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What Matters Most On Friday, August 30, 2019

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Illustrative photo of Israeli artillery on the Lebanese border, January 28, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson)

As tensions spike in north, IDF cancels leave for combat brigades

After Hezbollah threat of reprisal for Israeli strikes, Northern Command chief warns, ‘If an IDF soldier is so much as scratched, our response will be harsh’

This frame grab from video released on July 22, 2017, and provided by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows Hezbollah fighters firing a missile at positions of al-Qaeda-linked militants in an area on the Lebanon-Syria border. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP)

‘Watch out’: In tacit threat, IDF reveals details of Iran-Hezbollah missile plot

By Judah Ari Gross

A graphic by the Israeli military showing the chain of command for a joint Iranian-Hezbollah program to provide the Lebanese terror group with precision-guided missiles, which was released on August 29, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel media reviewMessage in a battle: 9 things to know for August 30

By Joshua Davidovich

Soldiers of the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrol a road in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila along the border with Israel on August 29, 2019. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

UN extends Lebanon border peacekeeping mission, urges full access to Blue Line

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Security Council warns rising tensions can lead to war neither side can afford, orders review of UNIFIL amid Israeli concerns that Hezbollah rendering Blue Helmets ineffective

A piggy bank with a photo of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is displayed to collect money for the group in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Rumman, Lebanon on January 21, 2016. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

US sanctions Lebanese bank used by Hezbollah, Gaza terror finance network

In this photo from August 12, 2019, plumes of smoke rise after an explosion at a military base southwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Loay Hameed)

Iraq accuses Israel of string of attacks on paramilitary bases

By ToI Staff and AFP

Oskar Schindler helped prepare the false-flag attack at the Gleiwitz radio tower prior to Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 (public domain)

80 years ago, how a very different Schindler’s ‘list’ helped ignite WWII

By Matt Lebovic

French director Roman Polanski arrives for the screening of the film "Saint-Laurent" at the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 17, 2014. (AFP Photo/Valery Hache)

J’accuse: #MeToo storm swirls as Polanski premiers Dreyfus film, draws parallels

By AFP

As Venice Film Festival organizers defend inclusion of movie, filmmaker accused of sexual abuse compares self to Jewish officer persecuted by anti-Semitic authorities in France

Oscar-winning Polish-French director Roman Polanski, photographed in Chanceaux-près-Loches, central France, in August 28, 2016. (AFP/Guillaume Souvant)

The Polanski case: What we know after 40 years

By AFP

Alfred Dreyfus in the Villemarie Garden, Carpentras 1899-1900. (Dreyfus Family Collection)

The Dreyfus affair: The story behind Polanski’s film

By AFP

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)

Netanyahu said to have ‘frantically’ tried to reach Trump over Iran talks fears

PM was unable to get hold of US president to convince him not to meet with top Tehran diplomat Zarif at G7, according to report, as Israel worries over Trump-Rouhani summit

UK, France, Germany to hold talks on Iran nuclear deal, protecting Gulf shipping

Most voters disapprove of Trump’s ‘disloyalty’ comment about US Jews

By LAURA E. ADKINS

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

By Jon Gambrell

In first, US jails Israeli binary options agent, an ex-reality TV star, for year

By Simona Weinglass

Lissa Mel pled guilty to her role in $145M fraud; must also pay $288K restitution to her victims; Yukom Comms CEO Lee Elbaz, convicted in same fraud, to be sentenced in Dec.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Zehut party leader Moshe Feiglin at a joint press conference at Kfar Hamacabiah in Ramat Gan announcing Zehut's withdrawal from the September elections, on August 29, 2019. (Flash90)

Zehut bows out of elections after Netanyahu promises Feiglin a cabinet post

In bid to shore up his chances in September vote, PM also promises far-right party to open medical cannabis market to imports

Prime Minister and Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Zehut party chairman Moshe Feiglin (L) give a joint press statement in Ramat Gan on August 29, 2019. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Rivals tear into Netanyahu for ‘teaming up with extremist’ Feiglin

Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu, right, and Zehut party chairman Moshe Feiglin hold joint press conference at Kfar Hamacabiah in Ramat Gan, August 29, 2019. (Flash90)

Poll finds Zehut’s exit from election won’t help Netanyahu form coalition

By Stuart Winer

A woman throws a bottle into a recycling bin in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

ToI investigates

Looking to dump poor recycling record, Israel asks public to start pitching in

By Melanie Lidman

The Negev Energy thermal solar plant at Ashalim in the Negev (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Israel marks start of work at thermal solar ‘sea of mirrors’ plant in Negev

By Shoshanna Solomon

The 121MW Negev Energy gleaming plant produces heat from the desert sun to create electricity; pity the price is as much as six times that of photovoltaic technology

People of the Pod

LISTEN: Introducing ‘People of the Pod,’ a new podcast by ToI and AJC

Episode #1: Leah and Simcha Goldin on the fight to bring their soldier son’s remains home; an in-depth look at the status of Israeli women with activist Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Ilan Shor meets with supporters during a campaign event in the city of Comrat on February 15, 2019. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP)

Moldova Jews bear anti-Semitic brunt as corrupt lawmaker flees, maybe to Israel

By Cnaan Liphshiz

I was an Orthodox man, now I’m the religious woman I was born to be

My journey as a trans woman helps me help students encounter a deeper part of themselves, the Divine spark within

No racists need apply!

We went to court to keep the racist incitement of Israel’s far-right out of the mainstream (and not for nothing: the justices agreed with us)

Jennifer Lifshutz Lankin

We helped her get a divorce after 12 years — is that success?

As a community, we must think bigger than addressing individual agunah cases. It’s about rewiring the systems

The Jewish people is brought together not just by crisis, catastrophe, and impending war, but also by collective celebration that includes all (Re’eh)

More Headlines

A Palestinian uses a slingshot to hurl stones during clashes with Israeli forces near the border with Israel in the eastern Gaza Strip on August 16, 2019. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Israel offers Hamas economic benefits in return for long-term ceasefire – report

Israeli teachers protest as they demand better pay and working conditions in Tel Aviv on August 29, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Deal to avert teachers’ strike paves way for start of school year

By Stuart Winer

Yair Lapid speaking at a Blue and White election event in Rehovot, August 29, 2019. (Elad Gutman)

Court extends detention of 2 suspected of firing air gun at Blue and White event

German Jewish refugees aboard the MS St. Louis, June 29, 1939. (Public domain)

UK museum to commemorate little-known operation to rescue Jews from Nazi Germany

Jerome Segal announces he is running for president for the party he founded at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, Aug. 28, 2019. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images via JTA)

Jewish socialist philosopher who met with Hamas announces US presidential run

By Josefin Dolsten

A Hasidic youth crossing a street in Monsey, Rockland County, New York on April 5, 2019. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images)

NY county’s Republican ad warns of a Hasidic ‘takeover’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Thousands attend joint funeral of Tahel Maul, 16, and her older sister Yarin, 19, at Ashkelon's Giv'at Zion cemetery, August 29, 2019 (Screen grab from newsenders via Israel Hayom)

Thousands attend funeral of teen sisters killed by suspected drunk driver

Illustrative photo of a man holding a Nazi-era German passport that belonged to his grandparent, October 5, 2016. (Frank Augstein/AP)

Germany eases citizenship rules for descendants of those persecuted by Nazis

By AFP

Workers prepare to place cement blocks to reinforce the sea wall against rising water levels on the corniche in Alexandria, Egypt, August 8, 2019. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)

Rising seas threaten Egypt’s fabled port city of Alexandria

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan speaks at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, at the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem, February 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Erdan told cops he suspected Bezeq owner pushed Netanyahu to remove him – report

A police officer escorts a 19-year-old British woman, center, to Famagusta court in town of Paralimni, Cyprus, July 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

British woman who recanted Cyprus rape claim against Israelis released on bail

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jeffrey Epstein in New York City in 2005. (Neil Rasmus/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images/via JTA)

Judge ends case against Epstein, with a nod to the accusers

By Larry Neumeister

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