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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 3, 2018

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Illustrative wedding photo. (JTA)

In rare move, rabbinical court sanctions woman for refusing divorce

By Marissa Newman

A view of the Kol Haneshama synagogue building in Jerusalem, July 8, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Stone thrown at worshipers during festivities at Jerusalem Reform temple

An artist's impression of the Yehudit Bridge in Tel Aviv. (NCArchitects)

Tel Aviv municipality petitions court for right to build bridge on Shabbat

By Stuart Winer

Palestinian employees of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) take part in a protest against job cuts by UNRWA, in Gaza City, on September 19, 2018. (AFP / SAID KHATIB)

Exclusive

Blocked in a car by a mob, kept from their HQ: Why UNRWA staff had to flee Gaza

Angry crowds have stopped staff from getting to work for days, says agency’s Gaza chief, but it got worse when ‘threatening’ protesters surrounded a car with 5 employees

Shin Bet says it arrested 3 members of Hamas terror network in West Bank

Defense minister backs IDF in squabble over preparedness for war

By Judah Ari Gross

UN workers strike in Gaza to protest layoffs amid funding woes

By ToI Staff and AFP

George P. Smith talks on the phone with The Associated Press at his home in Columbia, Missouri, United States, October 3, 2018, after learning he had won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. (Marjorie Sable via AP)

Anti-Israel professor among chemistry Nobel Prize winners

By ToI Staff and AP

George Smith, a non-Jewish member of Jewish Voice for Peace, has called for US to end arms sales to Israel and called ‘Jerusalem of Gold’ lyrics ‘Jewish supremacist’

Arthur Ashkin (YouTube)

96-year-old Jewish Nobel Prize winner says he’s driven by science not accolades

By ToI Staff and AP

A Bedouin child writes on a picture of German Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of her expected visit to Israel on Wednesday, in the West Bank Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, Oct. 2, 2018. Arabic on the poster reads, "save Khan al-Ahmar" and "save our school." (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Merkel heads to Israel amid deep disagreements over Palestinians, Iran

By Raphael Ahren

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a speech on her government's budget policy at the Bundestag (lower house of parliament) in Berlin, May 16, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / Tobias SCHWARZ)

Israel media reviewThe German is coming: 7 things to know for October 3

By Joshua Davidovich

US National Security Advisor John Bolton speaks during a briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC on October 3, 2018 (AFP / Mandel NGAN)

Live updates (closed)

US pulls out from part of Vienna treaty after Palestinians sue over embassy move

By Joshua Davidovich

John Bolton says Washington will review all international treaties to make sure Iran and Palestinians can’t take it to The Hague

6:39 pm

Presidential alert tests get US buzzing
6:25 pm

Guards shoot at intruder near US home of wanted Turkish cleric
6:23 pm

Iran calls US 'outlaw regime' for pulling out of amity treaty

People survey the damage to a residential area following a massive earthquake and tsunami at Talise beach in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, Oct. 1, 2018 (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Israel, which offered disaster aid to Iran, strangely unhelpful to Indonesia

By Raphael Ahren

Officials won’t say why no help offered after quake, with 1,200 dead and 200,000 in need; Jerusalem has aided Turkey, Haiti, Philippines, Nepal, reached out to Iraq, even Iran

Rescue personnel search for earthquake survivors at a collapsed home in Balaroa, West Palu, Indonesia's Central Sulawesi on October 3, 2018. (YUSUF WAHIL/AFP)

Time running out for earthquake survivors as Indonesia death toll tops 1,400

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Vice President of Indonesia Jusuf Kalla addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, at the United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Indonesia VP says he talked peace with Netanyahu at UN after bumping into him

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York on September 27, 2018, holding up a picture of an alleged Iranian "secret atomic warehouse." (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)

Hitting back, Netanyahu says nuke watchdog hasn’t checked Iran site he revealed

PM rejects claim by IAEA chief that all relevant facilities were visited, calls on agency to visit alleged Tehran ‘atomic warehouse’ with Geiger counters right away

Liberman: We have info on other nuclear sites in Iran and Lebanon

UN court orders US to halt Iran sanctions linked to humanitarian aid

By AFP

Hezbollah deputy chief dismisses Netanyahu’s ‘failed media show’ at UN

Screen capture from video showing the delivery of Russian S-300 air defense missiles to Syria. (YouTube)

