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What Matters Most On Monday, October 2, 2017

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Deadliest mass shooting in US history

More than 58 killed, 500 wounded in mass shooting in Las Vegas

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Stephen Paddock, 64, opens fire on country music festival from a hotel window, is shot dead by police

People run for cover at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gunfire was heard on October 1, 2017, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (David Becker/Getty Images/AFP)

Stephen Paddock, the shooter in the Las Vegas concert attack (screen capture: Twitter)

Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, 64, had no criminal background

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An injured person is tended to at the intersection of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard after a mass shooting at a country music festival nearby on October 2, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump offers ‘warm condolences’ after deadly Vegas shooting

By AP and ToI Staff

People run from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after apparent gun fire was heard on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (David Becker/Getty Images/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Nurse who died shielding wife, student, mother of 4 among Vegas victims

By Marissa Newman

First details emerge on casualties of deadliest mass shooting in US history; 58 killed, over 500 injured in concert rampage

6:45 pm

Las Vegas shooter's brother says he was 'not a normal guy'
6:41 pm

Foreign Ministry still trying to locate 5 Israelis
6:26 pm

College student, mother of four, school secretary among slain in Vegas

Investigative police officers work by a body under a white sheet outside Marseille's main train station Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017 in Marseille, southern France. A man with a knife attacked people at the main train station, killing two women before soldiers fatally shot him, officials said. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

Marseille stabber was released from detention day before fatal attack

Terrorist who killed 2 women at a train station before being shot dead by police was held for suspected shoplifting

Brother of Toulouse terrorist who killed 4 Jews goes on trial for aiding attacks

By Pierre ROCHICCIOLI

Islamic State group claims responsibility for deadly Marseille attack

By AFP and ToI Staff

Toulouse Jewish school attack ushered in era of terror for France

By Lori Hinnant

Holocaust survivor Eva Mozes Kor, who found self-empowerment when she forgave Josef Mengele, September 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube, Buzzfeed)

'I, the guinea pig, had power over Auschwitz Angel of Death'

Video of Holocaust survivor forgiving Mengele goes viral

By David Sedley

Eva Mozes Kor, who was one of Nazi doctor’s ‘guinea pigs,’ imagined he was in the room, read out ’20 nasty words,’ and exercised ‘the power of forgiveness.’ It ‘made me feel good’

WW2 paratrooper Donald Malarkey, portrayed in ‘Band of Brothers,’ dies at 96

By AP

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc. (AFP Photo/Getty Images North America)

'May we all be better'

Zuckerberg, in Yom Kippur post, asks forgiveness for Facebook misuse

By JTA

Social media giant’s CEO apologizes to ’those I hurt this year’ and ‘for the way my work was used to divide people’; vows to improve

Actress Lena Dunham attends TheWrap Power Women Breakfast at 10 On The Park on June 9, 2016 in New York City. (Ben Gabbe/Getty Images via JTA)

Girls and grandmothersLena Dunham says she connected to Judaism through Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai

By JTA

Former white supremacist Michael Kent (r) and his parole officer, Tiffany Whittier, on September 25, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Black parole officer inspires ex-white supremacist to remove Nazi tattoos

Michael Kent, who has carried hate ink for most of his life, credits Tiffany Whittier with helping him transform his life

Delayed atonementAfter missing march on Yom Kippur, Jews gather for a second protest

By Cathryn J. Prince

White supremacist attacks stoke US debate over need for domestic terrorism laws

By JUSTIN JUOZAPAVICIUS

Omri Casspi skips Golden State preseason opener for Yom Kippur

By JTA and ToI Staff

Merri Ukraincik

A bag of old photos changed me

Sure, I was insecure about my appearance, but I shouldn’t have hid from the camera

Israel’s hollow support for Kurdish independence

Benjamin Netanyahu’s endorsement does nothing for Kurds in Iraq and may harm Kurds elsewhere

Profiteering from Monarch’s demise

Monarch, Britain’s fifth biggest airline, went bust in the early hours of this morning, a massive blow to staff and customers

Sukkahs in Manhattan

The temporary art installations of Sukkahwood reflect just how differently people connect to the Divine

There’s more than one way to fight a boycott

The BDS movement has capitalized on the shifted sentiment in the US’ left to encourage Americans and other nationalities to boycott Israel both culturally and financially

It’s time to apply the law

Has Israel forgotten the Levy Report that carefully refines the legal status of West Bank Jews and Arabs?

