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What Matters Most On Friday, September 21, 2018

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Israeli Air Force chief Amikam Norkin, left, leads a military delegation to Moscow on September 20, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel: Russia accepts our take on Syrian downing of plane, coordination goes on

By Judah Ari Gross

Delegation to Moscow ‘debunked’ claim Israeli jets hid behind spy plane, stressed jets had left area before Syrians fired fatal missile; Russia was notified ahead of strike

A photo provided by the pro-regime Syrian Central Military Media, shows anti-aircraft fire rise into the sky as Israeli missiles hit air defense positions and other military bases around Damascus, Syria, on May 10, 2018, after the Israeli military says Iranian forces launched a rocket barrage against Israeli bases on the Golan Heights, in the most serious military confrontation between the two bitter enemies to date. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP)

Syria fired missiles for 40 minutes after Israeli strike, hitting Russian plane

In this photo taken on July 6, 2015, an Il-20 electronic intelligence plane of the Russian air force takes off from an airfield near Rostov-on-Don, Russia. (AP Photo)

Israel media reviewTiptoeing between Russia and Iran: 9 things to know for September 21

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative photo: US-made F-4 Phantom fighter jets from the Iranian air force. (AFP Photo/Behrouz Mehri)

In show of force, Iran launches air maneuvers near strategic Strait of Hormuz

By AP

Official news outlet calls exercise a warning to enemies that they face ‘stern response’ to threats against Tehran

Netanyahu threatens ‘crushing’ response after Hezbollah missile boast

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israel: Putin angry at Syria over downing of reconnaissance plane

Air force chief briefs Moscow on downing of spy plane, Iranian activities

By Judah Ari Gross

A back surgeon looks at a 3D model of a patient's spinal column in preparation for surgery using the Mazor Renaissance system. (Courtesy)

In biggest-ever Israeli biotech exit, Medtronic buys Mazor for $1.6b

Illustrative: Then-Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, center-right, meets with senior officers in the IDF Southern Command, including IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot, center, and Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi, right, on June 12, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

IDF chief said to warn West Bank ripe for major violent outbreak

Highlighting severity of threat, Gadi Eisenkot reportedly says scenario would require more troops than Gaza fighting; could be fueled by Abbas speech to UN

IDF warns Gaza fishermen Hamas is exploiting them

Israel arrests 10 East Jerusalemites suspected of leading Temple Mount clashes

By Judah Ari Gross

Qatar pushed Gaza deal before May violence, but its proposal never reached PM

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington on August 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

US: Why should we fund PA hospitals, when Abbas diverts money to pay terrorists?

State Department defends its defunding of Palestinian Jerusalem hospitals by noting that the PA intends to give monthly stipend to family of terrorist who killed US-born Ari Fuld

Netanyahu and Trump to meet at UN confab, White House confirms

By ToI Staff and AP

US report says Palestinian Authority still cracking down on terror in West Bank

By Eric Cortellessa

At UN, 8 European countries urge Israel not to demolish Palestinian village

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Jewish merchants come from around the world to buy from Moroccan etrog growers like Mohammed Douch in Assads, September 8, 2015. (Ben Sales/JTA)

When God gives you lemons

How a Chinese fruit became a Sukkot symbol

By Josefin Dolsten

Christopher Lambert, right, portraying a German Nazi officer in “Sobibor.” (Courtesy of Rosiya Segondiya via JTA)

Oscar foreign film race full of movies on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism

By JTA

From the escape from Sobibor to Righteous Gentiles and former Nazis, the genocide is a central theme of six entrants for the Academy awards

Serbian police officer provides security at the Belgrade headquarters of Serbia’s Federation of Jewish Communities, June 2018. (Larry Luxner/Times of Israel)

Diaspora dilemma

In impoverished Serbia, Jewish community is isolated — and rapidly shrinking

By Larry Luxner

The Facebook invitation from Resling Publishing for their April 24 soft launch of Huriya in Tel Aviv

