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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 27, 2018

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US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the Lotte New York Palace hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump backtracks: I prefer 2 states, 1 state is OK too, as long as there’s deal

By Eric Cortellessa and Agencies

‘It takes two groups of people to be happy,’ he tells reporters in New York, promises peace deal being crafted by Jared Kushner will be very ‘fair’ and says it could come soon

US President Donald Trump (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters, on September 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Full text of Trump-Netanyahu: ‘I like 2-state solution. You heard me, right?’

US President Donald Trump (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the United Nations General Assembly on September 26, 2018, at UN Headquarters. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump to Netanyahu: ‘I like’ two-state solution, want peace in ‘my first term’

By Raphael Ahren

Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a placard of suspected Iranian atomic sites while delivering a speech at the United Nations during the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2018 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu at UN shows off Iranian nuclear site, Hezbollah missile silos

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime minister shows photos of what is believed to be a warehouse for nuclear materiel, accuses EU of coddling Iran, chides world body for applauding Abbas

6:55 pm

IDF releases photos of alleged Hezbollah missile sites near Beirut airport
6:12 pm

Netanyahu slams Abbas for supporting terror payments
5:59 pm

Netanyahu defends criticism of Nation State Law

Analysis

At warm meeting, Trump jolts Netanyahu by explicitly backing two-state solution

US president’s declaration that he likes the two-state deal does not rule out the caveats Israel’s leader has always demanded; still, it could not have been music to the PM’s ears

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations General Assembly on September 26, 2018, at UN Headquarters. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci/File)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting with US President Donald Trump (out of frame) on September 26, 2018 in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm)

PM: Trump accepts Palestinian state would remain under Israeli security control

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers block the entrance to the industrial zone of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, on June 15, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90/File)

Palestinians reject presence of Israeli soldiers in future state

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrives at the United Nations on September 25, 2018, in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Cornered by US and Israel, Abbas could pull the plug on Gaza — and start a war

PA leader appears poised to cut the $96 million he sends monthly to the Hamas-run Strip, which would almost certainly plunge the coastal enclave into fighting

Trump’s two-state support draws Palestinian skepticism, right-wing resistance

By Raphael Ahren and Raoul Wootliff

Abbas, Netanyahu to address UN after Trump pledges peace plan within months

As Trump readies peace plan, Palestinians hold NY meet to push an alternative

By Raphael Ahren

Op-ed

Corbyn’s Labour, which may soon govern UK, is now an anti-Israel protest group

Doubling down on Palestine support at its conference, Britain’s opposition party responds to allegations of anti-Semitism with the old credo: the best defense is a good offense

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn sits on stage as supporters wave Palestinian flags during the party's annual conference in Liverpool, England, on September 25, 2018. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

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)

Not so fast

New high-speed Jerusalem train gets stuck in tunnel

25-minute delay doubles scheduled journey time from capital to Ben Gurion Airport

Israeli soldiers guard the Quneitra Crossing on the Syrian border with the Golan Heights on September 27, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

As Syrian troops return to Golan, Israel ready to reopen crossing to UN staff

By Judah Ari Gross

Touring northern front, defense minister brushes off Trump’s comments on Palestinian state, says he only cares about a Jewish state

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani meets with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres(not shown) in New York on September 26, 2018, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. ( AFP PHOTO / Don EMMERT)

Rouhani says Iran will stay in Syria, wants to avoid conflict with US

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A Syrian rebel fighter from the recently-formed "National Liberation Front" takes part in combat training at an unknown location in the northern countryside of the Idlib province on September 11, 2018, in anticipation for an upcoming offensive by government forces. (AFP Photo/Aaref Watad)

BlogThe battle for the new Syria

By Yonah Alexander and Milton Hoenig

US President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on September 26, 2018 in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. (AFP PHOTO / Nicholas Kamm)

Netanyahu: Trump gave me guarantees about freedom of Israeli operations in Syria

By Raphael Ahren

Amid dispute with Moscow, PM says Israel will act whenever necessary to prevent Iranian military entrenchment and efforts to transfer advanced arms to Hezbollah

Iran warns Israel will face ‘sorrow, penitence’ for striking its forces in Syria

By AP and ToI Staff

Trump: Iran used nuclear deal funds to become ‘world’s leading terror sponsor’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran leader says UN meeting shows ‘nobody backs America’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting with US President Donald Trump (out of frame) on September 26, 2018 in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)

