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What Matters Most On Friday, October 27, 2017

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Israeli gold-medalist judoka Tal Flicker stands on the podium at the Judo Grand Slam in Abu Dhabi, where the local judo authorities banned the display of all Israeli symbols, on October 26, 2017. (YouTube screen capture)

On podium, gold medalist Flicker sings his own 'Hatikvah'

Israeli wins judo gold in UAE, which refuses to play anthem, raise flag

By ToI Staff and AP

Tal Flicker and bronze-winner Gili Cohen forced to celebrate under international judo federation’s banner due to local prohibition on Israeli symbols

UAE judoka refuses to shake hands as Israeli beats him in Abu Dhabi tournament

AnalysisWhen it comes to Israel, the Arab world isn’t a good sport

By Raphael Ahren

Boycott-defying judo champ says he sang Israeli anthem ‘from the heart’

Palestinian security forces stand guard outside a hospital where a senior Hamas security chief was treated after being wounded in a car bomb. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)

Hamas security chief hurt in Gaza ‘assassination bid’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Tawfiq Abu Naim, director general of the internal security forces, said to be in moderate condition after explosion in his car; Hamas sources say Islamic State gunmen main suspects

The robot Sophia at a Riyadh conference on October 25, 2017. (screen capture: YouTube/Arab News)

Like a naturalized woman

In Saudi Arabia, female robot gets rights, real women restricted

‘Sophia’ becomes first android granted citizenship, but critics point out that kingdom is allowing her to do what actual women and non-Muslims cannot

One-day-old Palestinian conjoined twins lie in an incubator at the nursery on October 22, 2017 at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.(Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Saudi Arabia to treat conjoined Gaza twins

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev (L) attend the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on December 11, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu has two small polyps removed; Regev fills in briefly as PM

Prime minister is in ‘excellent health,’ hospital says, and has ‘resumed full duties’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and his wife, Sara, as they enter the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on March 14, 2017. (AFP/Heidi Levine, Pool)

Ex-staffer says Sara Netanyahu made her use outside bathroom

By ToI Staff and AP

Two men walk past shops closed on Shabbat in south Tel Aviv, August 23, 2008. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewDay of wrest

By Joshua Davidovich

Ofer Eini, president of the Israel Football Association, speaks at the 67th FIFA Congress in the Bahraini capital Manama on May 11, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

FIFA won’t take up Palestinian complaint against Israeli clubs

Soccer world body decides to stay out of dispute over West Bank settlement teams, saying the issue is a political one

Michael Lynk briefs reporters at UN headquarters in New York on October 26, 2017. (Kim Haughton/UN)

UN rights official slammed for urging economic sanctions on Israel

By Stuart Winer

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in Bnei Brak on October 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Top minister: Settlement boycott equals Israel boycott

A surfer at Tel Aviv's Hilton Beach, considered a hangout for the LGBT community, during the 2015 Gay Pride Week. (Matthew Hechter/Flash 90)

Tel Aviv turns to tango to prevent immigrants waltzing out of Israel

By Grace Austin

The white city toasts new arrivals with a month of events, but activists say that won’t be enough to keep them here

Illustrative: Smoke rises from a large forest fire in the Sataf area west of Jerusalem, October 26, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Firefighters battle massive day-old blaze west of Jerusalem

At least 15 crews and four planes operating at three sites in the Sataf forest, where 2,000 dunams are believed burned; Jerusalem fire chief warns hikers to stay away

View of Lifta, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, December 17, 2016 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

State buries survey on ancient Jerusalem village slated for development

Activist says officials afraid archaeological findings on Lifta will help preservationists fighting plan to put luxury homes in hillside hamlet frozen in time

A video screenshot of hilltop youth members being interviewed. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Hilltop youth invite Israelis to get to know them in new video

Sunset over Ramat Shlomo on November 21, 2016.(Sebi Berens/Flash90)

