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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 8, 2015

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Police block Palestinians from entering the Via Dolorosa street in the Muslim Quarter in Jerusalem's Old City on October 8, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu urges unity government in face of terror; Herzog rebuffs bid

By Joshua Davidovich

In press conference, prime minister says Israel will beat back terror wave, accuses Abbas of inciting violence but says he may be changing, hints at pulling support for settlements

Ministers may blame Abbas, but IDF says he’s working against violence

Abbas says Palestinians won’t be ‘dragged’ into violence with Israel

By ToI Staff and AP

EU calls on Israelis, Palestinians to restore calm, resume talks

The victim of a Palestinian terrorist attack in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba is loaded into a Magen David Adom ambulance on October 8, 2015. (Hatzalah Judea and Samaria)

Israeli seriously hurt in terror attack near Hebron

By Ilan Ben Zion

IDF hunting Palestinian suspect who stabbed 25-year-old man in back outside West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba

5 lightly injured in Tel Aviv stabbing; attacker killed

Yeshiva student, 25, badly hurt in Jerusalem stabbing attack

2 injured in car-ramming attack at West Bank checkpoint

MK Jamal Zahalka (center) on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem on Tuesday, September 29 2015 (courtesy Joint List)

Netanyahu scrambles to extend Temple Mount ban to all MKs

Decision to include Arab as well as Jewish lawmakers follows firestorm of criticism from ministers; Arab MKs vow to defy move

Arab MK challenges Temple Mount ban, is rebuffed by police

Netanyahu: There’s a terror wave, but we’ve overcome worse

By Tamar Pileggi

Herzog: Seal off the West Bank to help thwart terror wave

Ambulances at the Western Wall following a terror attack where a Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli man near Lions’ Gate of Jerusalem's Old City on October 07, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

A rising tide of terror

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: The situation is under control, one Israeli analyst said Wednesday night, after a catalog of attacks. No, it isn’t

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

God, where are You?

An open letter to the Almighty that asks: After the murders in Israel, how can one continue to worship You?

Avi Issacharoff

Moving the match away from the powder keg

Op-ed: The prime minister’s decision to ban all parties with vested interests from going to the Temple Mount is one of the wisest made here in recent years

How the Henkins’ neighbors celebrated

For Simchat Torah, 3 days after the murders, there was candy, Torah study and an effort to light up the darkness

Russia pursues a new Baghdad Pact

How Vladimir Putin is forging muscular new alliances with an eye to reasserting Russian leadership in the Mideast

IDF soldiers and undercover security forces detain a Palestinian stone thrower during clashes in Beit El, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah, on October 7, 2015. (AFP/ABBAS MOMANI)

WATCH: Disguised as stone-throwers, undercover Israeli forces arrest Palestinians

By AFP, ToI Staff and AP

One Palestinian rioter in critical condition, two others wounded in violent clash with IDF troops near Beit El

Shorouq Dwayyat, a Palestinian student who stabbed an Israeli man on October 7, 2015. (Facebook)

‘I’m going to become a martyr,’ Palestinian teen wrote before attack

Shortly before stabbing an Israeli man in Jerusalem, Shorouq Dwayyat posted on Facebook that her ‘greatest desire’ was to die ‘for Allah’

Illustrative: a garage turned into art studio. (Courtesy Manofim)

Culture lives and thrives in the holy city, despite the violence

By Jessica Steinberg

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat seen at the Muslim Quarter in Jerusalem's Old City, following a terror attack where a Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli man near the Lions’ Gate on October 07, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem mayor calls on residents to carry guns

Nir Barkat says citizens are often those to foil terror attacks, backs school strike over limited security guards’ hours

United Monroe activists protest the planned annexation of 164 acres of their town by neighboring ultra-Orthodox Kiryas Joel. (courtesy)

Fierce protest against Satmar annexation of NY town

By Cathryn J. Prince

In this May 5, 2015, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky walks to his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, after a news conference. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Senate passes defense bill that supports US-Israel partnerships

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

President opposes bill due to funding woes, leading Democrats to try and sink legislation, contents of which they mostly support

An artist's rendering of Israel's SpaceIL lunar spacecraft. (Screen capture/Google Lunar XPRIZE)

Israelis sign contract to launch spacecraft to the moon

By Simona Weinglass

SpaceIL unveiled its lunar spacecraft prototype with great fanfare; it is the first of 16 competitors in the Lunar XPrize to be set for launch

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, right, and Attorney General of Israel, Yehuda Weinstein, Jerusalem, May 19, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

Justice minister: A-G ‘essential,’ but government must have ‘final say’

By Marissa Newman

Ayelet Shaked says Weinstein undermines Israeli governance with ‘veto’; Livni dismisses ‘excuses’

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with university students in Tehran, Iran, July 2015. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei bans further cooperation, talks with US

‘Through negotiations, Americans seek to influence Iran,’ Tehran’s Supreme Leader tells naval officers

Networking at a Nautllus AOL event (Photo credit: Facebook)

Meet Israel’s top 10 startup accelerators

By Simona Weinglass

Israel launched its first startup accelerator in 2011. Today there are over 200. Experts weigh in on the ones you need to know about

Daniel Peled has a year to decide whether to move back to his kibbutz (Photo credit: Mor Elnekave)

Meet the kibbutznik who wants to disrupt the global banking system

By Simona Weinglass

More Headlines

Jerry Seinfeld (photo credit: YouTube screen grab)

What's the deal with Israel?Jerry Seinfeld to make stand-up debut in Israel

By JTA and ToI Staff

Donald Trump gets blessing (YouTube screenshot)

Messianic approvalTrump gets priestly blessing from Jew for Jesus

LH 95 stellar nursery in the Large Magellanic Cloud taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA/HubbleSite/public domain)

Apocalypse? NahWorld doesn’t end, despite group’s predictions

Illustrative: A painting, "The Courtyard of the Old Residency in Munich," painted by a young Adolf Hitler, before he turned to politics. (Public Domain).

Uber canvasIranian gallery shows paintings by young Adolf Hitler

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

Palestinian delegation to US decries Howard Stern’s ‘racism’

2015 Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Jamir Hussain. (Love Productions/BBC One)

Just dessertsSweet victory for devout Muslim woman baker

By Renee Ghert-Zand

A group of Chinese investors on a recent trip to Tel Aviv ( Courtesy)

Chinese investors rush to embrace Israel via new fund

By David Shamah

Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian stone thrower near Beit El, on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah, on October 7, 2015. (AFP/ABBAS MOMANI)

Hebrew media reviewLiving on the knife edge

By Marissa Newman

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