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What Matters Most On Tuesday, September 26, 2017

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From left to right: Solomon Gavriyah, Youssef Ottman and Or Arish, three Israelis killed in a terror attack outside the settlement of Har Adar on September 26, 2017 (Courtesy)

Border cop, 2 security guards named as victims of Har Adar shooting attack

Policeman Solomon Gavriyah of Be’er Yaakov, Youssef Ottman of Abu Ghosh, and local man Or Arish were checking Palestinian laborers when terrorist opened fire

Wife of Har Adar terrorist left him weeks before shooting

‘The man who cleaned our house for 2.5 years was the terrorist’

3 Israelis killed, 1 seriously hurt in terror shooting near Jerusalem

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF soldiers impose a closure on the Palestinian village of Bayt Surik after a resident carried out a terror attack at a nearby Israeli settlement in which three people were killed on September 26, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

After deadly shooting, IDF seals off hometown of Har Adar terrorist

By Judah Ari Gross

Netanyahu vows to raze Har Adar terrorist’s home, revoke family’s work permits

By Raphael Ahren

Right-wing MKs: Call off US peace push over terror attack

Terrorist convicted in deadly 2015 shooting handed life in prison

Steve Leibowitz

My safe and peaceful Har Adar

This morning’s deadly gunshots punctured my community’s longstanding sense of security

Tthe Cenacle, or Upper Room, on Mount Zion just outside the Old City, where Christians believe Jesus held the Last Supper, is revered by Jews as the site of King David's tomb. (AFP/Constance Decorde)

Live updates (closed)

Jewish man, 54, sets himself on fire at David’s Tomb in Jerusalem

Authorities say man apparently suffering from mental illness, is hospitalized in moderate to serious condition

6:30 pm

Joshua Haberman, rabbi and education advocate, dies at 98
6:15 pm

Man who self-immolated at David's Tomb said suffering from mental illness
5:52 pm

Netanyahu invites settlement leaders to New Year's toast

Left to right: Linda Munuhin, Yair Dalal, (credit: David Blumenfeld) and Yehezkel Kojaman (credit: Liam Sharp), photos taken for the Iraqi Jewish Voices Project.

'Their stories remain virtually untold'

As Iraqi Jewish voices die out, a project seeks to preserve their rich history

By Cathryn J. Prince

A handful of scholars are creating a multimedia resource to give Mizrahi Jews the same platforms to tell their stories as Ashkenazim who suffered in the Holocaust

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Chancellery in Berlin (AP/Wolfgang Rattayl)

In chat with Merkel, Netanyahu says Israel worried about rising anti-Semitism

By Raphael Ahren

Congratulating the German chancellor on her election victory, PM refrains from direct comment on rise of far-right AfD

Israelis veer between restraint, shock at German nationalist gains

By Michael Blum

German electionsHow former East Germans helped lift far-right AfD into Bundestag

By Kirsten Grieshaber and David Rising

German ‘Islamic State leader’ on trial for recruiting jihadists

By Michelle Fitzpatrick

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on April 9, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Abir Sultan)

Hebrew media review

Has Schrodinger’s cat got Netanyahu’s tongue?

By Joshua Davidovich

Is the prime minister down on politicians for not celebrating settlements enough, or backing a US-led peace push? Both, the papers seem to say

Rescue teams look for people trapped in the rubble after an earthquake in Mexico City on September 19, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / YURI CORTEZ)
Insert: Jaime Achequenze Azkenazy. (ZAKA)

Mexico earthquake

Beloved sexton was on charity mission when killed in September 19 Mexico quake

By Rich Tenorio

Israeli rescue workers look for survivors in Mexico City on September 23, 2017, four days after the powerful quake that hit central Mexico. (AFP Photo/Pedro Pardo)

Israeli tech helps Mexican rescuers locate quake victims

By Shoshanna Solomon

President of the Supreme Court Judge Miriam Naor, August 31, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court justices to skip settlement jubilee ceremony

Chief justice says it would be ‘inappropriate’ to send a representative to state ceremony in Etzion Bloc, raising ire among right-wing politicians

Construction of new housing in the settlement of Maale Adumim on September 25, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Opposition parties deny report they’re boycotting settlement ceremony

Illustrative: Construction of new housing in the Israeli settlement of Kfar Adumim, September 25, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

UN envoy slams Israel’s ‘high rate’ of settlement construction

By AFP

Iraqis Kurds carry the Kurdish and the Israeli flags in the streets of the northern city of Kirkuk on September 25, 2017 following a referendum on the independence. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

