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What Matters Most On Monday, October 8, 2018

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Sara Vaturi, who was shot but survived the deadly Barkan terror attack, speaks to reporters on October 8, 2018. (Screen capture: Hadashot news)

He shot me. I escaped, bleeding. Then I heard 4-5 more shots

‘I told myself, Breathe’: Survivor of Barkan terror hid from gunman under desk

By Michael Bachner

Sara Vaturi, shot in stomach in attack that claimed the lives of two of her colleagues, says she hopes factory will return to normal soon

Israeli security forces stand at the entrance of the Barkan Industrial Zone in the northern West Bank on October 7, 2018, after a fatal terrorist attack there. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

US envoys, factory owner say ‘coexistence beacon’ Barkan shattered by attack

AnalysisSettler leaders insist industrial zone shooting won’t sink isle of coexistence

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)

Live updates (closed)

Russia gave Syria S-300 missiles for free — report

By Alexander Fulbright

Netanyahu says he’ll soon meet Putin, discuss Iranian presence on Golan border and arms transfers to Lebanon’s Hezbollah

6:18 pm

Cop likely to be indicted for allegedly breaking arrested Arab activist's knee
5:57 pm

Russia gave Syria S-300 missiles for free -- report
5:18 pm

Netanyahu calls on world to recognize Israeli sovereignty in Golan

Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, 29 (left), and Ziv Hajbi, 35, who were killed in a terror shooting in the Barkan Industrial Park in the West Bank, October 7, 2018 (screenshots: Facebook)

Terror victims mourned as dedicated parents, cut down in their prime

Kim Levengrond Yehezkel was studying for bar exam, the mother of a baby. She’ll be buried at 10 p.m.; Ziv Hajbi was an accountant and father of 3. His funeral will be held Monday

Ziv Hajbi (Facebook)

Hundreds attend funeral for Ziv Hajbi, slain in West Bank terror shooting

Mother Hava and relatives and friends mourn during the funeral of Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, aged 28, one of the two Israelis killed earlier in a terrorist attack, on October 7, 2018, in Rosh Haayin. (AFP PHOTO / Gil COHEN-MAGEN)

Hundreds attend funeral of Barkan terror victim Kim Levengrond Yehezkel

‘No way’ to check Palestinians entering Barkan, says guard who inspected gunman

By Michael Bachner

As authorities investigate how terrorist smuggled firearm into West Bank industrial zone, security official says there are too many workers to check each morning

Israeli security forces at the scene of a shooting attack in Barkan industrial zone in the West Bank on October 7, 2018 (Flash90)

Brother and sister of Barkan terrorist detained as massive manhunt continues

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel media reviewIn cold blood: 9 things to know for October 8

By Joshua Davidovich

Palestinian suspect in terror shooting said to have left suicide note

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative photo of police officers at Liberty Bell Park in Jerusalem, July 24, 2013 (Zuzana Janku/Flash90)

Man sets himself on fire in central Jerusalem

Police investigating circumstances and motive after attempted self-immolation, which leaves man seriously injured

Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations Jason Greenblatt, left, meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, June 20, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

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Greenblatt tells ToI: US won’t propose Israel-Jordan-Palestinian confederation

By Raphael Ahren

Trump’s envoy says impending peace plan will be ‘heavily focused on Israeli security needs’ but will also aim to be ‘fair to the Palestinians’

Nikolay Mladenov, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, at Yad Vashem in August 28, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Fatah official castigates UN Mideast envoy as ‘servant of the US administration’

Illustrative image of security prisoners in the Ofer Prison facility near Ramallah, August 20, 2008. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

300 Palestinian security prisoners to be released due to overcrowding

The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Old City forms the backdrop to a tour guide holding up a picture of the ancient Jewish Temple. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Riled tour guides warn new bill could skew tourists’ Israel experience

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private residence in Caesarea. (Video screenshot)

State nixes NIS 450,000 funding for renovation of Netanyahu’s private home

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Finance Ministry rules plans go beyond maintenance and constitute home improvements that are forbidden by law; spending under microscope as Sara Netanyahu stands trial

