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What Matters Most On Sunday, September 27, 2015

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Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the weekly cabinet conference in Jerusalem on September 20, 2015. Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

Netanyahu hails Egyptian president’s call for Arab-Israeli peace

PM urges Abbas to resume talks ‘immediately,’ after Sissi says resolution of conflict could ‘change face of region’

Solving Palestinian issue could ‘change face of region,’ Sissi says

By Edith M. Lederer and John Daniszewski

Kerry reportedly told Abbas to hold off on meeting Netanyahu

PA must take control of Gaza crossings, Sissi tells Abbas

The building of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in Jerusalem (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

With 22 new rabbinical judges, will divorce in Israel get a makeover?

By Marissa Newman

One-third of positions filled in a day, but halls of rabbinical high court remain empty; 3 liberal rabbis miss the cut

Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 24, 2015. (AFP/ RIA NOVOSTI / ALEXEI NIKOLSKY)

Analysis

Moscow enters the Syrian fray, but to what end?

By Avi Issacharoff

Putin smelled American weakness in the Middle East and was only too happy to step in. Is his endgame a Little Russia instead of IS, or is he just protecting Assad’s rump?

Contradicting Kerry, Iran says it didn’t discuss Syria crisis with him

Iraq steps up anti-IS coordination with Iran, Syria, Russia

By AFP

France carries out first airstrikes on IS in Syria

By AFP

A scene from the new PBS show 'I'll Have What Phil's Having' with (from left) Chef Roy Choi, Martin Short and Phil Rosenthal. (Courtesy WGBH/via JTA)

PBS debuts funny global ‘fress’ with ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ creator

By Curt Schleier

Airing September 28, friends and celebrity chefs share laughs with Phil Rosenthal on ‘I’ll Have What Phil’s Having’

The Palestinian bubble is about to burst

Abu Mazen’s upcoming UN speech could be the end of the status quo, and Israel had better shift gears now

Edmon J. Rodman

Celebrating Sukkot in a time of drought

In parched California, a holiday entwined with the environment drives home the need for sustainable solutions

Deborah Dickson

Here’s what you’re doing this Sukkot

A roundup of Hol HaMoed activities in Israel: kite flying, camping, a Bedouin visit, science fun, a circus and more

Three of the four Palestinian suspects arrested for a fatal rock-throwing attack on September 13, 2015 in Jerusalem that killed Alexander Levlovitz. From left to right: Abed Muhammad Abed Rabu Dawiat, 19, Muhammad Salah Muhammad Abu Kaf, 18 and Walid Fares Mustafa Atrash, 18. (Shin Bet)

4 Palestinian youths arrested for fatal Rosh Hashanah attack

Two minors among suspects detained for rock-throwing assault that led to death of Alexander Levlovitz in Jerusalem two weeks ago

Israeli police use stun grenades to disperse Palestinian demonstrators in the Old City of Jerusalem during scuffles on the Temple Mount on September 15, 2015. (AFP/THOMAS COEX)

Police clash with Palestinians on Temple Mount in fresh violence

A still image taken from footage shot in the West Bank on September 25, 2015 apparently shows an IDF soldier hurling a camera belonging to AFP reporters to the ground. (screen capture: YouTube)

Commander of troops seen attacking foreign journalists removed from post

By AFP and ToI Staff

IDF says West Bank incident considered ‘grave’ and ‘in contravention of code of ethics and professional standards’; probe ongoing

Tzipi Hotovely in the Knesset, July 7, 2014 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Interview

EU labeling of West Bank goods is a ‘red line,’ Israel’s top diplomat warns

By Raphael Ahren

'Blood moon' lunar eclipse, April 15, 2014 (Photo: CC BY-SA Tomruen, Wikipedia)

Ahead of rare ‘blood moon’ Sunday night, NASA says no cause for concern

By ToI Staff and AP

Some Christian leaders believe God sending signs in the sky, but Mormon church has told faithful to avoid ‘getting caught up in visions of disaster’

UN nuclear chief Yukiya Amano on May 12, 2015 in Vienna, Austria. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

IAEA chief: No further visit needed at suspect nuclear site

By ToI Staff and AP

Amano says UN atomic agency ‘can move forward’ with Parchin probe using samples drawn by Iran; his visit there last week was said by Iran to be ‘ceremonial’

