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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 29, 2015

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Illustrative: The fields of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, on the border of the Gaza Strip, where smoke rises in the distance. (Amir Tibon)

First person

Why I’ve made my home at a kibbutz near Gaza, on the verge of hell

Relocating from Tel Aviv to a lush paradise adjacent to the Palestinian enclave, I have found a war-weary but insistently resilient community, and a haven from hatred

IDF soldiers stand guard near the site where a Palestinian attempted to stab a soldier before being shot dead in the West Bank city of Hebron on October 28, 2015. (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)

Palestinian tries to stab soldier in Hebron, is shot dead

By Judah Ari Gross

No Israelis hurt in second attack of the day in West Bank city; earlier, soldier lightly wounded, attacker killed

Terror victim exits surgery after knife removed from back

PM said to mull establishing a ‘special terror court’

WATCH: Hamas official urges more knives in Jews’ chests

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with US President Barack Obama in the White House, October 1, 2014 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Analysis

When Obama hosts Netanyahu, it won’t be pleasant, but it might be productive

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: The Iran deal is done. The peace process is a nonstarter. Which means there might be less than usual to argue about when the two leaders hold their first meeting after a year of bitter disconnect

John Kerry shakes hands with US Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Daniel Baer after arriving in Vienna, Austria, on October 29, 2015. (US State Department)

Live updates (closed)

Car opens fire on soldiers outside settlement, none hurt

By Joshua Davidovich

Attackers flee toward nearby village after shooting at hitchhikers outside Ofra; pipe bomb thrown at police in Jerusalem

Prime Minister Netanyahu during a press conference on the security situation on October 8, 2015, at his office in Jerusalem. (AFP photo/Gali Tibbon)

Analysis

Why Netanyahu won’t approve a Palestinian state

By Raphael Ahren

Despite PM’s repeated calls for new negotiations, and support in principle for a two-state solution, recent statements underline his deep-rooted belief that, for ‘the foreseeable future,’ Palestine is a non-starter

Kerry: Israelis, Palestinians need ‘creative’ leaders

Watchdog says new UNHRC members are human rights abusers

Palestinian town names street for killer of 2 Israelis

By JTA

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ToI team to hold meetings on innovative journalistic partnership with American Jewish counterparts at Jewish Federations’ General Assembly in November

Nasreen Haddad Haj-Yahya

Ignite hope, end the violence

Jewish Israelis are dangerously ignorant of how their actions impact Arabs in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza

The truth about the men who hate WoW

The self-appointed protectors of the Wall need to know that vilifying women violates the Torah

Shaanan Scherer

The Halloween influence in our shuls

Who needs trick-or-treating when kids receive a big pile of candy every Saturday morning — and for what?

Jeremy England thinks life is inevitable under certain conditions (Courtesy)

Meet the Orthodox Jewish physicist rethinking the origins of life

By Simona Weinglass

Mourners lay stones on fresh grave of terror victim Richard Lakin, October 28, 2015. (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)

Reporter's notebook

Bidding a final farewell to a friend

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In service marked by talk of peace and kindness, Richard Lakin, third victim of bus 78 terror attack, laid to rest outside Jerusalem

Illustrative: ultra-Orthodox boys. (Rishwanth Jayapaul/Flash90)

Analysis

The irony of a Haredi paper’s ‘Please don’t kill us’ plea

By Haviv Rettig Gur

What an ultra-Orthodox columnist’s strange Arabic plea reveals about Israeli-Palestinian violence

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)

Nazareth woman’s family ‘knew from start’ she was no terrorist

Asra’a Abed’s father, an imam, defends her after police conclude Afula incident was attempted ‘suicide by cop,’ not terrorism

Ashton Carter, left, and Moshe Ya'alon, right, at the National Defense University in Washington, DC on October 27, 2015. ( Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Ya’alon: US-Israeli dispute over Iran deal is over

By JTA

Defense minister says with accord finalized, allies must put differences behind them and ‘look to the future’

