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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 5, 2019

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Iran's President Hassan Rouhani (L) addresses parliament in the capital Tehran on September 3, 2019. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Rouhani: Starting Friday, Iran to develop faster nuclear enrichment centrifuges

By Nasser Karimi

Iranian president says third step away from 2015 nuclear deal will be of ‘an extraordinarily significant nature’ unless Europe comes up with solution

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi, left, and Air Force chief Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin, center, at the Nevatim Air Force Base on July 9, 2019. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Now is not the time to talk to Iran, Netanyahu says en route to London

By Raphael Ahren

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)

Asked about Rouhani meeting, Trump says, ‘Sure, anything is possible’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside 10 Downing Street in central London on September 5, 2019. (DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)

Johnson pushes Netanyahu on two-state solution in lightning meeting

By Raphael Ahren

PM thanks British counterpart for fighting anti-Semitism, leaves 10 Downing Street, in turmoil over Brexit, after merely 30 minutes; also set to meet US defense chief

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 11, 2018. (AFP/ Pool/Yuri Kadobnov)

Netanyahu may meet Putin before elections, officials indicate

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Blue and White leader MK Benny Gantz speaks at a Channel 12 News conference in Tel Aviv on September 5, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Gantz derides Netanyahu’s jet-setting diplomacy as futile, self-serving

By Raoul Wootliff

File: A UN Security Council meeting on June 6, 2019. (Eskinder Debebe/UN)

Live updates (closed)

US blocks UN Security Council statement on Israel-Hezbollah violence

Diplomatic sources say Washington twice rejected text drawn up by France because it failed to specifically condemn Iran-backed terror group

6:32 pm

US blocks UN Security Council statement on Israel over Hezbollah omission
6:25 pm

Miriam Adelson says Sara Netanyahu yelled at her when Israel Hayom 'didn't defend Bibi' -- report
6:09 pm

UN peacekeepers investigate Hezbollah missile attack

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri speaks during a conference at Chatham House in London on December 13, 2018. (Daniel Leak-Olivas/AFP)

Lebanese PM: We’re not responsible for Hezbollah; it’s a ‘regional problem’

Saad Harari’s remarks come as Israel stresses it won’t distinguish between Beirut and the Lebanon-based terror group in future conflict

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

IDF said still on high alert in north amid prospect of further Hezbollah attack

Residents of the Golan Heights wave Syrian and Druze flags as they gather in front of a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad during a protest against US President Donald Trump's recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the contested area, in the town of Majdal Shams, on March 23, 2019. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Police halt Druze delegation en route to Syria to meet with government officials

Israeli president Reuven Rivlin speaks during a Channel 12 news conference in Tel Aviv on September 5, 2019. (Flash90)

Warns of 'a society where journalists need security guards'

In rare criticism, Rivlin implies PM took advantage of country to call new vote

By Raoul Wootliff

President says he will do everything he can to prevent a third quick-fire election, expresses ‘surprise’ over Netanyahu’s maneuvering to call September ballot

Illustrative: Itzhak Gerberg, Israeli Ambassador to New Zealand casts his vote on September 5, 2019 in Wellington, New Zealand (Israel Foreign Ministry)

2019 ElectionsIsraeli diplomats and emissaries worldwide kick off September elections

Illustrative: An Arab Israeli woman casts her ballot at a voting station in municipal elections on October 30, 2018, in Kafr Kasm. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

AG opposes bill to place cameras at polls; PM vows to advance it anyway

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sets out his 'red line' for Iran on a cartoon-bomb drawing during a speech to the UN General Assembly, on September 27, 2012. (photo credit: Avi Ohayun, GPO)

Israel media review

Party like it’s 2012: 7 things to know for September 5

By Joshua Davidovich

Let’s turn back the clock 6 years, to when diplomats and journalists lived in fear of an Israeli raid on Iran, but this time throw in some elections and a Trump in the White House

EU urges Iran to ‘reverse’ its violation of limits on nuclear activity

By AFP

Erdogan says Turkey should have nuclear weapons like Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iranian woman sets herself alight after she’s accused of attending soccer match

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Potential bread basket from a mosaic at the 'Burnt Church' at the Hippos-Sussita Excavation Project at the Susita National Park, summer 2019. (courtesy Michael Eisenberg)

Multitude of opinions

Mosaic near Sea of Galilee may mark new site for Jesus loaves and fishes miracle

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Interview

Shunning unity, Shaked says right-wing coalition needed so she can reform courts

Yamina head tells ToI she wants to return to the Justice Ministry but a unity government would prevent her passing legislation to limit the Supreme Court’s power

Yamina party chairwoman Ayelet Shaked speaks at a Manufacturers Association conference in Tel Aviv, on September 2, 2019. (Flash90)

Itamar Ben Gvir, chairman of the Otzma Yehudit party, speaks at the Central Election Committee in the Knesset, Jerusalem, on August 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Likud: No chance far-right Otzma Yehudit will enter Knesset

