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What Matters Most On Friday, October 12, 2018

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Excavation of a mass burial in Jerusalem's Russian compound, summer 2018. (Kfir Arbiv/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Millennia-old murder

Ancient beheading site found in Jerusalem, evidence of ‘holy’ king’s bloody rule

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Archaeologists now know whodunnit — the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus — after uncovering a 2,000-year-old mass burial ground in the municipality’s backyard

This file photo taken on July 20, 2008 shows Canadian singer Leonard Cohen greeting the public during the international Festival of Beincassim. (AFP/Diego Tuson)

Diss track from beyond

Leonard Cohen wrote a poem called ‘Kanye West Is Not Picasso’

Newly released posthumous collection by Jewish singer includes a poem making fun of US rapper, colleague Jay-Z for comparing themselves to art legends

Drake at a soccer game at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas, July 20, 2017. (Aaron M. Sprecher/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

Chart-topper Drake highlights Jews’ tricky relationship with rap

File: US President Donald Trump meets with rapper Kanye West, right, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 11, 2018. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Rapper Kanye West brings surreal show to Oval Office

By Catherine Lucey

American Lara Alqasem sits in a courtroom prior to a hearing at the district court in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Minister rejects US student’s promise not to promote BDS while in Israel

By Michael Bachner

Gilad Erdan says letter sent by Lara Alqasem’s lawyers failed to renounce past actions or vow not to engage in such activities in the future

Lorde performs at Coachella Music & Arts Festival in Indio, California, on April 16, 2017. (Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Israeli court says New Zealand activists must pay for Lorde cancellation

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A victim of a West Bank stabbing attack arrives at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva on December 24, 2015. (Magen David Adom)

Condition of IDF reservist stabbed in face during terror attack improves

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Soldier undergoes surgery overnight, will stay in the hospital for next few days

IDF makes fresh arrests as manhunt for Barkan killer enters sixth day

Suspect arrested in stabbing of soldier in the northern West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross

Israelis stone Palestinian cars near scene of West Bank stabbing attack

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Israeli settlers walk by an IDF base in Hebron that will be partially removed in order to make way for a new apartment complex for settlers. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Cabinet set to approve first new homes for Hebron settlers in 16 years

Defense minister says project will include 31 homes, parks, and kindergartens in heart of flashpoint West Bank city

UN envoy ‘no longer acceptable’ to Palestinian Authority

By AFP and ToI Staff

From our partnerIn first, Palestinian baby gets heart transplant from Jewish teenager

Israel said poised to dramatically worsen Palestinian prisoners’ conditions

By Michael Bachner

Israeli troops uncover a Hamas attack tunnel that penetrated Israeli territory on October 11, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF releases footage of Gaza tunnel discovery, destruction

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli military liaison to Palestinians accuses Hamas of diverting funds from Strip’s residents for use in its terrorist activities

An incendiary balloon found clinging to a railing on the side of Sprinzak Street in the central Israeli city of Rishon Lezion, October 12, 2018. (Israel Police)

Incendiary balloon found clinging to roadside railing in central Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, third right, and US Ambassador David Friedman, third left, aboard the US Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Ross, docked at Ashdod Port on October 11, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Israel ‘systematically dismantling’ Hamas’s tunneling capability

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Casino magnate Sheldon G. Adelson, left, (Steve Mack/Getty Images, via JTA) and US President Donald Trump, right. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Adelsons set to spend tens of millions more on Republican midterm candidates

Having already given $55 million to ensure GOP retains control of Congress, casino mogul and Trump backer Sheldon Adelson and wife Miriam are continuing to pour on the cash

Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, exits the federal courthouse in New York City on August 21, 2018. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Former Trump fixer Cohen switches to Democratic party

By AP

Dina Powell leaves a news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on April 5, 2017. (AP/Andrew Harnik, File)

Ex-Trump adviser Powell says she doesn’t want UN envoy post — source

By AP

Rezi Friedman campaigns at a cafe in Antwerp, Belgium, August 15, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

An Orthodox rabbi’s daughter wants to make political history in Belgium

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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

Daring rescue mission by resistance fighters and local fishermen enabled 7,000 Jews to flee to neighboring Sweden in 1943

