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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 8, 2017

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US President Donald Trump arrives at Piedmont Triad International Airport on October 7, 2017 in Greensboro, North Carolina. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)

Trump won’t move embassy until peace plan ‘given a shot’

US president predicts decision ‘in not too distant future,’ but wants to give proposal US is formulating a chance to work first

US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base on October 7, 2017, in Maryland en route to North Carolina. (AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski)

Ministers lament Trump decision to delay US embassy move

This file photo taken on May 24, 2013 shows US producer Harvey Weinstein posing on May 24, 2013 as he arrives for the screening of the film "The Immigrant" in Cannes. (AFP/ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT)

Trump ‘not surprised’ by Weinstein harassment allegations, as fallout grows

Iranian Guard will ‘treat US Army like IS’ if labeled a terror group

Head of powerful force also warns American military to move out of Iranian missile range if new sanctions imposed

Commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, October 9, 2013. (CC BY 4.0 Tasnim News/Wikipedia)

On Iran deal, Trump is putting US credibility on the line, critics say

By Eric Cortellessa

North Korea touts nukes as ‘powerful deterrent’ against US

Trump on North Korea: Only one thing will work, and it’s not diplomacy

By AFP

A photo from the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border shows a smoke trail of rockets being fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip into Israel, August 22, 2014. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Live updates (closed)

IDF: Rocket fired from Gaza lands in south, no injuries

By Tamar Pileggi

‘Code Red’ alarms sound in Eshkol Regional Council; several past incidents in recent months have been false alarms

6:22 pm

Gaza rocket hits open area in southern Israel, no injuries reported
6:10 pm

Egypt court asks Mufti to weigh in on death sentences for 13
6:01 pm

Rocket sirens blare in Israeli communities near Gaza Strip

Israeli 'Wonder Woman' star Gal Gadot hosts 'Saturday Night Live,' October 7, 2017. (Screen capture: Daily Motion)

Wonder host

With Hebrew monologue, Gal Gadot debuts as SNL host

Opening long-running late-night show, ‘Wonder Woman’ star says the writers tried to have her eat hummus in every sketch

Larry David speaks onstage during Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on October 4, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images/AFP)

Curb your assassinationSalman Rushdie chortles over Larry David’s ‘fatwa’

A Jewish worshiper holds the four plant species as he attends the annual priestly blessing during the Sukkot holiday at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 8, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Photo gallery

Thousands flock to Western Wall for Priestly Blessing

Heavy police presence in Jerusalem as Jews make pilgrimage to capital during Sukkot holiday

Thousands of Christian pilgrims attend the Feast of Tabernacles celebration in Ein Gedi, near the Dead Sea, October 6, 2017. (International Christian Embassy Jerusalem)

Feast of NationsThousands of Evangelical pilgrims mark Feast of Tabernacles in Ein Gedi

Sivan Rahav Meir

An apology to the Western Wall

One million people voted with their feet and visited the Kotel in the 6 weeks from the first of Elul to Sukkot

Shayna Abramson

Why expanding Jerusalem is a bad idea

The law to add Ma’ale Adumim and the Etzion bloc to Israel’s capital has 3 major flaws

The first girls-only baseball league in Ontario has grown from 42 players in 2016 to over 350 today. (Courtesy Toronto Girls Baseball League)

Women in sports'The league empowers young girls'

Ontario’s first all-girls baseball league a hit with Jewish youngsters

By Daniel Horowitz

Dana Bookman’s daughter wanted to play without boys, but no options were available. Now, the mom’s initiative has grown nearly tenfold in a year to include more than 350 players

A Crossing Authority agent takes a military boot out of a slipper from a shipment that was bound for the Gaza Strip at the Kerem Shalom Crossing on October 8, 2017. (Screen capture: Defense Ministry)

Israel: Hamas tried to smuggle army boots to Gaza in shipment of emoji slippers

By Judah Ari Gross

Israelis run for cover as air raid sirens sound in the Israeli city of Sderot on March 12, 2014. (AFP/David Buimovitch)

In false alarm, rocket sirens blare in Israeli communities near Gaza Strip

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan speaks at the funeral of Israeli Druze police officer Kamil Shnaan in the northern village of Hurfeish, July 14, 2017. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Police minister says Reuven Schmerling murder is apparently terror

