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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 29, 2019

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In a photograph released by a Hezbollah-affiliated news outlet, a mannequin dressed as a soldier is positioned inside a military jeep along the Lebanese border, August 29, 2019. (Twitter)

Fearing Hezbollah attack, IDF said to replace soldiers with dummies on border

By Judah Ari Gross

Lebanese reporter affiliated with the Iran-backed terror group tweets photos appearing to show mannequins dressed as troops in jeeps; army won’t comment on ‘foreign reports’

Israel media reviewGoing for a spin around the bloc: 7 things to know for August 29

By Joshua Davidovich

Lebanese troops open fire at Israeli UAVs that reportedly entered their airspace

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel, US bid to bolster UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, say Hezbollah neuters them

Saeid Mollaei in 2018 (YouTube screenshot)

Israel says Iran forced its judoka to throw semifinal to avoid facing Sagi Muki

Local judo chief Moshe Fonti says Saeid Mollaei intended to compete to the end even if it meant squaring off against Israeli, but then Iranian agents arrived at his family home

IDF’s new Persian social media accounts gain thousands of followers in days

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iranian FM: US must honor nuclear deal if it wants talks

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel asks UK to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terror organization

A child plays near the beach in Nauru during the Pacific Islands Forum on the tiny Pacific nation of Nauru Monday, Sept. 3, 2018. (Jason Oxenham/Pool Photo via AP)

Nauru, world’s ‘least-visited country,’ recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

By JTA and ToI Staff

Foreign Minister Katz praises move by tiny Pacific island nation, expresses hope more countries will follow suit

Trump envoy says peace plan won’t be released before Israeli elections

Honduras recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

By AFP and ToI Staff

IDF: Gaza rocket fired at Israel lands in Strip, triggering sirens in south

By Judah Ari Gross

Skull find of humans’ oldest-known ancestor may alter understanding of evolution

By Robbie COREY-BOULET

Discovery in Ethiopia of 3.8-million-year-old skull indicates some ancient hominid species may have coexisted

This satellite image from Planet Labs Inc., that has been annotated by experts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies, shows a fire at a rocket launch pad at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran's Semnan province on Aug. 29, 2019. (Planet Labs Inc, Middlebury Institute of International Studies via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Iran’s third attempt to launch satellite appears to end in failure

Images show smoldering rocket remains on launchpad at Khomeini Space Center; Islamic Republic failed to send satellites into orbit in January and February

6:27 pm

Assailants fire air rifle at Blue and White supporters in Rehovot
6:24 pm

Polls show Feiglin move makes virtually no difference for Netanyahu
6:00 pm

IDF cancels leave for combat soldiers in northern Israel

Inscribed late 9th or early 8th century BCE altar that was discovered in a Moabite sanctuary at the Khirbat Ataruz site in central Jordan in 2010. (Courtesy of Adam Bean)

Newly deciphered Moabite inscription may be first use of written word ‘Hebrews’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Education Minister Rafi Peretz speaks a Yemina party event in Elkana, August 21, 2019. )

Students at education minister’s academy taught to avoid the IDF, secular Jews

TV shows videos from pre-army Otzem school that were removed from internet when Rafi Peretz took up his post; secular Jews are ‘wicked,’ says one teacher, who also calls IDF feeble

Gantz dismisses Russia hack claim; intel firm says criticism is ‘crude slander’

Factory worker said fired after she criticized Liberman as he toured premises

By Stuart Winer

Liberman says many in Likud are ‘praying’ Netanyahu is replaced — report

Workers at the construction site of a massive underground cemetery in Jerusalem, August 18, 2019. (Oded Balilty/AP)

As cemeteries run out of space, massive modern catacombs to open in Jerusalem

By Ilan Ben Zion and ISAAC SCHARF

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

My only-in-Israel moment at the Central Bus Station

This man is pushing past all of us. How DARE he! “Excuse me!” I say, standing as tall and wide as possible

Yegór Ósipov-Gipsh

Secular people need a way to become Jewish

Non-Jews should be able to opt in to Jewishness without having to turn to a synagogue, rabbinate, or Israel

High Noon at the Cannabis Corral

Thousands of my severely ill autism and epilepsy patients stand to lose continuity of care, all for a political publicity stunt

The clever fake rabbis who made millions off of Prohibition

The 1920s liquor ban left a loophole for sacramental wine — suddenly it paid to be Jewish in America

Johnny Arbid, left, plays the grieving father of a slain Palestinian teen in "Our Boys." (Ran Mendelson/HBO via JTA)

Why HBO’s series on revenge murder of a Palestinian teen is causing controversy

By Josefin Dolsten

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An illustrative image of a patient getting treatment (kckate16; iStock by Getty Images)

Startup says its blood test can detect early-stage lung cancer

By Hannah Harnest

Settlers stand at the top of the Machpela House in Hebron after re-entering the building for the first time in months on August 25, 2019. (Harhivi movement)

Settlers enter disputed Hebron home after legal win, but move appears premature

16-year-old Tahel Maul, killed in a car crash in Ashkelon on August 29, 2019. (Courtesy)

Teen sisters killed in crash; driver suspected of drunk driving

Sacha Baron Cohen as Israeli spy Eli Cohen in 'The Spy' (YouTube screenshot)

Ali G in DamascusNetflix airs trailer for series about Israeli spy Eli Cohen

Israelis help an Egyptian driver whose car crashed in the Sinai Peninsula, August 2019 (Courtesy Yosef Malachi)

Road to recoveryIsraeli tourists help Egyptian cab driver after Sinai crash

Illustrative image of a person being arrested. (BrianAJackson via iStock by Getty images)

French-Israeli man extradited to France to face charges for massive tax fraud

Binyamin Ben-Eliezer in 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Businessman convicted of bribing late minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer

A scene from Ari Folman's 'Waltz with Bashir.' (Screenshot from YouTube)

Jewish teacher in Scotland fired for screening Israeli film ‘Waltz with Bashir’

By JTA

Iranian jorunalist Amir Tohid Fazel speaks to Sweden's SVT (video screenshot)

Iranian reporter flees Zarif delegation, seeks asylum in Sweden

Joel Pollak with Stephen Bannon in an undated photo. (Courtesy)

US candidate O’Rourke’s campaign ejects Breitbart reporter from speech

By AP

Illustrative: In this photo from May 9, 2015, a man puts a rose on the railroad tracks at former concentration camp Westerbork, the Netherlands, remembering more than a hundred thousand Jews who were transported from Westerbork to Nazi death camps. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch Holocaust museum drops ex-director’s claim Jews threatened to kill him

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Nava Elimelech, 12, who was murdered in 1982. (Yossi Aloni)

Police call in former suspect for questioning in 37-year-old murder case

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