President Reuven Rivlin, left, and Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen talk prior to a meeting at the Danish prime minister's residence Marienborg, in Lyngby, Denmark, on October 11, 2018. (Mads Claus Rasmussen/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP)

In Denmark, Rivlin pays tribute to rescue of country’s Jews in 1943

By AP and ToI Staff

The planned cable car to Jerusalem's Old City. (Screenshot/Emek Shaveh)

Israel Prize winners call on government to cancel Jerusalem Old City cable car

70 public figures from academia and the arts sign petition, say holy city is ‘not Disneyland and its treasures of landscape and its heritage are not negotiable currency’

Artist's impression of a cable car crossing Jerusalem's Hinnom Valley to Mount Zion from a promotional video. (YouTube)

Architects’ association questions legality of Jerusalem cable car project

Cheshvan, I love you; let me count the ways.

It’s an entire month of ordinary days, routine, rhythm, and normal calendar events — finally!

Ford, Kavanaugh, and the other elephant in the room

Spend a weekend on campus, and see our young men, young women, and often large quantities of alcohol mixing in toxic ways

That beautiful rainbow? It’s complicated

The Talmud says rainbows are bad; intuition says nothing that lovely could be bad. Who’s right?

A drama in four acts (Noah 5779)

Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Noah and his ark, and the Tower of Babel — together, they convey how humanity matures

Knesset election ballots at a polling station in Jerusalem, January 22, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

Death, taxes, and early elections: 7 things to know for October 12

By Joshua Davidovich

Pundits are 100 percent certain a snap poll is looming, Gaza is chided for spending too much on its tunnels and a ministry finds its way by making a mess of everything

File: IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, left, seen with Hatnua head Tzipi Livni, right, at a ceremony at Kibbutz Tel Yitzhak as Israel marked the Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 27, 2014. (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Zionist Union would wither to 8 Knesset seats if ex-IDF chief runs — poll

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Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi addresses the chamber after he was sworn in for a second four-year term in Cairo, June 2, 2018. (Egypt’s presidency media office via AP)

Comparing Egypt army to cheap car, Sissi fetes 1973 win over Israeli ‘Mercedes’

An American-Israeli Jewish teenager, accused of making dozens of anti-Semitic bomb threats in the United States and elsewhere, is escorted by police as he leaves a courtroom in Rishon Lezion on March 23, 2017. (AFP/Jack Guez)

JCC hoax bomber indicted for additional threats phoned from prison

A man works though the remains of an apartment in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael October 11, 2018 in Panama City, Florida. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Rescuers search for victims as death toll in Hurricane Michael rises to 11

By Cyril Julien and Brendan Smialowski

This flier has been hung on the doors of organizations in Iowa and on at least four US college campuses. (StandWithUs/via JTA)

Fliers blaming Jews for Kavanaugh allegations target Iowa nonprofits

By JTA

Two F-35 fighter jets land in Israel on November 8, 2017 (Israel Defense Forces)

After crash, global fleet of F-35s grounded, including Israel’s

By Agencies and Judah Ari Gross

Harvey Weinstein enters State Supreme Court, October 11, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

NY judge drops part of case against Harvey Weinstein

By Michael R. Sisak and Tom Hays

First lady Melania Trump visits the historical site of the Giza Pyramids in Giza, near Cairo, Egypt. Oct. 6, 2018 (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

I really do careMelania Trump says she might be most bullied person in the world

Illustrative: A paraglider flies over northern Israel on February 18, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Paraglider flies over air force base, dangerously close to fighter jet

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards speaking in Baton Rouge, September 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)

Louisiana governor to lead delegation to Israel

By AP

The infamous German inscription that reads 'Work Makes Free' at the main gate of the Nazi Auschwitz I extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on November 15, 2014. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)

Britain’s Chelsea soccer club to send anti-Semitic fans on trips to Auschwitz

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative collage of American Jewish baseball players, from left, Ian Kinsler, Ryan Braun, Joc Pederson and Alex Bregman. (Lior Zaltzman/Getty Images/via JTA)

Four Jewish baseball players are making a play for the World Series

By Marc Brodsky

British billionaire Richard Branson visits a Zumba Step dance class at Virgin installations in Madrid, Spain, December 10, 2003. (AP Photo/Abraham Caro Marin, file)

Global business leaders suspend ties with Saudi Arabia

By DANICA KIRKA

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