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What Matters Most On Monday, September 25, 2017

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Frauke Petry, co-chairwoman of the AfD, right, stands with top candidates Alexander Gauland, left, and Alice Weidel, center, prior to a press conference of the Alternative for Germany, AfD, in Berlin, Germany, September 25, 2017, the day after the nationalist party was elected first time into the German parliament. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

German far-right leader: Jews have nothing to fear

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Amid concerns over AfD’s 3rd-place election finish, party co-head Alexander Gauland says he’s ‘ready at any time’ to meet Jewish community

Loathed by Jews, Germany’s far-right AfD loves the Jewish state

By Raphael Ahren

Hours after far-right AfD election success, co-leader bolts its Bundestag group

By AFP

German Jews say far right’s march into Bundestag a ‘nightmare come true’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A protester holds up a sign reading "A fucking disgrace" during a protest outside an election night event of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Berlin after the general election on September 24, 2017. AFP/John Macdougall)

‘Nazis out!’: Hundreds protest against AfD party across Germany after election

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Demonstrators gather in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt to show opposition to hard-right party, which won 13 percent of vote Sunday to become 3rd largest force in parliament

German electionsHard-right AfD surges into German parliament as Merkel wins fourth term

By Deborah Cole and Hui Min NEO

PM congratulates Merkel on reelection, stays mum on rise of far-right

By Agencies and ToI Staff

French leftist leader in hot water over ‘shameful’ Nazi comparison

By Pascale Juilliard

A protester holds up a sign reading 'Xenophobia is not an alternative' and '80 percent against AfD nazis' during a protest outside an election event of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Berlin after the general election on September 24, 2017. AFP/ John MACDOUGALL)

Hebrew media review

The banality of AfD

By Joshua Davidovich

Papers show a mix of worry and tempered fears over the rise of the far-right German party, laying out the challenges ahead for Merkel

Illustrative: IDF soldiers search for survivors in a building that collapsed during an earthquake that struck Mexico on September 24, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Nearly a week on, clock ticking for IDF rescuers to find survivors in Mexico

By Judah Ari Gross

Colonel in delegation lauds ‘record’ speed with which members set off; says nobody pulled alive from wreckage, but there’s still hope

Hopes fade in Mexico City quake rescue operations

By Marc BURLEIGH and Yemeli ORTEGA

Joel Osteen opens Houston megachurch to Jews whose synagogue was flooded

By JTA

Iraqi Kurds fly Kurdish flags during an event to urge people to vote in the upcoming independence referendum in Irbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on September 16, 2017. (AFP/Safin Hamed)

Live updates (closed)

UN warns Kurdish independence vote could be ‘destabilizing’

By Tamar Pileggi

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges dialogue between Baghdad and regional government in northern Iraq

6:17 pm

UN says Kurdish vote could be 'destabilizing'
5:37 pm

Watchdog says Russian strikes in Syria's Idlib kill 37 civilians
5:27 pm

Netanyahu banned ministers from talking about Kurdish referendum -- report

David Tanami, an Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist, works his way into the narrow tomb opening to bring out a jar at a Canaanite burial site near Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo. (Shua Kisilevitz, Israel Antiquities Authority)

'Finding toads is pretty unusual'

Afterlife snack: Jar of toads popped open in 4,000-year-old Canaanite tomb dig

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Excavation just outside Jerusalem’s Biblical Zoo gives window into funerary rites, with unexpected remains of decapitated toads and not-local myrtle and date pollen

Delegation of Interpol member countries attend the General Assembly in Bali, Indonesia on November 7, 2016. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Israel seeking to block fresh Palestinian bid to join Interpol

By Tamar Pileggi

PA request expected to come to vote after being stopped short in 2015 and 2016, amid Israeli concerns of sensitive info being leaked to terror groups

Netanyahu said to delay settlement planning committee meet at US request

By Alexander Fulbright

Trump’s special peace envoy heads back to region for ‘follow-up meetings’

By Eric Cortellessa

PA premier to visit Gaza next week to take control from Hamas

By AFP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump, center, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (2nd left), his wife Akie Abe (right), US First Lady Melania Trump (Left) and Robert Kraft (foreground), sit down for dinner at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort on February 10, 2017. (AFP / NICHOLAS KAMM)

Patriots owner Kraft joins NFL chorus protesting Trump tirade

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Dozens of players kneel during anthem in London game, as day of expected demonstrations against president kicks off

Jared Kushner speaks at a White House meeting in Washington, June 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Jared Kushner used private email for White House business

By ToI Staff and AP

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sits after addressing the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 19, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Erdogan threatens military action over Iraqi Kurdish referendum

