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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 6, 2016

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Police sappers dig out piece of a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip that struck a road in the southern city of Sderot on October 5, 2016. ( FLASH90)

For 2nd straight day, Gaza Palestinians fire at Israel

By Raoul Wootliff

No injuries reported as mortar shell lands in open field in the southern Eshkol region; no immediate claim of responsibility

IDF strikes Hamas target in Gaza following mortar attack

By Judah Ari Gross

With reprisal campaign, Israel looks to put ‘strategic’ dent in Hamas

By Judah Ari Gross

After airstrikes, Hamas said to appeal to Israel for calm

By Raoul Wootliff and Judah Ari Gross

IAF pilot Maj. Ohad Cohen Nov, 34, died Wednesday, October 5, 2016 while ejecting from his F-16 fighter jet during an attempted landing at the Ramon Air Force Base in southern Israel. (Courtesy)

Air Force pilot dies while ejecting from his fighter jet

By Judah Ari Gross

Pilot named as Maj. Ohad Cohen Nov, 34; plane was returning from Gaza raid to Ramon base; navigator also ejects, is lightly hurt; IAF investigating

An Israeli F-16I fighter jet during an exercise in the United States in 2009. (Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald/US Department of Defense/Wikimedia)

‘Asymmetric flying’ probed as culprit in deadly jet crash

By Judah Ari Gross

Bruce Springsteen with Amy Kalman, Freehold, New Jersey, September 27, 2016 (Courtesy Amy Kalman)

Analysis

Bruce Springsteen: I really need to play in Israel

By David Horovitz

The Boss, who has never performed in the Holy Land, tells a lifelong fan who flew from Jerusalem to meet him in New Jersey that he wants to correct the omission

Iraqi transport minister Kazem Finjan. (Screenshot)

Space odyssey

First airport built in Iraq 5,000 years ago, for aliens: minister

Iraq‘s transport minister quotes Jewish ‘expert‘ to justify claims about ancient spaceships

A mobile home in the outpost of Amona (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

US invokes Peres legacy in biting condemnation of settlement expansion

By ToI Staff and AFP

State Department slams approval of 98 new homes in Shiloh for Amona outpost evacuees, saying move will ‘distance Israel from many of its partners’

Israel rejects US criticism, says no new settlements planned

By Raphael Ahren

US rebuke of settlement plans ‘disproportionate,’ minister charges

Ehud Barak says government ‘deceived’ US on settlements

By Raoul Wootliff

Cadets in the IDF Cyber Defense Unit course, June 10, 2013 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Israeli army may crack down on ex-soldiers profiting from tech expertise

By Shoshanna Solomon

New review of the uses recruits make of their skills after their service — a central driver of Israel’s startup economy — is already prompting alarm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 22, 2016 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Analysis

After feeling ‘tired,’ Abbas undergoes heart test in hospital

By Avi Issacharoff and Agencies

West Bank medical official says cardiac catheterization performed on 81-year-old Palestinian leader, who was found to be fit

Arafat’s nephew said tapped to lead PA after Abbas

Palestinians arrested for pipe bomb attacks at Rachel’s Tomb

IDF arrests 14 Palestinians, seizes weapons and bombs

Theo Padnos reenacts his imprisonment by al-Qaeda in Syria (Nusra Front) in 'Theo Who Lived.' (Zeitgeist Films)

Tortured by al-Qaeda in Syria, a US journalist is determined to end the civil war

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Ahead of a new documentary, Theo Padnos discusses his harrowing 22-month ordeal — from capture after crossing Turkish border to Qatar-brokered release on Golan Heights

Time to say Kaddish for ‘tikkun olam’

The universal focus of Judaism’s most important teaching crushes the holy living that lets Jews and Judaism thrive

The perfect life

On staying positive in the face of adversity — from prosthetics to PLS to other bumps on the road of daily living

When God was a ‘Dog’

If Isaac had told his sons of his trauma on his father’s altar, would the family have functioned better?

