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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 1, 2015

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. Headquarters on Sept. 30, 2015. (AP/Richard Drew)

Abbas: Palestine a state under occupation, no longer bound by accords

By Itamar Sharon and Sara Miller

‘Our patience has come to an end,’ PA leader declares to UN, calling on world to recognize Palestinian state; Netanyahu blasts ‘deceitful’ speech

After Abbas’s fiery speech, Palestinian flag raised at UN for first time

By AFP and ToI Staff

AnalysisAbbas’s UN speech less a bombshell than a cry for help

By Avi Issacharoff

Reporter's notebookAt the UN, Palestinians raise a flag but few hopes

By Raphael Ahren

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

Netanyahu blasts Abbas’s ‘deceitful’ UN speech

By Tamar Pileggi

Israeli officials rush to chide PA president; opposition leader Herzog says PM equally to blame for stagnation in talks

After speech, US Jewish groups accuse Abbas of evading talks

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Hamas wary over ’emotional’ Abbas UN speech

By AFP

Deputy FM: Palestinians need attitude adjustment before cash

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers at a military post in Beit Jala, outside Jerusalem. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Two Israelis killed in West Bank shooting

By Ilan Ben Zion

PM pauses in the middle of fervid address to stare silently at delegates; blasts Abbas’s allegations Israel trying to take over Temple Mount

Illustrative: A cyborg.

The cyborg revolution is here. Is it good for the Jews?

By Simona Weinglass

Genetic engineering, nanotechnology and brain-computer interfaces will soon transform us into a species of human-machine hybrids, says Yuval Harari. What do Jewish and moral traditions have to say about this post-human future?

Joshua Hammerman

Jurassic sukkah

A lunar eclipse places the Festival of Booths within a story that began eons before Israelites even existed

Andrew Silow-Carroll

‘I’m sorry if you’re sorry’

Obama’s messages for the High Holidays suggest an attempt to turn a page in his relationship with US Jews

Driving through distraction

On a pleasant late-night drive home, rocket fire from Gaza raises a life or death question: stop or keep going?

A photograph showing a painting of Goering dating from January 1942 and part of a new catalog is pictured Wednesday, September 30, 2015 outside Paris, France. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

Catalog shows 1,000-plus artworks plundered by Hermann Goering

By Angela Charlton

Publication could revive efforts to return treasures stolen by the Nazis to Jewish families

Illustrative image of Germans carrying flags during rally in Dresden, December 15, 2014. (AP/Jens Meyer)

Watchdog rings alarm on rising racism, anti-Semitism in Germany

By AFP

A car after being stoned near the Israeli settlement of Tekoa on October 1, 2015. (Tekoa security)

Mother, baby lightly hurt in West Bank rock attack

Clashes break out between troops and Palestinian protesters after settlement security coordinator fires in air

Illustrative photo of demonstrators chanting pro-Islamic State slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, June 16, 2014. (AP, File)

Seven indicted over suspected Islamic State terror plot in Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli Arab terror cell purchased weapons, gathered intelligence and planned to carry out attacks near Nazareth, Shin Bet says

A Syrian rebel aims his rifle from inside a classroom at a school in the town of Deir Baalbeh in Homs province, Syria, February 22, 2012. (AP, File)

Islamic State gaining ground on Golan border as moderate rebels wither

By Elhanan Miller

Spokesman says Free Syrian Army on verge of collapse in southern Syria; units squeezed by Islamists and Assad’s forces running out of arms and funds

Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps are seen at an annual military parade in front of the mausoleum of the late Ayatollah Khomeini just outside Tehran on September 22, 2014. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi/File)

US lawmakers push to designate Iranian Guards a terror group

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Legislation seeks to limit anticipated financial windfall for Tehran from sanctions relief under July nuclear accord

Thousands of Christian Evangelists among marchers in a parade in the center of Jerusalem, marking the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. October 01, 2015. (Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Evangelicals flock to Jerusalem for Israel love fest

By Daniel Estrin

Christian pilgrims from around world, including some countries hostile to Israel, join parade in the capital’s streets on Thursday

Palestinians watch the speech of PA President Mahmoud Abbas on a giant screen in Ramallah as he addresses the world at the United Nations headquarters in New York on September 30, 2015. (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

Palestinians celebrate Abbas UN speech, flag-raising

By AFP

In West Bank, some gather to watch, cheer PA president’s address, though others complain it was too soft on Israel

Roni Alsheich arrives to testify before the Turkel Commission at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 1, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Vetting panel gives go-ahead for Roni Alsheich as new police chief

By Raoul Wootliff

Appointment now faces cabinet vote, expected to pass next week; minister says he did not receive any opposition to nomination

Israir airplane (Moshe Shai/Flash 90)

Israeli airline to compensate 5 Arabs for discrimination

Citing nonexistent security regulation outlawing five or more members of minority group traveling together, Israir tried to kick passenger off flight to Eilat

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian arrive in Israel for a short visit, March 2015. (YouTube screenshot)

Why are non-Jewish American celebs buying real estate in Israel?

By Ronen Shnidman

More Headlines

American rapper Kanye West performs at the Ramat Gan Stadium, near Tel Aviv, on September 30, 2015. (Flash90)

Yeezy doesn’t muster measly ‘Shalom’ during Tel Aviv gig

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boards a plane to go on an official state visit to Poland, on June 12, 2013. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash 90)

Incommunicado, PM only learned of Gaza rocket attack hours later

A device concealed in an artificial rock in the southern Lebanese town of Bani Hayyan. According to the Lebanese Army, the device is an Israeli surveillance camera. (screen capture: Lebanese Armed Forces Facebook page)

Lebanese army claims it found Israeli spying device

City of Paris map showing Palestine at bottom right

Unhealthy mapFrench cancer group said behind ‘Palestine’ map

By ToI Staff and JTA

Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump talks during a campaign stop, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015, in Keene, N.H. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Trump on Syrian refugees: ‘If I win, they’re going back’

Ben Carson speaks during the Freedom Summit in Des Moines, Iowa, on January 24, 2015. (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

GOP candidate Ben Carson warns of ‘Hitler’ in the US

By Raoul Wootliff

Yesh Atid Chair Yair Lapid speaking at Bar Ilan University, 20th September, 2015.

Lapid and Saudi prince powwow about regional peace summit

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the United Nations on September 30, 2015. (Amir Levy/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewMuch ado Abbas nothing

By Ilan Ben Zion

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