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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 4, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech on files obtained by Israel's Mossad that he says prove Iran lied about its nuclear program, at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, on April 30, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Israel said again mulling raid on Iran; thinks Trump, unlike Obama, won’t oppose

By Michael Bachner

NY Times exposé reveals extent of Netanyahu-Obama rift on stopping Iranian nukes; PM himself tells paper he’d ‘unequivocally’ have ordered strike in 2012 if cabinet had backed him

Iran warns it will further cut nuclear commitments ‘today or tomorrow’

Iran says it would stick to nuclear deal for $15 billion European oil credit

By AFP

Iran says it can resume 20% uranium enrichment in days if no economic relief

An aerial photo of what the IDF says is a site designed to produce and convert precision missiles in the Lebanese Bekaa Valley. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF publishes photos purporting to expose Hezbollah precision missile factory

Army claims compound built by Lebanese terror group with help from Iran is designed to manufacture motors and warheads of missiles with an accuracy of less than 10 meters

Satellite image showing the construction of a new Iranian military base in Iraq's Albukamal Al-Qaim region, near the Syrian border (ImageSat International via Fox News)

Iran said to be building large military base on Iraq-Syria border

This satellite image from Planet Labs Inc., that has been annotated by experts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies, shows a fire at a rocket launch pad at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran's Semnan province, August 29, 2019. (Planet Labs Inc, Middlebury Institute of International Studies via AP)

US slaps sanctions on Iran space agency over suspected missile work

US President Donald Trump updates the media on Hurricane Dorian preparedness from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, September 4, 2019. (Photo by JIM WATSON / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Trump on a meeting with Iran’s Rouhani: ‘Anything is possible’

Hours after his administration piled more sanctions on Tehran, US president declines to rule out talks with Iranian counterpart on sidelines of UN next week

6:32 pm

IDF soldier injured in apparent hazing incident regains consciousness
6:11 pm

Ex-aide to PM says Sara Netanyahu made him delete texts between Yair and Case 4000 suspect
5:50 pm

Trump on a meeting with Iran's Rouhani: 'Anything is possible'

Op-ed

Worrying days for Israel when Hezbollah is a key source of credible information

Israel has always rightly seen our enemies’ resort to disinformation in times of conflict as a sign of weakness. So why are our military and political leaders now engaging in it?

Footage from Hezbollah's Al-Manar television network showing a September 1, 2019, missile strike against an Israeli military vehicle near the northern border, broadcast on September 2. (Twitter, screen capture)

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)

Trolling Hezbollah chief, IDF assures him it didn’t forget his birthday

A newborn Lebanese girl named Avivim after an Israeli community targeted by Hezbollah, September 2019. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Lebanese baby named Avivim after Israeli community targeted by Hezbollah

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

Shifting strategy, Gantz puts kibosh on coalition with ultra-Orthodox parties

Blue and White chief condemns Israel’s prime ministers for having ‘surrendered to the blackmail of sectoral parties’

Illustrative: Interior Minister Aryeh Deri leads a Shas faction meeting at the Knesset on May 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deri accuses Gantz of sowing division by snubbing ultra-Orthodox parties

Shas party leader Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (R) United Torah Judaism party Mk Yaakov Litzman during a joint party meeting at the Knesset on June 19, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shas, UTJ sign vote-sharing agreement ahead of election

Communications Minister Ayoub Kara at a press conference in the northern city of Safed, July 10, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Israel media review

Meddle, middle, muddle: 7 things to know for September 4

By Joshua Davidovich

A new tape adds to charges of Netanyahu meddling where he shouldn’t, the center pushes away the ultra-Orthodox, and a look at how the IDF is fogging up its war with Hezbollah

Netanyahu names himself welfare minister after Katz resigned over graft charges

By Raoul Wootliff

Liberman urges anti-fraud cameras in Arab, ultra-Orthodox polling stations

By Stuart Winer and Jacob Magid

Comptroller announces reform, touts focus on social issues over corruption

By Michael Bachner

John Cleese performs during his show 'Last Time to See Me Before I Die' (Tobias Nokolai/Polfoto via AP)

Comedy review

How John Cleese got laughs from his mother with an offer of murder and taxidermy

By David Horovitz

This March 18, 2010 photo shows the YouTube website (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File).

Analysis

Eric Cortellessa

How YouTube became an open, lucrative stage for anti-Semitic conspiracy theories

Despite the video-sharing website recently updating its policy on hate speech, white supremacist videos still go live every day

Women and children wait at a crosswalk in the Orthodox neighborhood of Borough Park, Brooklyn, Sept. 3, 2019. (Ben Sales/JTA)

In Orthodox Jewish Brooklyn, a spate of assaults feels all too familiar

Why is the chief rabbi acting like the pope?

