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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 26, 2016

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A First Temple-era, 2,700-year-old papyrus bearing the oldest known mention of Jerusalem in Hebrew. (IAA)

Predates the Dead Sea Scrolls by centuries

Oldest Hebrew mention of Jerusalem found on rare papyrus from 7th century BCE

By Ilan Ben Zion

Reference to consignment of wineskins ‘to Jerusalem’ appears on 2,700-year-old First Temple-era scrap believed plundered from Judean Desert cave

UNESCO's World Heritage Committee voting on a resolution ignoring Jewish and Christian ties to Jerusalem's Old City in Paris, October 26, 2016 (screen shot UNESCO website)

UNESCO adopts another resolution ignoring Jewish link to Temple Mount

By Raphael Ahren

In secret ballot, cultural body’s World Heritage Committee approves text using only the site’s Muslim name; 10 states vote in favor, 2 oppose, 8 abstain

Despite defeat, Netanyahu hails progress for Israel at UNESCO

Another UNESCO panel set to deny Jewish link to Temple Mount

By Raphael Ahren

PM: ‘No change yet’ as police suggest limited Temple Mount access for MKs

By Alexander Fulbright and ToI Staff

Illustrative: IDF soldiers patrol near the border between Israel and Lebanon on May 1, 2013. (Avishag Shaar Yashuv/FLASH90)

Israeli soldier lightly injured by gunfire from Lebanon

By Judah Ari Gross

Shots fired from passing car across the border; IDF troops fire back, ‘register a hit,’ army says

Illustrative. A member of the Egyptian armed forces patrols outside al-Maza military airport in Cairo after a Sinai terror attack, January 30, 2015. (AFP/ Mohamed el-Shahed)

IDF: Egyptian forces shot dead Israeli teen on the border

By Judah Ari Gross

Day after shooting near Sinai security fence, army says maintenance work was coordinated with Cairo ahead of time

Israeli teen said killed by Egyptian troops to be buried Wednesday

By Judah Ari Gross

Father of teen killed on Egypt border: Authorities ‘abandoned him’

By Judah Ari Gross

MKs slam Defense Ministry after employee aged 15 killed by border gunfire from Egypt

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Israel's ambassador to UNESCO Carmel Shama-Hacohen throws a copy of the day's resolution on Jerusalem in the trash, October 26, 2016. (Erez Lichtfeld)

Live updates (closed)

Israel to reevaluate ties with UNESCO — envoy

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Netanyahu recalls Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO in protest over UN body’s resolutions that deny Jewish connections to Jerusalem holy sites

Arthur Balfour, and the Balfour Declaration. (Wikipedia)

Analysis

Palestinian campaign vs Balfour shows hostility to Jewish state undimmed after 100 years

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Netanyahu always claims Palestinian opposition to Jewish sovereignty anywhere, not just to occupation and settlements, lies at the root of the conflict. The PA’s new battle against a century-old British declaration sadly proves his point

Laura Ben-David

Whose Torah is it, anyway?

On women dancing with the scroll: Traditions are important, but the Torah was never meant to be static

Hagai El-Ad, here’s your answer

The B’Tselem director, who made his case against occupation at the UN, did so in extremely bad faith and naïveté

Thank goodness for October

This Domestic Violence Awareness Month, remember that love isn’t love if it makes you feel like sh*t

Illustrative: A bronze statue of the Satanic icon Baphomet, currently residing in a shed outside The Satanic Temple in Salem, Massachusetts. (Courtesy)

In haunted Salem, a Jewish church founder preaches the art of ‘Satanic’ social change

By Matt Lebovic

Yakir Ashbel (center), the groom from what came to be known as the 'hate wedding,' is brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on December 31, 2015 after being arrested on suspicion of racist incitement at his wedding celebration. (Flash90)

13 wedding revelers indicted for celebrating killing of Palestinian baby

8 adults, 5 minors charged with incitement to terror for dancing with and stabbing photos of slain Dawabsha family

Image from Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau showing RS-28 Sarmat ICBM dubbed "Satan 2" (Screenshot)

Russia touts ‘Satan 2,’ its latest, greatest nuke

ICBM with 10,000-kilometer range, capable of wiping out Texas or France, to go into production in 2018

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre on October 24, 2016. in Tampa, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump: Clinton would start a nuclear WWIII over Syria

By Stuart Winer

Republican nominee says rival’s calls for a no-fly zone would put US in direct conflict with Russia, ‘where the nukes work’

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz says he is giving $35 million to help defeat Donald Trump (Eric Risberg/AP)