Turkish leader says his country could halt Iraqi Kurdistan’s oil exports over independence vote, which he calls ‘matter of survival’

Syria government rejects Iraqi Kurdish independence vote

By AFP

Iraq Kurds begin historic independence vote in defiance of Baghdad

By AFP and ToI Staff

The Kurds: One stateless people across four countries

By AFP

Intel Corp.'s 8th-Gen-Intel-Core-i3-8100 chips (Courtesy)

Israel inside

Intel unveils ‘best ever’ gaming processor, sired in Haifa

By Shoshanna Solomon

New family of desktop computer processors said to be faster and stronger than previous incarnations

Atara Newberger Zafir

My father the rabbi performed my wedding

If only the Israeli Chief Rabbinate understood that with great power comes the responsibility of great kindness

Days of no return

What it means to live in a world without hope

A dose of goodwill

If we all live by the Golden Rule, we’ll reverse the rancid atmosphere left by the bad faith of the outgoing year

Anti-Semitism is not enough

Instead of fretting over Jewish continuity, we should make sure that what we have is actually worth continuing

A Russian-made S-300 air defense system on display for the annual Defense Week, marking the 37th anniversary of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, September 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran shows off S-300 air defense missiles amid rocketing tensions

Russian-made batteries make first public appearance in Tehran after Trump calls future of nuke deal into question

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif looks on, as he attends a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul on August 1, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ozan Kose)

Zarif says Iran’s missile program needed for defense

By Tamar Pileggi

City of London Police Assistant Commissioner Alistair Sutherland speaks at a counterterrorism conference in Herzliya in September 2017. (Screen capture: IDC Herzliya)

For help fighting terror, London police look to Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Screen capture from video showing a Muslim worshiper shortly after he was stabbed in the neck in Manchester, United Kingdom. (YouTube/ALL ABOUGHT WORLD)

Muslim surgeon stabbed on his way to Manchester mosque

By Stuart Winer

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan leaves St Clement's church in Notting Hill, west London, on June 18, 2017, close to Grenfell Tower, after attending a Sunday service. (AFP Photo/Tolga Akmen)

London mayor: Like Islamic State, Trump fueling ‘clash of civilizations’

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In this file photo from June. 21, 2011, former CIA operations officer, Valerie Plame Wilson, arrives for the UK film premiere of Countdown to Zero in London. (Jonathan Short/AP, file)

Ex-CIA agent resigns from fund after sharing article blaming Jews for US wars

Illustrative. An Israeli Air Force Boeing AH-64 Apache helicopter, June 8, 2012. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90/File)

IDF’s Apache fleet to return to service following fatal crash

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Smoke billows following an airstrike on the western frontline of Raqqa, Syria, July 15, 2017. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

Rights group: US-led strikes killed 84 civilians near IS Syria capital

By AFP

Singer Shlomo Gronich performs at a concert, June 14, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Set to receive state prize, singer accused of sexual harassment

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative photo of disabled protesters blocking a highway outside the town of Yekum on August 14, 2017, as part of demonstrations for higher monthly disability benefits. (Flash90)

Disabled protesters fined for blocking Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway

This photo from October 19, 2012 shows the gate of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

FBI investigating threats against Jewish and Latino Cal State students

By JTA

Argentina's public prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, gives a news conference in Buenos Aires, May 20, 2009. (JUAN MABROMATA/AFP/Getty Images)

Argentina experts confirm Nisman was murdered, name possible suspect

By JTA and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with then US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro in April 2013. (Flash90)

Former US ambassador Dan Shapiro said set to testify in Netanyahu graft case

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative image of marijuana plant. (CC BY-SA Jennifer Martin, Wikimedia commons)

High holidaysMedical marijuana gets kosher okay in Canada

By JTA

A sample Tailor Brands' branding effort as seen across different devices (Courtesy).

Automated Mad Men aim to make branding available to all

Jerusalemite Barbara Shaw designs gifts sold in her German Colony store, and recently published a guide book introducing her favorite places in the city (Courtesy Barbara Shaw Gifts)

A tourist at homeJerusalem travel guide is a love letter to the city

By Jessica Steinberg

Sara Zielinski, with her mother Elizabeth, center, and a volunteer at a pre-Shabbat program at the Jewish Community Center of Krakow. Sara is part of the inaugural class of Frajda, the first pluralistic Jewish nursery and preschool in Krakow since World War II. (Courtesy of Jewish Community Center of Krakow/via JTA)

'This is the biggest step we've taken since opening in 2008'

Krakow JCC’s new preschool signals hope for a community’s rebirth

By Penny Schwartz

Against the odds, Frajda will become the city’s first pluralistic Jewish nursery since before WWII

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