Israel to green-light construction of 700 East Jerusalem homes

Actress Sarah Silverman participates in a Tax Day protest in New York City, April 15, 2017. (AFP/Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

Interview

Sarah Silverman seeks common ground, giggles in new series

Jewish comedian’s ‘I love you, America’ looks to help country drop defenses, bridge divides and get a little silly

Mayim Bialik follows ‘Girling Up’ with ‘Boying Up’

By AP

People play beach tennis (matkot), on the beach in Tel Aviv on a hot summer day, August 1, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Tel Aviv beach craze makes the jump from paddle ball to fine art

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Performer Eddie Vitch with cabaret dancers in the late 1950s. (Courtesy Sigal Bujman)

Sellout or survivor?

As jester to Göring and Goebbels, was this Jewish comic a Nazi collaborator?

By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs

Before reaching Hollywood, Eddie Vitch was one of Europe’s greatest entertainers of German soldiers at the height of WWII

Gabriela Mischel

I told my story of anorexia on camera

If fear kept me from telling my story, I was no better than the people who made me feel I had to hide that part of myself

Palestinian leadership and the Santa talk

It’s a tricky thing, selling a people the notion that Israel is a flash in a pan — and it sure gets in the way of peace

A teachable moment: Sexual responsibility

Public shaming of offenders won’t help boys and men revisit how they may have sexualized or objectified women

Inner-directedness

Courage to be different is a biblical legacy that grants the resilience to manage calamity (Lech Lecha)

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President Reuven Rivlin and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked stand alongside incoming Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut during her swearing in ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on October 26, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Esther Hayut sworn in as chief justice amid bid to curb judiciary

By Raoul Wootliff

The Arts Building at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Pro-Israel students said barred from student union board at Canada’s McGill

By JTA

Father Patrick Desbois speaks after being awarded the Lantos Human Rights Prize on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on October 26, 2017. (Chris Kleponis)

French priest who uncovered Nazi killing sites awarded Lantos rights prize

By Eric Cortellessa

Lazio players wear a shirt depicting Anne Frank saying "No to anti-Semitism," in response to anti-Semitic stickers left by their fans at a previous match, during the Serie A match between Bologna FC and SS Lazio at Stadio Renato Dall'Ara in Bologna, Italy, on October 25, 2017. (Marco Rosi/Getty Images via JTA)

Italian soccer club president calls synagogue visit a ‘charade’

By JTA

Corey Feldman in 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

Jewish actor vows to expose Hollywood pedophile ring

By AFP and ToI Staff

An Iranian Shahab-3 missile launched during military exercises outside the city of Qom, Iran, in June 2011. (AP/ISNA/Ruhollah Vahdati)

US House approves bill to sanction Iran for ballistic missiles

By Richard Lardner

President Reuven Rivlin 'dabs' with the new EU Ambassador to Israel Emanuele Giaufret's sons at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on October 26, 2017. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Dance diplomacyEU ambassador’s sons have Rivlin dabbing

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, accompanied by his wife, Ms. Louise Linton, lay a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, October 26, 2017. (Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv)

US treasury secretary lays wreath at Yad Vashem

By Stuart Winer

Argentina's former president and elected senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner speaks to reporters as she leaves the court in Buenos Aires on October 26, 2017. (AFP/Eitan Abramovich)

Ex-Argentina leader Kirchner denies AMIA bombing cover-up in court

By AFP

A Syrian man collects samples from the site of a suspected toxic gas attack in Khan Sheikhoun, in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, on April 5, 2017. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)

UN says Syrian regime responsible for April sarin attack

Harvey Weinstein arrives at The Weinstein Company and Netflix Golden Globes after-party in Beverly Hills, California, January 8, 2017. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Harvey Weinstein sues former company over emails, records

By Frazier Moore

An Arkia Airlines plane at Ben Gurion Airport. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Arkia plane mechanical troubles strand 200 Israelis in Zanzibar

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