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What Matters Most On Monday, October 9, 2017

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Belgium halts PA education funding because West Bank school named for terrorist

Brussels says it was ‘unaware’ Hebron-area school was renamed for Dalal Mughrabi, notorious for her role in 1978 Coastal Road Massacre in which 38 were killed

Israel to approve almost 4,000 new West Bank homes — report

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Pro-Israel lawmakers from 14 countries tour West Bank with settler leaders

Egypt’s Sissi: Fatah-Hamas unity a prelude to Israeli-Palestinian peace

By Dov Lieber and ToI Staff

Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps are seen at an annual military parade in front of the mausoleum of the late Ayatollah Khomeini just outside Tehran on September 22, 2014. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi/File)

Iran warns of ‘crushing response’ if US deems Revolutionary Guard terrorists

Tehran Foreign ministry spokesman says America will bear consequences of ‘grave mistake’ if it sanctions elite unit

UK’s May tells Netanyahu her country is sticking with Iran deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IAEA says Iran upholding deal, as Trump looks to ‘decertify’ it

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ex-UK premier Tony Blair joins chorus urging US to uphold Iran deal

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel's Ambassador to UNESCO Carmel Shama-Hacohen. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Israel’s UNESCO ambassador laments upcoming vote as ‘bad news’

By Tamar Pileggi

With Arab candidates leading the ballot, Carmel Shama-Hacohen says ‘anything can happen’ during initial stages of voting

6:34 pm

Marseille attacker's brother, sister held in Tunisia
6:07 pm

The Weinstein Co. to change its name
5:56 pm

Israel's UNESCO ambassador laments upcoming vote as 'bad news'

Women from the 'Women Wage Peace' movement at the final part of the peace journey in Jerusalem on October 8, 2017. The peace journey was created in order to pressure decision makers to work towards reaching a viable peace agreement. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli-Palestinian women’s peace march exposes Palestinian divides

By Gabe Carroll

Shin Bet: Murder of Jewish man in Arab city was terrorism, 2 arrested

By Alexander Fulbright

Thousands of Israeli, Palestinian women march for peace

By AFP and ToI Staff

Police minister files complaint against Arab MK for Temple Mount visit

By Alexander Fulbright

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu answers questions on Twitter live, at his residence in Jerusalem, as Israel celebrates its 68th Independence Day. May 12, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Blaming social media, Netanyahu says politicians are ‘overly connected’

By Raphael Ahren

In Fox News interview focusing on his personal life, PM says attacks on his wife Sara hurt him more than when he himself is targeted

Demonstrators protest near the home of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit in Petah Tikva on August 5, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewTerrorists, bad tests and protests (and clowns)

By Joshua Davidovich

Jerry Seinfeld speaks onstage during the 2017 New Yorker Festival at New York Society for Ethical Culture in New York City on October 6, 2017. (Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The New Yorker/AFP)

Serenity now

Seinfeld: Trump’s happy face is ‘the scariest face of all time’

Comedian calls president ‘a water-gun clown,’ dismisses notion of doing an in-car sketch with him, Obama-style

Top Republican senator says Trump tweeting country into World War III

‘Apprentice’ producer alleges Trump made racist comments during filming

By JTA and ToI Staff

Breaking breadKushners cut through politics, chicken with bipartisan dinners

Ofir Dayan at Columbia University, New York, September 2017 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

'The minute I get my diploma I'm on a plane back to Israel'

At Columbia, NY consul’s daughter joins campus battle over Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Living with her dad in the official residence, Ofir Dayan uses her connections to push pro-Israel advocacy at Ivy League school

Ben Avrahami, second from left, standing, participating in a hike with other members of IAC Mishelanu at the University of Massachusetts. (Courtesy of IAC Mishelanu UMass Amherst/via JTA)

Diaspora dilemmas

Where Israeli-American students go to speak Hebrew and connect with their roots

By Josefin Dolsten

Illustrative: A trail of smoke from a rocket as it was launched from the Gaza Strip toward the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, August 24, 2014. (Edi Israel/Flash90/File)

IDF shells Hamas post in Gaza after rocket fired toward Israel

Army says missile failed to reach Israel, revising earlier claim that projectile landed in open territory across border

Illustrative: The Israel-Gaza border, from the Israeli side, with rockets being fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip into Israel, August 20, 2014. (Albert Sadikov/Flash90)

IDF: Rocket fired from Gaza hits southern Israel, no injuries

Palestinian members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas terror movement, take part in a military parade against Israel in Gaza City, July 25, 2017. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Hamas rebuffs comparison by Abbas to Hezbollah terror group

