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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 24, 2017

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A Facebook ad for an Israel-based binary options firm posted April 19, 2016 (Screenshot)

MK Azaria: This industry has harmed Israel's global image

Israel bans binary options industry, finally closing vast, 10-year fraud

By Simona Weinglass

19 months after Times of Israel began exposing multi-billion dollar global scam, Knesset gives operatives three months to shut down or face jail terms

Illustrative image of people working in finance (via Shutterstock)

A Times of Israel investigationThe wolves of Tel Aviv: Israel’s vast, amoral binary options scam exposed

By Simona Weinglass

Karine Elharrar

Defeating binary options shows the system can work

Journalists investigated, politicians acted and Israel will be a better country as a result

An illustrative vegan burger (Courtesy Buddha Burgers)

Printer, can you please make me a low-fat burger with fries?

Doctor helping a boy with his asthma inhaler (LeventKonuk, iStock by Getty Images)

Can cannabis treat asthma? Jerusalem experts to find out

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: Dollars and shekels. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israeli tech firms raise 54% more funds in 3Q at $1.44 billion

By Shoshanna Solomon

President Reuven Rivlin (L) addresses the Israeli parliament during a special plenum session marking the 50th birthday of the Knesset on January 19, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opening Knesset, Rivlin warns of government ‘coup’ against democracy

By Raoul Wootliff

In impassioned speech, president slams attempts to ‘weaken the gatekeepers’ — the media and the Supreme Court

Herzog accuses Netanyahu of creating ‘unprecedented’ divide with world Jewry

By Marissa Newman

Likud mover and shaker investigated for bribery – report

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

4 new lawmakers sworn in after Meretz, Zionist Union MKs quit

By Marissa Newman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset plenum on October 23, 2017 (Yitzhak Harari/Knesset spokesman's office)

Netanyahu rips opposition, media as ‘sourpusses’ at new Knesset session

By Marissa Newman

PM points to submarine deal with Germany as proof that corruption investigation into sale, one of several surrounding him, is ‘going down’

Hebrew media reviewRage against the machinations

By Joshua Davidovich

SourpussNetanyahu pioneers ‘pickle’ politics

By Marissa Newman

PM announces signing of deal for 3 more submarines from Germany

By ToI Staff and AP

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at the Justice Conference of the Israeli Bar Association, in Tel Aviv, August 29, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

PM immunity bill will provide a ‘refuge’ for criminals, AG warns

By Raoul Wootliff

Avichai Mandelblit says controversial proposal to indemnify premiers would be a ‘massive blow to the rule of law’

Opposition leaders slam ’embarrassing’ PM immunity bill

By Marissa Newman and Raoul Wootliff

Outgoing chief justice rejects attempts to reform judiciary

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

As Knesset reopens, Bennett vows to rein in Supreme Court

By Marissa Newman

An Israeli soldier stands guard at a checkpoint near the Beit El settlement on the outskirts of West Bank city of Ramallah, on a road linking Ramallah and Jerusalem on February 1, 2016. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Live updates (closed)

Settler leaders at protest say they’re ‘disappointed’ in Netanyahu

West Bank residents are denied ‘the basic right to security,’ says Samaria council chief Yossi Dagan

6:45 pm

UK MP asks Facebook about Russian-linked ads in Brexit vote
6:01 pm

Settler leader tells Netanyahu, 'we are disappointed'
5:29 pm

Settler leaders launch tent protest over lack of security funds

Fliers found at Cornell read ‘Just say no to Jewish lies’

By JTA

University president says ‘thousands of Cornellians deplore’ posters urging students to ‘join the white gang’

Illustrative: Anti-Semitic fliers were discovered on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca, New York, on October 23, 2017. (Courtesy of Cornell Daily Sun via JTA)

US publisher apologizes for textbook that stereotypes Jews, others

By JTA

Far-right AfD invokes Nazi Goering as they debut in German parliament

Rome police probe anti-Semitic Anne Frank stickers at soccer game

By AFP

Aliza Raz-Melzer

We can help Syrian refugees survive winter

When there is just one terrible newscast too many, it’s time to act

Yosef I. Abramowitz

Israel and Africa need each other

The government should train African refugees as emissaries and appoint MK Neguise as foreign minister