Russia releases video showing delivery of S-300 air defense system to Syria

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Footage shows nighttime operation in which rockets and launchers were unloaded from huge transport aircraft at Hmeimim air base

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington, August 9, 2017. (AP/Alex Brandon)

US: Russian sale of S-300s to Syria ‘a serious escalation’

In this illustrative photo taken on August 27, 2013, a Russian S-300 air defense system is on display at the opening of the MAKS Air Show in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, Russia (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)

Russia completes delivery of S-300 air defense system to Syria

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Mission Commander Neil Armstrong documented the lunar mission and snapped this image of Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin at Tranquility Base, July 20, 1969. (NASA)

Interview

Space thriller launches in advance of 50th anniversary of first moon landing

By Renee Ghert-Zand

West Bank hamlet of Khan al-Ahmar is seen on September 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

With demolition deadline passed, Bedouin village living on borrowed time

Zev Levi

To my Palestinian attacker

My wife is angry at you, but I’m not. You didn’t want to attack me personally, you wanted to attack an Israeli

Why didn’t we stop funding UNRWA years ago?

The relief agency does less with more than other UN refugee programs, and has good reason to undermine its own mission

Sharon Galper Grossman

Why our children should receive the HPV vaccine

If you think your kid is in the clear because he or she is not sexually active, you’re wrong

Illustrative image of messaging with WhatsApp (CC BY-SA Santeri Viinamäki, Wikimedia commons)

Israelis’ WhatsApp accounts said hacked due to security loophole

National Cyber Directorate doesn’t detail extent of damage done; recommends users change their phones’ default voicemail password

Quebec-based Saudi activist Omar Abdulaziz. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israeli spyware used against Saudi Arabian dissident in Canada — report

Illustrative photo of a cybersecurity expert (AP/John Minchillo)

Israel Securities Authority starts using blockchain for cybersecurity

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the Ministers' Committee meeting regarding the promotion and integration of Israeli citizens of Ethiopian descent, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on September 17, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Police to question Netanyahu for 12th time in graft probes

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki arrives at the informal EU summit in Salzburg, Austria, September 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

In secret recording, Polish PM slams ‘greedy’ Jewish, American hedge fund owners

By JTA

Donald Trump, center, sits with hands folded at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey, April 6, 1990, before the start of grand opening ceremonies. Trump (C) attended the gala with his parents, Mary (3rd R) and Fred (2nd R), and sister US District Court Judge Maryanne Trump Barry (R), and brother Robert Trump (L) and his wife Blaine Trump (3rd L). Trump was dateless. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

New York Times: Trump got $413m from his dad, much of it from tax dodges

By AP

US President Donald Trump speaks during a "Make America Great Again" rally at Landers Center in Southaven, Mississippi, on October 2, 2018. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP)

After days of restraint, Trump mocks Kavanaugh accuser

By Sebastian Smith and Issam Ahmed

Then president-elect Donald Trump with then president Barack Obama in the Oval Office, Washington DC on November 10, 2016. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump administration lauds start of Obama-era Israel defense package

By Eric Cortellessa

Head of the Palestinian Football Association Jibril Rajoub speaks aduring a press conference over Argentina's national football team's cancellation of a pre-World Cup friendly with Israel in Jerusalem, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Minister urges Olympics to ban Palestinian soccer chief for ‘incitement’

Illustrative: A policeman holds handcuffs. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Senior Transportation Ministry official arrested on suspicion of taking bribes

Notorious French criminal Redoine Faid poses prior to an interview with French all-news TV channel, LCI, as he was promoting his book, in Boulogne-Billancourt, outside Paris, France, November 22, 2010. (IBO/Sipa via AP)

Helicopter jailbreak gangster who once fled to Israel arrested in France

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jason Kander, shown in July 2017, is one of the rising stars of the Democratic Party. (Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post via Getty Images via JTA)

Jason Kander drops out of Kansas City mayor race, cites mental health

By AP

Illustrative image of an artificial sweetener (humonia; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel-Singapore study takes sugar-coating off artificial sweeteners

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative image of a startup company concept (relif; iStock by Getty Images)

Talk of disruptive innovation is two-edged sword for investment seekers – study

By Shoshanna Solomon

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

Court orders Nazi-looted Pissarro painting returned to Jewish family heirs

By Juliette MONTESSE

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