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What Matters Most On Monday, October 23, 2017

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Knesset during the opening of the parliament's winter session on October 23, 2017. (Knesset)

Live updates (closed)

Liberman clarifies: Claim Hezbollah fired rockets is mine, not army’s

By Judah Ari Gross

After IDF says it has no intel to support defense minister’s remark, minister makes it clear that it’s his own assessment

6:35 pm

IDF suspends general suspected of hoarding army equipment
6:26 pm

Liberman clarifies: Claim Hezbollah fired rockets is my opinion, not army's
6:21 pm

Anti-binary option law passes unanimously in the Knesset

State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan speaking at a Ministry of Justice conference in Tel Aviv, December 21, 2016.(Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

'If a leader commits a crime he cannot continue to serve'

State prosecutor blasts bid to pass PM immunity bill

By Raoul Wootliff

In Bible commentary piece, Shai Nitzan writes that efforts to protect the premier will erode public trust in leaders

Opposition leaders slam ’embarrassing’ PM immunity bill

By Marissa Newman and Raoul Wootliff

Knesset reconvenes with an ambitious and controversial agenda

By Marissa Newman

PM said seeking to lower vote threshold for Knesset entry

By Stuart Winer

Don’t mess with Israel’s democracy

Netanyahu and his loyalists have targeted the media, police and courts, and now the legislature. Our system isn’t perfect, but it doesn’t need ‘reform’ for narrow political gain

Lord Arthur Balfour and the Balfour Declaration (Wikimedia commons)

Current Lord Balfour says Israel failing to live up to 1917 declaration

By Stuart Winer

Stipulation against prejudicing rights of non-Jewish population not being honored, says Roderick Balfour, great-great-nephew of foreign secretary behind landmark statement

Members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamist terror movement Hamas, take part in a rally marking three years since Operation Protective Edge, on July 20, 2017, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

UN envoy chides Hamas leaders for urging Israel’s destruction

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Conjoined newborn twins in the West Bank city of Hebron on March 16, 2017. (AFP/HAZEM BADER)

Conjoined twins born in Gaza ‘in danger,’ doctor says

Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett runs a weekly faction meeting in the Knesset on October 23, 2017 (courtesy)

As Knesset reopens, Bennett vows to rein in Supreme Court

By Marissa Newman

Jewish Home leader says Basic Law that would curb judicial oversight of legislation is his ‘central goal’ over next few months

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset during a vote on two-week delay in opening the new public broadcaster, April 26, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewBill of fights

By Joshua Davidovich

Members of the pro-government forces stand guard on a street in al-Qaryatain, a town in the province of Homs in central Syria, a few days after Syrian regime forces seized it from jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) group, April 8, 2016 . (AFP/Max DELANY)

Islamic State said to slaughter 128 in revenge campaign

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Jihadists executed Syrian civilians in ‘reprisal killings’ for allegedly collaborating with regime forces — report

A US Air Force B-52 bomber flies over Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, January 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

US said to ready nukes amid war of words with North Korea

Albert Einstein, during a lecture in Vienna in 1921. (Wikipedia/public domain)

Revealed and for sale: Albert Einstein’s formula for happy living

By AFP

Physicist penned the advice, in lieu of a tip, for a courier, during a 1922 lecture tour in Tokyo. Now his note is up for auction

Delighted By hummus dessert spreads (YouTube screenshot)

No accounting for pasteDessert hummus spreads win ‘Shark Tank’ investment

Ariel Paz-Sawicki

The Kurds are running out of time

World Jewry should back Kurdish independence — and convince the US to tip the scales in its favor

Get a degree, find a job? Not so fast

Too many colleges are turning out too many lawyers and accountants when Israel needs technicians

Anti-boycott laws: Solid despite the wrinkles

Rules barring business with BDS supporters may have been misapplied, but those kinks will be worked out

In the hopes of a plentiful olive harvest

With Hamas and the PA reconciled, Israel can finally talk peace with the whole Palestinian population, but isn’t

US President Donald Trump (L) is welcomed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

