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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 22, 2013

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Nir Barkat delivers a victory speech after winning the Jerusalem mayoral race, early on October 23, 2013 (photo credit: Walla screenshot)

Local elections liveblog (closed)

Barkat, reelected mayor after tough race, hails a ‘victory for Jerusalem’

By Gavriel Fiske and Joshua Davidovich

At end of election day marked by low turnout, Huldai holds Tel Aviv, and Yahav retains Haifa; Bielski wins back Ra’anana; Lahiani retakes Bat Yam, having been forced to resign by Supreme Court; Jerusalem sees only 35.9% cast ballots, Tel Aviv musters just 31%; MK calls to fine ballot-dodgers

For Jerusalem Arabs, municipal elections are a Jewish game

By Elhanan Miller

How to vote in Tuesday’s elections, and why

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Moshe Lion a little lost on his new home turf

By Raphael Ahren

US State Secretary John Kerry (photo credit: AP/Dita Alangkara)

Kerry: As peace talks intensify, all core issues on the table

By Yoel Goldman

After briefing Arab League on progress in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, US top diplomat announces some debt relief for PA

Lithuania says settlement expansion will ‘ruin’ peace efforts

By Gavriel Fiske

Police failing to protect Palestinian olive trees, NGO charges

By Elhanan Miller

Liberman: Arab Spring proves Israel isn’t to blame

Yossi Klein Halevi

How Israeli society remained intact

Sobered by history’s challenges to rigid ideological certainties, a polarized population is drifting to the center

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

The baby who died twice

“She is not dead,” the mother shouted, and she turned on her heel and ran another two blocks to the synagogue.

Illustrative photo of signs calling for the boycott of Israel at an anti-Israel protest in San Francisco, April 2011. (CC BY-dignidadrebelde, Flickr)

Two Jewish organizations on ADL’s list of ‘top 10 anti-Israel groups’

By Ilan Ben Zion

Neturei Karta and Jewish Voice for Peace among movements accused of fixation with ‘delegitimizing Israel;’ one of the top 10 calls report ‘a bit of a smear’

Amit Ivri (left) with fellow swimmer Imri Ganiel (photo credit: courtesy of Israel Olympic Committee)

No Israeli flag in Qatar for Swimming World Cup finalists

Amit Ivri wins silver with national record-breaking performance; four other Israelis make finals

‘US canceled deal to supply Turkey with drones’

Report in Turkish daily claims Ankara’s exposure of Iranian assets working with Mossad prompted Congress to rescind agreement

IDF soldiers carry away the body of armed Palestinian terror suspect Mohamed Aazi near the West Bank village of Bil'in, near Ramallah October 22, 2013. (Photo credit: Issam Rimawi /FLASH90)

Analysis

IDF kills terror suspect after firefight in West Bank

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Islamic Jihad activist, who allegedly planned 2012 Tel Aviv bus bombing, fled arrest and holed up in cave before being shot by special forces

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 personally e-mails Jewish leader on Holocaust

By JTA

Francis pens a reflection on the place of God during the Shoah in light of the massacre of 1 million Jewish children

An overlook with a view of the Sea of Galilee and Tiberias. (photo credit: Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Fifth quake in six days rattles north

No reports of damage or injuries from latest small tremor

Artist's rendition of a Galileo satellite (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israel becomes major partner in EU satellite program

By David Shamah

Local companies and academics will now have security clearance to work on Galileo, a colossal space project

Pilgrims to Uman celebrating at the grave of Rebbe Nachman, Sept. 7, 2013. (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

As Uman pilgrimage grows, the devout invent new customs

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Rabbi Hanniel Levenson (photo credit: courtesy)

Bad-ass bimahWebsite on the prowl for hot rabbis

By Renee Ghert-Zand

TV host Tawfiq Shoman (photo credit: screenshot/MEMRI)

Can you hear me now?TV host gives up on Arab democracy

Left, Mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat, seen at a press conference in Jerusalem on August 20, 2013, as he opens his campaign for the mayoral elections. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90). Right, Jerusalem mayoral candidate Moshe Lion, at a press conference, July 22, 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewOff to the races

By Ilan Ben Zion

President Bashar Assad gestures as he speaks during an interview with Lebanon’s Al-Mayadeen TV, at the presidential palace in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Oct. 21, 2013 (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Arabic media reviewWho’s coming to Geneva 2 talks on Syria?

By Elhanan Miller

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