Hajj pilgrims and Saudi emergency personnel carry a woman on a stretcher at the site where hundreds were killed in a stampede in Mina, near the holy city of Mecca, at the annual hajj in Saudi Arabia on September 24, 2015. (AFP/STR)

Khamenei demands Saudi apology for hajj deaths

By AFP

Iranian supreme leader urges Riyadh to stop ‘playing a blame game’ and ‘accept responsibility’ for stampede

Bill O'Reilly on Fox News (YouTube screenshot)

FOX accuses Jewish Democrat of ‘using Holocaust’ to smear Rubio

By JTA

Bill O’Reilly urges Debbie Wasserman Schultz to step down over her criticism of fundraiser at home of Nazi memorabilia collector

A Syrian migrant collects his belongings as he arrives on the shore of Lesbos island, after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey on an inflatable boat on August 22, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / ACHILLEAS ZAVALLIS)

17 Syrian refugees drown off Turkish coast

By AFP and AP

5 women, 5 children among dead after boat sinks; 20 others rescued

Arab Israeli Christian students hold placards during a protest in Jerusalem to demand more funds for Christian schools, on September 6, 2015. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

With deal said reached, Christian schools expected to halt strike

System to receive NIS 50 million from Education Ministry, letting 33,000 students go back to class; official announcement planned for later Sunday

Roni Alsheich (Ynet screenshot)

New police commissioner pick named as Roni Alsheich

By Marissa Newman

Deputy chief of Shin Bet security services was formerly known only as R due to sensitive nature of job

Kurt Westergaard receiving the M100 Sanssouci Media Award in Potsdam in 2010. (Courtesy M100)

Decade on, Danish Mohammed cartoonist has no regrets

By AFP

Kurt Westergaard, who lives under police protection to this day, says his ‘basic feeling has been and still is anger’

President Barack Obama watches as newly sworn-in Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr., right, shakes hands with retiring Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey during his Armed Forces Full Honors Retirement Ceremony for Dempsey, Sept. 25, 2015, at Fort Myer in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Long-time Israel ally Dempsey steps down as US military chief

By AP and Judah Ari Gross

Gen. ‘Fightin’ Joe’ Dunford takes over as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from one of the only men to ever receive prestigious Israeli medal

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Pope Francis tells a mother-in-law joke, Philadelphia, September 26, 2015 (YouTube screenshot)

Holy wisecracking fatherPope does mother-in-law joke… again

By Michael R. Sisak

Illustrative image of a woman decorating a sukkah at the Inbal Jerusalem Hotel on October 7, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Easy recipes to bring a taste of autumn to the sukkah

By Shannon Sarna

US House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor (CC BY/Gage Skidmore/Flickr/File)

Close but no cigarEric Cantor almost became first Jewish Speaker

By JTA

This handout photo provided by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shows Aleksander Belev, center, facing camera, the Bulgarian Commissioner for Jewish Questions, overseeing the deportation of Macedonian Jews from Bulgarian-occupied Skopje, Yugoslavia, in March 1943. (AP/Central Zionist Archives via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Poll: 31% of Americans would refuse to hide Jews from Nazis

Moti Kirschenbaum seen on November 9, 2004. (Moshe Shai/ Flash90)

Hundreds say goodbye to TV pioneer Moti Kirschenbaum, 76

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, talks with Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, right, during a gathering of CEOs and other executives at Microsoft's main campus in Redmond, Washington, Wednesday, September 23, 2015 (AFP PHOTO / POOL / TED S. WARREN)

Zuckerberg, UN seek to bring internet to refugee camps

By AFP and ToI Staff

MK Erel Margalit, (R) and Rutgers Food Innovation Center Director Lou Cooperhouse at the signing ceremony at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Friday, September 18, 2015. (Ron Sachs)

Israeli agritech prowess to help New Jersey produce healthier food

By David Shamah

Two British military policemen, following their 1947 kidnapping from a swimming pool in Ramat Gan (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)

Reel Nostalgia, Clip #19WATCH: Brits kidnapped while suntanning

By Ramona Tausz

Illustrative: Israeli police walk outside of Jerusalem's Old City (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewThe top cop pick is dead, long live the top cop pick

By Joshua Davidovich

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