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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 1, 2017

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Jewish man among 5 Argentinians killed in New York attack

By ToI Staff and AP

Eight friends were in the city to visit former high school classmate when they were caught in truck-ramming

Ariel Erlij, third from left, poses with friends taking part in a high school reunion. Five members of the group, including Erlij, were killed when a terrorist rammed a truck into pedestrians in New York, October 31, 2017. (Facebook)

A bicycle lies on a bike path at the crime scene where a motorist earlier Tuesday drove onto the path near the World Trade Center memorial, striking and killing several people in a suspected terror attack, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

Investigators scour driver’s background in NYC truck attack

By Colleen Long and Matt Sedensky

Bicycles and debris lay on a bike path after a motorist drove onto the path near the World Trade Center memorial, striking and killing several people Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Hebrew media reviewThe terror and tunnel crowd

By Joshua Davidovich

A 2016 mugshot of NY terror attack suspect Sayfullo Saipov (CNN via St. Charles County, Mo)

Note by NY truck driver claims attack for Islamic State

By ToI Staff and AP

Uber says suspect was one of its drivers; video shows Sayfullo Saipov waving fake guns upon exiting vehicle; 6 of the dead are foreign nationals

Bicycles and debris lay on a bike path after a motorist drove onto the path near the World Trade Center memorial, striking and killing several people Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

After New York attack, Trump rails against Islamic State

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Investigators inspect a truck following a car-ramming attack in New York, October 31, 2017. (AFP/DON EMMERT)

Trump faults Senator Chuck Schumer for New York attack

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Analysis

Alan D. Abbey and Benjamin Emmerich

Balfour Declaration: A century old and as disputed as ever

Researchers at the Shalom Hartman Institute dive into what the media is and isn’t saying about the British letter’s meaning and impact upon its 100th anniversary

From left, Lords Edmund Allenby, Arthur Balfour and Sir Herbert Samuel, at Hebrew University in 1925. (Library of Congress)

Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah on July 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)

Decrying Balfour centenary, Abbas warns of one-state solution

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative: Member state representatives attend the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York on September 21, 2017. (AFP/Jewel Samad)

UN plan calls for $18m to aid Palestinian legal efforts against Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

Illustrative: Then-British Home Secretary Winston Churchill on a visit to the British Mandate of Palestine in March 1921, nearly three decades before it became the Jewish state. (Churchill Museum)

British-Israeli History'I could put the case for the Jews in 10 minutes'

Ahead of Balfour 100, UK enshrines Churchill’s headstrong case for Israel

By Robert Philpot

A new permanent exhibition highlights the British PM’s unflinching support for the Jewish state — even under heavy pressure from his government

Protesters wave Spanish and Catalan Senyera flags during a pro-unity demonstration in Barcelona on October 29, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU)

Live updates (closed)

Israel calls for Spain crisis to be resolved ‘quickly and peacefully’

By Tamar Pileggi

Breaking silence on Catalonia crisis, Foreign Ministry appears to side with Madrid, hailing ‘longstanding, strong and friendly relations’ between the two countries

7:21 pm

Dutch Red Cross apologizes for failing Jews in WWII
7:11 pm

Iraq to hold parliamentary election in May
7:06 pm

Departing to UK for Balfour centenary, PM hails 'formative' document

President Reuven Rivlin (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rabin’s murder ‘ripped the fabric of Israeli democracy,’ president says

As state commemorations begin for anniversary of the 1995 assassination, Rivlin tells nation, ‘We have been trying to heal the breach ever since’

Palestinian men put up a poster displaying Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas (L), prime minister Rami Hamdallah and late leader Yasser Arafat, at the northern entrance of the Gaza Strip just after the Israeli-controlled Erez crossing, on November 1, 2017 in Beit Hanoun. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Hamas hands over all Gaza border crossings to the PA

Move by terror group seen as a key step in advancing the ongoing intra-Palestinian reconciliation process

AnalysisIslamic Jihad doesn’t want to rain on the reconciliation parade

By Avi Issacharoff

Terrorists from the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine attend the funeral of fellow members killed in an Israeli operation to blow up a tunnel stretching from the Gaza Strip into Israel during their funeral at the Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, on October 31, 2017. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Exploded tunnel was dug for soldier abductions, Gaza terror leader says