After TV report, US official says no peace proposal ‘imminent’

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Senior source says dialogue is ongoing, but administration will not impose an ‘artificial deadline’

Taking stock of Palestinian unity pact, White House says peace will take time

By Eric Cortellessa

Don’t push Israel on the Palestinians, Rivlin urges new EU envoy

By Raphael Ahren

Palestinian festival drops film over director’s Israel trips

By AP

Lehava chairman Benzi Gopstein is brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, October 22, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jewish radical under house arrest for alleged threats against Arabs

By AFP and Alexander Fulbright

Lehava leader Bentzi Gopstein and 15 others detained over suspected assault and harassment of men who dated Jewish women

Police arrest dozens in mass East Jerusalem raid

By Judah Ari Gross

176 new homes set for approval in Jewish enclave in East Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Court rejects bid to save outpost homes jutting onto Palestinian land

Manal al-Sayed holds up a picture of her son Hisham, held captive in Gaza by the Hamas terrorist group, in 2016. (Yoav Lemmer/AFP)

Unlike slain soldiers, Israeli civilians missing in Gaza largely overlooked

By Judah Ari Gross

4 Israelis are known to have illicitly crossed into Strip in the past 3 years, yet race, mental illness and complexities of the situation keep the issue on the back burner

IDF attack choppers declared operational 2 months after fatal crash

By Judah Ari Gross

PM announces signing of deal for 3 more submarines from Germany

By ToI Staff and AP

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File: French Jews hold Israeli flags as they demonstrate against UNESCO, near the cultural agency's Paris headquarters, July 17, 2017. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

UNESCO-affiliated scholars slam agency’s anti-Israel bias, plead for rethink

By Raphael Ahren

Police disperse ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrating in Jerusalem against the conscription of members of their community to the IDF, on October 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/ Menahem Kahana)

Cops draw flack for marking ultra-Orthodox protesters arms with numbers

Leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, arrives at the courthouse, August 21, 2017. (Flash90)

Court rejects appeal for bail by controversial Islamic cleric

By Stuart Winer

This file photo taken on September 10, 2017, shows Issam Zahreddine (C), a major general in the Syrian Republican Guard, in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor. (AFP Photo/George Ourfalian)

Israeli Druze mourn death of Syrian regime general

James Toback takes part in a panel discussion during HBO's Summer 2013 TCA panel at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, on July 25, 2013. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

38 accuse director James Toback of sexual harassment

By Lindsey Bahr

Rescue workers and volunteers help residents make their way out of a flooded neighborhood after it was inundated with rain water following Hurricane Harvey on August 29, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Texas town says it banned aid to BDS backers due to ‘confusion’ over law

By JTA

Joint (Arab) List MK Ibrahim Hijazi, who served for a month and is to resign on October 23, 2017. (Knesset website)

Arab MK steps down after shortest ever term

Police release a photo of a knife they say was being concealed by an East Jerusalem man who was found observing homes in the Nof Zion neighborhood of the capital on October 23, 2015. (Israel Police)

East Jerusalemite sentenced to 16 years for planning terror attack

An illustrative image of the online travel reservation website Booking.com. (YouTube screenshot)

Booking.com to open innovation center in Tel Aviv

By Shoshanna Solomon

An Urban Outfitters store in the UK (YouTube screen capture)

Fashion upHipster retailer Urban Outfitters to open in Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Jewish Federations General Assembly in Washington DC on November 10, 2015. (Ron Sachs, JFNA)

Amid tensions with US Jews, Netanyahu not confirmed for JFNA General Assembly

By JTA

Volodymyr Bazelyuk, head of the Vinnitsa branch of the Ukrainian nationalist party Svoboda ('Freedom'). (Facebook)

Ukrainian nationalist to Jews: ‘Get used to our rules’ or be punished

Marco Cohen (left) and Benedetto Habib at the Venice Film Festival, where they premiered their upcoming movie, 'The Leisure Seeker.' (Courtesy)

Italian jews

Friends since day school, these Italian producers now play on the red carpet

By Rossella Tercatin

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