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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 31, 2023

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Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, center, leads a meeting in Baghdad on August 30, 2023, in a handout photo shared on the premier's X account. (Iraq Prime Minister's spokesperson)

Decades after Israel’s Osirak strike, Iraq says it’s seeking civilian nuclear program

Military spokesman confirms high-level meeting on developing peaceful program to diversify energy resources for oil-rich country

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (L) meets with White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa Brett McGurk in New York on August 29, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gallant said to press US for clarifications on proposed Saudi nuclear program

The scene of a truck-ramming attack at the Hashmonaim checkpoint near Modiin, August 31, 2023. Inset: Cpl. Maksym Molchanov, 20, who was killed in the attack. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg; Israel Defense Forces)

Slain soldier named as Ukrainian immigrant Maksym Molchanov

Soldier killed, six injured in truck-ramming terror attack near Modiin

By Emanuel Fabian

Another serviceman seriously hurt; Palestinian driver shot dead after running over off-duty troops and others at Maccabim checkpoint, then fleeing to nearby Hashmonaim checkpoint

Israeli soldiers destroy lathes in a Palestinian gun workshop in the West Bank city of Beitunia, August 31, 2023. (Israel Police)

Security forces raid Palestinian gun workshop, seize lathes, dozens of firearm parts

By Emanuel Fabian

This image shows a large explosive device that was detonated near IDF troops in the West Bank city of Nablus, August 30, 2023. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

4 IDF soldiers hurt after being hit by large explosive device in Nablus

By Emanuel Fabian

File: US President Joe Biden meets then-opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu (right) at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, July 14, 2022. At left is Secretary of State Antony Blinken; 2nd-left is US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides. (GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu expected to meet Biden in New York September 21 on sidelines of UN assembly

Diplomatic source offers timing for sit-down between the leaders; unclear if they will hold separate talks at White House, as the PM has been seeking

6:27 pm

Report: Sara Netanyahu's gripe with Yad Vashem director behind effort to oust him
6:06 pm

US envoy says looking at possibilities for solving Israel-Lebanon border dispute
5:43 pm

Netanyahu to meet Biden on sidelines of UN assembly; unclear if White House visit also in cards

Israeli moderately hurt in Jerusalem attack; Palestinian teen stabber shot dead

By Emanuel Fabian

14-year-old assailant stabs man in 20s in back at Shivtei Israel light rail station near Old City, before being apparently disarmed by civilians, shot by Border Police officer

The scene of a stabbing attack at Jerusalem's Shivte Israel light rail station on August 30, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Raziel Shevach, who was killed in a terror attack in the northern West Bank on January 9, 2018. (Courtesy: Yeshivat Roeh Yisrael)

Palestinian gets life plus 26 years for deadly 2018 terror shooting

By Emanuel Fabian

Iran claims to foil major Mossad attempt to insert defective parts into its missiles

Intelligence unit of country’s defense ministry says Islamic Republic thwarted ‘one of the largest sabotage plots targeting Iran’s missile, aviation and airspace military industry’

In this image taken from Iran's IRINN television channel on August 31, 2023, authorities show what they say are foreign defective parts that can be used in a missile or drone. (IRINN via AP)

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, center, waves as he stands with Hezbollah members and lawmakers in southern Lebanon near the Israel border on April 28, 2023. (AP/Mohammed Zaatari)

Iran threatens to retaliate against Israel after strike on Aleppo airport

Iranian women shop at the Tajrish bazaar in northern Tehran on August 16 2023. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Tehran steps up crackdown ahead of first anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death

By Stuart Williams

Supreme Court Judge Yosef Elron arrives for a hearing, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, May 22, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'A revenge campaign against the system that didn't want him'

Justice Elron panned for challenging seniority system for Supreme Court president

Critics say candidacy submission aimed at preventing rival Isaac Amit from assuming role as most veteran justice when current chief Esther Hayut retires

Supreme court justice Yosef Elron, December 15, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In unprecedented challenge, junior justice asks to jump line for Supreme Ct. president

Attorney General Gali Baharav Miara and Justice Minister Yariv Levin during a weekly cabinet meeting, held on this occasion at the Western Wall tunnels on May 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Aug. 31: Justice minister says AG is not doing her job. What now?

Screenshot from a video purporting to show UNIFIL peacekeepers and Israeli troops along the northern border with Lebanon on March 7, 2023. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

As tensions soar on northern border, Israel works to protect UN peacekeeper mandate

By Lazar Berman

UN Security Council to vote this week on UNIFIL mission, as Hezbollah tries to limit international force’s freedom of action

Inside story

Palestinians seek ‘irreversible’ measures as part of Israel-Saudi deal, officials say

Ramallah proposing steps that can’t be rolled back by Israel, but Biden officials have pressed PA to moderate requests and direct them at Jerusalem, not Washington

Saudi Ambassador Nayef Al-Sudairi (L) presents his credentials to Palestinian Authority diplomatic adviser Majdi al-Khalidi at the Palestinian embassy in Jordan on August 12, 2023. (Wafa)

Labor MK Gilad Kariv at a Constitution Committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 29, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Opposition MK holds rare meeting with Palestinian officials in Ramallah

By Gianluca Pacchiani

A man walks past closed shops in the aftermath of clashes between the Fatah movement and Islamists inside the Ein el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in the southern coastal city of Sidon on August 1, 2023. (Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP)

UN seeking $15.5 million for Palestinian camps in Lebanon ravaged by clashes

By AP

Shmuel Rosenman

As the school year starts, we must still teach the Holocaust

Programs like March of the Living inculcate the knowledge and values urgently needed to counter the forces of intolerance

Don’t leave me to bear this alone

As the death toll among Arab Israelis soars, a plea for empathy and help, especially from the religious Jewish community

Travelers at Ben Gurion Airport lie on the ground during an emergency incident on August 31, 2023. (Twitter screenshot used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Suspected car thief smashes through Ben Gurion Airport gate, sparking panic

Travelers at baggage claim told to lie on the floor as incident unfolded outside

Op-ed

How Netanyahu and his rookie FM turned a breakthrough with Libya into a debacle

Did the PM know Cohen was about to publicize the unprecedented meet with Libya’s Mangoush, with predictably awful consequences? If so, why didn’t he intervene? And if not, why not?

