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What Matters Most On Monday, August 26, 2019

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Hassan Yousef Zabeeb, left, and Yasser Ahmad Daher, two Hezbollah members killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria to thwart a plot to launch armed drones into Israel, seen flying to Iran from Lebanon in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says 2 Hezbollah fighters killed in Syria strike trained in Iran for attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Hassan Yousef Zabeeb and Yasser Ahmad Daher traveled to Islamic Republic multiple times and worked under IRGC Quds Force, military says

IDF footage shows pro-Iranian fighters trying to launch armed drone at Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Top Iranian general warns Israel that strikes will bring end to ‘Zionist regime’

After drone strike foiled, top minister threatens Iran commander Soleimani

Illustrative: An Arab Israeli woman casts her ballot at a voting station in municipal elections on October 30, 2018, in Kafr Kasm. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Elections committee chair rules Likud’s filming of Arab polling stations illegal

Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer issues sweeping prohibition against parties filming ballots, warns even seeing the footage may be a crime, calls for new election monitoring unit

6:43 pm

Elections committee chair rules Likud's filming of Arab polling stations illegal
6:30 pm

IDF flares light up Lebanese border area, Lebanese media say
6:10 pm

Regime air strikes kill 9 civilians in Syria's northwest, monitor says

Illustrative: An Israel Air Force F-16 takes off. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Israel said to strike base of Palestinian terror group deep inside Lebanon

Reports say bombing targeted the Hezbollah-allied PFLP – General Command in the Bekaa Valley near Syria border; no comment from IDF

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) speaks to reporters during a tour of the Golan Heights with IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi on August 25, 2019. (YouTube/Screen capture)

Netanyahu: States hosting Iranian attacks on Israel will ‘bear the consequences’

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, speaks during a press conference, in Beirut, Lebanon, November 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon says Israeli aggression a ‘threat to regional stability’

By AFP and Judah Ari Gross

A photograph of the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah movement leader Hassan Nasrallah, is attached to colorful balloons during a gathering organized by the group in the town of Al-Ain in Lebanon's Bekaa valley on August 25, 2019. (AFP)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Nasrallah threatens revenge for Israeli raids, but how and where can he deliver?

Hezbollah leader specified that response will come from Lebanese territory, but even the Shi’ites there want to avoid dragging the country into war

Hezbollah supporters watch a televised speech by the Lebanese terror group's leader Hassan Nasrallah, in the town of Al-Ain in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, on August 25, 2019. (AFP)

Hezbollah chief threatens Israel with reprisal: ‘Wait for us at the border’

By ToI Staff and Adam Rasgon

A photograph of the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah movement leader Hassan Nasrallah, is attached to colorful balloons during a gathering organized by the group in the town of Al-Ain in Lebanon's Bekaa valley on August 25, 2019. (AFP)

Israel media reviewWaiting for the other drone to drop: 7 things to know for August 26

By Joshua Davidovich

An Iron Dome interceptor explodes in mid-air over the town of Sderot, apparently as it shoots down an incoming rocket from the Gaza Strip, on August 25, 2019. (Screen capture: Instagram)

3 rockets fired at Israel from Gaza, interrupting Sderot concert for thousands

By Judah Ari Gross

Iron Dome intercepts two of the projectiles; several minor injuries; rocket sparks fire near highway; shrapnel hits empty building

Israel limits fuel shipments to Gaza after rocket fire, curbing power production

IAF airstrikes hit Hamas camp in Gaza after three rockets fired into Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel warns Gazans: Islamic Jihad trying to ignite another war with Israel

Israeli troops operate in the West Bank on August 23, 2019, following a deadly terror bombing near the Dolev settlement. (Israel Defense Forces)

Politicians claim West Bank bombers caught, but Shin Bet says probe ongoing

By Judah Ari Gross

Ex-ministers Liberman, Shaked tweet that terrorists who killed Rina Shnerb in custody; Palestinian media reports multiple arrests in Ein Qiniya, near location of Friday attack

File: A view of the Dolev settlement (CC BY-SA מיכאלי/Wikimedia Commons)

PM says he’s ordered new construction at settlement in response to fatal bombing

President Reuven Rivlin visits Rabbi Eitan Shnerb, whose daughter Rina was killed in a West Bank terror bombing, and his son Dvir at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem on August 26, 2019. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Rivlin meets rabbi, son wounded in West Bank bombing

US President Donald Trump reaches to shake Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's hand before a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly on September 20, 2017, in New York. (AFP Photo/ Brendan Smialowski)

US State Department drops Palestinian territories listing from website

By Jacob Magid and Adam Rasgon

PA blasts move as part of effort to ‘erase’ Palestinians; Washington says no policy change has been made and site was being updated, but no other Mideast listings have been removed

US President Donald Trump meets with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi (out of shot) in Biarritz, southwest France on August 26, 2019, on the third day of the annual G7 Summit. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

Trump may reveal peace plan before Israeli elections, thinks deal ‘will happen’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks to Palestinian leaders at the Muqata, the PA headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on February 20, 2019. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

Abbas’s PA has not condemned bombing in which Israeli teen was killed

Members of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces carry the coffin of their comrade Kazem Mohsen, known by his nom de guerre Abu Ali al-Dabi, during his funeral procession in the central Iraqi shrine city of Najaf on August 26, 2019. (Haidar Hamdani/Hashed al-Shaabi Media/AFP)

Iraqi political bloc calls alleged Israeli strikes ‘a declaration of war’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Coalition representing Iran-backed paramilitaries calls for US troops to leave the country, says it holds Washington responsible for airstrikes

Explosions at an arms depot of a Shiite militia group in Iraq, August 20, 2019. (video screenshot)

