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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 12, 2013

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A student training session organized by Hamas national security forces in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on January 23, 2013. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Analysis

In Gaza, Hamas feels the squeeze

By Avi Issacharoff

Although Israel has boosted supplies, Egypt’s crackdown on smuggling tunnels has raised prices in the Strip, angered residents, and cost the Islamist government a fortune. It’s still training terrorists, though

Abbas blames Israel for Palestinian fiscal crisis

By Ilan Ben Zion

Abbas considers appeal to UN over ‘Temple Mount violations’

By Adiv Sterman

AnalysisA new kind of terrorism

By Avi Issacharoff

Hurva (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Houses of prayer in the Holy City

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Some have been desecrated, some have been destroyed, and some have been lovingly restored, but the stories of Jerusalem’s synagogues live on

Pew 2: Jewish State also in a state

The little-known second part of the population study finds Israeli Jewry troubled but speaks excellent Hebrew

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Socialized medicine and chicken soup

With Israel’s universal healthcare, everyone has equal access to a diagnosis of ‘whatever’

Jason Fredric Gilbert

Jews and tattoos

Above all, before getting that permanent inscription on your shoulder, be sure to proofread

A 1996 file photo, showing former Nazi officer, Erich Priebke, attending an hearing of his trial at the tribunal in Rome. Erich Priebke, an ex SS captain sentenced to life for the 1944's Ardeatine caves massacre in Italy, died at 100. (Photo credit: AP /Giulio Broglio, File)

Argentina refuses to accept late Nazi’s remains

By ToI Staff and AP

Erich Priebke, a former SS captain, died aged 100 Friday, was to be buried near his wife in country where he fled after WWII

Firefighters extinguish a burning vehicle after two mortar rounds struck the Abu Roumaneh area in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013. (Photo credit: AP)

Mortar shells hit near inspectors’ hotel in Damascus

At least 11 killed in attack on upscale neighborhood of capital, according to government news agency

Ahmet Uzumcu, director general of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. (OPCW) (Photo credit: AP/Peter Dejong, File)

‘Our hearts go out to the Syrian people,’ says OPCW head after Nobel win

By AP and ToI Staff

Award to chemical arms watchdog for efforts to stop WMD warfare gives committee way to highlight Syria conflict without taking sides

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, February 2012. Zawahiri's brother is set to stand trial in Egypt for terror-related activity. (photo credit: AP/SITE Intel Group)

Al-Qaeda leader urges unity among Syrian jihadis

By AP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with French President Francois Hollande in Paris, October 31, 2012 (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/Flash 90)

Hollande to Netanyahu: We will take tough stance on Iran

By ToI Staff and Haviv Rettig Gur

Ahead of nuclear talks next week, French president tells PM that France is waiting for Rouhani’s words to be ‘translated into action’

In this Sunday, April 15, 2012 file photo, what appears to be a new missile is carried during a mass military parade at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the country's founding father Kim Il Sung. (photo credit: AP/Ng Han Guan, File)

North Korea rejects US disarmament deal

By AP

Pyongyang turns down non-aggression pact in exchange for denuclearization, condemns American, South Korean provocation

The polio vaccine at the Health Ministry office in Beersheba, August 4, 2013, (Flash90)

UN alarmed at polio threat in Sudan border region

By AP and ToI Staff

As Israeli health ministry continues to encourage vaccination, virus spreads through the Horn of Africa

John Greyson, right, and Tarek Loubani arrive at the Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Friday Oct. 11, 2013. Two Canadians who spent seven weeks in an Egyptian prison without being charged have returned home to Canada. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Mark Blinch)

Canadians held without charge in Egypt headed home

Filmmaker John Greyson and physician Tarek Loubani land in Toronto after ‘degrading’ prison nightmare ends

A Christian child is baptized in Nazareth's Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, August 2013. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Nazareth’s dwindling Christian populace torn between moving out, fighting back

By Elhanan Miller

More Headlines

BlogGo Forth: Bloggers on the Torah reading

Miley Cyrus (photo credit: YouTube)

Wrecking balderdashMiley Cyrus vs. 70-year-old Jewish men

Ayman being interviewed on Egyptian television. (al-Nahar TV/MEMRI TV)

Speaking in tonguesEgyptian arrested for learning Hebrew

Amir Weintraub (Howard Blas/Times of Israel)

Tunisia orders tennis player to withdraw from match against Israeli

By AP and ToI Staff

Pope Francis attends a vigil for peace in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, on Saturday, September 7, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Riccardo De Luca)

Pope warns of anti-Semitism as Rome commemorates Holocaust

By JTA

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