Israel to UN chief: End bias or else; AJC rips 'shameful' Trump pardon of Arpaio; 8-year-old's 'rare coin' not ancient; Christians who mark Yom Kippur

Is this email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser]( [The Times of Israel]( The one-stop news site covering Israel, the region and the Jewish people worldwide THE DAILY EDITION WHAT MATTERS MOST ON » SUN, AUG 27, 2017 Share This: [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [More...]( [Visit the timesofisrael.com - updated 24/7. The Jewish world's fastest-growing website. Click here!]( [End bias or else, Israel threatens UN ahead of chief’s visit]( [Taking hard line, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely says Jerusalem will ‘no longer tolerate’ international body’s slant against Jewish state]( By RAOUL WOOTLIFF [Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely speaks a cornerstone laying ceremony for a new neighborhood in the West Bank settlement of Kfar Etzion on June 7, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)]( [UN soldiers patrol on the Lebanese side of the border with Israel near Metula, in northern Israel, November 10, 2016. (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)]( [Israel to press UN chief on peacekeeper ‘blindness’ in Lebanon]( By AFP and TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF [Lebanese soldiers sit a top an armored personnel carrier in the eastern town of Ras Baalbek on August 21, 2017, after returning from fighting against Islamic State. (AFP Photo/Stringer)]( [Lebanon’s army declares pause in fighting against Islamic State]( By AFP [Israel's UN ambassador Danny Danon addresses the Security Council on October 19, 2016. (UN Photo)]( [Israeli envoy says UN must address Hezbollah ‘weapons buildup’]( By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF and AFP --------------------------------------------------------------- [AJC slams ‘shameful’ Trump pardon for ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio]( [Widespread condemnation as US president gives clemency to a man who became a symbol of racial profiling]( By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF and AFP [In this Dec. 18, 2013, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks at a news conference at the Sheriff's headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)]( [This file photo taken on January 25, 2016, shows Sheriff Joe Arpaio listening as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the press prior to a rally in Marshalltown, Iowa. (AFP/Getty Images North America/Scott Olson)]( [Critics: Trump pardon is another affront against judiciary]( By DARLENE SUPERVILLE [Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, watching as his team takes on the Chicago Bulls in Chicago, Jan. 15, 2016. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images/JTA)]( [As Trump struggles, some Republicans talking 2020 challenge]( By STEVE PEOPLES and THOMAS BEAUMONT [In this Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017 photo, DeAndre Harris, bottom is assaulted in a parking garage beside the Charlottesville police station after a white nationalist rally was disbursed by police, in Charlottesville, Va. (Zach D. Roberts via AP)]( [Police arrest two white supremacists involved in Charlottesville violence]( By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF and AP --------------------------------------------------------------- LIVE UPDATES Latest: Ashkelon police said looking for Palestinian suspected of planning attack [Iran soccer captain out of qualifier after playing Israeli club]( [Police arrest 2nd man in Buckingham Palace terror incident; death toll from Barcelona terror attacks rises to 16]( By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF [Iranian soccer player Masoud Shojaei (YouTube screenshot)]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Too good to be true: 8-year-old’s ‘rare coin’ not an ancient artifact]( [Thought to have been minted during the 66-70 CE Jewish Revolt, the piece is instead a kid-made souvenir from the Israel Museum’s Youth Wing]( By AMANDA BORSCHEL-DAN [Souvenir 'coins' made at the Israel Museum's Youth Wing, alongside their certificate of inauthenticity. (Israel Museum)]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Living Church of God congregation in San Diego celebrates the Feast of Tabernacles -- the church's name for Sukkot -- in 2016. (Courtesy of the Living Church of God/via JTA)]( [Christians who celebrate Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur a growing trend]( [Some congregations maintain some of Jesus’s Jewish traditions by following the holiday schedule set out in the Old Testament]( By BEN SALES --------------------------------------------------------------- [US denies Kushner’s team told Abbas a settlement freeze would topple Netanyahu]( [Senior White House official says al-Hayat report is ‘nonsense’ and that such comments ‘were never made’]( By ERIC CORTELLESSA [US presidential adviser Jared Kushner meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on June 21, 2017 (PA press office)]( [US President Donald Trump, left, and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas pose for a photograph during a joint press conference at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)]( [Report: Trump to present plan for reviving peace talks]( By ALEXANDER FULBRIGHT [Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah waves to citizens during his visit to Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, October 9, 2014. