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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 4, 2018

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Ben Deri, center, a Border Police officer accused of shooting to death a Palestinian man during clashes in Betunia in the West Bank, seen during a hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem on December 30, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Border cop imprisoned for killing Palestinian teen requests pardon

By Alexander Fulbright

Lawyer says Ben Deri, who was convicted for causing 17-year-old’s death in 2014, ‘acted out a feeling of a sense of mission for the state’

6:24 pm

Border cop imprisoned for killing Palestinian teen requests pardon
6:02 pm

Russia claims US running secret biological weapons lab in Georgia
5:20 pm

Erdogan says Turkish troops to remain in Syria until elections held

The alleged site in Beirut of a Hezbollah missile site, as reported by Israel's Channel 10 news on October 3, 2018 (Channel 10)

Israel seen behind WhatsApp warning to Beirut residents about Hezbollah facility

Message sent to thousands in Lebanese capital tells them to take precautionary measures because of terror group’s site near their homes

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Russian Energy Week International Forum in Moscow, Russia, October 3, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Putin says all foreign troops should leave Syria after war

By AP and ToI Staff

(L/R): Head of Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service Onno Eichelsheim, Minister of Defence Ank Bijleveld and British ambassador Peter Wilson attend a press conference of the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service (MIVD) in The Hague, The Netherlands, October 4, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / ANP / Bart Maat)

Western nations accuse Russian intelligence of ‘brazen’ global cybercrimes

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers prepare for massive protests by Palestinians in Gaza on March 30, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF sends reinforcements to Gaza amid nightly riots along security fence

By Judah Ari Gross

Military also deploys further Iron Dome batteries in south, says it ‘is prepared and ready for a variety of scenarios’ as Hamas raises tensions at the border

AnalysisPA prevents Gaza from receiving Qatari fuel aid, increasing danger of violence

By Avi Issacharoff

A gas truck at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza on August 6, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

Qatar to buy fuel for Gaza, doubling household access to electricity — report

Leader of the Hamas terror group in Gaza Yahya Sinwar attends a gathering in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis on July 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

‘I don’t want more wars,’ Hamas leader claims in interview with Israeli paper

By Michael Bachner

‘Who wants to confront a nuclear power with four slingshots?’ Yahya Sinwar tells Yedioth Ahronoth, but warns that without an end to the Gaza blockade, an ‘eruption’ is near

PLO envoy: Palestinians believe UK can play leading role in achieving peace

US pulls out of Vienna treaty amendment to block Palestinian lawsuit

By Eric Cortellessa

Israel media reviewGaza Strip tease: 10 things to know for October 4

By Joshua Davidovich

President Reuven Rivlin (right) shakes hands with German Chancellor Angela Merkel upon her arrival at the presidential compound in Jerusalem on October 4, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBON)

Rivlin urges Merkel to join Iran sanctions to ensure global ‘stability’

By Raphael Ahren and Tamar Pileggi

German chancellor reiterates support for 2 states, says countries will have to agree to disagree about nuclear deal after president calls to starve ‘Iranian beast’

Iran supreme leader promises to ‘slap’ US, defeat sanctions

US nixes 1955 treaty with Iran after UN court rules to lift sanctions

At Yad Vashem, Merkel says Germany has ‘everlasting’ duty to fight anti-Semitism

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ofer Berkovitch, Jerusalem Mayoral candidate and head of the Hitorerut (Awakening) movement, is seen at the opening of the Hitorerut election campaign in Jerusalem on September 2, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

Mayoral hopeful Berkovitch says he’ll rid Jerusalem of ‘Haredi extortion’

By Marissa Newman and Raoul Wootliff

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., left, walks out of his office on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

McConnell sets Friday test vote on Kavanaugh nomination

By Alan Fram and LISA MASCARO

Final vote expected on the weekend after senators read the FBI report into allegations of sexual assault against the US Supreme Court nominee

Trump signs law expanding hate crime protections to religious institutions

By JTA

Bloomberg gives $20 million to Democrat-aligned group in bid to overturn Senate

By JTA

Key Republican lawmakers rebuke Trump for mocking Kavanaugh accuser

By Paul Handley

German-born American physicist Albert Einstein, 1946. (Central Press/Getty Images via JTA)

Einstein’s ‘God letter’ to go on sale for $1 million

By AFP

A year before his death, he wrote to friend and philosopher Eric Gutkind of his thoughts on religion, the Bible and being a part of the Jewish people

