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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 11, 2018

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US student Lara Alqasem sits for a hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court on October 11, 2018 (Jack Guez/AFP)

At Tel Aviv court, officials insist barred US student still supports BDS

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Lara Alqasem, a 22-year-old American graduate student, arrives to the courtroom at the Tel Aviv District court on October 11, 2018. The American graduate student has been held at Israel's international airport since last week, barred from entering because of allegations that she promotes a boycott against the Jewish state. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

US backs ‘freedom of expression’ after Israel holds American ‘BDS supporter’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

This undated photo provided by the Alqasem family shows Lara Alqasem, a 22-year-old American graduate student with Palestinian grandparents who landed at Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday, October 2, 2018 but was barred from entering the country and ordered deported over claims she supports the anti-Israel boycott movement. (Alqasem family via AP)

Conservative, Jewish NY Times columnists slam Israel for BDS ‘paranoia’

Analysis

Lara Alqasem: A pawn in the BDS PR battle

Imagine a scenario in which a likable student is deployed as a deep-cover activist, and Israel takes the bait

Lara Alqasem, sitting, at Tel Aviv District court on October 11, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel media reviewWho’s really hurting Israel? 9 things to know for October 11

By Joshua Davidovich

Lara Alqasem, a 22-year-old American graduate student, arrives to the courtroom at the Tel Aviv District court on October 11, 2018. The American graduate student has been held at Israel's international airport since last week, barred from entering because of allegations that she promotes a boycott against the Jewish state. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PA says airport detainment of US student is ‘political terrorism’

Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the United States, speaks at the Economic Club of Detroit in Detroit, Michigan, on June 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Israel’s DC envoy refuses to meet J Street, snubs other left-wing Jewish groups

By Eric Cortellessa

Unlike his predecessor, Ron Dermer steadfastly refuses to sit down with liberal advocacy organization, which accuses him of acting more like a GOP operative than a diplomat

Emirati Ambassador to the US Yousef al-Otaiba gestures during an event with US House Speaker Paul Ryan, at the Emirates Diplomatic Academy, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

UAE ambassador to US shares table with Israel’s US envoy at pro-Israel event

Sheldon Adelson and Miriam Adelson look at a model of the Sands Cotai Central resort during a news conference in Macau on April 12, 2012. (AP /Kin Cheung)

Trump lobbied Japan’s Abe on casino for Sheldon Adelson — report

By JTA and ToI Staff

Israeli troops arrive to the scene of a stabbing attack in the northern West Bank on October 11, 2018. (Meir Amrani)

Reservist moderately injured in stabbing attack outside West Bank army base

By Judah Ari Gross

Soldier knifed in face, upper torso; female civilian lightly injured by shrapnel as troops fire at assailant, who manages to escape

Border Police officer Hadas Malka was killed on June 16, 2017 in a stabbing attack near Damascus Gate. (Courtesy)

Accomplice in deadly Jerusalem terror attack denied early release

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)

Knesset to weigh extending jail time for terror killings

The interior of a Hamas attack tunnel that penetrated Israeli territory and was destroyed by the Israeli military on October 11, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF demolishes Gaza attack tunnel that penetrated 200 meters into Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Military says kilometer-long tunnel dug by Hamas terror group from the city of Khan Younis in the southern Strip is the 15th destroyed by Israel since last year

Qatar pledges $150 million in humanitarian aid to Gaza

Southern residents scramble as Iron Dome activates accidentally

By Judah Ari Gross

More than 7,000 acres scorched in Gaza arson attacks, authorities say

By ToI Staff and JTA

Ari Fuld (Facebook)

Minister seeks posthumous Medal of Valor for terror victim Ari Fuld

Gilad Erdan asks police chief to approve decoration for Fuld’s heroism in neutralizing attacker, as well as for his years of anti-BDS work

Israeli troops take part in operations in the northern West Bank village of Shuweika, searching for a terrorist from the town who killed two Israelis and injured a third, on October 7, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Security forces arrest sister of West Bank factory terrorist

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Incendiary balloons found in Bat Yam on October 11, 2018. (Israel Police)

Incendiary balloons found in Jerusalem, Bat Yam

Downed powerlines are seen after hurricane Michael passed through the downtown area on October 10, 2018 in Panama City, Florida. The hurricane hit the Florida Panhandle as a category 4 storm. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

On Sunday, the rabbi moved to Florida; on Wednesday, Hurricane Michael hit

‘It seems like God really wants us to start our communal work right away,’ says Rabbi Mendel Danow, the new Chabad emissary in Pensacola

A storm chaser climbs into his vehicle during the eye of Hurricane Michael to retrieve equipment after a hotel canopy collapsed in Panama City Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Monster Hurricane Michael brings ‘unimaginable devastation’ as it slams Florida

By Brendan Smialowski and Leila Macor

Reshet news anchor Lucy Aharish and 'Fauda' actor Tsahi Halevi at their secret wedding on October 10, 2018. (screen capture: Channel 10)

Jewish ‘Fauda’ star’s marriage to Muslim newswoman gets condemnations from right

Interior minister warns that children of Lucy Aharish and Tsahi Halevi will face ‘serious problems,’ urges her to convert; MK Oren Hazan talks of Aharish ‘seducing a Jewish soul’

A bus station poster that is part of the "It's Us or Them" campaign mounted by the Likud in Tel Aviv-Jaffa ahead of local elections in October 2018 (ToI staff)

Likud party says it won’t halt ‘hateful’ Tel Aviv election campaign

By Melanie Lidman

In this March 17, 2015 photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets supporters at the party's election headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

As Knesset winter session begins, PM appears poised to call early elections

Then-US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with outgoing US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley in the Oval Office of the White House, October 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Analysis

Eric Cortellessa

Why did Haley quit? The four theories spreading through Washington

Political DC is abuzz with speculation: Does Trump’s departing UN envoy want to run for president, get off a sinking ship, or simply earn enough to put her kids through college?

