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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 17, 2017

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Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces, backed by US special forces, celebrate at the frontline in the Islamic State group jihadists crumbling stronghold of Raqqa, October 16, 2017. (AFP/BULENT KILIC)

Former IS ‘capital’ Raqqa fully captured, US-backed forces say

By AP

Syrian Democratic Forces begin mine-clearing operations after taking last two positions in Islamic State stronghold

Woman rips off oppressive garments as Raqqa liberated from IS

By ToI Staff and AFP

Arab media reports Israel hit targets in Sinai after rocket attack

New York bomber found guilty of IS-inspired terror attacks

By AFP

Illustrative: A woman places her vote in a ballot box for the Israeli general elections for the 19th parliament, January 22, 2013, in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

More Israelis satisfied with their democracy than Americans, survey finds

By Stuart Winer

Ultra-Orthodox men clash with police during an anti-draft protest in Jerusalem on October 16, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cop pulls gun, 12 arrested at ultra-Orthodox anti-draft demonstrations

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, speaks with Tourism Minister Yariv Levin in the Knesset, December 7, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Government advancing bill to ban Breaking the Silence — report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a meeting in the former's office in Jerusalem on October 17, 2017. (Prime Minister's Office)

PM to Russian defense minister: Israel won’t allow Iranian presence in Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

In meeting with Sergei Shoigu, Netanyahu repeats warning that Tehran is on track to get a nuke in the next decade

Netanyahu warns Syria Israel prepared to strike ‘as needed’

By Judah Ari Gross and Dov Lieber

Hebrew media reviewSigned, sealed, destroyed

By Joshua Davidovich

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

By Judah Ari Gross and Dov Lieber

A picture taken on September 17, 2017, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, along the border with Egypt, shows smoke billowing from Egypt's North Sinai. (AFP/SAID KHATIB)

Live updates (closed)

Israeli drone strike reportedly killed Palestinian IS fighter in Sinai

By Itamar Sharon and Tamar Pileggi

Reported strikes in northern region of Egyptian peninsula came shortly after jihadist group fired 2 rockets into the Negev

6:20 pm

Iraq's president defends seizure of Kirkuk
6:18 pm

Israeli drone reportedly killed IS-linked fighter in Sinai
5:55 pm

Roman Polanski in Poland for documentary on his early life during the Holocaust

The former Nazi death camp Sobibor, in eastern Poland, where more than 200,000 Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. A long-anticipated museum and visitor center is under construction, September 30, 2017 (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

Human bone fragments would rise whenever the ground thawed

At former Nazi death camp Sobibor, a post-Holocaust construction boom

By Matt Lebovic

After decades of obscurity, a one-time Nazi-built extermination center is being transformed to commemorate Jewish victims and attract more visitors

Faces of Holocaust victims projected on Prague synagogue

By AP

Ben Kingsley in Argentina filming Eichmann movie

By JTA

Labor party leader Avi Gabbay speaks during a press conference at the party's offices in Tel Aviv on October 1, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Labor head says he won’t evacuate settlements under peace deal

By Alexander Fulbright

Avi Gabbay: Idea that West Bank homes would need to be uprooted in accord with Palestinians is ‘not correct’

Labor chair Avi Gabbay, right, and Hatnua chair MK Tzipi Livni attend a Zionist Union faction meeting at the Knesset on July 24, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Gabbay’s own colleagues reject his ‘no dismantling settlements’ remarks

By Alexander Fulbright

Women are sharing their tales of sexual harassment and assault by using the hashtag #metoo. (Joseph Branston/Future Publishing via Getty Images via JTA)

Jewish women share tales of harassment, and a rabbi atones for his fellow men

Film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg speaks at The Wall Street Journal's three-day D.Live technology conference in Laguna Beach, California, October 16, 2017. (AFP/Glenn CHAPMAN)

Former Disney Studios chairman: Weinstein ‘a monster’ in ‘pack of wolves’

By AFP

Director Woody Allen (L) and producer Harvey Weinstein at the Los Angeles Premiere of "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" at the Mann Village Theatre in Westwood, California, on August 4, 2008. (AFP Photo/Getty Images North America/Kevin Winter)

Woody Allen clarifies remarks on Harvey Weinstein: ‘He is a sad, sick man’

By JTA

Eliot Cohen, director of the Strategic Studies program, introduces US Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before remarks at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C., Oct. 27, 2016. (DoD Photo by US Army Sgt. James K. McCann)

InterviewEarly on, I figured out: 'This is a different breed of cat'

The ex-Bush staffer whose ‘Jewish sensibility’ made him a leading Trump critic

By Eric Cortellessa

Former counselor to the State Department Eliot Cohen argues it’s a mistake for ‘another highly identifiable American Jew’ to lead Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy for US

