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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 8, 2013

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Hundreds of thousands attend the funeral procession for Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the 93-year-old spiritual leader of the Shas party, on Monday (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Over 800,000 pack Jerusalem to mourn Yosef’s passing

By ToI Staff and AP

Shas leaders, regular Israelis and others bemoan loss of spiritual guide at largest funeral in Israeli history

Liveblog (closed)Rabbi Ovadia Yosef buried in largest funeral in Israeli history

By Gavriel Fiske

Reporter's notebookRipping the gates of heaven: Ovadia Yosef’s last hours

By Mitch Ginsburg

Reporter's notebookAt Yosef’s funeral, a crowd as diverse as his legacy

By Elhanan Miller

Belgian physicist Francois Englert, left, and British physicist Peter Higgs, right, at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin near Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday, July 4, 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Keystone/Martial Trezzini)

Tel Aviv University professor shares Nobel Prize in physics

By AP and ToI Staff

François Englert, 80, a Belgian Holocaust survivor, wins prestigious prize with Peter Higgs

Joshua Hammerman

Can Jews take “Yes” for an answer?

Judaism, the religion of affirmation and joy, is equal to the task of engaging a generation that’s terrifyingly free of guilt

My son plays with the Arabs in the Wadi

On that moment when being the wrong kind of parent might save your son’s life

Labor MK Hilik Bar (center) with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting between Palestinian politicians and Israeli MKs in Ramallah, October 07, 2013. Isaac Herzog, elected Labor leader in November 2013, is seated at left. (photo credit: Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

Missing from Abbas meeting with MKs: Israeli flag, Palestinian journalists

By David Horovitz

PA president talks peace and condemns violence, dodges Netanyahu’s call to recognize Jewish Israel, does not reciprocate Knesset’s recent display of Palestinian flag

Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, Thursday, July 18, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Abbas says an agreement possible in nine months

By Haviv Rettig Gur and Elhanan Miller

Daniel Gross (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Apple pays $40m. for Israeli 21-year-old’s app

By David Shamah

Cue, a ‘personal assistant’ app developed by yeshiva graduate Daniel Gross and his partner, could boost Apple’s fortunes as it competes with Google

File: Christian Zionists at a 2013 Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem. (Times of Israel/Lazar Berman)

Voices soaring in Hebrew, Christians in Jerusalem affirm God’s promise to Israel

By Lazar Berman

A Palestinian farmer uses a handplow and a horse to work on his vinyard in the West Bank near the Jewish settlement of Efrat, on May 8, 2013. (Photo credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

World Bank: Israeli control in West Bank costs Palestinians billions

By Gavriel Fiske and AP

Easing of restrictions on resources could free Palestinian economy from reliance on foreign donations, economic body says

Syrian refugees line up to fill plastic containers with water at a displaced persons camp near the Turkish border, November 2012 (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra/File)

UN: Four million more Syrians to flee homes in 2014

By Yoel Goldman

Two million citizens expected to leave the country as refugees, while 2.25 million projected to be internally displaced

Shas MKs Eli Yishai (left) and Aryeh Deri speak during a Shas party meeting, February 18, 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

Discordant Shas faces possible schism after Yosef’s death

By Haviv Rettig Gur

The peerless spiritual leader held together a fractured party; the feuding politicians he left behind may be unable to do the same

Hundreds visit Yosef mourning tent as Jerusalem recovers from funeral

By Gavriel Fiske

Hiatham Omari as Badawi in Yuval Adler's 'Bethlehem' (photo credit: Vered Adir/Courtesy)

Three films with Israeli ties angling for Oscar

Submissions for nomination in the Best Foreign Language category include an Israeli film, a Palestinian film and a Filipino film about Israeli migrants

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Double-time standard‘Boycott Israel,’ says Jewish rapper

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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Woman of valorJohansson is again Esquire’s ‘sexiest’

By AP

Mourners atop a Jerusalem roof on Monday evening watch the funeral procession for Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, who died on Monday afternoon. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe mourning after

By Yossi Nachemi

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in Jerusalem, September 2012. (Flash90)

Arabic media reviewFor Arabs, Ovadia Yosef left bitter memories

By Elhanan Miller

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