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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 16, 2018

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Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman meets with officers from the IDF's Southern Command on October 16, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense)

Signaling war, Liberman urges cabinet to okay ‘serious blow’ to Hamas in Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: A masked Palestinian man launches a balloon loaded with flammable materials toward Israel from the southern Gaza town of Rafah on June 17, 2018. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

IDF aircraft fires at cell launching incendiary balloons from Gaza

Incendiary balloon found in the central Israel city of Lod, October 16, 2018 (Police Spokesperson's Unit)

Incendiary balloon found in central city of Lod

Analysis

Australia may also recognize East Jerusalem as future Palestinian capital

Israel praised Canberra’s surprise talk of recognition, embassy move, but Morrison’s distinction between east and west of city seems closer to Russia’s position than to Trump’s

Prime Minister Scott Morrison, left, speaks to the media alongside Minister for Foreign Affairs Marise Payne at the Parliament House in Canberra, October 16, 2018. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Newly elected leader of the Liberal Party, Scott Morrison addresses media at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Aug. 24, 2018 (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Netanyahu lauds, Palestinians deplore Australia for mulling embassy move

By Michael Bachner and AFP

Australia's Treasurer Scott Morrison attends a press conference in Parliament House, in Canberra, on August 22, 2018. (AFP/MARK GRAHAM)

Australian PM mulls recognizing Jerusalem as capital, moving embassy

By Tamar Pileggi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at the inauguration of a new emergency room in Kiryat Shmona on October 16, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

‘You’re boring,’ Netanyahu scolds woman who interrupts his speech

By Michael Bachner

PM berates Kiryat Shmona resident after she decries lack of medical facilities in north; sources close to him say she crossed ‘all moral and human lines’

Netanyahu pushes back after being slammed for telling heckler she’s ‘boring’

By Raoul Wootliff and Michael Bachner

Opposition leader: PM sowing internal hatred, eroding Israel’s democracy

Police said set to recommend charging former PM aides, ex-navy chief in sub case

Analysis

Seeking the truth about a Nazi war criminal — with the help of the killer’s son

In a gripping new BBC production, Philippe Sands examines the mysterious ‘loving husband’ in Lviv responsible for the death of his grandfather’s family and most of Galicia’s Jews

Lawyer, humanitarian, and writer Philippe Sands. (Wikimedia Commons)

Bent Lewinsky waits to celebrate Danish Jewry’s 1943 rescue outside the Great Synagogue of Copenhagen, Oct. 11, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

In Denmark, the world’s only happy Holocaust commemoration event

By Cnaan Liphshiz

View taken on October 14, 2018. shows the monument commemorating victims of German-Nazi death camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau (Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)

Israeli teen fined for urinating on Auschwitz memorial

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opens the winter session of the Knesset on October 15, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Opening Knesset, Netanyahu rips opposition for ignoring ‘fantastic progress’

By Raoul Wootliff

PM accuses ‘negative and bitter’ political rivals of spreading falsehoods; says media is censoring itself; hails ties with Russia and US

Zionist Union head attacks Yesh Atid over support for Haredi army draft bill

By Raoul Wootliff

Rivlin warns infighting is greater threat to Israel than nukes or terrorism

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Druze resume protests against nation-state law as Knesset returns from break

By Tamar Pileggi

A Palestinian throws a stone toward Israeli forces during clashes on the beach near the maritime border with Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 1, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Palestinians set off explosives at border fence during Gaza clashes

By Alexander Fulbright

Army says some 100 Palestinians take part in violent demonstrations in Strip; incendiary balloons launched from enclave start 4 fires in south

6:25 pm

Brothers caught 'red-handed' plundering northern Israel archaeological site
5:37 pm

US sanctions network funding Iran's use of child soldiers
5:29 pm

Palestinians set off explosives at border fence during Gaza clashes

New York beating victim Leopold Schwartz. (YouTube screenshot)

I screamed ‘What do you want from me?’: Hasidic victim describes Brooklyn attack

Leopold Schwartz says cab driver Farrukh Afzal assaulted him without provocation: ‘If he had a knife, he would stab me on the spot’

Illustrative: A KKK flyer discovered in Cherry Hill, Philadelphia (Screenshot CBS Philly)

Anti-Semitic and racist KKK fliers dropped in Philadelphia suburb

By JTA

Against all odds: My family survived Bergen-Belsen

I was 3 years old when a Dutch Nazi and a German soldier with guns in hand broke down our front door

Nesanel Yoel Safran

Blessing denied

He asked for one last bracha, the most important one — for a peaceful, happy marriage. ’I can’t,’ said the sage.

