on September 4, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Israel shutters Gaza pedestrian crossing after border clashes

Army says Erez to remain closed until damage by Palestinian rioters is repaired; humanitarian cases to be approved on case-by-case basis

Majority of Israelis back truce talks with Hamas – poll

By Alexander Fulbright

Hamas leader insistent there’s no ceasefire deal with Israel

Several Gazans said wounded by IDF during riot near Erez crossing

By Agencies and ToI Staff

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands during their joint statement at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)

Kerry’s memoir decries ‘disrespectful’ Netanyahu, who ‘distorted’ Iran deal

By Eric Cortellessa

Lamenting the PM’s 2015 address to Congress, former US secretary of state says administration ‘deserved better than a speech that hit below the belt’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a remembrance ceremony at the Paneriai Holocaust Memorial near Vilnius, Lithuania, on August 24, 2018. (AFP Photo/Petras Malukas)

Foreign Ministry says it will seek an ‘improved’ Iran deal in 2019

Demonstrators wave Palestinian flags as they try to prevent a tractor from paving an access road to the West Bank Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar on July 4, 2018. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

High Court okays demolition of West Bank Bedouin village

Judges say order preventing razing of Khan al-Ahmar will be lifted in 7 days, bringing a seeming end to years-long legal battle

Illustrative: Border Police officers at a West Bank checkpoint, January 2017 (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

2 Border Police officers arrested for repeatedly robbing Palestinian drivers

Jason Dov Greenblatt

Donald Trump wants this to be a new year of shalom, salaam, peace

’It is unfortunate that the Palestinian leadership condemns a peace plan they have never seen’

Erris Langer Klapper

’Operation Finale’ and my grandmother’s obsession

In the midst of bearing witness to human depravity, Israel saw what it means to pursue justice, rather than revenge

On the impossibility of space travel

How NASA proved the Rambam wrong

Joshua Hammerman

PHOTO ESSAY: The world through the eyes of children

A story of hope and resilience and innocence reclaimed

In this Monday, Sept. 3, 2018 photo, released by the Tower of David Museum, a visitor uses goggles on a new virtual reality tour that allows visitors to experience how archaeologists believe Jerusalem looked 2,000 years ago (Tomer Zmora/Tower of David Museum via AP)

Historical lens

Virtual reality tour brings ancient Jerusalem to life

By Ilan Ben Zion

Visitors will be able to ‘walk the streets’ of the city at the time of King Herod in the first century BCE

Illustrative: People watch fireworks during a show to mark Israel's 70th Independence Day in Tel Aviv on April 18, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ahead of Jewish new year, Israel’s population at 8.9 million, largely content

By Michael Bachner

Central Bureau of Statistics data shows 89% of Israelis satisfied with their lives, more than half exercise regularly, and life expectancy still one of highest in the world

Two Jews walking down a street in Antwerp, Belgium, August 22, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Belgian heatwave puts a cherished Rosh Hashanah tradition on ice

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A view of the fire at Brazil’s National Museum, September 2, 2018. (Tania Rego/Agencia Brasil via JTA)

Medieval Torah scroll safe from fire that engulfed Brazil museum

By Marcus M. Gilban

Ty Jones, left, and Bob Mehl, patrons of the Souris Valley Golf Course, play off a modified green on the 18 hole course shortened to nine by the rising Souris River Thursday, June 23, 2011 in Minot, N.D., (Illustrative photo: AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Fore! Israel drone system to drop food to North Dakota golfers

By Shoshanna Solomon

Tech startup Flytrex, which also services hungry Icelanders, contracted to make sure those playing the Kings Walk Golf Course don’t have to rough it on the fairway

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Citi's office in Tel Aviv with names of fintech accelerator companies (Courtesy Sivan Farag)

Global giants boost funding to Israel fintech startups

By Shoshanna Solomon

A Tnuva plant near Jerusalem on May 1, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Tnuva hit with Israel’s largest-ever antitrust fine for price fixing

Former Supreme Court president Dorit Beinisch at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on November 21, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Ex-chief judge: Justice minister ‘does not understand democracy’

Aviva (L) and Noa (R) Haibi (Screenshot via Channel 10)

15 years on, girl dies as result of Israeli baby formula tragedy

Sara Iftekhar (Screen capture: Twitter)

Modest progressMiss England pageant to feature first-ever hijab-wearing contestant

By AFP

Joint (Arab) List chairman MK Ayman Oudeh, left, with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Brussels, September 4, 2019 (courtesy Joint List)

At EU, Arab MKs lobby Brussels to join fight against nation-state law

By Raphael Ahren

President of the Central Jewish Consistory of Paris Joel Mergui (C) greets French President Emmanuel Macron (L) upon his arrival to attend a ceremony to mark the Jewish New Year - Rosh Hashanah - at The Great Synagogue in Paris on September 4, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / YOAN VALAT)

Macron attends Rosh Hashanah event at Paris synagogue

By AFP and ToI Staff

Members of The Israel Innovation Fund, creating original works of art with the help of artist-in-residence, Solomon Souza (Courtesy TIIF)

Signs of the timesMahane Yehuda graffiti artist tackles Rosh Hashanah themes

By Jessica Steinberg

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, left, pretends to learn self defense in a Rosh Hashanah greeting released on September 4, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Liberman accused of encouraging sexual harassment in Sacha Baron Cohen spoof

Members of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party at the Knesset on September 13, 2017 (Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox coalition party to end ban on women, but says nothing will change

Tzohar's Yom Kippur services, hosted annually in 350 communities around the country (Courtesy Tzohar)

Blowin' in the windShofar program blows sounds of Rosh Hashanah into public spaces

By Jessica Steinberg

Hate crime victims Muhammad Yusifin, Muatasim Ayoub and Mawd Ayoub at a solidarity event in Shfaram, on August 28, 2018. (screen capture: channel 10)

Prime suspect in anti-Arab beach attack released to house arrest

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