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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 2, 2016

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President Reuven Rivlin, right, meets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during the funeral for late former president Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem, on September 30, 2016. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Two-thirds of Israelis think peace deal won’t ever be reached — poll

By AFP and ToI Staff

Fewer than 1 in 4 say accord between Israel and Palestinians possible, but not in next 5 years; cost of living considered most pressing problem

Ralf Breker of the Bavarian criminal police posing in Munich with virtual reality glasses and a computer which shows a picture from the 3D model of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, September 26, 2016. (AFP/Christof Stache)

Virtual reality helps net last Auschwitz criminals

By Deborah Cole

3D model allows German investigators to ‘walk through’ death camp and ‘see’ what Nazi suspects would have known about the killings

Effort to recognize World War II spies is hung up in Congress

By Matthew Barakat

Philippines’ Duterte apologizes to Jews for Hitler comparison

By AFP

Jewish-American ex-sailor recalls Cyprus internment with Holocaust survivors

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS

Clockwise from top left: Anton Yelchin, Esther Jungreis, Doris Roberts and Elie Wiesel (Getty Images/JTA)

10 inspiring Jews the world lost in 5776

By Gabe Friedman

From Israeli spymaster Dagan to funnyman Gene Wilder and many in between, the list of those we said farewell to this past year is diverse as it is resonant

Contributing artist Craig Taubman, who also founded LA's Pico Union Project in 2013. (Courtesy)

'We strive to make the old new and the new holy'

Service with a smile: Synagogue rethinks the High Holy Days

From the way it sells tickets to the contemplative stitching circle, Pico Union Project is putting the ‘new’ in New Year

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes the stage at a rally, Saturday, October 1, 2016, in Manheim, Pennsylvania (AP/John Locher)

Trump may have skipped out on taxes for 18 years, filings show

By AP

Records obtained by New York Times show $916 million loss in 1995, potentially allowing mogul-cum-candidate to avoid paying IRS

Poll: Half of Trump backers don’t trust vote count

By Jonathan Lemire and EMILY SWANSON

Clinton resurgent, Trump stalls in post-debate polls

By Ivan Couronne

Unscripted Trump overshadows his own economic message

By Steve Peoples

Palestinians hold placards during a protest in Gaza City on October 1, 2016 against president Mahmoud Abbas' participation in the funeral for Shimon Peres. The writing in Arabic reads: Mahmud Abbas shame on you to be president. (AFP/MAHMUD HAMS)

Analysis

The intifada that wasn’t, unless your name is Abbas

By Avi Issacharoff

The wave of Palestinian terrorism and violence that started a year ago has claimed many lives on both sides, but the only lasting strategic threat is to the rule of the Palestinian leader

IDF seals off West Bank, Gaza for Rosh Hashana holiday

By Judah Ari Gross

Abbas vows to ‘defeat occupation’ in fiery speech after Peres funeral

Hamas official: Abbas tantamount to a Jew

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

When God walks down memory lane

How the divine recall of people’s failures and wrongdoings may actually be a very good thing

Why prayers sound boring

A way to find meaning in the long, drawn-out, antiquated text of the High Holidays’ synagogue services

15 ways being Jewish is meaningful

Judaism is joyous and inspiring in its shared destiny, collective responsibility, and time-space connection

Amos Oz, at home in Tel Aviv, discussing 'Judas,' his latest novel, released in English in September 2016 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Interview

There are no traitors, says Amos Oz, only those unafraid of change

By Jessica Steinberg

An Israeli child blows a shofar in a kindergarden in Efrat, Gush Etzion, September 8, 2016, The shofar is used mainly on the Rosh Hashanah holiday, the Jewish New Year (Gershon Elinson/Flash90).

After bittersweet end to year, Netanyahu puts hopeful spin on 5777

Ahead of Jewish New Year, prime minister declares he’s more hopeful than ever, and says Israel will pursue peace efforts — though only in English

Israeli children from the West Bank settlement of Amona walk past their homes, September 7, 2016. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Israel okays 98 new West Bank settlement homes for Amona evacuees

By AFP and ToI Staff

Housing units to be offered to displaced families; residents of illegal outpost vow to oppose court-ordered evacuation in December

Participants in the 16th anniversay commemorations of the October 2000 riots in Sakhnin on October 1, 2016 (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli Arabs mark anniversary of deadly October 2000 riots

Thousands march in Sakhnin to commemorate 13 protesters killed in clashes with police at start of Second Intifada

Chemi Peres, son of former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres, pauses in front of his father's coffin after speaking during his funeral on September 30, 2016, at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl national cemetery. (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)

