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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 11, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu taken off stage during a campaign event in Ashdod due to incoming rocket sirens, September 10, 2019. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Netanyahu blasts Blue and White for celebrating after rocket forces him offstage

PM says he doesn’t know who was more gleeful, Gaza terror groups or Blue and White; top Likud officials say he had no choice but to follow bodyguards’ orders at campaign rally

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, being moved away from a campaign event stage while surrounded by security as rockets are shot at Ashdod on September 10, 2019. (screen capture: Twitter)

Netanyahu derided by right and left as he’s forced to take shelter from rockets

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu taken off stage during a campaign event in Ashdod due to incoming rocket sirens, September 10, 2019. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Netanyahu briefly whisked away from campaign rally as rockets fired from Gaza

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Analysis

Under fire (literally), Netanyahu battles to keep looking like a winner

Being shepherded offstage to shelter during a political rally amid a rocket attack from Gaza is hardly the image the PM seeks to burnish. Still, he’s nothing if not resilient

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the press regarding the Iranian nuclear program, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem on September 9, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewVale of fears: 9 things to know for September 11

By Joshua Davidovich

Jewish Insider’s Daily Kickoff: September 11, 2019

AnalysisAnnexing voters: How Netanyahu’s Jordan Valley pledge could hurt election rivals

By Raoul Wootliff

A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip that struck an open area in the Hof Ashkelon region of southern Israel on September 11, 2019. (Yediot Mehashetach)

Gaza rockets fired at southern Israel for second day in a row

By Judah Ari Gross

In response, Israeli tank destroys two Hamas posts in northern Gaza; attack comes less than a day after two projectiles fired at Ashdod and Ashkelon from the Strip

Illustrative: Explosions seen in the Gaza Strip after a reported IDF Strike in response to rocket fire on Ashdod and Ashkelon on September 11, 2019 (Screencapture/Twitter)

IDF airstrikes hit 15 sites in Gaza after 2 rockets fired at Israeli cities

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd R) meets with defense chiefs following a rocket attack from Gaza, at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv on September 10, 2019. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Netanyahu meets defense chiefs after being targeted by rocket fire from Gaza

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks before a map of the Jordan Valley, vowing to extend Israeli sovereignty there if reelected, during a speech in Ramat Gan on September 10, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

In election pitch, Netanyahu vows to annex Jordan Valley right away if reelected

By Alexander Fulbright

PM says ‘diplomatic conditions have ripened’ for move ‘immediately’; pledges to later apply sovereignty to all West Bank settlements, but with ‘maximum coordination’ with US

Topping off annexation pledge, PM moves to legalize Jordan Valley outpost

Settler leaders lionize Netanyahu for ‘historic’ Jordan Valley annexation pledge

Bahrain blasts Israeli plan to apply sovereignty over parts of West Bank

In this photo from, June 23, 2019 file photo, former US National Security Advisor John Bolton, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, visit an old army outpost overlooking the Jordan Valley between the Israeli city of Beit Shean and the Palestinian city of Jericho. (AP Photo/Abir Sultan, File)

Netanyahu’s Jordan Valley sovereignty vow widely panned by politicians as ‘spin’

Blue and White’s Ya’alon claims PM was ready to demolish Jordan Valley settlements in 2014; left-wing figures say promise meant to help premier escape his legal woes

Shaked: Netanyahu could annex Jordan Valley in a day if he wanted

Naftali Bennett, not Ayelet Shaked, is chairman of New Right, party bylaws show

On campaign trail, right’s rising star Ayelet Shaked takes shot at breakthrough

By Michael Blum and Stephen WEIZMAN

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

US says peace deal still possible if Israel annexes settlements, Jordan Valley

By Eric Cortellessa

Despite Netanyahu’s election-eve vow, White House official says there’s ‘no change in United States policy at this time’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) and and Palestine Liberation Organization Secretary-General Saeb Erekat (L) attend the opening session of the 30th Arab League summit in the Tunisian capital Tunis on March 31, 2019. (Fethi Belaid/Pool/AFP)

Palestinians, allies push back against Netanyahu’s West Bank sovereignty plan

Illustrative image of a mud brick house in the Palestinian village of Jiftlik in the Jordan valley. May 23, 2010. Photo by Matanya Tausig/Flash90

EU condemns Netanyahu plan to annex Jordan Valley

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks before a map of the Jordan Valley as he gives a statement, promising to extend Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea area, in Ramat Gan on September 10, 2019. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Analysis

Netanyahu’s Jordan Valley vow: Harbinger of US support or indication of failure?

Rivals from right and left, and Hebrew news media, unite in dismissing PM’s promise to extend sovereignty as spin. But what will voters say? And where does the US truly stand?

