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What Matters Most On Saturday, September 21, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Zehut party leader Moshe Feiglin at a joint press conference at Kfar Hamacabiah in Ramat Gan announcing Zehut's withdrawal from the September elections, on August 29, 2019. (Flash90)

Blue and White wins more 'soldiers' votes' than Likud

Swallowing Kulanu and buying off Zehut, Netanyahu ended up losing 300,000 votes

By ToI Staff and Michael Bachner

Deals to remove competing parties from election boomeranged against Likud, near-final figures show; Blue and White said planning interview blitz next week to claim victory

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past an electoral billboard bearing a portrait of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in Jerusalem, on April 1, 2019. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

AnalysisDeadlocked election highlights Israel’s secular-religious divide

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and President Reuven Rivlin attend a memorial ceremony for late president Shimon Peres, at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on September 19, 2019. (GIl Cohen-Magen/AFP)

PM dismisses TV report he’s sent out feelers for presidential pardon

White House Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt (center), with US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and Senator Lindsey Graham at the opening of an ancient road at the City of David archaeological site in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, June 30, 2019. (Flash90)

In farewell essay, Trump envoy ‘hopeful’ for peace plan, encourages compromise

Jason Greenblatt writes that he is proud to ‘protect the Jewish State,’ castigates Gaza-based terror groups for ‘destroying the lives of 2 million Palestinians’

Illustrative: Palestinians clash with Israeli forces at a demonstration near the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of Gaza City, September 20, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

Over 8,000 Palestinians take part in weekly protests along Gaza border

The windshield of a car whose driver was hit by a rock and moderately injured in the West Bank, Friday, September 20, 2019 (Rescue services)

IDF officer hit by rock while driving in West Bank, moderately hurt

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami at Tehran's Islamic Revolution and Holy Defense museum during the unveiling of an exhibition of what Iran says are US and other drones captured in its territory, in the capital Tehran on September 21, 2019. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iran warns any country that attacks it will become the ‘main battlefield’

By AFP

As US blames Tehran for attack on Saudi oil facilities, Revolutionary Guards commander says his forces are ready for ‘any type of scenario’

Saudis show media scorched, shrapnel-blasted oil facility

By FAY ABUELGASIM and Jon Gambrell

Iran denies successful cyber attack on oil sector

By AFP

US to send troops to Saudi Arabia, hold off on striking Iran

By Lolita C. Baldor and Robert Burns

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows a drone which the Syrian state news agency says authorities have controlled and dismantled and was rigged with cluster bombs on the edge of the Israeli Golan Heights, southern Syria, September 21, 2019. (SANA via AP)

Syria says it captured explosives-laden drone near Golan border

By Agencies and ToI Staff

State news agency also reports Syrian forces found Israeli-made vehicles and material in village near Quneitra

Nasrallah warns Iran will ‘destroy’ Saudi Arabia if it attacks

Rare anti-Sissi protests break out in Egypt

By AFP

Haniyeh orders Hamas leaders not to comment on anti-Sissi demos in Egypt

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The Dome of the Rock is accessible to disabled travelers via ramp. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Holy rolling: Old City sites, lanes now accessible for travelers in wheelchairs

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

The still small voice

It was a blackout and a dead phone battery that forced me to switch off and remember what really matters

Ancient giant sea creatures behind my house

What was once a coiled mollusk lies in the desert as a limestone rock, making a believer out of the most hardened cynic

Liora Welles in a photo she uploaded to Facebook in December 2015. (Screenshot: Facebook)

US said to jail Israeli binary options sales agent Liora Welles for 14 months

By Simona Weinglass

Justice Department prosecutor said to tell judge that the investigation is ongoing and that Israeli-run scam continues to operate under new names

A menorah is tested outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in preparation for a celebration service at sundown on the first night of Hanukkah, December 2, 2018 in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. A gunman shot and killed 11 people while they worshiped at the synagogue on October 27, 2018 at the temple. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

From our partner

Victims, community leaders share insights from Tree of Life massacre

Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle: Representatives of congregations attacked in synagogue shooting discuss trauma, healing ahead of 1 year anniversary, high holidays

Judge orders trial in Poway synagogue shooting

By Elliot Spagat

Virginia man facing weapons charges is a neo-Nazi, FBI says

By Matthew Barakat

Suspected US neo-Nazis compiling names of Jews on Telegram app

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Adolf Hitler's postcards are displayed during the exhibition "Design of the Third Reich" at the Design Museum Den Bosch in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, on September 17, 2019. (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)

Selfies banned to prevent misinterpretation at Dutch museum’s Nazi design expo

Curators take steps to prevent glorification of Nazism and to ensure that controversial exhibit is not taken out of context

Austria’s oldest Holocaust survivor dies at 106

By AFP

US appoints new special envoy for Holocaust issues

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Diary of Polish-Jewish girl murdered in Holocaust published in English

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Refugees aboard a blue rubber dinghy soon to be picked up by the Ocean Viking, August 2019. (Hannah Wallace Bowman/SOS Mediterranee)

Migrant crisis

In Germany, Jewish funds help keep Mediterranean migrant rescue missions afloat

By Yaakov Schwartz

Research divers implant 3D printed corals in the Red Sea as part of a study being carried out by Ben Gurion University's Marine Biology and Biotechnology Program and the Design-Tech Lab at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology. (Jenny Tynyakov)

Colorful 3D printed corals prove a housing hit with fish in Red Sea

Bob Dylan, left, was the best man at his friend Louie Kemp's wedding. (Courtesy of Louis Kemp/via JTA)

Interview

He met Bob Dylan at a Jewish camp, and they stayed good friends for 50 years

By Stephen Silver

More Headlines

Illustrative: Climate change activists participate in an environmental demonstration as part of a global youth-led day of action, September 20, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Millions protest in youth-led global climate strike

By Peter HUTCHISON

Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden speaks during a town hall meeting at the Indian Creek Nature Preserve, September 20, 2019, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Biden decries reports that Trump pressed Ukraine’s president to probe his son

By AP

David Greehholtz (Screencapture/Channel 13)

Israeli dies in Mexico while saving son from drowning

By ToI Staff and AP

Omar Barghouti gives an interview in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser/File)

BDS founder unable to attend UK Labour event due to visa holdup

Illustrative: Israel players line up for the national anthem prior to the World Baseball Classic Pool E Game Three between Netherlands and Israel at the Tokyo Dome on March 13, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan (Matt Roberts/Getty Images/JTA)

Israeli baseball team improves to 3-0 in Olympic qualifiers

Josh Rosen of the Miami Dolphins leaves the field following a preseason game against the New Orleans Saints at the Superdome in New Orleans, August 29, 2019. (Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images via JTA)

Josh Rosen takes over as starting quarterback for Miami Dolphins

By Marc Brodsky

In this photo from April 10, 2019, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies before the House Education and Labor Committee at a hearing on 'Examining the Policies and Priorities of the US Department of Education' on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Feds threaten to ax funds to Duke, UNC over alleged bias in Middle East studies

By Collin Binkley

Moshe Holtzberg, 2-year-old orphan of the rabbi and his wife slain in the Mumbai Chabad House, is seen with his relatives at a synagogue in Mumbai, India, December 1, 2008. (AP Photo)

Orphan of victims killed in attack on Mumbai Chabad House celebrates bar mitzvah

By JTA

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