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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 26, 2017

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Civilian deaths 'likely to far exceed previous conflicts'

Israel-Hezbollah war is inevitable, sure to be devastating — defense experts

By Judah Ari Gross

International High Level Military Group paints grim picture of potential conflict between Jewish state, Iran-backed terror group, and what, if anything, can prevent it

Soldiers evacuate a wounded comrade during the Second Lebanon War, on July 24, 2006 (Haim Azoulay/ Flash 90/ File)

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., left, speaks with the committee's ranking member Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y. during a hearing on Iran before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

US House approves legislation to sanction Hezbollah, thwart its cash flow

By Eric Cortellessa

The David's Sling missile defense system seen at the Hatzor Air Base, Israel. Sunday, April 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israeli anti-missile system crowned at US Defense conference

Illustrative image: Azrieli Towers, Tel Aviv (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

From the editorInside Times of Israel's battle against a vast scam

Why binary options ban is only a small victory in the war on Israeli corruption

By David Horovitz

MKs finally moved this week to shut down a mega fraud. But the legislative process exposed the impotence of law enforcement… and the growing intimidatory power of Israel’s crooks

Natan Sharansky, left, head of the Jewish Agency, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the latter's Jerusalem office, June 18, 2013. (Kofi Gideon/Flash90/via JTA)

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Jewish Agency snubs Netanyahu ahead of upcoming board meeting

By Raphael Ahren

In light of ongoing stalemate over Western Wall and conversion bill, Jewish leaders feel that meeting the PM ‘may not be urgent’

Yair Netanyahu (R) speaking during a 68th birthday party for his father, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C), October 26, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Yair Netanyahu says he’ll never be a politician

Chief Rabbi of Israel David Lau speaks at a ceremony for New immigrants from North America arrive on a special 'Aliyah Flight 2017' on behalf of Nefesh B'Nefesh organization, at Ben Gurion airport in central Israel on August 15, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Chief rabbi blocks divorce refuser from becoming rabbinic judge

Outgoing president of the Supreme Court Judge Miriam Naor with incoming Supreme Court president Esther Hayut during a ceremony in honor of Naor's retirement in Jerusalem on October 26, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In tearful farewell, Supreme Court president urges Israel to protect democracy

By Tamar Pileggi

Miriam Naor warns judicial independence ‘shouldn’t be taken for granted’; colleagues hail outgoing justice for her dedication, integrity

Illustrative: A Tel Aviv convenience store, July 30, 2008. (Moshe Shai/Flash90/File)

'Live and let live'High Court again rules Tel Aviv mini-marts can open on Shabbat

By Tamar Pileggi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to members of the Christian press during an event at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, October 15, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewBibi bill: Vol. 2

By Joshua Davidovich

Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe are shown in a scene from 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.' (AP/Warner Bros. Pictures)

Ministry for millennials

Harry Potter’s ‘sacred meaning’ probed by Harvard chaplains

By Matt Lebovic

US Vice President Mike Pence arrives at the Muniz National Guard Air Base, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

US Vice President Pence to visit Israel in December

By AP and ToI Staff

White House says Mike Pence, set to arrive during Hanukkah, will discuss prospects for a peace deal in separate meetings with Netanyahu and Abbas

Jewish Texas House speaker cites Republican disunity as a reason for retiring

By JTA

US treasury chief to visit Israel Thursday on anti-terrorism tour

By JTA

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: ‘Politics of anger’ is corroding US public life

By JTA

Hungarian Jews were marched down Wesselenyi Street in the heart of Budapest's Jewish Quarter, on their way to be deported to Auschwitz. (Bundesarchiv Bild)

Yad Vashem identifies 225,000 Hungarian Holocaust victims

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The Holocaust museum’s specially trained team pored over pages of records, mapping forgotten victims no one cared to document on the way to their deaths

Arab to finally receive Israeli honor as Holocaust hero

By Jonah Mandel

German woman writes apology to US man who lost home to Nazis

By Joseph B. Frederick and David Rising

Fresh controversies overshadow Anne Frank soccer tributes in Italy

By Emmeline Moore

The Magen Abraham Synagogue in Ahmedabad, India. (Wikipedia/Emmanuel Dyan/CC BY)

Live updates (closed)

