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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 3, 2019

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illustrative: An IDF Ze'ev armored vehicle (CC-BY SA MathKnight/Wikimedia Commons)

Reports: Hezbollah missiles narrowly missed armored car with 5 soldiers inside

IDF said probing why medical vehicle was driving Sunday on unprotected road against orders; absence of Israeli casualties now attributed to luck, rather than shrewdness

A man fixes a Hezbollah flag at the 'Garden of Iran' Park in the Lebanese village of Maroun al-Ras on September 1, 2019, as fires blaze on the Lebanese side along the border following an exchange of fire with Israel. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Netanyahu on flareup with Hezbollah: It was tense, but we achieved all our goals

By Raphael Ahren

F-35 fighter jets from Israel, the United States, and the United Kingdom take part in an aerial exercise over the Mediterranean Sea, on June 25, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

TV: Israel was ready to destroy Hezbollah missile program if soldiers were hit

Netanyahu: 'He knows exactly why he is in a Beirut bunker'

Hailing ‘bold, brave’ attack, Nasrallah vows: ‘No more red lines against Israel’

Hezbollah chief insists Sunday rocket strikes were successful, forced Israelis to flee border; threatens to target drones in Lebanese airspace, fire ‘deep inside’ Israel in future

Supporters of the Lebanese Shiite terror group Hezbollah react with clenched fists as they watch a speech by the movement's leader Hasan Nasrallah, transmitted on a large screen in the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs on September 2, 2019. (Photo by AFP)

Hezbollah screens video of Sunday’s rocket attack, shows missiles almost hit APC

By Jacob Magid and Adam Rasgon

Senior official: Nasrallah sought ceasefire as IDF responded to Hezbollah strike

Heads of northern regional councils demand funding for civil defense

A reporter for the Russian television network RT in Arabic wandering around an empty IDF outpost on the Lebanese border near Avivim, a day after it was struck by Hezbollah missiles. (RT screenshot via Channel 12)

Russian TV reporter walks around deserted IDF post hit by Hezbollah missiles

After RT Arabic publishes report from inside Avivim base, military acknowledges it was evacuated due to threats

An Israeli soldier examines the remains of a rocket near the village of Avivim on the Israel-Lebanon border, Monday, Sept. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel media reviewPunkwashing: 8 things to know for September 3

By Joshua Davidovich

From left, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, outgoing IDF spokesperson Maj. Gen. Moti Almoz, incoming spokesperson Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot raise a toast at a ceremony in which Manelis officially entered his position, at the army's Tel Aviv headquarters on May 18, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

In shakeup, IDF to establish new criteria for military correspondents

French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he delivers a speech during the annual French ambassadors conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris on August 27, 2019. (Yoan VALAT / POOL / AFP)

France seeks $15b letter of credit for Iran to keep nuclear deal alive

By ToI Staff and AFP

Iranian delegation in Paris for talks as Tehran spokesperson says ‘our views have come closer together’

Iran’s Rouhani says no intention of holding bilateral talks with US

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran said hindering IAEA probe at alleged nuclear warehouse exposed by Netanyahu

Iran admits test malfunction caused rocket explosion

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Gantz says he’d form ‘liberal’ unity government without ‘extremists’

Appearing to rule out coalition with religious parties, Blue and White chief condemns Israel’s prime ministers for having ‘surrendered to the blackmail of sectoral parties’

6:34 pm

Netanyahu: Trump peace plan to be released 'immediately' after elections
5:57 pm

Netanyahu says Hezbollah's precision missiles 'aimed directly at Kiryat Ata'
5:38 pm

Gantz says he'd form 'liberal' unity government without 'extremists'

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a joint press conference at the president's house in New Delhi, India, January 15, 2018. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Netanyahu calls off planned trip to India, less than a week before takeoff

By Raphael Ahren

PM says ‘scheduling constraints’ caused election cycle’s second short-notice cancellation, fueling rumors he’s preparing for a different high-profile visit

US President Donald Trump smiles at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, after signing a proclamation formally recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2019. (AP/Susan Walsh)

PM, Trump said considering announcing plans for defense pact ahead of elections

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

Honduran trade office opening was not held at actual trade office

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with former communications minister Ayoub Kara at a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, on May 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu heard intervening in TV market while already under investigation

PM tells communications minister to ‘save’ right-wing Channel 20 in 2017 recording; Labor calls for investigation, Blue and White accuses him of turning Israel into Turkey

Ex-Likud minister denies leaking damaging Netanyahu tape, blames ‘evil people’

Attorney general says media can publish leaks from cases against Netanyahu

Bennett says Hezbollah tensions contributed to Yamina flip-flop on PM’s immunity

By Raoul Wootliff

Shulamit S. Magnus

Dybbuk or voice? On women’s ordination in Orthodoxy

Are the newly-minted female Orthodox rabbis up for making the changes Jewish law needs or are they no more than honorary men?

