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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 13, 2016

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US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan performing in France, July 2012. (AP/David Vincent/File)

In surprise win, Bob Dylan awarded Nobel Prize for literature

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Legendary Jewish musician honored ‘for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’

Forever youngBob Dylan’s life and work examined in new Israeli exhibit

BlogThe days after Bob Dylan went electric

By Harvey Brooks

With Bob on our sideBob Dylan’s forgotten pro-Israel song, revisited

By Gabe Friedman

Jewish worshipers pray in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, during Passover, April 6, 2015. The Western Wall is a retaining wall of the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

PA: UNESCO vote sends ‘clear message’ to Israel, US

By Joshua Davidovich

Jerusalem mayor asks whether cultural body would also deny Islam’s link to Mecca, while deputy FM blasts ‘shameful’ measure based on ‘Palestinian lie’

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump kisses a "Women for Trump" placard during a rally at the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport in Lakeland, Florida on October 12, 2016. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

5 women level sexual assault allegations against Trump

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Republican nominee also found to have made sexual comments about a young girl; brands reports ‘character assassination’

Strewth, fair dinkumAussie lawmakers say Trump is ‘a revolting slug’

By AFP

Giuliani wrongly accuses Clinton of lying about 9/11

By David B. Caruso

AnalysisUS presidential politics, sliding deeper into disrepute

By Michael Mathes

Director-General of the Foreign Ministry Dore Gold arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting in the Prime Minister's Office, Jerusalem, June 26, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Foreign Ministry chief quits, citing ‘personal reasons’

By Raphael Ahren

After 16 months on the job, Dore Gold reportedly frustrated Netanyahu kept him out of important foreign policy matters

'JewAsian' authors Helen Kim and Noah Leavitt (Matthew Zimmerman Banderas)

With Jewish-Asian marriages on the rise, academic couple takes on subject close to home

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Helen Kim and Noah Leavitt’s new book tackles assumptions about Jewish identities of intermarried families and their children

Emily B. Landau

That so-called Israeli support for the Iran deal

Claims by Barack Obama, Tim Kaine and others that IDF brass are pro-JCPOA are potentially dangerous distortions

What they don’t tell you about the IDF

On the quiet sacrifice so many soldiers make: the kind where every day in the army feels like a day wasted

Israel would do just what Hungary did

His country’s decision to retain control over migration was a security measure all Israelis should understand

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, seen with then-Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on August 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/Pool)

Bennett, Netanyahu spar over ‘credit’ for bid to delay outpost demolition

By Raoul Wootliff

State to request six-month postponement of dismantlement of Amona, a 40-family settlement built on Palestinian land

Hagai El-Ad, executive director of B'Tselem, at a press conference in Tel Aviv, February 5, 2016. (AFP/Jack Guez)

B’Tselem under fire for planned UN presentation on settlements

By Raoul Wootliff

Israeli group will ‘lay out the reality of the occupation’ at meeting for representatives of all 15 Security Council members

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, center, sits alongside European Council President Donald Tusk, left, and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl national cemetery during the funeral of former Israeli president Shimon Peres on September 30, 2016. (AFP/Pool/Abir Sultan)

Abbas pardons officer who criticized him for attending Peres funeral

PA leader commutes one-year sentence for Lt. Col. Osama Mansour

Illustrative. Israeli security forces arrest a Palestinian man after he allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail in the West Bank city of Hebron on June 1, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Troops come under fire in West Bank; 4 suspects nabbed

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF, police arrest 20 Palestinians over Yom Kippur connected to gunfire exchange with soldiers, funding Hamas terror, rock-throwing

A Facebook post on the account of a Palestinian man living in Nazareth Illit praising the actions of suicide attackers. (Israel Police)

Nazareth resident arrested for Facebook incitement

Palestinian man living in northern Israel posts images of suicide bombers alongside photos of himself holding a rifle

Avratech trains Ultra-Orthodox men to work in software (Courtesy)

Students ponder Talmud, tackle software in push for livelihood

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Avratech program encourages ultra-Orthodox men to work in high-tech while continuing their religious studies

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a press-conference in the capital Tehran, February 27, 2016. (AFP/ATTA KENARE)

Republicans slam eased restrictions on business with Iran

By Eric Cortellessa

Senators question legality of administration’s new guidelines, say more money will now flow to Tehran’s Revolutionary Guards

Six-year-old Amina in Aleppo blames Bashar Assad for killing her brothers (Screen capture: YouTube)

Aleppo mayor describes ‘holocaust’ in plea for world help

By ToI Staff and AP

6-year-old Amina blames Assad for killing her brothers, as bombs fall and troops advance through city

Tahany Shaath holds her three-day old new-born son Waleed at their house in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on October 12, 2016. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Gaza Strip population said to reach 2 million

By AFP

Newborn Waleed Shaath in Rafah brings Palestinian enclave above new threshold, Hamas says; UN says territory could be ‘unlivable’ by 2020

Former NBA All-Star Amar'e Stoudemire looks on during a basketball training session with his new club Hapoel Jerusalem in Jerusalem on October 7, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

Ex-NBA star’s faith leads to personal promised land

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A baby seen sleeping in a cradle, illustrative photo (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Fast bornRome cops help deliver baby outside shul on Yom Kippur eve

By JTA

Illustrative: Supporters of the Pegida (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident) take part in a protest against German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her immigration policy on October 3, 2016 in Dresden, eastern Germany. (Odd Andersen/AFP)

Nazi jargon revival causes alarm in Germany

Rapper Drake performs onstage at the 2016 iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile Arena on September 23, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images for iHeartMedia)

Drake nominated for 13 American Music Awards

By JTA

Israeli natural gas rigs in the Mediterranean Sea, September 2, 2015. (Flash90)

Turkey, Israel to examine building gas pipeline

By Fulya Ozerkan

Photos provided by German police show 22-year-old Syrian asylum seeker Jaber Albakr, from Damascus, who Berlin authorities say was "radicalized" and sought to carry out a terror attack on German soil. (Police Sachsen via AP)

German bomb plot suspect kills self in Saxony prison cell

By David Rising

The European Union Parliament in Brussels (Russell Trow/CC BY 2.0/Flickr)

Israel-Europe R&D directorate appoints new head

By Shoshanna Solomon

A view of the Caucasus Mountains near Kazbegi, Georgia, on June 04, 2013. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewTragedy in Georgia on my mind

By Joshua Davidovich

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