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What Matters Most On Monday, October 19, 2015

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Police and rescue workers attend the scene of shooting and stabbing attack at the central bus station in Beersheba, on October 18, 2015. (Meir Even Haim/Flash90)

Bedouin leaders condemn ‘despicable’ Beersheba attack

By Adiv Sterman

Heads of minority community in Negev urge calm after Bedouin man carries out fatal attack in bus station, express hope that terrorist shooting won’t harm Arab-Jewish relations

Terrorist opens fire at Beersheba bus station, kills one, wounds 11

By Adiv Sterman and Judah Ari Gross

Police: Beersheba terrorist was Israeli Bedouin

By Adiv Sterman, Tamar Pileggi and Judah Ari Gross

Soldier killed in terror attack identified as Omri Levy, 19

By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff

Israeli police stand guard at the entrance to the al-Aqsa compound on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Analysis

Israel rejects Jordanian offer to manage Temple Mount

By Avi Issacharoff

Jerusalem said to suggest deploying plainclothes Palestinian police on contested holy site

Kerry: Foreign presence not needed on Temple Mount

Netanyahu: ‘No concessions’ to Palestinians in response to terror

Al-Aqsa preacher: Jews will worship the devil

Medics working on a soldier who was stabbed in Afula on October 8, 2015. (Police spokesperson)

Live updates (closed)

Father of Beersheba attacker says son was executed

By Joshua Davidovich

Khalil Alukabi tells reporters he doesn’t know what happened in bus station attack, which left 1 soldier dead and 11 more wounded

A refugee mourns her son after she was rescued by an Israeli yacht crew off the Greek coast on October 18, 2015. (Courtesy Gal Baruch)

‘When we told them we were Jews from Israel, they kissed us’

By Tamar Pileggi

Amid tragic circumstances, Israeli boaters save 11 Syrian and Iraqi refugees drifting off the coast of Turkey and trying to make their way to Europe

Gerald M. Steinberg

Europe, terrorism and demonizing Israel

In the midst of another wave of brutal terror, this is certainly not the time for European political posturing

Yakir Englander

My Palestinian Elijah

On the Arab bus passenger who protected him and taught him that, like fingers, people are all different

I’ll be a rogue Zionist on campus

Rather than join a pro-Israel organization of any stripe, she’ll support Israel on her own and in her own way

The real cost of making Palestinians pay

East Jerusalem residents play such a critical role in the capital’s economy that closures are a serious threat

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Can a lynching be ironic?

Chalking the death of an Eritrean asylum seeker up to a few barbaric extremists sounds terribly familiar

Loud, Proud, Viral

WATCH: TOI blog post sensation, ‘I’m that Jew’

By Miriam Herschlag

Eitan Chitayat’s video puncturing anti-Semitic tropes spreads across the Web, a defiant retort to the haters

A wall in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber. (screen capture: Ynet)

PM halts placement of barriers between Jewish, Arab areas of Jerusalem

By Judah Ari Gross and Adiv Sterman

MKs say construction of temporary barrier in neighborhood — six chunks of concrete — is ‘prize for terror’ and essentially splits the unified city

Security camera footage showing an Eritrean man being shot in the Beersheba central bus station on October 18, 2015, after he was thought to be a terrorist. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Police to probe ‘lynching’ of Eritrean man in Beersheba

By Ilan Ben Zion

Opposition MK calls for civilians who beat unarmed victim to be brought to justice; Jewish Home MK says ‘friendly fire’ happens ‘in war’

Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzouk, September 18, 2014. (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Analysis

Castigating Abbas, urging stabbings, Hamas keeps Gaza out of new terror surge

By Elhanan Miller

‘Jerusalem Intifada’ marks realization of Islamist terror group’s policy for Jerusalem and West Bank, where it ultimately seeks to rule at the expense of Israel and the PA

Jibril Rajoub is seen at a press conference in Ramallah, on February 12, 2014. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Breathing down Abbas’s neck, Fatah leaders want Israeli blood

By Elhanan Miller

Jibril Rajoub praises ‘heroic’ lone-wolf attacks; Tawfik Tirawi views them as an unstoppable expression of public sentiment

Screenshot from a video praising Palestinian terrorist attacks, which was posted online by the Islamic State group. (screen capture: Ynet)

Islamic State praises stabbing attacks against Israelis

Terrorist group publishes videos on social media with the hashtag #BeheadtheJew, calls to liberate Jerusalem

