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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 22, 2015

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Thousands of Jewish people gather for a mass prayer for forgiveness (slichot) at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on the night before Yom Kippur on September 21, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Heatwave, bikes and Jerusalem tensions: A wary Israel marks Yom Kippur

Temperatures set to exceed 30ºC, West Bank and Gaza under closure, and rescue services on alert for annual scrapes as cyclists hit the deserted streets

Palestinian woman shot trying to stab IDF soldier dies

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Palestinian youth killed in West Bank explosion

Police to hold fire against rock throwers pending training

Employees work at the SodaStream factory built deep in Israel's Negev Desert next to the city of Rahat, Israel, September 2, 2015. (AP/Dan Balilty)

Israel’s SodaStream offers to take in Syrian refugees

By JTA

Company boss says he can help 200 families resettle and work in Negev: ‘I refuse to stand by and observe this human tragedy unfold’

Migrants hopeful, but few answers expected as EU meets on crisis

By AP

Jewish groups rap Washington for lowballing Syrian refugees

By JTA

Hungary posts ads in Lebanon, Jordan warning off migrants

By Sarah El Deeb

A scene from the film "Baba Joon. (courtesy)

Creative Enrichment

Israeli Persian-language film to contend for Oscar

‘Baba Joon,’ a story of an Iranian immigrant family in Israel, wins top prize at prestigious Ophir Awards

Photo collage. Left, tank battle from the Yom Kippur War (US Government/Wikimedia Commons). Right, dead Federal soldiers from the Battle of Gettysburg (Timothy O'Sullivan/Wikimedia Commons). (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

A Yom Kippur battle through the lens of the US Civil War

By Judah Ari Gross

In new book ‘From Gettysburg to Golan,’ a former IDF officer finds the parallels between Israeli and Union tactics in the 1973 war and the American conflict

Reintroducing yourself on Yom Kippur

A transgender woman who says each and every person is obligated to become his or her best self

Yom Kippur and Eid al Adha in Jaffa

In the mixed Arab-Jewish seaport neighborhood, the watery depths hold out the promise of shared treasures

Strategies for Israel, and those who love her

Strong-arming the sides isn’t going to solve the Palestinian conflict or wider hostilities, ToI editor says at UJIA dinner in London; gradually changing the tone, deepening understanding, tackling extremism at its roots, just might

Hayom: Being in the moment

The only way to hold on to the here and now is with arms always open, always letting go

Andrew Silow-Carroll

What Coulter meant by ‘f—ing Jews’

The rightwing pundit has ranked Jews as some of her favorite things along with fetuses and Reagan

UN chief Ban Ki-moon, left, and Israeli envoy Ron Prosor casting their sins into Turtle Bay on September 21, 2015. (Gemma Manalese)

UN tosses sins into river in first-ever Tashlich ceremony

By Joshua Davidovich

WATCH: At Jewish pre-Yom Kippur service, Israeli envoy calls on world body to ‘reestablish role as temple of peace’

A SafeBeyond message from 'the great beyond' (Courtesy)

Dispatches from the Great Beyond, courtesy of Israeli technology

By David Shamah

‘Life after death’ is a matter of faith, but SafeBeyond lets anyone send messages to loved ones even after they’re gone

Rob LoCascio (Courtesy)

Israel-loving CEO: This is the best place to do tech

By David Shamah

Palestinians singing nationalistic songs near Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem on Land Day, March 30, 2015. (Elhanan Miller)

Palestinians cool on two states, warm to armed intifada, poll finds

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Hamas gains ground in West Bank as Palestinians despair of the PA and increasingly support its dissolution; two-thirds support Abbas resignation

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 22, 2015. (AFP/Majdi Mohammed/Pool)

Abbas warns of ‘intifada risk’ over Temple Mount

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ahead of Yom Kippur, Eid al-Adha, PA president calls situation ‘very dangerous,’ urges Netanyahu to stop uprising ‘we don’t want’

