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What Matters Most On Friday, October 14, 2016

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, a day after the Israeli general elections, March 18, 2015. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu leads angry denunciations of ‘absurd’ UNESCO decision

UN body’s motion ignoring Jewish link to Temple Mount draws scorn from across Israeli political spectrum, including charges of anti-Semitism

UNESCO chief pans her member states on anti-Israel Jerusalem resolution

By Itamar Sharon and Raphael Ahren

Israel suspends cooperation with UNESCO over Jerusalem vote

US Jews: UNESCO vote seeks to erase Jewish ties to Jerusalem

UNESCO delegates prior to the opening of the organization's 2013 General Conference in Paris, France. (AP/Benjamin Girette)

Analysis

Outrageous as it may be, UNESCO’s Jerusalem vote has a silver lining

By Raphael Ahren

An April resolution ignoring Jewish ties to the Temple Mount garnered a big majority. This time, Palestinians had a little less cause to celebrate

PA: UNESCO vote is call for Israel to end ‘illegal, colonial’ acts

By Stuart Winer

Trump: UNESCO decision more evidence of ‘enormous anti-Israel bias’ at UN

Full text of new UNESCO resolution on ‘Occupied Palestine’

Marlee Matlin appearing on the Celebrity Apprentice in 2011 (screen capture: YouTube)

Trump accused of calling deaf Jewish actress Marlee Matlin ‘retarded’

By JTA

GOP nominee reportedly made comments during filming for ‘Celebrity Apprentice,’ in which the Oscar winner appeared

Trump says he doesn’t know, never met some of his accusers

By Steve Peoples and Jonathan Lemire

Debate question to Trump on sexual assault may prove pivotal

By David Bauder

Early voting offers positive signs in key states for Clinton

An illustrative photograph of galaxy NGC 6744, said to closely resemble the Milky Way. (CC BY, ESO/Wikimedia)

Anyone out there?

Universe has 20 times more galaxies than thought

By AFP

Surprising discovery by Hubble Space Telescope is based on 3D modelling of images collected over 20 years

Bob Dylan, third from left, with his son Jesse, in the white tallis on right, at the Western Wall in September 1983. (Facebook)

Gotta serve somebodyGotta serve somebody

Nobel winner Bob Dylan’s 5 most Jewish moments

By Gabe Friedman

The literature laureate had become a born again Christian in the 1970s, but then he held his son’s bar mitzvah at the Western Wall

At Las Vegas concert, Dylan mum on his Nobel Prize

By AP

Bob Dylan’s surprise Nobel draws praise worldwide

By ToI Staff and AP

Trying the gay shul on for size

He was moved to tears by the devout Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, despite (or because of) straight, Orthodox roots

The spirituality of song

Moses harnessed music’s remarkable staying power to express his final message to the Children of Israel (Haazinu)

Andres Spokoiny

The junta, the park, and the sukkah

The thick walls of totalitarian regimes have nothing on the wobbly dwellings that host joyous Jewish get-togethers

Palestinian soccer team Hilal al-Quds poses with a poster hailing Palestinian terrorist Mesbah Abu Sabih, who killed two Israelis in a shooting attack in Jerusalem on October 9, 2016. (Facebook)

Palestinian soccer team poses with poster of Jerusalem terrorist

Members of Hilal al-Quds hold up banner praising ‘martyr’ and ‘hero’ Mesbah Abu Sabih who killed two in Jerusalem on Sunday

Mesbah Abu Sabih on the Temple Mount in an undated photograph. (Social media)

Court removes gag order on name, photo of Jerusalem terrorist

By Judah Ari Gross

Mesbah Abu Sabih, 39-year-old East Jerusalem resident, can finally be identified as gunmen who carried out Sunday’s deadly shooting

Dr. Mahmoud Habbash, Supreme Sharia Judge in the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s adviser on religious and Islamic affairs. (Courtesy)

Rivlin hosts Israeli-Palestinian clerics in call for peace

Among the participants: Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi and PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s Islamic affairs adviser

Amir Abdel Hakim Jabara, left, and Ibrahim Abdel Halim Sheikh Yusuf, right, alleged members of an Islamic State terror cell in the Arab Israeli village of Tayibe. (Shin Bet)

Israeli trio accused of joining IS, burning stadium to halt concert

By Judah Ari Gross

Three men from northern town of Tayibe also attempted to dig smuggling tunnel to West Bank, but made little headway, Shin Bet charges

UN Secretary-General-designate Antonio Guterres speaks during the ceremony for the appointment of the Secretary-General during the 70th session of the General Assembly October 13, 2016 at the United Nations in New York. (AFP PHOTO / Jewel SAMAD)