Young Jewish billionaire pledges $35m to thwart Trump

By Eric Cortellessa

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz calls GOP nominee’s promises ‘a deliberate con’ as he joins ranks of major political donors

David Friedman, Donald Trump's adviser on Israel, speaks to Channel 10 News on September 14, 2016. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Trump’s Israel adviser denies anti-Semitism among supporters

An MDA ambulance in Hebron in 2012. (illustrative photo: Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)

4 Palestinians killed in West Bank car crash

By Stuart Winer

Separately, 15-year-old Israeli boy killed while riding electric bike in Petah Tikva

Illustrative: IDF soldiers stand with their weapons during clashes with Palestinian demonstrators in the West Bank city of Hebron, on Tuesday, October 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Report: IDF finds troops’ lives were not at risk in killing of Palestinian teen

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Proper conduct could have prevented two deaths, multiple injuries in past two weeks, according to internal army memo published by Israel Radio

Illustrative: Palestinian security forces patrol in the West Bank city of Nablus on August 19, 2016, amid clashes. (AFP Photo/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

Analysis

Anti-Abbas clashes erupt in three West Bank refugee camps

By Avi Issacharoff and Dov Lieber

PA security forces reportedly use live fire to suppress marchers in ongoing Fatah feud, at least 2 said injured

Jewish Home parliament member Bezalel Smotrich addresses the Israeli parliament on November 16, 2015. Photo by Miriam Alsterl/Flash90

Right-wing MKs call to remove Amnesty’s tax exemption status

Bezalel Smotrich says rights organization is ‘radically against the State of Israel and its leaders,’ should not receive benefits

A girl catching artificial snow at the opening of the Table Talk Cafe in Tel Aviv. (Anna Rudnitsky/The Times of Israel)

On the banks of the Yarkon River lies a little piece of Moscow

By Anna Rudnitsky

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)

Israel postpones choosing new ambassador to Turkey

Meeting to pick nominee pushed off, no new date set; envoy exchange to mark final stage of reconciliation deal

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

37-year-old mother of four stabbed to death in Jaffa

Police arrest brother of victim; in separate incident, man in his 50s stabbed to death in Tirat HaCarmel

'Judaisms' author Aaron J. Hahn Tapper (Barbara Ries © 2013)

San Fran prof aims to disrupt our understanding of Judaism(s)

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

Illustration of the Jerusalem Gateway project (Dagan Advanced Visual Solutions)

Jerusalem kicks off ‘game-changing’ new business district

By Shoshanna Solomon

Top Israeli officials were part of KGB spy ring — report

Illustrative: A Filipina caretaker with an elderly Israeli woman on the Tel Aviv boardwalk. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

State watchdog: As Israelis live longer, women’s retirement age must rise to 64, at least

By Marissa Newman

Muslim tourists at prayer in a synagogue at Ben Gurion Airport (NRG screenshot)

Muslims mistake airport synagogue for mosque, Jewish shawls for prayer mats

Meretz chairwoman Zehava Galon leads the party's weekly faction meeting at the Knesset, November 2, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Female MKs want Hazan investigated for ‘pimping’

By Raoul Wootliff

Ulm Minster is the largest church tower in the world (CC BY-SA Karle3, Wikipedia)

Revelers' ruinTallest church tower risks destruction — by urine

This picture taken in 2016 shows Sherin Khankan of Denmarka, the female-led mosque posing for a photo in Copenhagen, Denmark. (AFP/Betina Garcia)

Denmark’s feminist mosque founder challenges norms

By Soren Billing

An Antonine-era mummy portrait of a young woman from the University of Zurich restituted to the heirs of a German Jewish publisher in April 2016. (Frank Tomio/University of Zurich)

Mummy portraits stolen by Nazis, recovered, sell for over $300,000

By Ilan Ben Zion

(R-L) Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the joint Nobel Peace Prize winners for 1994, in Olso, Norway. (Government Press Office via Getty Images)

Lost and foundHamas returns Arafat’s Nobel prize to PA

Watching a 4D movie at Jerusalem's YES Planet theater; 3D and 4D films are NIS 14 while regular movies are NIS 10 on Movie Time day, October 27, 2016 (Courtesy Hadash Parush/Flash 90)

Simple joysMovies to run cheaper than popcorn on Thursday

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli actor Moshe Ivgy (2L) seen with fellow actors at the end of a theater show in Tel Aviv, February 7, 2016. Photo by Flash90

Actor accused of sex crimes wins award, sparking outcry

Israel's border with Egypt. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewIt’s 3 p.m., do you know where your poor, uneducated teens are?

By Joshua Davidovich

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