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What Matters Most On Friday, October 18, 2013

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Hamas security officers stand guard in the southern Gaza Strip in October 2012. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

AnalysisBanned, on the run

For under-pressure Hamas, a new ‘Gilad Shalit’ is the best hope

By Avi Issacharoff

Motivation to kidnap an Israeli soldier grows, as funding for the Islamist group’s Gaza government evaporates and it takes a pounding from the PA in the West Bank

AnalysisWho’s harming the West Bank environment?

By Avi Issacharoff

Photo proofs from a critical meeting between president Lyndon Johnson and prime minster Levi Eshkol at LBJ’s Texas ranch in January 1968, as seen in 'The Prime Ministers.' (photo credit: courtesy)

When the fly on the wall buzzes, it’s wise to take note

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Opening October 18 in New York, new documentary ‘The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers,’ part one of political insider Yehuda Avner’s memoir, uses Hollywood stars to bring Israel’s leaders to life

Finding the ‘good lyfe’ in Uganda

Danya Kaufmann went to Africa as a volunteer teacher, learned a thing or two herself, and worries she did more harm than good

Women of the Wall — Moving forward

On WOW’s decision to cooperate with the government — and on its list of demands — for a new pluralistic area at the Kotel

Alan Cooperman and Greg Smith

Pew Research Center: Our research is sound

Contrary to the criticism, the survey of American Jewry asked the right questions and concluded that Orthodox Jewry is thriving

Illustrative photo of Palestinian women picking olives. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Four Palestinian girls die after being locked in vehicle

By Gavriel Fiske and ToI Staff

Children, aged 2 through 6, may have trapped themselves in car and suffocated while their parents picked olives near Hebron

Kadima MK Shaul Mofaz (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Iran will likely retain nuke breakout ability, warns ex-defense minister

By ToI Staff and AP

Meanwhile, energy minister argues that Western detente with Tehran aims at getting Iranian oil back on global market

A small tractor shown after it was used in assault attempt at an IDF base, on October 17, 2013 (photo credit: screen capture Channel 2)

Palestinian man shot dead after ramming tractor through gate of army base

By Gavriel Fiske

Brother of assailant reportedly committed similar attack in Jerusalem in 2009; one soldier lightly hurt in Thursday’s incident

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (photo credit: AP/Michael Sohn)

Germany urges settlement ‘restraint,’ pledges aid to PA

Abbas meets with Merkel in Berlin, says Palestinians conducting talks with Israel ‘very earnestly’

Pope Francis at the Vatican (photo credit: AP/Alessandra Tarantino)

Protect Christians and Jews, says major Catholic-Jewish conference

By Lazar Berman

Statement decries European bans on circumcision, animal slaughter, calls for further education on Catholic efforts against anti-Semitism

Pope Francis and Mahmoud Abbas talk during their private audience, at the Vatican, on Thursday, October 17, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Maurizio Brambatti, Pool)

In Vatican meeting, Abbas invites pope to region

File: A blindfolded man waits to be hanged in public as two police officers look on in Shiraz, Iran, April 16, 2011. (AP/Mehr News Agency/Mohammad Hadi Khosravi)

New lease on death

Iranian faces a second hanging

Human rights group blasts ‘ghastly’ decision to make another attempt on the life of a man who survived a botched execution

Start Tel Aviv winners on the roof of the Wix headquarters (photo credit: Courtesy)

In Tel Aviv’s Silicon Wadi, the focus is on brain gain

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An eagle flying over southern Israel (photo credit: Yoav Perlman/Israel Ornithological Center, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)

Israeli bird researcher derides spy bird ‘nonsense’

By AP and ToI Staff

Musician Mike D arrives at Mercedes Benz's 'Transmission LA: AV CLUB' art exhibit at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles, Thursday, April 19, 2012. The exhibit was curated by Mike D of the Beastie Boys. (photo credit: AP Photo/Matt Sayles)

Beastie designsMake some noise, and wallpaper

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative: A humorous Israeli promotional video featuring a Shabbat elevator. The caption reads, 'Only seven more floors to go.' (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Tribes of IsraelNational Geographic meets Sha-bat

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Dani Dankner, former head of Bank Hapoalim, leaving the Bank of Israel in 2009. Dankner was convicted of fraud on Thursday and ordered to pay a hefty fine. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewBetrayals, banks, and Bibi

By Yossi Nachemi

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