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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 4, 2017

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Reuven Schmerling, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Elkana, who was murdered and his body discovered in a storage facility in the Israeli Arab town of Kafr Qassem, October 4, 2017. (Courtesy)

Police, Shin Bet investigate suspected murder of Jewish man in Israeli Arab city

Reuven Schmerling, a father of four from West Bank settlement of Elkana, found with stab wounds in Kafr Qassem

US President Donald Trump and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speak during a meeting on United Nations reform at the UN headquarters in New York, September 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Timothy A. Clary)

Trump told UN chief Netanyahu a ‘bigger problem’ than Abbas — report

During sit-down with Guterres, US president said to complain both sides ‘problematic’; White House official disputes story

PA slams Netanyahu’s ‘unacceptable’ pledge to develop Ma’ale Adumim

By AP and ToI Staff

Top Arab MK calls Hamas leader to applaud reconciliation talks

UN special envoy says Israel ignoring demand to halt settlements

By AP and ToI Staff

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

Over 180 Democratic House members urge Trump to re-certify Iran deal

By Eric Cortellessa

Signed by most of the House’s Democratic caucus, letter to president warns that decertifying pact would ‘harm our alliances, embolden Iran and threaten US national security’

Mattis: Staying in Iran nuclear deal is US national security interest

By Eric Cortellessa

To save face and Iran deal, US seeking ways around recertification minefield

By Bradley Klapper and Matt Lee

With nuke threat rising, Iran deal trio seen as Nobel favorites

By Pierre-Henry DESHAYES

A woman prays at a makeshift memorial on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 3, 2017, after a gunman killed 59 people and wounded more than 500 others when he opened fire from a hotel window on a country music festival. (AFP PHOTO / Robyn Beck)

Las Vegas Jews rally for victims in wake of shooting

By JTA

Synagogues hold vigils, collect goods and raise money in aftermath of Sunday massacre; two Jewish women injured

Las Vegas shooter’s girlfriend returns to US from Philippines

Las Vegas massacreTrump to visit Vegas as killer Stephen Paddock’s girlfriend returns to US

By AP

Iran expresses ‘sympathy’ over Las Vegas massacre

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, September 15, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Analysis

Amid reconciliation talk, Netanyahu and Abbas in rare harmony on Hamas

Israel’s PM says any unity PA government must recognize Israel, see Hamas disarmed, sever ties with Iran; PA president broadly echoes the sentiments

Hamas vows never to disarm as first rift in Fatah talks emerges

AnalysisAs Hamas sticks to its guns, Abbas pours cold water on reconciliation efforts

By Avi Issacharoff

Egypt hails ‘opportunity’ for Palestinian unity

By AFP

Somjit, a Buddhist Thai worker at kibbutz Tirat Tzvi, harvests lulavs ahead of Sukkot, September 27, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Largest lulav-harvesting kibbutz has fronds in high places

By Melanie Lidman and Video by Luke Tress

Tirat Zvi has perfected the art of the palm frond, part of the lucrative Four Species industry that flourishes for one week out of the year, during the festival of Sukkot

Celebrate with the arts, industry and open houses on Sukkot

By Jessica Steinberg

Tel Aviv hosts 25,000 visitors in ‘world’s largest sukkah’

By Melanie Lidman

Israel imposes 11-day closure on West Bank, Gaza for Sukkot holiday

By Judah Ari Gross

An Israeli medical clown entertains a Nepalese earthquake victim during a visit to a makeshift army camp in Kathmandu on May 6, 2015 (photo credit: AFP/PRAKASH MATHEMA)

For Israel’s real clowns, ‘sick counterfeit’ pranksters no laughing matter

By Raoul Wootliff

A Dracula mask and knife confiscated from a 13-year-old boy detained by police in the coastal city of Herzliya in a continuing crackdown on youngsters wearing masks to scare the public, October 4, 2017. (Police spokesperson's office)

Police detain 13-year-old ‘Dracula’ with knife

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara visit Hippos, an archaeological site in Northern Israel, August 15, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Hebrew media review

Back in the frying pan

By Joshua Davidovich

The Netanyahus are again under fire with the publication of detailed suspicions against Sara Netayahu and a report Trump is talking smack about the prime minister

Gerald C. Skolnik

Silence is not the right response

‘How many deaths will it take ’till he knows that too many people have died?’

Oops! I built my sukkah upside-down!

For the record, I’ve gone through 4 or 5 of those ‘ever-lasting’ sukkot

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Sukkot is a state of mind

A structure so lacking in physical stability teaches what is truly important: authenticity, with all its vulnerability

Is that a Wrigley Field sukkah?!?