This file photo taken on June 22, 2016, shows fruit bats hanging in a cage at a bat shelter created by Israeli animal activist Nora Lifschitz in Israel's central Elah Valley, south of Beit Shemesh. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Bats have regional accents, Israeli study shows

By AFP

'1945' director Ferenc Török, left, and co-writer Gábor Szántó. (Jordan Hoffman/Times of Israel)

Interview

Black and white ‘1945’ shows Jews in post-war Hungary faced a rainbow of gray

By Jordan Hoffman

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Judaism needs novelty to survive

Many want a teacher to make all matters of faith fall into place, but I am always questioning and seeking

Death at Starbucks

A random group of patrons connected in the face of tragedy — an object lesson for the Jewish community

Is my kippah too tight?

I broke (a small part of) the internet when I attempted race-blindness in South Africa

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Apropos joint custody: Equal isn’t equal

A straight comparison of time and salary ignores the invisible costs to mothers

Members of the Australian Light Horse association ride near Beersheba in the southern Israeli desert on October 31, 2017 during a centennial reenactment of the historical fight of the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division), which captured the area from the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

'To be standing where it happened is almost indescribable'

Remembering the soldiers who liberated Beersheba and galloped into history

By Tamar Pileggi

100 years on, the descendants of the audacious ANZAC assault on Ottoman forces entrenched in the Negev reenact the battle that enabled the British to advance into Palestine

Israel protests Aussie caricature critical of Battle of Beersheba memorials

By Raphael Ahren

In Beersheba reenactment, dignitaries treated to Maori war cry

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Illustrative image of Dunsmure Rd, Stamford Hill, London. (Screen capture: Google streetview)

Back of the line‘Be patient, Jews come last,’ British shopkeeper tells girl

By JTA

Iraqi Kurds fly an Israeli flag and Kurdish flags during an event to urge people to vote in the upcoming independence referendum in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on September 16, 2017. (AFP/Safin Hamed)

Iraq bans Israeli flags after Kurds wave them at independence rallies

Jewish Agency chairman, Natan Sharansky attends the lobby for strengthening ties with the Jewish world at the Knesset, June 27, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sharansky warns of new flare-up in Israel-Diaspora crisis

By Raphael Ahren

In this Wednesday, May 20, 2015 file picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei listens to IRGC commander Mohammad Ali Jafari during a graduation ceremony of officers in Tehran, Iran. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)

Iranian leader urges all Muslims to fight Israel

Aussie rocker Nick Cave will perform in Tel Aviv on November 19 and 20, standing up to BDS (CC BY Alterna2, Wikipedia)

Good seedsRocker Nick Cave faces BDS heat ahead of Tel Aviv concerts

By Jessica Steinberg

A Rohingya refugee carries an elderly woman toward a makeshift shelter at Kutupalong refugee camp in the Bangladeshi district of Ukhia, October 26, 2017. (AFP/Tauseef MUSTAFA)

Amid uproar, Israel halts arms sales to Myanmar — report

By Judah Ari Gross

Jonathan Pollard, the American convicted of spying for Israel, leaves a New York courthouse following his release from prison after 30 years, on November 20, 2015 in New York. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

PM said to ask Trump to allow Jonathan Pollard to immigrate to Israel

Eitan Press, second from right, says he has “anointed” the beards of hundreds of men, including these Jewish pilgrims in Uman, Ukraine, Sept. 20, 2017. (Aleph Male)

For Aleph malesA Jewish-themed beard balm for hipsters and Hasids

By Josefin Dolsten

Tel Aviv's Azrieli Center by night (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Israel’s heavy bureaucracy leads to corruption, think tank says

By Shoshanna Solomon

In this Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016, file photo, U.K. Independence Party leader Nigel Farage smiles as he arrives at Trump Tower, in New York. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

UK’s Farage says US Jews have disproportionate influence over politics

By JTA

Illustrative: Children being airlifted from Yemen in Operation Magic Carpet, in front of an Alaskan Airlines plane. (Courtesy AJM)

MKs vote to allow exhuming remains of Yemenite children presumed dead

By Marissa Newman

Security forces are seen near the West Bank settlement of Halamish, where IDF soldiers shot dead a Palestinian driver who they said accelerated towards them, on October 31, 2017. (Flash90)

Military police investigate deadly shooting at Palestinian car

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