In this undated photo made available by International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Iranian poets Fatemeh Ekhtesari, left, and Mehdi Mousavi pose in an unknown place in Iran. (International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran via AP)

Iran poets sentenced to 99 lashes for holding women’s hands

By Jon Gambrell

A picture taken on October 3, 2015, shows Russian air force technicians checking a Russian Su-34 fighter bomber at the Hmeimim airbase in the Syrian province of Latakia. (AFP/Komsomolskaya Pravda/Alexander Kots)

Russia delivering Iranian arms to Assad — report

Moscow’s Syrian base in Latakia said to be a transit point for Tehran’s supply of equipment and troops to Damascus

WJC President Ronald S. Lauder (L) with Pope Francis and WJC officials at the Vatican on October 28, 2015 (Courtesy WJC)

Pope says denying Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitism

By ToI Staff and AP

At 50th anniversary of landmark document that transformed Catholic-Jewish relations, Francis urges interfaith cooperation to promote peace

A still image taken from footage shot in the West Bank on September 25, 2015, shows an IDF soldier hurling a camera belonging to AFP reporters to the ground. (screen capture: YouTube)

IDF closes case against officer who attacked journalists

Givati deputy commander who smashed AFP photographers’ equipment dismissed from his post, faces discharge

US Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks during a campaign stop at Iowa State University, October 24, 2015. (Scott Olson/Getty Images via JTA)

Ben Carson is a Seventh Day Adventist. Here’s why it matters

By Uriel Heilman

Republican frontrunner cites Jesus as his role model, thinks Jews shouldn’t object to ‘Merry Christmas’ greeting, partly blames gun control for the Holocaust

Agunah or 'anchored woman' Adina Porat waited for a writ of divorce from her husband for eight years. (YouTube screenshot)

Stuck in Jewish divorce limbo, Israeli woman wins viral support

By Marshall Weiss

Rally to free ‘chained woman’ puts Dayton’s small Midwest Jewish community at center of issue few outside of Orthodox world understand

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper (L) and Avi Hasson, Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Economy, sign the new R&D agreement in Jerusalem, October 19, 2015. (Courtesy)

Israel and Colorado sign deal to promote R&D

By David Shamah

Under new agreement governments to support search and development projects in high tech, cybersecurity

More Headlines

Iberia planes on the tarmac at the Madrid Airport. (CC BY-SA2.0 Louis/Wikipedia)

Landing in Tel Aviv, Iberia pilot says ‘Welcome to Palestine’

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz (Flash 90)

Crazy conspiracySpoiler: Benny Gantz wasn’t captured by Iraqi forces

By Judah Ari Gross

Etgar Keret at a recent International Writers' Festival. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

From the webIsraeli book to be distributed in Iran as ‘a life line between the countries’

Britain's Prince Harry, first lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden tour the USO Warrior and Family Center at the Fort Belvoir military base, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, at Fort Belvoir, Va. The event is being held in support of the Invictus Games Orlando 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

US first lady to make first solo Mideast trip

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Saudi liberal blogger Raif Badawi was sentenced in May 2014 to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for criticizing Saudi Arabia's clerics and ridiculing the country's morality police on his blog. (Amnesty International Canada/Screenshot from campaign ad)

Jailed, flogged Saudi blogger wins EU rights prize

A Israeli man tries to open a sewer drain as water floods a street during a storm in Netanya, north of Tel Aviv, on October 25, 2015. (AFP/Jack Guez)

WATCH: Flash floods wreak havoc in central Israel

By Raoul Wootliff

General view of the River Thames, Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in London. (Photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

UK Jewish lawmaker blasted for ‘Jewish money’ quote

By JTA

Morgan Freeman meeting with the rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinowitz, during a visit to the site on October 25, 2015. (Courtesy of the Western Wall Heritage Foundation)

Morgan AlmightyMorgan Freeman seeks answers in Jerusalem

By Keren Preiskel

The flooded Weizman Street, in the central Israeli city of Raanana, due to heavy rain, October 28, 2015. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewDown the drain

By Marissa Newman

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