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What Matters Most On Monday, September 2, 2019

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A 'wounded' IDF soldier, in a staged evacuation, at the scene of an APC that was struck by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile on the Lebanon border on September 1, 2019. (Screen capture/Twitter)

IDF staged evacuation of ‘wounded’ troops from APC hit by Hezbollah

By Jacob Magid and Judah Ari Gross

Psychological warfare tactic was apparently designed to convince terror group it had retaliated sufficiently for recent Israeli strikes, when in fact it had not caused casualties

Pro-Hezbollah media try to cast doubt on Israeli denial of casualties

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

By Judah Ari Gross

Iran praises Hezbollah missile attack on IDF targets

By ToI Staff and AFP

A speech by Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is transmitted on a large screen in Beirut's southern suburbs on August 31, 2019. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Nasrallah insists Sunday attack was successful, forced Israelis to flee border

Hezbollah chief speaks after Israeli defense official says IDF had stood ready to destroy the terror group’s missile program if any soldier was harmed

6:30 pm

Nasrallah vows to down Israeli UAVs flying over Lebanon
6:21 pm

Nasrallah insists Sunday attack was successful, forced Israelis to flee border
5:48 pm

Amid growing speculation, UK PM Boris Johnson says he doesn't want an election

IDF chief to UNIFIL: Stop Hezbollah’s missile program, or we will

By Judah Ari Gross

Meeting head of UN peacekeeping force, Kohavi says Israel will not tolerate terror group’s attacks on its soldiers and civilians, nor let it build precision missiles

IDF chief Aviv Kohavi (second left) meets with the head of UNIFIL Stefano Del Col in the Israeli military's Tel Aviv headquarters on September 1, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

UN says ‘general calm’ restored along Israel-Lebanon border as tensions linger

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US ‘concerned’ by northern tensions, backs Jerusalem’s right to self-defense

By AFP and ToI Staff

AnalysisLebanese see Hezbollah and Israel favoring restraint over all-out war

By AFP and ToI Staff

Analysis

No fatalities, mercifully, though truth is a casualty as the IDF fools Hezbollah

Why did the IDF come clean about faking an evacuation of ‘injured soldiers’ from an APC after a terror strike Sunday? And what else got obscured in the fog of near-war?

This picture taken on September 1, 2019, from a location near the northern Israeli town of Avivim, shows a fire blazing in a field along the border with Israel on the Lebanese side following an exchange of fire. (ALAA MAREY / AFP)

AnalysisWith bloodless battle, Israel and Hezbollah can avoid war, but only for now

By Judah Ari Gross

AnalysisUntil we meet again, on the northern border

By Avi Issacharoff

A 'wounded' IDF soldier, in a staged evacuation, at the scene of an APC that was struck by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile on the Lebanon border on September 1, 2019. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Israel media review

Made you look: 6 things to know for September 2

A staged rescue operation of ‘wounded’ soldiers from an APC hit by Hezbollah has everyone talking, but few are convinced it’s calmed tensions more than temporarily

Gantz blasts Netanyahu for loose lips during Hezbollah flareup

As Hezbollah strikes, Gantz and Lapid at odds over attacks on Netanyahu

Hezbollah fire was intended to avenge Syria strike, not Beirut drones — report

Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, December 18, 2012. (AP/Robin van Lonkhuijsen, Pool)

ICC prosecutor ordered to reexamine deadly Gaza flotilla incident

Appellate judges in the Hague reject Fatou Bensouda’s decision to close case into IDF’s 2010 takeover of Mavi Marmara, in which 10 violent pro-Hamas activists were killed

In this picture taken on August 28, 2019, Iran's Saeid Mollaei (in white) fights against Belgium's Matthias Casse during the semifinal of the men's under-81kg category during the 2019 Judo World Championships, in Tokyo, Japan. (Charly TRIBALLEAU / AFP)

Iran judo champ afraid to go home after forced to throw match against Israeli

By ToI Staff and Agencies

World body to sanction Iranian judo federation as Saeid Mollaei says his family was threatened by the government to pressure him to avoid facing Israel’s Sagi Muki

A technician at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran, 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, February 3, 2007. (AP/Vahid Salemi/File)

Iran threatens to take ‘strong step’ away from nuke deal if no new agreement

By AP and ToI Staff

Am I pro-Israel or anti-Israel? I hate that question!