Michael Bloomberg speaks during the plenary session of the Global Action Climate Summit in San Francisco, September 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Bloomberg registers as a Democrat, fueling speculation of presidential run

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, right, and United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov meet at PA President Mahmoud Abbas' former official residence in Gaza City, on October 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Prime Minister Office)

Live updates (closed)

PLO: UN peace envoy ‘no longer acceptable’ because of Gaza truce efforts

By Alexander Fulbright

Top member of Palestinian group says Nikolay Mladenov has ‘gone beyond his role,’ accuses him of harming ‘the unity of our people’

6:23 pm

Turkey and Saudi Arabia form 'joint working group' on missing journalist
6:00 pm

PLO: UN peace envoy 'no longer acceptable' because of Gaza truce efforts
5:47 pm

Poll: Likud would win over twice as many seats as next biggest party in election

Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman who escaped Islamic State captivity, tours Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on July 24, 2017 (Mickey Noam-Alon/IsraAID)

Year after Nobel winner pleaded with MKs, Israel still stalls on Yazidi genocide

By Marissa Newman

Visiting in 2017, new peace laureate Nadia Murad urged Knesset to declare mass slaughter of her people a genocide, but a bill to do so has gone nowhere and the government is silent

Danish Jews celebrating the rescue of their community from the Holocaust 75 years ago by sailing to Sweden in a reenactment ceremony on September 26, 2018. (JTA/Courtesy of Rochel and Yitzi Loewenthal)

Danish Jews recall desperate escape from Nazis, 75 years on

By Camille BAS-WOHLERT

Image posted to Instagram and later deleted showing three youngsters performing a salute at Auschwitz, October 2018 (via Instagram)

Polish teens probed over photo of Nazi salute at Auschwitz

By JTA and ToI Staff

Netanyahu’s new Bank of Israel Governor, no questions asked

Amir Yaron is clearly a good bet for the PM — so what if the public doesn’t know the appointee’s views on the Israeli economy

Irina Tsukerman

Where the media fails Jamal Khashoggi

Too much is unknown about the man for international diplomacy to be shaped by his disappearance

Fear of fossils

Did the Flood confuse scientific dating of the age of earth?

Eva Deutsch at home in New York, August 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

From WWII partisan to modern art painter: A survivor’s story in living color

More Headlines

UNESCO'S director-general, Audrey Azoulay, in Paris, France, November 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

UNESCO defangs anti-Israel texts, drawing praise and one ‘strange’ Israeli jeer

By Raphael Ahren

Pope Francis kisses a child as he arrives with the popemobile in St.Peter's Square to held his weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope compares abortion to hiring a hit man

By Nicole Winfield

Illustrative: Israel players line up for the national anthem prior to the World Baseball Classic Pool E Game Three between Netherlands and Israel at the Tokyo Dome on March 13, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan (Matt Roberts/Getty Images/JTA)

Double play10 US baseball players becoming Israeli to boost Olympics bid

By JTA

Mark Riccobono, president of the US National Federation of the Blind (NFB) in OrCam's offices in Jerusalem on Oct. 3, 2018 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

US lobby urges Mobileye ‘to champion’ message of the blind in self-driving cars

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Ronen Zvulun and Ozan Kose/AFP)

Netanyahu reportedly says ‘reckless’ Erdogan ruining Turkish democracy, economy

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Federal spokesman of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) Alexander Gauland speaks during the party congress of the party's youth party "Junge Alternative" in Seebach, eastern Germany, on June 2, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / dpa / Alexander Prautzsch)

German historians accuse far-right chief of echoing Hitler

Troye Sivan attends the #BoF500 gala dinner during New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2019 in Brooklyn, September 9, 2018. (Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images for The Business of Fashion via JTA)

Taking a kneeGay Jewish couple gets engaged at Troye Sivan concert

By Josefin Dolsten

Historic center of Lund, Sweden, October 21, 2017 (RPBMedia/iStock by Getty)

Swedish Jewish politician’s house burned in suspected anti-Semitic attack

By JTA

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

Mother charged with abusing, kidnapping handicapped son

Illustrative image of a victim of sexual harassment holding a note with the text 'me too.' (nito100/iStock by Getty Images)

Sharp increase in Israelis contacting rape crisis centers after #WhyIDidntReport

By Michael Bachner

Russian and Israeli officials and business leaders meet at the launch of the Israel-Russia Chamber of Commerce in Jerusalem on October 9, 2018. From left: Russian deputy health minister Eugeny Kamkin, Israeli Ambassador to Russia Gary Koren, Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov, Chairwoman and CEO of the new chamber of commerce Anna Moshe, Environmental Protection and Jerusalem Affairs Minister Ze'ev Elkin, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov and

Russian, Israeli leaders say ‘business as usual’ after plane crash, S-300 spat

The Waze application is displayed on a smartphone in San Francisco, March 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Israeli app Waze expands carpooling service throughout US

By Michael Liedtke

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