3 Israeli judokas take gold at Tashkent Grand Prix

Or Sasson wins in over-100 kilogram category, while Sagi Muki tops under-81 kg group; Betina Temelkova snags title in under-52 kg on women’s side

Illustrative: Israel's Or Sasson (white) competes with Egypt's Islam el-Shahabi during their men's +100kg judo contest at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 12, 2016. (AFP Photo/Toshifumi Kitamura)

Israel to play Spain in final match of failed World Cup bid

Soccer: Salah goals take Egypt to 2018 World Cup

By AFP

Dubai police chief urges Qatar to give up World Cup to end crisis

By Jon Gambrell

Steve Leibowitz

America: Heavily armed and dangerous

The US has a massive internal security problem — homegrown gun owners

When the best and brightest jump ship

The departure of top public servants and a move to up political appointments are a blow to good governance

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Illustrative: The president of the Egyptian Jewish Community, Magda Shehata Haroun, talks during an interview with AFP at the Shaar Hashamayim Synagogue in Cairo, also known as Temple Ismailia or Adly Synagogue in downtown Cairo on October 3, 2016. (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

Egypt Jewish leader backs controversial local candidate to head UNESCO

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump speaks about healthcare in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, on July 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Jewish groups oppose rollback of contraception coverage

By JTA

Screenshot from the movie 'It,' thought to have helped inspire copycat clowns in towns across Israel, September 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Police detain 5 knife-wielding Ashkelon teens searching for ‘scary clowns’

This undated combo of images made from video shows a Dove body wash ad. Dove is facing heat for the ad and said Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, that it regrets the offense caused by the ad. The company said it "missed the mark in representing women of color thoughtfully." (Twitter via AP)

Dove apologizes for Facebook soap ad that some call racist

By AP

Bezeq workers installing fiber optic cables. (Courtesy)

Bezeq teams up with startup for superfast internet over phone lines

White supremacists take part in a torchlight march in Charlottesville, Virginia, on October 7, 2017. (Twitter video screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Chanting ‘You will not replace us,’ neo-Nazis hold third Charlottesville rally

By JTA

Illustrative: US economist Richard Thaler after he was awarded the 2014 Global Economy Prize during the award ceremony in Kiel, northern Germany, June 22, 2014. (AFP Photo/Pool/Carsten Rehder)

Richard Thaler wins Nobel for work in behavioral economics

By AP

Anderson Hall at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. (CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Sukkah destroyed by vandals at Kansas State University

By JTA

Illustrative photo of handcuffs. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Prisons service to cut back on handcuffing of detainees

This file photo taken on May 23, 2017 shows US film producer Harvey Weinstein on the sidelines of the 70th Cannes Film Festival, at the Cap-Eden-Roc hotel in Antibes, near Cannes, southeastern France. (AFP Photo/Yann Coatsaliou)

Film producer Harvey Weinstein ousted from Weinstein Co.

Zionist Union MK Amir Peretz (2nd-L) attends a meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean in the Moroccan capital of Rabat on October 8, 2017. (Screen capture: Channel 2)

In Morocco, ex-defense chief called ‘war criminal’ by Islamist MP

Israeli actress Gal Gadot reacts to her first taste of a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup while appearing on The Late Show with Jimmy Fallon, October 6, 2017. (YouTube screen capture)

No wrong wayGal Gadot tries her very first Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup

After a difficult five-year process, Cory Carr finally earned his Israeli citizenship in 2009. Here he represents Israel in the FIBA 3-on-3 World Championships in 2012. (Courtesy)

Interview'They felt a kinship with Israelis'

Alley-oop to the Holy Land: 40 years of African American hoopsters in Israel

By Robert Sarner

A new book by author David Goldstein explores some of the 800 black Americans who have come to play professional basketball in the Jewish state since the 1970s

Palestinian man dead as bus and tow truck collide in West Bank

Driver of tow truck killed, 11 others, including 10 Israeli bus passengers, injured in head-on crash on Route 90

Scene of a car accident between a tow truck and Egged bus on the West Bank's Route 90 on October 9, 2017. (Courtesy: Magen David Adom)

Illustrative photo of Israelis watching flash floods in Nahal Og, which empties into the Dead Sea, November 26, 2014. (Maxim Dinshtein/Flash90)

150 rescued near Dead Sea as first rain hits Israel

A group of trekkers in the Annapurna mountains, Nepal. (CC BY-SA Gweltaz, Flickr)

Israeli tourist injured in Nepal jeep accident dies

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