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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 21, 2017

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Czech billionaire Andrej Babis, chairman of the ANO movement (YES), talks to the media after voting at a polling station during the first day of the Czech elections on October 20, 2017 in Pruhonice, Central Bohemia. (AFP PHOTO / MICHAL CIZEK)

Anti-migrant Babis promises new era

‘Czech Trump’ poised for victory as anti-EU parties seek gains

By Jan Flemr and Jan MARCHAL

With majority of results in, Andrej Babis takes a huge lead in election that could install another euroskeptic government in Central Europe

As he moves to right, Israel’s Labor leader said planning to drop party’s name

By ToI Staff and Alexander Fulbright

Sigrid Kaag, then head of the joint Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)-United Nations mission for the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons, in Damascus on February 11, 2014 . (AFP Louai Beshara)

Holland’s new deputy foreign minister called Netanyahu a racist demagogue

By JTA

Illustrative: A caricature of George Soros as a tentacled monster has appeared on various right-wing and pro-Russian web sites since at least 2015. (Google Images via JTA)

Leader of American-Israeli group regrets tweeting anti-Semitic image of Soros

By JTA

Adam Milstein deletes post of Jewish billionaire as a tentacled creature straddling the globe, says he didn’t know photo’s origins

Houston residents making their way out of a flooded neighborhood after it was inundated with rainwater following Hurricane Harvey, Aug. 29, 2017. (Scott Olson/Getty Images via JTA)

Texas town: No hurricane relief for Israel boycotters

By JTA

Inauguration ceremony of memorial to Saddam Hussein in the West Bank city of Qalqilya on October 18, 2017. (Qalqilya Municipality Facebook page)

West Bank city erects memorial to Saddam Hussein

Qalqilya district governor praises Iraqi dictator’s dedication to the cause of ‘Arabism,’ says Palestinian leader Abbas walks in his path

A banner praising Palestinian terrorists as 'heroes' is seen at an Al-Quds University reception for new students on October 15, 2017. (Palestinian Media Watch)

Banner at Palestinians’ Al-Quds Open University praises terrorist ‘heroes’

Beit Ummar (Public Domain, Palobserver, Wikimedia Commons)

IDF soldier mistakenly enters Palestinian town, returned by PA police

A Palestinian truck driver who says he stole a truck with the intention of running over Israeli soldiers is brought to an Israeli courthouse (screenshot Channel 2 news)

Palestinian truck driver: ‘I wanted to run over soldiers because of Al-Aqsa’

Man arrested driving stolen vehicle near Rishon Lezion says he has no regrets over attack plan; new video shows arrest

Illustrative photo of a UN observer at a lookout point as smoke rising at a Syrian village near the Israeli-Syrian border in the Golan Heights during fights between the rebels and the Syrian army, June 25, 2017. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

IDF strikes 3 Syrian artillery targets after stray shells hit the Golan

Warning it will step up response, army retaliates for 5 projectiles that hit open ground, set off alarms; Syria claims Israel arranged the cross-border fire

What impact will Raqqa’s fall have on Syria’s complex war?

By Sara Hussein

Heartbroken Raqqa residents return to city in ruins

By Maya Gebeily

Netanyahu said to be lobbying world leaders to support Kurds

US President Donald Trump speaks about the Iran deal from the diplomatic reception room of the White House on October 13, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

Poll: Two thirds of Americans favor keeping Iran nuke deal

By ToI Staff and JTA

Survey reveals partisan splits over whether US should remain in nuclear pact, with 80% of Democrats in favor of staying, compared to 48% of Republicans

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, speaks to reporters while heading to vote on budget amendments, Thursday, October 19, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Draft GOP bill seeks more constraints on Iran’s nuke program

By Richard Lardner

An Iranian man beats with his shoe an effigy of a Saudi royal with flags of the United States and Israel attached to it during a demonstration in Tehran on May 8, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Behrouz Mehri)

