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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 22, 2017

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Illustrative: A Palestinian protester in Hebron holds a stone during clashes with Israeli security forces following an anti-Israeli protest after the weekly Friday prayers on September 18, 2015. AFP PHOTO / HAZEM BADER

Israeli boy, 12, injured in rock attack at Hebron spring

Video appears to show Palestinian assailant throw stone into well where children were sitting, knocking boy unconscious

15 Jewish extremists arrested for threatening Arabs

By Alexander Fulbright

Israeli police arrest Palestinian for ‘good morning’ Facebook post

Swastika, ‘Death to Jews’ graffitied in Jerusalem’s Old City

Ali Akbar Velayati, senior aide to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. (YouTube screenshot)

Top aide to Khamenei hosts terror group No.2 Salah al-Arouri

Iran praises Hamas for sticking to armed struggle against Israel

By ToI Staff and Dov Lieber

In Tehran, Gaza-based terror group’s deputy chief rejects Israeli and American demands and vows to eliminate the ‘Zionist entity’

Eisenkot heads to DC to meet other army chiefs on counter-terrorism

By Judah Ari Gross

New negotiator for Israelis held in Gaza is right man for job, Netanyahu says

Tillerson in Mideast as US seeks Saudi-Iraqi axis against Iran

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

In Syrian barrage, a confident message signed by Iran and Russia

The fire that hit Israel Saturday was likely no accident, especially as Assad is riding high with the help of his friends

Syrians wave their national flags and those of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in a stadium as a Russian-made Mil Mi-24 helicopter gunship hovers above during the funeral for Brigadier General Issam Zahreddine, in the southern city of Suwaida on October 20, 2017. (AFP/Stringer)

Israel believes rocket fire from Syria may have been deliberate

After strikes, Syria says Israel is backing anti-regime ‘terrorists’

Iran, Syria pledge joint effort to counter ‘Zionist-American schemes’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt (C) sits next to Israel's Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi (L) and Mazen Ghoneim (R), head of the Palestinian Water Authority, during a news conference about a water-sharing agreement between Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority, in Jerusalem, July 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Senior White House official says ‘no imminent plans’ for Mideast peace proposal

By Raoul Wootliff

Trump administration rejects report that it is planning proposal to bring Arab states into the fold but not to impose negotiation terms on Israel or the Palestinians

6:36 pm

Senior White House official says 'no imminent plans' for Mideast peace proposal
6:33 pm

Saudi Arabia denies report of diplomatic visit to Israel
6:32 pm

Netanyahu seeks to lower threshold votes for Knesset entry — report

9.7 million year-old fossilized teeth found in a former bed of the Rhine river (Mainz Natural History Museum)

Chew on that!

Discovery of 9.7 million-year-old teeth could ‘rewrite human history’

Dental remains found by German paleontologists prompt speculation that Europe, not Africa, was the true birthplace of humankind

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a tour of the Jerusalem Police headquarters at the Russian compound in Jerusalem, October 7, 2015. (GPO)

Bill that would protect PM from investigations hits coalition snag

By Raoul Wootliff

Coalition chair threatens to freeze all government legislation if bill to protect sitting premiers from criminal probes doesn’t advance

Likud and Jewish Home lawmakers at a ceremony at the evacuated Sa-nur settlement in the northern West Bank. (Jacob Magid/The Times of Israel)

Ministers said to delay vote on repealing 2005 West Bank pullout

By Marissa Newman

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

Meretz chief promises to quit politics if she fails to open party ranks

Kenneth Jacobson

Eager for the US to pull out of UNESCO?

Not so fast: By bailing from the international cultural organization, the US is shooting itself in the foot

Tolerance in an educational minefield

When your campus in Jerusalem welcomes students from many backgrounds, the key is to keep them talking to each other

Giving vets with PTSD the Jewish treatment

If the Holocaust taught us anything, it’s that talking about trauma helps you heal

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Bringing back the Judaism I love

My religion has been hijacked by extremists and the effects are devastating

An Israeli flag flutters above the wreckage of a tank on a hill in the Golan Heights overlooking the border with Syria on October 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jalaa Marey)

Hebrew media review

Syria rocket fire: Not accidental after all?

