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What Matters Most On Friday, September 29, 2017

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'I mean, they're only occupying 2% of the West Bank'

US ambassador says ‘settlements are part of Israel’

David Friedman’s comments draw angry response from Palestinians, who accuse him of changing US positions and ‘absolute ignorance of facts and laws’

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman during an interview with Walla News on September 28, 2017. (Screen capture/Walla News)

Washington rebuffs own envoy for saying ‘settlements are part of Israel’

By Eric Cortellessa

Settlers hail US ambassador for saying settlements part of Israel

Israel wants US to shut Palestinians’ DC office — report

By Raphael Ahren

Yuval Sadaka, left, taking a selfie with Ely Cohen in Shoham, Israel, September 5, 2017. Met last Yom Kippur. Now inseparable (Sadaka/via JTA)

Yom Kippur'There is this pure, magical feeling in the air'

For many Israeli teens, the eve of Yom Kippur is a night of forbidden love

By Andrew Tobin

Young people say that even bad breath from fasting can’t put a damper on romance blossoming from the holiday’s feelings of novelty and renewal

Hundreds of DC Jews plan to spend Yom Kippur in a beer garden

By Josefin Dolsten

Israel’s top tennis player quits mid-match for Yom Kippur

How Jews around the world break the Yom Kippur fast

By JTA

Israelis ride their bicycles on a car-free highway on Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv, Friday, Sept 29. 2017. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel shuts down for Yom Kippur

Roads and airwaves fall silent, but security and rescue services remain on high alert

Hebrew media reviewI’m fine, but you could use some introspection

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel to close off West Bank, Gaza for Yom Kippur

By Judah Ari Gross

6 activists hurt protesting Yom Kippur chicken twirling ritual

By JTA

A Kristallnacht commemoration at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, November 9, 2016. (Courtesy of Jonet.nl)

Yom Kippur'One of European Jewry’s most profound and beautiful sights'

A Yom Kippur tradition in Amsterdam dates back to the discovery of electricity

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The famed Portuguese Synagogue sees some 200,000 tourists annually, but one day a year worshipers are privy to a stunningly beautiful sight

An Israeli tank crosses the Suez Canal (Israel Defense Forces Archive)

When Israel seized the initiative

Reversal of fortune: How the IDF turned the Yom Kippur War around

By Abraham Rabinovich

In this excerpt from his newly updated book, Abraham Rabinovich shows how a plea for help from Syria’s Assad to Egypt’s Sadat opened the way to Israel’s crossing of the Suez Canal

Vermont Senator and former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders arrives to address Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 25, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Robyn BECK)

Bernie Sanders breaks down over relative who died fighting Nazis

By JTA

Appearing on premier of PBS’s ‘Finding Your Roots,’ lawmaker says he entered politics partially to make sure humanity never descends into Nazism again

Nimer Mahmoud Ahmed Jamal, who carried out a terror attack in the settlement of Har Adar on September 26, 2017 (Facebook)

Har Adar shooter trained himself for the attack — report

Security officials tell Channel 10 they believe terrorist’s training helped him overcome a jam in his gun during the shooting

IDF captures West Bank cell attempting to plant roadside bomb

Abbas condemns Har Adar attack, spokesman says

By AP and ToI Staff

6 settler youths arrested during demolition of illegal outpost structure

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein gestures as he delivers a press conference on a report on Venezuela at the UN Offices in Geneva on August 30, 2017. (AFP/ Fabrice Coffrini)

US Jewish leaders slam UN rights chief over West Bank blacklist

Conference of Presidents says Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein misuses his authority by threatening firms operating in settlements

Lapid tries to block Palestinian terrorist hijacker from speaking in Spain

From our partnerUK Labour Palestine group apologizes for ‘final solution’ tweet

Senate anti-boycott Israel bill to be reviewed amid criticism

By JTA

From burkas to belts, exhibit shows how Jewish fashion was all about fitting in

By Andrew Tobin

Challenging the idea that communities rejected outside influences, New York museum display of Jewish clothes from past centuries reflects those who lived around them

Disabled activists block a road in Jerusalem on September 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After protests, state agrees to up disability benefits to over NIS 4,000

Marathon talks between treasury official, union and disabled rights activists ends in agreement to up stipends, potentially ending months of traffic-halting demonstrations

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)

Despite landmark deal, some disabled activists vow to continue protests

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Bring these books to shul with you

Recommended Yom Kippur reads delve into Lincoln’s grief, Scrooge’s journey and a mouse’s spiritual yearning

The most personal of festivals

The question God asks us on Yom Kippur is not, “Are you perfect?” but “Can you grow?”

Sivan Rahav Meir

A journey through Yom Kippur prayers

How the ancient liturgy comes to life as we reflect over the past year

The truth behind the Yom Kippur surprise

We in the NSA knew well in advance that Syria and Egypt intended to attack Israel on October 6, 1973

A woman is attempting to protect a child with her own body just before they are executed by Nazi German army mobile killing units (Einsatzgruppen) near Ivangorod, Ukraine in 1942. (Wikimedia commons)

German TV airs interviews with SS death squad soldiers

By Toby Axelrod

Israeli Nazi hunter who helped track down footage says he turned to national broadcaster after Berlin’s slow response to his findings

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau inaugurates the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa on September 28, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Canada at long last opens national Holocaust memorial

By JTA

More Headlines

Footage of alleged animal cruelty in a Haifa slaughterhouse broadcast on September 27, 2017. (Screen capture: Channel 2)

Haifa slaughterhouse shut down after report on animal abuse

Jared Kushner at President Reuven Rivlin’s residence in Jerusalem, May 22, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Clerical error blamed for Kushner’s voter registration as a woman

Nizar Alimi campaging for the Labor Party Primaries in December 2014 (Facebook)

Israel arrests forex company owner on charges of tax evasion

In this September 17, 2017 photo, Julia Louis-Dreyfus arrives at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

‘Veep’ star Julia Louis-Dreyfus says she has breast cancer

By AP

Screen capture from video of a group of men confronting security guards in the ER unit of Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv, September 27, 2017. (YouTube/Times of Israel)

Suspect arrested for assaulting Tel Aviv hospital guards, search on for 4 others

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

White House chief economic adviser Gary Cohn speaks during the daily press briefing, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Jewish Trump aide says he stuck around after Charlottesville for tax reform

By Eric Cortellessa

The Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. (Brandeis University via JTA)

Brandeis residence hall vandalized with swastikas

By JTA

Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, attends the opening of a new mosque in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on February 24, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas says it okayed new Egyptian proposal for prisoner swap with Israel

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi delivering a sermon at Mosul's al-Nuri mosque in Iraq during his supposed first public appearance, July 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Militant video, File)

Islamic State releases audio message purportedly from top leader

By Hamza Hendawi

George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, arrives for a meeting in Brussels, April 27, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Olivier Hoslet)

Rights groups slam Hungary’s new ‘hate campaign’ against Soros

By AFP

Likud MK Anat Berko attends a Foreign Affairs and Security committee meeting in the Knesset, November 19, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Likud MK doesn’t want trove of Jewish artifacts returned to Iraq

By JTA

Israeli traveler Hila Livne, 22, was killed during a hike in Kyrgyzstan (Facebook)

Body of missing Israeli hiker located in Kyrgyzstan

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