Stan Mikita and my father

The Czech-born hockey legend inspired immigrants who desperately wanted to be accepted as full-fledged Canadians

Israel, don’t sacrifice deterrence for revenge

The IDF plans to demolish the family home of Ari Fuld’s murderer even though the terrorist’s parents tried to prevent the attack

Yakoub Rabi, 52, at a hall in Biddya, a village in the northern West Bank, on October 15, 2018. (Adam Rasgon/Times of Israel)

Palestinian man pleads for justice after wife killed in highway stoning

Yakoub Rabi, 52, insists that settlers hurled a stone at his car, which hit his wife Aisha’s head, killing her, last Friday night; Israeli authorities probing incident

Relatives of Aisha Rabi mourn at the family home during her funeral in the West Bank village of Biddya, October 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

US envoy calls rock attack that killed Palestinian woman ‘reprehensible’

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)

Israel, US send secret delegation to Ukraine to train against S-300 – report

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Russian, Syrian outlets say the teams got instruction from their Ukrainian counterparts on capabilities of advanced missile defense system that Putin just gave Assad

A ballistic missile is seen in what Iran says is an underground base, in an undisclosed location in the country. The base is said to be buried 500 meters below ground. (Screen capture PressTV)

Iran says its land-to-sea ballistic missile range now 700 kilometers

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hezbollah fighters stand on their armed vehicles and hold their party flags, as they parade during a rally to mark the 13th day of Ashoura, in the southern market town of Nabatiyeh, Lebanon, November 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

US designates Hezbollah a transnational crime threat

By Agencies and ToI Staff

New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addresses supporters at a fundraiser on August 2, 2018, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Democrats push back after NY Times says party is drifting on Israel

Looking to unseat Republicans in November midterms, opposition lawmakers scramble to reaffirm support for Jewish state

Actress Olivia Wilde and her parents, producer Andrew Cockburn and director Leslie Cockburn, arrive at the premiere of American Casino during the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, Sunday, April 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

Virginia Republican ad accuses Democratic candidate of hating Israel, America

By JTA

Flier sent out by Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, October 15, 2018 (Courtesy)

Dallas commissioner sends mailer comparing Trump and Hitler

By JTA

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, second right in front, walks with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir after arriving in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 16, 2018. (Leah Millis/Pool Photo via AP)

Pompeo lands in Saudi Arabia for talks with king on fate of Khashoggi

By FAY ABUELGASIM, Suzan Fraser and Jon Gambrell

Saudi officials say allegations that writer was killed and dismembered in Turkish consulate are ‘baseless,’ but US media reports suggest kingdom may acknowledge he was killed there

A Turkish forensic police officer searches for evidence as he works on the rooftop of the Saudi Arabia's Consulate in Istanbul, late Monday, Oct. 15, 2018.(AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Saudis said ready to concede writer was slain in botched interrogation

Forensic officers work at the scene after a tractor crashed into cars outside a residence, in Ankara, Turkey, Oct. 16, 2018 (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkish police shoot tractor driver who rams cars near Israeli envoy’s residence

By Agencies and ToI Staff

More Headlines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opens the winter session of the Knesset on October 15, 2018. (Knesset)

Israel media reviewElectioneering at any cost: 8 things to know for October 16

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's lawyer Yaakov Weinroth seen in the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on February 24, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ObituaryTop lawyer Yaakov Weinroth, defender of Israel’s leaders, dies at 71

By Michael Bachner

Conservative Jews praying at Robinson’s Arch in Jerusalem, July 30, 2014. (Robert Swift/ Flash90/ via JTA/ File)

Study finds more Israelis identify with Conservative, Reform Judaism

Man caught smuggling 40 goldfinches in his fishnet stockings at the Allenby Border Crossing, October 15, 2018 (Civil Administration)

Trick or tweetPalestinian nabbed smuggling 40 goldfinches in fishnet stockings

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at a conference in Jerusalem on February 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG says law can distinguish between terror convicts and other prisoners

By Michael Bachner

A section of the high speed Jerusalem-Tel Aviv train line on the outskirts of Jerusalem, on September 25, 2018. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

New Jerusalem high-speed train stalls in tunnel, as rail woes persist

General view of the A'Zaim checkpoint on March 11, 2008. (Daniel Dreifuss/Flash90)

Border cop suspected of firing sponge-tipped bullet at Palestinian ‘for fun’

By Michael Bachner

Prof. Chaim Lotan, left, Howard Milstein, and President of Hadassah, the Women's Organization Ellen Hershkin at the dedication of the Irma and Paul Milstein Heart Center at Hadassah Ein Kerem, Friday, October 12, 2018. (Courtesy)

Sponsored contentHeartfelt donation brings a cutting-edge cardiac center to Jerusalem

American actress Marilyn Monroe with her husband, playwright Arthur Miller at London Airport, 14th July 1956. Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images via JTA)

Monroe DoctrineMarilyn Monroe’s Jewish prayer book is being put up for auction

By Josefin Dolsten

David Myers, president and CEO of the Center for Jewish History. (Credit: Scarlett Freund)

New Israel Fund’s new president opposes ‘most forms of’ Israel boycotts

By JTA

Illustrative 3D image of cells under a microscope (Artem_Egorov; iStock by Getty Images)

New protein-map method offers hope for target-specific drugs – researchers

By Shoshanna Solomon

Air Force navigator Ron Arad, who went missing in 1986, in his flight suit. (Israeli Air Force)

After 32 years, IAF posts previously unseen photos of missing airman Ron Arad

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