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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 22, 2014

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Mount Harif and the road running along the border between Israel and Egypt. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

IDF patrol comes under fire on Egypt border

By Spencer Ho and Mitch Ginsburg

Two soldiers moderately to seriously injured in attack from Sinai; army returns fire; area residents asked to remain indoors

Navy arrests 7 Gaza fishermen for violating nautical restrictions

By AFP and ToI Staff

IDF confirms Hamas planned massive tunnel attack

By Stuart Winer and Mitch Ginsburg

Egypt sentences 7 jihadis to death for attacks on troops

By AFP

Illustrative photo of a mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath (Mayyim Hayyim / JTA)

Freundel scandal highlights converts’ vulnerability

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Uriel Heilman

How was an alleged sexual predator given absolute power over his female charges? And how can such situations be prevented in the future?

From mikvah to baptism of fire to chuppah

On a young woman’s conversion experience at another, very different, mikveh in Washington DC

My conversion experience? Not bad at all

Current media reports aside, his experience at least was life-changing and, yes, holy

Edmon J. Rodman

Horror of horrors: Shabbat on Halloween!

Mulling the deep theological question of what to wear when the neighborhood trick-or-treaters come knocking

The Knesset, blanketed in snow, Thursday, December 12, 2013 (photo credit: Knesset spokesperson)

Brace yourselves: The Knesset’s winter session is coming

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Budget battles, stalled reforms, a tenuous coalition and, of course, no shortage of rhetoric — what’s in store for parliament

Labor MK Stav Shaffir, during a Finance Committee meeting regarding changes to the 2013 budget on Tuesday, December 24, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

Youngest MK not afraid to follow the money

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on October 7, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / POOL /DAN BALILTY)

Analysis

New elections? Netanyahu says they’re the last thing Israel needs

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Despite threats by coalition partners and rampant speculation, a trip to the polls is unlikely in the immediate future

US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (L) welcomes the arrival of Minister of Defense of Israel Moshe Ya'alon (R) during an honor cordon October 21, 2014 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

In DC, wary Ya’alon says he’s making his ‘opinions known’ on Iran

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Defense minister stresses solidity of US-Israel ties, but doesn’t hide concern that a ‘bad deal’ on Tehran nuclear program may be looming

Tamar Ariel during the December 27, 2012 IAF Flight School graduation ceremony, (Edi Israel/Flash90)

Obituary

Killed in the snows of Nepal, IAF’s first female religious pilot is laid to rest

By Mitch Ginsburg

Cpt. Tamar Ariel, 25, an F-16 navigator, is buried in her hometown cemetery a week after she died in a Himalayan blizzard

Hikers struggle though the snow during a deadly storm in Annapurna, the Himalayas, October 2014 (photo credit: Amit Weiner)

A story of survival: The Annapurna Himalayan tragedy

Rabbi Aryeh Stern (Screen capture: Channel 2)

Amar, Stern voted as Jerusalem chief rabbis

Sephardi and Ashkenazi candidates will hold positions that have been vacant for over 10 years

An Orthodox Jew stands facing the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem on July 24, 2013. (Lucie March/Flash90)

Jordan said working to prevent Jewish prayer at Temple Mount

Officials request worldwide assistance to ensure Knesset not ratify a bill that they say would split access to contested holy site

David Agus at the 5th Israeli Presidential Conference in 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Steve Jobs’ ex-doctor is in, and he’s quoting Maimonides

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

A murder scene (illustrative photo: Flash90)

Cashier’s dad shot dead by disgruntled customer’s grandfather

President Reuven Rivlin, second from right, returning a 200-year-old library book to the National Library of Israel. (Courtesy)

People of the borrowed bookPrez returns library book 40 years late

People, some in wheelchairs, gather at Lincoln Center as they protest "Death of Klinghoffer" Monday, Oct 20, 2014, in New York. (Photo credit: AP/Craig Ruttle)

‘Klinghoffer’ ticket holders talk back

By Raffi Wineburg

Yair Lapid (center), and Tzipi Livni (right), with Moshe Ya'alon (left) at a 2013 cabinet meeting. (photo credit: Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewHouse on fire

By Ilan Ben Zion

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