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah (C) is surrounded by security as he waves following his arrival at the Erez border crossing in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip on October 2, 2017. ( AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

In Gaza for first time in 2 years, Palestinian PM says disunity serves Israel

Rami Hamdallah arrives at the head of large delegation amid Egypt-led push for Hamas-Fatah reconciliation after decade of estrangement

A Palestinian Fatah member receives greetings, after being released from a Hamas jail in front of the interior ministry, in Gaza City, October 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

AnalysisPalestinian reconciliation faces perilous road ahead

By Fares Akram and Mohammed Daraghmeh

Israeli security forces at the Qalandiya checkpoint near Ramallah, on November 22, 2016 (Flash90)

Israel set to put West Bank, Gaza under 11-day closure for Sukkot

By Judah Ari Gross

Exceptionally long closure comes after Har Adar attack; defense minister dismisses as ‘nonsense’ TV report he overruled army’s recommendation

Army probe points to failings that enabled brutal Halamish terror attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian gets 17 years for stabbing Ra’anana man in 2015

Terrorist who killed off-duty cop given 2 life sentences

By Alexander Fulbright

The interior view of a Panoramic Sukkah. (Courtesy of Eliyahu Alpern/via JTA)

Virtual reality'We're sharing Eretz Yisrael with people all over the world'

This Panoramic Sukkah re-creates Jerusalem in your backyard

Can’t make it to the Holy Land in time for the festival? Fear not: in the confines of this holiday hut, you’ll think you were really there

Three man hold to each other as they try to block a Spanish police van from approaching a voting site to prevent would-be voters from voting at a school assigned to be a polling station by the Catalan government in Barcelona, Spain, 1 October 2017. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Hebrew media review

United we stand, divided we poll

By Joshua Davidovich

With chaos in Catalonia over a separation referendum, some see a ‘war of independence’ while others wonder if the vote is worth the tear in the social fabric

Man uses a laptop (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel aiming to double its tech workforce in a decade

By Shoshanna Solomon

Goal is to boost sector’s employees from 270,000 to 500,000, and help startups stay in Israel and grow into full-fledged companies, Innovation Authority says in 2017 report

Autonomous cars create ‘huge’ opportunity for Israeli tech, report says

By Shoshanna Solomon

IAI develops drone to evacuate wounded soldiers remotely

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israel, China set up first accelerator program in Beijing

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

Winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (L-R) Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W Young are pictured on a display during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on October 2, 2017. (AFP PHOTO/Jonathan NACKSTRAND)

Americans win Nobel medicine prize for circadian rhythm work

By Agencies and ToI Staff

President Reuven Rivlin attends the state ceremony marking 44 years since the Yom Kippur War, held at the military cemetery at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl, on October 1, 2017. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Government fails to send a single minister to Yom Kippur War memorial

Former British prime minister Tony Blair speaks at the first state memorial in honor of Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, September 14, 2017. (Josef Avi Yair Engel)

Tony Blair calls Roger Waters anti-Israel views ‘ludicrous’

Fred Goldman, center, father of Ron Goldman, who was murdered in 1994, speaks to reporters after O.J. Simpson's sentencing hearing outside the Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, December 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, Pool)

OJ release ‘still difficult’ for Goldman family 20 years after son slain

By AP

A container ship passing through the Suez Canal. (photo credit: CC BY Argenberg, Flickr)

Egypt secretly ordered more than 30,000 grenades from North Korea — report

Grounded Monarch airplanes sit on the tarmac at Luton airport in south England on October 2, 2017. (AFP Photo/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

Thousands of Israelis affected as Monarch Airlines collapses

By AFP and ToI Staff

Moran Samuel smiles after winning the silver medal in the World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida, on October 1, 2017. (Screen capture/Daniel Rowing Center)

Israeli Paralympic rower wins silver at world championships

Israel's Yarden Gerbi points to the Israeli flag, after defeating Japan's Miku Tashiro to win the bronze medal in the women's under-63kg judo contest, at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on August 9, 2016. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Israeli Olympic judo medalist retires, says she’s ‘fulfilled’

Alan Dershowitz at NEP Studios in New York, February 3, 2016. (John Lamparski/Getty Images for Hulu, via JTA)

Dershowitz says UC Berkeley talk back on after law school invite

Police investigate the scene where a car crashed into a roadblock in Edmonton Alta, September 30, 2017. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press via AP)

‘Lone wolf’ suspected in Canada terror attack, police chase

By AP

Illustrative photo (iStock)

In first, two women appointed as Mossad division heads

Israeli entrepreneur Yossi Vardi (L) speaks to Amazon's Werner Vogels during an Invest in Israel event aat DLD Tel Aviv, September 6, 2017. (Courtesy)

Amazon to open 2 Israeli R&D centers to develop Alexa Voice Shopping

Moshiach Oi, a Jewish punk band. (YouTube screenshot)

'Rabbi Nachman's whole approach is very punk rock'

Punk Jews scream out to God ‘from the depths’

By Madison Margolin

Since the 1980s, an iconoclastic subculture has existed on New York’s Lower East Side in parallel with the gritty rock scene — but this one has a higher spiritual calling

‘Yes’ side wins Catalonia independence vote marred by chaos

By Aritz Parra and Joseph Wilson

Separatist leader Carles Puigdemont says region ‘won the right to become an independent state,’ after 90% of voters back self-determination in banned referendum

Hundreds hurt as riot police crack down on banned Catalan vote

By Marianne Barriaux and Daniel Silva

Sukkot services to go on in Barcelona, despite violence over independence vote

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Israeli poll observer shocked by Spanish police violence during Catalonia vote

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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