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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 20, 2016

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The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem, by David Roberts, 1850. (Wikipedia/ Creative Commons)

Archaeologists find battle site where Romans breached Jerusalem walls

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Discovery confirms Josephus’s account of the conflict that saw destruction of Second Temple nearly 2,000 years ago, says Israeli Antiquities Authority

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)

PM denies he called Obama ‘existential danger’ to settlements, but confirms concerns

TV report claims Netanyahu told Amona residents he fears actions US president may take in span between election and leaving office

Israel’s antiquities chief compares UNESCO to Islamic State

By Ilan Ben Zion

Czech MPs slam ‘hateful’ UNESCO Jerusalem resolution

Palestinians seek UN resolution against settlements

By Edith M. Lederer

Illustrative: The Samaritan high priest, Abdullah Wassef Tawfiq, stands with his brother Husney Cohen inside his living room with a home-made 'sukkah' made from fresh fruit for the holiday of Tabernacles, or Sukkot, in Mount Gerizim near the West Bank town of Nablus, on October 18, 2016. (Dov Lieber / Times of Israel)

Inside the Samaritan high priest’s fruity sukkah, literally

By Dov Lieber and Iacopo Luzi

While Jews use holiday to spend time outdoors, this ancient Israeli community, now numbering just 750, builds its festive huts indoors, and not out of wood, but fruit

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes the stage for the third presidential debate at the University of Nevada in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump slammed for not promising to honor election results

By Jonathan Lemire and Bill Barrow

GOP senators, Republican National Committee scramble after candidate’s comments in final debate, promise to ‘respect the will of the people’

At final debate, Trump refuses to say he will accept election results

By Julie Pace and Lisa Lerer

Clinton: Trump would be Putin’s ‘puppet’; Trump: You let him take over Mideast

By AFP

Trump: My court nominees will overturn Roe v Wade

By Julie Pace and Lisa Lerer

UK Board of Deputies President Jonathan Arkush meets with Labour Party chair Jeremy Corbyn, February 9, 2016. (courtesy)

Interview

UK’s Jewish leader on Labour anti-Semitism: Jeremy Corbyn is incapable of shifting his irrational prejudices

By David Horovitz

Board of Deputies head Jonathan Arkush explains the far-left’s problem with Jews, reveals his outreach visits to mosques, says a royal visit to Israel may be imminent, and argues that, overall, things are pretty bright for British Jews

Illustrative. IDF soldiers at the Al-Aroub intersection near Hebron, July 18, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Pentagon vows ‘overwhelming’ response to Pyongyang nuke

By Ilan Ben Zion

Palestinian said killed by IDF fire after stones thrown at soldiers; Likud, Jewish Home officials rail at Netanyahu over West Bank outpost

The Narnia event hall in Beersheba. (Google maps)

Terror attack on wedding hall in south foiled — security agency

By Stuart Winer

Shin Bet says Palestinians from Gaza planned to target Beersheba venue where one worked, kidnap and murder soldier, use body as bargaining chip

5 Palestinians arrested for shooting at IDF troops

IDF rescues 4 off-duty soldiers from Palestinian area of West Bank

Troops shut printer for posters lauding Jerusalem terrorist

By Stuart Winer

Want to spread Jew hatred? Just Tweet it

What will it take for Twitter to put a stop to the likes of #Hitlerwasright, #Holohoax and #filthyjewbitch?

Israel’s two equally false narratives

Daniel Gordis’s new book defies devil/angel stereotyping to portray Israel as an extraordinarily noble experiment

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Gratuitous love

Thousands of Christian pilgrims on the annual 'Jerusalem March' offer hugs, candy and much-needed moral support

A group of 15 lawmakers from across the world poses for a photo outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, October 19, 2016. (Avi Hayun)

Reporter's notebook

Defying UNESCO and Ramallah, foreign lawmakers tour Jewish Hebron

By Raphael Ahren

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)

Thousands of women rally for peace outside PM’s home

Jerusalem protest is culmination of two-week march from the north to call for accord with Palestinians

Graffiti sprayed on the wall of a home in the West Bank town of Beitillu, December 22, 2015. The slogan reads 'Revenge greeting Prisoners of Zion.' (Israel Police)

Jewish terror suspects cop to lesser charges under plea deal

Murder indictments dropped against 6 alleged extremists, who instead face jail for arson, assault, vandalism

A peshmerga fighter walks through the kitchen of an underground tunnel made by Islamic State fighters, Tuesday, October 18, 2016, near Mosul. (AP/Bram Janssen)

Arab-Israeli couple charged for joining Islamic State with kids

By Stuart Winer

Parents describe harsh living conditions for them and three children in IS-controlled Mosul; face terror charges after escaping back to Israel

Shani Cooper, diplomatic attaché to the Israeli mission in Ankara, shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a reception in the Turkish capital on August 30, 2016. (Courtesy of the Turkish presidency)

Despite reconciliation, Turkey presses on with trial of IDF officers

Dropping case over 2010 raid on blockade-busting ship to Gaza was key Israeli condition in deal to end years of frozen ties

Iraqi forces hold a position near the village of Tall al-Tibah, some 30 kilometers south of Mosul, on October 19, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

Iraqi forces steamrolling into Mosul faster than expected

By AFP

Islamic State fighters seen fleeing to Raqqa as troops move toward Iraqi city in battle that was predicted to take months

US Central Command chief Gen. Joseph Votel speaks to reporters at the Pentagon, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2016. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US general suspects Iran role in Houthi attacks on US ships

By AFP

Gen. Joseph Votel, head of US forces in Mideast, places most explicit blame yet on Tehran for Yemen missile launches

The Republican Jewish Coalition announced a campaign attacking Katie McGinty, a Pennsylvania Democrat running for Senate, over her support of the Iran nuclear deal. (Screen capture: YouTube)

RJC targets Democratic Senate hopeful who backed Iran deal

By JTA

Republican Jewish group launches attack campaign against ‘dangerously naive’ Katie McGinty from Pennsylvania

The sanctuary is designed so that no seat is more than 35 feet from the pulpit. (Courtesy)

After 40+ years in ‘desert,’ New York’s biggest LGBTQ synagogue has a fancy new home

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

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

Tel Aviv hospital isolates 4 babies carrying deadly bacteria

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Deitsch (Courtesy)

Ukraine arrests 4 over brutal beating of Israeli rabbi

Lebanese politician Michel Aoun in 2015 (screen capture: YouTube)

Ex-army head, Hezbollah ally Aoun tipped for Lebanon presidency

By AFP

Donald Trump speaking at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2016 Policy Conference at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC, March 21, 2016. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Trump, Pence to give video addresses at GOP rally in Jerusalem

Image of Jewish Republican candidate for governor in Missouri Eric Greitens (Chloe Crespi/JTA)

Jewish Republican slams rival for staying in Israel after 2011 Missouri twister

By JTA

The old Warsaw Jewish Theater building. (Wikimedia Commons/Tadeusz Rudzk)

Warsaw’s Jewish Theater finds temporary spaces to perform

By JTA

Arthur Brutter designed a table that provides shelter during earthquakes as his final project at Israel’s Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (Tzur Kotzer via JTA)

Israel gives Taiwan tables that double as earthquake shelters

By JTA

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, right, and Republican nominee Donald Trump walk off the stage after the final presidential debate at the Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 19, 2016. (Robyn Beck/AFP)

Hebrew media reviewViva Las Vegas!

By Ilan Ben Zion

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