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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 1, 2019

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Smoke rises near the community of Avivim following an anti-tank missile attack from Lebanon on September 1, 2019. (Courtesy)

Hezbollah fires anti-tank missiles at military jeep, IDF base; none hurt

By Judah Ari Gross

Tense calm restored; PM: Nobody even ‘scratched’; Israel returns fire with 100 shells, hits team that launched missiles, other targets in S. Lebanon; Hezbollah takes responsibility

A composite image of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and former Bezeq controlling shareholder, Shaul Elovitch. (Flash90: Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

Live updates (closed)

Bezeq’s Shaul Elovitch, former CEO Handler summoned to pre-indictment hearing

Securities fraud investigation was the precursor to so-called Case 4000, which has since implicated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

6:18 pm

Zehut members approve dropout from election race
6:10 pm

France engaged in 'multiple contacts' to quell Israel-Hezbollah tensions
6:00 pm

Netanyahu looks to boost security coordination with Ethiopia

Israel Katz attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 17, 2019. (Sebastian Scheiner/Pool/AFP)

FM warns Nasrallah will be remembered as ‘destroyer of Lebanon’ if he attacks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In threat following fiery speech by Hezbollah leader amid skyrocketing tensions, Israel Katz calls terror chief an ‘Iranian puppet’

Report: Israel launches artillery shells into disputed land on Lebanese border

By Judah Ari Gross

Nasrallah says response to drone attack ‘decided,’ Israel ‘must pay a price’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF calls off major drill, puts forces on alert amid fears of Hezbollah attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Belgium's Matthias Casse (in blue) celebrates winning the semifinal fight against Iran's Saeid Mollaei in the men's under-81 kilogram category during the 2019 Judo World Championships in Tokyo on August 28, 2019. (Charly Triballeau/AFP)

Iran judoka, forced to throw match to avoid Israeli, refuses to compete for Iran

Former world no. 1 Saeid Mollaei, who fled to Germany after pressure from Tehran to lose semifinal last week in Tokyo, says he’ll now fight under the Olympic flag

Saeid Mollaei in 2018 (YouTube screenshot)

Judo chief threatened to kick Iran out of Olympics if Israel snubbed — report

Saeid Mollaei in 2018 (YouTube screenshot)

Iran blames judo chiefs, Israel, as judoka flown to Berlin from Tokyo for asylum

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting schoolkids in the West Bank settlement of Elkana on the first day of school, September 1, 2019. (Courtesy)

Netanyahu says he will extend ‘Jewish sovereignty’ to all West Bank settlements

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

As school year starts, PM vows to kids in Elkana there will be ‘no more displacements,’ echoing previous campaign pledges; top Arab MK Odeh: Premier is pushing for ‘war crime’

Abbas blasts Netanyahu’s pledge to extend sovereignty over settlements

Palestinians begin process of issuing building permits for Area C – report

Honduran president lands in Israel to open ‘diplomatic office’ in Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a cornerstone ceremony for the Mobileye campus in Jerusalem on August 27, 2019. (ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP)

Netanyahu accuses Channel 12 owners of ‘terror attack against democracy’

Comments come day after PM called for boycott of outlet, which has published extensive leaks from criminal cases against him; commentators warn PM’s attacks risk prompting violence

Israel media reviewSchoolyard politics: 7 things to know for September 1

By Joshua Davidovich

Yamina leader Shaked says party will weigh backing immunity for Netanyahu

2.3 million children head back to class as school year begins

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, and Polish President Andrzej Duda, left, attend ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of World War II, in Wielun, Poland, Sept. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Germany asks for Poland’s forgiveness 80 years after WWII outbreak

By Anna Maria Jakubek

‘We want to remember and we will remember,’ says Germany’s President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Polish city of Wielun, where first World War II bombs fell 80 years ago

WWII: A messy memory battleground on the 80th anniversary

By Vanessa Gera

Dallas Holocaust museum expands focus to other genocides, human rights struggles

By Jamie Stengle

Far-right surge expected in east German state elections

By Frank Zeller

Next to the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, protesters gather against a 'Straight Pride' march held earlier in the day, August 31, 2019 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

At Boston’s ‘Straight Pride,’ Jews are on both sides of police barricades

By Matt Lebovic

Activists for and against controversial ‘Straight Pride’ march face off near the New England Holocaust Memorial

Peter Brown, center left, and Mark Hutt, center right, who said they are engaged to be married, hold hands as they march with others in the Straight Pride Parade in Boston, Saturday, August 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Boston ‘Straight Pride’ parade draws ‘oppressed majority,’ counter-protesters

Labor leader Amir Peretz, center, with Vegan Friendly founder and CEO Omri Paz, right, and lobbyist Anna Nemkov, left. (Courtesy/Zman Yisrael)

Vegan animal lovers uncage political aspirations ahead of Israeli elections

By Anabel Zamir

Elul breezes blow

There are 40 days until Yom Kippur to pause and reflect on who you are, and where you’re going to. Will you interrupt your busy schedule to take the time?

Join me in thanking Nauru

Let’s travel, as Israelis do, and go show one of the smallest, least-visited countries in the world our appreciation for their recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

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Odessa and Midland police and sheriff's deputies surround the area behind Cinergy movie theater in Odessa, Texas, August 31, 2019, after reports of gunfire (Tim Fischer/Midland Reporter-Telegram via AP)

5 killed, at least 19 injured in Texas shooting rampage

By AP

Illustrative: This undated file photo released in 2016, shows Abu Mohammed al-Golani of the Levant Liberation Committee and the leader of Syria's al-Qaida affiliate, second right, discussing battlefield details with field commanders over a map, in Aleppo, Syria. (Militant UGC via AP, File)

US strikes al-Qaeda jihadists in Syria, 40 reported killed

By AFP

This March 1, 2003, file photo obtained by the Associated Press shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged Sept. 11 mastermind, shortly after his capture during a raid in Pakistan. (AP Photo)

Trial date set for five 9/11 plotters at Guantanamo; they face death penalty

By AFP

An Iran-made drone is launched during a military drill in Jask port, southern Iran, in this picture released by Jamejam Online, on December 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Jamejam Online, Chavosh Homavandi, File)

Iran unveils new drone amid tensions with Israel and US

By AFP

A general view of the only electrical plant that generates electricity in the central Gaza Strip, June 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Qatar announces drastic cut in funding for Gazan fuel — report

Marketing firm Anglo Media acquires Janglo, strikes deal with Torah Tidbits

Pope Francis waves from the window of the apostolic palace overlooking St. Peter's square during the weekly Angelus prayer on September 1, 2019 at the Vatican. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP)

Elevated statusPope gets stuck in lift on way to Vatican prayers, freed by firefighters

By AFP

Michael Eisenberg of Aleph VC, left, and Bradley Tusk, the founder and CEO of Tusk Holdings, during the recording of the Firewall Special Israel Edition podcast (Courtesy)

PodcastLISTEN: How Healthy.io can use your phone’s camera for a digital urine test

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on April 30, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Liberman says his party is recruiting poll watchers for Haredi and Arab towns

Then-Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman at the ceremony for the opening of a new branch of his Agudath Israel party, ahead of upcoming elections, in the northern city of Safed, July 4, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

AG reportedly to let deputy health minister keep post despite looming charges

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