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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 12, 2017

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Senior Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmad, center right, and Hamas' representative, Saleh al-Arouri, center left, sign a reconciliation agreement during a press conference at the Egyptian intelligence complex in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. Thursday's signing came after two days of negotiations in the Egyptian capital on the governing of the Gaza Strip as part of the most serious effort to date to end the 10 year rift between the rival Palestinian groups. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

No indication Hamas is to disarm

Fatah, Hamas sign Palestinian reconciliation deal in Cairo

By Agencies and ToI Staff

PA to resume full control of Gaza Strip by December 1; sticking point in upcoming unity government talks remains fate of Hamas’s 25,000-strong military wing

Abbas hails ‘final agreement’ with Hamas to end Palestinian split

3,000 Palestinian Authority police to redeploy to Gaza in unity deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Abbas to visit Gaza within a month for Palestinian unity bid

By AFP

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington, August 9, 2017. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Israel's UN envoy: This is price of shameful Israel-bashing

US announces withdrawal from UNESCO, cites ‘anti-Israel bias’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Washington to set up ‘observer mission’ to replace representation at Paris-based agency; withdrawal to take effect at end of 2018

France, Qatar neck-and-neck for UNESCO chief

By AFP and ToI Staff

UNESCO delays anti-Israel resolutions as it picks new head

By Alexander Fulbright and Raphael Ahren

US Jewish leaders say UNESCO’s Qatari frontrunner promoted anti-Semitism

Harvey Weinstein attending the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s National Tribute Dinner in Beverly Hills, Calif., March 24, 2015. (Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images, via JTA)

Wiesenthal Center removes Harvey Weinstein’s name from roster of honorees

Group’s founder Rabbi Marvin Hier says the human rights organization is ‘horrified by the charges’ against the film mogul

‘Everyone’ knew about Weinstein harassment, says Lea Seydoux

By Sara KAMOUNI

Weinstein scandal envenoms US political feuds

By Michael Mathes

As scope of Weinstein conduct widens, questions of who knew

Former prime minister Ehud Barak at the launch event of the defense news Reporty App in Tel Aviv, March 16, 2016. (Flash90)

Barak urges Trump not to decertify Iran nuke deal

Former Israeli PM says backing out of accord would likely lead to atomic arms race in Middle East, Asia

Netanyahu at odds with security team over Iran deal

By Josef Federman

With Trump set to decertify Iran deal, experts tell Congress to stick to accord

By Eric Cortellessa

Jewish Democrats who opposed Iran nuke deal now urge Trump to keep it

By Richard Lardner

Islamic State training camp (Channel 2 screenshot)

TV report: Islamic State chiefs gather near Israel border, set up training camp

Having fled Iraq and northern Syria, several top commanders of terror group now in Golan Heights enclave, recruiting and running propaganda effort, says Israel’s Channel 2

Syrian security forces stand guard outside the main entrance to the police headquarters in Syria's capital Damascus on October 11, 2017, following an attack that targeted the building. (AFP Photo/Louai Beshara)

Islamic State claims triple suicide bombing on Damascus police HQ

By AFP

Efrat Mayor and settlements advocate Oded Revivi speaks to a gathering of Israelis and Palestinians at his sukkah in Efrat, October 11, 2017. (Courtesy Yesha Council)

Dozens of Palestinians visit settlement mayor’s sukkah in reconciliation event

After similar gathering at Efrat home of Oded Revivi last year, four Palestinians were arrested by PA security forces and held for days

IDF general warns Hamas: Stop using lasers to ‘blind’ troops

Belgian Jews laud government’s aid freeze to PA over school named for terrorist

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Palestinian illegally in Israel arrested for planning terror attack

A branch of Miznon, the popular Tel Aviv restaurant owned by master chef Eyal Shani, has been illegally opened in China. (Courtesy Miznon)