AnalysisHow would Netanyahu go about annexing the settlements? An explainer

By Raphael Ahren

A Palestinian shepherd herds his flock near the Israeli settlement of Argaman, in the Jordan Valley, a strip of West Bank land along the border with Jordan, Monday, Dec. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

AnalysisJordan Valley: What you need to know about eastern swathe PM says he’ll annex

By JTA and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu points at a map of the Jordan Valley as he gives a statement, promising to extend Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea area, in Ramat Gan on September 10, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Hezbollah blames Gulf for Netanyahu pledge to annex Jordan Valley

Lebanese terror group says recent contacts between Israel and oil-rich Arab states emboldening PM against Palestinians

6:20 pm

Ahead of Netanyahu visit, Russia warns annexation pledge could lead to 'sharp escalation'
6:02 pm

Hezbollah blames Gulf for Netanyahu annexation pledge
5:43 pm

Trump says Bolton didn't get along with White House team

Joint List party leader Ayman Odeh filming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a discussion on the cameras bill at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on September 11, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As MKs debate camera bill, Arab lawmaker booted for filming Netanyahu

Likud presses ahead with doomed gambit to bring cameras into polling stations, six days before elections and despite widespread criticism from top legal officials

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Ramat Gan on September 10, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Netanyahu’s Facebook chat warns: Arabs politicians ‘want to annihilate us all’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on July 14, 2019. (Ronen Zvulun/POOL/AFP)

Likud forging ahead with camera law bid despite near-certain defeat

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks with the US National Security Adviser John Bolton, during a statement to the media follow their meeting in Jerusalem on January 6, 2019. ( Matty Stern/US Embassy Jerusalem)

Analysis

What does John Bolton’s departure mean for Israel?

While a major change in US policy doesn’t appear to be in the offing, Jerusalem will be watching Iran ties with concern after Trump’s sudden dismissal of national security adviser

Trump ready to meet Rouhani without preconditions, key officials say

By Michael Mathes and Shaun Tandon

Trump fires Iran hawk John Bolton as national security adviser

By ToI Staff and AP

Iran: Bolton ouster ‘clear sign of defeat’ of US sanctions campaign

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of an embryo (Zffoto; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli researchers say there may be way to pause women’s biological clocks

By Shoshanna Solomon

Hebrew University genetic researchers announce the discovery of a gene in worms that controls rhythm of egg maturation; they hope to find equivalent in humans

Our diversity is a source of strength

A declaration penned by thinkers from across the Jewish spectrum can serve as a roadmap for the future of the Jewish people

My family synagogue burned down in Minnesota; we lost much more than a building

Jews live in the past we came from, the now, and the future promised land; for my great-great-grandfather, the Adas Israel congregation was the physical embodiment of all three

A dark cloud hovers over religious freedom in Europe

Belgium’s ban on kosher slaughter represents a slide down the slippery slope toward official infringement on freedom of religion

I do not belong to you

I am spending my life with you for a whole host of very real reasons, beginning with the fact that we don’t have to pretend

Ahmed Nassar Yassin with 4,500-year-old artifacts he discovered in a burial cave near Araba in northern Israel. (Nir Distelfeld/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Archaeology

4,500-year-old burial artifacts chanced upon by electrician on his way to work

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

More Headlines

Visitors to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., participate in a sunset memorial service on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019, as the nation prepares to mark the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

‘We cannot forget’: US marks 18 years since 9/11 attacks with somber ceremonies

By Jennifer Peltz

Neria Zarog (c) with his wife and child in front of their home in the Kumi Ori outpost, a neighborhood of the Yitzhar settlement in the northern West Bank. The IDF has issued an order barring him from the West Bank. (Avraham Shapira)

Hardline settlement’s residents warn IDF of ‘unrest’ if it evicts their neighbor

Noam Oren (L) and his wife on their wedding day on August 16, 2016. (Yarin Taranos/courtesy)

High Court petition seeks to decriminalize marriages outside rabbinate

By Marissa Newman and Michael Bachner

The Starling SV device developed by Cheetah Medical (YouTube screenshot)

US medical equipment firm Baxter to buy Cheetah Medical

By Shoshanna Solomon

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at a conference in Airport City, outside Tel Aviv, on September 3, 2019 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

AG denies police leaned on witnesses to lie in Netanyahu graft cases

A Lasova restaurant soup kitchen employee serves bread to the needy in Tel Aviv on September 8, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Israeli economic growth overshadows struggles of working poor

By Guillaume LAVALLÉE

Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of their meeting in Sochi on August 23, 2017. (AFP/Sputnik/Alexey Nikolsky)

Netanyahu to meet Putin in Russia five days before election

By AFP and ToI Staff

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo answers a question from an audience member after giving a speech at the London Lecture series at Kansas State University Friday, Sept. 6, 2019, in Manhattan, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

US joins Israel in accusing Iran of covert nuclear activity

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Members of the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah stand guard during a religious mourning procession on the tenth day of the lunar month of Muharram, which marks the day of Ashura, in Beirut, on September 10, 2019. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Lebanese Shiites mark Ashura in show of anti-Israel defiance

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: ultra-Orthodox men walking along the street in the Stamford Hill area of London, Jan. 17, 2015. (Rob Stothard/Getty Images via JTA)

London protesters accuse Jews of ‘taking over the world’

US President Donald Trump has frequently joked about extending his presidency into a third term, tweeting this image on Wednesday, September 11, 2019. (Twitter)

Long-term aspirationsTrump jokes about running for third term in 2024

An Israeli woman uses her phone in front of a building in Herzliya that housed the NSO Group intelligence firm, August 28, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)

Israeli spyware firm NSO adopts ‘human rights policy’

By AP and ToI Staff

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