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What Matters Most On Monday, October 15, 2018

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meets with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Qingdao, China on June 9, 2018. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AFP)

Putin-Rouhani cut deal to ensure Iran evades US sanctions, Israel said to warn

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Border crossing between Israel and Syria opens for first time in 4 years

By Judah Ari Gross and Agencies

Syria and Jordan agree to reopen vital crossing after 3-year closure

By Albert Aji and OMAR AKOUR

Israeli aircraft said to destroy spying device in southern Lebanon

Australia's Scott Morrison arrives for a party meeting in Canberra on August 24, 2018. (AFP/ POOL / DAVID GRAY)

Live updates (closed)

Australian PM discusses possible Jerusalem recognition with Netanyahu

Scott Morrison reportedly weighing relocating Canberra’s embassy to the capital, may reconsider support for Iran deal

6:28 pm

Gabbay: Netanyahu responsible if aides are corrupt, even if unaware of crimes
6:04 pm

Netanyahu speaks to Australian PM about possible Jerusalem recognition
5:44 pm

US Embassy, envoy condemn death of Palestinian woman by stone-throwing

Man to be charged with hate crime for beating of New York Orthodox Jewish man

By JTA and ToI Staff

Surveillance footage shows assailant, identified as Farrukh Afzal, punching 62-year-old man to the ground in middle of intersection, before chasing passerby who tries to intervene

A still image from surveillance video showing the brutal assault on an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man in Brooklyn, New York on October 14, 2018. (screen capture: CBS New York)

Analysis

Thorny legislation foreshadows early elections as Knesset winter session begins

3 contentious religion-and-state hot potatoes threaten to break up the government and spur a national poll. That might be just what Netanyahu wants

A Knesset worker preparing the parliament for the opening of the winter sitting, October 14, 2018. (Knesset)

PMO said to boot official who blocked state renovation of Netanyahu private home

By Raoul Wootliff

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

By Raoul Wootliff

Israel media reviewWaiting for the end to come: 6 things to know for October 15

By Joshua Davidovich

The scene of an attempted stabbing attack at Gitai Junction, West Bank, October 15, 2018 (Samaria Regional Council)

Palestinian attempts to stab soldier in West Bank, is shot dead — IDF

Attack takes place near Barkan Industrial Park, where a terrorist killed Kim Levengrond Yehezkel and Ziv Hajbi last week

Illustrative. Israeli soldiers defend combat engineers during the demolition of a Palestinian terrorist's home in the West Bank city of Jenin on April 24, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel arrests Palestinian suspected of shooting officer during home demolition

By Michael Bachner

Supreme Court judge David Mintz attends a ceremony in Jerusalem, on June 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court justice escapes assault in West Bank

By Stuart Winer

Jack Rubinstein, MD, associate professor in the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, is shown demonstrating a layman's version of tefillin (Courtesy/ University of Cincinnati)

Wearing tefillin could be good for the heart, US study indicates

The act of tightly wrapping leather strap around the arm on a daily basis appears to help blood flow and lower risks of a heart attack, according to University of Cincinnati study

UN Special Coordinator Nikolay Mladenov, February 9, 2015. (CC BY-SA Ottokars, Wikipedia)

EU throws support behind beleaguered UN Mideast peace envoy

Amid anger over Gaza mediation efforts, PLO is boycotting Nikolay Mladenov for ‘stepping outside’ his role, and PA’s PM refused to meet him

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks to members of the Christian press, during an event in Jerusalem, October 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US envoy tells Christian media: World secretly respects Trump’s Jerusalem move

By Raphael Ahren

US President Richard M. Nixon, right, and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev drink a toast at the White House in Washington, DC, June 21, 1973. The toast comes after the two leaders signed a pact to limit offensive nuclear arsenals. (AP)

1973 documents released

How Leonid Brezhnev almost escalated the Yom Kippur War into a nuclear nightmare

By Eric Cortellessa

Judith Colp Rubin

5 reasons I’m glad my kid chose Tel Aviv U.

Staying clear of American college costs would be good reason to stay in Israel, but that’s really not all there is to it

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

A jubilee of Jewish music

Velvel Pasternak became a master at transcribing elusive tunes, and preserved an entire heritage before anyone realized it was at risk (yes, he’s my dad)

’Peel a banana upside down’

Creation sings, so we sing. Creation thumps and bumps in time, and so do we. It seems to be what God intended.

