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What Matters Most On Friday, October 7, 2016

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Illustrative photo of security prisoners in an Israeli prison (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

UK freezes $30m in Palestinian aid over salaries for terrorists

London says it will investigate whether PA used donor countries’ funds to finance payments to terror convicts in Israeli prisons

Liberman: We don’t want war but will respond to every rocket

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinians: Gaza probe a ‘serious test’ for ICC

By AFP and ToI Staff

After heart scare, doctors give Abbas clean bill of health

By AP

Filmmaker Elite Zexer will speak about the making of her award-winning 'Sand Storm' on Thursday, March 2, at the Jerusalem Cinematheque (Courtesy Elite Zexer)

'We all felt on the set like something special was happening'

When the dust settles, will all-Arabic drama ‘Sand Storm’ bring Israel an Oscar?

By Jessica Steinberg

Elite Zexer explains how she made her prize-winning movie — a maelstrom of drama that resonates among woman anywhere, despite the chasm between the West and the Bedouin community it depicts

Palm trees sway in high gusts of wind, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, in Vero Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Synagogues cancel Shabbat services as Florida Jews brace for Hurricane Matthew

By Dina Weinstein

550,000-strong Jewish community joins neighbors in evacuating or hunkering down

Emily Vulpi, 29, laughs as the winds pick up as she walks along the beach with Ryan Bell, 28, ahead of expected landfall of Hurricane Matthew in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. (Will Vragovic/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Matthew hammers Florida, begins dayslong beating of coast

By Mike Schneider and KELLI KENNEDY

Illustrative: A newborn baby in an Israeli hospital. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Life expectancy for baby born in Israel today is 82, compared to 77 in 1990

Less encouragingly, global study also shows increase in Israelis suffering from high blood pressure, high blood sugar and high body mass index

Brian Berman, his wife Dafna Berman, and their children, (from left to right): Noam 11, Nava 6, Ranaan 9, Akiva 1, Eitan 13. (Courtesy Brian Berman)

Gaucher foundation CEO shows disease is no death sentence

By Cathryn J. Prince

Most prevalent among Ashkenazi Jews, the lifelong condition can now be treated with enzyme replacement therapy

From great to good

How trying to accomplish greatness obstructs the Jewish and moral ideal of being a truly good person

To renew our days

Facing death, Moses commands acts that will keep the Jewish people hungry and driven for a living Torah (Vayelech)

Elliot Vaisrub Glassenberg

Secret deals threaten Israel’s security

Whose safety is protected by closed-door decisions to deport asylum-seekers and give weapons to African rogue regimes?

US President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a bilateral meeting in New York, September 21, 2016. (AFP/Jim Watson)

Israeli official: Obama’s settlement critique ‘an alibi’ for planned anti-Israel moves

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

After Washington castigates plans for 300 new West Bank homes, senior source tells Israeli TV US president is preparing one-sided action

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and aide Huma Abedin, lower left, step from Clinton's campaign plane as they arrive at Van Nuys Airport in Van Nuys, Calif., Monday, Aug. 22, 2016. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

Hillary aide opposed AIPAC 2009 invite to Bill Clinton

By JTA

Education Minister Naftali Bennett seen during the Council for High Education press conference in Jerusalem, on September 13, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Bennett: Israel must make ‘sacrifices’ to annex West Bank

Amid row with US over settlement building, report also says Tourism Ministry pushing development of promenade in Beit El

Vice President Joe Biden waves after speaking at a memorial service for former Israeli president and prime minister Shimon Peres at the Adas Israel Congregation in Washington DC, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. (Zach Gibson/AP)

Biden: Peres was ‘the conscience and soul’ of Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

At Washington memorial, vice president calls himself a Zionist, urges Jewish community and Israelis to carry on elder statesman’s legacy

Between albums, Matisyahu has been touring, managing himself, and being a dad. (Christopher Townsend)

Matisyahu delivers sobering anti-BDS message in new single

By Madison Margolin

Rep. Tammy Duckworth and Sen. Mark Kirk shake hands after their debate on Monday Oct. 3, 3016 in the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board room. (Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune/TNS via Getty Images via JTA)

In battle for US Senate, Iran nuclear deal looms large

As races heat up, candidates are using support or opposition to the controversial accord as a means of tarring their opponents

Police and sappers inspecting a rocket fired from Gaza that hit the southern Israeli city of Sderot on October 5, 2016. (Flash90)

Analysis: A Gaza flare-up, and Abbas's unhealthy week

Everyone wants quiet in the south. That doesn’t mean we’ll get it

By Avi Issacharoff

Had Wednesday’s rocket fire at Sderot caused casualties, we would find ourselves in a completely different situation

