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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 31, 2013

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Satellite footage of an alleged missile base in Latakia, Syria (photo credit: Wikimapia)

Syrian base targeted in blast may have housed advanced missiles

By Ilan Ben Zion and Lazar Berman

Russian-made S-125 batteries spotted at base near Latakia, after reports of strike by missile fired from Mediterranean Sea

Syria completes destruction of chemical arms equipment

By AP

Putin tops Forbes list of world’s powerful people

Saudi resolution slams Syria’s human rights record

By Edith M. Lederer

A Palestinian boy walks past a wall painted with graffiti reading 'Death to Israel' in the northern Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood of Beit Hanina, July 2008 (Michal Fattal/Flash90)

The curious Israeli half-battle against ‘Palestinian incitement’

By Elhanan Miller

Netanyahu warns repeatedly that Palestinian children being taught to hate Israel ‘lays the groundwork’ for continued terrorism. So why isn’t he reviving the joint panel designed to counter the malaise?

Israel files UN complaint over PA praise of terrorist

By Lazar Berman

Time-wasting for retirees

On creative ways to fill the days and getting a seat on the bus

My nanny the alien

She’s the perfect caretaker for our baby, but there’s just one little problem

Josefin Dolsten

Woman on the verge of a mechitzah breakdown

Her efforts to get used to separate seating for men and women never had a prayer of a chance

Ari Mandel in his religious days (photo credit: courtesy)

Man pays $1,000 so atheist ex-Hasid will keep Sabbath

By Lazar Berman

Ari Mandel, aka ‘Rachmuna Litzlon,’ was fundraising for a charity run when a businessman made him an offer he couldn’t refuse

The Nahal Sorek Nuclear Research Center (Photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/ Flash 90)

Israel reported to discuss joining nuke-free Mideast conference

By Lazar Berman

After deflecting pressure to join treaty, Israel said in unconfirmed Maariv report to have met quietly with other regional states — including Iran — in Switzerland on a possible change of stance

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton, during their meeting in Jerusalem, on June 20, 2013. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO/Flash90)

EU demands Israel stop settlement activity, ‘including natural growth’

By Raphael Ahren

Catherine Ashton’s condemnatory statement follows Israeli announcement of new building in four East Jerusalem neighborhoods

View of the Knesset plenum hall, October 14, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

Quiet revolution afoot as reforms sail through Knesset

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Electoral change, pay equality, raised marriage age, rabbinical competition — a stream of liberal legislation is moving with unexpected ease through an ostensibly right-wing government

An illustrative photo of marriage (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Committee passes bill to raise marriage age to 18

Shas party leader MK Aryeh Deri (left) seen shaking hands with fellow Shas MK Eli Yishai, after a meeting in the Knesset aimed to heal their feud, October 30, 2013. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Shas leaders Deri, Yishai meet to mend fences

By Lazar Berman

With rumors of split in ultra-Orthodox party swirling, sides patch up differences for first time since Ovadia Yosef’s death

Karnit Flug (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Government payouts don’t fix income inequality, says BOI chief

By David Shamah

In her first public address, Karnit Flug says cutting subsidies to the poor has helped increase labor market flexibility

Historian Jan Grabowski. (photo credit: courtesy)

New book examines Poles who killed Jews during WWII

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The first class of ‘yoazot halacha’ trained to practice in the US includes graduates (left to right) Lisa Septimus, Nechama Price, Avital Weissman, Tova Warburg Sinensky, Dena Block, who pose with their certificates of completion in October 2013. (photo credit: Norman Goldberg)

Landmark US program graduates first female halachic advisers

By Rachel Delia Benaim

Illustrative photo of a ritual circumcision (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jewish groups launch pro-circumcision task force

By JTA

"We want a change at Teva" says the sign of a protester outside Teva Pharmaceutical's HQ on October 23. A change is what he got as CEO Jeremy Levin resigned on October 30 (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewFarewell to a medicine man

By Yossi Nachemi

Tunisian police officers secure the place where a suicide bomber blew himself up near a seaside hotel in Sousse,Tunisia, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Raghda Jammali)

Arabic media reviewTerror in Tunisia

By Elhanan Miller

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