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What Matters Most On Friday, October 9, 2015

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A still image taken from cellphone footage of security forces surrounding a knife-wielding Israeli Arab woman after she allegedly tried to stab a security guard at Afula bus station on Friday, October 9, 2015. (screen capture)

Attempted Afula stabber identified as Nazareth woman

By Judah Ari Gross

Footage from scene shows security forces shot woman in lower body after she was repeatedly told to drop her knife

Arab woman attempts to stab Afula security guard, is shot

By Judah Ari Gross

Two Israelis stabbed in Friday attacks in Jerusalem, West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel hit with 4 stabbings in second day of widespread terror

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, October 8, 2015. Next to him is Gilad Erdan (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Netanyahu’s message to Israelis: Trust me, and we’ll beat this terror war, too

By David Horovitz

Publicly convening all his security chiefs for the first time since last summer’s conflict, PM indicates Israel has entered yet another protracted round of violence

Israeli youth stabs four Arabs in Dimona attack

By Judah Ari Gross and Elie Leshem

Netanyahu decries attack against ‘innocent Arabs’ in Dimona

By Tamar Pileggi

PM denounces incitement, vows to ‘return security’ to Israel

A Palestinian protester hurls stones at Israeli soldiers during clashes on the Israeli border in eastern Gaza City, Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

At least 6 Palestinians die in clash with IDF along Gaza border

By Judah Ari Gross

19 injured as soldiers fire on rioters approaching fence separating Israel from the Strip; Hamas leader declares ‘intifada’

Hamas leader declares ‘intifada’ in the West Bank

By AFP and ToI Staff

PM shelves Western Wall building project over security fears

By Tamar Pileggi

With Israel visit, Quartet aims to kick-start peace talks

By Tamar Pileggi

Women take a Krav Maga class in central Tel Aviv on October 9, 2015 (Courtesy: Oren Mellul)

Israelis buy pepper spray, sign up to self-defense courses as stabbing attacks surge

By Simona Weinglass

Amid soaring wave of violence, people are desperately looking for ways to protect themselves

Palestinians pray as Israeli policemen watch in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi al-Joz, October 9, 2015. Israeli police declared an age limit on Friday for Palestinians wanting to enter the Old City, only allowing males above the age of 45 and all females to enter. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Israel and the Palestinians slide deeper into conflict

By Avi Issacharoff

Stabbing attacks are multiplying, PA security forces are shrinking away in the West Bank, the IDF is getting more deeply involved and more Palestinians are joining the clashes

Israel: Settlement expansion ongoing, but best not to talk about it

By Raphael Ahren

Police arrest dozens as Nazareth protest turns violent

By Raoul Wootliff

Security fears keep Jerusalem high schools shuttered

The art of listening

The sin of the first humans in the Garden of Eden was that they followed their eyes, not their ears (Bereishit)

Can straight people be LGBTQ allies?

It’s about more than supporting gay marriage and it takes more than sharing a Facebook post

A woman carries a painting of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as others fly their national flags following his speech at the U.N. General Assembly shown on TV in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015 (AP/Nasser Nasser)

Analysis

With terror raging, Abbas is in a state of denial

By Elhanan Miller

By demonizing Israel and its government, the Palestinian leader is hacking away at the branch on which he perches

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

By ToI Staff and AP

Alleged head of a Jewish extremist group Meir Ettinger appears in the Magistrate's Court in Nazareth Illit, August 4, 2015. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Kahane’s jailed grandson starts hunger strike in solitary confinement

Meir Ettinger protests administrative detention, says he’ll starve himself unless he can talk to his wife

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 at the scene of a stabbing attack at a station of the Jerusalem Light Rail, October 8, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

Guns and metal detectors: Jerusalem’s mayor has a plan to calm his city

By Judah Ari Gross

In an exclusive interview briefly interrupted by a thwarted terror attack, Nir Barkat explains how he will restore calm to a capital rocked by violence

Israeli security forces stand guard as workers install a metal detector in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City on October 8, 2015 following a spate of knife attacks. (Photo by AFP Photo / Gali Tibon)

