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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 1, 2017

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A French police officer cordons off the access to Marseille's main train station Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017 in Marseille, southern France. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

2 stabbed to death at Marseille train station

By Francois BECKER and Adam PLOWRIGHT

Knifeman reportedly shouts ‘Allahu akbar’ before murderous assault, is shot dead by soldiers patrolling nearby; police urge people to avoid the area

Screen capture from video of the aftermath of what Canadian police were treating as a terror-related incident in Edmonton, October 1, 2017. (YouTube/Garry Walker)

Canada police say officer ramming, car chase possible terror attacks

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, October 1, 2017. (AFP/POOL/Sebastian Scheiner)

Sniping at Erdogan, Netanyahu says Israel not involved in Kurdish vote

By Stuart Winer

Prime minister accuses Turkish president of seeing Mossad’s hand in every uncomfortable scenario, says Israel sympathetic to Kurds

A Hezbollah supporter listens to Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, pictured, as he delivers a message via video link, during the ninth of Ashura, a 10-day ritual commemorating the death of Imam Hussein, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017 (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Hezbollah leader: Kurdish independence vote a US-Israeli plot

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iraqi Kurds release doves during in a demonstration at Irbil airport, in the capital of Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region, after the central government ordered the indefinite halt to all foreign flights to and from Iraqi Kurdistan on September 29, 2017. (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)

Iran puts economic squeeze on Iraqi Kurds

By AFP

A woman celebrates outside a polling station after casting her vote in Barcelona, on October 01, 2017, in a referendum on independence for Catalonia banned by Madrid. (AFP PHOTO / Josep LAGO)

Dozens injured as police scuffle with voters in banned Catalonia poll

By AFP

Riot police seal off polling stations and seize ballot boxes as Catalans insist on voting in independence referendum against Spanish protests

Spain's Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis talks before an interview with The Associated Press about the Catalonia's referendum at the Foreign Ministry in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017 (AP Photo/Paul White)

Spanish FM says Catalan radicals using ‘Nazi-like’ tactics

By Ciaran Giles

Illustrative photo of Muslim women wearing burqas (AFP/Torsten Blackwood/File)

‘Burqa ban’ law signals rightward political turn in Austria

Law prohibiting full-face coverings takes effect as polls predict victory for anti-migrant parties in October 15 elections

Gearing upSaudi university to open women’s driving school

By AFP

German gay couples tie knot after decades of struggle

By Tom BARFIELD

Egypt to conduct anal exams on men suspected of gay sex – report

By Hamza Hendawi

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Sick of running Gaza, Hamas may be aiming to switch to a Hezbollah-style role

Islamist terror group has internalized that taking full responsibility for Gaza is a recipe for trouble. Better to do a unity deal and let the PA do the dirty work

Abu Obeida, spokesman of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, speaks during a memorial in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on January 31, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

Illustrative: A masked youth cadet from the armed wing of the Hamas terror group carries the movement's flag at a march in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Yunis on September 15, 2017.(AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)

Palestinian unity visit to Gaza: Rebirth or another false dawn?

By Shatha YAISH

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, October 1, 2017. (AFP/POOL/Sebastian Scheiner)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu apologizes after ministers no-show Yom Kippur War memorial

By Tamar Pileggi

Prime minister vows ‘unfortunate mistake’ will not happen again, says ‘no greater duty’ than the one to bereaved families

6:30 pm

Spanish foreign minister says police actions were "proportionate"
6:24 pm

Israeli judoka Yarden Gerbi reportedly set to retire
6:15 pm

Barcelona mayor urges Spanish PM Rajoy to resign

The Canadian parliament building in Ottawa, Canada (MarcBruxelle/iStock)

Canada passes complete binary options ban, urges Israel to follow suit

Despite Canadian efforts to curb the industry as well as a proposed Israeli law to outlaw it, the number of complaints of binary options fraud in Canada has not dropped

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah is displayed on a cellphone as he delivers a message via video link, during the ninth of Ashura, a 10-day ritual commemorating the death of Imam Hussein, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, September 30, 2017. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