By Tamar Pileggi

As reports emerge saying projectiles launched at Golan may have been deliberate, Israelis continue to grapple with fallout from #MeToo campaign against sexual assault

Yedidya Weiner (Courtesy)

First Person

My brother-in-law’s 24 unpleasant hours in Ankara airport

By Gedalyah Reback

Alone on a trip around the world before making aliyah, Yedidya wound up in Turkish custody. Israel was helpful. The Americans saved the day

Exterior of the kosher jazz bar and independent theater in Oradea. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)

Romanian Jews

An abandoned pre-WWII Hasidic synagogue gets a second life as a kosher jazz club

By Yaakov Schwartz

More Headlines

An ultra-Orthodox protester screams at the people attending a ceremony for fallen ultra-Orthodox soldiers at a cemetery in the city of Bnei Brak on May 1, 2017, Israel's Memorial Day. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Sects crimeMan arrested for taunting ultra-Orthodox protesters with porn

In this photo from December 2, 2014, Harvey Weinstein attends the season premiere of the Netflix series 'Marco Polo' in New York. (Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

Directors guild files disciplinary charges against Weinstein

By AP

French director Roman Polanski arrives for the screening of the film "Saint-Laurent" at the 67th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 17, 2014. (AFP Photo/Valery Hache)

Woman accuses Roman Polanski of molesting her when she was 10

By ToI Staff and AFP

Czech billionaire Andrej Babis, chairman of the ANO movement arrives to deliver his speech at ANO headquarter after Czech elections on October 21, 2017 in Prague. AFP PHOTO / MICHAL CIZEK)

New Czech leader rules out coalition with far-right party

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Bezeq workers installing fiber optic cables. (Courtesy)

Ministry threatens Bezeq with NIS 11.3m fine for reform flaws

By Shoshanna Solomon

Tnuva cottage cheese in a Jerusalem supermarket.(photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Dairy mammoth Tnuva to pay NIS 25 million for price fixing — report

Egyptians carry the coffin of Police Cpt. Ahmed Fayez during his funeral outside a mosque in the capital Cairo's western suburb of Sixth of October, on October 21, 2017. (Fayed El-Geziry/AFP)

Israel condemns deadly attack on Egyptian policemen

By ToI Staff and AFP

Elia Kadosh. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Teenage model charged with assaulting cop, cab driver

Yonatan Machado, of JVP Labs (left), Yoav Tzruya, head of JVP Labs, Paul Wilkinson, head of Technology Research at Tesco Labs, Erel Margalit, founder and chairman JVP, Fiona Darmon, Partner and COO, JVP, at the launch of JVP Play, Oct. 17, 2017 (Courtesy)

Tesco, Barclays look to Israel for disruptive tech via new JVP project

View of Kyrgyzstan. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Israeli tour guide killed in Kyrgyzstan car accident

Japan's Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party leader Shinzo Abe waves to his supporters in Tokyo while leaving his last stumping speech ahead of the October 22 general election, on October 21, 2017. (AFP Photo/Toshifumi Kitamura)

Abe sweeps to big win in Japan vote

By Shingo Ito and Richard Carter

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe attending a meeting with the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association in Harare, April 7, 2016. (AFP/Jekesai NJIKIZANA)

WHO head reverses decision to name Mugabe goodwill ambassador

Groom breaking a glass at a Jewish wedding. (illustrative photo: PavlovskiJenya/iStock by Getty)

As Conservative movement reasserts intermarriage ban, many rabbis ask why

Congregational leaders worry letter repeating stance against performing interfaith weddings, though welcoming already married couples, will drive people away

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