🇮🇱 Adams Abroad: In the Jerusalem Post, New York City Mayor Eric Adams — who is visiting Israel this week — touts his support for the Jewish state. “I am aware that my trip comes at a pivotal moment for Israel. As mayor of a city whose residents can hold widely differing and opposing views on many subjects, I understand the importance of working through contentious issues and having difficult discussions. Democracy is never easy, and it is only by confronting our differences that we can emerge stronger. While this is my first trip to Israel as mayor of New York City, I have visited twice before. Each time, I have felt a deeper connection to the country: the people, the food, the culture – and I look forward to deepening that bond even further. Israel and New York City have so much in common, the country feels like a second home to me. We share the same drive to always be better, and to fight for democracy, prosperity, and peace, and that is why Israel and New York City will always remain great partners.” [JPost]

⚽ Soccer Sojourn: The Financial Times’ Samuel Agini spotlights the efforts of Stephen Ross’ Relevent Sports, under the leadership of Ross’ son-in-law Daniel Sillman, to grow soccer’s popularity in the U.S. “The rise of the 34-year-old Sillman in the world of sport started when he was still a student at Michigan Ross, the business school named after Relevent’s owner. While there, Sillman emailed Ross for guidance about his business advising professional athletes and the pair struck up a rapport. Sillman eventually sold the business and joined the billionaire’s venture arm in 2014 before becoming chief executive of Relevent three years later at the age of 28. He has also been Ross’s son-in-law since 2020. ‘I know him and I work with him and he works hours and hours and hours,’ said Ferran Soriano, chief executive of City Football Group, which owns Premier League champions Manchester City. Relevent’s pitch to link the US and European football predates Sillman. That vision came from co-founder Charlie Stillitano, a former general manager of the New York-based MLS side that would later become the New York Red Bulls. Stillitano, who has since left the company, used his decades of experience in football to build Relevent up in the sport.” [FT]

📚 Documenting History: In the Washington Post, Jane Eisner examines the debate around a conference in Poland focused on the life and writings of Holocaust survivor Clara Rosenfarb. “By commemorating Rosenfarb’s life and work, and more widely sharing her stories, [Joanna] Podolska and her colleagues are also learning about their own past. ‘We see some parts of the history of our city, which most readers didn’t know about before because it was a Jewish history,’ Podolska explained. ‘Sometimes Jews had a different view of the same city. It is a new perspective.’ But will more Poles be as interested in this new perspective? Especially if in extricating the past they stumble upon evidence of their own national complicity? ‘For the country as a whole, this is one of the best times in history: independence, good economy, a defense umbrella,’ Samuel Kassow, a historian of Polish Jewry, told me. ‘Yet it’s a very conflicted country because for so long they built their identity as victims, not perpetrators. It is hard for them to look at the good and the bad in their history.’” [WashPost]

🇮🇷 Talking Tehran: In The Wall Street Journal, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Ray Takeyh assesses how the narrative around the 1953 coup that overthrew the Iranian government has impacted policy-making decisions over the last seven decades. “The 1953 coup is a rare intelligence operation that has penetrated our national narrative. The left laments a coup it doesn’t understand, commemorating it in Hollywood films such as ‘Argo.’ Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright even remarked that ‘the coup was clearly a setback for Iran’s political development. And it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention in their internal affairs.’ For Democrats, the coup’s lessons are clear: America should avoid taking sides in Iranian politics because the results are bound to be bad. Setting the record straight on 1953 is the first step toward a sensible Iran policy.” [WSJ]

🏖️ Green Gov: The New York Times’ Shawn Hubler profiles Hawaii Gov. Josh Green, as the first-term governor grapples with wildfires that have torched the island of Maui. “Mr. Green, who was born in Kingston in upstate New York and raised in suburban Pittsburgh, has an unconventional political story. His father ran a family-owned civil and structural engineering company; his mother was a local organizer for the National Organization for Women. He jokes that when his parents went to Woodstock, he ‘was there in utero.’ He was born deaf, he said, but not diagnosed until he was a toddler. His hearing was surgically repaired, but the loss left him with speech challenges that took years to overcome…. [As an emergency room physician] Mr. Green campaigned in scrubs for his legislative district and was elected. A week after arriving at the Capitol on Oahu, he said, he met his wife, Jaime, a lawyer who was clerking for a state senator. He held two jobs, as a lawmaker and an emergency physician for the next 18 years until he became governor.” [NYTimes]

❓ MBS Meetup?: President Joe Biden is mulling a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman next month in New Delhi, where both will be attending the G20 summit.

🙅‍♂️ Third Way: No Labels co-chair Larry Hogan, who until earlier this year was the Republican governor of Maryland, again ruled out a 2024 presidential campaign of his own, but said it is “very likely” a third-party candidate will make a bid for the White House.

🗳️ Texas Tussle: The Messengerlooks at how Texas Senate candidate Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX) is positioning himself as the “anti-Beto” O’Rourke, who failed to oust Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) six years ago.