IS operatives accused of planning attack on Indian synagogue

Indian anti-terror officials say suspects carried out reconnaissance on the Magen Abraham synagogue in Gujarat on Sept. 12, were planning either an explosion or shooting

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Hurricane relief program removes 'no Israel boycott' pledge
6:09 pm

Spanish police cordon off avenue in Madrid to inspect abandoned car
5:36 pm

Human smuggling raids carried out in 3 European countries

A picture taken from the Israeli settlement of Kedar shows the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim, both in the West Bank, on October 26, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

PLO: Jerusalem ‘annexation’ plan means end of two-state solution

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hanan Ashrawi says ‘Greater Jerusalem’ bill to make settlements part of capital kills hopes for independent Palestinian state

New Jewish neighborhood reportedly planned for East Jerusalem

Liberman says work on underground Gaza border barrier on schedule

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF to raze home of terrorist who killed Reuven Schmerling

Partial view of Mamilla Cemetery. (CC BY-SA Yoninah, Wikimedia commons)

Minister cancels left-wing group’s tour of Jerusalem Arab cemetery

Visit to Mamilla, nixed from Open House festival by Ze’ev Elkin, will go ahead unofficially, says interfaith organization

Police shutter PA conference in Jerusalem about land sales to Jews

Motorola, HPE said to be on UN blacklist of settlement-friendly companies

By Tamar Pileggi

16 million Communist Indian farmers join boycott Israel movement

Jose Rodrigues training in his studio in Tel Aviv, October 15, 2017. (Andrew Tobin)

Israel’s latest sports craze is poles apart from its erotic dancing roots

By Andrew Tobin

We are all ‘one of us’

I used to be Hasidic; then I rebelled, and was forced out

Immigrants: We get the job done

Have Americans been conditioned to waltz into other countries and tell everyone how to run things better?

Naftali Portnoy

Why we turned down Netflix

It’s heartbreaking that so many of our children feel there is no place for them within the community.

Yonah Alexander and Milton Hoenig

Nuclear terrorism: Before it’s too late

The international community must urgently expand current counterterrorism and non-proliferation efforts

My 5-year-old confronts death

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

Jonathan Muskat

Harvey Weinstein and Mayim Bialik

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

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Zubin Mehta conducting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at the Moscow Conservatory, January 21, 2002. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images)

Zubin Mehta’s 5 most memorable moments with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

By Gabe Friedman

Producer Mark Halperin participates in "The Circus of Politics" panel during the Showtime Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills, California, August 11, 2016. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Prominent US political journalist apologizes after harassment claims

Israeli-born talent manager, writer and businessman Guy Oseary in 2013. (CC BY TechCrunch, Wikimedia Commons)

Rio-manticIsraeli top agent renews vows under chuppah at Christ the Redeemer

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at 10 Downing Street in London, February 6, 2017. (AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Theresa May vows to mark Balfour centennial ‘with pride’

By Raphael Ahren

Anti-Semitic editorial cartoon against Alan Dershowitz in University of California, Berkeley student newspaper. (Twitter via JTA)

UC Berkeley chancellor condemns ‘anti-Semitic’ cartoon in student paper

By JTA

A scene from the video for "Saudi Girls Will Drive" by Saudi Arabian band "Most of Us." (Screen capture: YouTube)

Get your motor runningSaudi band releases ‘Born To Be Wild’ cover celebrating women’s driving decree

An illustrative photo of a Kuwait Airways plane taking off from Berlin-Tegel Airport in Germany in September 2014. (screen capture: YouTube)

From our partnerGermany to ban Kuwait Airways if it doesn’t allow Israelis to fly

Israeli actress Gal Gadot seen during an autograph signing at Comic-Con International 2017 in San Diego on July 22, 2017. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images/AFP)

Gal Gadot nearly gave up acting before ‘Wonder Woman’

Construction of the Jerusalem Railway Station for the future high-speed railway line to Tel Aviv on May 15, 2012. (Miriam Alster/ FLASH90/ File)

Your train may be delayedComptroller: Jerusalem-Tel Aviv express train won’t be ready by April 2018

Illustrative: Police cars in New Brunswick, New Jersey. (Screen capture ABC News)

Rutgers reviewing posts of professor who shared anti-Semitic memes

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