Martin Luther paved the way for the Holocaust

500 years after the Protestant Reformation, Germany celebrates its anti-Semitic founder

Israel can take the heat

Teaching about Israel’s misdeeds helps students forge an adult relationship with the country

Members of a 10-horse cavalry procession that took place as part of the October 23, 2017, ceremony commemorating the battle for the Tzemach train station in northern Israel. (Michael Huri/KKL-JNF Photo Archive)

Hoofbeats of history

In Israel, descendants of Aboriginal ANZAC soldiers retrace forgotten stories

By Melanie Lidman

On trip marking 100 years since one of the last great cavalry battles in history, descendants of WWI Commonwealth soldiers seek to shed light on army’s discrimination at home

Ethiopian migrant trying to reach Israel turns perilous journey into film

Knesset event cheering immigrants marred by fighting on Ethiopians, conversion

By Marissa Newman

In this undated image taken in 2000, provided by the Palestinian Department of Antiquities, an aerial view of the excavations at Tel Es-Sakan, shows houses dating to 2600-2300 B.C., left, and fortifications from the late fourth millennium B.C, south of Gaza City. (Pierre de Miroschedji/Palestinian Department of Antiquities, via AP)

Gaza activists battle Hamas plan to turn rare Bronze Age city into military base

By AFP and ToI Staff

Strip’s Islamist rulers want to concrete over Tell es-Sakan, a fortified Canaanite city

A picture taken from inside an old house in Palestinian village of Lifta which was abandoned during fighting in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, shows the bridge for a new train line on the outskirts of Jerusalem, on October 20, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

Frozen-in-time village Lifta added to list of endangered heritage sites

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Protestors outside the Center for Jewish History demonstrating against new head Prof. David Myers. (Jordan Hoffman/Times of Israel)

Reporter's Notebook'David Myers has caused a smidge of controversy'

Under controversial new head, a stormy night at NY’s Center for Jewish History

By Jordan Hoffman

Navigating his way through rock bands, right wing demonstrators, and plates of kosher cookies, an intrepid reporter catches a lecture at the CJH

Panned over Israel views, Center for Jewish History head denies partisan agenda

By Cathryn J. Prince

In NY synagogue, Saudi Royal and ex-Mossad chief debate Trump’s Iran approach

By Eric Cortellessa

More Headlines

Isaac Berger (Lelands via JTA)

One of the strongest Jews in history is selling his Olympic gold medal

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative: An Israel Police patrol car. (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

5 suspected of graft in government company, including its director

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative. An IDF soldier from the C4I Corps types on a computer. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF gains small win in battle for brains in face of startup nation’s siren song

By Shoshanna Solomon

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signing his state’s anti-BDS bill at a Jewish community center in Austin, May 2, 2017. (Office of the Texas Governor)

State anti-BDS laws are hitting unintended targets and nobody’s happy

Illustrative image of Israeli infantry soldiers resting on their equipment early on 13 January 2009 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Poor IDF recruits earn cash taking on fellow soldiers’ guard duty

By Andrew Tobin

Illustrative: Demonstrators from the Agunot organization protest outside the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem in 2011. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

MKs seek to let Israeli courts sanction non-citizen recalcitrant husbands

Over 1,200 people gather for a Friends of the IDF gala in New York on October 23, 2017. (Shahar Azran/FIDF)

$35 million raised by Friends of the IDF for Israeli troops

By Judah Ari Gross

Bar Refaeli on Instagram a few months before giving birth to her second daughter; she wrote, 'Last year.. #eat #getpregnant #repeat' (Courtesy Bar Refaeli Instagram)

Baby BarBar Refaeli names new baby, Elle, and is criticized by strangers

By Jessica Steinberg

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 undated handout photo released by Ekho Moskvy radio station shows journalist Tatyana Felgenhauer. (Vitaly Ruvinsky, Ekho Moskvy photo via AP)

Moscow journalist stabbed by Israeli moved to intensive care

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA

Ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrate against the conscription of members of their community to the IDF outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, on October 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox block Jerusalem entrance in draft protests

By ToI Staff and AFP

The opening night of Manofim 2016, with Lee He Shulov, one of the founders, peering in second from left) Courtesy Dor Kedmi)

Art festival offers new views of Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg

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