🎤 Shapiro on the Go: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was announced as the keynote speaker at next month’s New Hampshire Democratic Party convention.

👩🏽 Turtle Bay Talk: U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield addressed recent violence in Israel and the West Bank during a U.N. Security Council briefing.

👨 All Politics is Local: Former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain is getting involved in the mayoral election in Carmel, Ind., on behalf of Democrat Miles Nelson, a longtime Klain family friend.

👔 Reorg: Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg shook up his leadership team, tapping former Bank of England governor Mark Carney to lead the board of directors, Chief Product Officer Vlad Kliatchko to be the company’s CEO and COO JP Zammitt as the president of Bloomberg LP. 

✍️ Spotlight on Sohrab: The New York Times’ Michelle Goldberg spotlights conservative writer Sohrab Ahmari.

👋 (No Longer) Stuck With You: Justin Bieber and Scooter Braun, who has managed the pop superstar since he was a teenager, have reportedly not spoken in months, amid reports that other clients of Braun’s, including singers Ariana Grande and Demi Lovato, have parted ways with the celebrity manager. 

🗞️ Media Matters: Jonathan Alter interviewed Norm Pearlstein about the past and future of the media industry.

🇬🇹 Election Results: Guatemalan diplomat Bernardo Arévalo, who lived in Israel first when his father served as ambassador to the country and again while working in the Guatemalan foreign ministry, was elected president of the Central American nation with roughly 58% of the vote. 

🥙 Sampling Sabich:Tasting Table spotlights the popular Israeli dish sabich.

🚔 Apprehended: Israeli officials arrested two Palestinians in connection with a terror attack on Monday in which an Israeli schoolteacher was killed near Hebron.

🛰️ Drone Deal: The Netherlands will purchase a multilayered counter-drone system from Israel’s Elbit Systems in a $55 million deal.

🪧 On Strike: Arab municipalities in Israel are striking following an announcement by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich that he is freezing hundreds of millions of shekels earmarked for Arab communities. 

💸 Moving Money: Roughly $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds was transferred last week to a Swiss bank from South Korea as part of a prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Iran that officials in Tehran said would take roughly two months.

🛢️ Oil Delivery: Iran has exported more than 2 million barrels of oil a day in the month of August, with most of the shipments being sent to China.

☠️ Sarin Saga: The Washington Post reports on efforts by survivors of a mass sarin gas attack in Syria to seek justice, 10 years after the deadly attack that killed more than 1,400 people.

🕯️ Remembering: IDF intelligence officer Yaakov Nimrodi, who established the Mossad’s operations in Tehran, died at 97. Sociologist Howard Becker, the author of the 1963 book Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance, died at 95.

Thousands of people pray at the Kotel in Jerusalem over the weekend at the first of 17 Selichot events leading up to Yom Kippur.

Professional baseball player for nine years, he now manages a foundation for families affected by Alzheimer’s, Braden Adam Bishop turns 30…

Emmy Award-winning television news journalist, Morton Dean turns 88… Former director of Prozdor, the high school program of the Hebrew College in Newton, Mass., Margie Berkowitz… Founder, co-CEO and co-chief investment officer at Elliott Management Corporation and Jewish philanthropist, Paul Elliott Singer turns 79… Professor emeritus of Bible and Hebrew literature at both Bar Ilan University and Harvard, James Kugel turns 78… Dermatologist in Beverly Hills, Joyce Naness Fox, MD… Founder of the magazine American Lawyer and the cable channel Court TV (now TruTV), he also co-founded NewsGuard, Steven Brill turns 73… Former chief of staff to VPOTUS Dick Cheney, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby (family name was Liebovitz) turns 73… Former chairman of Israel Military Industries, he was a member of the Knesset for the Yisrael Beiteinu party, Yitzhak Aharonovich turns 73… Robin Zetzel Elcott… Former MLB outfielder, then investment banker, he was the U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and has served as president of B’nai Torah Congregation in Boca Raton, Ambassador Mark Gilbert turns 67… Former investment banker who left his job to run a Los Angeles-based homeless service provider, he is now a professor at USC, Adlai W. Wertman turns 64… Chairwoman of Israel’s Strauss Group, Ofra Strauss turns 63… Co-founder of Marquis Jet and part owner of the Atlanta Hawks, Jesse Itzler turns 55… Director of political information and education at AIPAC, Ed Miller… Director of strategic partnerships at The Paul E. Singer Foundation, Deborah Hochberg… Partner at Ducat Investment Group, Michael A. Fragin… Director of operations at the University of Pennsylvania Hillel, Rachel Saifer Goldman… Partner in the Century City office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Stuart A. Graiwer… Co-executive director of Christians United for Israel, Shari Dollinger Magnus… Attorney and author, best known for her New York Times bestselling book, Notorious R.B.G.: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Shana Knizhnik turns 35… Principal at CSR Operations LLC, an HR consultancy, Claire Stein-Ross… Actor known for his role as statistical genius Sylvester Dodd in the television series “Scorpion,” Ari Stidham turns 31…