Libyans burn a shirt showing an Israeli flag, Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and his Libyan counterpart Najla Mangoush, in Tripoli, Libya, August 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

Tunisian President Kais Saied takes part in a meeting at the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome on July 24, 2023. (Handout / Quirinale Press Office / AFP)

Tunisian president rules out any chance of establishing diplomatic ties with Israel

By Gianluca Pacchiani and ToI Staff

AnalysisFM Cohen may have been publicly rebuked by Netanyahu, but his backers remain loyal

By Shalom Yerushalmi

A mikveh, or Jewish ritual bath, in a Jerusalem neighborhood. (illustrative photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Public mikvehs routinely violate women’s right to immerse alone, study finds

By Canaan Lidor

Analysis by ITIM group reveals that only 188 of 320 of ritual bathhouses in large cities say they comply with a 2016 ruling on the issue

The scene of a fatal shooting in Haifa, August 31, 2023. (Magen David Adom)

Woman shot dead in Haifa home; man injured

Victim declared dead at scene; her partner, reported target of attack, escapes with moderate wounds

Nazareth Mayor Ali Salam after a meeting with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid outside the Foreign Ministry offices in Jerusalem, May 22, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

2 arrested for threatening Nazareth mayor, as crime wave hits upcoming election

Samir Bakri during his arrest in Basmat Tab’un, August 30, 2023. (Israel Police)

Police arrest top crime boss after four months on the run

AI21 founders (from right to left): Prof. Yoav Shoham, Ori Goshen, and Prof. Amnon Shashua. (Roei Shor Photography)

Backed by Google and Nvidia, Israel AI startup nabs $155m, soars to $1.4b valuation

By Sharon Wrobel

Funding round makes AI21 Labs, a creator of AI generative text models co-founded by Amnon Shashua, a new Israeli unicorn

Illustrative: A scientist sits at his desk and consults an engineer about sophisticated coding and programming at a computer science research laboratory. (iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli startup raises $15 million to drive US expansion of clinical trial simulator

By Sharon Wrobel

Sababa Beachaway director Danny Mishkin, standing in center, begins the morning by leading a moment of meditation. (Jacob Gurvis/ JTA)

'It connects my religion with what I love'

At this Jewish surf camp in Virginia, the beach is a sanctuary

By jacob gurvis

Sababa Beachaway focuses on surfing, sailing, scuba diving and ocean education through a Jewish lens with a curriculum that includes Judaic programming and prayer

Members of the Ethiopian community and activists clash with police during a protest calling for justice for 4-year-old Rafael Adana, who was killed in a hit-and-run in Netanya in May. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

6 cops injured, 4 protesters arrested at Tel Aviv rally for boy killed in hit-and-run

Police deploy mounted officers, stun grenades to clear activists from road as clashes erupt during fresh protest calling for justice for Rafael Adana; 1 officer hospitalized

Activists protest in Tel Aviv on August 30, 2023, calling for justice for 4-year-old Rafael Adana, who was killed in a hit-and-run in Netanya in May. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Bereaved families from Ethiopian community rally for boy killed in hit-and-run

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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, right, and Education Minister Yoav Kisch at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, April 30, 2023. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

No breakthrough as high school teachers still threaten strike, day before school year

Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan at a book launch event at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, on January 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Education minister seen as seeking to oust Yad Vashem head Dani Dayan

Host Yinon Magal on Channel 14's 'The Patriots' show on August 30, 2023. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Right-wing pundit on Rabin murder: ‘When people are silenced, there is violence’

By Michael Bachner

Ben & Jerry's ice cream on sale at a shop in Jerusalem, on July 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Unilever wins pension fund case over Ben and Jerry’s ‘Palestinian Territory’ boycott

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Hubert Aiwanger, head of the Free Voters party, campaigns ahead of Bavarian state elections in Maisach, Germany, July 24, 2023. (Johannes Simon/Getty Images via JTA)

Nazi pamphlet controversy looms large in local German election

By Gabe Friedman

Screen capture from video of Dana Cassidy, left, and Yair Netanyahu, right, in the Kfar Saba Magistrate's Court, February 1, 2023. (Walla. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Yair Netanyahu ordered to pay $34,000 for post suggesting woman was Gantz’s paramour

Cpl. Baruch Kabarta, who was killed by the accidental discharge of another soldier's gun at a military base near Jerusalem on January 3, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldier who accidentally killed comrade jailed for 3 years in plea deal

By Emanuel Fabian

Fire firefighters attend a fatal cabin fire in the norther city of Safed, August 31, 2023. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Man dies in cabin fire in north, another seriously injured

Ronaldinho, Brazilian former professional footballer, visits youngsters from Beitar Nordia Jerusalem at the Kraft Family Sports Campus in Jerusalem on April 26, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Comeback kidSoccer’s Ronaldinho set to feature in 2 Barça legends games in Israel

A rare Blue Supermoon rises over Lake Michigan as spectators watch from Chicago's 31st Street beach August 30, 2023. (Charles Rex Arbogast/AP)

MoonstruckRare blue supermoon dazzles stargazers around globe

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