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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 6, 2018

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'Hezbollah forces who enter Israel won't come back alive'

As 30-foot-tall border wall goes up, IDF says Hezbollah, Lebanese army colluding

By Judah Ari Gross

Senior officer predicts war in the north unlikely in near future, but sees serious threat in terror group’s border infiltration units

An Israeli construction vehicle drives by a concrete wall being built along the 'Blue Line' separating Israel and Lebanon, as members of the Lebanese Armed Forces watch from a guard tower, near the Israeli town of Rosh Hanikra on September 5, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

In large northern drill, paratroopers practice war with Hezbollah

By Judah Ari Gross

Satellite images show damage at Syria site from raid attributed to Israel

Israel thwarting precision arms production ‘near and far,’ Netanyahu says

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

US ambassador sees Golan remaining in Israeli hands ‘forever’

By ToI Staff and AFP

David Friedman suggests Trump administration could recognize strategic plateau bordering Syria as sovereign Israeli territory, weeks after John Bolton played down the idea

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press before a meeting with Republican Congressional leaders at the White House in Washington, DC, on September 5, 2018. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP)

Iran worried about its survival, says Trump, leaving door open for talks

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video showing Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran's nuclear agency, right, and three Iranian-produced uranium enrichment centrifuges in the background. (YouTube)

Iran says it will go beyond previous enrichment if nuclear deal fails

By AFP

Analysis

Shift to UNHCR criteria would strip refugee status from millions of Palestinians

Unlike UNRWA, now defunded by Trump, the UN’s global refugee body doesn’t confer refugee status on those who have citizenship elsewhere, and it treats descendants differently

Palestinian school children chant slogans and raise the victory gesture over a UN flag during a protest at a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school, financed by US aid, in the Arroub refugee camp near Hebron in the West Bank on September 5, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / HAZEM BADER)

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting with the Palestinian Central Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 15, 2018. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

US denies report Trump offered to meet Abbas

Palestinians are seen crossing at the Erez crossing with Israel near Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip on August 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Israel closes Gaza border crossing till next Thursday, blames recent riots

By Judah Ari Gross

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn arrives to face the media at the Edinburgh Television Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, Aug. 23, 2018. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)

If Corbyn became PM, almost 40% of UK Jews would ‘seriously consider’ leaving

Poll finds massive increase of Jews planning to emigrate, up from 11% in 2015; ex-chief rabbi has warned of existential threat from Labour leader

Illustrative: A London bus stop defaced with an unauthorized poster reading, 'Israel is a racist endeavor,' which a pro-Palestinian group put up in protest at the UK Labour Party's adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, on September 6, 2018. (Twitter)

London bus stops vandalized with anti-Israel posters

The mansion house at Sandye Place Academy. (CC By Tom orangeaurochs, Wikimedia Commons)

UK teacher who wrote ‘of course we hate Jews’ found not anti-Semitic

By JTA

Paraguay President Horacio Cartes (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu inaugurate Paraguay's new embassy in Jerusalem, May 21, 2018 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Paraguay reverses Jerusalem embassy move; fuming Israel shuts Asunción mission

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu says ties will be ‘clouded’ by decision to return embassy to Tel Aviv; Palestinians say they brokered agreement with new Paraguay president last month

Demonstrators shout slogans against Israel's military strikes on the Gaza Strip during a protest in Asuncion, Paraguay, Friday, January 9, 2009. (AP/Rene Gonzalez)

Cheering Jerusalem reversal, Palestinians say they will open Paraguay embassy

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Aziz Abu Sarah, would-be Jerusalem mayoral candidate (YouTube screenshot)

Palestinian who isn’t Israel citizen seeks court okay to run for Jerusalem mayor

Aziz Abu Sarah believes he can get 30% support from East Jerusalem Palestinians if allowed to run, says his candidacy does not represent recognition of Israel

President Reuven Rivlin visits students at the Religious school "Noam Eliyahu" in the southern Israeli city of Netivot, on the first day of school on September 2, 2018. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Israel’s president: Nation-state law is ‘bad for Israel and bad for the Jews’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Rosh Hashanah toast with top defense officials at the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv on September 6, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu: Not a day when Shin Bet doesn’t thwart terror plot

By Alexander Fulbright

PM credits ‘defense, counter-action, and deterrence’ for preventing violence engulfing Middle East from reaching Israel

6:28 pm

Netanyahu heckled during Rosh Hashanah speech by south Tel Aviv residents
6:17 pm

German police identify 6 far-right protesters who made Nazi salute
5:31 pm

Israel to close West Bank, Gaza crossings during High Holidays

Hijacked aircraft being blown up at Dawson Field, Jordan, in front of international press on 12 September 1970.