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)]( [PA shelves plan to fire 6,000 Gaza civil servants]( By AFP [A Palestinian street vendor sells corn near the beach of Gaza City, on August 20, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)]( [Gaza gets its first proper cinema showing in three decades]( By AFP --------------------------------------------------------------- [Thousands march against terror in Barcelona]( [Spain’s king joins those who tended the victims in the deadly attack in leading mass gathering under the slogan, ‘I’m not afraid’]( By ANNA CUENCA [People attend a march against terrorism which slogan is #NoTincPor (I'm Not Afraid) in Barcelona on August 26, 2017, following the Barcelona and Cambrils attacks that killed 15 people and injuring over 100. (AFP PHOTO / PAU BARRENA)]( [People hold placards during a march against terrorism in Barcelona on August 26, 2017, following the recent deadly terror attacks in Spain. (AFP Photo/Pau Barrena)]( [German hurt in Barcelona car rampage dies, bringing toll to 16]( By AFP [UK police officers stand guard outside Buckingham Palace following an incident where a man armed with a sword was arrested outside the palace on August 26, 2017. (AFP Photo/Chris J Ratcliffe)]( [UK police arrest 2nd suspect in Buckingham Palace sword attack]( By AFP [Policemen stand guard the Boulevard Emile Jacqmain in downtown Brussels on August 25, 2017, where a man is alleged to have attacked soldiers with a knife and was shot. (AFP PHOTO / Belga / LAURIE DIEFFEMBACQ)]( [Islamic State claims Brussels stabbing attack]( By AFP --------------------------------------------------------------- [Yitzhak Pundak, made a general at 100, dies at 104]( [Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz (right), slipping the general's rank on Pundak's left shoulder. (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's blog)]( [The deceased officer requested burial at Kibbutz Nitzanim, whose sullied name he sought to redeem]( By JUDAH ARI GROSS [Yaakov Lappin]( [Forget not Elor Azaria]( [YAAKOV LAPPIN In the battle to defend the IDF’s moral compass from sloganeering populists, defeat is not an option]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Aaron Mann]( [The right kind of ‘bias’]( [AARON MANN A Statement Department refusal to endorse the 2-state solution only favors Hamas and right-wing Israeli extremists]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Stephen M. Flatow]( [The unstoppable will of a kindergartener]( [STEPHEN M. FLATOW On his daughter Alisa’s early conviction that she would attend a Jewish day school, and only a Jewish day school]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Judi Zirin]( [‘Vey is mir, Donald, what next?’]( [JUDI ZIRIN Eavesdropping on the Mah Jongg ladies in Boca]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Conan O'Brien visits Jaffa, with the Tel Aviv skyline in the background, on August 26, 2017. (Screen capture: Facebook)]( [Conan O’Brien talks shakshuka, Israeli women]( [In Tel Aviv-Jaffa, American comedian discusses plans for the rest of his Israel trip and how he dresses like a vampire in the August sun]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A swastika (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)]( [Paintings with swastikas removed from Rio De Janeiro exhibit]( [Head of city’s Jewish federation condemns display of pieces at a cultural center]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [In this Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017, photo, two Iranian women cross a street while wearing the "chador," a head-to-toe garment, in downtown Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)]( [Chador in, hijab out: Iran VP’s change draws criticism]( [Laaya Joneidi’s switch to more conservative head covering at Rouhani’s request raises hackles of Iranian women]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [1897 picture of Theodor Herzl on the balcony of the Hotel Les Trois Rois in Basel, Switzerland (photo credit: CC-PD-Mark, by Wikigamad, Wikimedia Commons)]( [120 Herzls gather in Herzliya]( [Men and women named for the visionary assemble to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the first Zionist Congress]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Statue of Liberty (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Elcobbola, Wikimedia Commons)]( [Startup nation