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What Matters Most On Friday, October 21, 2016

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with US secretary of state Hillary Clinton in September 2012. (PMO)

Leaked emails show Clinton keen to patch things up with Netanyahu

Documents give insight into Democrat’s pro-Israel, anti-BDS stance, plans to invite PM for visit in first 100 days

Herzog’s US adviser blamed PM’s ‘racism’ for election win — leaked email

Protesters decry Catskills bookstore banner comparing Trump to Nazis

By JTA

350 women rabbis sign letter condemning Trump ‘hate speech’

By Eric Cortellessa

Italian PM calls UNESCO vote ‘unacceptable and wrong’

Matteo Renzi says his envoy abstained in line with other EU countries, but intimates Rome may break European unity in future votes

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)

The final debate: RBG, Soros and Iran lost amid concession outrage

Trump has taken flak from commentators for invoking, in a sinister way, prominent Jewish figures

Trump says he’ll ‘totally accept’ results of election — ‘if I win’

By AFP and AP

Obama: Trump ‘dangerous’ for suggesting he won’t concede

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Day after debate, Clinton gets standing ovation, Trump jeered at charity dinner

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli actress Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman (Zack Snyder/Warner Bros)

Amazon Prime

Wonder Woman not interested in being Israeli PM

While declining the role, Gal Gadot nonetheless explains the intricacies of the Israeli political system to US late-night host Jimmy Kimmel

Luke Wessman tattoos Israeli war veteran Yogev Meushar, who was injured in 2006 in a Palestinian ambush in a West Bank city, during an event to use art to heal both mental and physical wounds, at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, October 20, 2016. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Israeli war veterans, terror victims tend scars of conflict with ink

By AFP and Video by Luke Tress and Iacopo Luzi

Artists 4 Israel, Israel Museum team up to provide free tattoos to those coping with physical, mental wounds from battles, terror attacks

An Israeli Navy Dolphin-class submarine. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel looks to buy three new nuke-capable subs – report

By AFP

German-made Dolphin-class submarines would replace aging boats serving in Israeli Navy since the 1990s

Executive pastry chef Alex Levin with challah breads he prepared for Rosh Hashana pop-up bakery at Osteria Morini in Washington, DC, October 2016. (Courtesy)

Pastry chef’s quick rise from rebbetzin grandma’s kitchen to culinary celeb

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Voted DC’s best for 2016, Alex Levin enjoys sweet success of second-career gamble on lifelong love of baking

Reading the feminine voices into Kohelet

The apparent nihilistic message of Ecclesiastes is transformed when you imagine the responses that refute its claims

Abraham Katsman and Marc Zell

Trump is still better for Israel

Media focus on everything except policy obscures Clinton’s alarming deference to those who support BDS

Let the mother live!

Trump’s late-term abortion comments were so wrong-headed that she cannot remain silent

Irving Elson (left) and his Religious Program Specialist Robert Page, the man who saved Elson's life during the Iraq War. (Courtesy)

Highest-ranking Jewish chaplain in Marines says so long — but not goodbye

By Rich Tenorio

This file photo taken on September 18, 2016 shows Front National (FN) party leader Marine Le Pen delivering a speech behind a French national flag during the FN's summer congress in Frejus, southern France. (Franck Pennant/AFP)

France’s Le Pen: Could she win?

By Guillaume DAUDIN and Clare BYRNE

Once dismissed as untouchable, the far-right leader has worked hard to make herself a respectable answer to voters’ frustrations

Christian pilgrims from France march during the annual Jerusalem Parade on October 20, 2016 in the streets of Jerusalem, to mark the Jewish holiday of Sukkot and to express solidarity with Israel.( AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

Thousands march in Jerusalem in support of Israel

By AFP

Groups from all over the world take part in annual Sukkot parade through the streets of the capital

Illustrative. A grandfather and grandson build a sukkah in the settlement of Efrat in September 2013. (Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

PA intel grills Palestinians who visited settler leader’s sukkah

3 men who took part in festive gathering at home of Efrat mayor asked why they consorted with ‘murderers of babies’

Ayman Kurd, 20, is escorted by Israeli prison officers at the District court in Jerusalem on October 20, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinian who stabbed cops sought ‘martyr’s death’ — prosecution

Indictment states that Ayman Kurd, 20, wrote several wills before wounding 2 officers in Jerusalem last month

Illustrative photo of Israeli security forces near the Gush Etzion junction on October 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Palestinian rock-thrower shot dead by IDF in West Bank

By Raoul Wootliff and AFP

Army says soldier lightly hurt in incident near Etzion Bloc, troops first fired warning shots

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)

School principal suspended after posing with banner lauding terrorist

Head of East Jerusalem school also questioned by police for appearing with soccer team praising Mesbah Abu Sabih