Man-of-action Guterres gets official nod as new UN chief

By Carole LANDRY

General Assembly elects former Portuguese PM, UN refugee head as secretary-general; diplomats hail veteran politician as ‘a reformer’

Dua‘a Abu Sharkh, 32, of Lod, was murdered on September 23, 2016. (courtesy Amad Abu Suwhat)

Using the term ‘honor killings’ leads to many more victims, Israeli Arab activists warn

By Melanie Lidman

The then director-general of the Foreign Ministry, Dore Gold, speaks during a Foreign Affairs and Security Committee meeting on July 21, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Interview

After quitting, Foreign Ministry chief denies falling out with PM

By Raphael Ahren

Returning to his Jerusalem think tank after only 16 months, Dore Gold says he ‘will be back on the front lines of diplomatic activity’ very soon

Former ambassador to Australia, Yuval Rotem, right, seen with former British prime minister Tony Blair. Rotem was appointed to be acting director-general of the Foreign Minister, October 13, 2016. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Career diplomat tapped as stand-in as Foreign Ministry head quits

By Stuart Winer and Raphael Ahren

Carry Ulreich, right, and her older sister, Rachel, in a photograph taken during their time in hiding in Rotterdam during the Nazi occupation. (Boekencentrum/Mozaïek/JTA)

Dutch survivor’s diary called an Anne Frank story with a ‘happy’ ending

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef on November 3, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli chief rabbi: Syria is suffering ‘a small holocaust’

Yitzhak Yosef says Jews must not be silent in the face of genocide across northern border: ‘They are not our friends, but they are human beings’

Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks to The Associated Press at the presidential palace in Damascus, Syria in a photo released by the Syrian presidency on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016. (Syrian Presidency via AP)

Assad: Aleppo must be ‘cleaned’ of terrorists

By AP and ToI Staff

Syrian president says beleaguered city will serve as a springboard to retaking other parts of the country

Gina Grad at the Orange County Fair. (Courtesy)

California radio star is laughing her way up the charts

By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman

More Headlines

Jack Greenberg receiving a standing ovation from the audience at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s luncheon in Washington, D.C., to commemorate the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, May 16, 2014. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Jack Greenberg, civil rights attorney who defended MLK Jr., dies at 91

By JTA and ToI Staff

Benjamin Netanyahu in Katzrin, Israel, March 21, 1993. (Esaias Baitel/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Can Trump learn a thing or two from Netanyahu’s old video scandal?

Protesters urging a boycott against Israel in Melbourne, file photo (CC-BY SA Takver/Wikimedia Commons)

History-making website aims to beat BDS with facts

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Egyptian army soldiers patrol the Cairo-Ismailia desert road in Egypt, August 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Attack kills 12 Egyptian soldiers in Sinai

Former French president and candidate for the right-wing Les Republicains (LR) party primaries Nicolas Sarkozy takes part in the first televised debate between the seven candidates for France's right-wing presidential nomination ahead of the 2017 presidential election, on October 13, 2016 at the studios of French private television channel TF1 in La Plaine-Saint-Denis, north of Paris. (AFP /Martin Bureau)

Sarkozy on defensive in first French presidential primary debate

A woman holds an image of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej as she waits in a queue to pay her respects at the Grand Palace in Bangkok on October 14, 2016. (AFP/Munir Uz Zaman)

Israel sends condolences to Thailand over king’s death

By ToI Staff and AP

Sarah Techiya Litman and Ariel Beigel marry in Jerusalem in November 2015, two weeks after her brother and father were killed in a terror attack (YouTube screenshot)

New lifeTerror victim’s daughter gives birth to baby girl

By JTA

Contestants on the job in 'Touch,' Keshet's latest game show that will now go international with BuzzFeed Motion Pictures. (Courtesy Keshet International)

Golden touchIsrael’s Keshet, BuzzFeed take game show global

By Jessica Steinberg

Inaugurating the new pleasure cruise ship line between Acre and Haifa, launched by the Ministry of Tourism, and which will run twice a day, seven days a week (Courtesy Itamar Grinberg)

Seas the dayAcre, Haifa new ports of call for local cruise liner

By Jessica Steinberg

The audience reacts as Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius announces that Bob Dylan is awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature during a presser at the Old Stockholm Stock Exchange Building in Stockholm, October 13, 2016. (AFP/TT News Agency/Jonas Ekstromer)

Hebrew media reviewTangled up in boos

By Joshua Davidovich

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