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What Matters Most On Saturday, September 14, 2019

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Supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu march at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem on September 13, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Elections 2019Left-wing Labor and Democratic Camp fading

Final polls have Netanyahu edging toward majority right-wing bloc

Momentum is with the right even though PM’s Likud and its rival Blue and White are tied in pair of TV surveys, which also have extremist Otzma Yehudit entering the Knesset

Itamar Ben Gvir of Otzma Yehudit at a party branch in Safed, northern Israel, on September 8, 2019 (David Cohen/Flash90)

Seeking right-wing support, PM says votes for Otzma Yehudit will go to ‘trash’

Supporters of the Likud party scuffle with activists from the Democratic Camp alliance at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market on September 13, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud, Democratic Camp supporters brawl at Jerusalem market

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the flight back from Sochi, September 12, 2019. Behind him are Ze'ev Elkin (left) and Meir Ben-Shabbat (to Elkin's right). (Shalom Yerushalmi/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Shalom Yerushalmi

On the plane home from Sochi, as Netanyahu comes to take a nap… with the press

Exhausted, the PM headed to our area to lie down across the seats. But having already led him out of the Hamas line of fire, his bodyguards weren’t going to leave him exposed again

Yisrael Beytenu party head Avigdor Liberman speaks during an event in Givatayim, on September 13, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Liberman says it’s no accident Netanyahu was kept waiting by Putin

By Alexander Fulbright

Illustrative: Kibbutz Kerem Shalom, December 16, 2016. (Doron Horowitz/FLASH90)

IDF soldier in anti-tunnel unit moves to Gaza border kibbutz, with 28 friends

‘Aleph’ decided to live in Kerem Shalom after seeing that the community was underpopulated and struggling to attract new members due to security threats

Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli forces following a demonstration along the border between Israel-Gaza, on September 6, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas warns Israel against harming protesters at Gaza border clashes

Palestinians at the Erez crossing with Israel near Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, August 27, 2018. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Israel cuts medical permits for Gazans to halt migration to West Bank — report

Ben Maimon boulevard in Jerusalem was inspired by European thoroughfares and many of its early residents were immigrants from Europe. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Grandeur restored on Jerusalem’s Ben Maimon boulevard, home to our first PMs

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Illustration by Avi Katz

Necessary Stories

Turning the pages

By Haim Watzman

The chronicles of a bad Jew

That week I was supposed to observe Shabbat for the first time in my life — and failed

Animals do not have rights, but they do have feelings, and we have duties towards them, beginning with not causing them unnecessary pain

The Jordanian border crossing into the Island of Peace, January 29, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Minister: Israel has failed to extend lease of ‘Isle of Peace’ on Jordan border

Steinitz says new land will need to be found for farmers who were granted 25-year access under 1994 peace treaty; includes site where 7 Israeli schoolgirls were killed in attack

This picture from September 10, 2019, shows an Israeli election poster of Joint List candidate Youssef Atauna, with a slogan in Arabic reading 'more participation, more effect,' in the the southern Bedouin city of Rahat. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Analysis

Hiba Aslan and Clothilde Mraffko

Newly unified, Israel’s Arab parties seek to boost turnout

Despite hope that a reconstituted Joint List will increase voter participation, a general lack of confidence in the Knesset could keep many Arab Israelis away from the polls

An Arabic-language campaign poster of Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz and MK Gadeer Mreeh is seen outside a campaign event in Shfaram on August 26, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Arab Israelis, Jews consider voting across ethnic lines

By Majeda El Batsh and Clothilde Mraffko

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif talks to journalists during a joint press conference with his Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 6, 2019. (AP/Achmad Ibrahim)

Iranian FM mocks US following disputed report of Israeli spying in Washington

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Zarif says ‘America doesn’t need enemies’ following claim, denied by US and Israeli officials, that Jerusalem spied on White House

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in a video to supporters on Friday, September 13, 2019 (Screencapture)

PM hints Gantz campaign planted ‘false’ story of Israel spying on White House

US President Donald Trump, left, on July 22, 2018, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on February 6, 2018. (AP Photo)

US said to reassure Israel: Iran sanctions will stay even if Trump, Rouhani meet

By ToI Staff and AFP

US president’s recent comments heighten concerns in Jerusalem that he aims to arrange a summit with his counterpart at the upcoming UN General Assembly

Iran inks deal to develop gas field in tense Gulf

By AFP

AnalysisJohn Bolton is out. Trump’s next foreign policy moves are anyone’s guess

Kelly Craft, new US envoy to the UN, promises she will be voice for freedom

By Edith M. Lederer

Trump said to have referred to Egypt’s Sissi as ‘my favorite dictator’

Report says US president made remark in earshot of top Egyptian officials while waiting to meet with Mideast leader at G7 in France

The menu at Cafe Levinsky in Tel Aviv, where it's all about the 'gazoz.' (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

All shuk up

This Israeli fizzy drink is the best way to use up summer fruits

By Rachel Myerson

More Headlines

Adas Israel Congregation ablaze in Minnesota, September 9, 2019. (Screenshot from KBJR Channel 6 via JTA)

Suspect arrested in fire at historic Minnesota synagogue

By AP

An art installation outside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Sept. 12, 2019. (Beth Kissileff)

Artwork by children from Parkland, Newtown unveiled at Tree of Life synagogue

By Beth Kissileff

Screen grab from video said to show explosions in Buqyaq, Saudi Arabia, September 14, 2019 (Twitter)

Drone attacks strike major Saudi oilfield, processing facility

By Jon Gambrell

File: A menorah and flowers are seen outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in preparation for a celebration service on the first night of Hanukkah, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, December 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Judge orders release of far-right extremist who called Pittsburgh killer ‘hero’

By Michael Kunzelman

In this grab taken from video, Speaker John Bercow gestures during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London, April 3, 2019 (House of Commons/PA via AP)

UK parliament speaker vows to thwart PM over Brexit law

Frances O'Grady, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, during a press conference at the Grand Hotel in Brighton on day one of the 2019 TUC Congress. (Andrew Matthews/PA Images via Getty Images via JTA)

British unions reaffirm backing for boycotting Israel

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Bullet holes are seen in the window of a car that former state's witness Basel Mustafa Assi was found shot to death in on September 13, 2019, in Kafr Bara. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Former state’s witness in mob case gunned down in car

Actress Carice van Houten attends HBO's "Game of Thrones" final season premiere at Radio City Music Hall , April 3, 2019, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

‘Game of Thrones’ star Carice van Houten to make Holocaust rescuer film

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: New Jersey Senator Cory Booker speaks during the third Democratic presidential primary debate at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas, on September 12, 2019. (Robyn Beck/AFP)

People of the Book(er)Cory Booker thanks God in Hebrew after Democratic debate

The 108 musicians who participated in 'Shalem,' the September 12, 2019 Mekudeshet festival concert of broken instruments (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Fractured wholeDozens of broken instruments create a harmonious whole in ‘Shalem’

By Jessica Steinberg

A protest group called Hot Mess holds up posters of Jeffrey Epstein in front of the Federal courthouse in New York City, on July 8, 2019. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

Harvard reviewing nearly $9 million in donations from Epstein

The Albert Cuyp Market in Amsterdam, where a Jewish father and son were stabbed in March 2019. (CC BY-SA 3.0, Michiel1972, Wikipedia)

Dutchman who stabbed Jewish father and son says he forgot why he attacked them

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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