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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 19, 2017

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Likud MK Sharren Haskel, center, and Nahman Shai, next to her, at the Inter-Parliamentary Union assembly in Saint Petersburg, October 18, 2017. (Knesset spokesperson)

Israeli lawmakers walk out of summit amid anti-Israel onslaught

By Stuart Winer and Raphael Ahren

Kuwait’s parliament speaker shouts ‘child killers’ and ‘get out’ at Knesset members who are heckled when addressing forum in Russia

Israel finishes advancing 2,600 West Bank homes as settlers push for more

8 European countries demand Israel pay for West Bank structures it destroyed

Opposing settlers’ petition, state calls for evacuation of Hebron squatters

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)

US demands Hamas renounce violence, disarm before unity deal

By Tamar Pileggi

Trump’s Mideast peace envoy welcomes PA’s return to Gaza, but says terror group must accept ‘basic requirements’ set out by diplomatic Quartet

Hamas calls US demand that it disarm before unity ‘blatant interference’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Explosion injures 2 at alleged terror site in Gaza

Despite unity deal, Jordan won’t let Hamas reopen Amman office — report

A member of Iranian Revolutionary Guard speaks on his walkie talkie while Zolfaghar surface-to-surface ballistic missiles are displayed in an annual pro-Palestinian rally marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day in Tehran, Iran on June 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran guards vow to boost missile program in defiance of US pressure

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Announcement by militia comes after Trump administration condemned Tehran’s ‘destructive’ behavior at UN

As nuclear threat mushrooms, experts group says situation worse than Cold War

By Judah Ari Gross

US tells Security Council to look beyond nuke deal, punish Iran for terror

By AP and ToI Staff

AnalysisAfter Obama, Netanyahu reveling in Trump love fest

An ultra-Orthodox Jew holds a sign during a protest in Jerusalem against the conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews to the IDF on October 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)

Ultra-Orthodox mount ‘day of rage’ against army draft

Police arrest 40 people in Jerusalem for blocking roads, failing to obey orders

Human DNA strand (iStock by Getty Images)

Israel’s NRGene identifies mutation that causes colon cancer

By Shoshanna Solomon

Kite Pharma develops cell therapies in which the patient's own immune cells fight cancer. (YouTube screenshot)

Israeli-founded Kite Pharma gets FDA nod for cancer therapy

By Shoshanna Solomon

Rachel Grady, left, and Heidi Ewing, filmmakers behind 'One of Us.' (Courtesy Netflix)

Interview

Saga of former Hasidic Jews starting afresh exposed in Netflix film

By Jordan Hoffman

Avi Gabbay at a press conference on July 11, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Labor chief: Jordan Valley settlements ensure security

Visiting area, Avi Gabbay vows the low-lying region ‘was and will remain Israel’s eastern security buffer’

6:31 pm

France committed to Iran nuclear deal despite Trump decision
6:26 pm

EU leader says no support for Catalonian state
5:55 pm

Number of arrests in Haredi protests rises to 120

Bradley Shavit Artson, Arnold M. Eisen, Julie Schonfeld and Steven C. Wernick

The Conservative movement can, and should, welcome the intermarried

We invite non-Jewish partners who seeks rabbinic officiation to link their destiny with the Jewish people through conversion

Midianites, Jews and other idolators

The Temple of Hat’hor in Timna is a reminder of a shared quest, then and now, to connect with the Creator

Top 10: ‘Jewish Day of Rage’

#8: No matter which side you’re on, you still have ten people for mincha

The OU’s ridiculous birth control stand

The Orthodox Union’s public support for limits on health insurance is both improper and dead wrong

Orin Julie (Kan screenshot)

A female Israeli combat soldier proudly models for weapons companies

By Andrew Tobin

At home, some see Orin Julie as a symbol of female empowerment; US fans think she and the guns are ‘sexy’; on Instagram, she’s been called a ‘baby killer’

Meretz party leader MK Zehava Galon speaks to thousands of left-wing activists during a rally in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, May 27, 2017. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewWomen stand up as one steps down

By Adiv Sterman

Mayim Bialik (via Shutterstock)

