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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 22, 2015

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Thousands of Palestinians pray outside Al-Aqsa Mosque, atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, on the Muslim holiday of Eid Al Adha in October 2014. (Sliman Khader/FLASH90)

Analysis

PA demands full Muslim oversight over Jewish visitors to Temple Mount

By Avi Issacharoff

Officials warn that Abbas will sever security coordination with IDF if demand not met; Netanyahu has vowed no concessions to Palestinian terror

Kerry to Netanyahu: Let’s ‘rekindle’ the peace process

By Raphael Ahren

Attacks on Israelis will go on, Hamas chief says in South Africa

By Raphael Ahren and AFP

UN chief ‘pessimistic’ about Israel-Palestinian peace, UK envoy says

By Alexandra Olson

Israeli security forces seen near the body of a man who was shot dead on Wednesday night after he apparently tried to grab a gun near the entrance to Jerusalem on October 21, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

New Zealand to push new bid for peace talks at UN

By Joshua Davidovich

Security Council draft to call for an end to violence, reaffirm need for two-state solution, support direct talks, but not expected to be game-changer

Benjamin Netanyahu with his father, Professor Benzion Netanyahu, in his Jerusalem home on February 5, 2009. (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/ Flash 90)

Analysis

In Netanyahu’s mufti-Holocaust allegation, echoes of his father’s maverick approach to history

By Raphael Ahren

The PM is defending his incendiary claim that Haj Amin al-Husseini persuaded Hitler to ‘burn’ the Jews by citing sources most scholars reject. Benzion Netanyahu followed a similarly controversial approach regarding the Marranos. But he was an historian, not a prime minister

Merkel sets Netanyahu straight on German culpability for Holocaust

By AFP, AP and ToI Staff

Full official record: What the mufti said to Hitler

Don’t absolve us over Holocaust, Germany says after Netanyahu comment

ILLUSTRATIVE: Israeli rescue services at the scene where two terrorists were shot by police after attempting to carry out a stabbing attack in Beit Shemesh on October 22, 2015. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Israeli wounded in Beit Shemesh stabbing attack

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Victim lightly to moderately injured; two Palestinian terrorists had tried to board a school bus before the stabbing; one said killed by police

IDF places barrier near Rachel’s Tomb in West Bank

By AP

2 Palestinians try to stab soldier in Hebron; none hurt

Five soldiers hurt in West Bank car-ramming attack

First century BCE Greek inscription from Jerusalem's Temple Mount forbidding the entry of Gentiles to the Temple precinct, reading “..no foreigner shall enter…” (© The Israel Museum, Jerusalem)

Ancient Temple Mount ‘warning’ stone is ‘closest thing we have to the Temple’

By Ilan Ben Zion

Carved in bold Greek letters, 2,000-year-old Herodian inscription marked off the section of Jerusalem’s most sacred site where gentiles couldn’t go — and shows they were welcome elsewhere in holy area

Natan Odenheimer

I was fine and then I almost got lynched

He was at the Jerusalem Central Bus Station, the stabber had been killed, and that’s when things got dangerous

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

There is no face of Israel, just faces

More than 8 million of them — each unique, each a reflection of the divine

This is not the Third Intifada

Israel must avoid steps that will fan the flames, but also ensure the Palestinians reap no reward through violence

The extraordinary ordinary Jerusalemites

While grandiose sloganeering stokes the flames, the capital’s citizens are bringing hope in myriad small ways

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

The blessing of insecurity

The impossibility of categorizing the Nation of Israel proves it has a destiny and mission that are utterly unique

Illustrative: Glial cells known as astrocytes in a 23-week fetal brain culture. (Bruno Pascal/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Israeli scientists tout new method for battling depression

By focusing not on the brain’s neurons but on cells known as microglia, researchers may have mapped a path to innovative treatments

eMusic app screenshot (Courtesy)

iTunes, Google Play Music face a surprise rival – an Israeli start-up

By David Shamah

TriPlay’s acquisition of eMusic now makes it one of the largest music services in the world

Zaka rescue personnel carry the body of a man shot dead by IDF soldiers in Jerusalem after he was mistaken for a terrorist, on October 21, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Military police probe Wednesday night’s shooting of Jerusalem man by soldier

Israeli man was killed after altercation on bus with two soldiers who say they suspected he was a terrorist

A woman mourns at a memorial in south Tel Aviv on October 21, 2015 for Haftom Zarhum, an Eritrean man who was mistaken for a terrorist. Zarhum was shot and then beaten by an angry mob. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Anger, fear permeate memorial for Eritrean victim

By Melanie Lidman

Death of Haftom Zarhum, beaten by mob after he was mistaken for a terrorist, illuminates deep mistrust of Israelis among migrants

Memorial candles at a ceremony in Tel Aviv on October 21, 2015 to honor Haftom Zarhum, an Eritrean national who was killed in the Beersheba bus station attack. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Two suspects in mob attack on Eritrean get conditional release

