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What Matters Most On Monday, October 30, 2017

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Illustrative. A picture taken on May 6, 2016, from the Israeli side of the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip shows the exit of a newly unearthed Hamas attack tunnel. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

IDF destroys attack tunnel in Israeli territory built after 2014 war

By Judah Ari Gross

Military says passage, dug from Gaza’s Khan Younis, was under active construction, holds Hamas responsible

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas speaks to the press after meeting with Jordan's king at the Royal Palace in Amman on October 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)

Abbas says any Hamas ministers will have to recognize Israel

Danny Danon, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, addresses the UN Security Council meeting on October 18, 2017. (UN Photo/Rick Bajornas)

Israel’s UN envoy blasts discovery of Gaza tunnel under UNRWA school

Shadow Secretary Emily Thornberry gives a speech at the 2016 Labour conference. (CC BY-SA 4.0, Rwendland, Wikipedia)

Top Labour MP: UK should mark Balfour by recognizing Palestinian state

By Alexander Fulbright

Criticizing Israel for having ‘lost its way,’ Emily Thornberry says Britain should not celebrate centennial of document pledging support for Jewish national home

British Foreign secretary Boris Johnson drinks a toast at the UK embassy in Paris on October 27, 2017, during a European tour. (AFP PHOTO / GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT)

British FM says he’s ‘proud’ of Balfour Declaration, 100 years on

By AFP

Seats for an Iranian delegation at a nuclear energy conference sit empty in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 30, 2017. (AP/Jon Gambrell)

Iran skips UN Abu Dhabi meet on nuclear power; it had been seated next to Israel

By AP

Head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization Ali Akbar Salehi talks at a conference on international cooperation for enhancing nuclear safety, security, safeguards and non-profileration, at the Lincei Academy, in Rome, October 10, 2017. (AP/Gregorio Borgia)

Iran’s nuclear chief says weapons-grade uranium only 4 days away

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran, addresses the 72nd UN General Assembly on September 20, 2017, at the United Nations in New York. (AFP PHOTO / ANGELA WEISS)

Iran says its president turned down a meeting with Trump

By AP

Aerial view of the Robert Moses Dam, part of the Niagara Power Project, Lewiston, New York, where the mPrest system is located. (Courtesy)

'I prevent hazardous events long before they might occur'

New York’s power plants now protected, using Israel’s Iron Dome technology

By Cathryn J. Prince

After alarming outages in 2012 and 2014, the New York Power Authority turns to the Start-Up Nation for help keeping its systems secure

A medal handed out by the United Arab Emirates to UNESCO member states in honor of renovations sponsored by the UAE to the cultural agency's conference hall in Paris, on October 30, 2017. (Courtesy)

In fresh snub, UAE gives medals to all UNESCO members but Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Move follows ban on Israeli symbols at Abu Dhabi judo tourney; Jewish state’s envoy to UN cultural arm slams ‘dark mentality’ of Emirates

Chairman of the Palestinian football (soccer) association Jibril Rajoub speaks during a press conference in the West Bank city of Al-Ram on October 29, 2017. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Palestinian official suggests Holocaust guilt led FIFA not to sanction Israel

Then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka Trump, right, working with former campaign manager Paul Manafort, center, at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 20, 2016. (Chip Somodevilla/AFP Photo)

Live updates (closed)

IDF says it didn’t mean to kill senior Islamic Jihad members in tunnel blast

By Judah Ari Gross

Gaza Health Ministry says seven killed, 11 injured, when Israel destroys border-crossing tunnel near Kibbutz Kissufim

7:58 pm

IDF says it didn't mean to kill senior Islamic Jihad members in tunnel blast
7:43 pm

Officials: US captures militant key in Benghazi attack
7:34 pm

Amnesty official barred from Israel over BDS activity

German Ambassador to Israel Clemens von Goetze (L), Austrian Ambassador to Israel Martin Weiss (2L), and Deputy UK Ambassador to Israel Tony Kay (R) attend a Knesset hearing on October 30, 2017 (Times of Israel)

