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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 27, 2016

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in a pre-recorded video message for a Republican event in in Jerusalem, October 26, 2016. (Screen capture)

Trump tells Jerusalem rally he’ll ‘make Israel, US safe again’

By Raoul Wootliff and Raphael Ahren

Addressing event via video, Republican candidate vows to stand ‘side-by-side with the Jewish people’; Pence says ‘Israel’s fight is our fight’

Trump’s Israel adviser says settlements not illegal

By AFP and ToI Staff

Steve Israel: Florida Jews more worried about Trump than Tehran

By Eric Cortellessa

Conspiracy theorist admired by Trump says Rahm Emanuel part of ‘Jewish Mafia’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Sandra Solomon, a Palestinian woman who converted to Christianity and advocates for Israel. (Screenshot)

Niece of top Arafat aide so loves Israel she had it tattooed on her back

Ramallah-born Sandra Solomon, a convert to Christianity, says her dream is to come to Israel, salute the flag; she ‘grew up in a home that hated the Jews, hailed Hitler and praised the Holocaust’

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

At a former funeral home in a town inextricably linked to witchcraft, secular Jew Malcolm Jarry opens a new heaquarters for his Satanic Temple, a controversial movement with up to 50,000 members worldwide

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (3L) visits a part of the Turkish parliament building that was damaged during the July 15 failed coup attempt in Ankara, on October 24, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN)

Live updates (closed)

Abbas meeting with Hamas leaders in Qatar

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Palestinian leader meets Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashaal, issues call for Palestinian unity

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

After 2nd anti-Israel vote, PM recalls envoy to UNESCO

Netanyahu summons Carmel Shama-Hacohen for consultations after organization approves another resolution ignoring Jewish links to Jerusalem’s holy places

Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein meets with Pope Francis in Rome, January 17, 2015. (Knesset spokesperson)

Knesset speaker asks Vatican to help fight UNESCO decisions

By Alexander Fulbright

An aerial view of the Dome of the Rock, left, in the compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, and the Western Wall, center, the holiest site where Jews are permitted to pray (File photo: AFP/JACK GUEZ)

UNESCO vote ignoring Jewish ties to Temple Mount a ‘blood libel,’ says Herzog

Notorious Nazi physician Josef Mengele as a young doctor, left, and the 'ramp' at Auschwitz-Birkenau in May of 1944, where Mengele sometimes selected inmates for life, death or 'experimentation.' (Public domain)

The long, twisted shadow cast by Nazi medical experiments

By Matt Lebovic

Seven decades after Nazi camp inmates were tortured in the name of medical research, it is increasingly clear the experimentation was conducted by scientists well beyond known ‘Nazi hacks and SS quacks’

‘Jerusalem’ papyrus doesn’t prove much

Archeology and politics are a bad mix, and this recent find doesn’t even disprove the (lunatic) UNESCO vote

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

We should apologize to those Muslims

Ben Gurion Airport offers no prayer space for Muslims, so what should the Turkish travelers have done?

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Do ‘Jew’ like a woman

She doesn’t want to dance with the Torah to be ‘like the men,’ but as an expression of her uniquely female self

It’s not YOUR Torah!

A response: Halakhic process defines Orthodox Judaism, not personal religious fervor or self-actualization

Danielle Berrin (Facebook)

US reporter alleges sexual assault by prominent Israeli journalist

By Stuart Winer

Danielle Berrin says married writer touched, grabbed her, tried to convince her to come up to his hotel room

Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., shaking hands with supporters after outlining his plan to reform the US financial sector in New York City, Jan. 15, 2016. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Hacked emails show Clinton campaign’s fear of Sanders

By Andrew Taylor

Exchanges released by WikiLeaks reveal moves against Democratic rival during primary season

Photographer Judah Passow said that in this picture of a guest wearing a tartan kilt at a Jewish wedding, there was also a bagpiper present. But Passow decided it was too cliche to include him. (Judah Passow)

From Highlands shepherdess to Fife whiskey analyst, artist captures Scotland’s vibrant Jewish life

A photo of the knives found on the persons of two Palestinian children, 8, near the West Bank settlement of Migdal Oz on October 26, 2016 (IDF spokesperson's office)

Palestinian kids, 8, detained with knives outside settlement

Two children arrested near Migdal Oz security fence; pair confess they were sent to carry out attack, army says