In this Nov. 2014, file photo provided by Fermilab, Physics Nobel Prize winner Dr. Leon M. Lederman poses for a photo in Batavia, Ill. Lederman, an experimental physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics for his work on subatomic particles and coined the phrase "God particle," has died. Ellen Carr Lederman, his wife of 37 years, said her husband died Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2018, at a nursing home in the Idaho town of Rexburg. He was 96. (Reidar Hahn, Fermilab via AP)

Nobel physicist Leon Lederman, who coined phrase ‘God particle,’ dies at 96

By Keith Ridler

Ann Toback, executive director of the Workmen’s Circle, demonstrates the “shpring” command with her dog, Jesse, at a “Yiddish for Dogs” workshop in New York’s Central Park, Sept. 30, 2018. Dog trainer Miguel Rodriguez, left, and Yiddishist Leyzer Burko, right, led the workshop. (Josefin Dolsten/JTA)

'Gut Hunt'

Want to teach your dog Yiddish? There’s a class for that

By Josefin Dolsten

Adam Sandler poses on May 21, 2017, during a photocall for the film 'The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)' at the 70th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. (Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)

The Bar mitzvah boy

Adam Sandler sings Torah blessing on Howard Stern show

By Gabe Friedman

Actor joins radio host in reciting traditional bar mitzvah routine, noting the ‘weird situation’ of having to sing in ‘this secret language’

Gal Gadot on the 30th season premiere of the Simpsons airing on September 30, 2018. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Righteous womanGal Gadot visits Jewish heaven in ‘Simpsons’ debut

By Gabe Friedman

The tragedy of the Stern-Sandler bar mitzvahs

Who’d have guessed these celebs know the Torah blessing perfectly? Sadly, that may be all they were taught

In the image of God

Would it be heretical to believe that the Creator has an actual body? Yes. And no. (Parshat Bereishit)

‘Not woman’-splaining

I will no longer recite the daily blessing thanking God for not making me a woman

How Israel’s political pragmatists can work to shrink the conflict

There are measures that would reduce control over the Palestinians without lowering security for Israelis

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Eliyahu Moscowitz (Facebook via JTA)

Chicago kosher supervisor shot dead on Simchat Torah holiday

By Yvette Alt Miller

The Italian Ambassador to Israel, Gianluigi Benedetti, presents the Gold Medal for Military Valor to the IDF's 7th Armored Brigade on October 3, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

73 years on, Italy awards Jewish Brigade medal of valor for fighting Nazis

By Judah Ari Gross

British Prime Minister Theresa May gives her keynote address on the fourth and final day of the Conservative Party Conference 2018 in Birmingham, central England, on October 3, 2018. (AFP Photo/Oli Scarff)

UK’s May pummels Corbyn over Labour anti-Semitism woes

IDF Ombudsman Yitzhak Brick poses with a copy of his annual report on May 28, 2017. (Defense Ministry)

IDF, ombudsman again trade blows over army’s readiness for war

By Judah Ari Gross

Students seen during a break at the Rehovot Campus of Hebrew University, on January 22, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israeli students respond to Startup Nation’s push to tech fields

By Shoshanna Solomon

Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev speaks at an event marking the Jewish new year in the northern Israeli city of Safed on September 3, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Culture minister warns visiting Merkel not to interfere over Palestinian village

By ToI Staff and AFP

Students walk through the Tel Aviv University campus in Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Tel Aviv University program sets out to create better rounded tech students

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: People stand in line to go through passport control at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel, September 21, 2008. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israeli court freezes deportation of US student over alleged BDS links

Barrels at an Israeli winery in the West Bank settlement of Psagot, February 11, 2014. (AP/ Dan Balilty/File)

French government suspends demand for West Bank product labeling

By JTA

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School shows Maj. Gen. Sidney Shachnow, at Fort Bragg, N.C. Shachnow, who survived the holocaust as a child and fought in Vietnam as a US Army Green Beret before serving as the top American Army officer in Berlin, died Sept. 27, 2018. He was 83. (U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School via AP)

Sidney Shachnow, Holocaust survivor turned US Army major general, dies at 83

Gazing at the stars from the vantage point of virtual reality goggles and 3D screens are part of World Space Week activities sponsored by the Israel Space Agency (Courtesy Israel Space Agency)

The sky's the limitAn encounter with the final frontier during World Space Week

By Jessica Steinberg

A man stands under an umbrella in a neighborhood of Wani village on the outskirts of Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, October 4, 2018. (Dita Alangkara/AP)

Israeli disaster aid team to head to quake-hit Indonesia

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