After protest, publisher pulls unlicensed Hebrew translation of Arab writers

By Jessica Steinberg

Israel’s Resling Publishing under fire for publishing, ‘Huriya,’ a translated collection of Arab women authors, without their consent

With treasury’s support, Regev introduces bill to defund ‘subversive’ art

Cop who pepper-sprayed Arab MK during melee won’t face charges

Arab Israeli poet freed after 5-month jail sentence for online incitement

By AFP and ToI Staff

I’m a Democrat; my support for Israel doesn’t waver

We Democrats must stay true to our principles, and that means staying true to the one democracy in the Middle East

My new parenting goal: To be like God

From toilet training to conversations about consensual sex, my 6 kids need different kinds of love and attention

Helen Maryles Shankman

What do I wear to my daughter’s wedding?

I wear black. Just black. All the time. But the bride wants me in gold

Singing out water from the rock

Haazinu is an ode to God, to our relationship with God, and to the magnificence of Torah; this is my ode to Haazinu

Edward, at left, and Louis Cohen took over the Newark storefront following their fathers’ death and moved it to Livingston in 1968. (Courtesy of Sam’s via JTA)

NJ store shuts after 100 years of suiting up bar mitzvah boys, and mobsters too

By Johanna Ginsberg

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Sons of Apollo (l-r Billy Sheehan, ‎Derek Sherinian, Jeff Scott Soto, Mike Portnoy and Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal) will perform in Tel Aviv on September 26, 2018. (Northern Music via Raven Music)

Gods of musicRock supergroup ‘Sons of Apollo’ to play Tel Aviv

By David Sedley

In this video grab provided by the RT channel, Ruslan Boshirov, left, and Alexander Petrov attend their first public appearance in an interview with the Kremlin-funded RT channel in Moscow, Russia, September 13, 2018. (RT channel video via AP)

Russian spy poisoner suspect said to have been in Tel Aviv in 2016

By ToI Staff and AP

Pope Francis waves at the faithful attending his weekly general audience at the Saint Peter's square, on September 19, 2018, in the Vatican. (AFP/Alberto Pizzoli)

Pope to pay tribute to Holocaust victims in Vilna ghetto visit

By Vaidotas Beniusis

File: NYPD officers in New York on October 31, 2017. (AFP Photo/Don Emmert)

5 people, 3 of them infants, stabbed at NYC day care center

By AP

In this June 20, 2017, photo, Republican Ralph Norman speaks to supporters at a campaign party in Rock Hill, South Carolina., after winning South Carolina's 5th Congressional District. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

S. Carolina congressman jokes about Lincoln groping Justice Ginsburg

By JTA

Stills from celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay's Instagram videos of his trip to the Old City of Jerusalem on September 20, 2018. (Screen capture: Instagram)

MasterTouristGordon Ramsay visits Jerusalem, agape and in awe

In this file photo taken on August 21, 2018, Michael Cohen, former personal lawyer for US President Donald Trump, leaves federal court on August 21, 2018, in New York. (AFP PHOTO / Don Emmert)

Trump’s ex-lawyer Cohen reportedly cooperating in Mueller probe

By AFP

The broadcasting studio of the ultra-Orthodox radio station Kol Barama, July 1, 2009. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Court fines ultra-Orthodox radio station NIS 1 million for keeping women off air

Santiago Canton of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) speaks to reporters after a meeting with Guatemalan president Oscar Berger in Guatemala City on Monday, July 17, 2006. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Ex-aide to Jimmy Carter named head of UN probe into Gaza clashes

By Raphael Ahren

Anti-Semitic graffiti reading 'Jewish scum live here,' on a building in Paris. 'Notably on the third floor,' it adds on the other side of the door, above a drawing of a target. (Twitter)

Police probe ‘Jewish scum’ graffiti on door of Paris apartment building

By AFP

Danny Danon, Israel's ambassador to the UN, speaks at the General Assembly on December 21, 2017, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Police drop corruption probe into UN envoy Danny Danon

Ghassan Majali, Jordan's newly appointed ambassador to Israel. (Screen capture/YouTube)

New Jordanian ambassador to arrive in Israel within days

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