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What Matters Most On Monday, September 9, 2019

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Likud MK and chairman of the Regulatory Committee, Miki Zohar (C), leads a discussion on the Security Cameras Law, ahead of the upcoming elections, at the Knesset on September 9, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Liberman: 'It is an election-stealing bill'

Likud camera law thwarted as Liberman prevents it gaining majority in committee

By Raoul Wootliff

MKs block legislation to surveil voters, preventing it from facing a scheduled first reading in the Knesset plenum later Monday

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in Ramat Gan on August 29, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Netanyahu seethes at Liberman, opponents rejoice after camera bill fails

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman speaks at Channel 12 news conference in Tel Aviv on September 5, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Liberman says he won’t vote for Netanyahu’s ‘election-stealing’ camera bill

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 3, 2019. (Sebastian Scheiner/Pool/AFP)

Op-ed

The dark motivations behind Netanyahu’s bid to put cameras into polling stations

This is not an issue of left or right, but rather one of electoral integrity and the proper functioning of democracy

Knesset legal adviser joins AG in opposing ‘unconstitutional’ Camera Bill

Israel media reviewPeeping Likudniks: 6 things to know for September 9

By Joshua Davidovich

AG’s allies say PM seeking to discredit him ahead of criminal hearing — report

Then-Likud MK Benny Begin during a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 30, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Benny Begin: With ‘illegal’ camera bill, Likud has lost my support

Ex-Likud MK pans Netanyahu, cabinet for rejecting AG’s opinion against videoing voters during election, says now ‘impossible’ for him to back party, which his father led to power

Likud MK to Arab lawmaker: The Jews are a ‘special race’

Avigdor Liberman: From Netanyahu’s chief of staff to thorn in his side

By Jonah Mandel

Liberman’s stand against ultra-Orthodox coercion sees him gaining popularity

By Delphine Matthieussent and Jonah Mandel

Compilation: Ehud Barak, left, and Blue White leader Benny Gantz (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

PM accused of ‘selling out Israeli security for personal gain’ over Iran presser

By Michael Bachner

Democratic Camp, Blue and White leaders tear into Netanyahu for timing of announcement about alleged nuke site; PMO officials say it was all approved by professionals

6:24 pm

Iran FM responds to Netanyahu: 'the possessor of real nukes cries wolf'
6:09 pm

Lebanon PM, US diplomat talk offshore gas feud with Israel
6:08 pm

At least 3 killed in shooting in Dutch city of Dordrecht -- local media

Yotam Kashpizky after being beaten in an allegedly nationalistically motivated attack in Poland on September 8, 2019. (Facebook)

Israelis brutally beaten in Poland club, attackers said to scream ‘f**k Israel’

Brother of one of the victims says group of ‘Arabic speakers’ asked men if they are from Israel before assaulting them

Dutch museum defends exhibition on Nazi design, denies glorifying Nazis

Demonstrators hang plaque honoring Lithuanian Nazi collaborator

By JTA

Anti-Semitic and racist graffiti discovered at historic Massachusetts park

By JTA

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)

UN atomic watchdog confirms Iran installing advanced centrifuges

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Iran's alleged atomic warehouse in Turquzabad, Tehran. (YouTube screenshot)

Uranium traces found in Iran warehouse flagged by Netanyahu

Iranian Revolutionary Guards patrol around the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero while it is anchored off the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, on July 21, 2019. (Hasan Shirvani / MIZAN NEWS AGENCY / AFP)

Iran hints it could release UK-flagged tanker ‘within days’

By AFP

Soldiers from the Syrian army fire a rocket at Islamic State group positions in the province of Raqqa, Syria, on February 17, 2016. (Alexander Kots/Komsomolskaya Pravda via AP, File)

IDF says pro-Iran militia fired rockets at Israel, amid reports of Syria strike

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Army says projectiles fell short of the border; incident comes around the time of an attack on a Shiite militia near the Iraqi border in which 18 were reportedly killed

This photo released by Popular Mobilization Forces shows shows the aftermath of a drone attack near Qaim border crossing with Syria, in Anbar province, Iraq, August 25, 2019. (Popular Mobilization Forces via AP)

Airstrikes in eastern Syria said to kill 18 pro-Iran fighters

By ToI Staff and AFP

Illustrative: Rockets are fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel on March 25, 2019. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Rocket fired at southern Israel from Gaza as Egypt seeks to calm tensions

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: An Israeli drone in flight over Gaza (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

IDF drone falls in Lebanon; Hezbollah claims it shot it down

By Judah Ari Gross and AFP

Aircraft crashes in Lebanese border town of Ramiyeh; Israeli military says no risk of intelligence being taken from it

Soldiers run to a helicopter during an exercise in northern Israel simulating a war with the Hezbollah terrorist group in September 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF kicks off large exercise simulating war against Hezbollah

By Judah Ari Gross

Hezbollah fighters parade during the inauguration of a new cemetery for their fighters who died fighting against Israel, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, on November 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Ex-Hezbollah official found dead in Beirut apartment — state media

