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What Matters Most On Saturday, September 16, 2023

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Iconic Ben-Gurion headstand statue on Tel Aviv beach badly burned in attack

Homeless man arrested; security increased at first PM’s home, which laments ‘increasing vitriol’ toward Israel’s founders days after gov’t lawyer rapped Declaration of Independence

A boy watches three Israeli pilgrims sleep by their minivan in Palanca, Moldova on September 14, 2023. (Canaan Lidor / Times of Israel)

'I don’t believe in anyone’s authority but that of G-d'

Ignoring warnings, Israelis take kids on Uman pilgrimage in war-torn Ukraine

By Canaan Lidor

Despite calls by Jerusalem and Kyiv to stay away this year, hundreds of devout Jews have brought their young children to the annual Rosh Hashanah celebration

Undated file photo of Pope Pius XII (AP Photo, File)

New letter reveals Pope Pius XII had detailed information on Nazi killing of Jews

By Nicole Winfield

Vatican archive documents on mass killings in Poland undercut Holy See’s argument that it couldn’t denounce Holocaust as it was unable to verify diplomatic reports

A fire at an olive grove at the base of the Tel Gezer National Park, September 16, 2023. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Hikers cleared from archaeological site after fire breaks out in nearby olive grove

By Michael Horovitz

Firefighting teams prevent blaze from reaching Tel Gezer, which suffered minor damage in inferno last year; no reports of injuries

‘Health, peace, prosperity’: From Biden to Zelensky, leaders wish Jews happy New Year

Rosh Hashanah message from Ukraine’s president (briefly) features Hebrew greeting, while Indian PM posts entire message in the language

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a joint news conference with Greece's president (not seen) following their meeting at the Mariinskiy palace in Kyiv on November 3, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Genya SAVILOV / AFP)

Anti-overhaul protesters in New York City, April 28, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

'We're waiting to greet him. In the air, on land and at sea'

NY Israeli activists, a headache for visiting ministers, gear up for Netanyahu at UN

Demonstrators plan series of events to protest prime minister’s appearance at General Assembly and meetings with world leaders, as activist network in US continues to expand

US National Security Adviser: Biden meeting set for Wednesday

Netanyahu heads to US after Rosh Hashanah on a trip more marginal than he’d hoped

By Lazar Berman and Jacob Magid

With judicial overhaul fight raging and tense security situation at home, PM to spend 6 days in US, meet with Biden in NY, address UNGA, see series of world leaders and Elon Musk

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and US President Joe Biden (R). (Flash90/AP)

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Participants in the September 20, 2023 webinar (L-R) Prof. Gil Troy, former MK Michal Cotler-Wunsh and former United States ambassador to Israel David Friedman. (Times of Israel/Courtesy/Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

ToI WebinarNo vote, no voice? Diaspora Jews’ influence on Israel’s judicial overhaul crisis

What if you can’t forgive?

A sexual abuser has no access to teshuva until the victim’s autonomy, healing, and wishes are prioritized. That always comes first.

How half a sandwich saved a world

After 80 years, their remarkable courage was marked with a reunion, Yad Vashem honors, and an epic rendition of Hatikvah

Worshipers pack Tehran synagogue for Selichot service ahead of Rosh Hashanah

Prayers also held for Jewish New Year at Cairo synagogue for first time in 70 years

Screenshot of video said to show service at Tehran synagogue, September 2023 (Kan, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

A woman holds up a sign depicting a picture of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman who died while in the custody of Iranian authorities, during a solidarity demonstration in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakeh on September 25, 2022. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

Iran briefly detains Mahsa Amini’s father in crackdown on 1st anniversary of death

By Stuart Williams

Rights groups say Amjad Amini barred from leaving home after being warned not to hold memorial service at grave of his daughter, which security forces have reportedly blocked off

A portrait of Mahsa Amini is held during a rally calling for regime change in Iran following the death of Amini, a young woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by Iran's notorious 'morality police,' in Washington, on October 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Heavy security as Iranians set to mark 1st anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death