Paradise has corners

What makes my home so special? It’s how my pulse slows and my heart settles; serenity pervades my breathing, and I am content

Israeli Merkava tanks drive near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip as they return from the Hamas-controlled Palestinian coastal enclave on August 5, 2014, after Israel announced that all of its troops had withdrawn from the Gaza Strip. (AFP/THOMAS COEX)

Ministers say no major Gaza military op until at least next week — report

By Tamar Pileggi

Security cabinet adopts a wait-and-see approach, despite threats from Netanyahu and Liberman of looming offensive in response to surge in violence

Air force carries out planned exercise at Tel Aviv base

IDF returns F-35s to service after US crash grounded global fleet

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF strikes Gaza balloon launchers amid uptick in border violence

Israeli policemen scuffle with Palestinian demonstrators in the Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, east of Jerusalem, on July 4, 2018. (FLASH90)

4 activists arrested for obstructing police prep for Khan al-Ahmar demolition

2 Israelis and 2 Palestinians detained after climbing on top of bulldozer outside central West Bank hamlet slated for razing

Illustrative. Israeli forces issue a demolition order for the West Bank home of Ashraf Na’alowa, the suspected terrorist who shot and killed two Israelis at the Barkan Industrial Park, October 15, 2018 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Army issues demolition order for home of Palestinian terror suspect

Olive trees found maimed in the Palestinian village of Al-Mughayyir, on October 14, 2018. (Yesh Din)

Settlers accused of targeting Palestinian olive trees as harvest kicks off

Chef Einat Admony in the latest reincarnation of Balaboosta, her latest project in New York (Courtesy Balaboosta)

This balaboosta reigns over her own Israeli food empire, in New York City

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Christian Media Summit in Jerusalem, October 14, 2018. (Haim Tzach/GPO)

Netanyahu: We want ‘excellent relations’ with Indonesia

By Raphael Ahren

Supporters of the governing Christian Social Union, CSU, react after the first exit polls for the Bavarian state election in Munich, southern Germany, October 14, 2018. (Michel Kappeler/ dpa via AP)

Merkel’s Bavarian allies suffer historic election losses

By Ralf ISERMANN and Frank Zeller

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid leads a party faction meeting at the Knesset on December 26, 2016. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid slams harsh rap of TV stars’ interfaith marriage, but says he opposes it

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative image of a brain scan (utah778; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli brain scan-reading AI-based software gets thumbs up from FDA, Time

By Federico Maccioni

Tova Ringer, a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor, wins the "Miss Holocaust Survivor" beauty pageant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, on October 14, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Photo essay93-year-old crowned Israel’s new ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’

Palestinian workers wait to cross a checkpoint to work in Israel at the security barrier in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on August 23, 2010. (Najeh Hashlamoun/Flash 90)

TV report highlights exploitative illegal trade in work permits for Palestinians

By Stuart Winer

Hillary Clinton, holding hands with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, waves to a crowd outside a New York hotel as she arrives to speak to her staff and supporters after losing the race for the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Hillary Clinton: Bill’s affair with Monica Lewinsky was not an abuse of power

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Musa, a Palestinian baby from the West Bank, clings to life at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv after receiving a new heart donated from an Israeli child. (Sheba Medical Center)

Palestinian baby clings to life after heart transplant from Israeli child

By JTA

A poster for Israeli drama series "When Heroes Fly." (Keshet)

Landing a dealIsraeli TV thriller ‘When Heroes Fly’ acquired by Netflix

By Michael Bachner

Faiz Varoispa, an asylum seeker from Sudan who ran into a burning south Tel Aviv building to rescue his neighbor on October 12, 2018 (Screenshot via Ynet)

Sudanese asylum seeker rescues neighbor from Tel Aviv apartment fire

Illustration of cannabis (Courtesy)

Israeli lab set up to give clinical validation to cannabis research

By Shoshanna Solomon

Security forces at the scene where a woman was murdered by her husband at their home in Netanya, October 14, 2018. (Flash90)

Cop remanded in custody after admitting he fatally shot his wife

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