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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 19, 2016

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A tweet sent to Jonathan Weisman depicts the journalist as a concentration camp inmate and Donald Trump as a Nazi guard. (Screenshot from Twitter via JTA)

ADL sees dramatic election spike in harassment of Jewish journalists

By Eric Cortellessa

Over a year, 2.6 million tweets found to contain anti-Semitic language, mostly from self-identified Trump backers, study says

Fraternal foeTrump invites pro-Hamas Malik Obama to debate

By Stuart Winer

Jewish reporter targeted with anti-Semitic tweets from Trump supporter

By JTA

‘Pussy grabs back’: US women rally against Trump

By AFP

The site for the third presidential debate between Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at UNLV in Las Vegas, October 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

How ugly can it get? Clinton, Trump set for last debate

Immigration, economy among topics up for discussion as Republican nominee battles sex predator image, lashes out at GOP

Ivanka Trump says dad’s 2005 comments ‘inappropriate, offensive’

By ToI Staff and AP

AnalysisWill things turn ugly if Donald Trump loses?

By daniel woolls and Michael Mathes

At firebombed campaign office, Pence slams ‘political terrorism’

Israeli security forces at the scene of an alleged attempted stabbing incident at the Tapuah Junction in the West Bank, on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 (Israel Police)

Palestinian woman killed in attempt to stab officers — police

Alleged attacker approaches Tapuah Junction in West Bank, is shot after ignoring warning fire; no Israelis injured

Hundreds of women from the 'Women Wage Peace' movement take part in a march in support of peace in Jerusalem on October 19, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu denies he called Obama a ‘danger’ to settlements

By Marissa Newman

PM says past US presidents, before leaving office, pushed initiatives that were ‘inconsistent with Israeli interests’

Lisa Robins shares a story about dating a Rabbi who is in her 40s. Lisa Cirincione, Kate Zentall, and Robert Trebor listen. (Courtesy)

Overlooked by history books, women rabbis write themselves in

A Los Angeles women’s theater helps female clergy reclaim their birthright — on the stage and page

An Israeli doctor treats the wound of an earthquake-affected Nepalese boy, whose arm was amputated in the nearby army hospital and shifted for further treatment to the newly opened Israeli field hospital for earthquake victims in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, April 29, 2015. (Manish Swarup/AP)

Exclusive

Masters of disaster, IDF field hospital may be recognized as world’s best

By Judah Ari Gross

World Health Organization considers giving Israel its highest rating for emergency medical teams, something no other country has achieved

The alleyway outside Tasrir, a Middle Eastern bar in the Mahane Yehuda market that often finds itself in disagreements with its more traditional neighbors who don't want bargoers and loud music near their stalls (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Jerusalem’s iconic shuk risks being overwhelmed by the bar scene that revived it

By Jessica Steinberg

‘It’s not the Western Wall or Knesset, but we don’t want to ruin it,’ says deputy mayor Ofer Berkovitch, as he tries to rein in the gelaterias, pubs and restaurants that are replacing the fruit and veg stalls of Mahane Yehuda

The direct line from BDS to murder

The French experience teaches that US progressives’ rabid anti-Israel rhetoric will lead to attacks on Jews

A Dylan cover for these painful days

Taking refuge from toxic politics in a version of ‘Wagon Wheel’ created by an ethnic mashup of American talent [VIDEO]

Heddy Breuer Abramowitz

Black turns to white and white to black

Laying a 92-year-old woman to rest amid reverberating echoes of Jewish presence underscored the gall of the UN denial

Thousands of Jewish worshipers gather at the Western Wall for the Priestly Blessing on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 (Israel Police)

Police eject 8 Jewish worshipers from Temple Mount

Some 1,100 people visit Jerusalem holy site, among them 275 Jews; thousands attend Priestly Blessing ceremony at Western Wall

Armenian Christian clergymen attend prayers on Palm Sunday, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in Jerusalem's Old City, April 5, 2015. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Analysis

Israel’s ‘best’ not good enough to enlist Christians against UNESCO resolution

By Raphael Ahren

Diplomats asked Vatican and Evangelical groups for help, but pro-Palestinian voting habits evidently trump historical veracity

Illustrative: A Hamas flag at the Temple Mount, in 2013 (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Hamas calls UNESCO vote on Jerusalem ‘victory’ for Palestinians

By ToI Staff and Dov Lieber

Orhan Buyruk in the Old City of Jerusalem (Facebook)

Turk expelled without charge after 3 weeks in Israeli custody

By Alexander Fulbright

Man detained at Ben Gurion airport and interrogated by Shin Bet, reportedly on suspicion of spying for Iran

