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What Matters Most On Monday, October 1, 2018

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French-Armenian singer-songwriter Charles Aznavour poses during a photo session in Paris on November 16, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET)

'We have so many things in common, the Jews and Armenians'

Legendary French singer Charles Aznavour dies aged 94

By Fiachra GIBBONS

Family of ‘French Sinatra’ were heroes of Resistance against Nazi occupation of France in World War II; Israel honored him last year for their efforts to protect Jews and others

President Reuven Rivlin (L) presents French-Armenian singer Charles Aznavour the Raoul Wallenberg medal on October 26, 2017, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)

Legendary singer Aznavour given award for family efforts to save Jews in WWII

By AFP

In this photo released on October 1, 2018, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, missiles are fired from city of Kermanshah in western Iran targeting the Islamic State group in Syria (Sepahnews via AP)

Iran fires missiles with anti-Israel, -US slogans into Syria over parade attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks on CBS's 'Face the Nation' on September 30, 2018. (Screen capture: CBS News)

Iranian FM: Holocaust no excuse for Israel’s ‘apartheid policy in Palestine’

In this file photo taken on July 11, 2018, activists of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) hold placards in front of the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin reading 'Deliver the Iranian diplomat-terrorist to Belgium' during a demonstration calling for the extradition of an Iranian diplomat to Belgium over suspicions that he was involved in plotting to bomb an opposition Iranian group's conference in Paris. (AFP Photo/Tobias Schwarz)

Germany approves extradition of Iranian diplomat over alleged bomb plot

By AFP and ToI Staff

A Palestinian woman walks past a closed health center that run by United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) during a strike of all UNRWA institutions in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on September 24, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)

UNRWA evacuates most international staff from Gaza to Israel amid death threats

By ToI Staff and AFP

Officials of UN’s Palestinian refugee agency rushed to safety through a closed checkpoint after harassment from employees

Norway mediating between Israel, Hamas for return of soldiers’ bodies – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Explosives hurled at Israeli soldiers in late-night Gaza clashes

Hamas says Abbas is pushing Israel to launch a new war in Gaza

Indonesian city begins burying its dead as toll tops 840

By Niniek Karmini

Death count from earthquake and tsunami expected to rise as remote areas reached; EU and 10 other countries have offered aid

Rescuers evacuate an earthquake survivor by a damaged house following earthquakes and tsunami in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, on September 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Arimacs Wilander)

Indonesia calls for international help as tsunami victims buried

By AFP

Damage to the Mutiara Sis Al Jufri airport is seen in Palu, in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province, on September 30, 2018, following the deadly September 28 earthquake and tsunami. (AFP Photo/Adek Berry)

Indonesian airport employee lauded as hero for sacrificing self to save plane

Members of the Creative Committee of the People’s Art School, Vitebsk, winter 1919. Seated: Yuri (Yehuda) Pen (third from left), Marc Chagall (center), Vera Ermolaeva (second from right), Kazimir Malevich right). Gelatin silver print. (Archives Marc et Ida Chagall, Paris)

A different troika

After the Russian Revolution, Chagall ran an art school for the proletariat

By Cathryn J. Prince

A Palestinian man walks past closed shops in the Old City of Hebron, due to a general strike in response to Israel's Nation State Law on October 1, 2018 (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Palestinians, Arab Israelis hold general protest strike over nation-state law

By ToI Staff and Agencies

On anniversary of deadly 2000 riots, residents of West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem demonstrate in solidarity with Arab Israelis who say law turns them into second class citizens

A Civil Administration official hands a notice regarding the pending demolition of Khan al-Ahmar to one of its residents on September 23, 2018. (Civil Administration)

Evacuation deadline passes for West Bank Bedouin village slated for demolition

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Kulanu MK Rachel Azaria attends a Kulanu faction meeting in the Knesset on May 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

A series of withdrawals leave no women in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem mayoral races

US Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on September 27, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Tom Williams/Pool Image via AP)