A small 7th century BCE clay sealing reading 'Belonging to Adoniyahu, Royal Steward,' recently discovered in the City of David's sifting project, taken from earth excavated under Robinson's Arch. (Eliyahu Yanai/Courtesy City of David)

Archaeology

Tiny First Temple seal impression found with name of Bible-era royal steward

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Newly appointed Sudanese Foreign Minister Asma Abdullah speaking to Al Jazeera on September 8, 2019. (Screenshot: Al Jazeera)

Sudan’s new FM open to relations with Israel, if Palestinian conflict resolved

Asma Abdullah, first woman in her country’s history to be top diplomat, says ‘now is not the time,’ but adds that most Arab states maintain some ties with Jewish state

Nasr-Eddin Mofarah, Sudan's new minister for religious affairs, speaks with Saudi broadcaster Al Arabiya on September 6, 2019. (Screen capture: MEMRI)

After ouster of longtime dictator, Sudan calls on Jewish emigres to return

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A large billboard depicting US President Donald Trump and PM Benjamin Netanyahu, as part of the Likud election campaign, at the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv, September 4, 2019 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

Trouble in paradise? Trump conspicuously absent from Netanyahu’s reelection bid

US president has yet to announce dramatic steps to help the prime minister, in contrast to the weeks before April’s vote. Worse, he’s not just MIA, he’s flirting with Iran

AnalysisNetanyahu claims his Knesset majority was stolen from him. Does that add up?

By Raoul Wootliff

A worker hangs an election campaign billboard of the Likud party that shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shaking hands with US President Donald Trump, in Tel Aviv, September 8, 2019. The slogan reads: 'Netanyahu -- a league of his own.' (AP/Oded Balilty)

AnalysisPushing for election cameras, Netanyahu takes page out of Trump playbook

By Josef Federman

This man used Jews to deny climate science. We can’t stay silent.

William Happer, who exploited the Holocaust to promote lies, is still on Trump’s National Security Council. That’s outrageous

It’s time for Israel’s right to take a stand

When the center/left is led by giants of Israel’s defense establishment who were security chiefs under Netanyahu himself, the political rhetoric is no more than fear-mongering

Foreign Minister Israel Katz arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 24, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Averting shutdown, Foreign Ministry gets emergency cash injection

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Finance Ministry grants undisclosed ‘preliminary amount’ to allow diplomats to continue their work, announces ‘comprehensive reform’

People gather outside the Foreign Ministry building in Jerusalem, November 15, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Foreign Ministry forced to freeze most diplomatic activity due to lack of funds

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Actress Scarlett Johansson attends the special screening of 'Jojo Rabbit' during the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Ontario, September 8, 2019. (VALERIE MACON/AFP)

Fantasy fuhrerScarlett Johansson unveils Nazi comedy

By Andrew MARSZAL

Sophie Ben-Dor (Screen capture: Channel 12 News)

Eli Cohen’s daughter lukewarm on ‘The Spy,’ but likes Sacha Baron Cohen’s acting

Russian President Boris Yeltsin welcomes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow, Tuesday March 11, 1997. . (AP PHOTO/ TASS-POOL)

PravdaPM’s office airbrushes Netanyahu’s ‘Yeltsin’ gaffe

By AP and ToI Staff

Rabbi Asaf Namburg (Screencapture/Kan)

Journalist suspended for falsely portraying rabbi as rabidly anti-secular

Security camera footage shows a man running from a group of Hapoel Tel Aviv supporters after apparently yelling "Let's go Beitar" at them, on September 8, 2019. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Soccer fans suspected of throwing backer of rival team through store window

Illustrative photo of the Tel Aviv University campus. (Andrew Tobin/JTA)

Four Israeli universities shine among top 50 producers of entrepreneurs

By Shoshanna Solomon

Muslim activist and BDS supporter Linda Sarsour at SiriusXM event 'Muslim in America' in New York City, October 26, 2015. (Robin Marchant/Getty Images for SiriusXM/via JTA)

Linda Sarsour emerges as surrogate for Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign

American billionaire Sheldon Adelson (R) and his wife Miriam meet then-head of the opposition Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu at the Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem. May 13, 2008. (Anna Kaplan /Flash90)

Adelsons tell police Sara Netanyahu is ‘absolutely crazy’ — report

Illustrative image of a doctor using a dermatoscope for a skin examination for melanoma (AndreyPopov, iStock by Getty Images)

Study finds a key to why only some melanoma patients respond to immunotherapy

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: A hiking trail in Spain's Pyrenees mountains. (CC BY-SA 3.0, Myrabella, Wikimedia Commons)

Israeli tourist falls to his death while hiking in Spain

Yisrael Kessar gives a speech in 1984. (Ya'akov Sa'ar/GPO)

Former minister, labor union head Yisrael Kessar dies at 88

Armenian oud artist Ara Dinkjian, founder of the Night Ark ensemble, who will appear at this year's Oud Festival in Jerusalem, on November 23, 2019 (Courtesy Alena Soboleva)

String it alongOud fest marks 20th year with ancient and contemporary renditions

By Jessica Steinberg

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