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz speaks at the annual World Zionist Conference in Jerusalem on November 2, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Poll: Hypothetical party led by Gantz would surpass Zionist Union in elections

By Raoul Wootliff

Debbie Niderberg

Walking a mile in my children’s immigrant shoes

It’s one thing to pay attention in class to the teacher’s Hebrew; it’s quite another to chitchat with Israeli friends at snacktime

Deborah Singer Soffen and Joan Lurie Goldberg

The path to peace begins in the classroom

UNRWA indoctrinates Palestinian kids into the culture of hate that calls a terror attack against Israelis a ‘barbecue party’

Melody Sucharewicz

The political paradoxes of German-Israeli ties

There are far better reasons for strong bilateral ties than penance for the Holocaust

A country proud of itself and its achievements should open its doors wide to all — advocates and critics alike

A mosquito, released by Senecio Robotics and marked with a fluorescent powder, identified in the wild after its release. (Courtesy)

Mosquito ‘love bombs’ to combat deadly epidemics

Israeli startup Senecio Robotics plans to mass produce and disperse sterile mosquitoes to halt spread of malaria, Zika, other fatal diseases

Moe Berg at Fenway Park, 1936. Original in Cold Storage, June Friest Collection. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum)

Big-league spy

Meet the Jewish major-leaguer and WWII spy honored by baseball’s Hall of Fame

By Rich Tenorio

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(L-R) Per Stroemberg, Goeran K Hansson and Per Krusell announce the laureates of the Nobel Prize in Economics during a press conference at The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on October 8, 2018. (AFP Photo/TT News Agency/Henrik Montgomery)

US duo William Nordhaus and Paul Romer win Nobel Economics Prize

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A slide that was part of a presentation at the University of Michigan comparing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Hitler (Facebook)

Michigan university lecture compares Netanyahu to Hitler

By JTA

Israeli soldiers seen on tanks at an IDF staging area near the Israeli border with Gaza, on July 31, 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to tell cabinet Israel preparing for Gaza offensive

A supporter of Jair Bolsonaro, presidential candidate with the Social Liberal Party, celebrates in front of his house during the general elections in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Ricardo Borges)

Brazil’s far-right, pro-Israel candidate falls just short of election stunner

By SARAH DiLORENZO, Mauricio SAVARESE and PETER PRENGAMAN

This undated video image released by the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation shows Sonia Orbuch during a video testimony in California. (Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation via AP)

Sonia Orbuch, who fought Nazis as a girl, dies in California

By AP

Illustrative photo of 200-shekel bills, February 7, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Police bust gang suspected of defrauding Israeli, PA and Gaza authorities

By Michael Bachner

Dara'am Jabarin (L) and Zaher Jabarin,the former was arrested in January 2018 after being recruited by the latter to funnel money into the Hamas terrorist group. (Shin Bet)

Arab Israeli man given 3.5 years for conveying Hamas funds from Turkey

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Vera Kosova smiles after she was elected chairwoman of a new Jewish grouping within Germany's far-right AfD party during the group's founding event on October 7, 2018, in Wiesbaden, western Germany. (AFP PHOTO / dpa / Frank Rumpenhorst)

Germany’s far-right AfD officially launches Jewish wing, drawing outcry

By AFP and Raphael Ahren

Illustrative photo of gas balloons outside an apartment. (photo credit: Flash90)

2 Israelis killed in gas explosion in Moldova

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem, February 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

InterviewJerusalem mayor says plan to boot UNRWA out of capital will boost equality

By Josef Federman

Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan talks to Nepalese Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali at the Zhongnanhai Leadership Compound in Beijing, April 18, 2018. (Madoka Ikegami/Pool Photo via AP)

Chinese VP to visit Israel, attend innovation summit hosted by Netanyahu

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative. A man's hands in handcuffs. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

2 Jerusalem residents indicted over racist assault on Arab youths

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