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What Matters Most On Monday, October 16, 2017

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Khalid Muhamra, left, Younis Ayash Musa Zayn, center, and Muhammad Muhamra, right, sit behind a glass window during their indictment in a Tel Aviv District Court on July 4, 2016. (Flash90)

Palestinian cousins convicted of murder for deadly 2016 Sarona attack

By Alexander Fulbright

Muhammad and Khalid Muhamra killed four Israelis at upscale Tel Aviv shopping area; Younis Ayash Musa Zayn found guilty of assisting them

US launches $10 million water project in West Bank

By AFP

AnalysisVeneer of positivity fades in Palestinian unity talks as tough issues surface

East Jerusalem Arab burns hand hurling petrol bomb; arresting officers treat him

Illustrative: An IAF F-16 from the Red Dragon squadron during a drill, November 2013. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flash90)

Israel destroys anti-aircraft battery in Syria after it fires at IDF jets

By Judah Ari Gross

After IAF strikes anti-aircraft battery, Syria warns of ‘dangerous consequences’

By Judah Ari Gross and Dov Lieber

Two rockets fired into Israel from Sinai, no injuries

By Judah Ari Gross

Islamic State claims responsibility for Sinai rocket attack on Israel

Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists (left to right) Tehillah Lieberman, Dr. Joe Uziel and Dr. Avi Solomon at the site of an ancient Roman theater-like structure, hidden for 1,700 years adjacent to the Western Wall underneath Jerusalem's Old City, on October 16, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Find may mean Temple Mount was used even after destruction

Massive section of Western Wall and Roman theater uncovered after 1,700 years

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Sought for 150 years, the remarkable discovery of the small theater changes archaeologists’ perceptions of Roman-conquered Jerusalem after the fall of the Second Temple

Minister Ze'ev Elkin speaks during a ceremony honoring veterans of the Six Day War at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem, as Israel marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 war, on May 23, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel launches new plan to ‘defend Jerusalem’ in international arena

By Raphael Ahren

Soreq Stalactite Cave. (CC BY-SA Yigal Dekel, Wikimedia Commons)

Parks Authority is fudging geological dates to spare ultra-Orthodox

Screen capture from video of the German American Bund rally at Madison Square Garden, February 1939. (YouTube/Field of Vision - A Night at the Garden)

To cheers, main speaker urged US free of 'Jewish domination'

When a Jewish laborer took on 20,000 US Nazis in Madison Square Garden

By Stuart Winer

Documentary compiles archive footage to recall 1939 German American Bund rally in New York, and the Jew who tried to disrupt it

US President Donald Trump speaks, center, during a Cabinet Meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, October 16, 2017. (AFP/ SAUL LOEB)

Live updates (closed)

Israel won’t let Syria become Iranian base, Liberman tells Russians

By Joshua Davidovich

Defense minister tells Moscow counterpart Israel is acting responsibly in war-town country, hours after bombing anti-aircraft battery near Damascus

6:35 pm

Egypt says 3,200-year-old temple unearthed near Cairo
6:19 pm

Netanyahu reminds new Austrian leader of fight against anti-Semitism
5:56 pm

Toddler killed after fall from bike

US President Donald Trump, right, holds a bilateral meeting with Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Sunday, May 21, 2017, in Riyadh. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Saudi king hails Trump’s ‘visionary’ new Iran strategy, White House says

In phone call between the two leaders, monarch vows to support US leadership in dealing with arch-foe

Nikki Haley: US to ‘stay’ in Iran nuke deal, aim to ‘make it better’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

EU’s Mogherini in Washington ‘early November’ to defend Iran deal

By AFP

Iran foreign minister: Trump speech violated nuclear deal

By AFP

Talli Rosenbaum

When your spouse loses religion

The revelation that one partner is no longer observant can feel as painful as infidelity

Betsalel Steinhart

Us, too

The viral ‘me too’ Facebook campaign is achingly sad and absolutely terrifying; it is also a wake-up call

Before you judge the women

Let’s get something straight: Abuse messes with everyone’s mind, the victims and the bystanders

