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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 17, 2018

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Israeli security forces inspect a building that was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in the southern city of Beersheba on October 17, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

'My sister's a lioness. She dragged the kids to the shelter'

‘Hero’ mom asks for help after Beersheba home destroyed by Gaza rocket

Miri Tamano, raising three boys on her own, asks for donations to buy food and toiletries; Tax Authority and Jewish Agency say they are sending emergency funds

Illustrative: Flames from rockets fired by Palestinians are seen over Gaza Strip heading toward Israel, in the early morning of May 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Rocket fired from Gaza hits house in Beersheba; causes heavy damage, no injuries

The results of a rocket strike on a home in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on October 17, 2018. (Magen David Adom)

Israel media reviewMissiles, miracles and miscues: 9 things to know for October 17

By Joshua Davidovich

A Palestinian man walks on debris following a retaliatory Israeli air strike near the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah after a rocket struck a home in the Israeli city of Beersheba on October 17, 2018. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

IDF says 20 Gaza targets bombed, including tunnels; blames Hamas for rockets

By Judah Ari Gross

From L to R: National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman and IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi hold a situational assessment near the Gaza border on October 17, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense)

PM vows ‘forceful’ response to Gaza as violence surges

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Smoke billows following an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on October 17, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)

IDF strikes targets in Gaza after rocket hits Beersheba home

By Judah Ari Gross

Smoke billows following an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on October 17, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Egypt, UN scramble to restore calm after Gaza flareup

Hamas-linked news site reports quiet achieved after Cairo officials hold ‘intensive’ talks with Israel and Palestinian factions; UN and EU call for de-escalation

Hamas, Islamic Jihad disavow rocket attack on Beersheba

Hamas official says neither side really wants another war in Gaza

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Palestinians use explosives to damage Israel-Gaza border fence

Smoke billows following an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on October 17, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Hamas leaders go into hiding fearing fresh Israeli strikes — reports

By Tamar Pileggi

IDF general warns Gaza rulers next round of strikes will be ‘more forceful’; Iron Dome deployed to Beersheba area after rocket attack from Palestinian enclave

6:35 pm

Gaza-area communities get emergency funding as border tensions rise
6:10 pm

US Mideast envoy: Gaza rockets set back efforts to help Palestinians
5:45 pm

Washington Post accuses Trump of 'diplomatic cleanup' over Khashoggi

Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour addresses the UN General Assembly, October 16, 2018 (UN webtv)

Defying US, UN gives ‘Palestine’ extra rights so it can head major bloc in 2019

By Raphael Ahren

General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to grant additional powers to Ramallah for 12 months of its presidency of 134-nation Group of 77; Israel, US and Australia opposed

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media in Canberra, October 17, 2018. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Australian parliament debates fallout from possible embassy move to Jerusalem

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing on Hurricane Michael in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, October 10, 2018. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

New poll: Trump’s Israel policies don’t sway most US Jews

By Eric Cortellessa

Only 6% of American Jewish community would vote for president because of Israel despite differences on other issues

A guide to the Jewish Republican House candidates in the 2018 midterm elections

A guide to the Jewish Democratic House candidates in the 2018 midterm elections

US envoy looks to boost Israel-Palestinian business cooperation in West Bank

The Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar, east of Jerusalem in the West Bank, is seen decorated with Palestinian flags on October 2, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

Hague prosecutor issues war crime warning on Bedouin village demolition

By Agencies and ToI Staff

ICC’s Fatou Bensouda says planned razing of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank could violate Rome Statute; warns she is ‘keeping an eye’ on both sides in Gaza clashes

US student Lara Alqasem attends a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 17, 2018. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Supreme Court hears appeal by US student barred over BDS allegations

By AFP and ToI Staff

‘How does a ban on her entry advance the fight against BDS?’ asks Justice Vogelman, as Lara Alqasem’s attorney argues that she would not come to Israel and then call for boycott

Fleur Hassan-Nahoum

Chauvinism on the Jerusalem campaign trail

I was asked to represent Jerusalem mayoral candidate Ze’ev Elkin, but the others running wouldn’t sit on the panel with me

Why I’m speaking against the occupation at the UN Security Council

Control of the West Bank is inherently an international matter, not an internal Israeli issue

