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What Matters Most On Friday, October 2, 2015

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The car in which Israeli couple Naama and Eitam Henkin were shot dead in a terror attack near the West Bank settlement of Itamar on Thursday, October 1, 2015. (United Hatzalah)

Israeli mother and father shot dead in West Bank terror attack

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Victims identified as Eitam and Naama Henkin; their 4 children were in the car, but were unhurt in the gunfire; IDF deploys 4 battalions to aid in hunt for killers

Israeli parents gunned down in terror attack were ‘dream couple’

At funeral of slain couple, president vows terror won’t halt settlement building

By Marissa Newman

Hundreds of IDF soldiers join manhunt for Henkin killers

By ToI Staff and AFP

Illustrative image of damage to a car pelted with stones outside Jerusalem on September 20, 2015. (Courtesy)

Suddenly I heard my children scream

By Erica Chernofsky

The giant stone blocks that hit her car in ‘just another rock throwing incident’ almost killed her family

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stares silently at the crowd while addressing the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN in New York on October 1, 2015 (AFP Photo/Jewel Samad)

Stern Netanyahu silently rebukes world for failure to challenge ‘genocidal’ Iran

In emotional UN speech marked by 44-second pause, PM warns ‘Israel will be watching closely’ to ensure nuclear deal is enforced

AnalysisSometimes, silence speaks louder than words

By Raphael Ahren

Full text of Netanyahu 2015 address to the UN General Assembly

After PM’s silence at UN, US Jewish groups offer quiet praise

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pauses in silence as he addresses the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly October 1, 2015 at the United Nations in New York (AFP PHOTO/DON EMMERT)

Analysis

Netanyahu silently indicts the world

By David Horovitz

Op-Ed: Centerpiece of PM’s UN address was a 44-second pause, protesting the global embrace of an Iranian regime that is promising to destroy Israel. It was as though he was mourning the demise of international morality

Stephen M. Flatow

What will I say to the Henkins?

When his daughter lay dying after a terror attack 20 years ago, Eitam’s mother was waiting for him at the ICU

Avi Issacharoff

Not a third intifada… yet

Op-Ed: Abbas’s PA is a key factor in preventing isolated terror attacks like Thursday’s from erupting into mass violence. But its capacities and its credibility are fading

A shallow breath

On the age-old bloody clash between the drive for power and the will to life; In memory of Rabbi Eitam and Naama Henkin

Eitam Henkin and Naama Henkin of Neria, who were murdered in a drive-by terror attack near Nablus on Thursday, October 1, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Fatah armed wing claims responsibility for terror attack

By JTA

Abdel Qader al-Husseini Brigades says deadly shooting of Eitam and Naama Henkin was ‘a necessary action’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) meets with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, NY, on October 1, 2015. (Amir Levy/Flash90)

PM slams Abbas’s ‘deafening silence’ after terror attack

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Netanyahu says not a word heard from PA, while whole Israeli leadership condemned firebombing in which 3 Dawabsha family members were killed

US State Department Spokesman John Kirby. (AP/Susan Walsh)

US ‘strongly condemns’ fatal shooting of Israeli couple

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN Headquarters, September 30, 2015. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

NYT: Abbas ‘acutely bitter man,’ gave up on peace

By Marissa Newman

Editorial bashes PA president for abandoning Oslo Accords, dismisses ‘largely futile’ efforts for international recognition

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

Army removes officer after attack on journalists

‘A,’ who led Givati troops and smashed AFP photographers’ equipment, criticized by IDF commanders

Haim Saban and Sheldon Adelson in a TV interview from Las Vegas, June 6, 2015 (Channel 2 screenshot)

Saban said to quit anti-BDS campus initiative he launched with Adelson

By JTA and ToI Staff

Entertainment mogul reportedly opposed ‘right-wing tilt’; introducing alliance in June, the pair had made light of their political differences

Illustrative image of airstrikes on the town of Talbiseh in the Homs province, western Syria, September 30, 2015. (Homs Media Centre via AP)

US to Russia: Focus airstrikes exclusively on Islamic State

By Robert Burns

Pentagon warns Moscow against targeting other rebels and opponents of Bashar Assad

Iranian riot policemen standing guard outside the Bahraini Embassy in Tehran as Iranian hardliners hold a demonstration against the Bahraini government's suppression of protests led by the mainly-Shiite opposition in the kingdom, April 15, 2011. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri, File)

Bahrain expels Iranian envoy over alleged arms smuggling

By AP

Sunni-ruled kingdom also recalls ambassador from Tehran; says Islamic Republic funneled weapons to terrorists

Adolf Hitler climbs into a Beetle at the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg in 1938 (Courtesy)

Built by Volkswagen, put on the map by the Nazis, town of Wolfsburg drives into trouble

By David Rising

Revelation that iconic car maker cheated on US emissions tests has already triggered a city hiring and spending freeze

Friends and family are reunited with students at the local fairgrounds after a deadly shooting at Umpqua Community College, in Roseburg, Oregon, Thursday, October 1, 2015. (AP/Ryan Kang)

Oregon gunman asked victims to state religion before opening fire

By AP and ToI Staff

Shooter identified as Chris Harper Mercer, 26; at least 10 killed, 7 injured in attack at community college

A woman reacts after arriving at the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey on October 1, 2015. (AFP/Aris Messinis)

In Lesbos cemetery, nameless dead with no one to claim them

By AFP

Israeli, Palestinian activists attend funerals for unidentified migrant victims, including kids, who drowned in the Aegean Sea

Hungarian Prime minister Viktor Orban speaks during a press conference at the Hungarian Embassy on September 25, 2015 in Vienna. (AFP PHOTO / DIETER NAGL)

Hungarian PM: ‘Not fair’ Israel, US not absorbing refugees

By AFP

Viktor Orban accuses ‘rich Arab nations’ of ‘dithering’; says influx of ‘uneducated’ migrants resembles ‘army’

Great-grandchildren of Dov and Shoshana Kanohel, the founders of Kfar Etzion in 1943, building a sukkah, October 1, 2014. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Hurricane Joaquin: Can Jews take down their sukkahs for a storm?

By Gabe Friedman

More Headlines

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

Council of Europe seeks ban on circumcision without ‘requisite skill’

By JTA

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving in Jerusalem on February 24, 2014. (Sebastian Scheiner/AFP)

Netanyahu in Berlin next week for talks with Merkel

By AFP

South African Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba (screen capture: YouTube)

South Africa won’t push ‘anti-Semitic’ dual citizenship ban

Teridion gets $20 million investment on promise of 20X faster Internet

By David Shamah

An IDF soldier practices camouflage in southern Israel in 1958 (Screenshot of newsreel footage from YouTube)

Reel Nostalgia, Clip #21WATCH: Amazons of the desert

By Ramona Tausz

Illustrative: In this September 15, 2015 photo, men take part in prayers at the 7,000-worshiper capacity East London Mosque, the largest mosque in the United Kingdom. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

AnalysisHow layers of migration wrote the story of Europe

By John Leicester

Hacking away at the Sukkathon, October 1, 2015. (Iddan Aharonson)

‘Temporariness’ of the sukkah inspires app hackathon

By David Shamah

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, September 20, 2015. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool)

Nuclear duckNetanyahu avoids Pakistani leader in New York

By Stuart Winer

Naama and Eitam Henkin, who were killed in a terror attack on October 1, 2015. (Courtesy)

Hebrew media reviewThe silence and the fury

By Joshua Davidovich

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