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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 31, 2015

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Relatives react after a Russian airliner with 217 passengers and seven crew aboard crashed, as people gather at Russian airline Kogalymavia’s information desk at Pulkovo airport in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2015. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Russian airliner carrying 224 people crashes in Sinai

By ToI Staff, AFP and AP

Wreckage found of plane that crashed 23 minutes after takeoff from Sharm el-Sheikh; rescuers search for survivors; all on board were Russian nationals

Relatives react at Pulkovo international airport outside Saint Petersburg after a Russian plane with 224 people on board crashed in a mountainous part of Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on October 31, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/OLGA MALTSEVA)

Putin sends Russian experts to plane crash site in Sinai

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the 37th World Zionist Congress, at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, October 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Nazis, not Jerusalem mufti, responsible for Holocaust

PM walks back claim that Muslim leader first proposed that Hitler should ‘burn’ the Jews; slams fact that al-Husseini remains iconic figure for Palestinians

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, September 15, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Abbas: I don’t seek full ‘right of return’ and I won’t cancel Oslo

By JTA

PA president tells Dutch Jews he doesn’t want to boycott Israel, only settler products; claims Israel holding direct talks with Hamas

Border cop suspended for threatening to ‘gas’ Palestinians

Palestinians: ICC must accelerate probe into ‘Israeli war crimes’

By AFP and ToI Staff

From the webThe Arab woman representing Israeli Police

An Israeli fighter jet takes off during a training sortie in February 2010. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Reports: IAF targets Hezbollah assets in Syria

Israel declines to comment on claims; strikes would be first since Russia boosted its involvement in Syrian civil war

A Marshall Plan for peace

Consider what might be if West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem residents saw real chances for economic prosperity

Natalie Lazaroff

I’m coming home

Numerous visits weren’t enough; though her aliyah decision was tearful, she’s never felt more at peace

What does it mean for a citizen of one country to say that he comes from another?

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the CNBC debate on October 28, 2015 (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump: ‘Obama hates Israel, Jewish state safe with me’

Republican presidential candidate attacks deal with Iran, which he says leaves Israel in ‘so much trouble’

An Israeli police vehicle drives in front of Palestinian protesters running away during clashes on October 13, 2015 in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. (AFP/MUSA AL-SHAER)

PA: Palestinian baby dies from inhaling tear gas fired by IDF

By ToI Staff and AFP

8-month-old boy was at home near Bethlehem when he died of asphyxiation, PA health ministry says; army investigating

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz in May 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Gantz: Diplomatic impasse is fault of both Israel and Palestinians

Ex-IDF chief says negative atmosphere draws extremists on each side; believes education, welfare should supercede defense

The Jenin checkpoint where a Palestinian teenager tried to stab Israeli security personnel before being shot and killed on October 24, 2015. (Israeli Ministry of Defense)

Palestinian attempts West Bank stabbing, is shot dead

No one else injured in incident at crossing near Jenin; attacker brought down by security guards at site

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

Russia backs New Zealand’s UN bid to restart Israel-Palestinian talks

By Edith M. Lederer

Two sides are less enthusiastic aboutr draft resolution, with Jerusalem calling it ‘destructive’ and PA saying it’s not tough enough

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)

NII chief: No benefits for families of underage attackers

Shlomo Mor-Yosef says payments also to be frozen for injured assailants, spouses of those killed carrying out assaults

File: Palestinians gather in Hebron as PA security forces carry the bodies of two out of five Palestinians assailants released by Israel on October 30, 2015. (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)

PA buries 5 Palestinians killed carrying out attacks on Israelis

Israel returned attackers’ bodies Friday; funeral also to be held for baby who died from inhaling tear gas near Bethlehem

Chef Moshe Basson outside his Eucalyptus Restaurant in Jerusalem. (Liron Almog/Flash 90)

The eucalyptus tree that nourished a storied Jerusalem restaurant

By Rebecca Coulson

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, left, and Secretary of State John Kerry, right, listen as UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura speaks during a news conference in Vienna, Austria, Friday, October 30, 2015 (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP)

Nations agree on new Syria talks, but say little about Assad

By Bradley Klapper and George Jahn

After two days of discussions, governments on either side of conflict push for joint effort to end civil war

Caryl Stern, the US Fund for UNICEF president and CEO, with children in Lodwar, Kenya. (Courtesy of the US Fund for UNICEF/via JTA)

For Jewish UNICEF official, it’s all about the kids

By Suzanne Pollak

In this November 2, 2013 file photo, a veiled Iranian woman walks past a mural depicting the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, and national Iranian flag, painted on the wall of the former U.S. Embassy, in Tehran, Iran. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iranian-American reportedly held in Iran; fourth in custody

By Jon Gambrell and Adam Schreck

Reasons for detaining businessman Siamak Namazi, son of a shah-era politician, not immediately clear

Jews United for Justice offers paid parental leave for its employees and is a lead partner in the push to implement paid leave legislation in Washington, D.C. (Anya van Wagtendonk/via JTA)

Now part of the 2016 elections platform, Jewish groups drive ‘Lead on Leave’ push

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned anti-Semitic acts that took place in Canada following Donald Trump's election in the US. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

Trudeau tells Netanyahu there’ll be friendly ties but a ‘shift in tone’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Images posted by Iranian actress Sadaf Taherian showing her without the head covering demanded by her country. (screen capture: YouTube)

Hair to stayIranian actress causes storm with hijab-free photos

Cpl. A, a border policewoman who immigrated from France, shot two Palestinian assailants at the Tapuah Junction on Friday, October 30, 2015 (Israel Police video)

‘I came to defend Israel,’ says immigrant cop who shot attackers

Islamic history professor Yusri Ahmad Zidan discusses burning Jews during a show on Egyptian TV channel Al-Rahma on October 27, 2015, according to watchdog group MEMRI (screen capture: YouTube)

WATCH: Burning Jews is ‘only solution,’ says Egyptian TV show

Illustrative photo of a kosher butcher slaughtering a chicken. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Dutch Food Authority backs ban on kosher slaughter

By JTA

Former US president Bill Clinton meets with President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem on October 30, 2015 (GPO)

Rivlin meets with Bill Clinton, ‘a true friend of Israel’

Illustrative photo of an Israeli settlement (CC BY-Trocaire, Flickr)

Israel legalizes hundreds of West Bank settler homes

By AFP and ToI Staff

Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015, before the House Benghazi Committee. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Celebrity ClintonNew emails show breadth of Hillary’s network

Kansas City Symphony music director Michael Stern wears a Royals jersey over his concert tuxedo (YouTube screenshot)

BBQ vs bagelsUS symphonies raise the stakes on World Series

By Victor Wishna

Chabad families often make the pilgrimage to the 'Ohel,' the New York grave of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to celebrate lifecycle events. (Hannah Dreyfus/Times of Israel)

Planned Chabad school nixed by Queens community board

By JTA

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