Summer camp in Gondar, Ethiopia

PHOTO ESSAY: A picture is worth a thousand words, but being there, meeting the kids, seeing their motivation… priceless

Wash your hands! A DIY hospital-debugging guide

If the Israeli medical establishment isn’t going to do all it can to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, you have to

Illustrative: A worker tends to cannabis plants at a growing facility for the Tikun Olam company near the northern city of Safed, August 31, 2010. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Israeli regulation sputters as Canada gives green light to cannabis

By Melanie Lidman

Arab Israeli Christian schoolchildren play soccer at the Terra Sancta School in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Ramle, May 26, 2015. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Jewish Home draws fire over anti-assimilation poster in Jewish-Arab city Ramle

By Stuart Winer

MK Neven Abu Rahmoun to ask attorney general to ban campaign advertisement warning Jews that ‘your daughter could be next’ to marry a Muslim

Joint (Arab) List MK Hanin Zoabi attends a committee meeting at the Knesset, November 2, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Knesset panel reprimands defense minister for calling Arab MK a ‘terrorist’

Zouheir Bahloul (R) handing his resignation letter from the Knesset to Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein, October 16, 2018. (Knesset)

Arab lawmaker from Zionist Union quits Knesset over nation-state law

By Raoul Wootliff

Kurt Waldheim in a still from Ruth Beckermann’s film “The Waldheim Waltz.” (Courtesy of Ruth Beckermann via JTA)

Oscar preview

New film sees seeds of rise of modern right in election of Nazi Kurt Waldheim

The gilthead seabream fish, known as "denise" in Hebrew. (Courtesy Haifa University)

Ancient fish teeth reveal intensive 3,500-year-old aquaculture in Sinai

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Illustrative: People hold up placards and Union flags as they gather for a demonstration organized by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism outside the head office of the British opposition Labour Party in central London on April 8, 2018. (AFP/Tolga Akmen)

Jewish woman kicked in the face while protesting UK Labour anti-Semitism

By JTA

In September 2018, members of the Ugandan Jewish community participated in its first Birthright trip. Asiimwe Rabbin is in the foreground, center. (Birthright Israel via JTA)

Ugandan Jew denied visa to study at yeshiva in Israel

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of a competition (Tomwang112; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel gets top marks for innovation, entrepreneurship in WEF report

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: An Arab Israeli woman casts her vote at a polling station in the coastal city of Haifa, on March 17, 2015. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

From the webA seat at the table: Wave of Arab women running in local elections in Israel

SodaStream's "Holy Turtle," a 300-meter (1,000-foot) device the company says can clean plastic garbage from the ocean without harming marine life, seen deployed in a cleanup operation in Honduras. (Courtesy SodaStream International/PRNewsfoto)

SodaStream launches ocean plastic cleanup effort in Honduras

Israeli journalist Dan Margalit in Tel Aviv, March 14, 2017 (Gideon Markowicz/POOL)

Six women accuse veteran Israeli journalist of sexual assault, harassment

By Stuart Winer

Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives an interview to The Associated Press at his office in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2017. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Out of his leagueIran’s Ahmadinejad takes surprising interest in US college football

Illustrative. Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York. March 21, 2012. (Serge Attal/FLASH90/File)

Orthodox Jewish man attacked in Brooklyn, in 2nd suspected hate crime in 2 days

By JTA

An Iranian soldier runs past injured colleagues lying on the ground at the scene of an attack on a military parade in Ahvaz, September 22, 2018. (AFP/ ISNA / MORTEZA JABERIAN)

Iran says it killed mastermind behind deadly military parade attack

By ToI Staff and AP

(Illustration by Lior Zaltzman via JTA)

Shmear campaignApple adds cream cheese to its bagel emoji after complaints

By Josefin Dolsten

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the funeral of prominent defense attorney Yaakov Weinroth, in Netanya. October 16, 2018. (Flash90)

Netanyahu, senior ministers join hundreds at funeral of top lawyer

A US soldier sits on an armored vehicle at a newly installed position in Manbij, north Syria, April 4, 2018. (Hussein Malla/AP)

US said planning targeted economic sanctions to push Iran out of Syria

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