Owner John Saadeh standing outside Jasmine Cafe in the West Bank city of Nablus, Sept. 18, 2016. (Andrew Tobin)

How one popular Palestinian cafe puts women first — and men in the corner

By Andrew Tobin

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and Mohammad Dahlan, left, leave a news conference in Egypt, in February 2007. (AP/Amr Nabil)

Abbas wants Fatah, PLO leadership elections next month

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

Move aimed at blocking return of former Gaza strongman Mohammad Dahlan, say senior officials

An Israeli F-16I fighter jet during an exercise in the United States in 2009. (Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald/US Department of Defense/Wikimedia)

Army probe rules F-16 pilot killed in crash acted correctly

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Air Force inquiry yet to determine cause of October 5 wreck in which Maj. Ohad Cohen Nov died

In this May 8, 2014 file photo, Egypt's ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi sits in a defendant cage in the Police Academy courthouse in Cairo, Egypt. (AP/Tarek el-Gabbas, File)

Mossad man ‘met with Morsi on eve of his becoming Egypt president’

Muslim Brotherhood leader, later deposed by Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, reportedly told agent that ‘Israel not an enemy’

In this July 22, 2015, file photo, provided by the office of the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, and Defense Minister Sedqi Sobh, left, stand at attention at the Air Defense Academy in Alexandria, Egypt. (Mohammed Samaha/Egyptian Presidency via AP, File)

War on jihadist groups leaves Cairo caught between Sunni allies, Shiite powers

By Hamza Hendawi

Its economy depends on Saudi Arabia, but its single-minded campaign against Islamic State pushes Egypt closer to Russia, Assad and Iran

Supporters of Hezbollah chant slogans during a televised speech by leader Hassan Nasrallah in the southern town of Insar, Lebanon, on March 6, 2016. (AFP/Mahmoud Zayyat)

US, Saudi Arabia blacklist Hezbollah members, financiers

By AFP

Treasury freezes assets, blocks transactions for affiliates of Lebanese terror group supporting Syrian leader Assad

Iraq's elite counterterrorism forces advance near Mosul, Iraq, October 20, 2016. (AP/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqi special forces join battle for Mosul; US soldier dies

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and SUSANNAH GEORGE

Facing exploding trucks and snipers, army and anti-IS militias advancing ‘more quickly than we thought,’ PM says

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference in Rome, October 6, 2016. (AFP/Alberto Pizzoli)

UN chief: Nearly 500 dead in 3 weeks, food running out in Aleppo

By AFP

Ban Ki-moon says hunger being used as a weapon of war; no food convoy has reached city for over 3 months

More Headlines

A laborer from the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities works at the site of a 7th century, 827 square meter (8900 square ft) mosaic ahead of the opening ceremony at the Islamic archaeological site of Hisham Palace, in the West Bank city of Jericho, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Stepping stonesVast 8th c. mosaic floor uncovered near Jericho – for a day

By AP

Israeli tourist Amit Reichman went missing in Nepal in October 2016 (courtesy)

Search on for Israeli tourist missing in Nepal

Former US presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton (screenshot)

Bush handover note to Clinton has Americans nostalgic

By AFP

Members of the recent AlmaLinks tour to Israel at an event in Tel Aviv (Courtesy)

First ‘Birthright for business executives’ trip takes in Israel

By Dan Schwartz

Britain's ambassador to Israel, David Quarrey. (British Embassy Israel)

Brexit will bring closer Israel-UK ties, British envoy says

By Raoul Wootliff

In this file photo taken April 14, 2016, government soldiers follow orders to raise their guns during a military parade in Juba, South Sudan. (AP Photo/Justin Lynch, File)

Israeli arms ‘helping to fuel South Sudan war,’ says UN

By AFP

Union for Reform Judaism NFTY youth program in Israel (Screen capture: YouTube)

Reform movement gets $5M endowment for Israel high school program

By JTA

Illustrative: Swastika graffiti. (Flash 90)

Swastikas found at seven sites in and around Toronto U.

By JTA

Phil Chess, shown circa 1970, started the legendary Chess Records label with his brother Leonard. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images via JTA)

Phil Chess, groundbreaking blues and rock exec, dies at 95

By JTA

Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Argentina renews extradition call for Iranian ex-minister

By AFP

Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner, left, Resistance fighter Katharina Sasso and Chancellor Werner Faymann attend a March 12, 2013 unveiling of a plaque honoring Austrians killed by the Nazis. (Hans Punz/AP)

Vienna court sentences policeman for ‘Heil Hitler’ shout

By AFP

A German police officer stands outside the house where a neo-Nazi was arrested in a raid in Georgensmund, Bavaria, October 19, 2016. (Screenshot)

German policeman dies of gunshot wounds in raid on neo-Nazi’s home

By JTA

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