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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 25, 2017

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President Reuven Rivlin seen at the Talmud Torah Boston school in Bnei Brak during the opening of the new academic school year. August 23, 2017. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Bnei Brak graffiti dubbing president a ‘Nazi’ sparks outcry

By Stuart Winer

Netanyahu condemns anti-Rivlin vandalism; incident appears tied to president’s visit to ultra-Orthodox school 2 months ago

Newly sworn in Zionist Union MK Lea Fadida speaks at the Knesset on October 23, 2017. (Knesset Spokesperson)

Sealed with a kissMK daubs angry lipstick note on colleague’s car over parking spot

A picture taken on October 19, 2017, shows Gal Wiener, owner and manager of the Winner's auction house in Jerusalem, displaying two notes written by Albert Einstein, in 1922, on hotel stationary from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo Japan. A note that Albert Einstein gave to a courier in Tokyo, briefly describing his theory on happy living, has surfaced after 95 years and is up for auction in Jerusalem. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

High-price equation

Einstein’s modest theory of happiness sells for $1.56 million

By AFP

Winning bid for German-Jewish physicist’s formula for joy far dwarfs auction house estimate of $5,000-$8,000

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin stands in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, during an event for President Donald Trump to sign a memorandum calling for a trade investigation of China. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Live updates (closed)

US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to visit Israel Thursday

By Tamar Pileggi

Mideast trip comes after Mnuchin announces coordinated move with Arab Gulf allies levying new sanctions against Yeminis suspected of financing terrorist groups

11:47 am

Crisis-hit Qatar signs military agreement with Russia
6:15 pm

French film institute goes ahead with Polanski retrospective
6:10 pm

Shmuel Rabel tapped as next Israeli envoy to Cyprus

Screen capture from video of then literary editor at the The New Republic, Leon Wieseltier in 2014. (YouTube/University of California Television)

Ex-New Republic editor apologizes for ‘offenses’ against female colleagues

By Stuart Winer

Staff at magazine accuse Leon Wieseltier of sexual harassment, prompting foundation to pull funding for his new magazine

This combination of pictures shows US producer Harvey Weinstein and (1st row from L) US actress Rose McGowan, US actress Angelina Jolie, Italian actress Asia Argento, US actress Gwyneth Paltrow, US actress Ashley Judd; (2nd row fromL) French actress Lea Seydoux, US actress Mira Sorvino, US actress Rosanna Arquette, US actress Louisette Geiss, British actress Kate Beckinsale; (3rd row fromL) Television reporter Lauren Sivan, US actress Jessica Barth, US producer Elizabeth Karlsen, French actress Emma De Caunes, and French actress Judith Godreche (AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA AND AFP PHOTO / STAFF)

In first suit, actress accuses Weinstein Company of enabling sex abuse

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, seen with then-Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on August 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/Pool)

PM immunity bill shelved for month amid Jewish Home opposition

But coalition parties said to agree to advance new proposal blocking police recommendations for prosecution

MK Yehudah Glick, right, and his son Shlomo visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, October 25, 2017. (Twitter screen capture)

Yehudah Glick takes son to Temple Mount before his wedding

In this Saturday, May 9, 2015 photo, a Hezbollah fighter stands on a hill next to the group's yellow flag in the fields of the Syrian town of Assal al-Ward in the mountainous region of Qalamoun, Syria. (AP Photo/Bassem Mroue, File)

Hebrew media reviewBrickbats over Quneitra

By Joshua Davidovich

Truus Wijsmuller with bust of her likeness in Amsterdam, 1965. (GaHetNA via Wikicommons)

Forgotten hero

Truus Wijsmuller saved thousands of Jews in WWII. Why has no one heard of her?

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The Nof Zion neighborhood in Jabel Mukaber, East Jerusalem. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Israel approves 176 new Jewish homes in East Jerusalem

By AFP and ToI Staff

Building boom will make Nof Zion the largest Israeli enclave in a Palestinian neighborhood of the capital, say opposing NGOs

View of neighborhoods in Ma'ale Adumim, near Jerusalem, October 3, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Ministers to vote next week on bill drawing key settlements into Jerusalem

Settler leaders protest outside the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, demanding security improvements to West Bank roads on October 24, 2017. (Courtesy: Miri Tzachi)

Settler leaders mount tent protest outside PM’s house, demand security funding

Israelis, Jordanians, Palestinians find a common enemy: Natural disasters

By Judah Ari Gross

Emergency response teams from around the world work together in EU-sponsored exercise on fighting forest fires, earthquakes

Illustrative: Israeli police and aid workers search the scene of a suicide bomb attack in a bus on September 19, 2002 in Tel Aviv. (Rahanan Cohen/Israel Defense Forces/Getty Images via JTA/File)

Why Palestinian terror victims care about a Philly fistfight in 1784

Jewish farmers pose next to a Palestinian man who tried to attack the owner of Talia Farm in the West Bank on October 24, 2017. (Har Hebron Regional Council)

IDF arrests 2 Palestinians for trying to attack settler

An illustrative vegan burger (Courtesy Buddha Burgers)

