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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 20, 2018

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The Russian Embassy on Hayarkon Street in Tel Aviv. (Google maps)

In apparent about-turn, Russian embassy tears into Israel for downing of plane

Diplomatic mission blames ‘irresponsible and unfriendly actions’ of IAF for Syrian air defenses’ deadly targeting of aircraft

Netanyahu signals Israel won’t curb activities against Iran, despite Russia row

Blaming Assad for downing Russian plane, Israel says it won’t stop Syria strikes

By Judah Ari Gross

IAF chief heads to Moscow to present findings on downing of Russian plane

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link, as his supporters raise their hands, during activities to mark the ninth of Ashura, a 10-day ritual commemorating the death of Imam Hussein, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on September 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Nasrallah: Despite Israel’s efforts, Hezbollah has acquired ‘precision missiles’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Head of terror group says Israeli strikes in Syria have failed to thwart weapons deliveries, warns Israel ‘will face a destiny and reality it didn’t expect’ in next Lebanon war

Israel airstrike left Syria arms warehouse in ruins, satellite images show

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Syria’s Assad blames Israel for downing of Russian plane

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israel media reviewThe Russia news is real, the rest may not be: 8 things to know for September 20

By Joshua Davidovich

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman in Jerusalem on August 22, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US envoy: Abbas pay to family of terrorist who killed Ari Fuld is unconscionable

After PA officials tell ToI that Jabarin family will get monthly stipend, Ambassador Friedman says such payments must stop ‘if there is to be any hope of peace’

Khalil Jabarin, who fatally stabbed Israeli Ari Fuld in a West Bank terror attack on September 16, 2018 (Screenshot/Twitter)

PA hasn’t yet paid family of terrorist who killed Fuld, but they’ll be eligible

Palestinian employees of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) take part in a protest in Gaza City against job cuts by UNRWA on September 19, 2018 (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

Thousands protest UN job cuts in Gaza, as border violence escalates

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A partial view of the train platform at the new high-speed train station between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, at the Yitzhak Navon Railway Station in Jerusalem on September 20, 2018. (AFP / THOMAS COEX)

Reporter's notebook'No idea' when full route will open -- Israel Railways

After long wait, Jerusalem-Tel Aviv fast rail finally almost nearly arrives

Netanyahu, transportation minister inaugurate ‘King David Line’ from Jerusalem to Ben Gurion Airport; officials refuse to commit to date for completion of airport-Tel Aviv stretch

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyanu (r) and Transportation and Information Minister Yisrael Katz ride the inaugural high-speed train from Jerusalem to Ben Gurion airport on September 20, 2018. (Amos Ben-Gershom / GPO)

Netanyahu takes (partial) maiden voyage on Jerusalem to Tel Aviv fast train

By AFP

Benjamin Netanyahu boards a train from Tel Aviv to Beersheba on November 13, 2012. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Jerusalem-Tel Aviv fast train to launch, but it’s slow and won’t reach Tel Aviv

Live updates (closed)

Court fines ultra-Orthodox radio station NIS 1m for excluding women

By Tamar Pileggi

In a precedent-setting ruling, judge says no-women policy ‘deepens perceptions of female inferiority and prevents their influence in public discourse’

6:25 pm

Police close investigation into UN ambassador Danon over lack of evidence
6:15 pm

US sanctions Russian intelligence, military officials
6:00 pm

Russian accused of poisoning ex-spy previously traveled to Israel using alias -- report

A partial view of the Dimona nuclear power plant in the southern Israeli Negev desert, on September 8, 2002. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Israel says it’s reinforcing its nuclear sites because of Iranian threats

By Judah Ari Gross

In rare remark, Israeli atomic energy chief tells international conference that Jewish state is upgrading its facilities to ‘withstand any attack’

In this photo from February 13, 2017, Gholamali Khoshroo, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, speaks at a UN Security Council meeting at UN headquarters. (AP Photo /Mark Lennihan)

Iranian envoy asks UN to censure Israel, supervise its nuke program

Iranian army troops march during a parade marking National Army Day in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran, April 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

US tags Iran anew as top terror sponsor, as global attacks fall

By SUSANNAH GEORGE

Avi Yaron developed an endoscope that mimicked the eye of a bug to help surgeons better visualize tumors; the company he founded, Vsionsense, was sold to Metronic earlier this year (Courtesy)

