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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 18, 2017

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Syrian Defense Minister General Fahd al-Freij (R) meets with Chief of Staff of Iran's armed forces, Major General Mohammad Bagheri (L), at the ministry of defense in the capital Damascus on October 18, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)

Tehran threatens Israel... from Damascus

Iran military chief warns: Israeli violations of Syria are ‘unacceptable’

By ToI Staff and AP

Mohammad Bagheri speaks from Damascus before talks to expand military cooperation there, while Ayatollah Khamenei threatens Iran will ‘shred’ nuke deal if Trump reneges

Netanyahu, Putin talk Syria tensions as Iran threatens from Damascus

2 storks hit F-35, sending stealth jet to garage

By Judah Ari Gross

Iran general mocks: No military threat by Trump because he ‘realizes our power’

Illustrative image of surgery (vizualni/Getty Images)

'She'll be with me forever'

Bereaved father gets kidney donation from daughter killed in accident

Teacher Orit Gur buried in Petah Tikva after fatal horse riding accident in Georgia. Husband Lior: ‘You’ve given life to others, as you wanted’

Working on breast cancer research at the Ben-Porath laboratory, Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem. (Keren Freeman/Flash90)

Cancer rates for men down in Israel, but not for women

Kevin Wilshaw (R) is seen in an interview with the UK's Channel 4 aired on October 17, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

British neo-Nazi comes out as gay, Jewish

Breaking ties with his white supremacist past, Kevin Wilshaw says he now feels ‘appallingly guilty’ about membership in far-right group

Spanish paper regrets raising UK soccer club’s ‘Jewish origin’

By JTA

UK intelligence chief says terror threat is worst of career

By Gregory Katz

Suspect nabbed for swastika and ‘kikes’ graffiti at UK synagogue

By JTA

Actress and author Mayim Bialik in Los Angeles, May 23, 2017. (AP/Damian Dovarganes)

Mayim Bialik ‘deeply hurt’ over Weinstein comment backlash

By AP and JTA

The actress says she regrets that the piece she wrote was perceived as blaming the victims of sexual assault

Hebrew media reviewBreaking their silence

By Tamar Pileggi

Twitter vows new crackdown on hateful, abusive tweets

By AP

Harvey Weinstein’s brother also accused of sexual harassment

By Frazier Moore

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 3, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Ministers put kibosh on peace talks after Fatah-Hamas unity deal

By Alexander Fulbright and Dov Lieber

Israel issues a series of demands for resumption of negotiations, including disbandment of terror group’s armed wing, recognition of Jewish state

PA dismisses Israeli threat of talks freeze if Hamas in government

By Alexander Fulbright and Dov Lieber

Bennett says PA security cooperation to continue despite Fatah-Hamas unity deal

Palestinians blast Netanyahu over fresh batch of settlement homes

Palestinian laborers work at the construction site of a new housing project in the Israeli settlement of Ariel near the West Bank city of Nablus on January 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Israel advances 1,292 settlement homes, hundreds more planned

Defense Ministry also approves 296 housing units for marketing in Beit El for outpost evacuees; prime minister comes under fire from right and left

Israel to pump NIS 3.3 billion into massive settler security package

Palestinian man shot after running at soldiers with knife in West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli drone strike said to have killed Palestinian IS fighter in Sinai

Illustrative: Construction of new housing in the Israeli settlement of Kfar Adumim, September 25, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Sweden says UN session on Mideast should focus on peace process, not Iran

By Tamar Pileggi

Olof Skoog says settlements ‘dangerously threaten the viability of the two-state solution and destroy hopes for peace’

6:29 pm

Sweden says UN's Mideast session should focus on peace process, not Iran
6:23 pm

State rejects settlers’ petition, agrees to evacuate Hebron squatters
6:06 pm

Hungarian who helped Jews flee Holocaust honored in Budapest

Analysis

Israel’s planned withdrawal from UNESCO unlikely to improve anything

Since the problem is with individual member states and not the institution itself, Jerusalem would only hurt its own interests by leaving, critics say

Illustrative: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jewel Samad)

Overcoming opposition, Israel elected to UN space committee

Shayna Abramson

#MeToo at the mikveh?

It can be a place where many Orthodox women feel violated on a monthly basis

#MeToo starts with your purse

When companies perpetuate rape culture, don’t buy from them

Poor Harvey Weinstein

The Hollywood executive’s promise to seek therapy shows us how perpetrators pose as victims

Anti-Zionists fueled a far-right victory

They coopted a mainstream Jewish institution’s programming, then cried foul when the board put a stop to it

More Headlines

Antony and Cleopatra, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Public domain)

Asp and ash?Did a volcanic eruption bring down Cleopatra, ancient Egypt’s last ruler?

By Marlowe HOOD

Illustrative image of an Israeli man dressed up as clown and laughing, February 28, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/FLASH90)

Funny business?Mossad seeks spontaneous optimist with sense of humor

By Stuart Winer

White supremacist leader Richard Spencer, center, and supporters clashing with police after the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia., was declared unlawful, August 12, 2017. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Florida U, home to largest Jewish student body in US, braces for Richard Spencer

By Josefin Dolsten

Businesswoman Nicol Raidman, right, speaks with disabled rights protester Hannah Akiva, center, and other activists at the entrance to the Prime Minister's Residence, Jerusalem, October 17, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Socialite stuns disabled-rights protester by handing her a wad of cash

George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, arrives for a meeting in Brussels, April 27, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Olivier Hoslet)

George Soros transfers $18 billion to his foundation

By AFP

The scene where a van was hit by a passenger train in Lod on October 17, 2017. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Three hurt as van hit by train after blowing through warning gate

Marc Klionsky painting one of his famed portraits. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Master portrait painter Marc Klionsky dies at 90

By JTA

Surrounded by blackened vegetation, Camp Newman’s iconic hillside Star of David survived a wildfire in Northern California. (Courtesy of URJ Camp Newman)

‘Miracles’ found amid ashes of Jewish camp in Northern California

Ryan Anderson #33 of the Houston Rockets and Draymond Green #23 of the Golden State Warriors go for the ball during their NBA game at ORACLE Arena on October 17, 2017, in Oakland, California. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images/AFP)

Casspi debuts with defending champs Golden State for 500th career NBA game

By ToI Staff and AP

Rabbi Samuel Hiller leaves the New York court house on October 17, 2017. (Screen capture/YouTube)

New York rabbi gets prison for stealing disabled preschoolers’ funds

By AP

Illustrative: A Jewish man walking in London’s Golders Green neighborhood, which is home to a large Jewish population, September 23, 2015. (Tony Margiocchi/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

Petition cites traffic disruption. That's not the full story

Is it Islamophobic to oppose the mosque next door? London Jews debate

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Some claim plans for an Islamic Center in heavily Jewish Golders Green could lead to friction between Jews and Muslims. Others accuse its opponents of racism

Thousands sign petition against Islamic Center in London Jewish neighborhood

Anti-Balfour Declaration posters banned from London underground, buses

By Stuart Winer

Why Orthodox Jews are flocking to this gritty English town

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: Evangelical Christians from various countries wave flags as they march to show their support for Israel in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Israel finds a welcome audience with Christian journalists

By Josef Federman

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