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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 4, 2016

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics J. Michael Kosterlitz poses at Aalto University in Espoo, on October 4, 2016. Kosterlitz works currently as a visiting professor at Aalto University.
British-born scientists David J Thouless, F Duncan Haldane and Kosterlitz won the Nobel Physics Prize 2016 for revealing the secrets of exotic matter, the Nobel jury said. (AFP PHOTO / Lehtikuva / Roni Rekomaa)

Father of Nobel physics winner fled to UK from the Nazis

By ToI Staff and Agencies

J. Michael Kosterlitz, one of trio awarded the prize, is son of German Jews; his dad, biochemist Hans Walter Kosterlitz, left Berlin in 1934, then brought his mother to safety

Nobel juror uses bagels, pretzels to explain physics winners’ complex work

By AFP and ToI Staff

British trio wins Nobel Physics Prize for exotic matter research

By AFP

Renewable energyJapanese who unraveled cell recycling wins Nobel

Britain's Prince Charles (left) at Jerusalem's Church of Mary Magdalene on September 30, with Archimandrite Roman Krassovsky, head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem (Facebook photo)

Queen's mother-in-law saved Jewish family during Holocaust

Prince Charles secretly visits ‘Righteous Gentile’ grandmother’s Jerusalem grave

British royal took advantage of his attendance at Peres funeral to stop by burial site of Princess Alice of Battenberg, on Mount of Olives

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during the presidential debate with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, Monday, Sept. 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Trump did business with Iranian bank later linked to terror, nuke program

Bank Melli reportedly rented NY office space from candidate’s organization at a time when transactions with Iranian companies were banned

‘Apprentice’ cast and crew say Trump was lewd and sexist

By GARANCE BURKE

Pence tries to woo Evangelical Christians for Trump

Polls: Clinton builds on gains after first debate with Trump

By AFP

Vaybertaytsh is a Yiddish-language podcast created by Sandy Fox, a millennial American graduate student. (Shifra Whiteman/JTA)

Feminist? Yiddish speaker? This millennial’s podcast is for you

Get ready for the next step in the old-school linguistic revival. While it may not draw millions, the intimate audience is exactly what this ‘balaboosta’ is looking for

Rosh Hashanah is all about change

The High Holidays ask human beings to explore what can be born anew

Sheldon Kirshner

Antisemite’s website should be closed

Arthur Topham’s genocide-promoting racial rants fall way out of the bounds of free speech

Samuel Ekstein from New York City controls the quality of a lime-green citron fruit in Santa Maria Del Cedro, southern Italy, on September 14, 2016. (AFP/Alberto Pizzoli)

In search for perfect etrog, Italian farmers cultivate an ancient Jewish tradition

By Angus Mackinnon

Hungarian Premier Viktor Orban looks at supporters before delivering a speech in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. (AP/Vadim Ghirda)

Hungarian Jews say government anti-migrant campaign ‘like Nazi propaganda’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Community warns public discourse on refugees has crossed line into hate speech as referendum results deal blow to populist PM

J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami addresses the group’s conference in Washington, March 21, 2015. (Courtesy JTA/J Street)

J Street ad campaign to back pro-Iran deal Congressional candidates

Liberal Jewish political action group to spend $500,000 in two swing states

Iranian space agency chief Mohsen Bahrami (screen capture: YouTube/Azerbaijan Future Studies)

Iran’s space agency eyes cooperation with NASA

By AP

‘When you are in orbit, there is no country and race,’ says Mohsen Bahrami, stressing joint projects would need leaders’ consent

British Defense Minister Michael Fallon talks to British pilots and soldiers at RAF Akrotiri, a British air base near the coastal city of Limassol, Cyprus, Saturday, Dec. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Pavlos Vrionides)

UK to opt out of European human rights convention in wartime

Controversial plan to be unveiled at Conservative Party conference, aimed at halting ‘vexatious claims’ against British troops

Clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters on February 6, 2016, after the IDF blocked off the entrance to Qabatiya outside Jenin, following a terror attack in Jerusalem that left one Border Police officer dead and two injured. (Haytham Shtayeh/Flash90)

Interview

While Hebron gets the press, Jenin and Tulkarem are the sleeping giants Israel should be worried about

By Judah Ari Gross

Maj. Hanan Shwartz of the Menashe Brigade discusses Palestinian security cooperation, olive harvests and the round-the-clock effort to keep two West Bank cities calm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote during local elections at a polling station in the West Bank city of Ramallah, October 20, 2012. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinian Authority delays local elections indefinitely

UN’s Mideast envoy hails decision in wake of court ruling to suspend Gaza voting, calls for Fatah-Hamas unity

Syrian pro-government forces take part in an operation to take control of Aleppo's Suleiman al-Halabi neighborhood on September 30, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / GEORGES OURFALIAN)

Syria army advances in Aleppo after US drops Russia talks

By Karam al-Masri and Ayham al-Mohammad

Kerry says peace efforts not over, as UN appeals for action to halt ‘ghastly avalanche of violence’ in decimated city

Tikva Naim Briggs, 34, is better known as Maksim Merman, the Yellowtailed SeaWitch. He is the world’s only known professional Jewish merman. (Courtesy of Briggs/JTA)

In Kansas, a Jewish merman for all seasons

By Victor Wishna

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with opposition leader Isaac Herzog during a special plenum session marking the 50th anniversary of the Knesset, January 19, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM said making progress in bringing Zionist Union into government

The front and back cover of a new edition of Hitler speeches, bearing a photo of Donald Trump on the back cover. (Screen capture Amazon)

New edition of Hitler speeches book slaps Trump on cover

Russian-Israeli blogger Anton Nossik (YouTube screenshot)

Russian-Israeli blogger fined for call to ‘wipe Syria off the map’

By AFP

Egyptian riot police disperse students who support the Muslim Brotherhood and ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, during clashes following a demonstration at the Cairo University on April 15, 2014. (AFP/Mahmoud Khaled/File)

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood leader killed in Cairo gunbattle

Veteran US diplomat Dennis Ross (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Jewish man faces trial after criticizing Israel policy at Dennis Ross panel

By AP

Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito (right) and the Partisan Supreme Command, May 1944. (Public domain/Wikipedia)

Slovenia transfers mass grave remains of Nazi collaberators

By AFP

Syrian refugees look through the gate of a grocery store at the al-Azraq refugee camp in northeast Jordan, April 14, 2016. (AP Photo/ Sam McNeil)

10 countries host half world’s refugees, Amnesty says

By AFP

In this June 24, 2015 file photo, American TV personality Kim Kardashian attends the Cannes Lions 2015, International Advertising Festival in Cannes, southern France. (AP/Lionel Cironneau)

Home after hold-upKardashian flees Paris after robbery at gunpoint

By William EDWARDS

Pope Francis prays in front of damaged houses during his visit to the Italian hamlet of Accumoli on October 4, 2016, after an earthquake hit the area on August 24, claiming nearly 300 lives. (AFP PHOTO/TIZIANA FABI)

Pope makes emotion-charged visit to Italy quake zone

By Angus Mackinnon

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