Hezbollah chief tells Jews to flee before Israel devastated by war

Nasrallah says Israel underestimates strength of Lebanese terror group, accuses Netanyahu of leading country to destruction

Iraqi Abu Tahsin al-Salhi, left, a veteran sniper from the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization units), who boasted about killing at least 320 Islamic State group fighters, seen during the fight for the Iraqi city of Mosul, April 26, 2017. (AFP/HAIDAR MOHAMMED ALI)

Iraq’s ‘sheikh sniper,’ who fought IDF in ’73, killed in battle

By AFP

Disabled activists block Ibn Gvirol street in Tel Aviv as part of a protest calling for an increase in government stipends, August 31, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Rejecting deal, some disabled protesters renew road-jamming protests

Junction north of Tel Aviv blocked as group seen as main force behind traffic-halting actions calls stipend boost ‘shameful’

Disabled people and their supporters block the entrance to Jerusalem in protest of inadequate stipends, September 7, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewNot out of the jam yet

By Joshua Davidovich

Eli Rowe's team of 12 delivered supplies to the San Juan Chabad, as well as to vulnerable areas throughout Puerto Rico's capital, September 25, 2017. (Courtesy of Rowe/via JTA)

Hurricane Maria'We saw sheer destruction everywhere'

Puerto Rico’s Jews turn to helping neighbors ravaged by Hurricane Maria

With all of the island’s 1,500 Jewish community members safe and accounted for, the next step is distributing food and water to those in need

Trump lashes out at San Juan mayor who begged for more help

Healthymize's Dr. Shady Hassan (right) and Daniel Aronovich at the COPD conference in Chicago in July 2017 (Courtesy)

Druze-Jewish startup taps phone calls to monitor speakers’ health

Haifa-based Healthymize has an AI-based app that listens to voice patterns in patients with COPD and other ailments

This Jew cares about Catalan independence

My Catalonian friend stood up for Israel when no one else did

I danced in a white dress in a vineyard on Yom Kippur

Hallel Silverman

Forgive and march for racial justice

It sucked that the main march was on Yom Kippur, but that doesn’t mean we can’t fight for civil rights

My postscript for the children

I take on a ‘Jealous God’ who visits the iniquity of the fathers unto future generations

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In this Jan. 4, 2014 file photo, Monty Hall arrives at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala at the Palm Springs Convention Center in Palm Springs, California.
(Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Monty Hall, philanthropist and ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ host, dies at 96

Cheryl Saban and Haim Saban attend the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures press briefing and site tour at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on September 27, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images/AFP)

Sabans give $50 million to Hollywood film museum

By AP and ToI Staff

Former NFL football star OJ Simpson enters for his parole hearing at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nevada, July 20, 2017. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP)

Juice is looseOJ Simpson freed from Nevada prison after serving 9 years

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)

Man arrested for attacking nurse in Tel Aviv hospital

By Stuart Winer

An illustrative photo of the College Buildings of the University of Manchester. (iStock/Getty Images)

UK university ‘censors’ Holocaust survivor’s talk over Israel-Nazi comparison

Head of the United States Air Force Academy Lieutenant General Jay Silveria (Screen capture: YouTube)

‘Get out,’ Air Force general tells bigots on campus

By Sylvie LANTEAUME

In this Jan. 25, 2017 file photo, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, center, the leader of the ruling Law and Justice party, speaks with lawmakers in parliament in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Poland tasks lawmakers with estimating German war reparations

By AFP

This April 2015 photo provided by John W. Chapman shows marine sea slugs from a derelict vessel from Iwate Prefecture, Japan which washed ashore in Oregon.(John W. Chapman via AP)

Bum a waveSea critters hitchhiked across the Pacific on tsunami debris

By Seth Borenstein

Manuel Trajtenberg (R) presents Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein with his official resignation from parliament as a Zionist Union MK, October 1, 2017. (Knesset Speaker)

Zionist Union economist Trajtenberg quits Knesset

By Raoul Wootliff and Marissa Newman

Co-founder of the 'Growing Underground' project Steven Dring inspects the crops at the urban farm project in Clapham, south London, on September 13, 2017. (AFP Photo/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

Underground air-raid shelter feeding London restaurants

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