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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 4, 2015

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An injured Israeli man being taken by ambulance to a hospital in Jerusalem following a suspected car-ramming attack near Hebron, November 4, 2015. (Magen David Adom)

Israeli officer fighting for life after car-ramming near Hebron

Driver shot dead at scene of attack at Route 60’s Halhul Junction in West Bank

Ruti Malka, daughter of an 80-year-old woman stabbed in a Rishon Lezion terror attack, speaks to the press on November 3, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Family of woman hurt in Rishon terror attack fumes at unhelpful mob

Yitzhak Rabin (Flash90)

Analysis

If Yitzhak Rabin had lived

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: He was the outstanding leader of his generation, and Israel has never recovered from his loss. But even with Rabin, I’m less than certain that all would have been peace and joy in these parts

On Rabin assassination anniversary, UN chief urges peace

The percentage of Jews who said religion is important to them rose from 31 to 35 percent since 2007, the Pew Research Center found. (Shutterstock, via JTA)

57% of US Jews eat pork, and 9 other findings from new Pew study

By Uriel Heilman

Latest religiosity survey shows rise in Torah study, slight fall in belief in God

American Jews growing more religious, poll indicates

By ToI Staff, AFP and AP

Sidelining female rabbis, Orthodox group votes to butt heads

By Uriel Heilman

US haredi rabbis’ body rejects Open Orthodoxy

By JTA

Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal at a rally in Hamas's honor in Cape Town, South Africa, October 21, 2015. (AFP/Rodger Bosch)

Live updates (closed)

Ya’alon: No link between terrorists’ bodies, remains of IDF soldiers in Gaza

Defense minister rejects argument saying swap should be arranged; Ben-Gurion Airport reopens after brief closure amid sandstorm; officer, 20, critically wounded in Hebron car-ramming

Israelis at a restaurant in downtown Jerusalem, on Saturday, November 01, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

Open on Shabbat: Israel’s fray of rest

By Marissa Newman

Cities are riding roughshod over the bylaws that are designed to protect the special nature of sabbath in the world’s only Jewish state, prompting concerns over discrimination, selective enforcement, and an eroding national identity

Can we see each other’s concerns?

Palestinians and Israelis need to join forces, condemn all terror and recognize the suffering on both sides

Abby W. Schachter

Skip college and learn a trade

It’s time to let go of those doctor-lawyer ambitions and aim for welder, plumber or HVAC specialist

Why Jews absolutely should visit China

Rejecting a call to Jewish tourists to boycott China: Do as Israel does and build ties despite differences

Amman-based cleric Abdullah el-Alawneh issues new ruling on Muslim jihad against Jews, November 3, 2015 (MEMRI screenshot)

WATCH: Jordanian cleric now says Jews must be killed, just not yet

After moderate clip goes viral, Abdullah el-Alawneh backtracks, rules that jihad against ‘brothers of apes and pigs’ is ‘mandatory’

A group of women hold hands around the Torah during the Shabbat morning service at the Union for Reform Judaism's biennial conference in San Diego, December 14, 2013. (URJ via JTA)

Reform Jews poised to pass landmark transgender resolution

By Mike Schneider

At movement’s Orlando biennial, delegates consider most far-reaching statement on transgender rights of any major religious group

Illustrative photo of an Ethiopian Airlines 767 (Adrian Pingstone, public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

Sudanese attacks Israeli on Ethiopian Airlines flight

Muslim arrested for allegedly choking and beating man after finding out he’s Jewish on flight from N’Djamena to Addis Ababa

Debris from the A321 Russian airliner at the site of the crash in Wadi el-Zolomat, a mountainous area in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, on November 1, 2015. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

Islamic State insists it’s behind Russian plane crash, won’t say how

By AFP and ToI Staff

‘Prove that we didn’t bring it down,’ terror group taunts; experts say signs point to bomb or technical fault in disaster that killed 224

41 said killed in South Sudan plane crash

Witnesses say wreckage from Russian-made cargo plane scattered along east bank of Nile; three survivors reported

Iranians burn a US flag outside the former US embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran during a demonstration marking the anniversary of its storming by student protesters that triggered a hostage crisis in 1979, November 4, 2015. (Photo by AFP Photo / Atta Kenare)