When the Cubs are in the playoffs during Sukkot, what’s an Israeli Cubs fan to do?

Sheldon Adelson attends the Republican Jewish Coalition annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas on February 24, 2017. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Sheldon Adelson group changes how it’s selling Israel on campus

The Maccabee Task Force is quietly making inroads among college progressives who have been a focus for anti-Israel activity

Casino mogul Adelson met with Trump hours after Las Vegas shooting

By Stuart Winer

Family members collect belongings after hurricane force winds destroyed their house in Toa Baja, west of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on September 24, 2017 following the passage of Hurricane Maria. (AFP PHOTO / Ricardo ARDUENGO)

Jewish group flies aid to San Juan, gets stranded man to son’s wedding

By JTA

UJA-Federation of New York brings food, water and other supplies to ‘desperate’ Puerto Rico, gives firefighter who had been stuck on island ride back

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz during a briefing on hurricane recovery efforts with first responders at Luis Muniz Air National Guard Base, Tuesday, October 3, 2017, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In Puerto Rico, Trump suggests hurricane not a ‘real catastrophe’ like Katrina

US President Donald Trump visits residents affected by Hurricane in Guaynabo, west of San Juan, Puerto Rico on October 3, 2017.
(AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN)

Puerto Rico death toll rises as $29 billion aid package sought

By AP

A Dead Sea Scrolls fragment from the book of Genesis, part of Museum of the Bible's Scholars Initiative research project published by Brill in 2016. Of the museum's 13 published scrolls, at least six are of dubious authenticity. (Image by Bruce and Kenneth Zuckerman and Marilyn J. Lundberg, West Semitic Research, courtesy of Museum of the Bible)

Scholars rush to check authenticity

Dead Sea Scrolls scam: Dozens of recently sold fragments are fakes, experts warn

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Since 2002, collectors have paid millions for portions of ancient text. As DC’s Museum of the Bible prepares to open with several such pieces, evidence of fraud emerges

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman attends an event of his Yisrael Beytenu party in Jerusalem on September 13, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel’s defense minister says Syria’s Assad has won the civil war

By AFP

‘Assad has emerged victorious in the battle,’ says Avigdor Liberman. Now there is a ‘long line of countries applauding and wooing’ him

Top Hezbollah commander killed fighting IS in Syria

By AP

Erdogan visits Iran amid warming ties, shared worries

By Marc Jourdier

Iraqi Kurds mourn death of leader Talabani, symbol of unity

By SUSANNAH GEORGE

More Headlines

Illustrative: Portraits of Anne, her sister Margot, and mother Edith, inside the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

Ex-FBI agent to head team to discover who betrayed Anne Frank

Jewish television reporter Caroline Marcus. (Instagram)

Jewish reporter faced ‘anti-Semitic harassment’ at Australian TV station

By JTA

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin speaking at the Lincoln Square Synagogue. (screen capture: YouTube/JBS)

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin to step down from education network he founded

By JTA

Mark Zuckerberg delivering a commencement speech at Harvard University in which he quoted the Hebrew Mi Shebeirach prayer, May 25, 2017. (Paul Marotta/Getty Images via JTA)

New profileHow Mark Zuckerberg embraced his Judaism

Actor Larry David attends the 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' season 9 premiere at SVA Theater on September 27, 2017, in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images/AFP)

Finding his rootsGenealogy show unlocks family secrets for Larry David, others

Disabled, handicapped and activists block the entrance to Jerusalem as they attend a protest calling for better health care, September 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Disabled rights protesters block roads, vow to continue campaign

By Stuart Winer

Milwaukee Bucks President Peter Feigin speaking at the opening of the team’s new training center in downtown Milwaukee as Mayor Tom Barrett, left, looks on. (Gary Dineen/Milwaukee Bucks/via JTA)

Jews in SportsHow one NBA team’s president got his city to buck up

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative: Turkish soldiers stand on guard at the site of a car bomb explosion blamed on Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels on August 15, 2016, in Diyardakir. (AFP PHOTO / ILYAS AKENGIN)

Four Turkish troops killed in attack blamed on Kurd rebels

MK Erel Margalit casts his vote at a polling station in Jerusalem on July 10, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Labor MK Margalit quits Knesset, in second party resignation in week

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer speaking to reporters in Washington, DC, Sept. 27, 2017. (Win McNamee/Getty Images via JTA)

Schumer to Tillerson: Don’t return trove of Jewish artifacts to Iraq

By Josefin Dolsten

Arab Israeli Facebook star Nuseir Yassin in his Nas Daily video blasting Kuwait for boycotting Israel on October 1, 2017. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Doesn't flyArab Israeli Facebook star blasts Kuwait for boycotting Israel

By David Sedley

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