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What Matters Most On Sunday, August 25, 2019

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A still from a video purporting to show an Israeli strike on Iran-backed forces in Syria on August 24, 2019. (screen capture: Twitter)

IDF put on high alert, air defenses deployed to north

Israeli jets strike in Syria to thwart attack by Iranian ‘killer drones’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Army says it carried out airstrikes near Damascus to foil ‘imminent’ IRGC plot to hit sites inside Israel with UAVs armed with explosives; Syria claims it downed Israeli missiles

Illustrative: A still from a video purporting to show an Israeli strike on Iran-backed forces in Syria on August 24, 2019. (screen capture: Twitter)

After strike on drone plot, Israeli ministers warn Iran is ‘not safe anywhere’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A picture taken on April 9, 2018, shows an Iron Dome missile defense battery, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, deployed on the Golan Heights near the border with Syria. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Netanyahu, defense brass hold emergency talks after strike on Iran drone plot

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A satellite image showing a small base in the Syrian town of Aqrabah from which the Israeli military says Iran tried to launch explosive-laden drones into northern Israel from Syria in August 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief: Iranian commander Soleimani personally oversaw planned drone attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Army says Tehran sent kamikaze UAVs and military advisers to Syria to attack Israel; Iranian combatant, Hezbollah fighters among 5 dead in Israeli strike

Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting, March 3, 2019 (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Minister after Israel preempts drone attacks: Iran now ‘directly confronting’ us

Former chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rezaei. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran denies its posts were hit in Syria strike; 2 Hezbollah fighters said killed

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on April 29, 2018. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Pompeo talks with Netanyahu, backs Israel’s right to defend itself against Iran

US secretary of state, PM discuss how Tehran is ‘leveraging its foothold in Syria to threaten’ the Jewish state, regional countries

6:35 pm

IDF: 3 rockets fired from Gaza at Israel
6:29 pm

Concert in Sderot cut short due to rocket warning sirens
6:21 pm

After 47 years, Labor Party head shaves mustache so voters know he won't sit with Netanyahu

In this photo provided by the Iranian Army November 5, 2018, soldiers carry the wreckage of a drone during drills in Semnan, Iran. (Iranian Army via AP)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Israel-Iran conflict exposes bleeding edge of a war for the entire Middle East

Jerusalem has taken a leading role in a campaign to halt what Sunnis see as an attempt by Tehran to carve out an empire across the region; expect the fighting to only get worse

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows a part of an Iranian drone as he speaks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on February 18, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Israel media reviewDroning on and on: 8 things to know for August 25

By Joshua Davidovich

A drone that crashed in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on August 25, 2019. (Lebanese state media)

Analysts speculate UAVs that crashed in Beirut were Iranian, not Israeli

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli military officially mum on origins of the quadcopter-style drones found in Lebanese capital, but experts say they seem to be Iranian models

Hezbollah says Israeli drone blew up outside its PR headquarters in Beirut

By Judah Ari Gross

Lebanon says Israeli aggression a ‘threat to regional stability’

By AFP and Judah Ari Gross

Hezbollah says Israeli drones go down in Beirut stronghold

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Rabbi Eitan Shnerb speaks to the media at the Hadassah Medical Center Ein Kerem, a day after being wounded in a terrorist bombing near Dolev that killed his daughter Rina and wounded his son Dvir, August 24, 2019. (Flash90)

Condition of rabbi, son injured in West Bank bomb attack improves

Eitan Shnerb and his son Dvir to be moved out of intensive care; two met Saturday for the first time since bombing that killed daughter, sister Rina

PA officials say West Bank attack indicates highly organized cell — report

Palestinian with knife arrested near West Bank settlement

Qatari envoy says funds for Hamas helping prevent new Gaza war

By AFP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump, left, welcomes visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington, March 25, 2019. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Dems Schneider, Sherman: Defending Israel harder under Trump-Netanyahu alliance

By Eric Cortellessa

Lawmakers warn president making Jewish state a partisan cause for own benefit: ‘He’s taking a country with one friend in the world, trying to turn it into one with half a friend’

US President Donald Trump (R) and Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speak before a working breakfast at the G7 Summit in Biarritz, France, on August 25, 2019. (Erin Schaff/Pool/AFP)

Trump says Johnson ‘right man’ for Brexit, at fractious G7 summit

By Stuart Williams and Sebastian Smith

A photograph known as 'The Last Jew in Vinnitsa' taken during the Holocaust in Ukraine showing a Jewish man near the town of Vinnitsa about to be shot dead by a member of the Nazis' Einsatzgruppe. (Public Domain)