Shulamit S. Magnus

The older girls saved me from sex abuse

They told me to get hat pins, long sharp hat pins, for those subway rides to Yeshiva high school

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to members of the Christian press during an event at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, October 15, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel to set up parliamentary probe into foreign gov’t funding of rights groups

By AP and ToI Staff

Netanyahu tells Christian journalists move is part of attempt to stamp out harassment of IDF, equates it to US investigation into Russian election meddling

Likud MK David Amsalem, chairman of the Interior Affairs Committee, left, and Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich, are seen during a committee meeting at the Knesset, July 11, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Immunity bill for prime minister to face key vote

Chief of Police Roni Alsheich ((left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a welcoming ceremony held in Alsheich's honor, at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem, on December 3, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Hebrew media review

Which hunt

By Joshua Davidovich

After Netanyahu attacked the police for leaking details about graft probes into him, papers say it’s open season, but disagree over who is the hunter and who is the hunted

Austria's Foreign Minister and leader of Austria's center-right People's Party (OeVP) Sebastian Kurz waves to supporters during the party's election event following the general elections in Vienna, Austria, on October 15, 2017. (AFP/ APA / ROBERT JAEGER)

Austrian poised to become Europe’s 1st millennial leader

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Howard Kurz, 31, declares victory in national elections; Jewish group voices concern as far-right surges

Demonstrators hold posters 'Nazis get off' during a demonstration against the Austrian Freedom Party FPOe in Vienna, Austria, Friday, Oct. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Far right surges in Austria elections; conservative Kurz, 31, declares victory

By ToI Staff and AFP

More Headlines

Mayim Bialik. (courtesy Core18)

Mayim Bialik slammed for advocating modesty after Weinstein allegations

By Andrew Tobin

'Totaled" author Brian Blum. (Courtesy)

Times of Israel PresentsAuthor of new book on Better Place crash to speak at launch in Jerusalem

By Matthew Kalman

Director Samuel Maoz, center, and actors Lior Ashkenazi, left, and Sarah Adler pose during the photo call for the film "Foxtrot" at the 74th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Times of Israel PresentsFoxtrot’s Samuel Maoz talks fate, potted meat, ministerial controversy

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: Hillel activists at the Dartmouth campus in September 2014. (courtesy)

Israel suspends plan to set up database of Jewish students in US

Illustrative: An IDF soldier sits in a military court. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

2 IDF officers, 10 civilians suspected of defrauding army of ‘huge sums’

By Judah Ari Gross

Julian Edelman reading from his children’s book at the JCC of Greater Boston, Oct. 10, 2017. (Nikki Cole)

Julian Edelman’s children’s book gets a Jewish makeover

By Penny Schwartz

Illustrative: Screen capture from a documentary video about Jews in Ireland. (YouTube/maximeallouchevideos)

Ireland’s Jewish population rose by nearly 29% in 5 years

By JTA

View of caravans in the Givat Hamatos neighborhood of Jerusalem, on July 5, 2016. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

Construction equipment arrives at site of East Jerusalem Jewish neighborhood

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

El Al airplanes on the tarmac at the Ben Gurion International Airport on August 14, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Flights delayed, baggage stuck in brief Ben Gurion seasonal workers’ strike

Woody Allen (L) poses with Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of The Weinstein Company, August 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Woody Allen: Weinstein affair ‘sad for everybody involved’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An Open Restaurants Jerusalem workshop in painting, November 2016 (Courtesy Tomer Foltyn)

Taste testAn exalted food fest at Open Restaurants Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg

Iraqis gather as Iraqi forces arrive in the first neighborhood on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk on October 16, 2017. (AFP/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

Kurdish fighters said withdrawing from Kirkuk as Iraqi forces advance

By AFP

Rabbi Benjamin Papermaster and his eight sons and first grandson in Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1908. (The Jewish Museum of the American West)

Jewish history'It’s a great American Jewish story'

Frontier Jews find more ‘Green Acres’ than Goldene Medina in rural Dakota

By Rich Tenorio

Like fellow Americans moving West, the first Jews who settled in the Dakota Territory were attracted by the Homestead Act of 1862

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