Immigration and Absorption Minister Ze'ev Elkin, left, surrounded by Knesset ushers, faces off with MK ands deputy speaker Ahmad Tibi, right, of the Joint (Arab) List during a heated exchange in the Knesset that ended with Elkin's removal from the plenum, October 21, 2015. (YouTube/99knesset)

Deputy Knesset speaker, an Arab MK, boots minister from debate

By Stuart Winer

Ahmad Tibi orders ushers to expel immigration chief Ze’ev Elkin after he blames Arab legislators for recent violence

Screen capture of an Iranian missile launch, October 10, 2015 (YouTube: PressTV News Videos)

UN asked to take action against Iran for recent missile test

By AFP, AP and ToI Staff

Britain, France, Germany, US demand Security Council investigate Oct 10 launch of new medium-range ballistic missile

Ehud Barak speaks at the opening of the 'Globes Business Conference', in Tel Aviv on December 08, 2014. (Flash90)

Israel slams ‘cynical’ Marmara lawsuit against Barak

Ex-defense minister sued by parents of American living in Turkey who was among 9 killed during 2010 IDF raid on Gaza flotilla

US official: Anti-Semitism cannot be eradicated, must be diminished

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

State Department office says combating phenonemon is a ‘major issue’ and that primary focus is on Europe, but PA has also come under scrutiny

Illustrative photo of the United States House of Representatives (screen capture: YouTube)

Entire House Jewish caucus rips UNESCO on Temple Mount vote

By JTA

19 members of US House of Representatives condemn UN body for approving resolution charging Israel with changing status quo at holy site

Russian President Vladimir Putin (center), shakes hands with Syrian President Bashar Assad as Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (right), looks on in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, October 20, 2015. (Alexei Druzhinin, RIA-Novosti/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

US snipes at Assad’s ‘red-carpet’ welcome in Moscow

By Anna SMOLCHENKO

Putin hosts Syrian strongman, who thanks him for his airstrikes against rebels in Syria

Former US congressman Barney Frank addressed congregants at Boston's Temple Israel on October 16, 2015. (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

Barney’s ‘Frank’ military talk propels a herculean crusade

By Matt Lebovic

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaking at a fundraising reception in Los Angeles, California, on October 14, 2015. (David McNew/Getty Images/via JTA)

The Bernie Sanders only Jewish Vermonters know

Mostly refugees from ‘conservative’ New York, Yiddische Vermont is as eclectic as its presidential candidate senator

Soldiers stand guard in front of the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia, during a commemoration ceremony for the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, on April 24, 2015. (AFP/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

IDF soldier ‘rescued’ after 2 months stuck in Armenia

On a family visit to country of his birth, Arik Martoyan discovered he was drafted under nation’s military service law

Rabbi Joshua Weinberg addresses the ARZA delegation to the World Zionist Congress on October 18, 2015 in Jerusalem (Dale Lazar)

At World Zionist Congress, Reform stakes its claim in Israel’s future

By Eric Cortellessa

American Jews need to redefine the meaning of ‘liberal Zionism,’ says head of the movement’s Zionist action wing Rabbi Joshua Weinberg

More Headlines

Joint (Arab) List MK Hanin Zoabi in the Israeli Supreme Court on February 17, 2015. (David Vaaknin/POOL/FLASH90)

Firebrand Arab MK to talk racism at Dutch Holocaust event

By JTA

Members of the Armenian community march with flags and torches on April 23, 2015, in Jerusalem's Old City, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire in 1915. (AFP/Gali Tibbon)

Jewish public policy umbrella calls Armenian massacres ‘genocide’

By JTA

Illustrative: A couple out on the town in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

We'll survive, let's eatJerusalemites rally for ‘Eatifada’

Illustrative. Shabbat candlesticks. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Downing St approvesBritish PM praises Shabbat project

By JTA

Emergency services attend the scene after a masked man attacked people with a sword, at the Kronan school in Trollhattan, near Goteborg in western Sweden, Thursday Oct. 22, 2015. (Stig Hedström/TT via AP)

Teacher killed, 2 students hurt in sword attack on Swedish school

A copy of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' (dccarbone/CC-BY, via Flickr)

German, French copies of ‘Mein Kampf’ prepped as copyright ends

By AFP

Just remember that 3D movies are NIS 4 extra on Movie Day (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Cheap thrillsForget all your worries at a NIS 10 movie

By Jessica Steinberg

The final runway walk of the Sample collection at Tel Aviv Fashion Week (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Israel chicHip and edgy on display at Tel Aviv Fashion Week

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: Hitler hosts Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini in 1941 in Germany. (Heinrich Hoffmann Collection/Wikipedia)

Hebrew media reviewA day of mistakes

By Ilan Ben Zion

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