Lucy Aharish on Channel 2 on October 13, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 2 via YouTube/The Israel Project)

Clip of Israeli Arab anchor slamming Muslim leadership goes viral

By JTA and ToI Staff

WATCH: Video of Lucy Aharish criticizing Palestinians for inciting violence and Arab Israeli leaders for insincere gestures garners 1.5 million shares on Facebook

Ahmad Manasra, one of two cousins who went on a stabbing spree in Jerusalem on October 12, 2015 is seen at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem on October 15, 2015. Manasra was hit by a car while fleeing from the scene of the attack. (Courtesy)

13-year-old stabber released from hospital, arrested

Palestinian leaders had claimed Ahmed Manasra, the youngest terrorist in the latest wave of violence, was killed by Israel

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, March 3, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Blood spilled by terrorists is on Abbas’s hands, says minister

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Yuval Steinitz warns PA leader should not be seen as peace partner, compares PA incitement to Nazis

In this Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2015 file photo, Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks during a campaign stop at a steel manufacturer in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)

Analysis

In Canada election, support for Israel not up for discussion

By Raphael Ahren

US President Barack Obama attends a press conference at the White House in Washington, DC, October 16, 2015. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)

Obama orders steps toward lifting Iran sanctions

By AFP

Full relief will come only when IAEA can certify that Islamic Republic has completely complied with its end of nuclear deal

Amos Yadlin speaks at an IsraPresse event for the French-speaking community at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center, Jerusalem, February 22, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Ex-defense official gives US, Israel 5-year window to unite against Iran

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Speaking in DC, Amos Yadlin warns nuke deal only temporarily rolls back Tehran’s capabilities, urges Jerusalem to keep trying to improve it

Illustrative photo of an Israeli army jeep in Hebron, November 7, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

IDF soldier cleared of wrongdoing in death of Palestinian

By Tamar Pileggi

After 2-year probe, Menashe Aviv not to face manslaughter charges for killing teenager who tried to board army jeep during Hebron clashes

Supporters hold signs reading 'Together with Israel' at a rally called by the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain (FCJE) and the Jewish Community of Madrid, in front of the Israeli embassy in Madrid on October 18, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/PEDRO ARMESTRE)

Thousands attend pro-Israel rallies in Paris, Madrid and Rome

By JTA

2,000 turn out in Italian capital for solidarity protest; in Spain, hundreds wave banners declaring: ‘I am with Israel’

In this March 20, 2014, file photo, Boston Marathon bombing survivor Heather Abbott speaks with a reporter at her home in Newport, Rhode Island. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Boston bombing survivor’s charity gives 1st artificial limb

By WILLIAM J. KOLE

Heather Abbott’s prosthetic leg gave her back her life, and now she’s giving the same gift to others, starting with Hillary Cohen

Congressman Steve Israel (Katrina Hajagos)

Congressman’s novel based on DC’s truth is much stranger than fiction

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot and US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford salute during an honor guard ceremony at the IDF's headquarters in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

US military chief reaffirms strong defense ties in first visit to Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

A heap of dreidels, ready for play (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

Festival of fight‘Dreidel song’ used as anti-Semitic chant at game

By JTA

'Drinkers,' an absurdist comedy at Tel Aviv University's SmallBama Festival, that opened Sunday night (Courtesy Yam Drori Ben Sasson)

Stage slightIn Tel Aviv drama school, 9 plays writ small

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative image of a hacker at work (Pixabay)

Cyber-intifadaHuge recent hack attack said to target mainly Israeli servers

By David Shamah

Illustrative photo of swastika graffiti. (Flash90)

Jewish, Muslim graves defiled with swastikas in Austria

By AFP

Iran’s Vice President Masoud Soltanifar, who is also chief of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization, gestures as he speaks in an interview with The Associated Press at his office in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

InterviewIran preparing for ‘tsunami’ of tourists

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI

Dental surgery (Pixabay)

New Israeli tech could make implant infections old news

By David Shamah

Cleveland-area rabbi gets 22 years for sex abuse

By JTA

Michael Kotzin. (JUF/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago)

Michael Kotzin, longtime Chicago Jewish leader, dies at 74

By JTA

Security forces at the scene of shooting and stabbing attack at the Central Bus Station in the southern city of Beersheba, on October 18, 2015. (Meir Even Haim/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe things we lost in the terror

By Joshua Davidovich

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