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What Matters Most On Tuesday, August 27, 2019

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Sympathizers of the Shiite Hezbollah terror group gather to watch the transmission on a large screen of a speech by the movement's leader Hasan Nasrallah, in the town of Al-Ain in Lebanon's Bekaa valley on August 25, 2019. (AFP)

Netanyahu warns Hezbollah, Lebanon to calm down, be careful amid attack fears

Prime minister also cautions Iran general Qassem Soleimani as troops in north brace for promised retaliation from terror group; US said to send message to Beirut to cool tensions

A picture taken on August 26, 2019, shows Israeli soldiers patrolling near the northern Israeli town of Avivim, close to the border with Lebanon. (JALAA MAREY / AFP)

Troops in north gird for possible reprisal attack after Hezbollah threat

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Farmers work in the plain of Marjayoun on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Khiam, opposite the Israeli town of Metula, along the border with Israel, on August 26, 2019. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

UN urges restraint as Lebanon set to file complaint alleging Israeli violations

By AFP and ToI Staff

US National Security Adviser John Bolton speaks to media at the White House in Washington, July 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Live updates (closed)

Bolton: Trump’s readiness to talk with Iran doesn’t signal shift in stance

US national security adviser dismisses Iranian demand that sanctions be lifted before a face-to-face meeting is held as a ‘nonstarter’

6:25 pm

After reported Israeli strikes, Iraqi PM says will respond using 'all means'
6:01 pm

Bolton: Trump's readiness to talk with Iran doesn't mean shift in stance
5:44 pm

Egypt said to warn Hamas against continued rocket fire from Gaza

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Nasrallah is lying about Israeli drones in Beirut; Lebanon must urgently wise up

Any terrorist knows Israeli drones don’t look or operate like the two in Beirut, and any child knows the result would have been very different if Israel had really wanted to attack

A poster of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is seen amid other damage inside the media office in a stronghold of the Lebanese Hezbollah group in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

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)

Hezbollah says explosives found in drone that crashed in Beirut

By AFP and ToI Staff

Lebanese President Michel Aoun attends a graduation ceremony marking the 74th Army Day, at a military barracks in Beirut's suburb of Fayadiyeh, Lebanon on August 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanese president says alleged Israeli strikes a ‘declaration of war’

Illustrative: Palestinian terrorists fire a mortar shell during a graduation ceremony in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 29, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Gazan terrorists fire mortar shells at Israel; IDF retaliates with airstrike

By Judah Ari Gross

One projectile strikes open field in south, causing no damage, three others land inside the Strip, amid soaring tensions

Israel media reviewHe’s not messing around: 6 things to know for August 27

As war fears skyrocket, Netanyahu orders rare security briefing for rival Gantz

By Michael Bachner

Israel will defend itself ‘by any means,’ PM says amid fears of border skirmish

By Michael Bachner

A Bedouin Israeli woman votes in the southern city of Rahat, Tuesday, April 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

In blow to Likud, elections czar bans parties from filming at polling stations

Hanan Melcer green-lights recording by independent observers when voter fraud suspected and during ballot count, but puts kibosh on controversial Likud program

Itamar Ben Gvir, chairman of the Otzma Yehudit party, speaks at the Central Election Committee in the Knesset, Jerusalem, on August 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Likud said pressuring far-right parties to drop out of election

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

President John Adams as painted by John Trumbull, circa 1792 (public domain)

200 years ago, John Adams promoted a Jewish state in the Holy Land

By Matt Lebovic

US President Donald Trump, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron gesture during a joint press conference on August 26, 2019, the third day of the annual G7 Summit in Biarritz, south-west France. (Nicholas Kamm /AFP)

Trump says open to meeting Iran’s Rouhani, a ‘great negotiator,’ in coming weeks

By AFP and ToI Staff

French president says G7 diplomacy created conditions for historic summit; Trump says meeting with Iranian president requires ‘correct circumstances’ but will have to happen

Iran’s Rouhani tells US to end sanctions before he’ll talk to Trump

Iran appears to shut door on Trump-Rouhani meeting

By ToI Staff and AP

Macron says US-Iran rapprochement ‘fragile’ but possible

By AP and ToI Staff

Former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro attends a farewell session at the Knesset ahead of his departure from the role on January 17, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former US envoy: Trump is harming Israel for his own political gain

By Eric Cortellessa

Dan Shapiro says president’s accusation of disloyalty against Jews who vote Democrat ‘raises and echoes some of the worst kind of anti-Semitic charges’