Shoppers at a market in the heavily Jewish London neighborhood of Golders Green, June 19, 2015. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Vive l’Angleterre: Jewish immigrants from France live large in London

By Jenni Frazer

French Jews in the UK may not have fled their homeland due to anti-Semitism, but as it rises they have no plans to return

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot (L) meets with the Russian army Chief of Staff Valery Grasimov in Moscow, Russia, on September 21, 2015 (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli, Russian armies plan Syrian coordination talks

By ToI Staff and AFP

Military chiefs agree to set up work group on preventing conflict in volatile region, with first meeting to take place in two weeks

Hezbollah fighters carry the coffins of comrades who were killed in battles in Syria during their funeral on September 21, 2015 in the town of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. (AFP/STR)

Hezbollah said pulling back from Syria fighting

By Joshua Davidovich

As Iran and Russia step up direct support, group says it will shift to defensive stance after helping Assad capture border town

FILE: In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens check the damaged school entrance in Akrama neighborhood in Homs province, Syria, Wednesday, October 1, 2014. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian regime airstrikes kill 38 IS fighters — monitor

By AFP

Homs attacks come as Assad’s air force is strengthened by recent Russian support, including training and jets

Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency Reza Najafi at the IAEA board of governors meeting at the International Center, in Vienna, Austria, Monday, March 2, 2015. (Ronald Zak/AP)

Iran: UN nuclear watchdog did not oversee Parchin sampling

By ToI Staff and AP

Official pushes back after assurances by IAEA chief that safeguards were taken to ensure proper testing at suspected nuclear site

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian. (screen capture: YouTube/RT)

Iran: Moscow, Tehran to use ‘all means’ to end Syria crisis

In Russia for talks, Iran’s deputy FM says President Assad must be part of any solution to the four-year conflict

File: UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn addressing the Trades Union Congress in Brighton, England, on September 15, 2015. (Mary Turner/Getty Images/via JTA)

Time for Labour leader Corbyn and British Jewry to make up?

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A good working relationship with the head of Her Majesty’s Opposition is crucial for Britain’s Jews

Baroness Jenny Tonge (YouTube screen capture)

Anti-Israel baroness weighs joining Corbyn’s Labour

Pope Francis before meeting with Cuban President Raul Castro in Vatican City, Vatican on May 10, 2015. (Franco Origlia/Getty Images/via JTA)

The Jewy side of the pope’s trip to the US

By Gabe Friedman

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Rails in the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, southern Poland, 2005. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

91-year-old woman may face charges on Auschwitz actions

By AFP

A Jewish grocery store on Main Street, Kew Gardens Hills, New York City (CC BY Newyorker1987/Wikipedia)

2 Jews shot with BB guns in Orthodox section of New York City

By JTA

President Reuven Rivlin meets with Arab municipal and regional heads, February 5, 2015 (photo credit: MARK NEYMAN/GPO)

Rivlin urges ‘all Israelis’ to build Jewish-Arab trust

Former Yesha Council leader Dani Dayan (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Opposition leaders unite behind PM’s choice for envoy to Brazil

A Tuesday May 5, 2015 file photo of Britain's Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron as he speaks at an election rally in Hendon in north London. (Toby Melville, Pool Photo via AP, File)

Swine feverUK in a tizzy over Cameron-pig claims

By Jill Lawless

Andy Samberg speaks at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Phil McCarten/Invision for the Television Academy/AP Images)

HBO's nightSamberg hosts, Jon Stewart says goodbye at Emmys

Sara Netanyahu arrives to testify at the Menny Naftali trial at the Jerusalem Labor Court on May 10, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Livid Sara Netanyahu threw plates across patio, says ex-cook

By Raoul Wootliff

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, during their meeting in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence, outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, Pool)

Hebrew media reviewGetting in gear for Yom Kippur

By Ilan Ben Zion

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