FBI interviews Kavanaugh accuser; Yale friend remembers judge as heavy drinker

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and MICHAEL BALSAMO

White House insists it isn’t ‘micromanaging’ investigation as Republicans and Democrats bicker over probe’s scope

In this photo from June 5, 2018, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies during a Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations hearing in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Kavanaugh case unfolds as DeVos readies campus sexual assault rule

By Maria Danilova

Kellyanne Conway, senior adviser to President Donald Trump, watches during a meeting with parents and teachers, Tuesday, February 14, 2017, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway: ‘I’m a victim of sexual assault’

By AFP

In this photo from August 15, 2018, Wisconsin Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Mandela Barnes, left, and governor candidate Tony Evers speak to reporters at a news conference in Madison, Wisconsin. (Michelle Stocker/The Capital Times via AP)

Candidate who suggested Trump wants ‘superior race’ stirs up Wisconsin elections

Mandela Barnes, the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, has been accused by Republican critics of comparing US president to Nazis

Graffiti painted on the home of a supporter of New Jersey Congressman Josh Gottheimer, September 2018. (Courtesy)

Hate messages again painted at home of supporters of Jewish NJ candidate

By JTA

The Kavanaugh hearing and your permanent record

When the integrity of the court and due process are at stake, the wisdom of Solomon should prevail

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Simchat Torah and the outdated Torah scroll

Judaism welcomes technological advances, but our holiest book is written the old-fashioned way: by hand with a quill on parchment

In this photo from September 24, 2018, attorney Morton Katz poses outside Superior Court in Hartford, Connecticut. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)

Connecticut lawyer, 99, will retire ‘when they carry me out of here’

By Pat Eaton-Robb

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Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, Thomas Perlmann (R) stands next to a screen displaying portraits of James P Allison (L) and Tasuku Honjo during the announcement of the winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 1, 2018 (AFP PHOTO / Jonathan NACKSTRAND)

US, Japanese scientists win Nobel Medicine Prize for cancer therapy breakthrough

By AFP

Artem Dolgopyat of Israel performs in the floor exercise during the men's artistic gymnastics finals at the European Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, August 12, 2018. (AP Photo/ Darko Bandic/File)

Israeli gymnast Artem Dolgopyat wins gold at World Cup Challenge

A yellow scorpion in the Negev Desert (Ester Inbar, public domain via Wikimedia Commons)

Toddler in critical condition after being stung by scorpion in Negev

Far-right demonstrators light flares in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, on September 7, 2018, after a 35-year-old German was stabbed to death in August 2018. (AFP/Odd Andersen)

Germany arrests 7 suspected far-right extremists in Chemnitz

By Frank Jordans

Suspected incendiary balloon discovered in Modiin, October 1, 2018 (police spokesman's unit)

Sappers neutralize suspected incendiary balloon device in Modiin

In this photo released by Israel Police on September 30, 2018, a pair of pants allegedly used to smuggle three kilograms of cocaine through Ben Gurion Airport and packages said to contain drug are seen. (Israel Police)

Colombian man, 70, caught at Ben Gurion Airport smuggling cocaine in pants

Illustrative: A broken window is seen at the center of the Jewish community center, after a suspected anti-Semitic attack in Rostock, northern Germany, January 8, 2009. (AP/ Thomas Haentzschel/File)

Foreigner assaulted in Berlin in alleged anti-Semitic incident

By JTA

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leaves the Office of the Prime Minister and Privy Council after an agreement was reached in the NAFTA negotiations in Ottawa, Ontario, September 30, 2018. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada and US reach free trade deal with Mexico

By Rob Gillies and PAUL WISEMAN

Jean-Claude Arnault at the district court in Stockholm on Monday September 24, 2018, for hearings in his trial for alleged rape and sexual assault (Janerik Henriksson / TT via AP)

Man at center of Nobel Literature scandal convicted of rape, jailed for 2 years

By JAN M. OLSEN

Gal Gadot at the 92nd Street Y on October 1, 2017, in New York City. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images via JTA)

Little grey cellsGal Gadot to star in Fox’s ‘Death on the Nile’

By JTA

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