His own brain tumor spurs entrepreneur to develop life-saving surgical device

By Shoshanna Solomon

Jerusalem mayoral candidate Moshe Lion at the opening of his campaign headquarters in Jerusalem on August 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Trailing Jerusalem mayor candidate Moshe Lion bags key Haredi endorsements

By Marissa Newman

Backing from spiritual leaders of Degel HaTorah and Shas ends speculation that ultra-Orthodox candidate Deitch could win; Agudath Yisrael faction expected to support rival Elkin

On the recent conviction of my attacker on appeal

I have met him and I see the good in him, but I welcome this decision

Converting outside the courts of the Chief Rabbinate

Haredi opposition threatens Israeli democracy, the rule of law, the judciary’s independence, and the partnership between Israel and world Jewry

On Israel and Duterte: It’s complicated, but good

It was our professional obligation to host him, and the fruits of the visit are already evident

Our former rabbi victimized women. Here’s how we made our synagogue safer.

Kesher Israel reacted swiftly and decisively to the illegal actions by its longtime rabbi Barry Freundel

This file photo taken in October 1939 shows French politicians Pierre Laval (R), Marcel Deat (C) and Adrien Marquet, future high ranking politicians of the Vichy regime. (AFP PHOTO)

New film reveals register used by French police to target Jews during Holocaust

By Laurence THOMANN and Fiachra GIBBONS

Documentary shows how top Vichy officials and law enforcement were willing collaborators in the rounding up and deportation of tens of thousands

In this file photo taken on January 15, 2015 French survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp Nazi concentration camp, film director and novelist Marceline Loridan-Ivens, poses in Paris (AFP PHOTO / DOMINIQUE FAGET)

Filmmaker Loridan-Ivens, Auschwitz companion of Simone Veil, dies at 90

By AFP

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President Reuven Rivlin speaks at a ceremony to mark the Yom Kippur War at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery on September 20, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In apparent jab at Netanyahu, Rivlin warns against government group-think

A broken window is seen at the New Synagogue in Gdansk, Poland, after a stone was thrown at it during Yom Kippur prayers on September 20, 2018. (GWŻ Gdańsk via World Jewish Congress)

Rock hurled into Polish synagogue during Yom Kippur prayers

By JTA

Illustrative. The London Stock Exchange. (Manakin; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli telecom equipment maker ECI considering London IPO

By Shoshanna Solomon

Ronen Lubarsky, an IDF soldier from the Duvdevan unit who died on May 26, 2018, after being critically injured by a slab thrown down on his head two days earlier (Courtesy)

Army issues demolition order for home of Palestinian who killed soldier

The Naval Remote Controlled Weapon Stations (RCWS) of Elbit Systems (Courtesy)

Defense firm Elbit gets $173m contract for naval remote control weapon stations

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: Residents of south Tel Aviv protest outside the home of then Supreme Court Justice Miriam Naor in Jerusalem on September 2, 2017 (Hadas Parush/Flahs90)

Israel’s opposition to accepting refugees is highest in West — poll

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during a conference at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem on September 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman blames anti-Russian racism for accusation he aided Manafort scheme

Long time pals Bert, left, and Ernie argue with each other as always on August 22, 2001, during an interview in New York (AP Photo/Beth A. Keiser)

G for gay?Bert and Ernie a ‘loving couple,’ says ‘Sesame Street’ writer

David Keyes, right, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on May 7, 2017. (AP/Oded Balilty, Pool)

Civil Service Commission drops probe into Keyes’s alleged misconduct in Israel

By Raphael Ahren

University of Michigan Professor John Cheney-Lippold was recently disciplined by the school for refusing to write a letter of recommendation for a student who wanted to study in Israel. (YouTube Screen Capture)

U of Michigan prof. who refused to write Israel letter denies anti-Semitism

By Eric Cortellessa and JTA

Israelis ride their bicycles along the empty Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, September 19, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Paramedics treat over 1,700 people on Yom Kippur, help deliver 7 babies

Psychologist Walter Mischel in 2015 (YouTube screenshot)

Jewish psychologist who created ‘marshmallow test’ of delayed gratification dies

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