Top Iranian general says Kurdish referendum an Israeli ‘plot’

Aide to Iran’s supreme leader also claims independence vote in Iraqi Kurdistan a plan hatched by Jerusalem to fuel violence following IS defeat

Erdogan warns Kurdish independence could spark ‘ethnic war’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Netanyahu orders ministers to keep mum on Kurdish referendum

Kurdish referendumKurds overwhelmingly back independence as first votes in referendum tallied

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Analysis

Despite hype, experts doubt Bahrain-Israel ties ready for prime time

Conflict-ridden kingdom has little incentive to squander political capital when it already gets what it needs from Israel on the sly

Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa speaks during a meeting with US President Donald Trump, on May 21, 2017, in Riyadh. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France (CC BY-SA Massimiliano Mariani/Wikipedia)

Palestinian Interpol bid heads to vote as Israeli lobbying falls short

By Tamar Pileggi

Donniel Hartman

For the sin of certainty

Truth, knowledge, and enlightenment will only grow when I expose my certainty to the critique of others

Yom Kippur and the awesome, awful power of words

My mother was hurt, Al’s wife was hurt, too. Neither would apologize

Avi Issacharoff

A terror attack born of personal crisis

Op-ed: This is not the first case, and sadly won’t be the last, in which grave personal circumstances led Palestinians to carry out attacks

An agenda for world-Jewry leadership

The relationship with Israel must include the premise that a vibrant diaspora is a Zionist imperative

More Headlines

Iran said on September 23, 2017 that it successfully tested a new missile with a 2,000 km-range, which is capable of reaching Israel and US bases in the Gulf. The missile, called the Khorramshahr, was launched from an unknown location. (Screenshot/PressTV)

US officials reportedly claim Iran’s latest missile test a fake

Hundreds of Israelis rally for government recognition of the so-called missing Yemenite children affair in Tel Aviv on September 25, 2017 (Times of Israel staff)

Hundreds rally for recognition of alleged Yemenite children kidnappings

By Marissa Newman

Former New York Democrat Congressman Anthony Weiner (c) arrives at federal court for his sentencing hearing in a sexting scandal, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Disgraced lawmaker Weiner sentenced to 21 months in sexting case

By Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister

Portrait of Israeli composer, singer, songwriter, arranger, and choir conductor Shlomo Gronich. October 14, 2016. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Singer accused of sexual harassment skips award ceremony

By Stuart Winer

Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman MK Avi Dichter, left, and chair of the Defense Outlook and Force-Building Subcommittee MK Ofer Shelah speak at a meeting presenting a report on the military's five-year Gideon Plan to the public, at the Knesset, on September 25, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Government fails to provide strategic direction for IDF, Knesset panel charges

By Judah Ari Gross

The three remaining members of British pop band Take That will head to Israel in November as part of their 'Wonderland' tour (Courtesy Take That)

Back for goodFormer boy band Take That brings world tour to Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

The Swedish city of Gothenburg. (Wikimedia/JLogan)

Swedish court moves neo-Nazi march on Yom Kippur away from synagogue

By Josefin Dolsten

Kathie Lee Gifford at the 2016 Greenwich International Film Festival in Greenwich, Connecticut, June 10, 2016. (Noam Galai/Getty Images for GIFF)

Live! in the Holy LandKathie Lee Gifford wrote a book about Israel

By Gabe Friedman

Anti-Israel fringe event at the UK Labour Party's annual conference, held by the group 'Free speech on Israel,' September 25, 2017. (WikiGuido)

From our partnerCalls to expel Jewish members from UK’s Labour cheered at conference

Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan's representative to the UN, shows an image of Gazan girl Rawya abu Joma’a claiming she is a Kashmiri victim of Indian violence, on September 23, 2017. (Screen capture: Twitter video)

Shell gamePakistan uses image of Gaza girl to attack India at the UN

Covenant Place, a Jewish retirement community in St. Louis, is constructing a building that combines affordable apartments for seniors with a range of social and communal services open to the surrounding community. (Courtesy of Covenant Place/via JTA)

Jewish seniorsNot just a retirement home, it’s a one-stop shop for Jewish seniors in St. Louis

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press at the White House in Washington, DC, September 24, 2017. (AFP/NICHOLAS KAMM)

Jewish groups join criticism of Trump’s updated travel ban

By ToI Staff and AP

Breakfast and high tea are served in the front garden and front vestibule of the boutique Villa Brown hotel, where the kosher certification is offered by Tzohar (Courtesy Villa Brown)

High tea and a touch of 19th-century living at Jerusalem’s Villa Brown hotel

By Jessica Steinberg

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