Israel blamed as deaths reported in airstrike on pro-Iran Iraqi militia

By Judah Ari Gross and Agencies

Lebanese military intelligence inspects the scene where two drones came down in the vicinity of a Hezbollah media center in the south of the capital Beirut, August 25, 2019. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

AnalysisFrom Persian Gulf to Israel, a drone war takes flight in Mideast

By Jon Gambrell, Josef Federman and Zeina Karam

US President Donald Trump (L) and French President Emmanuel Macron talk before a family picture with G7 leaders and guests at the G7 summit in Biarritz, southwest France, on August 25, 2019. (Ludovic Marin/AFP)

Trump says he doesn’t want regime change in Iran, but ‘too soon’ to meet Zarif

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US president says he supported Tehran’s foreign minister dropping in on G7 summit of world leaders, believes Iran ‘is going to change’

Iran’s Rouhani defends FM after hardliners criticize his G7 visit

By AFP

G7 wrestles with Iran, Amazon fires and trade, but its own unity is shaky

By Adam PLOWRIGHT, Sebastian Smith and Stuart Williams

Iran says it has sold the oil aboard tanker pursued by US

By Nasser Karimi

Bentzi Gopstein (R) and Baruch Marzel seen during a press conference held by the Otzma Yehudit party in Jerusalem, August 26, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court bans extreme-right Gopstein and Marzel from elections

Justices cite dozens of racist remarks by Otzma Yehudit Knesset hopefuls; allow rest of far-right slate as well as Joint List to run

‘Read my lips’: Labor leader sheds iconic mustache after 47 years

Blue and White MK rejects accusation of racism after ‘black and white’ comment

By Raoul Wootliff

Judge shuts down men-only concert in Haifa

Neri dos Santos Silva, center, watches an encroaching fire threat after digging trenches to keep the flames from spreading to the farm he works on, in the Nova Santa Helena municipality, in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Netanyahu offers Brazil help in fighting devastating Amazon fires

By ToI Staff and AP

Israel to send aircraft, flame-retardant materials; PM joins global leaders expressing concern over massive blazes in ‘the lungs of the world’

Fire consumes an area near Jaci Parana, state of Rondonia, Brazil, August 24, 2019. (Eraldo Peres/AP)

Brazilian troops begin deploying to fight Amazon fires

By MARCELO SILVA de SOUSA

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

Kylie Ora Lobell

Stop saying women convert to Judaism just for marriage

The process requires a complete overhaul of your belief system and readiness to join a people who have been hated

For whom the school bell tolls

What’s more important than your child’s prospects of going to Harvard or Yale? Look into his or her eyes and you’ll know

Fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster William Joyce, known as Lord Haw Haw, lies in an ambulance after his arrest by British officers at Flensburg, Germany, on May 29, 1945. He was shot in the leg during his arrest. (Public domain)

The unfortunate odyssey of ‘Lord Haw Haw,’ the Nazis’ wartime voice in Britain

By Robert Philpot

More Headlines

A municipality worker cleans garbage off the ground in the Muslim quarters of Jerusalem's Old City on March 4, 2016. (Corinna Kern/Flash90)

Jerusalem residents least satisfied with their city services, survey finds

A family watches explosions at a military ammunition depot near the city of Achinsk, Russia on Aug. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Dmitry Dub)

Russia admits radioactive isotopes were released in missile test accident

By AFP

Visitors are seen through an iron gate carrying the German phrase "Arbeit Macht Frei" (work sets you free) at the former concentration camp in Oranienburg, eastern Germany on August 7, 2019. (Odd Andersen/AFP)

Far-right surge in Germany rattles guardians of Nazi-era remembrance

By Deborah Cole

The entrance to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work makes you free'). (Joel Saget/AFP)

US Army commander suspended after using ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ in memo

People dressed in World War II era clothes take part in the celebrations of the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation 75 years ago, in Paris, August 25, 2019. (AP Photo/David Vincent)

Paris holds parade to honor fighters who liberated city from Nazis

By Angela Charlton and Elaine Ganley

Twp first graders named Michal at an Israeli school in Tel Aviv August 31, 1978 (Photographer: Danny Gottfried, Dan Hadani Collection, Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, National Library)

National Library asks Facebook users to tag themselves in old school pics

By Shoshanna Solomon

'Shababnikim' creator Eliran Malka is interviewed by Times of Israel culture writer Jessica Steinberg for a Times of Israel Presents event at Beit Avi Chai on August 25, 2019 (Courtesy Matthew Kalman)

Black hat hipsters‘Shababnikim’ creator shares inspiration for hit TV show

Illustrative: Children watch a fire raging in Jerusalem, July 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Preteens suspected of setting 70 fires around Beit Shemesh

This enhanced satellite image made available by NOAA shows Hurricane Florence off the eastern coast of the United States on Wednesday, September 12, 2018 at 5:52 p.m. EDT. (NOAA via AP)

Big Bang TheoryTrump said to have suggested nuking hurricanes

By AFP

The scene of a stabbing near the Beit Dror LGBT youth hostel in Tel Aviv on July 26, 2019. (Screen capture/Channel 13)

2 men charged with attempted murder of their brother outside LGBT youth hostel

A one-dose bottle of measles, mumps and rubella virus (MMR) vaccine at the Health Department of Salt Lake County, Utah, on April 26, 2019. (Illustrative. George Frey/Getty Images)

Montreal vaccinates 350 Hasidic kids against measles after 5 cases confirmed

By JTA

Illustrative photo of a wedding. (Shutterstock via JTA)

British court orders businessman to pay wife alimony until he gives her a ‘get’

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