Israeli security at a scene of a terror attack at the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on October 9, 2016. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

East Jerusalem man charged with plotting shooting, backing Hamas

By Stuart Winer

Resident of Ras al-Amoud allegedly tried to buy weapon to carry out assault in capital; security service says ‘serious attack’ thwarted

Said Komboz arrives to the Jerusalem District court on October 26, 2016. Komboz was sentenced to 17 years in prison after he stabbed an Israeli soldier near the central bus station in Jerusalem last year. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinian gets 17 years for stabbing soldier in Jerusalem

East Jerusalem resident also ordered to pay $13,000 to victim, who was lightly injured in attack last year

A woman hanging laundry in Lod, September 22, 2011. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Lod mayor vows to drown out mosque loudspeakers with Jewish prayer

Yair Revivo says muezzin calls ‘annoy’ residents of mixed city, to be trumped by ‘Shema Yisrael’ blasted by municipality

Illustrative photo of a tunnel opening discovered by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza, July 20, 2014. (photo credit: IDF)

PM asks for one more hearing ahead of release of Gaza war findings

By Alexander Fulbright

Netanyahu to present State Comptroller with information on 13 cabinet meetings in which tunnel threat was discussed

Nimer Bassem Abu Amar, a 15-year-old Bedouin Israel, who was killed in a shooting on October 25, 2016, near the Egyptian border, where he worked for a subcontractor hired by the Defense Ministry. (Courtesy)

No Israeli officials present, as teenager killed in cross-border shooting buried

Representatives from Defense Ministry, PM’s office should have ‘paid last respects,’ says relative of Nimer Bassem Abu Amar

A suspected member of the Islamic State (IS) group is detained by Iraqi Kurdish forces in the southern Domiz neighbourhood of Kirkuk, October 21, 2016. (AFP/Marwan IBRAHIM)

Jihadists said to shave beards as pressure builds on Mosul

By Sarah Benhaida and W.G. Dunlop

US and British defense officials predict assault on Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa in Syria within weeks

IDF soldiers work with cyber-defense systems. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90/File)

IDF battles to keep its finest from defecting to private sector

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli army sets out plan to stem stream of officers leaving to join flourishing high-tech scene of ‘startup nation’

Severe traffic on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv on October 28, 2015. (Simcha Simon, courtesy)

Doing business in Israel getting (slightly) harder, World Bank says

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Oren Hazan seen at the Knesset on September 19, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister says drug-abusing MK Hazan unfit for Knesset

By Tamar Pileggi

Amir Weintraub (Howard Blas/Times of Israel)

All tennis players are approached to throw matches, says Israel’s No. 2

Illustrative: In the Dead Sea area, the lowest place on Earth at some 400 meters below sea level, muddy water floods over the road near Kibbutz Ein Gedi on February 4, 2007. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Flash flood fears as first rainstorm expected to lash Israel

Sharbat Gula, the Afghan girl photographed by journalist Steve McCurry for National Geographic in 1984 and again in 2003, who was arrested on October 26, 2016 for living in Pakistan on fraudulent identity papers. (YouTube screenshot of photographs published by National Geographic)

Eye-catching‘Afghan girl‘ of National Geographic fame arrested

The Avenue O Synagogue in the Midwood section of Brookyln, New York. (Screen capture: Google Maps)

Holiday heistKippah-clad thief steals 4 Torah scrolls from NY synagogue

By JTA

Illustrative: United States Vice President Joe Biden seen waving as he boards his plane after after 2 days visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. (Photo by Matty Stern/US Embassy of Tel Aviv)

Counting kippahsCatholic Biden says he’s more Jewish than Clinton

View of the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, in the West Bank, February 25, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

JFNA trustees asked to rule on visits to settlements

By JTA

PTA president Roz Page was harassed for three years by another mother at their children's Jewish primary school, Clore Tikva, in Ilford Essex, England. (screen shot)

Serial mumUK Jewish mom harassed for 3 years over party invite

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative photo of Israeli shekels. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

Israeli tech firms raise $1.19 billion in third quarter

By Shoshanna Solomon

Palestinian walk past the Dome of the Rock in the al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Jerusalem's Temple Mount during the "tarawih" prayer marking the first evening of Islam's holy month of Ramadan, on June 6, 2016. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Hebrew media reviewA poke in the eye to UNESCO

By Ilan Ben Zion

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