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What Matters Most On Friday, October 28, 2016

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An ad for binary options firm Prime Sales featuring a still from ‘The Wolves of Wall Street” (Screenshot)

ExclusiveIsrael-centered industry allegedly engaged in widespread fraud

Netanyahu’s office, in statement to Times of Israel, urges worldwide ban on binary options

By Simona Weinglass and David Horovitz

Condemning the ‘unscrupulous’ practice of luring innocent victims into losing their savings, PMO says other countries should follow Israel’s lead and ‘make binary trading illegal’

This Wednesday Oct. 26, 2016 photo shows the moment workers remove the top marble layer of the tomb said to be of Jesus, in the Church of Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. A restoration team has peeled away a marble layer for the first time in centuries in an effort to reach what it believes is the original rock surface where Jesus' body was laid. (Dusan Vranic/National Geographic via AP)

At Jesus’s Jerusalem tomb, a race to reach original rock ‘where his body was laid’

By ToI Staff and AP

Given just 60 hours to work, team restoring site at Church of Holy Sepulchre removes marble layers, exposes new slabs, for first time in centuries

Aerial view of the Temple Mount. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Archaeologists spotlight first Solomon’s Temple-era artifacts ever found on Temple Mount

By Ilan Ben Zion

Carried out in rare cooperation with Muslim authorities, series of digs in recent years at flashpoint site yielded unprecedented proof of biblical-time activity, scholars say

Israeli journalist Ari Shavit. (YouTube screen capture)

Journalist Ari Shavit admits he’s accused of assault, apologizes for ‘misunderstanding’

American-Jewish reporter Danielle Berrin said the prominent Israeli author touched, grabbed her during 2014 interview

Rape crisis group calls for Ari Shavit’s suspension in wake of assault claim

Hillel suspends Ari Shavit campus tour amid sexual assault claims

Settler leader quits following sexual assault allegations

Mike Chernoff, left, is general manager of the Cleveland Indians. Theo Epstein is the president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs. (Facebook/Getty Images/Lior Zaltzman/JTA)

Theo Epstein vs. Mike Chernoff: The Jewish brains behind the Cubs and the Indians

By Gabe Friedman

Every move counts in this contentious World Series, a face-off between two teams starving for a win

Cubs vs. Indians: Which team is more Jewish?

By Ben Sales and Marcy Oster

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump walks on stage after his daughter, Ivanka Trump, introduced him during the evening session on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Ivanka says Trump would ‘100%’ move US embassy to Jerusalem

By JTA

Speaking to Jewish voters in Florida, GOP nominee’s daughter calls her father ‘unbelievable champion’ for Israel and Jews

Clinton eyeing Biden as her secretary of state, source says

Trump: Cancel elections, declare me the winner

By ToI Staff and AFP

Curt Schilling calls Jewish critics ‘clowns’

By JTA

Joshua Hammerman

Adam’s better halves

The US electorate is slow to accept women’s strength, as depicted in the story of Eve and her foil, the demon Lilith

When 8-year-olds are sent to kill

Until the EU commits to fund only an exclusively peaceful, democratic peace process, there’s nothing to talk about

The faith of God

On the divine trust in humanity’s unsurpassed potential — despite all indications to the contrary (Bereishit)

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

The deliberately flawed divine Torah

When the sages eliminated morally dicey commandments, they were doing exactly what God intended

Police cars near an UCL campus event featuring Israel advocate Hen Mazzig in London on October 27, 2016 in which attendees had to be escorted out because of pro-Palestinian protesters. (Elliot Miller/Twitter)

Pro-Palestinian protesters trap attendees of Israel event in London university hall

Police escort Israel advocate Hen Mazzig, and those who came to hear him speak, out of room as demonstrators shout ‘Shame!’ and ‘Free Palestine!’