The moral failure of refusing to condemn murder

The toxic mix of contextualizing terror, removing agency from terrorists, and demonizing settlers masks the cold-blooded murder of teenagers

Sheldon Kirshner

Ban Iran from judo meets

Forcing its athletes to throw matches to avoid competing against Israelis should lead to automatic disqualification

Israel’s media helps Netanyahu, even as he attacks it

The media is scared to offend and instead of informing it aims to reassure, ultimately normalizing the abnormal

Otzma Yehudit party members Michael Ben Ari (L) and Itamar Ben Gvir attend a press conference held in response to the Supreme Court decision to disqualify Michael Ben Ari's candidacy for the upcoming Knesset elections, due to his racist views, in Jerusalem on March 17, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/FLash90)

Netanyahu seeks deal to have far-right party drop out of election – report

PM said to offer to lower electoral threshold in next election in exchange for Otzma Yehudit pullout, but Kahanist party leader says no plans to quit

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man near a billboard with pictures of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Shas head Aryeh Deri, as part of the Shas election campaign, in Safed, March 10, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Shas chief claims Likud officials asked him to form government without Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon during a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 9, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

In recording, finance minister says he’s quitting, later claims it was a joke

Illustrative: shwarma meat being cooked in Jerusalem on December 20, 2013. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Con carne

Tourist charged NIS 10,100 ($2,800) for shawarma in Jerusalem

Woman refunded only several weeks after Old City meal; former worker describes scheme to swindle foreigners

Film director Daniel Roher takes a break from editing his new documentary, 'Once Were Brothers,' at the post-production studio in Toronto, Ontario, August 29, 2019. The film will open the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday, September 5. (Etye Sarner)

Interview

26-year-old Jewish-Canadian director to launch Toronto Film Festival

By Robert Sarner

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US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democrat-New York) speaks at a public housing town hall at a New York City Housing Authority residence in the Bronx borough of New York City, on August 29, 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Ocasio-Cortez pans Israel’s ‘inhumane policies,’ insists she isn’t anti-Semitic

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An Instagram exchange between Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei and Israeli Sagi Muki. (Screenshot)

Iran judoka congratulates Israeli champ he was forced to throw match to avoid

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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

16-year-old charged with firing air gun at Blue and White event

A woman seeks cover from wind, blowing sand and rain whipped up by Hurricane Dorian as she walks on the beach on September 2, 2019 in Cocoa Beach, Florida. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

Hurricane Dorian kills 5 in Bahamas amid ‘unprecedented devastation’

By Ramon Espinosa, DANICA COTO and Michael Weissenstein

Signs about measles and the measles vaccine are displayed at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, New York, March 27, 2019. (Seth Wenig/AP)

NYC health officials say Orthodox Jewish measles outbreak has ended

By AP

Inside the Sorek A Desalination Plant, November 2015. (Yossi Zamir/FLASH90)

Two desalination plants faked water quality data to cut costs

Dvir Shnerb (left), who was wounded last month in a bombing that killed his 17-year-old sister Rina, with Prof. Pikarsky Alon, head of the Department of General Surgery at Hadassah Ein Kerem, during his discharge from the hospital on September 2, 2019. Hadassah Hospital)

Wounded brother of teen slain in terror attack discharged from hospital

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz attends the Srugim conference in Jerusalem on September 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz: No 2nd disengagement, the public will decide on any diplomatic deal

By Raoul Wootliff

A tanker delivers fuel to the Nuseirat power plant in the Gaza Strip on October 24, 2018. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Israel lifts Gaza fuel restriction after calm returns

By AFP and ToI Staff

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent of Vermont, speaks during the National Education Association Strong Public Schools Presidential Forum, July 5, 2019, in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

At Muslim convention, Sanders calls for Americans to stand together

By JTA

Eliezer Berland (L) with Israeli pop star Omer Adam (via Facebook)

Israeli pop star stokes fury over photo with sex offender rabbi Berland

By Marissa Newman

A Palestinian woman chants slogans during a rally in front of the prime minister's office, in the West Bank city of Ramallah,September 2. 2019. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Palestinian women protest after suspected ‘honor killing’

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

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