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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 2, 2018

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IAEA chief rebuffs Netanyahu, says it has ‘visited’ all relevant Iran sites

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

After PM claims he told UN agency about alleged secret Tehran site, director Amano insists all necessary locations have been accessed

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano of Japan, addresses the media during a news conference after a meeting of the IAEA board of governors at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, June 4, 2018. (Ronald Zak/AP)

Iran state media: Alleged secret nuclear site is a scrap metal recycling center

Netanyahu: Hezbollah ‘brazenly lying’ to world about weapons sites

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Lebanon FM gives diplomats tour aimed at disproving Netanyahu’s missile claims

By AFP and Judah Ari Gross

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations General Assembly on September 26, 2018, at UN Headquarters. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci/File)

Poll finds Israelis extremely, and near uniquely, supportive of Trump, US policy

Pew survey shows 82% of Jewish Israelis trust president’s handling of global affairs, 94% have favorable opinion of US — views which are out of sync with most other nations

Trump cuts to coexistence efforts will cause ‘long-term damage,’ NGO head warns

By Eric Cortellessa

Former PLO envoy in US takes over as top Palestinian diplomat in UK

France freezes Iranian assets over Paris bomb plot said thwarted by Mossad

By AFP and ToI Staff

Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland, 2018’s Nobel laureates in physics. (Courtesy: Nobel Assembly)

Arthur Ashkin, 2 others win Nobel Physics Prize for laser research

By Agencies and ToI Staff

96-year-old Jewish American who revolutionized eye surgery is oldest Nobel laureate ever

A vandalized sukkah in Manhattan, graffitied with the slogan 'Free Gaza,' September 30, 2018. (ADL/Twitter)

Vandals graffiti ‘Free Gaza’ on Sukkah in Manhattan park

Police launch hate crime investigation; ADL says targeting of structure on religious holiday is ‘beyond the pale’

A Palestinian woman rides a donkey cart in front of closed shops during a general strike in Gaza City on October 1, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Said KHATIB)

Palestinians, Israeli Arabs strike against Israel’s nation-state law

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinians throw stones toward Israeli forces during clashes along border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, east of Gaza City, on September 28, 2018. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

Israel media reviewThe scuffle shuffle: 8 things to know for October 2

By Joshua Davidovich

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

Syria says Iran missile strikes on its territory were legitimate

By AP

Foreign minister says action, which reportedly killed eight, was part of cooperation between the two allies against terrorism

Netanyahu slams ‘ridiculous’ Iran effort to tie Israel to attack at parade

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Russia using world’s largest military planes to deliver S-300 system to Syria

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Russia says Syrian side of Quneitra Crossing also ready to reopen

By Judah Ari Gross

The wreckage of Ottoma boat Sharia in the Sea of Galilee (Channel 10 screenshot)

Fish tales

Divers search Sea of Galilee wreck for mythical WWI treasure

Ottoman steamboat Sharia was sunk by British pilots in 1918. Rumors of lost gold have swirled ever since

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman visits at the Quneitra Crossing on the Israeli-Syrian border in the Golan Heights, September 27, 2018. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Defense minister launches offensive against education minister over Gaza

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Liberman shoots back at Bennett for criticism of army’s response to spiraling protests, says, ‘As far as I’m concerned the man has been deleted’

IDF spy drone crashes in Gaza area, prompting search

Dozens said injured in fresh clashes near Gaza security fence

Israel denies Norway is mediating deal on return of soldiers’ bodies from Hamas

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands at the beginning of a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland, Monday, July 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Live updates (closed)

US NATO envoy threatens to ‘take out’ new Russian missile system

Washington believes deployment of new nuclear-capable cruise missiles contravene 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty

6:27 pm

Trump administration praises Obama's $38 billion, 10-year defense agreement
6:02 pm

Russian defense minister says delivery of S-300 to Syria completed
5:50 pm

Parcels sent to Pentagon suspected to contain ricin

Laura Ben-David

I went up to the Torah — and started to cry

Such a small thing — being given an ’aliya’ on Simchat Torah — but oh, the joy

Kibbutzim doing their part for asylum seekers

Despite high levels of anti-refugee sentiment in Israel, many Israelis have come forward to help ’the strangers among us’

Fans of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team hold up a sign reading 'Beitar forever pure,' during a match on January 26, 2013. (Flash90)

Israeli documentary about racist soccer fans wins Emmy

By Michael Bachner

Maya Zinstein’s ‘Forever Pure,’ broadcast on PBS, deals with fan backlash against Beitar Jerusalem when it signed Muslim players in 2013

Illustrative. A criminal in handcuffs. (Yakobchuk Olena/ iStock, by Getty Images)

Jerusalem police arrest four over racist assault on Arab youths

Israeli Premier League soccer player Yitzhak Asefa is brought to the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court under suspicion of involvement in a hit-and-run collision that killed a 17-year-old boy in Tel Aviv on September 24, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Soccer player suspected in deadly hit-and-run released to house arrest

Judge rejects Yitzhak Asefa’s request to join his club’s practices, more than a week after hitting and killing Ari Nesher, son of acclaimed director

Director Avi Nesher (left), with his son, Ari and wife, Iris (Courtesy Rafi Delouya)

PM backs safety measures for e-bikes after teen killed in hit-and-run

Two of Nirit Levav Packer's Afghan dogs, welded from many sets of bicycle chains (Courtesy Nirit Levav Packer Art Gallery)

Broken bikes, twigs, and bric-a-brac become art in sculptor’s studio

By Jessica Steinberg

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Britain's Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (Brexit Minister) Dominic Raab gives a speech in the main hall on the second day of the Conservative Party Conference 2018 at the International Convention Center in Birmingham, on October 1, 2018. (Paul ELLIS/AFP)

Warning of ‘extremist’ Corbyn, UK minister recalls father’s escape from Nazis

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Police at the Neverland Music Festival near Kibbutz Lehavot Habashan in northern Israel on October 1, 2018. (screen capture: Hadashot news)

Two party-goers die at Galilee rave; police open investigation

'La Cueillette des pois' ('Picking Peas') by Camille Pissarro, painted in 1887. (Public domain, Wikimedia Commons)

French court to rule on Nazi-era looted Pissarro painting

By Juliette MONTESSE

An illustration of SOSA's Global Cyber Center for New York City (SOSA)

2 Israeli firms chosen to aid NYC in quest to be cybersecurity ‘global leader’

By Shoshanna Solomon

Former IDB Group chairman Nochi Dankner arrives at the Ma'asiyahu Prison in Lod to serve his three year sentence on October 2, 2018. (Flash90)

Convicted tycoon Nochi Dankner goes to jail, says ‘It’s all for the better’

Religious Affairs Minister David Azoulay attends a Shas party meeting at the Knesset on June 08, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Cancer-stricken Shas minister David Azoulay in serious condition

A storefront in the Levinsky Market, Tel Aviv (photo credit: David Katz)

Great shuksTop travel magazine fetes Israeli flea market

Doctor Gunther von Hagens, anatomist, inventor of and creator of Body Worlds, is seen in front of one of his works in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, June 11, 2010 (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)

Lying down on the job‘Body Worlds’ creator asks to become part of exhibit after death

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Gamida Cell's lab manager Noga Goudsmid-Rosenheimer at work, July 16, 2017 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Cell therapy firm Gamida to raise $69m in Nasdaq offering

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Israeli bands The Giraffes and Balkan Beat Box come together for a one-time recording and show on October 19, 2018 in Binyamina's Shuni ampitheater (Courtesy The Giraffes)

Man on the moonGiraffes and Balkan Beat Box offer joint song and show

By Jessica Steinberg

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