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

Two Hebrew University researchers say they will soon be able to produce meals using nano-cellulose and 3D printers; they’ve already made dough

The Tel Aviv municipality's new entrepreneurship center in the city's southern Neve Shaanan neighborhood on October 24, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Tel Aviv brings startup spirit to city’s seedy south with municipal incubator

By Judah Ari Gross and Shoshanna Solomon

Uri Alon grows 15 kinds of cherry tomatoes of all different colors and tastes in his pick-your-own greenhouses. (photo credit: Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Food for thoughtInvestors turn to Israeli agritech as demand for food swells

By Shoshanna Solomon

In this Nov. 29, 1998 file photo, Lazio fans display banners from the stands reading "Auschwitz is Your Homeland. The Ovens are Your Homes" during a Serie A match between Lazio and AS Roma, at Rome's Olympic stadium. Lazio fans have a long history of racism and anti-Semitism but the Roman club's supporters established a new low on Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017 when they littered the Stadio Olimpico with superimposed images of Anne Frank _ the young diarist who died in the Holocaust _ wearing a Roma jersey. (AP Photo/Plinio Lepri,)

Europe has a ‘Jewish’ soccer team problem

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Supporters of teams like England’s Tottenham Hotspur, or the Netherlands’ Ajax, often self-identify as Jewish, while their rivals adopt anti-Semitism

‘Diary of Anne Frank’ passages to be read at all Italian soccer matches

By JTA

Ukrainian president mistakenly tweets photo of Jews deported by Nazis

By JTA

Poland honors historian who said Nazi invasion wasn’t so bad for Jews

By JTA

Hamas's leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar waves as he arrives for a meeting with Palestinian prime minister and other officials in Gaza City October 2, 2017. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

Hamas chief says armed wing should be under PLO control

While insisting that ‘we cannot surrender our weapons,’ Yahya Sinwar says those arms should be used against Israel, not to stoke internal Palestinian conflict

AnalysisHamas sees internal stirrings of dissent over reconciliation deal

By Avi Issacharoff

AnalysisWith visit to Iran, Hamas thumbs nose at Palestinian reconciliation

Brother of Israeli held in Gaza says world needs to press Hamas

By Judah Ari Gross

Oswald Mosley walks by fascist Blackshirts in salute, circa 1936. (CC-SA 4.0/ Felipe cuesta)

Blackshirts hurrah!

Britain’s near-brush with Fascism: The politician who rooted for Hitler

By Robert Philpot

Jonathan Muskat

Harvey Weinstein and Mayim Bialik

Stop scrutinizing victims; pay attention instead to the power imbalances that can lead to abuse

My 5-year-old confronts death

‘Are the clothes comfy,’ she wanted to know, about the practice of cleansing and dressing the deceased

Conan and the barbarians

Anti-Israel activists duped the affable TV comedian into giving their lies air time, starting with the origins of shakshuka

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Illustrative: Iranian protesters pour kerosene on an Israeli flag during the funeral procession of Brigadier General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi in Tehran on January 21, 2015. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

Iran sentences alleged Mossad agent to death

By AP

Saudi Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman in Moscow's Kremlin, Russia, May 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, pool, File)

Saudi crown prince says kingdom ‘returning to moderate Islam’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The UN Security Council votes to extend investigations into who is responsible for chemical weapons attacks in Syria at the United Nations on October 24, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY)

Russia veto puts an end to Syria chemical weapons probe

By Carole LANDRY

Maluma, right, posing with an Israeli police officer. (Instagram via JTA)

Latin it all outColombian pop star’s photo with Israeli cop sparks fury

By JTA

Austria's newly elected leader Sebastian Kurz, head of the Austrian Peoples Party, OVP, during a news conference in Vienna, Austria, October 24, 2017. (AFP Phoro/APA/Georg Hochmuth)

Austria’s Kurz seeks coalition with far-right Freedom Party

By AP

Director Taika Waititi attending the world premiere of Marvel Studios "Thor: Ragnarok" at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California October 9, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Alberto E. Rodriguez)

Jewish Maori director brings ‘comedy of the mundane’ to Hollywood

By Frankie TAGGART

In this Aug. 5, 2017, file photo, a vehicle drives past polyvinyl chloride piping attached to a utility pole, signifying an outdoor area known as an eruv where Jewish residents observing certain restrictions during the Sabbath are permitted to carry items from home, along Airmount Road in Mahwah, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

New Jersey sues town for discrimination against Orthodox Jews

By AP

An Iraqi Kurdish man holds a picture frame with portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin (L), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R), and Iraqi Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani during a demonstration outside the UN Office in Irbil, the capital of the autonomous region, on October 21, 2017. (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)

Netanyahu: World must take care of Kurds’ future

By AFP

Illustrative: The offices of Israel Police's Lahav 433 Unit in Lod. (Flash 90)

Police reveal ‘massive’ defense agency bribery scheme

By Raoul Wootliff

Syrian Kurds demonstrate in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli against Iraqi forces operation in the multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk and calling upon the international community to defend Kurdish regions in Iraq, October 23, 2017. (AFP/Delil souleiman)

Iraqi Kurdistan offers to ‘freeze’ results of independence vote

By AFP

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