Iraq begins probe into deadly drone attack blamed on Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

US backs Iraqi action against ‘external actors’ after alleged Israeli strikes

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Appearing to back Israel, Bahrain says strikes on Iran targets ‘self defense’

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)

Israel alarmed by possible Trump-Rouhani talks, fears he’ll let Iran off hook

Ministers said to cite US president’s dialogue with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un as disturbing precedent, ‘but our capacity to influence and confront Trump is extremely limited’

Former PM Ehud Barak participates in a Saturday Culture event in Shoham, August 24, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Barak calls potential Trump-Rouhani talks a ‘red light’ for all of Israel

US Vice President Mike Pence meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, Pool)

Pence tells Netanyahu US backs Israel’s right to defend itself

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visits the Bushehr nuclear power plant just outside of Bushehr, Iran, January 13, 2015. (Iranian Presidency Office, Mohammad Berno/AP)

Iran to further breach nuclear deal on September 6

By ToI Staff and AP

Islamic Republic has twice scaled back its commitment to the 2015 agreement in recent months

Illustrative: Iranian police officers close the door of the court compound in Tehran, Iran, July 17, 2004. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran jails 2 for spying for Israel, including British dual national

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The IDF reveals what it says is the longest cross-border attack tunnel dug by Hezbollah from Lebanon into Israel, May 29, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

With virtual reality, Israeli soldiers train in simulated terror tunnels

By Alexandra Vardi

The first Israel-Iran war

The prime minister is sending the IDF onto the battlefield to achieve a goal he knows very well is unachievable.

Ayman Odeh can transform Israel: Who will be his partner?

Arab Israelis will vote in droves if they know their candidates will finally step out onto the political center stage

Israel’s shameful policy on Holocaust issues in Eastern Europe

Bibi, when you visit countries that no longer have Jews, maybe don’t praise the first line they give you about how much they’ve fought anti-Semitism since the war

Mass casualty terror attack in Sderot. Next!

Who tolerates a terror attack on a summer festival?! Only a government that plays politics with the periphery when electoral seats are at stake

More Headlines

Driver's license photo of Pittsburgh synagogue massacre suspect Robert Bowers (Pennsylvania DOT)

Despite opposition from synagogues, US seeks death penalty for Pittsburgh killer

By AP and ToI Staff

The Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem of America building was vandalized with spray-painted symbols. (Screenshot from WABC)

Police probing possible hate crime after NY yeshiva vandalized

By JTA

An illustrative image of a data center; server farm (cybrain; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel pushes ahead with tender for massive cloud-based data center

Israeli security forces demolish a building near Beit Jala in the West Bank, August 26, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Following pressure from KKL, Israel razes Palestinian buildings near Bethlehem

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks about her work and gender equality following a ceremony granting her a SUNY Honorary Degree from the University at Buffalo, August 26, 2019, in Buffalo, New York (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)

After cancer treatment, Ruth Bader Ginsburg appears at New York school

By CAROLYN THOMPSON

Firefighters extinguish the remains of a fire in at a forest in the city of Beit Shemesh, August 26, 2019. (Flash90)

Homes briefly evacuated in Beit Shemesh amid rash of brush fires

By Stuart Winer

A leopard at the Thai island of Ko Samui that attacked an Israeli toddler on August 26, 2019. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Video emerges of Thai leopard dashing out of pen to maul Israeli toddler

Yaakov Dov Bleich, right, chief rabbi of Ukraine, with Canada's ambassador to Ukraine, Roman Waschuk, left, and primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, His Beatitude Epifanii, second from right, August 21, 2019. (Aliona Nikolaievych/Barcroft Media via Getty Images/via JTA)

Rabbi helps dedicate memorial to Ukrainian group that collaborated with Nazis

By JTA

Police officers escort a 19-year-old British woman, center, from the Famagusta court in town of Paralimni, Cyprus, July 29, 2019. (AP/Petros Karadjias)

British teen pleads not guilty to false rape report against Israelis

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A robot device defuses an explosive device placed under a car in Ramat Hasharon, February 17, 2017. (Israel Police)

Army disarms IED on West Bank highway days after deadly terror bombing

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Israeli police during clashes with Palestinian protesters in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya on October 24, 2014. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Two East Jerusalem residents held for pipe bomb attack on cops

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women work on computers in the Comax software company office in the central city of Holon near Tel Aviv on April 17, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA )

Tech employees account for 8.7% of workforce, Innovation Authority says

By Shoshanna Solomon

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