By Raoul Wootliff

Police at the scene where Reuven Schmerling from the settlement of Elkana was found dead at the industrial zone in Kafr Qassem, October 4, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

‘Growing assessment’ Reuven Schmerling murder was nationalistically motivated

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

A beachgoer relaxes on the beach on Saturday October 7, 2017, as Hurricane Nate pushes waves from the Gulf of Mexico against the fishing pier in Navarre Beach, Florida (Nick Tomecek/Northwest Florida Daily News via AP)

Hebrew media review

The qualm before the storm

By Joshua Davidovich

Nobody is quite certain what Trump is threatening Iran with, but everybody sees clouds of conflict on the horizon

FILE: Israel's Ambassador to UNESCO Carmel Shama-Hacohen, left, talks to UNESCO Executive Board chairman Michael Worbs, right. (Erez Lichtfeld)

UNESCO to postpone vote on upcoming anti-Israel resolutions — Israeli envoy

By Raphael Ahren

Ambassador says move marks significant victory after intense lobbying to quash two Arab-sponsored proposals

The Israeli drug company TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries, in Jerusalem, on August 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Teva shares plunge as competitors get nod for copycat flagship drug

By Shoshanna Solomon

Tel Aviv drop follows declines in New York last week on the news Mylan will start marketing generic version of Copaxone for multiple sclerosis

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Menny Naftali (C), the former housekeeper of Prime Minister's Residence, and Israeli activist Eldad Yaniv (2R) outside the courtroom of the High Court in Jerusalem, August 24, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court lifts cap on protests at AG’s house over Netanyahu graft probes

Israeli gymnast Artem Dolgopyat (R) next to Kenzo Shirai of Japan (C) and Yul Moldauer of the United States after taking top positions on the floor exercise during the individual apparatus finals of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Montreal, Canada, October 7, 2017. (Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images/AFP)

Israeli gymnast Artem Dolgopyat wins silver at World Championships

The eye of Hurricane Nate pushes ashore as a category 1 storm in Biloxi, Mississippi, October 7, 2017. (Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images/AFP)

In first since Katrina, Hurricane Nate makes landfall in Mississippi

By Janet McConnaughey, Melinda Deslatte and Jeff Amy

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 2014. (CC BY Bagito16, Flickr)

Two guards killed in attack at Saudi royal palace

By AFP and ToI Staff

An illustration of an Unmanned Search and Rescue System (USRS) for military and civilian use developed by Beeper Communications and Mantaro Networks that got BIRD funding (Courtesy Beeper)

Robots to the rescue as joint US-Israel team gets $900,000 award

Two clown masks seized in Kiryat Yam, October 7, 2017. (Israel Police)

Police detain 7 more teens in continued crackdown on clown nuisance

Russian police officers detain a supporter of opposition leader Alexei Navalny during an unauthorized rally in Saint Petersburg on October 7, 2017. (AFP/ Olga MALTSEVA)

Hundreds arrested at anti-Putin rallies across Russia

By AFP

Zameer Ghumra (UK police)

UK pharmacist jailed for showing IS beheading video to kids

A satellite image of what the State Department described as a building in a prison complex in Syria that was modified to support a crematorium, April 18, 2017. (State Department/DigitalGlobe via AP)

Israel considered attacking Syria crematorium – report

Illustrative: A bartender prepares a cocktail at Tel Aviv's Imperial Craft bar (YouTube)

L'ChaimTel Aviv cocktail bar named best in Mideast and Africa

Nassim Ouadi, a 33-year-old French-Algerian, who, together with his 44-year-old Tunisian girlfriend, has been sentenced to prison after allegedly been found kissing in the car near the Tunisian capital, October 8, 2017. (Screen capture)

Tongue lashingCouple sent to prison in Tunisia for public kissing

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)

Five charged with assaulting Tel Aviv hospital guards

Arielle Geismar, in the Scouting uniform, leading American Jewish kids in one of the first meetings of the Manhattan chapter of Tzofim Atid, the Israeli Scouts’ English-language branch. (Ben Sales)

Scouting Israeli style comes to America — in English

Israel’s most popular youth group offers its brand of secular Judaism and knot-tying skills to Jewish youth across the US

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