US skips Knesset meeting on rising anti-Semitism

By Marissa Newman

Hearing attended by representatives of Germany, Austria, UK and France; Zionist Union MK laments ‘very disappointing’ stayaway by American officials

Tennessee counter-protesters play ‘La Bamba’ to silence white supremacists

Neo-Nazi salutes seen at protest against Catalonia independence

By ToI Staff and AFP

Wisconsin bans Israel boycotters from doing state business

By JTA and ToI Staff

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (3rd from left) meets with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah (4th from left) in Ramallah, on October 30, 2017. (Twitter)

Finance minister holds rare meeting with Palestinian PM in Ramallah

PA officials said to berate Kahlon on settlements; US envoy Greenblatt lauds ‘important progress… on key economic issues’

Kushner paid secret visit to Saudi Arabia for peace push — report

Netanyahu meets with US envoys for peace talks ‘check-in’

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

US official: Jerusalem expansion bill ‘distracts’ parties from peace

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Martin Luther and the Jews, 500 years later

The theologian is about so much more than anti-Semitism, but how his teachings went wrong is an object lesson for religion

Helen Maryles Shankman

Still life with Dunkin’ Donuts

Handing down the steps of an arcane, specialized process to the next generation is unlike anything I’ve done

Sound tracks: Pianos and railway stations

The mix of musicians is a melodious antidote to the alienation and distrust that divide us

5 Jewish apps are paving the way to 2018

Need kosher food? A Jewish date? An emoji of a bearded rabbi? There’s an app for you

First graders learn Israeli dance at Hebrew Language Academy, a Brooklyn charter school that teaches Hebrew and Israeli culture, but not Judaism. (Ben Sales via JTA)

A Hebrew charter school takes a not-so-Jewish trip to Israel

Hundreds of Israelis attend a protest outside the Prime Minister's Residence demanding that funds be transferred for the paving of bypass roads in the West Bank on October 29, 2017. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Settlers protest outside Netanyahu’s home to demand security funding

Demonstration goes ahead despite PM’s pledge to bring NIS 800 million budget for infrastructure project to a vote next week

Immunity bill not debated by ministers, despite threats by Likud MKs

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Ex-worker says she was warned to drop suit against Sara Netanyahu

Hebrew media reviewA tale of two crises

By Tamar Pileggi

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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort talks to reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, July 17, 2016. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Ex-Trump campaign chief indicted for ‘conspiracy against US’ in Russia probe

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Depiction of Donald Trump kissing Netanyahu drawn on the security barrier in Bethlehem. (AFP PHOTO / Musa AL SHAER)

Smooch toward BethlehemNetanyahu and Trump kiss in West Bank security barrier graffiti

Michelangelo's 'David' in Florence's, Galleria dell' Accademia. (CC bY Jörg Bittner Unna, Wikimedia Commons)

Off its pedestalLondon museum said planning exhibit with farting ‘David’ statue

Zionist Union MK Nachman Shai, January 5, 2017 (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

The dance of lifeWith bar mitzvah dance, Labor MK swats down rumors of his death

Argus Cybersecurity founders from right to left: Zohar Zisapel, Chairman; Oron Lavi, VP R&D; Ofer Ben Noon, CEO; Yaron Galula, CTO (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Germany’s Continental reportedly in talks to buy Israel’s Argus for $400 million

By Shoshanna Solomon

An illustrative photo of the Bar-Ilan University campus. (CC-BY/Avishai Teicher/Wikimedia Commons)

University student kicked out of class for refusing to remove hijab

Illustration: One of El Al's Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, August 23, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

For the second time, EL AL grounds new Dreamliner plane

By Stuart Winer

Kulanu party MK Merav Ben Ari reacts during a Knesset session, January 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lawmaker earning four times average wage wins subsidized housing

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