AnalysisSeeking to cover all bases, Netanyahu eyes Kahane disciple

By Shalom Yerushalmi

Interview

First Druze woman in Knesset: I’m here to represent all Arab Israelis

Blue and White’s Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh started her term gunning to ‘fix’ the contentious nation-state law; says Joint List fails to grasp Arabs’ main concerns

Blue and White's Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh (right), party leader Benny Gantz and other activists at a meeting with members of the Druze community in Daliyat al-Karmel, northern Israel, March 7, 2019. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman of the United Torah Judaism party arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 2, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Litzman: Lapid is a ‘contagious disease,’ ‘infected’ Gantz with anti-Semitism

Members of the Reform movement hold Torah scrolls during a mixed men and women prayer at the public square in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, November 16, 2017. (Noam Rivkin Fenton)

Likud MK said to promise fringe party: We’ll close Western Wall pluralistic area

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank town of Hebron, on September 4, 2019. (EMIL SALMAN / Haaretz POOL / AFP)

In rare Hebron visit, Netanyahu says Jews will remain in divided city forever

Despite right-wing pressure, PM refrains from announcing additional settlement construction in West Bank city during ceremony marking 90th anniversary of massacre

Palestinians burn pictures depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest against the PM's visit to the West Bank city of Hebron, September 4, 2019 (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Palestinians lambaste Netanyahu’s ‘provocative, colonialist’ visit to Hebron

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, Knesset Chairman Yuli Edelstein and Culture Minister Miri Regev attend a ceremony marking the 90th Anniversary of the 1929 Hebron riots, outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, September 4, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Likud minister, Knesset speaker call for extending Israeli sovereignty to Hebron

Dennis Ross and David Makovsky

What Israel still needs to learn from Ariel Sharon

He was a hawk who put the needs of the state above his own politics, even when that led him to withdraw from Gaza

Pastels

’This was where 14-year-old girls first saw lust-filled eyes and mistook them for a compliment’: Life in a Denmark ghetto

Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara, leader towards peace

On the passing of the first president of The Republic of The Gambia, who started building ties with Israel over half a century ago

Hazel Kassel Brief

A September 1 not found in the parenting manual

I should have been home more (I shouldn’t have taken on that extra work), because now the kids are officially gone, and I am here with an empty house

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In this image taken from video, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London, Wednesday Sept. 4, 2019. (House of Commons via PA via AP)

Johnson’s Brexit plans in crisis after 3rd defeat in 2 days

By Jill Lawless and DANICA KIRKA

Leader of the Liberal Democrats Jo Swinson (L) talks with Independent MP Luciana Berger during an event with representatives of Britain's other pro-EU political parties, to discuss Brexit, at Church House in central London on August 27, 2019 (Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)

Jewish MP who left UK Labour over anti-Semitism joins Liberal Democrats

By ToI Staff and AFP

Smoke rises from a blaze at a plan in Haifa's port, September 5, 2019 (Courtesy firefighting services)

Massive fire rages at cooking oil warehouse near Haifa’s port

Sefy Bililin and her 3-year old daughter Pri'el. (Facebook)

Uproar after kindergarten allegedly segregates Ethiopian children

US film director Woody Allen, right, gives instruction to actress Scarlett Johansson on the first day's filming of his new movie in Barcelona, Spain, Monday July 9, 2007. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Scarlett Johansson stands by Woody Allen: ‘I believe him’

By AP

Jesse Freedman's "The Talmud" draws inspiration from the Jewish canon and Chinese martial art films. (Courtesy of Freedman via JTA)

There’s a lot you can learn about studying Talmud from kung fu movies

By Josefin Dolsten

Looking for something, in Montean/Rosenblum's untitled work, currently on display at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 'A New Age: The Spiritual in Art' (Courtesy Tel Aviv Museum of Art)

Spiritual seeking is highlighted in trippy Tel Aviv art exhibit

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: Amazon Prime boxes are loaded on a cart for delivery, October 10, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Local sellers on Amazon begin shipping within Israel ahead of launch

Daniel Marder, an IDF soldier stationed in the north, sustained a head injury when hit with a rock thrown by a fellow serviceman on august 4, 2019. (Courtesy)

Soldier hit by rock thrown by fellow troops, almost dies, regains consciousness

State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman speaks at the annual justice conference on September 3, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Overruling own office, ombudsman okays PM’s loan to pay legal bills

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, his wife, Sara, and their son Yair, during a meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (not pictured), at Netanyahu's official residence in Jerusalem on December 8, 2013. (Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90/File)

PM’s wife, son insisted tycoon’s wife delete all messages from them – report

The Buenos Aires skyline. (CC-BY-SA Patricio Dünkler/Wikipedia)

Buenos Aires rabbi injured in violent carjacking on way to prayers

By ToI Staff and JTA

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