Mayim Bialik apologizes after Weinstein comment backlash

By JTA

Students wave flags as they watch a speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping during the opening ceremony of China's 19th Party Congress in Huaibei in eastern China's Anhui province October 18, 2017. (Chinatopix via AP)

Analysis

Alexander B. Pevzner

China rising: Xi Jinping sets out a road map for greatness

In a 3.5-hour report at the Communist Party’s 19th Congress Wednesday, China’s leader presented a highly ambitious blueprint for development through 2050. Israel must pay attention

Fatimah Baeshen, the spokeswoman for the Saudi Arabia Embassy in Washington, speaks during an Associated Press interview. (AP Photo)

Saudi Arabian spokeswoman in US shatters kingdom’s glass ceiling

By Josh Lederman

Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

Interview

Jonathan Greenblatt wants to mend the ‘paradox’ of Israeli-Diaspora relations

By Eric Cortellessa

The famous Lod mosaic will soon have a permanent home upon the completion of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Archaeological Center. (Niki Davidov, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Breathtaking 1,700-year-old Lod mosaic to finally have a floor to call home

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Decades after its discovery, country’s ‘finest’ tile art will be displayed to the public at the central Israeli city’s Mosaic Archaeological Center – when it’s completed in 2019

This undated photo released by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities shows a wooden head believed to depict Ankhesenpepi II, the mother of King Pepi II of the 6th dynasty who ascended to the throne at the age of six, that was was found in the district of Saqqara, near the ancient Pyramids of Giza during excavation work, the Egyptian the Antiquities Ministry said Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017. (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities via AP)

In Egypt, archaeologists find part of 4,000-year-old statue

By AP

António Eugénio Maia do Amaral presenting the 15th-century Abravanel Hebrew Bible at Portugal’s Coimbra University in 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

How a 15th-century Hebrew Bible survived the Inquisition unscathed

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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The Greek Orthodox Patriarch (left) meets with Jordan's King Abdullah in Amman to seek support over controversy sparked by church land sales, October 18, 2017. (King of Jordans bureau).

Embattled Greek Orthodox patriarch asks Jordan’s help over Jerusalem land sales

Wissam Zabidat, convicted of joining Islamic State together with his wife, is seen at the Haifa District Court on October 19., 2017. (Flash90)

Israeli Arab man jailed for 6 years for joining Islamic State

By Tamar Pileggi

In this photo taken on October 15, 2017, a Great White Pelican prepares to land in the Mishmar HaSharon reservoir in the Hefer Valley, central Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Fish on the goIsrael to keep feeding migrating pelicans’ big mouths

By AP

Roy Moore, GOP Senate candidate and former chief justice on the Alabama Supreme Court speaks during the annual Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit at the Omni Shorham Hotel on October 13, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Firebrand US lawmaker accepted donation from Nazi supporter

Legia fans during a Europa League match between Ajax and Legia at the Amsterdam ArenA stadium in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, February 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Dutch soccer fans ridicule child Holocaust victims on Twitter

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)

No need yet for PM to resign over cigar graft suspicions — Labor leader

The frequency of interfaith weddings in the US has groups like 18Doors advocating for more inclusion by Jewish communities and clergy. (Illustrative photo courtesy of Ashley Novack/JTA)

Conservative movement keeps intermarriage ban

Conservative blogger Pamela Geller speaks during an interview at The Associated Press in New York, May 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Man convicted in plot to behead right-wing provocateur over cartoon contest

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER

Knesset legal adviser Eyal Yinon at a meeting of the Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee, February 23, 2016.
(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset legal adviser strikes down cabinet plan to probe rights groups’ funding

By Raoul Wootliff

A man walks past a new piece of graffiti depicting US President Donald Trump on the Israeli separation barrier separating the West Bank town of Bethlehem from Jerusalem on October 15, 2017. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)

Bad news barrierTrump, Zuckerberg, Larry David razzed on West Bank wall

By AFP

A T-shirt depicting US president Donald Trump for sale in NYC. December 23, 2016. (Serge Attal/FLASH90)

Israel, other allies irked by Trump’s ‘Buy American’ order

By AP

A member of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stands at a position overlooking the iconic Al-Naim square in Raqa on October 18, 2017. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

Kill ’em all, France bluntly declares in fight against IS jihadists

By Adam PLOWRIGHT

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