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What Matters Most On Friday, September 27, 2019

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a joint press conference with Turkish and Russian counterparts following a trilateral meeting on Syria, in Ankara on September 16, 2019. (Adem Altan/AFP)

Rouhani claims US offered to scrap sanctions in exchange for talks

UN watchdog says Iran using advanced centrifuges, breaching nuke deal

Iran supreme leader lashes out at Europe as nuke deal wallows

By AP

Iran president urges US to lift sanctions, drop missile issue to resume talks

By Edith M. Lederer and Aya Batrawy

Ministers Yariv Levin (L) and Ze'ev Elkin of Likud speak to the media ahead of negotiations with the Blue and White party, September 27, 2019 (video screenshot)

4-hour talks between Likud, Blue and White end with no progress, blame-trading

Officials in Netanyahu’s party say whoever trips up unity efforts will bring about new elections; Blue and White says it is Likud that appears intent on a third national vote

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech in Tel Aviv to members of his Likud party on September 18, 2019, after elections for the 22nd Knesset. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Rallying Likud, Netanyahu challenges rival Gantz to join right-led government

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz delivers a statement in Tel Aviv, September 26, 2019. (Avshalom Shoshoni/Flash90)

Gantz calls on Netanyahu to hold unity talks ‘without spin or blocs’

Shaul Elovitch arrives at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court for a remand hearing in Case 4000, February 26, 2018. (Flash90)

TV: In blow to Netanyahu, state to indict alleged co-conspirators for bribery

Imminent decision seen as an indicator PM likely won’t succeed in convincing prosecutors to drop the charges against him at a pretrial hearing next week

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

AG angrily rejects Netanyahu bid for pre-indictment hearing to be broadcast live

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife, Sara, arrives for a meeting in Paris, France, June 6, 2018. (AP/Francois Mori)

Prosecutors said examining new claims of employee abuse by Sara Netanyahu

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz (L), President Reuven Rivlin (C) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meet at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on September 25, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Explainer

With ‘paritetic’ proposal, Rivlin looks to the past for a power-sharing model

Giving Netanyahu the mandate to form a government, the president invoked a word used to describe unity arrangements in Reformation Europe and 1980s Israel

Op-Ed: Post-vote deadlockWhy Netanyahu was smart to go 1st, and why Liberman may yet be the man to watch

By Shalom Yerushalmi

A street in Jerusalem filled with election fliers on October 21, 2013. ( Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Israel media reviewThe only thing Israelis can agree on: 6 things to know for September 27

By Joshua Davidovich

Shas party chairman and Minsiter of Interior Affairs Aryeh Deri leads a party meeting at the Knesset on September 22, 2019, (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Most Israelis want ultra-Orthodox parties out of government, survey finds

Majority of Jewish residents want governing coalition to support religious freedom, back separation of religion and state

Avigdor Liberman and his son Amos cook with a chef at a food festival held in Jerusalem, March 29, 2011. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox rabbi refuses to marry Liberman’s son over political fight

Labor-Gesher party leader MK Amir Peretz speaks with the media after casting his ballot at a voting station in Sderot, during the Knesset elections, on September 17, 2019. (Flash90)

Union boss urges Labor-Gesher to hold coalition talks with Likud

By Stuart Winer

Polish President Andrzej Duda during the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 24, 2019, at the United Nations in New York City. (Don Emmert/AFP)

Poland says claim president blamed Israel for anti-Semitism ‘plainly not true’

BlogWhat really happened when the Polish president met with US Jewish leaders

By Shmuley Boteach

Former French President Jacques Chirac attends a ceremony in Paris, November 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

How Jacques Chirac started France’s reckoning with the Holocaust

Foreign Minister Israel Katz delivers a speech during the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 26, 2019 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. (Johannes EISELE / AFP)

At UN, foreign minister urges more pressure on Iran, taunts regime in Persian

By Raphael Ahren

Israel Katz, in short speech to General Assembly, says recent attack on Saudi oil facility was on ‘direct orders’ by supreme leader

Then-deputy prime minister and foreign minister Avigdor Liberman speaking at the general debate of the sixty-fifth session of the UN General Assembly, September 28, 2010 (courtesy UN)

The last time Netanyahu let a deputy address the UN, he regretted it immediately

By Raphael Ahren

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the 74th United Nations General Assembly at United Nations Headquarters on September 26, 2019 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

At UN, Abbas threatens to nix agreements with Israel if West Bank land annexed

Asylum seeker from Israel Jamal Abdelmaji Eisa Mohammed in Qatar, September 26, 2019. (Courtesy)

Analysis

With eyes set on Tokyo, asylum seekers from Israel race on world stage in Qatar

Jamal Abdelmaji Eisa Mohammed from Darfur and Eritrean Teklewini Melake Gebreyesus to run 5,000 meter race Friday with hopes of joining international refugee team at 2020 Olympics

A picture taken on September 25, 2019 shows a plastic model of the Ras Abu Aboud Stadium, one of the venues for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, in the capital Doha. (GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP)

