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What Matters Most On Wednesday, September 14, 2022

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Maj. Bar Falah, 30, the deputy commander of the elite Nahal reconnaissance unit, who was killed in a firefight with two terrorists near the West Bank security fence on September 14, 2022. (Courtesy: Family)

Lapid: He 'thwarted a major terrorist attack'

Senior officer killed in West Bank firefight identified as Maj. Bar Falah, 30

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Deputy commander of elite Nahal reconnaissance unit was leading a force to arrest suspects when they opened fire; soldiers killed the 2 gunmen, one of whom was PA security officer

IDF officers inspect the scene of a gunfight in which Maj. Bar Falah, 30, and two Palestinians were killed on September 14, 2022, near the West Bank security fence (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF officer, 2 Palestinians killed in firefight near tense West Bank barrier zone

By Emanuel Fabian

Soldiers restrain a Palestinian boy allegedly armed with a knife at the Tapuah Junction in the West Bank on September 13, 2022. (Oriah Schiff)

Palestinian boy armed with knife arrested at West Bank junction

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Netanyahu brokers deal for extremist anti-LGBT party to run with Religious Zionism

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Otzma Yehudit party member Itamar Ben Gvir (R) speaks with then-National Union faction leader Betzalel Smotrich, during a campaign event in Bat Yam, April 6, 2019. (Flash90)

Smotrich says extremist Ben Gvir will be senior minister in Netanyahu government

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Joint List party chairman Ayman Odeh at a conference in Jerusalem on July 26, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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Israeli soldiers operate in the West Bank, September 14, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

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US redoubles support for Iran talks envoy Israeli official claimed was sidelined

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People walk past a banner showing Iran's Revolutionary Guard Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei prior to his funeral ceremony, in Tehran, Iran, May 24, 2022. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

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COVID czar Salman Zarka seen during a visit of Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz at the Ziv medical center in the northern Israeli city of Safed, on June 23, 2022. (David Cohen/Flash90)

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Screen capture from unconfirmed video purportedly showing a shooting attack in the northern West Bank, September 13, 2022. (Twitter. Used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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Terror groups reportedly aiming to encourage copycat incidents in an effort to ramp up violence in the West Bank

Palestinians protest against an Israeli court's approval of 'quiet' Jewish prayer, at the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, October 8, 2021. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

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Members of US Haredi Jewish communities hold a protest before a Board of Regents meeting to vote on new requirements that private schools teach English, math science and history to high school students outside the New York State Education Department Building in Albany, New York, September 12, 2022. (Will Waldron/The Albany Times Union via AP)

New York gives final approval to new rules regulating secular studies in yeshivas

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US appears to back off pressuring Israel on IDF rules of engagement after backlash

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US says Israel handed it intel justifying shuttering of Palestinian NGOs

Richard 'Mac' McKinney as seen in 'Stranger at the Gate.' (Karl Schroder)

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In this image taken from a YouTube footage released by Armenian Defense Ministry, Azerbaijanian servicemen cross the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and approaching the Armenian positions, September 13, 2022. (Armenian Defense Ministry via AP)

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