Analysis

I lived through a hijacking — this is what I learned

48 years ago today, Palestinian terrorists made it crystal clear: Israel must be eternally vigilant and able to defend itself

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Rosh Hashanah: Fairy tales and humor

The fanciful and the funny come together in the day we confront the absurd in our lives and our relationship with God

Rosh Hashanah over Beirut

In 1972, I was a lone soldier with no family in the country, spending the Jewish New Year patrolling the Lebanese coast

A fake bomb found in an Israeli man's carry on, in a picture released September 5, 2018. (TSA)

Israeli with fake bomb sparks US airport panic; he was headed to security course

Alon Feldman charged with creating a false public alarm after trying to get through security at Newark with item designed to look like explosive in his bag

President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte meets with President Reuven Rivlin (unseen) at the president residence in Jerusalem on September 4, 2018. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool/Yedioth Ahronoth/Flash90)

Israel said to nix police agreement with Philippines over bloody drug war

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Foreign Ministry says deal to expand cooperation between police forces, which was to have been signed during Duterte’s visit, not ready, may still be pursued

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte laying a wreath at the 'Open Doors' Monument in Rishon LeZion’s Holocaust Memorial Park, September 5, 2018 (Avi Ohayun/MFA)

Ending Israel visit, Duterte commemorates his country saving 1,300 Jews in WWII

By Raphael Ahren

Israelis protest against Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's visit to Israel as they stand outside the Israeli presidential house in Jerusalem, September 4, 2018, (GALI /AFP)TIBBON

As Duterte wraps up Israel visit, Philippine mayor on his drug list is shot dead

By AP

US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Thursday, August 16, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

White House official in NYT op-ed says staff working against Trump, sparks furor

US president calls anonymous article by senior staffer a ‘gutless editorial’ and ‘really a disgrace’ as mystery of author’s identity sets off wild guessing game

US President Donald Trump listens to Emir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, September 5, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

NY Times grants anonymity to administration official for Trump essay

By David Bauder

US President Donald Trump reads from an article praising his administration as he answers a journalist during a meeting with sheriffs at the White House in Washington, DC, on September 5, 2018.
Trump was responding to an anonymous "senior official" who wrote an op-ed article entitled "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration" in The New York Times on September 5. (AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM)

White House livid over op-ed by unnamed insider; Trump questions if ‘treason’

1,020 untouched clay sealings discovered after two millennia in hidden cave

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A find of international significance in central Israel, the Hellenistic-era trove puts the ancient cosmopolitan city of Maresha ‘back on the map’

Illustrative: Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler during a parade celebrating their alliance. (Public domain)

Italian universities to apologize for expelling Jewish staff, students in WWII

By Rossella Tercatin

More Headlines

Roy Moore is interviewed by Sacha Baron-Cohen on 'Who is America.' (YouTube screenshot)

Not amusedRoy Moore sues Sacha Baron Cohen for $95m. over TV prank

By AP

IDF troops prepare the home of Palestinian terrorist Abd al-Rahman Bani Fadel for demolition in the northern West Bank village of Aqraba on March 19, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel says home of mentally ill Palestinian attacker won’t be demolished

A boy walks through the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, near the Jerusalem-Dead Sea highway, on April 13, 2018. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

UN protests after High Court okays razing Bedouin village

By ToI Staff and AFP

then-US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, left, and then-US national security adviser John Bolton, visit the US Embassy in Jerusalem, on August 21, 2018. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Jerusalem)

Israel media reviewThe snake you know best: 8 things to know for September 6

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative: a vegan Rosh Hashanah cake. (Courtesy Meshek Barzilay)

A sweet new yearHold the honey! A Rosh Hashanah cake for vegans

By Jessica Steinberg

Mujahad Dar Asi (R), who was convicted of killing farmer David Bar-Kapara in 2015, attends his sentencing at the Lod District Court on September 6, 2018. (Israel Police)

Palestinian gets life for killing Israeli farmer in botched robbery

Dancers in 'Monster,' Sharon Vazanna's new work that premiered in Tel Aviv in September 2018, and will travel around Europe through 2018 and 2019. (Courtesy Ascaf Avraham)

In ‘Monster,’ dance troupe channels innermost feelings about the female body

By Jessica Steinberg

Security guards block police and prisons service retirees from entering the Prime Ministers Office in Jerusalem during a protest on September 5, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Police retirees force way into Netanyahu’s office in wage protest

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

The Yandex headquarters in Moscow, Russia (Courtesy)

‘Russia’s Google’ eyes Israel with music, data science and maybe taxis

By Shoshanna Solomon

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz speaks at the annual World Zionist Conference in Jerusalem on November 2, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Benny Gantz has decided to enter politics – report

Beno Reinhorn, a handball coach from Herzeliya who is accused of sex offenses against minors, arrives to the courtroom in Tel Aviv on September 6, 2018. (Flash90)

Youth coach charged with dozens of sex crimes against minors

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a piece of fruit as he attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem September 5, 2018. (Ronen Zvulun/AFP)

Poll finds Netanyahu’s Likud party surging amid early election talk

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