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What Matters Most On Saturday, August 31, 2019

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Judoka Luka Maisuradze of Georgia, top, competes against Saeid Mollaei of Iran during a men's under-81 kilogram bronze medal match at the World Judo Championships in Tokyo, August 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Iranian judoka allegedly coerced to avoid fight against Israeli seeks asylum

Netanyahu tells Macron ‘now is precisely not the time to talk to Iran’

European leaders vow to step up efforts to get US and Iran talking

By AFP and ToI Staff

UN watchdog: Iran continues to grow uranium stockpile in breach of nuclear deal

By AP and ToI Staff

In this Jan. 1987 file photo, Actress Valerie Harper laughs during an interview in New York. Valerie Harper, who scored guffaws and stole hearts as Rhoda Morgenstern on back-to-back hit sitcoms in the 1970s, has died, Friday, Aug. 30, 2019. She was 80. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm)

'I always had this neshama for some reason'

Valerie Harper, who played lovable, sassy ‘Jewish’ sitcom star Rhoda, dies at 80

She was Catholic, but with Rhoda Morgenstern, she put a Jewish character front and center on a major network, later also portraying Golda Meir

Valerie Harper arrives at the AARP Movies for Grownups Film Showcase at Regal Cinemas L.A. LIVE on Friday, November 7, 2014 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Vince Bucci/Invision for AARP/AP Images)

ObituaryValerie Harper broke taboos, stole hearts as TV’s Rhoda

By Frazier Moore

In this file photo from May 27, 2017, director Roman Polanski appears at the photo call for the film, 'Based On A True Story,' at the 70th international film festival, Cannes, southern France. (AP/Alastair Grant)

Polanski film on Dreyfus divides critics, as director stays away from premiere

By Kelly MacNamara

Filmmaker says he sees parallels between story of falsely accused French Jewish army officer and his own experiences, as he contends with controversy in #MeToo era

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers patrolling near the northern Israeli town of Avivim, close to the border with Lebanon, August 26, 2019. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

IDF chief tours tense northern border as army braces for Hezbollah strike

Visit comes day after military cancels leave for all combat soldiers in north and commander of area vows harsh response to any attack

Two crates reportedly belonging to Hezbollah containing critical technical machinery that were destroyed in a drone strike attributed to Israel in Beirut on August 25, 2019. (Twitter)

Hezbollah-linked TV says drones that hit Beirut came from Israeli gunboats

By Agencies and ToI Staff

People walk past a branch of Jammal Trust Bank in Beirut, Lebanon, August 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanese bank sanctioned by US denies doing banking activities for Hezbollah

A market area in Jerusalem's historical First Station. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Remnants of an empire: Visit Ottoman-era buildings revamped for modern Jerusalem

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in Ramat Gan on August 29, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Netanyahu urges boycott of ‘fake’ Channel 12, calls its ‘Our Boys’ anti-Semitic

PM slams leading TV station hours after Elections Committee rejects Likud request to bar media from publishing transcripts from graft cases against him

Former Communications Ministry director-general Shlomo Filber arrives for a hearing at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on February 18, 2018. (Flash90)

Netanyahu aide reportedly held secret meeting with Bezeq tycoon on merger deal

New Right No. 2 Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on July 22, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

In reversal, Bennett says Yamina will back immunity for Netanyahu in graft cases

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media before leaving the White House in Washington for for Camp David in Maryland on August 30, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Trump defends sharing ‘classified’ photo of failed Iran rocket launch

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Asked if he released secret information, US president says he had ‘the absolute right’ to post image on Twitter

In this photo from August 18, 2019, an Iranian flag flutters on board the Adrian Darya oil tanker, formerly known as Grace 1, off the coast of Gibraltar. (Johnny Bugeja/AFP)

US blacklists Iranian oil tanker accused of skirting sanctions on Syria

By AFP and ToI Staff

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the 101st National Convention of The American Legion in Indianapolis, August 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Pompeo: US has ‘reliable information’ Iranian tanker headed to Syria

By AFP and ToI Staff

File: The 73rd United Nations General Assembly on September 29, 2018, at the United Nations in New York. (AFP/Don Emmert)

In first, UN panel calls on Palestinians to halt hate speech against Israelis

United Nations anti-racism committee urges ‘State of Palestine’ to combat anti-Semitism, end incitement and better protect journalists, dissidents

Manara Square in Ramallah (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Restaurant in Ramallah backs out of hosting US Embassy meeting with Palestinians

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)

Analysis

Alleged Israeli strikes in Iraq unlikely to threaten US presence, experts say

Israel’s reported actions against pro-Iranian militias in the Arab state have exposed internal US differences, underline delicate balancing act required by all sides

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on July 23, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Netanyahu says he’s doing everything to defend Israel, including ‘in Iraq’

Ahmad al-Assadi, an Iraqi parliamentarian and leading member of the Popular Mobilization Forces, speaks during an interview in Baghdad on August 29, 2019 (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)

Iraqi MP: Government probe shows Israel ‘certainly’ behind some recent strikes

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinians clash with Israeli forces along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Rafah, on August 30, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Gazan said to die of wounds from border clashes

Hamas-run health ministry says Badr Abu Moussa, 25, was hospitalized after being hit in the head with a bullet on Friday

Palestinian rioters on the Gaza border, August 30, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

Soldier lightly injured by shrapnel as thousands protest on Gaza border

AnalysisHamas and ISIS hate Israel — and each other

In this January 1, 2019, file photo, activists of various nationalist parties carry torches, Ukrainian national flags and a portrait of Stepan Bandera during a rally in Kyiv, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Grandson of Ukrainian fascist reckons with a legacy of Nazi collaboration

Dear Gap Year Student

Tips to help you ensure you maximize your year and don’t suffer FOMO (fear of missing out)

The learned pig

The pig came to represent a non-Jewish hypocrite who professes to love the Jews while plotting their downfall — but metaphors often break down under scrutiny (Re’eh)

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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)

Joint List leader hopes to transform Arab role in Israeli politics

By AP and ToI Staff

Jonathan Goldstein with his wife Hannah Goldstein (Family Handout/PA Wire via the Jewish News)

UK Jewish composer, musician wife, infant daughter killed in plane crash

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Yemen's capital Sanaa in 2015 (CC BY-SA Wikimedia Commons)

In first, Israel seeks to deport Jewish sex offender to Yemen

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative. Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York. March 21, 2012. (Serge Attal/FLASH90/File)

For second time in days, Jewish man assaulted in Brooklyn

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on 'Foreign Influence Operations and Their Use of Social Media Platforms' on Capitol Hill, Sept. 5, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Twitter founder’s account hacked, spews anti-Semitic and racist tweets

By Barbara Ortutay

In this photo from February 10, 2016, Sirhan Sirhan reacts during a parole hearing at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, Pool, File)

RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan wounded in prison stabbing

The main square in Nyíregyháza, Hungary. (Public domain, Wikipedia, David Sallay)

Youths tell Hungarian cantor, wife ‘they belong in the gas chamber’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

This photo from August 4, 2019, shows Andreas Kalbitz, chairman of the AfD party in Brandenburg, in Cottbus, Germany. (Patrick Pleul/dpa via AP)

German far-right candidate attended neo-Nazi rally in Greece

By AP

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