Jerusalem police install metal detectors around Muslim Quarter of Old City

By Raoul Wootliff and Joshua Davidovich

In this October 4, 2015, file photo, an Iranian mourner weeps during a funeral ceremony, attended by thousands of mourners in Tehran, Iran, for some of the pilgrims who were killed in a stampede during the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in September 2015. (AP/Vahid Salemi, File)

Hajj stampede death toll jumps to 1,399

By AP

New tally higher by 630 than Saudi Arabia’s official casualty count, which has not been updated since September 26

Germany is struggling to process and accommodate the 10,000 refugees streaming into the country every day. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

What Syria’s refugees think about Israel

By Uriel Heilman

In Germany, migrants say Assad and Jewish state are ‘the same,’ but are more concerned about West’s failure to save them

Refugees and migrants arrive at the Lesbos island after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey on October 8, 2015 (AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS)

EU to speed up deportations to tackle migrant crisis

By Lachlan CARMICHAEL

Kaci Kullmann Five, head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, arrives to announce the winner of 2015 Nobel peace prize during a press conference in Oslo, Norway, October 9, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / NTB SCANPIX / HAAKON MOSVOLD LARSEN)

Tunisian democracy group wins Nobel Peace Prize

By AP

National Dialogue Quartet established a ‘peaceful political process when country was on brink of civil war,’ committee says

US Congressman Chaka Fattah (left) meets with former Israeli president Shimon Peres (center) and Braintech chairman Rafi Gidron on March 11, 2015 (Courtesy)

Congressman’s bill to further US-Israel cooperation on brain tech

By David Shamah

Global Neuroscience Partnership Act to support start-ups, universities seeking cures for neurological diseases

Ilustrative. An industrial robot at work (Pixabay)

Israeli tech to power a robot revolution in China

By David Shamah

With the establishment of the Sino-Israeli Robotics Institute, Israel is a major part of Industrial Revolution 2.0

The CyberArk team (photo credit: Courtesy)

Fledgling Israeli cyber-security giant makes second acquisition

By David Shamah

Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin speaks, with Yehuda Avner in the background. (Courtesy of Moriah Films)

Rabin and Begin portrayed as ‘Soldiers and Peacemakers’ in new film

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

Back in June 2013, former coach of Israel's national team Guy Luzon celebrated a 1-0 victory over England during the UEFA European U21 Championships, Group A match between Israel and England at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, Israel. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

For this Israeli coach in London, a draw is as good as a win

Illustrative photo of an MTA subway cart in New York City (Courtesy of Metropolitan Transportation Authority)

Judge: ‘The Muslims Are Coming!’ ads must run in NY subways

By JTA

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks during a town hall event in Exeter, New Hampshire, September 30, 2015. (Darren McCollester/Getty Images/AFP)

Sticking to his gunsBen Carson blames gun control for the Holocaust

By JTA

Pope Francis, November 25, 2014 (AFP/Patrick Hertzog/Pool)

No jokeRabbi appointed Pope Francis’s ‘comedic advisor’

New York Mets' Daniel Murphy celebrates with teammates in the dugout after hitting a three-run home run off Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Alec Asher during the first inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, September 30, 2015, in Philadelphia (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Silver liningShould the NY Mets be thanking Bernie Madoff?

By Gabe Friedman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Susan Rice, United States National Security Adviser, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 7, 2014. (Matty Stern/US Embassy TLV/Flash90)

From the webSusan Rice’s ‘combative’ tone damaged Israel relations — ex-aide

An Israeli Air Force soldier, whose identity could not be revealed for security reasons, explains how he shot dead a Palestinian terrorist during a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv, October 8, 2015. (YouTube/ IDF)

Soldier who shot Tel Aviv terrorist: I did what is expected of IDF fighters

By Stuart Winer

Screen capture from video reportedly showing a Russian ship launching a cruise missile. (YouTube/New China TV)

Aiming for Syria, Russian cruise missiles hit Iran — Pentagon

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

ZAKA volunteers remove the body of a Palestinian shot dead after carrying out a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv on October 8, 2015. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Hebrew media reviewSame spate, different day

By Joshua Davidovich

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