Thousands of flag-burning Iranians mark US embassy seizure

By AFP

Nuke deal notwithstanding, protesters chant ‘Down with USA’ and ‘Down with Israel’ during annual demonstration in Tehran

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn delivering a speech during his successful leadership campaign on August 14, 2015, in Edinburgh Scotland. (Mark Runnacles/Getty Images, via JTA)

UK Labour leader slams Jewish colleague’s sneer about ‘Jewish money’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Gerald Kaufman MP said Jewish donations influence British government policy; that’s ‘unacceptable,’ says Jeremy Corbyn, his Israel-bashing boss

Harvard University (Shutterstock)

Harvard starting Jewish and Israeli law program

By JTA

As part of new track, university set to bring in visiting scholars, offer courses, and host annual conference

Pakistani relatives carry the body of young woman who died after being set on fire by a rejected suitor, in a hospital in Multan on November 3, 2015. (SS Mirza/AFP)

Do's and don'ts

Pakistan woman set on fire for refusing marriage

By AFP

Hundreds of women are murdered in the country each year in domestic violence and ‘honor killings’

Or Paz, Naomi Rosin and Tal Sheffer becoming friends in their video (Courtesy Or Paz)

In face of attacks, Israelis take stab at jokes

By Jessica Steinberg

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)

Man arrested for Facebook threat to Arab MK’s life

Post to Ahmad Tibi was one of many threats sent lately, associates say; Knesset panel bans Tibi from running sessions for 2 weeks after he booted minister from plenum

Alon Hayka (L) presents Galileo Tires to an audience at the Go4Isreal event, October 26, 2015 (COurtesy)

With innovative tire, Israeli start-up reinvents the wheel

By David Shamah

Galileo’s new dual-use design smooths a path for agricultural, military and other off-road vehicles

Networking at the Intel Capital Global Summit, Nov 3, 2015 (Courtesy)

Blue and white notes abound at Intel investor event

By David Shamah

Technology developed in Israel prevalent in portfolio of world’s biggest venture capital fund, which announced investments in 2 more local firms

Pepperi interface (Courtesy)

Salespeople get their own industrial revolution with drudge work automated

By David Shamah

Hallmark signs on to start-up Pepperi’s tablet-based sales and merchandising solutions

Lotte Laserstein, Evening above Potsdam, 1930
© BUS Sweden 2015 is featured in 'Twilight over Berlin' exhibition at the Israel Museum.

New exhibition spotlights seminal German avant-garde

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

Illustrative: Police in New York. (CC BY/Andre Gustavo Stumpf/Flickr)

Brooklyn Jewish man stabbed in the back

A woman prays at the Western Wall during a snowstorm in Jerusalem, Friday, December 13, 2013. (photo credit: Yifa Yaakov/The Times of Israel)

The ruptureAt Western Wall, burst pipe mistaken for messiah

By Raoul Wootliff

Stray cats eating near a garbage container in the center of Jerusalem. October 23, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Chairman MeowFluffy, and 8 other things Israel tried to expel

By Ben Sales and ToI Staff

Jon Stewart hosts his last 'Daily Show' in New York City on August 6, 2015. (Brad Barket/Getty Images for Comedy Central/AFP)

HB-Oh boy!Jon Stewart signs 4-year deal with HBO

By JTA

Rabbi Albert Guigui appears on new Belgian stamp along with Imam Khalid Benhaddou and Bishop Johan Bonny. (Bpost/Lieve Blancquaert)

Licking intoleranceRabbi, imam and bishop to adorn Belgian stamp

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Palestinians mark Balfour anniversary with Twitter hack, phone threat

By ToI Staff and JTA

Illustrative image of the pink and purple stripes of a Wizz Air plane. (Wizz Air)

Plane stupidityPlane aborts TA takeoff after vehicles dart onto runway

Suspected arsonists set fire to a bilingual Hebrew-Arabic school in Jerusalem, November 29, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem sues bilingual school arsonists for damages

Hazy view over Tel Aviv as a dust storm covers the city, November 4, 2015. (Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Dozens of flights grounded as dust storm envelops Israel

By Raoul Wootliff

Ruti Malka, daughter of an 80-year-old woman stabbed in a Rishon Lezion terror attack, speaks to the press on November 3, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Hebrew media reviewThe dangers of unchecked anger

By Ilan Ben Zion

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