PM rejects invite to UNESCO anti-Semitism event, confirms Israel will leave body

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu says Israel will be honored to rejoin ‘if and when UNESCO ends its bias against Israel, stops denying history, and starts standing up for the truth’

Israel media reviewStates of play: 9 things to know for September 27

By Joshua Davidovich

Netanyahu backs US envoy’s handling of sexual misconduct claims against aide

By Raphael Ahren

Meeting Netanyahu at UN, Egypt’s el-Sissi calls for resumption of peace talks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

My two circles of home

Ari Fuld’s funeral drove home the fact that Israel is just different from America, no matter how meaningful our Jewish lives there

What my DNA revealed about me

Loudly and proudly secular and proudly and loudly Jewish, I have my challah and eat it too

Director Avi Nesher (left), with his son, Ari and wife, Iris (Courtesy Rafi Delouya)

Film director’s son, 17, succumbs to wounds after soccer player runs him over

Police say they plan on upping charges against Itzhak Asefa to murder over hit-and-run in Tel Aviv that took life of Ari Nesher

Spanish journalist Julio de la Guardia is brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court under suspicion of involvement in a fatal hit-and-run collision in Jerusalem, on September 24, 2018. (Flash90)

Spanish suspect in Jerusalem hit-and-run was deported in 2011

A ceremony at a Jewish cemetery in Frampol, Poland. (ESJF via JTA)

Nazi aerial photography is helping map and preserve Jewish cemeteries

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Biblical scholar and author of 'The Forgotten Books of the Bible,' Robert Williamson Jr. (Courtesy)

Book of life

A Christian pastor bridges faiths while teaching ‘forgotten books’ of the Bible

By Rich Tenorio

US rock supergroup 'Sons of Apollo' plays in Tel Aviv on September 26, 2018. (David Sedley/Times of Israel)

Concert review

Rock supergroup ‘Sons of Apollo’ plays up its Jewish roots in Israel gig

By David Sedley

The five musicians show a packed Tel Aviv crowd how divinely talented musicians can be

More Headlines

Julie Swetnick in a photo provided by her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, on Twitter. (Michael Avenatti/Twitter via JTA)

Jewish woman accuses Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct in high school

Kulanu MK Rachel Azaria attends a Kulanu faction meeting in the Knesset on May 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Azaria pulls out of Jerusalem mayoral race, backs Elkin

Israeli natural gas rigs in the Mediterranean Sea, September 2, 2015. (Flash90)

Delek-Noble Energy announces $500m deal to allow Israeli gas exports to Egypt

By AFP

Palestinian Authority security forces touring Israeli-controlled Hebron in uniform on July 31, 2018 (Credit: Wafa)

PA reportedly arrests dozens of Hamas members in the West Bank

Illustrative: In this November 25, 2017 file photo, a burned truck remains outside the Al-Rawda Mosque a day after attackers killed hundreds of worshipers, in Bir al-Abd northern Sinai, Egypt. (AP Photo/Tarek Samy)

Egypt arming Sinai tribesmen in fight against Islamic State

Illustrative: An IDF soldiers looks on as Jewish worshipers arrive at the Joseph's Tomb holy site in the northern West Bank city of Nablus on September 26, 2018. (IDF)

20 Palestinians said hurt in clashes with IDF troops securing Nablus holy site

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)

Skripal poisoning suspect is colonel in Russian military intelligence

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on September 26, 2018 in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly (Avi Ohayun/GPO)

Netanyahu hails ties with Austria after meeting with Kurz

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France. (CC BY-SA Massimiliano Mariani/Wikipedia)

For second time, Interpol member state arrests fugitive at Palestinians’ behest

Illustrative: In this March 3, 2010 photo, a man sits behind a glassed-in reception area of the high security Jewish community center located in central Malmo, Sweden. (AP Photo/Pamela Juhl)

Swedish officials shutter Malmo’s only kosher meat shop, citing health reasons

By JTA

Seal slaps kayaker off South Island town of Kaikoura on September 25, 2018. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Seafood fightTake that, sucker! Seal slaps kayaker with octopus

By AFP

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the Lotte New York Palace hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, September 26, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

#MrKurdTrump addresses Kurdish reporter as ‘Mr. Kurd’

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