IDF infantrymen congregating around a tunnel entrance in Gaza, July 24, 2014. (Courtesy IDF Flickr)

IDF probe: Army failed to internalize, train for tunnel threat

By Stuart Winer

Investigation finds that unpreparedness of units to destroy tunnels during fighting constituted worst neglect of 2014 war

US Democratic presidential hopeful former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the American Israel Public Affairs Committee 2016 Policy Conference at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC, March 21, 2016. (AFP / SAUL LOEB)

Clinton campaign manager: Avoid talk about Israel, to keep Democrats happy

By Raoul Wootliff

Latest WikiLeaks dump shows Robby Mook advising candidate she ‘shouldn’t have Israel at public events,’ but can mention Jewish state at fundraisers

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: Bombing of Aleppo is to ‘protect Syrian people’

After 740 civilians reported killed in past month, president says his regime and its ally, Russia, must ‘get rid of terrorists’ to shield residents

Iraqi forces are deployed during an offensive to retake Mosul from Islamic State militants outside Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Oct. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

US expects IS will use chemical weapons in fight for Mosul

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Officials confirm presence of sulfur mustard agent collected from terror group’s munition fragments earlier this month

A peshmerga fighter looks out of the entrance of an underground tunnel built by Islamic State fighters, Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. (AP/Bram Janssen)

Retaken villages show IS increasingly driven underground

By SUSANNAH GEORGE and Bram Janssen

Wrested from control on first day of offensive to reconquer Mosul, Badana offers glimpse into battle ahead

Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon in April 2016 (Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)

Israel’s envoy to call on UN to end funding for B’Tselem

Danny Danon set to argue that global body can’t fund rights group and also expect it to give objective opinion on settlements

Right-wing supporters take part in a pre-election rally at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on March 15, 2015 (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Parties fined millions over Tel Aviv rally ahead of 2015 vote

Likud, Jewish Home, and Yisrael Beytenu punished by State Comptroller; V15 and Israel Hayom found to not have violated campaign finance rules

A sign in a New York City parking garage welcoming Pango payments (Courtesy)

Israeli smart-park firm Pango sells its US operation

By Dan Schwartz

Parking technology to be used in over 100 cities throughout North and Latin America

Thirty-five organizations gathered at the inaugural Service Matters Summit in New York City. (Stefano Giovanini)

Living to serve: Conference shows how to ‘do Jewish’ by helping others

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

This photo taken on August 03, 2016 shows US swimmer Ryan Lochte holding a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, two days ahead of the opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.(AFP PHOTO / MARTIN BUREAU)

Atone-deafRyan Lochte has no idea what Yom Kippur is

By JTA

In this Jan. 24, 2015 file photo, Harry Shearer appears at the 30th annual TEC Awards during the 2015 National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) show in Anaheim, Calif. (Paul A. Hebert/Invision/AP)

Shit SandwichHarry Shearer sues French studio over ‘Spinal Tap’ profits

By AP

Illustrative: A Saudi executioner displays his sword. (YouTube/MEMRITVVideos)

Saudi prince reportedly executed for murder

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg attending the National Tennis Center, Aug. 26, 2013. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)

Michael Bloomberg donates $50 million to Boston Museum of Science

By JTA

Baroness Jenny Tonge (YouTube screen capture)

‘Disgust’ with Israel led to rise in UK anti-Semitism, says baroness

Protesters at the concert of Israeli Arab rapper Tamer Nafar in Haifa on October 18, 2016 (Mhassan Nasser/Joint List spokesperson)

Security bolstered as protesters disturb Arab rapper’s gig

By AFP and ToI Staff

Natalie Portman showing her baby bump at the premiere of her film “Planetarium” at the 73rd Venice Film Festival, Sept. 8, 2016. (Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Natalie Portman calls her babies ‘good luck charms’ as Oscar speculation swirls

By JTA

A scene from the Israeli TV series 'Shtisel,' being adapted for US audiences by the co-creator of 'Friends,' Marta Kauffman. October 19, 2016 (Youtube screenshot)

Geula to BrooklynIsraeli hit drama ‘Shtisel’ heads to US

A woman stands over a statue of depicting a naked Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in New York, October 18, 2016. (Lenny Brook/YouTube)

CentaurfoldRhubarb erupts over naked, hooved Clinton statue

By JAKE PEARSON

Moderators Anderson Cooper of CNN (L) and Martha Raddatz of ABC listen as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during the second debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri on October 9, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / JIM BOURG)

Hebrew media reviewBacks to the wall

By Ilan Ben Zion

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