Kitchen nightmare

Celebrity chef stirred up by illegal branch of his restaurant in China

By Jessica Steinberg

Eyal Shani surprised to learn Miznon menu, replete with signature roasted cauliflower and ‘anything stuffed in a pita,’ found in Shenzhen

I talk about menstruation with my sons

Teaching your boys basic biology doesn’t lead to sex; it does help protect against insidious anti-female biases

Miriam Herschlag

The Land is wet, the Land is good

My dog and I got caught in the first rain of the year

Trump, Judaism and birth control

There is a reason observant Jews might not celebrate limitations on insurance coverage for birth control

Out of the clouds, into hope

If we betray the Torah’s commitment to the poor, the stranger, social justice, and integrity, we shatter the Torah itself

Etgar Keret is the subject of a Dutch-made documentary about his storytelling and the people around him in 'Etgar Keret: Based on a True Story' (Courtesy Stephane Kaas)

'Some of his stories that sound crazy, actually ARE crazy'

A hunt for the kernel of truth behind Etgar Keret’s stories

By Jessica Steinberg

Dutch documentary about the beloved Israeli fiction writer, a cult favorite in Holland, opens at the 33rd Haifa Film Festival

'Bad Rabbi' by Eddy Portnoy (Courtesy Stanford University Press)

Not good for the JewsIt's a funny, snarky, homey atmosphere in the Yiddish press

‘Bad Rabbi’ exposes seamy underbelly of early 20th century Jewish life

By Renee Ghert-Zand

New book shines light on forgotten world of downwardly mobile Jews of New York and Warsaw as chronicled by Yiddish press in its heyday

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Illustrative: In this April 23, 2016 photo, members of the Ku Klux Klan participate in cross burnings after a 'white pride' rally in rural Paulding County near Cedar Town, Georgia. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

KKK drops anti-Semitic fliers in Florida neighborhoods in recruitment bid

By JTA

Illustrative: A swastika and the word 'kikes' spray painted on the Leeds Etz Chaim Synagogue sign. (UK Jewish News)

Swastika and ‘Kikes’ spray painted at UK synagogue

A sign above the headquarters of Kaspersky Lab in Moscow, January 30, 2017. (AP/Pavel Golovkin)

Kaspersky in focus as US-Russia cyber-tensions rise

US President Donald Trump (L) answers a question from the press as First Lady Melania Trump walks back into the White House after saying goodbye to the Canadian prime minister and his wife following their Oval Office meeting on October 11, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jim Watson)

Trump rips ‘disgusting’ press after NBC claims he sought huge increase in nukes

By AFP

Nazi doctor Josef Mengele (Wikimedia Commons)

Novel on Nazi doctor Mengele in running for top French book prize

By AFP

Illustrative image of demonstrators outside the offices of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo protesting his executive order calling for New York companies to divest from organizations that support the BDS movement, June 9, 2016. (Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images via JTA)

ACLU sues over Kansas law that targets Israel boycotts

A tree catches fire near houses in the Oakmont are of Santa Rosa, California, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Death toll rises to 21 as California wildfires swallow more homes

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and Jocelyn Gecker

The scene of a head-on-collision on Route 383 on October 11, 2017. (United Hatzalah)

2 Israeli teens killed in head-on collision on way to holiday meal

Papaya Verde restaurant in Recife, Brazil. (Screen capture: Google Maps)

Brazilian restaurant sorry for signs accusing Israel of genocide, urging boycott

By JTA

The Center for Jewish History in New York City. (Wikimedia Commons/JTA)

American Jewish Historical Society cancels events linked to BDS group

In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, a person passes posters of the right-wing Freedom party, FPOE, and the conservative Austrian People's Party, OEVP, from left, in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, Oct.11, 2017. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Austria set for rightward political turn after Sunday vote

In this April 29, 2017, file photo, Steve Bannon, former chief White House strategist to US President Donald Trump, tours The AMES Companies, Inc., with the president in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Steve Bannon had ties to Harvey Weinstein

By Erica Werner

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