By Stuart Williams

US President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's economic agenda at Prince George's Community College, Center for the Performing Arts, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, in Largo, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden leads new Western sanctions against Iran on anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death

By Shaun Tandon

Palestinian rioters burn tires during clashes with Israeli soldiers along the Israel-Gaza border on September 15, 2023. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

IDF strikes Hamas post after renewed rioting on Gaza border

By Emanuel Fabian

Photojournalist among 9 injured by Israeli fire and crowd dispersal means; strike on observation site seen as warning to terror group

People look for survivors in Derna, Libya, Sept.13, 2023 (AP Photo/Yousef Murad)

With over 10,000 still missing, Libya opens probe into devastating collapse of dams

By Samy Magdy and YOUSEF MOURAD

Prosecutors to investigate maintenance fund allocations; over 11,300 confirmed dead; concern over spread of waterborne disease, shifting of explosive ordnance from recent conflicts

Sergio Leandro, left, and Pablos Santos simultaneously perform the Shark Attack and Shark Block, July 29, 2023, at Frishman Beach in Tel Aviv. (Chaim Weingarten)

'From the bikinis to the beach, no wonder Israelis love it'

Israel’s answer to pickleball, footvolley is kicking up a stir on Tel Aviv’s beaches

By Tara Feldman

Since the Brazilian import hit the Holy Land in 2003, sabras spending days on the sun-drenched coast have jumped at the sporting phenomenon, which now has a male and female league

Hank Greenberg scores after hitting a home run to give the Detroit Tigers a 2-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox, September 10, 1934. (UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images via JTA)

'The cantor would stop singing and ask, how's Hank doing?'

Remembering Jewish baseball legend Hank Greenberg’s 1934 Rosh Hashanah dilemma

By jacob gurvis

With the Detroit Tigers nearly neck-and-neck with the New York Yankees in the pennant race, the future Hall of Fame slugger had a tough choice to make on the Jewish new year

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Illustrative: A weightlifter lifts on an Olympic style platform (Darwin Brandis; iStock by Getty Images)

Iraqi weightlifter criticized in Baghdad for competing with an Israeli

By AFP

Illustrative: A shopper at a Rami Levy supermarket in Modiin on February 1, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Annual inflation back up to 4.1% as consumer goods costs climb

Arab-Israeli teacher, Nedaa Rabie, helps student, Adi Hevlin, in her classroom at the Gvanim Junior Highschool in Qadima on Thursday, December 26, 2013. The Gvanim Junior Highschool currently employs five Arab teachers and serves as a successful example of the Education Ministry's program for integrating Arab school teachers in the Jewish sector. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Controversial coalition bill would allow Shin Bet to vet all teachers for terror ties

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Director Agnieszka Holland poses for photographers upon arrival for the premiere of the film 'Green Border' during the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Polish minister compares local film on migrant crisis to Nazi propaganda

By Andrew Lapin

An arrivals and departure board is seen behind blown out windows at Zaventem Airport in Brussels, March 23, 2016. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, Pool)

Belgian court hands out heavy sentences over Brussels terror attack

By Matthieu Demeestere

Infowars founder Alex Jones appears in court to testify during the Sandy Hook defamation damages trial at Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury, Connecticut on September 22, 2022. (Tyler Sizemore/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP, Pool, File)

Alex Jones continues extravagant spending while not paying dime to Sandy Hook families

By Dave Collins

Brother John Muhammad declined to vote on a St. Petersburg, Florida, City Council resolution adopting a definition of antisemitism during a meeting on Sept. 14, 2023. (Screenshot from livestream)

Farrakhan follower on Florida city council skips vote on antisemitism resolution

By Andrew Lapin

Bassem Awadallah, one of two former officials accused of helping Jordanian Prince Hamzah try to overthrow his half-brother King Abdullah II, appears on a mobile phone screen as he attends a verdict hearing at a state security court, in Amman, Jordan, on July 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, File)

Jordan rejects US request to release ex-official accused of plot against king

By Julia Frankel

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