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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 7, 2015

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Security personnel are seen outside an apartment building in the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Gat in to which a Palestinian attacker escaped after stabbing a soldier on October 7, 2015. (FLASH90)

Palestinian attacker stabs soldier, is shot dead by police

By Judah Ari Gross

Two wounded in Kiryat Gat incident; security forces target assailant after he grabs soldier’s gun, flees to nearby apartment

Israelis shoot at Palestinian mob assailing Jewish woman, injure teen

By Judah Ari Gross and Raoul Wootliff

Palestinian woman stabs Israeli man in Jerusalem, is shot

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli woman injured in West Bank rock-throwing attack

By Stuart Winer and Raoul Wootliff

Palestinian youth holding rocks during clashes with Israeli police in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher on October 7, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Several arrested as unrest erupts in Israeli Arab cities

Police officer injured in Lod; riots reported in Jaffa, Umm al-Fahm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York, September 30, 2015. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Analysis

For Netanyahu, the word is mightier than the deed

By Raphael Ahren

Rabin and Sharon also addressed the UN, but who remembers that? They were less talented speakers than the current PM, but they knew how to take action

Jaffa riots show Netanyahu’s ‘loss of control,’ charges Herzog

The West Bank settlement of Ofra, in the Binyamin Region north of Jerusalem. (CC-BY-SA/Yakov/Wikimedia Commons)

US denies ultimatum over West Bank settlements

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil, Ilan Ben Zion and Raphael Ahren

Media reports claim Washington may not veto UN resolution on settlements if Israel ups construction after terror wave

WATCH: AP reporter grills State Department over Israel criticism

No new settlement construction, settler leaders told

‘US won’t veto UN vote on settlements if Israel builds anew’

By Ilan Ben Zion and Raphael Ahren

The Times of Israel Persian

Analysis

Khosh Amadid! Welcome to The Times of Israel Persian

By David Horovitz

Our new site offers Persian readers, wherever they may be, a window into Israel’s complex reality, news from inside Iran, and the opportunity to weigh in on our pages. Cyrus the Great would be proud

Michael Hilkowitz

Bennett, settlements and my cracked skull

Responding to terror by building more Jewish homes in the West Bank makes no sense, whether you’re right or left

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Congratulations world

Until we are encouraged to live together — not defeat one another — this region will continue to burn

Jewish continuity, between crisis and content

American Jewry’s insistence on its own demise is the surest guarantee of translating fears into prophesies

Hypocrisy trips up State Dept spokesman

After its shelling of an Afghan hospital, the US ought to rethink its bashing of Israel for civilian deaths in Gaza

Palestinian activist Bassem Tamimi speaks at a small college in Cortland, New York in September, 2015. (Eric Cortellessa/The Times of Israel)

Palestinian activist aims to ‘start an intifada against Israel in the US’

By Eric Cortellessa

On 5-week speaking tour, anti-Israel advocate Bassem Tamimi, whose 12-year-old son featured in viral video when IDF soldier tried to arrest him, bids to galvanize American youth to take up Palestinian cause

Howard Stern. (CC-BY/Bill Norton/Wikimedia Commons)

Shock jockHoward Stern lashes boycotter Roger Waters

By ToI Staff and JTA

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Minister of Defense Moshe Ya'alon and IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkott during a visit to the West Bank following recent terror attacks, October 6, 2015. (Photo by Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

With settler attacks on the rise, Ya’alon said to blame Jewish Home

Defense minister reportedly says comments by party’s lawmakers have provoked violence against Palestinians and the IDF

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks with journalists at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 6, 2015. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Abbas: Israel to blame for violence, not Palestinians

PA president says he’s seeking to deescalate situation, warns increased security presence in West Bank only fuels tensions

Police officers guard in the streets of Jaffa, October 6, 2015, after violent riots. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Six cops injured in clash with Islamist protesters in Jaffa

Demonstration turns violent after police try to disperse hundreds chanting ‘In spirit and in blood, we will redeem al-Aqsa’

Muhannad Shafeq Halabi, 19, who killed two Israelis on October 3, 2015 in a terror attack in Jerusalem's Old City. (Israel Police)

Grim legacy

Palestinian family names baby after Old City terrorist

Gaza mother shares ‘joyous’ phone call with mother of Muhannad Halabi, who killed Nehemia Lavi and Aharon Bennett on Saturday night

Heavy machinery for exploratory oil drilling on the Golan Heights at Oil Site 5. (Courtesy Afek Oil and Gas)

Major oil reserve said found on Golan

Afek Oil and Gas confirms ‘significant amounts’ of liquid oil, but quality, quantity and cost-effectiveness of extraction still unknown

Joseph Gordon-Levitt -- the Dick Clark of his generation? (photo credit: Al Powers/Powers Imagery/Invision/AP)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, a digital age DIY Dick Clark

A soldier of the Armenian Defense Ministry's SWAT unit shoots a gun as he takes part in a military exercise outside Armenia's capital Yerevan, October 3, 2015. (AFP/KAREN MINASYAN)

IDF soldier marooned in Armenia over military service

By Stuart Winer

Arik Martoyan, who has Armenian citizenship, prevented from leaving the country because he is eligible for local draft

Gigawatt Global Co-Founders Yosef Abramowitz (L) and Chaim Motzen (R) with U2’s lead singer Bono at Gigawatt Global’s solar field in Rwanda (Courtesy)

Could Israel’s solar energy guru win the Nobel Peace Prize?

By David Shamah

Yosef Abramowitz’s Rwandan solar field has inspired the Nobel committee – and singer Bono, too

A Ford Hackathon in Brazil, February 5, 2015 (Courtesy)

Ford seeks connected-car apps with a Start-Up Nation twist

By David Shamah

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas at the Justice Ministry in Berlin, Germany, October 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Interview

Germany still untangling Nazis’ legal legacy

By Frank Jordans

More Headlines

View of the moon during a full eclipse in Buenos Aires on September 27, 2015 (AFP PHOTO / JUAN MABROMATA)

Apocalypse now?World really will end Wednesday, insists Christian group

James Franco, left, as Dave and Seth Rogen as Aaron in a scene from Columbia Pictures' "The Interview." (AP Photo/Sony-Columbia Pictures, Ed Araquel)

Becoming a manActor James Franco, 37, has bar mitzvah

By JTA

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (left) raises a glass with incoming OC Southern Command Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir (second left), outgoing OC Southern Command Maj. Gen. Sami Turgeman and IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot (right). (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Former PM military secretary takes over IDF Southern Command

By Judah Ari Gross

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders looks over the crowd during a speech at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., Monday, Sept. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Sanders campaign apologizes for ejecting pro-Palestinian group

By JTA

Howard Stern. (CC-BY/Bill Norton/Wikimedia Commons)

Shock jockHoward Stern lashes boycotter Roger Waters

By ToI Staff and JTA

Matisyahu receiving a token of peace from Shimon Peres (Courtesy Orit Pnini)

Rappin' with the ex-presMatisyahu chats up Peres ahead of Jerusalem concert

By Jessica Steinberg

Israelis hold umbrellas to protect themselves from the rain as they walk on Jaffa Street, downtown Jerusalem, October 31, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

First drizzle of rainy season felt over Tel Aviv

Police officers guard in the streets of Jaffa, October 6, 2015, after violent riots. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewFanning flames with a fire extinguisher

By Joshua Davidovich

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