Heated response after Trump says predecessors didn’t honor fallen

By Calvin Woodward

Trump bashes Schumer for not backing his Iran moves

The Cuban interior ministry building with the image of Ernesto "Che" Guevara and the Cuban flag fluttering at half mast at Havana's Revolution square, during Fidel Castro's memorial, on November 28, 2016 in Havana. (AFP Photo/Adalberto Roque)

Israeli business delegation heading to Cuba, with tacit Jerusalem consent

By Raphael Ahren

In first, Israel-Latin American Chamber of Commerce is taking companies to Havana in December, to partner directly with the regime and government-owned firms

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, center, and Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades shake hands during their meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city, on June 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Work on Israel-Cyprus-Greece electricity link to start in 2018

By AP

The Buenos Aires AMIA Jewish center after it was attacked, July 1994. (Cambalachero/ Wikimedia Commons)

Stressing AMIA bombing link, Netanyahu looks to highlight IRGC’s terror role

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu tells Iranian foreign minister to quit Twitter

By Raphael Ahren

Trump says ‘total termination’ of Iran nuclear deal possible

By AFP

AnalysisWhat happens now with the Iran deal

Illustrative. An elite Border Police unit takes part in an exercise in the IDF's counterterrorism training center outside of the central Israeli city of Modiin. (Israel Police)

Facebook post leads cops to nab Palestinian suspected of planning attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Police say suspect wrote ‘farewell to the world,’ said he would ‘knock on heaven’s door with Jewish skulls’

Members of the Palestinian security forces patrol in the West Bank city of Nablus on August 19, 2016, during ongoing clashes between the security forces and Palestinian gunmen. (AFP PHOTO / JAAFAR ASHTIYEH)

PA to begin drafting recruits for Gaza security body, minister says

Illustrative photo of an Israeli army jeep in Hebron, November 7, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

For first time in 15 years, Israel okays new homes for Hebron settlers

My San Francisco summer of 1968

How a nice yeshiva boy attained worldly wisdom as the janitor of a sleazy hotel

Orli Gold Haklay

These are determined women

The Women Wage Peace march was hot and dusty, but that didn’t daunt anyone, as they set aside their egos and found hope

Crayon mitzvahs

The small efforts made by the youngest among us improve the world in great ways

The miraculous Jerusalem mini-market

The way that tiny store expands to hold all its obscure stock is as good as pizza-flavored manna in the desert!

More Headlines

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a news briefing at the White House, in Washington, September 15, 2017. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Haley slams UN for electing Congo to rights council despite abuses

By AP and ToI Staff

Holloweencostumes.com removed this Halloween costume of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank from its sites. (Screenshot from Holloweencostumes.com)

'Trivializing' her memoryHalloween retailer pulls Anne Frank costume amid complaints

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets with Austria's then-foreign minister Sebastian Kurz in Jerusalem, on May 16, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu congratulates Austria’s Kurz, but silent on partnership with far right

By Alexander Fulbright and Raphael Ahren

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition presidential forum in Washington, DC, on December 3, 2015. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Scolding UNESCO, GOP lawmakers introduce resolution on Jewish ties to Jerusalem

By Eric Cortellessa

Orly Portal, one of the guest dancers appearing at 'Between Heaven and Earth,' the Ka'Et Ensemble festival taking place November 2-9, 2017 (Courtesy Tami Weiss)

Dance like they doA modern dance fest rooted in Jewish values

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustration of a neutron star. (Screen capture: YouTube, Hebrew University)

Israeli scientists predicted effects seen in historic neutron star study

By ToI Staff and AFP

Ursula Haverbeck arrives in the Tiergarten District Court in Berlin, Germany, October 16, 2017. (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)

German neo-Nazi convicted of Holocaust denial — again

By AP

View of Jerusalem's Nayot neighborhood on January 10, 2015, after a snowy day. Many properties in this neighborhood have been sold by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch to private investors. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Anonymous investors sought 400% profit on church land deal — report

Israeli driver Alon Day smiles during an interview prior to racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race, June 25, 2017, in Sonoma, California (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Israeli NASCAR driver crowned European champion

Israel's Or Sasson celebrates after defeating Cuba's Alex Garcia Mendoza to win the men's +100kg judo bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 12, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / Toshifumi KITAMURA)

Israel says judo team barred from wearing national emblems in UAE

By AFP

Illustrative: A sukkah on a Brooklyn balcony. (CC BY-SA Richardrubin1, Wikimedia Commons)

Sukkah blocks Brooklyn woman from escaping apartment fire

By JTA

Citi's office in Tel Aviv with names of fintech accelerator companies (Courtesy Sivan Farag)

Citi fosters Israeli fintech to meet changing needs of financial sector

By Shoshanna Solomon

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