Amazon removes shirts with notorious photo of Nazi executing Jew

Retail giant takes down items after being contacted by Israel’s Channel 12; sellers boasted purchasers would ‘stand out from the crowd’

Protesters take part in a demonstration titled "Unteilbar" (indivisible) against exclusion on August 24, 2019 in Dresden, eastern Germany. (John MACDOUGALL/AFP)

Thousands march against racism in Germany as far-right AfD surges in local polls

By Isabelle Le Page

MK Ayman Odeh, leader of the Joint List seen outside a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, August 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Joint List head: Unity government would make me first Arab opposition leader

By Raoul Wootliff

Ayman Odeh accuses Benny Gantz of assisting Netanyahu in keeping Arab lawmakers out of power, says Blue and White chief’s politics are ‘not ripe’

Ayman Odeh, head of the Arab Joint List, outside a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on right-wing petitions seeking to disqualify his party from running in the September elections, on August 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Given cold shoulder, Arab party chief attacks ‘racist’ Blue and White

The Telesofia Medical software in action. Dr Benjamin Boursi, a cancer specialist at Sheba Medical Center worked with Telesofia to develop software suitable to track cancer patients (Courtesy)

Oncologist, startup develop software that monitors cancer patients at home

By Shoshanna Solomon

Pilot program at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan will be offered to hundreds of patients during the next few months

Stephen M. Flatow

What did you do in your summer camp?

Color War is exciting, creative, and should build character; training for war is fundamentally child abuse

We can improve the Lone Soldier experience

I have a vested interest in the well-being of those who choose to serve: I was in the first group of lone soldiers, and my daughter followed in my footsteps

More Headlines

In this file photo taken on May 19, 2018, workers fix mooring line of the floating power unit (FPU) Akademik Lomonosov as it is towed to Atomflot moorage of the Russian northern port city of Murmansk.(Alexander NEMENOV/AFP)

‘Chernobyl on ice’? Defiant Russia launches floating nuclear reactor in Arctics

By Andrea PALASCIANO

Britain's Prince Andrew in Slough, England, April 13, 2015. (David Parker/Daily Mail via AP, Pool)

Britain’s Prince Andrew denies witnessing Epstein abuse

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: In this January 15, 2010, file photo, a sea otter is seen in Morro Bay, California. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file)

In otter newsOtter that bit two hikers is found, rabies ruled out

Michael Eisenberg of Aleph VC, left, and Bradley Tusk, the founder and CEO of Tusk Holdings, during the recording of the Firewall Special Israel Edition podcast (Courtesy)

PodcastLISTEN: How Mobileye sees commercial robotaxis on streets by 2022

A Jewish emergency crew and police officers at the site of the mass shooting that killed 11 people and wounded 6, including 4 police, at the Tree of Life Synagogue on October 28, 2018, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/via JTA)

Analysis‘Red flag laws’ offer way to stop some US shootings, including synagogue attacks

By RYAN J. FOLEY and JONATHAN MATTISE

Rep. Gary Ackerman (Courtesy of the Israel Policy Forum via JTA)

Ex-congressman Gary Ackerman accused of abusing teenager five decades ago

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Mark Dubowitz, the CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), speaks during the FDD's National Security Summit in Washington, October 19, 2017. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Iran blacklists US-based think tank over ‘economic terrorism’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The wall of a Muslim cemetery in Haifa that was torched in a suspected arson attack on August 23, 2019. (Israel Police)

Jerusalem man arrested on suspicion of arson attack on Muslim cemetery in Haifa

Footage of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un is seen on a giant television screen in Tokyo on August 24, 2019, reporting on North Korea's missile launch earlier in the day. (Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)

North Korea: Kim observes test of new multiple rocket launcher

By AFP

In this photo released by Brazil Ministry of Defense, a C-130 Hercules aircraft dumps water to fight fires burning in the Amazon rainforest, in Brazil on August 24, 2019. (Brazil Ministry of Defense via AP)

Pope, urging prayers, says Amazon forest vital for Earth

By AP

A view of Casablanca (SS BY-SA Brio-En/Wikipedia)

Israeli escaped prisoner said arrested in Morocco synagogue

Illustrative: The port of the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, July 27, 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Foreign worker dies after falling from boat docked Ashdod port

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