The Zaytouna-Oliva, the boat attempting to break the Gaza blockade (YouTube screenshot)

No violence as Israel intercepts women’s boat to Gaza

13 activists aboard the Zaytouna-Oliva taken to Israel’s Ashdod port; women soldiers led interception force

Women activists aboard a sailboat en route to Gaza which was intercepted Wednesday, October 5, 2016 by the Israeli Navy. (Al Jazeera screenshot)

Intercepted at sea, women’s boat to Gaza docks quietly in Israel

An Islamic State recruitment video calls on others to join in their holy war (screen capture: Youtube)

IS recruits are relatively well-educated, not driven by poverty

By AFP and ToI Staff

World Bank study debunks assumptions about terror group, finds that proportion of suicide fighters among recruits increases with education

Police sappers dig out piece of a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip that struck a road in the southern city of Sderot on October 5, 2016. (Israel Police)

Live updates (closed)

Obama declares state of emergency in Florida as Hurricane Matthew looms

National Hurricane Center upgrades storm to Category 4, says it has winds of nearly 140 miles (220 km) per hour

Then-UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres arrives for a meeting with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens on a three-day official visit, October 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Likely next UN chief says world needs new ‘diplomacy of peace’

By Edith M. Lederer

Antonio Guterres says he’d be ‘honest broker’ and ‘act with humility’ in quest to solve the world’s problems

Ethiopian immigrants arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport in December 2011. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Ethiopian immigration to Israel resuming after 3-year freeze

By Melanie Lidman

Amid civil unrest in Ethiopia, first group of Jews since 2013 set to arrive in Israel on Sunday; 9,000 still waiting in Ethiopia

A man watches his son during a training session of the Beitar Shabi Givat Zeev soccer club, in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Givat Ze'ev, near Jerusalem, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

New world soccer boss says solving settlement clubs row ‘a priority’

By Eric BERNAUDEAU

FIFA head Gianni Infantino confident a solution can be found to issue of 6 Israeli teams that play in West Bank, after Palestinians cry foul

British Prime Minister Theresa May gestures as she delivers a keynote address on the final day of the annual Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, central England, on October 5, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / PAUL ELLIS)

British PM blasts Labour as ‘party of anti-Semitism’

Wrapping up her first Conservative conference as leader, May slams opposition for tolerating anti-Jewish sentiment, voices of hate

Saudi King Salman, left, speaks with his Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as they wait for Gulf Arab leaders ahead of the opening of a Gulf Cooperation Council summit, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in May 2012. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

As tensions rise, Iran general suggests Saudi king may be killed by son

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

Revolutionary Guard head Soleimani says Crown Prince Mohammed, who warned Syrian officials against ties with Tehran, is ‘impatient’ to assume power

A 'breathing' building for the port city of Ashdod. (Rossella Tercatin/TImes of Israel)

At Venice Biennale, Israeli pavilion merges art and science

By Rossella Tercatin

More Headlines

A film poster for 'Personal Affairs' by Palestinian filmmaker Maha Haj.

Out of focusLebanon bans Palestinian film, citing Israel boycott

By AFP

Illustrative photo of the Tel Aviv University campus. (Andrew Tobin/JTA)

Israeli scientists announce possible Alzheimer’s breakthrough

Grafitti outside Florida Synagogue Chabad of Parkland, October 5, 2016 (Screen capture: WSVN-TV)

South Florida synagogue vandalized before Rosh Hashanah

By JTA

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, January 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Who by appeal? US Supreme Court opens without Jewish justices

By AP

eBay (ebay image via Shutterstock)

eBay buys Israel’s Corrigon to boost buyer experience

By Shoshanna Solomon

The FIFA World Cup 2018 qualification match between Israel and Italy at the Sami Ofer stadium in Haifa on September 5, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Italy’s soccer team fined for fans’ anti-Semitic behavior

By JTA

Illustrative. Iranian protestors set US and Israeli flags afire during a parade marking al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran on July 1, 2016. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

EU roadmap for Iran ties ignores its anti-Semitism, terrorism

By JTA

David Blatt of the Cleveland Cavaliers looks on during the first quarter against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden on December 15, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images via JTA)

Ex-Cavs coach Blatt to accept NBA championship ring

By JTA

Germania Airlines Germania Airbus A321-211, 23 December 2015 (CC BY-SA dxme, Wikimedia)

Flight to Tel Aviv makes emergency landing in Munich

Israelis sit outside their home near the site where a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit in the southern Israeli town of Sderot, on October 5, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Hebrew media reviewAfter day of death and destruction, papers search for meaning

By Joshua Davidovich

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