Gay, transgender fans ‘welcome’ at 2022 World Cup, says Qatar

By AFP

I’m a Jewish woman, I’m 60, and I exist in a vacuum

Being ’of a certain age’ can turn us invisible, but getting older can also liberate us to excel in traditional and new roles

MAYIM BIALIK: 10 mea culpas for Rosh Hashanah

I plan to use this holiday season for contemplation, devotion and rededication to what matters most to me: my health, my children’s well-being, my heart, my healing

Shul is for families

After my young son very loudly mispronounced ’Truck! Truck! Truck!’ during Rosh Hashanah services, I stayed away. This year, we’ll be back. Here’s why

Gary Rosenblatt

An editor’s farewell, and a call to ‘return’

FROM OUR PARTNER: As I close 26 years at the Jewish Week, I see too much disconnect between people of varied beliefs; we need to discover the goodness in each other

Illustrative image of Sushi (Liron Almog/Flash90)

Bad paste

Woman hospitalized after confusing wasabi, avocado

By LAURA E. ADKINS

60-year-old suffers ‘broken heart syndrome’ after mistakenly eating spicy dish at wedding, requires a month of treatment before returning to normal

Seffi Kogen, left, with Director Joseph Cedar at a live taping of AJC/Times of Israel's 'People of the Pod,' Tuesday, September 24, 2019. (AJC/ Michael Priest Photography)

People of the Pod

LISTEN: Live from New York, it’s People of the Pod & special guest Joseph Cedar

Episode #4: The ‘Our Boys’ creator gives a behind-the-scenes look at his hit HBO series and ToI’s Palestinian Affairs reporter talks about the Joint List’s role in the elections

A Hezbollah poster and rocket launchers are seen in a mock Lebanese village as part of an IDF training program in September 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

With mock Lebanese village and VR goggles, IDF primes to fight Hezbollah

By Judah Ari Gross

Military holds week-long training session aimed at preparing senior commanders for battles in Lebanon

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks to Israeli Navy soldiers on the stern of a ship in the Haifa Port during a surprise exercise on September 25, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief conducts surprise check of navy’s ability to fight in north

By Judah Ari Gross

Then-US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speak during a meeting in New York on September 25, 2019, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Whistleblower accuses White House of seeking to cover up Ukraine call

By Eric Tucker and MARY CLARE JALONICK

Incendiary complaint says Trump administration scrambled to ‘lock down’ records of phone conversation in which president pressed for Ukraine to probe Biden

AnalysisIt doesn’t take a crime to impeach a president

By Mark Sherman

Trump: Person who helped whistleblower is ‘close to a spy’

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Whistleblower allegations against Trump released as intel chief grilled

By Eric Tucker and MARY CLARE JALONICK

More Headlines

Illustrative: Newborn babies at the English Mission Hospital, in Nazareth, October 31, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel’s population tops 9 million as Jewish new year approaches

A picture taken on July 21, 2019, shows an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ship patrolling around the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero, as it's anchored off the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas. (Hasan Shirvani/Mizan News Agency/AFP)

Iran releases seized UK-flagged tanker after more than 2 months

By Nasser Karimi

Asher Farajl, convicted of the murder of nurse Tova Kararo, sits in the Tel Aviv District Court, on September 26, 2019. (Avshalom Shoshoni/Flash90)

Man, 80, gets life in prison for burning nurse to death at clinic in 2017

A parade float at the Aalst Carnaval in Belgium featuring caricatures of Orthodox Jews atop money bags, March 3, 2019. (Courtesy of FJO, via JTA)

US politicians continue using the term ‘Jew down’ amid rise in anti-Semitism

Egyptian security forces block the road leading to Cairo's Tahrir Square on September 27, 2019. (Khaled DeSouki/AFP)

Egypt braces for fresh protests as Sissi says ‘no reason for concern’

By Emmanuel Parisse

Muslim pilgrims gather at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on August 7, 2019, prior to the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the holy city. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)

Saudi Arabia to offer tourist visas for first time

Malka Leifer (YouTube screenshot)

With extradition stalled, bail hearing set for alleged serial pedophile Leifer

Aviv Slobodkin. (Israel Police)

Israeli traveler missing in Egypt’s Sinai, police say

The offices of Ogen, in Tel Aviv (Courtesy)

Interest-free lender gets regulator’s okay to expand activities

By Shoshanna Solomon

Canadian diva Celine Dion canceled her 2023 concert in Tel Aviv to due to health problems (Courtesy Shuki Weiss)

Power of loveDiva Celine Dion books 2020 love day concert in Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Housing Minister Yoav Gallant speaks at the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference, held at Waldorf Astoria hotel in Jerusalem, November 21, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud minister Gallant released from hospital after brief health scare

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York, September 24, 2019. (Don Emmert / AFP)

Erdogan vows to continue oil, natural gas trade with Iran

By Agencies and ToI Staff

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