It’s a politically-manufactured debate, and American Jews need to reject it in favor of a nuanced dialogue on Israel

Shalom Yerushalmi

Netanyahu has chosen to go to war with the media

Rather than confront Hamas or Hezbollah, the PM battles the press, proving he will stop at nothing to ensure his political survival

6 (baby) steps to a more sustainable lifestyle

You don’t have to be a hemp-wearing vegan hippie stereotype to rethink some habits and adopt a more intentional, environmentally friendly mindset

The core electoral issue is women’s rights. Here’s why

The proliferation of battles over gender-related issues reflects an ongoing clash over Israel’s future as a liberal democracy

Shaul Elovitch arrives at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court for an extension of his remand in Case 4000, February 22, 2018. (Flash90/File)

State summons Elovitch, other ex-Bezeq executives for pre-indictment hearing

Suspicions in probes that led to Netanyahu case surround fraudulent expense of NIS 110 million from Bezeq coffers as well as leaking of information

AnalysisNetanyahu infuses campaign with anti-media incitement

Polls find extremist Otzma Yehudit edging toward Knesset threshold

Rivlin condemns efforts to ‘radicalize’ political discourse ahead of elections

The Majer family from Belgrade, in a happy moment before the Second World War; 19 people in the photograph were murdered in the Holocaust (Courtesy Yad Vashem Photo Archive)

Yad Vashem marks 80th anniversary of start of WWII with online exhibit

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Screen capture from video of Israeli runner Lonah Chemtai Salpeter winning the Florence Marathon and setting a new Israeli women's record for the distance, November 25, 2018. (YouTube)

Israeli runner breaks European record for women’s 10K

Illustrative. The bay of Vai in Crete, Greece. (CC BY, Wikimedia)

2 Israelis arrested in Greece for suspected rape

Illustrative: Children and adults cross a street in front of a school bus in Borough Park, a neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York that is home to many ultra-Orthodox Jewish families. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

After religious exemptions nixed, NY parents scramble to vaccinate kids

By CAROLYN THOMPSON

Strong winds move the palms of the palm trees at the first moment of the arrival of Hurricane Dorian in Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas, Sept. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

‘Catastrophic’ Hurricane Dorian pounds Bahamas as US evacuates coast

By Ramon Espinosa

Bodies covered in plastic lie on the ground amid the rubble of a Houthi detention center destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes, that killed at least 60 people and wounded several dozen according to officials and the rebels' health ministry, in Dhamar province, southwestern Yemen, Sept. 1, 2019 (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen rebel-run prison kill over 100

By Jamil Nasser and Shatha YAISH

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the opening of a Honduran trade office in Jerusalem, on September 1, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Honduras opens trade office in Jerusalem, in ‘first step’ toward embassy move

By Raphael Ahren

A gate protects the entrance of the Rooksnest estate near Lambourn, England, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. The manor is the domain of Theresa Sackler, widow of one of Purdue Pharma’s founders and, until 2018, a member of the company’s board of directors. A complex web of companies and trusts are controlled by the family, and an examination reveals links between far-flung holdings, far removed from the opioid manufacturer’s headquarters in Stamford, Conn. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Where did the Sacklers move cash from their opioid maker?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed speak at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office on September 1, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/PMO)

Netanyahu looks to boost security coordination with Ethiopia

By AFP

The apartment building in the central Israeli city of Lod where police found a seven-year-old girl tied to a shower on August 12, 2019. (Screen capture Channel 12)

Parents charged with abusing girl, 7, scalded with hot water, tied to bathtub

Aryeh Goodman (Courtesy of Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office)

NJ rabbi gets 18 months in prison for sex with underage prostitute

By JTA

Outgoing vice chair of the US Federal Reserve, Stanley Fischer. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former Fed vice chair Stanley Fischer says Trump ‘doesn’t understand trade’

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: Ministers attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

With elections looming, poll finds 26% think government’s economic policy failed

By Shoshanna Solomon

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