AnalysisFor Israel, concern over Iran leads to better ties with Arab states

By Majeda El Batsh

A female soldier faces off against ultra-Orthodox protesters in Jerusalem in October 2017 (Courtesy)

Karate Corporal

Female soldier unleashes martial arts on angry Jerusalem mob

By Itamar Sharon

Kifah Dasuki, an Arab vegan activist, and Guy Podolovich, a YouTube star, meet and cook together in one of the chapters of 'Work in Progress,' created by filmmakers Tomer and Barak Heymann (Courtesy Heymann Brothers)

'These are worlds that would never otherwise meet'

Tales of love and tolerance told on YouTube

By Jessica Steinberg

Documentary filmmakers match up social activists with local celebs from the video-sharing website

Art brings ‘Peace’ to battle-scarred Lebanon districts

By Sara Hussein

Will my descendants still be Jewish?

A 100-year-old artifact reveals great grandma’s deep commitment to Jewish life

Rebecca Weisman

What’s your rainbow?

Even Noah needed to experience God’s tangible actions to be able to trust Him after the Flood

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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy gives a press conference after a crisis cabinet meeting at the Moncloa Palace on October 21, 2017 in Madrid. (AFP/Gabriel Bouys)

In unprecedented step, Spain moves to dissolve Catalan government

By AFP

In this file photo from January 8, 2017, Harvey Weinstein arrives at The Weinstein Company and Netflix Golden Globes afterparty in Beverly Hills, California.
(Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Two more Weinstein accusers go public with sex assault claims

By Frankie TAGGART

Bashir Gemayel (CC-BY SA Georges Hayek/Wikimedia Commons)

Lebanese president Gemayel’s killer convicted, 35 years later

By AFP

A Vienna subway stop in 2008. (Dieter Nagl/AFP/Getty Images)

Vienna subway remembers city’s little-known apartment concentration camps

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The White Desert between Farafra and Bahariya in western Egypt. (Nomo/Michael Hoefner/Wikimedia Creative Commons)

At least 54 Egyptian police killed in Islamist ambush

Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces stand guard on a rooftop in Raqqa on October 20, 2017, after retaking the city from the Islamic State. (AFP Photo/Bulent Kilic)

AnalysisAs Islamic State falls, has US missed bigger picture?

White nationalist Richard Spencer speaks at the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on October 19, 2017, in Gainesville, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

3 arrested after shooting at Florida white nationalist speech

By JASON DEAREN

An armed Afghan civilian looks inside the Imam Zaman Shiite mosque which was a the site of a suicide attack during evening prayers, in Kabul on October 21, 2017 (AFP/WAKIL KOHSAR)

‘Smell of blood and flesh’ in Kabul mosque hit by suicide bomber

By Wakil KOHSAR

Steve Bannon addresses the California GOP 2017 Convention in Anaheim, California on October 20, 2017. (AFP Photo/Frederic J. Brown)

Bannon brings message of Republican revolt to California

By Michael R. Blood

This file photo taken on January 12, 2016, shows the German-made INS Rahav Dolphin 2-class submarine arriving at the military port of Haifa on January 12, 2016. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Germany said to approve controversial submarine deal with Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

Mobileye provides technology in the area of software algorithms that could enable autonomous cars. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Mobileye’s CEO sets out formula for safe and cheap self-driving cars

By Shoshanna Solomon

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Envoy errorOutcry as Mugabe named WHO ‘goodwill’ ambassador

By AP

Alison Pick (Emma Lee Photography)

Interview

Acclaimed Canadian author explores dark side of pioneers’ Zionist utopia

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative: German WWII bunker 'The Odeon' in Alderney. The bunker is about three to four stories high and has an anti-aircraft emplacement at the back. (CC-SA-Tim Brighton)

Devil's island

In Nazi-occupied Britain, graves at Alderney’s ‘Little Auschwitz’ may be defiled

By Robert Philpot

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