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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 4, 2015

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Friends and family carry the body of Aharon Banita during his funeral at Har HaMenuhot Cemetery in Jerusalem on October 4, 2015. Banita was stabbed to death by a Palestinian youth in a terror attack in the Old City, October 3. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Thousands attend funerals for Jerusalem terror victims

President urges Israelis to continue visiting Old City, where fatal attack took place; Nehemia Lavi’s father praises son’s bravery

2 killed in Jerusalem attack named as Nehemia Lavi, Aharon Banita

Stabbing victim Aharon Banita was IDF soldier, army confirms

By Marissa Newman

In second attack, Israeli teen stabbed near Jerusalem’s Old City

Israeli police officers guard near the site of a terror attack the night before on October 4, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Breaking silence, PA condemns Israel for killing Jerusalem assailants

By Elhanan Miller and ToI Staff

Palestinians urge world to intervene after ‘killing of 2 young men’ in capital, referring to terrorists who stabbed 2 to death, injured 3

Senior minister threatens major West Bank crackdown

77 Palestinians said injured as clashes rock West Bank

By AFP and ToI Staff

UN, US condemn Jerusalem terrorist attack that left 2 dead

Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on September 30, 2015. (AFP/Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Analysis

The impossible Abbas

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: While ostensibly warning against a religious war, the PA leader has deliberately fueled the flames of the new, murderous Al-Aqsa-centered terror wave

Robbie Strazynski

On this Simchat Torah, just dance

Even when the urge is to weep, Israel must fulfill the religious obligation to rejoice

Avi Issacharoff

A ‘personal intifada,’ not a mass uprising

Op-Ed: Abbas speech to the UN, to put it politely, doesn’t interest the latest killers. They’re stirred up by relentless Arab media reports of the ‘harming’ of Al-Aqsa

Shayna Abramson

Jerusalem, Saturday night

A mixed Jewish-Arab memorial vigil for the Henkins turned into an ugly confrontation with Lehava activists

Not just force: How to calm Jerusalem

A 4-step plan to tackle the current escalation, including placing some neighborhoods under PA management

Eliezer Zalmanov

Chocolate in Prison

Celebrating Sukkot at the Indiana State Prison inspired some unexpected camaraderie among the inmates

Jon Bon Jovi performs in Tel Aviv October 3, 2015 (Facebook)

Empathetic Jon Bon Jovi dedicates song ‘We Don’t Run’ to Israel

Israeli soldiers patrol a street, east of the West Bank city of Nablus, on October 3, 2015, as they search for the suspects in the slaying of an Israeli couple. (AFP/ JAAFAR ASHTIYEH)

Army reports ‘significant progress’ in hunt for Henkin killers

By Joshua Davidovich

IDF confirms overnight raid on Nablus led to arrests of suspects in terror attack that left Israeli couple dead Thursday

A nun walks past Israeli police as they stand guard in the Via Dolorosa street in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 4, 2015. (AFP/MENAHEM KAHANA)

Analysis

Shuttering Old City may calm Jerusalem, but it won’t last

By Judah Ari Gross

Calling move a stopgap measure, expert argues closure can work in the short term until a real solution — not politicians’ gut reactions — is found

After stabbings, police bar Palestinians from Jerusalem’s Old City

2 Palestinians arrested in IDF raid in Jenin

Army reports ‘significant progress’ in hunt for Henkin killers

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative photo of Islamic State militants, with an IS fighter waving the group flag in Fallujah, Iraq, west of Baghdad, June 28, 2015. (Militant website of IS, via AP)

Jordan MP’s son joins Islamic State, becomes suicide bomber

By AP and AFP

Mazen Dalaeen says he last saw his 23-year-old son Mohammed in June in Ukraine, where he was studying medicine

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, left speaks to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe while attending the opening session of the Science and Technology in Society forum in Kyoto on October 4, 2015. (AFP/TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA)

France urges Moscow to avoid ‘wrong targets’ in Syria

By AFP

French PM Valls speaks out as concern grows in West that Russia going after moderate rebels instead of Islamic State

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to Fox News in an interview aired October 2, 2015. (screen capture: Fox News)

Netanyahu: World must ‘keep Iran’s feet to the fire’

Prime minister says international community must ‘tear down Iran’s global terror network’

The Charles River (Pixabay)

New microbrew made from Boston river water — with Israeli tech

By Penny Schwartz

After Desalitech gets through with it, water from one of the dirtiest rivers in the United States is clean enough to make beer from

An employee shows costumers the selection at the Cereal Killer Cafe in Brick Lane, London, Wednesday, September 30, 2015. (Alastair Grant/AP)

In once Jewish area of divided London, a trendy cereal cafe is targeted

By Jill Lawless

More Headlines

An Alitalia Boeing 777-200ER parked at Tokyo's Narita International Airport in 2006. (CC BY-SA, Wikimedia commons)

Quello che uno stronzoItalian passenger calls in ‘bomb threat’ to delay plane

Danit Peleg (the short one in the middle) with the models and hosts of FABLife (Courtesy FABLife)

Printed and beautifulDanit Peleg’s 3D-printed clothes reach Tyra Banks

By Jessica Steinberg

Take A Look screenshot (Courtesy)

Fashionistas on duty to help you dress right

By David Shamah

Tel Aviv native Eran Modan, 37, was crushed to death by a malfunctioning elevator in Brooklyn, New York on October 3, 2015. (Facebook)

Israeli man crushed to death by elevator in New York

A Jewish man carries a baby injured in a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 3, 2015. The terrorist was shot down by police. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewYou don’t believe we’re on the eve of destruction

By Ilan Ben Zion

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