Roger Waters. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

Roger Waters said to lose $4m Amex deal over anti-Israel activism

By JTA

American Express pulls sponsorship for upcoming tour over rock star’s controversial statements on Jewish state, NY Post reports

British peer Jenny Tonge (center) and other panelists listen during an anti-Israel meeting at the House of Lords on October 25, 2016 as an audience member blames Jews for antagonzing Hitler into carrying out the Holocaust (screen capture: Facebook)

Israel slams House of Lords event where audience applauded blaming Jews for Holocaust

Meeting organized by anti-Israel peer Jenny Tonge kicks off campaign to demand UK government apologize for Balfour Declaration

Jenny Tonge (screen capture: YouTube)

UK baroness quits party that suspended her over anti-Israel rhetoric

By JTA and ToI Staff

Jenny Tonge (screen capture: YouTube)

Party suspends UK baroness after meeting where Jews were blamed for Holocaust

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the unveiling of a new monument to the victims of the 1948 Altalena incident, at Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery in Tel Aviv, October 27, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Unveiling Altalena memorial, Netanyahu says ‘war against our enemies is not over’

Prime minister praises warrior spirit of those aboard Irgun weapons-carrying ship destroyed by nascent IDF in 1948

The children of Shimon Peres attend the unveiling of his tombstone at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on October 28, 2016 (Photo: Elad Malka)

Dimona nuclear facility to be named for Shimon Peres

At tombstone unveiling after 30 days of mourning, Netanyahu hails former PM and president as ‘beacon of knowledge’

In secret vote, cabinet said to okay Palestinian construction in Area C

By Alexander Fulbright

Debate on building in Israeli-run area of West Bank reportedly kept under wraps so as not to miff settler leadership

In a still image from security-camera footage of the scene, a young Palestinian girl (center) lashes out with a pair of scissors in an attack in Jerusalem on November 23, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 2)

State seeks 15-year sentence for teen scissors attacker

Palestinan girl, 17, whose 14-year-old cousin was shot dead as they carried out Jerusalem attack, said to confess to attempted murder

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks during an Israel Beytenu faction meeting at the Knesset on June 6, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Palestinian officials: Liberman ‘conspiring’ to overthrow Abbas, sow chaos

Defense minister is charged with seeking to discredit, dethrone PA leader by partnering with his rival

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, speaks during a conference in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 1, 2016. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Under pressure, Abbas plans first Fatah congress since 2009

By Nasser Abu Bakr and Joe Dyke

PA chief bids to stave off rivals, as Arab states reportedly urge him to bring longtime rival Mohammed Dahlan back from exile in UAE

Interior view of a replica of the living room and office of Adolf Hitler pictured in a high-rise bunker, not the original so called 'Fuehrer's-Bunker', in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016. (AP/Michael Sohn)

Replica of part of Hitler’s bunker goes on display in Berlin

By AP

Exhibit is in a former air-raid shelter some 2 kilometers from site of the real bunker demolished after WWII

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)

Among Cleveland’s Orthodox voters, reluctance reigns

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A United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) peacekeeper on a watch tower at the Quneitra Crossing between Syria and Israel. (Ariel Schalit/AP)

At UNESCO, Syria complains of Israeli archaeological digs – inside Syria

By Raphael Ahren and Ilan Ben Zion

A road in Eilat that partially collapsed on October 28, 2016, following massive rainfall (screen capture: YouTube)

Chaos in Eilat as airport, roads closed following massive rainfall

Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich during a Knesset committee meeting, January 11, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

‘Illiterate’ Arabs grabbing Israeli university slots, MK claims

Scene from ‘The Mute’s House,‘ entered by the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School in Jerusalem, has made the first shortlist of documentary short subjects for an Oscar, October 27, 2016. (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli movie on first Oscar documentary shortlist

By JTA

President Reuven Rivlin embraces Bassem Abu Amar, father of Nimer Bassem Abu Amar, 15, who was shot and killed by an Egyptian soldier on October 25, 2016. Rivlin visited the family at their home in Lakiya in southern Israel on October 27. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

President visits family of teen killed on Egypt border

Likud MK Oren Hazan seen at the Magistrate's Court in Tel Aviv on March 6, 2016, for a hearing for a libel lawsuit Hazan filed against Channel 2 News reporter Amit Segal. (Flash90)

PM holds secret talks on future of scandal-hit MK Oren Hazan

Shaul Yakobi, inventor and co-founder at Aquarius Engines, poses for a photo with the single-piston car engine he invented, at Campus Automobile Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium on October 19, 2016. (AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)

Powering a green car revolution, Israeli style

Yazidi refugee Marwa Al Aliko, left, at an event hosted by Israeli UN envoy Danny Danon. (Courtesy of the Israeli Mission to the United Nations)

Israel’s UN mission hosts Yazidi refugee who escaped IS sexual abuse

By JTA

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gives a thumbs-up to supporters during a campaign stop in Tampa, Florida, on October 24, 2016. (AFP/Gregg Newton)

Hebrew media review How long till Election Day?

By Adiv Sterman

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