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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 17, 2015

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Israel Border Police on patrol in Hebron. (Najeh Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Three Palestinians attempt stabbings in Hebron, Jerusalem, and are killed

Teenage girl tries to stab policewoman near Tomb of Patriarchs; 2 other teens attack in Kiryat Arba, Armon Hanatziv; Gazans protest at border fence

Policewoman: Attacker tried to stab me in the neck, so I shot her

Obama backs Israel’s right to ‘protect its citizens from knife attacks’

US ambassador says Israeli actions not excessive

By JTA and ToI Staff

Members of the Security Council vote at United Nations headquarters in New York, July 20, 2015. (AP/Seth Wenig, File)

Israel rejects any international intervention at Temple Mount

At Security Council meeting, UN chief’s rep says both sides to blame for violence, criticizes Israel’s ‘heavy-handed’ actions

UN envoy Danon: Palestinian leadership built ‘incubator’ for terror

Netanyahu and Kerry to meet in Berlin next week

By AFP and ToI Staff

UN chief condemns Palestinian arson attack at Joseph’s Tomb

A still image from footage of knife-wielding Palestinian teens who stabbed and wounded two Israelis in Jerusalem on Monday, October 12, 2015. (screen capture: Israel Police)

In new terror war, Palestinians deny even best documented attacks on Jews

By Elhanan Miller

In several recent incidents, the facts — in some cases, corroborated by mobile phone footage — are simply being rejected

Mordecai Finley

Explaining the violence in Israel

Trying to decide who’s right and who’s wrong? It depends on whether you think Israel has the right to exist

Andrew Silow-Carroll

NYTimes’s problem isn’t anti-Semitism

How the ‘world’s most influential Jewish newspaper’ got it so wrong in its Temple Mount story

UNRWA workers hail terror attacks on social media, NGO says

UN Watch takes Palestinian refugee agency to task for alleged employees celebrating stabbings, calling for ‘Third Intifada’ against Israel

A member of Israeli security forces carries flags of the Hamas terror group that were seized during clashes with Palestinian protesters near the West Bank settlement of Beit El, on October 8, 2015. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Hamas said to be plotting big West Bank terror attack

After PA forces arrest 19 for planning stabbings, Palestinian sources say Hamas seeks major attack to draw Israel into a bigger fight

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’s office walks back 13-year-old’s ‘execution’ charge

By JTA

Official says PA chief received wrong information shortly before his speech on Wednesday

Jordanian protesters wave the national and Palestinian flags during a demonstration near the Israeli Embassy in the capital Amman in solidarity with the Palestinians on October 16, 2015. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)

Jordanian protesters call for end to peace treaty with Israel

By AFP

Thousands demonstrate in various cities, burn Israeli flag, citing Israeli ‘violations’ in Jerusalem

Israeli Border Police officers guard a checkpoint in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber, on October 15, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

In Jabel Mukaber, with the next generation of potential martyrs

By Avi Issacharoff

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during a press conference following a meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam on August 11, 2015 at the Government Palace in the capital Beirut. (AFP PHOTO/ANWAR AMRO)

Iran rejects criticism of missile test slammed by US, France

By AP and AFP

Tehran says launch earlier this month does not violate UN Security Council resolutions

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Stamford Hill section of London. (CC BY-dcaseyphoto/Flickr)

Study: Ultra-Orthodox will make up half UK’s Jews by 2031

By JTA

Report authors warn community must plan for population growth or it could experience lack of jobs, ‘social unrest’

The trees in the Plaza Embajada de Israel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, planted in memory of those killed in the 1992 embassy bombing. (photo credit: CC-BY-NYC2TLV, Wikimedia Commons)

Argentine court seeks arrest of Hezbollah man for ’92 bombing

By JTA

Hussein Suleiman wanted by country’s Supreme Court for attack on Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires that killed 22

Looking out at Jerusalem on a tour at Brigham Young University’s Jerusalem Center (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

At Brigham Young center, free concerts and remarkable views of Jerusalem

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Syrian regime soldiers walk down a road in an area around Kweyris military airport, in the eastern Aleppo province on October 16, 2015. (AFP/George Ourfalian)

Syria army begins offensive near Aleppo with Russian support

By Maya Gebeily

Fourth operation launched by Assad regime since Moscow began air campaign last month; monitor group says death toll from war over 250,000

Celebrity chef husband and wife team Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer (© Patricia Niven 2015)

Why London’s abuzz with this Israeli soul food bistro

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Lauryn Hill in a video titled 'When I see them, I see us' (screen capture: YouTube)

Side by side?WATCH: Lauryn Hill, activists equate blacks, Palestinians

By JTA

Discussions between Arabs and Jews after a “human chain” event calling for coexistence on October 16, 2015 (JTA/Facebook)

Hundreds of Israeli Jews and Arabs rally for peace

By JTA and ToI Staff

Two American Jews enjoy a party in Jerusalem at the end of a weeklong romantic voyage to Israel Wednesday, May 10, 2006. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Kiss and make upJDate, JSwipe couple up after legal spat

By JTA

Israeli security forces stand next to the body of a Palestinian man disguised as a news photographer who carried out a stabbing attack against a soldier at the entrance to the city of Hebron on October 16, 2015 (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Stabbing by fake Palestinian journalist raises media fears

By AP

Ruling partyAbbas’s son in spotlight for nightclub video

Illustrative photo of Shiite Muslim worshippers gathering at the holy shrine of Imam Abbas during the annual festival of Shabaniyah, in Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 24 (AP/Hadi Mizban)

Two dead in attack on Iran Shiite worshippers

By AFP

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, is greeted by Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar in Moscow, June 13, 2013. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Images/via JTA)

Russian chief rabbi leads solidarity visit to Jerusalem

By JTA

A BGU study found that red wine at dinner can help diabetics maintain better health (Anna Kaplan/Flash 90)

Drink to your healthDrinking wine can benefit diabetics, study shows

By Jessica Steinberg

Navah de-Shalit's badminton birdie porcupine, one of the pieces in her exhibit, 'Ironic Nature' (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Junk artIronies of nature in exhibit made from garbage

By Jessica Steinberg

In this Tuesday, June 23, 2015, members of Ultras Nahdawy, a youth group of the Muslim Brotherhood, sing anti-army chants in a protest ahead of the second anniversary of the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in the Nahia district, near Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Belal Darder)

Brotherhood missing from ballots as Egypt readies to vote

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