urged to put business ties with America first]( [US commerce chief calls for upgraded free trade agreement, less red tape – and tells Israel to find its way to parts of US that don’t know it]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dotan Goshen, the owner of a bio-farm in the kibbutz of Hama'apil, in central Israel, walks between rows of vegetables at his organic fruit and vegetable farm on May 8, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)]( [Israelis log out of high-tech jobs for a life offline]( [A growing number of workers in the flourishing industry are abandoning good salaries for a lifestyle more suited to their ideals]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A view of the Bedouin town of Segev Shalom, with the city of Beersheba in the background. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)]( [Toddler killed by falling ladder in southern Israel]( [18-month-old girl was playing next to a stable in Segev Shalom]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hebrew Media Review]( HEBREW MEDIA REVIEW SUN, AUG 27, 1:39 PM [Menny Naftali center, and Eldad Yaniv, far right, main organizers of a weekly protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in front of the home of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit in Petah Tikva, August 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)]( [Protesting the protesters]( [The people who rallied against Benjamin Netanyahu in Petah Tikva Saturday night are labeled in the press as lawbreakers or just lazy at activism]( [2,000 turn out as protests against Netanyahu resume near AG’s home]( [High Court had limited weekly protest calling for PM’s indictment for corruption to 500 demonstrators; Likud coalition chief slams ‘gross violation of court ruling’]( By ALEXANDER FULBRIGHT [Menny Naftali center, and Eldad Yaniv, far right, main organizers of a weekly protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in front of the home of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit in Petah Tikva, August 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Dozens protest at High Court head’s home against African migrants]( [South Tel Aviv residents accuse judges of ‘foot-dragging’ on deporting illegal immigrants]( By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF [South Tel Aviv residents protest outside Supreme Court Chief Justice Miriam Naor's home in Jerusalem on August 26, 2017. (Yonatan SIndel/Flash90)]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Liberman: Israel won’t release terrorists in any prisoner swap]( [After resignation of official overseeing efforts to return captured Israelis from Gaza, defense minister says Israel needs ‘clear boundaries’ in negotiations with Hamas]( By ALEXANDER FULBRIGHT [Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party at the Knesset on July 10, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Israel finalizes agreements to buy 17 more F-35 jets]( [New deal will bring IAF’s fleet of the high-tech stealth fighters up to 50, to be delivered by December 2024]( By JUDAH ARI GROSS [An F-35 jet arrives at its new operational base at Hill Air Force Base, in northern Utah, September 2, 2015. (AP/Rick Bowmer, File)]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Iranians up in arms as Apple removes top apps]( [American computer giant says applications taken down from store due to US sanctions]( By AFP [This file photo taken on July 9, 2017, shows Bamilo employees working at the e-commerce site's offices in the Iranian capital Tehran. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Some Jews are paying upwards of $500 for an Italian etrog this year]( [A frost has led to a severe shortage, causing Chabad Hasidim to pony up a pretty penny for the coveted holiday citrons]( By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ [Moshe Lazar, right, explaining to a visitor at an etrog orchard in Calabria in 2015 about how to pick kosher fruit. (Esrogim.info/via JTA)]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [AG orders police to open probe against former Bank Leumi executives]( [The decision by Avichai Mandelblit comes after the bank already paid $400 million in fines to US authorities over tax evasion affair]( By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF [Israelis walks next to Bank Leumi in Jerusalem, November 16, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Australian, British and American soldiers and sailors raise their cups at a Passover Seder at the YMCA’s Jewish Hut, April 1919. (Courtesy)]( [The ‘chosen’ Anzacs: Australia’s distinguished fighting Jews gain new recognition]( [A new book by Mark Dapin chronicles the Outback’s rich history of Hebrew heroes — including the only Jewish military commander-in-chief outside of Israel]( By RICH TENORIO [Forward this email to a friend]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( The Times of Israel · 4 George Washington St. · Jerusalem 9418704 · Israel