Get-refusal is a heinous, vengeful act that must be eradicated – but not without due process, and the other protections of a democracy separated from religion

Fake news! The IDF’s tactical exercise in media deception

What happened last week in Avivim? I have a theory or two, but the military censor always makes it hard to distinguish actual from alternative facts

The strange feeling of not belonging to anywhere

Worst of all, I chose to say goodbye to the ones I love, and when I chose, I knew I would never be complete again

The September 1 Blues

As my sons head back to school, my heart hurts: each day I spent with them this summer felt like gold

Rabbi Shneur Mizrahi, left, helps Ricardo Aisen pray with phylacteries in the newly reclaimed synagogue in Buenos Aires. (Daniel Silicaro)

Argentine Jews reclaim desecrated synagogue that housed drug-fueled raves

By Michelle Mendeluk

Screen capture from video of the Holocaust movie 'The Painted Bird.' (YouTube)

Holocaust ‘masterpiece’ causes uproar at Venice film festival

By Fiachra GIBBONS

Film adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s book ‘The Painted Bird’ draws acclaim, but has some viewers flee screening due to its graphic content

Bad taste‘Hitler’ restaurant in Iraqi Kurdistan forced to change name

By Michael Bachner

UBQ Materials has developed a technology that takes unsorted household waste -- from banana peels to dirty diapers to used yogurt containers and cardboard -- and converts it into a bio-based thermoplastic -- a plastic substitute (Courtesy)

Sabra hummus founder says plastic is the perfect way to upcycle waste

By Melanie Lidman

In this Monday, May 20, 2013 file photo, Sotheby's director of the department of printed books and manuscripts Dr Philip Errington poses for photographers by holding a first edition copy of the first Harry Potter book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" containing annotations and illustrations by author J.K. Rowling on top of a stack of other annotated first edition books featuring at auction, at the auction house's premises in London. Wizarding legend Harry Potter's tale has turned 20. Author JK Rowling's first novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published in Britain on June 26, 1997. Since then, it has sold more than 450 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 79 languages. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Confundo

On advice of exorcist, Catholic school priest bans ‘Harry Potter’ books

By AFP

Nashville school priest warns spells used in books are real and could be used to summon spirits

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Illustrative. IDF soldiers train next to a tank at the Tzeelim army base in southern Israel on August 19, 2015. (Israel Defense Forces/Flickr)

IDF soldier seriously injured on base in ‘non-operational’ incident

The thousands of embroidered squares created in memory of Ori Ansbacher, hung September 3, 2019 in Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter (Courtesy Tal Marom)

Knit pickCrowd-sewn embroidery honors memory of terror victim Ori Ansbacher

By Jessica Steinberg

US President Donald Trump, left, welcomes visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington, March 25, 2019. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Netanyahu says Trump peace plan will be released ‘immediately’ after elections

A marine crane vessel en route to Israel to set up the Leviathan natural gas platform 9.7 km (6 miles) from the popular Dor Beach, north of Caesarea. (Noble Energy)

Production platform for Leviathan, Israel’s largest gas field, to arrive in days

By Shoshanna Solomon

Smokes rises from forest fires in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, in the Amazon basin, on August 27, 2019. (Joao Laet / AFP)

Israel sends group to help Brazil battle Amazon fires

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative image of a mosquito biting through skin. (iStock by Getty Images/nechaev-kon)

West Nile virus detected in mosquitoes near Jerusalem neighborhoods

By Stuart Winer

Inbal Or, a former residential real estate developer whose empire collapsed following her arrest on allegations of fraud and tax evasion, holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, July 29, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

High-profile real estate developer charged with tax fraud, hiding NIS 80 million

By Stuart Winer

A makeshift Palestinian flag put up outside the Petah Tikva municipality building on September 4, 2019. (Courtesy)

Israeli flag replaced with Palestinian flag outside Petah Tikva city hall

French novelist Yann Moix visiting a meal distribution center for migrants in Calais, France, March 5, 2018. (Jeremias Gonzalez/IP3/Getty Images)

Top French novelist published Holocaust denials, caricatures 30 years ago

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Students walk near the Widener Library in Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Palestinian Harvard freshman denied entry to US finally allowed in

By AP and ToI Staff

Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, April, 9, 2007. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

‘Dutch mole’ planted Stuxnet virus in Iran nuclear site on behalf of CIA, Mossad

By Stuart Winer

Many of the 300 Israeli musicians taking part in the upcoming, 21st Piano Festival in November 2019 (Courtesy Piano Festival)

Scaling upUpcoming Piano Festival is about more than the piano

By Jessica Steinberg

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