At start of shiva, Peres family invites all Israelis to pay respects

By ToI Staff and AP

Hundreds visit former president’s next of kin on first night of traditional week of mourning at Jaffa’s Peres Center for Peace

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during the state funeral of late Israeli president Shimon Peres, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, September 30, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Israeli minister joins criticism of Netanyahu-Abbas handshake at Peres funeral

Illustrative: A long exposure photograph of traffic on the Ayalon Highway through Tel Aviv, December 19, 2015. (Esther Rubyan/Flash 90)

Take the Peres to Tel Aviv? Major freeway may be renamed for late leader

Transportation minister says he will discuss proposal to rename Ayalon Highway with late former president’s family after mourning period

This file photo taken on August 17, 2016 shows a picture of slain Father Jacques Hamel displayed inside the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in downtown Rome. (AFP Photo/Marco Zeppetella)

French church where priest was slain by jihadists to reopen

By Hervé LIONNET

Local Jews, Muslims to attend ‘cleansing’ service commemorating Father Jacques Hamel, 85, whose throat was slit by Islamic State adherents

German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel briefs the media on his July 20 visit to Iran during a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, July 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Iran rejects German demand that it recognize Israel

Tehran will ‘never forsake the Palestinian cause,’ even at cost of normalization of ties with Berlin, says regime spokesman

A Syrian medical staff member inspects the damage at the site of a medical facility after it was reportedly hit by Syrian regime barrel bombs on October 1, 2016, in the rebel-held neighborhood of al-Sakhour, in the northern city of Aleppo. (AFP PHOTO / THAER MOHAMMED)

Aleppo hospital bombed again, as Syria army presses assault

By Karam al-Masri and Maya Gebeily

European Parliament president calls attack a ‘war crime,’ while Gulf Cooperation Council seeks UN intervention

Moscow Choral Synagogue (photo credit: Mikhail Yakovlev/Wikipedia)

Russia launches criminal probe into synagogue assault

By AFP

Jews urged not to shun prayer services in wake of Moscow shooting, attempted arson, which left security guard injured

Fighters from the Islamic State group marching in Raqqa, Syria, January 14, 2014. (Militant photo via AP, File)

IS-linked East Jerusalem men ‘planned terror attacks on gov’t offices’ in capital, TLV

By Judah Ari Gross

Six Shuafat refugee camp residents charged for trying to join Islamic State, plotting bombings, kidnappings

More Headlines

From top right, clockwise: Michael Phelps receiving a cupping treatment. (Screenshot from Instagram); Hillary Clinton in Monsey-based newspaper Yated Ne’eman (Onlysimchas.org); Stephen Colbert performing with 'Fiddler on the Roof' cast members on 'The Late Show' in New York, March 2, 2016 (Screenshot from YouTube); Ted Cruz baking matzah in Brooklyn, New York, April 12, 2016 (YouTube) (All credits via JTA)

Why Judaism trended this year among non-Jews

By Josefin Dolsten

US President Barack Obama hands a tissue to a weeping Chemi Peres, at the funeral of his father, former President Shimon Peres, September 30, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Comforting the bereavedObama consoled Peres’s son with tissue, hug

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert is seen departing Maasiyahu Prison in Ramle on July 11, 2016, for his first leave from prison since he began his 19-month sentence in February. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Olmert, Katsav among 260 prisoners sent home for Jewish holiday

The city of Maastricht in the Netherlands . (Photo credit: Maastricht image viaPatricia Hofmeester / Shutterstock.com)

Netherlands, Germany, Denmark move against binary options

By Simona Weinglass

IDF officers wearing the tag of the new Ground Forces after its merger with the Technological and Logistics Directorate in September 2016. (Ground Forces/Facebook)

IDF to cut 1,000 posts, save NIS 1b in ground forces merger

By Judah Ari Gross

Head of the regional council of the Arab town of Julis, Salman Amar, seen at the Rishon Leztion court after shooting to death a gardening contractor outsite the city council, on September 6, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Galilee mayor charged with murder in slaying caught on video

Enzootic's all-female prawns (Courtesy)

Start-up finds ‘holy grail’ in female prawns, shrimp

Bridgetech students with Ariel Dloomi at the center (Courtesy)

Program seeks to boost Bedouins in Israeli high-tech

By Shoshanna Solomon

In this April 2, 2016, file photo, members of the combined Choir from BYU-Idaho raise their hands during a sustaining vote at the two-day Mormon church conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Mormon leader: Challenge the critics of our founder’s ‘miraculous mission’

By BRADY McCOMBS

US President Barack Obama seen at the state funeral ceremony for former Israeli president Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem, on September 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/POOL)

Hebrew media reviewFinal goodbyes

By Ilan Ben Zion

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