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)

Maj. Ohad Cohen Nov, killed in F-16 crash, is buried in hometown Mazor

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Military yet to determine cause of Wednesday wreck; pilot, 34, survived by pregnant wife and a daughter

Women activists aboard the Zaytouna-Oliva sailboat headed for the Gaza Strip sing a song for Gaza. The boat was intercepted on October 5, 2016 by the Israeli Navy and escorted to the Israeli port of Ashdod. (Screenshot)

3 Gaza boat activists released, several remain in custody

By ToI Staff and AFP

New Zealand MP, two journalists on their way home; others await deportation after Israeli navy intercepts their vessel en route to Palestinian enclave

In this Friday, Dec. 18, 2015 file photo, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres speaks during a news conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Analysis

Incoming UN chief a friend of Israel, but won’t shy away from criticism

By Raphael Ahren

While empathizing with Gazans during 2014 war, Antonio Guterres has mostly stayed mum on the Palestinian question

United Nations general secretary nominee Antonio Guterres speaks to the press in Lisbon, October 6, 2016. (AFP/JOSE MANUEL RIBEIRO)

Security Council backs former Portuguese PM for UN chief

By Carole LANDRY

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for newly appointed judges at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on August 9, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In manifesto, minister says a more Jewish Israel will be more democratic

By Marissa Newman

Supporters of the ruling Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) cheer during a party meeting in Sale on October 6 , 2016 ahead of the next day's parliamentary election. (AFP PHOTO / FADEL SENNA)

Moroccans vote amid worries about jobs, Islamic extremism

By SAMIA ERRAZZOUKI

Elections seen as key test for moderate, West-oriented monarchy’s pledge of post-Arab Spring reforms

In this Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2016 file photo Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos delivers a statement to the press after meeting with former President Alvaro Uribe and other opposition leaders at the presidential palace in Bogota, Colombia. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, File)

South American Israelis celebrate Colombian president’s Nobel Peace Prize

By JTA

Despite voters’ rejection of peace deal with rebels, Norwegian Nobel Committee says peace process still alive

Alex Hershaft seen after speaking at a pro-vegan event in New York City, Sept. 27, 2016. (Josefin Dolsten /JTA)

Holocaust survivor likens treatment of livestock to Shoah

By Josefin Dolsten

More Headlines

Cans of Zyklon B on display at Auschwitz. (photo credit: CC BY Jaysmark, Flickr)

Offensive foulCzech kids’ volleyball team named for poison used by Nazis

By JTA

$The three kidnapped teens, from left to right: Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar and Naftali Frenkel (Photo credit: Courtesy)$

HBO to create show on 2014 kidnapping of 3 Israeli teens

Illustrative: Newborn babies in a hospital ward (Flash 90)

Name droppingIsrael’s top baby names are Muhammad, Tamar

Jews from around the world recorded the song “A New Year,” released by the 92nd Street Y on Sept. 28, 2016. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Diaspora DittyJews around the world record Rosh Hashanah hit

By Josefin Dolsten

Former SS medic Hubert Zafke, 95, accused of aiding in 3,681 murders in Auschwitz in 1944, attends his trial on September 12, 2016 at the court in Neubrandenburg, Germany. (AFP/dpa/Bernd Wüstneck)

German trial of Auschwitz medic collapses over bias complaints

By AFP

A mikveh, or Jewish ritual bath, in a Jerusalem neighborhood. (illustrative photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Israeli women may now immerse in ritual baths unsupervised

People march during an annual religious festival in Bishoftu, a town southeast of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016. (AP Photo)

Report: Ethiopian Jew killed in Gondar riots while waiting to immigrate

By JTA

Bratslav Hasidim dancing in Kiev airport, October 5, 2016 (Screen capture: Facebook)

Nu nud nudni nudniksBratslav Hasidim cause havoc in Kiev airport

Hundreds of people attend the annual gay pride parade in the southern city of Ashdod on June 17, 2016. (Flash90)

Israel adds $5 million in funding for LGBT community

By JTA

FieldIn sensors help keep tabs on crops (Courtesy)

Israel’s FieldIn helps farmers track crops, cut costs

Israel's players celebrate after Tomer Hemed (No. 10) scores during the World Cup 2018 qualification match between Macedonia and Israel in Skopje on October 6, 2016. Israel won 2-1 (AFP/Robert Atanasovski)

Israel beats Macedonia in nail-biting World Cup soccer qualifier

Chef Asaf Granit shows off his biceps and tatts for 'LOOK AT ME' (Courtesy Ron Kedmi)

Brand awarenessThe tats are out in Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

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