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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 19, 2013

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Ismail Haniyeh, former Hamas prime minister, in the Gaza Strip (Abd Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Haniyeh urges ‘popular uprising,’ lauds recent terror attacks

Marking 2nd anniversary of Shalit deal, Hamas PM says prisoner exchange was ‘historic achievement’ but more needs to be done

A scene from Sarah Polley's 'Stories We Tell.' (photo credit: courtesy)

Chosen films

A look at what’s new and Jewish out of Hollywood

By Jordan Hoffman

A Zionist Woody Allen, a magical Allen Ginsberg and Ari Folman’s dystopian dream, all playing at your local cinema

Phyllis Chesler

Agreeing to sit at the back of the bus

Accepting the Robinson’s Arch compromise betrays WoW’s struggle to have the Kotel be a sacred site for ALL the Jewish people

Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy speaks during a meeting with foreign media in Cairo, Egypt on Saturday, August 3. (photo credit: AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Egypt ‘looking to Russia’ for arms after US aid freeze

By ToI Staff and AP

‘Historic achievement’ under which Cairo came into Washington’s orbit after 1979 about to ‘go down the drain,’ Israeli TV report claims

Johnny Lee (L.) and Zvi Shalgo (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Plenty of money, and risk, for Israeli start-ups in China

By David Shamah

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Minister of Strategic Affairs Yuval Steinitz during the weekly cabinet meeting, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on October 13, 2013. (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/Flash90)

Iran presented ‘no serious proposals’ at nuke talks, US officials tell Israel

By ToI Staff and Yoel Goldman

Minister Yuval Steinitz heading to Washington amid Israeli concern that the US will prematurely ease economic pressure on Tehran

Yossi Vardi (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Start-up oracle Yossi Vardi and his not-so-smart phone

By David Shamah

He is the ultimate authority on Israel’s start-up ecosystem, but Israel’s ‘tech guru’ has some contrarian ideas on what constitutes start-up success

Illustrative photo of smoke billowing amid buildings in Daraya, near Damascus, Syria, on Tuesday, October 15, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Shaam News Network via AP Video)

Syria: At least 16 soldiers killed in blast in pro-Assad Damascus suburb

By AP and ToI Staff

State TV reports large ‘terrorist’ explosion in predominantly Christian, Druze neighborhood

Egypt: Car bomb explodes near military intelligence building

By ASHRAF SWEILLAM

At least four people wounded in attack in city bordering Sinai Peninsula on first workday after major Muslim holiday

Ahmet Davutoglu, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Turkey, addressing a Security Council meeting. (Photo credit: UN Photo by Jenny Rockett)

Turkey: Israel behind ‘campaign’ to discredit us

Ankara hints at Israeli attempts to harm its relations with US, avoid paying compensation for Marmara raid; follows report that Turkey deliberately blew cover of Israeli assets in Iran

A Syrian boy carries a water jug to his family's tent at the Zaatari Refugee Camp, in Mafraq, Jordan (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon/File)

US demands Syria allow aid convoys access to trapped civilians

‘Unprecedented reports of children dying miles from Assad palace in Damascus,’ says State Department

King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar/File)

US on Saudi rejection of UNSC seat: ‘We don’t agree on every single issue’

By ToI Staff and AP

State Department says Security Council does important work but the Kingdom ‘makes [its] own decision’

Illustrative: The Jerusalem Light Rail passing the Notre Dame Pontifical Institute. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Let there be Light Rail

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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Bar Refaeli (photo credit: CC BY-SA Laurent Jean Philippe, Flickr)

On the marketBar Refaeli: Why am I still single?

By JTA

Minor quake shakes northern Israel

An x-ray image showing a fetus with what looks to be a bullet in its head. (Photo credit: Aleppo City Medical Council)

From the web‘Syrian snipers target unborn children to win cigarettes’

Yellen gains more attention for gender than faith

Yosef Kolko, right, walks with an unidentified man, near the Ocean County Courthouse in Toms River, NJ, Thursday, May 9, 2013, during a break in his trial on sexual assault charges. (photo credit: AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Ex-yeshiva teacher sentenced to 13 years for sexual assault

By JTA

The Gdansk mosque, Poland (photo credit: Artur Andrzej/Wikimedia Commons)

Poland mosque burning evokes Kristallnacht

By JTA

Polyamorous Jews are looking for the acceptance their Jewish gay friends are given. (photo credit: Shutterstock via JTA)

Married and datingPolyamorous Jews share love, seek acceptance

The Arab village of Jisr az-Zarka in northern Israel. (Photo credit: Golf Bravo/Wikimedia)

From the webUnlikely pair hope to make Israel’s only seaside Arab town a tourist destination

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