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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 5, 2016

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A picture taken from the Israel-Gaza border shows smoke rising from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip following an Israeli military strike on October 5, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP)

IDF launches second wave of Gaza strikes after rocket attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli airstrike targets northern and southern Strip in fresh raid after projectile fired from Hamas-run territory lands in Sderot

Rocket fired from Gaza lands in Sderot street, causing damage

By Judah Ari Gross

International Criminal Court team visits Israel, West Bank

By AFP

Boat of activists seeking to break Gaza blockade nears coast

By AFP and ToI Staff

A picture taken from the Israel-Gaza border shows smoke rising from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip following an Israeli military strike on October 5, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Air Force chief forms panel to probe deadly F-16 crash

By Joshua Davidovich

Navigator lightly injured in incident; State Department upbraids Israel for ‘deeply troubling’ West Bank construction plans; jets bomb Hamas sites in Gaza following rocket attack on Israel

In Bahir Dar, capital of the Amhara region, young men protest against the ruling Tigrayan-led government, August 7, 2016 (Courtesy Micha Odenheimer)

Eyewitness

In Ethiopia, when the shooting got closer

By Micha Odenheimer

In the Amhara region, the eye of the storm, an Israeli witnesses deadly clashes that threaten to plunge the nation into chaos

Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine (L) and Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence (R) take question from moderator Elaine Quijano (C) during the US vice presidential debate at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia on October 4, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Paul J. Richards)

Kaine: IDF chief agrees Iran deal stopped nuclear program

In vice presidential debate, Pence counters that accord ‘guarantees’ Tehran gets nukes, reprimands rival for skipping Netanyahu’s Congress speech

AnalysisKaine’s assessment of the Iran deal is rosier than Clinton’s

By Eric Cortellessa

Pence may have won VP debate, but sources say Trump unhappy

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Kaine attacks ‘insult-driven’ Trump, Pence on defense in VP debate

By Thomas Beaumont and Julie Pace

Kulanu MK Meirav Ben-Ari attends a committee meeting at the Knesset, November 2, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Family ties

MK reveals she is pregnant with child of gay friend

Kulanu’s Meirav Ben-Ari says going public with decision to start family aims to ‘inspire and give courage to other women’

Marjorie Ingall with one of her daughters. (Courtesy)

How to mold a mensch? New book offers a prescription

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Jewish parenting writer Marjorie Ingall looks beyond the stereotype to reveal what Jewish mothers do right in raising kids

I was there when ISIS bombed the Kurds

The West’s ‘one Iraq’ policy is out of touch with the facts on the ground — the Kurds deserve their own country

Timbrels and tendrils

In the fight between straight and curly hair for her Jewish identity, the resilient curls win

Britain's then-Foreign Minister Boris Johnson attends the funeral of former Israeli president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl national cemetery on September 30, 2016. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

UK rivals Cameron and Johnson ‘make peace’ over whisky at King David Hotel

Former PM and his school chum turned bitter opponent said to resolve their devastating EU Brexit row in long chat during Jerusalem visit for Peres funeral

Leader of opposition, and leader of the Labor party, MK Isaac Herzog, left, seen at a party event with MK Amir Peretz, April 12, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Senior Labor MK urges leader Herzog to vow he won’t join coalition

By Stuart Winer

Amir Peretz says persistent reports that party may join Netanyahu government are causing it ‘tremendous damage’

Italian journalist Claudio Gatti claims that best-selling author Elena Ferrante is really Rome-based Anita Raja, a translator who specializes in translating from German into Italian. (YouTube screenshot)

Is Elena Ferrante the child of a Holocaust survivor?

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system on display at an undisclosed location in Russia (AP)

Russia sends S-300 air defense system to Syria

By AFP

Moscow’s defense ministry says installation ‘poses no threat’; insists it’s unclear why it ‘has caused such a stir among our Western colleagues’

In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016 ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman sit in an employment training center in the city of Elad, central Israel. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

New generation of Israeli ultra-Orthodox challenges old guard

Growing number of critics inside religious community call for comprehensive reform, including education and outreach to broader society

Illustrative photo of an execution in Iran. (AFP/Arash Khamooshi/ISNA)

Iran could cut down on executions

By Stuart Winer

After 1,000 death sentences carried out in 2015, parliamentary bill aims to remove drug smuggling from list of capital offenses

Supporters and members of the Women Wage Peace organization demonstrate outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem on August 26, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hundreds of women march on Jerusalem for peace

By Stuart Winer

Activists stage 2-week cross-country walk to capital where, accompanied by Liberian Nobel laureate, they will demand an end to conflict

US President Barack Obama and then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon at a welcoming ceremony for Obama as he lands at Ben Gurion Airport, March 20 2013. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Ya’alon: Obama showing ‘lack of leadership’ in confronting Iran

By Raoul Wootliff

Ex-defense minister pens cutting LA Times op-ed accusing US president of ‘wishful thinking’ in believing nuclear deal would bring reform

Monika Schwarz-Friesel. (Marc Neugröschel/Times of Israel)

European anti-Semites increasingly playing victim in classic ‘perpetrator inversion,’ says expert

By Marc Neugroschel

More Headlines

Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, confirmed in March 2016 as the oldest man in the world. (Courtesy of family)

Bar mitzvah centenarianWorld’s oldest man marks bar mitzvah, 100 years late

Ben Stiller poses for photographers upon arrival at the February 4, 2016 premiere of the film 'Zoolander No.2,' in London. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

Reality bitesBen Stiller says he beat prostate cancer

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte delivers a speech at the Davao international airport terminal building early on September 30, 2016. (AFP/Manman Dejeto)

Philippines’ Duterte apologizes at synagogue for Hitler remark

By Aaron Favila

World Jewish Congress president Ron Lauder on March 28, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Police question Jewish leader Lauder as part of PM probe

Illustrative: Passengers waiting at Ben Gurion Airport (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Massive delays expected at Ben Gurion after Rosh Hashanah

A Tamir missile fired from an Iron Dome missile defense battery during a trial in the United States in April 2016. (Rafael Advanced Defense Systems)

Azerbaijan said set to buy Iron Dome batteries from Israel

An IDF infantry soldier armed with an Israeli-made Tavor rifle takes part in an urban warfare drill. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

IDF soldier lightly injured after gun discharges

A reporter uses LiveU technology at the Super Bowl in 2015 (Courtesy)

Facebook integrates LiveU tech to boost content

By Shoshanna Solomon

Minister of Culture and Sports Miri Regev speaks to press in Jerusalem on August 31, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

From the webThe new culture war in Israel

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)

Hebrew media reviewSame stories, different year

By Joshua Davidovich

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