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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 14, 2018

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Palestinian demonstrators burn tires as they demonstrate during the "Great March of Return" on the Gaza-Israel border in Rafah, Gaza on October 12, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Netanyahu threatens to step up Gaza strikes if border riots don’t end

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Prime minister says Israel ‘close to different kind of activity’ after weekend sees deadly unrest, including breach of fence

Hamas warns thousands of Gazans will rush fences if PA squeezes Strip — report

Gazan who was killed at close range had rushed soldier with knife – officer

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Gaza terror group unveils first-ever incendiary ‘blimp’ bound for Israel

Palestinian protesters carry tires as smoke billows at the Israel-Gaza border, east of Gaza city, on October 12, 2018. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Liberman: No fuel or gas will enter Gaza until all violence stops

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Army says several Palestinians breached security fence on Saturday, returned to Gaza; firefighters tackle 4 blazes caused by arson balloons near Israeli communities

Israel media reviewDying to get out: 8 things to know for October 14

By Joshua Davidovich

Defense establishment opposed cutting off Gaza fuel – report

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Canada pledges $38 million to Palestinian refugee agency defunded by Trump

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 okays new neighborhood for Hebron settlers, first in 16 years

Decision will see 16 government ministries allocate $6 million for the construction of 31 homes, 2 kindergartens, a daycare center and a public park in the Hezekiah Quarter

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on October 14, 2018. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Yedioth Ahronoth/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu calls on ultra-Orthodox to back enlistment law, preserve coalition

By Raoul Wootliff

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

Supreme Court freezes deportation of US student accused of boycott support

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Stay granted after Lara Alqasem, who lost a previous appeal, asks to bring case before justices in Israel’s top court

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

While those who aspire to run it posture and pontificate, Jerusalem is sinking

East Jerusalem is the largest Arab city in Israel, yet Israeli leaders seem content to let it fester in neglect, ensuring that the insolvent capital continues to decline

A tour group listens to a guide at the Armon Hanatziv Promenade in Jerusalem against the backdrop of the Old City in 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Palestinian carry the body of 48-year-old mother of eight, Aisha Rabi, who died of her wounds after the car she was travelling in with her husband was hit by stones, during her funeral in the West Bank village of Biddya, on October 13, 2018. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Shin Bet opens probe as settlers suspected in deadly stoning of Palestinian car

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Thousands attend funeral for mother of eight killed when car pelted with rocks; husband says he heard assailants speak Hebrew; Abbas: ‘An ugly crime. It cannot go unpunished’

Tourism Minister Yariv Levin speaks at the 15th annual Jerusalem Conference of the 'Besheva' group, on February 12, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Minister: Palestinian mom killed by rock throwers a ‘scrap of an incident’

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman arrives for a meeting in Jerusalem of the Agudath Yisrael faction's Council of Torah Sages on October 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Ultra-Orthodox faction says it won’t topple coalition over enlistment bill

By Alexander Fulbright

Agudath Yisrael expected to push for changes to legislation on ultra-Orthodox draft but signals it has no interest in early elections

6:29 pm

Report: Israeli aircraft destroy spying device in southern Lebanon
5:55 pm

3 sentenced to death in Egypt for killing policemen
5:29 pm

Ultra-Orthodox faction says it won't topple coalition over enlistment bill

File: B'Tselem chief Hagai El-Ad speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv, February 2016 (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israeli envoy fumes at UN Security Council invite to B’Tselem

With rights group’s head Hagai El-Ad to address session next week, Israel’s ambassador says it is ‘cooperating’ with Israel’s enemies, vows to ‘expose its lies’

Hagai El-Ad, executive director of B'Tselem, at a press conference in Tel Aviv, February 5, 2016. (AFP/Jack Guez)

B’Tselem defends Security Council invite to expose ‘reality’ of West Bank

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

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)

PA prime minister refuses to host UN Mideast envoy at his office

Amid anger over Gaza mediation efforts, PLO source accuses Nikolay Mladenov of ‘stepping outside’ his role

Palestinian Authority Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud al-Habash (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Abbas adviser says ending Hamas rule over Gaza is a ‘religious duty’

Amy Bach, founder of Measure for Justice, and recent winner of the Charles Bronfman Prize. (Carlos Ortiz/Democrat & Chronicle)

A fair win for criminal justice reformer who takes top humanitarian award

By Cathryn J. Prince

A Democratic House majority will continue support for Israel

Despite claims in the NY Times, plenty of Democratic reps and candidates support Israel and oppose BDS

Shrines of the Good Book

The need to learn, teach, write, and promulgate the words of the Bible is as old as the Bible itself

Swastikas discovered daubed on campaign office of Tel Aviv mayoral candidate Asaf Zamir on October 14, 2018. (Rov Hair campaign, courtesy)

Office of Tel Aviv mayoral candidate vandalized with swastikas

Police open investigation after Nazi symbols found scrawled on Asaf Zamir’s election HQ; campaign links incident to deputy mayor’s rising popularity

A swastika and message reading 'Death to Jews' at a kindergarten in Jaffa on October 14, 2018. (Israel Police)

Swastika, ‘Death to Jews’ daubed on special ed kindergarten in Jaffa

A tour group walks through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Word of an August 2017 Justice Department inquiry into how race factors into admissions at Harvard University has left top-tier colleges bracing for scrutiny of practices that have boosted diversity levels to new highs. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

Son of Russian-Jewish immigrants fights affirmative action on behalf of Asians

Cato Institute fellow Ilya Shapiro says race shouldn’t factor into college admissions — and if an October 15 case against Harvard fails, he’ll go all the way to the Supreme Court

Illustrative image of students at the Rehovot Campus of Hebrew University, on January 22, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Universities and colleges open for year amid labor strife

By Stuart Winer

More Headlines

Illustrative image of a car accident (Mark_KA; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli app seeks to create video trail to nail reckless drivers

By Federico Maccioni

Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shakes hands with Wang Qishan after Wang was elected vice-president during a plenary session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing, March 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Officials warn of risks in warming business ties with China

Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, May 18, 2018. (Susan Walsh/ AP)

Jared Kushner reportedly paid little to no income taxes for years

Demonstrators gather in Berlin's Tiergarten district between the Brandenburg Gate and the Victory Column during a major demonstration for an open and caring society organized by the action group "Unteilbar" (indivisible) on October 13, 2018. (John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Tens of thousands stage anti-racism march in Berlin

By AFP

In this April 23, 2018 file photo, Scarlett Johansson arrives at the world premiere of "Avengers: Infinity War" in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Back in blackScarlett Johansson said to close $15m deal for Black Widow film

Illustrative photo of French police officers on patrol near the Louvre Museum in Paris, February 3, 2017 (AFP/Alain Jocard)

Jewish teens assaulted, robbed in anti-Semitic attack in France

By JTA

Police stop a breakaway from the main Football Lads alliance march, as they attempt to get close to a rival anti-fascist demonstration in London, Saturday, October 13, 2018 (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Right-wing march in London turns violent, 1 arrested

By AP

Screen capture from video of a street brawl allegedly involving members of the Proud Boys right-wing club, on a street in Manhattan, New York, October 12, 2018. (YouTube)

3 arrested after New York street brawls following far-right event

By Stuart Winer and AP

Illustrative photo of smashed tombstones in a Jewish cemetery. (AP/Hans Punz)

Jews’ headstones smashed in Greek city

By JTA

A model of sunken Nazi sub U-864 (YouTube screenshot)

Laying wasteNorway to bury sunken Nazi sub so as to contain its toxic cargo

By ToI Staff and AP

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