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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 18, 2018

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Gaza's Hamas leader Ismail Haniya flashes the V for victory sign at the Israel-Gaza border, east of Gaza city, on October 12, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Report: Gaza factions had agreed to scale back protests before rockets launched

Arabic daily al-Hayat says Hamas and other groups had decided to curb violent rallies in order to give ceasefire negotiations a chance

After night of tense quiet, IDF removes Gaza border home front restrictions

Security cabinet meeting ends after 5 hours of talks on Gaza flareup

Beersheba says no decision yet on reopening schools as tense night sets in

Palestinians walk on debris following an Israeli air strike around the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah on October 17, 2018. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

We can hit Gaza harder, general warns as leaders meet on flareup

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Following overnight rocket attack, head of IDF’s Southern Command warns Hamas that Israel ready ‘to respond more forcefully’ in future

US peace envoy says Gaza rocket attack ‘sets back’ humanitarian efforts

Egyptian intel chief said to postpone trip to region amid Gaza tensions

EU says rocket fire toward Israel ‘completely unacceptable’

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

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)

Australia’s spy agency said to warn embassy move may spark Palestinian violence

By Tamar Pileggi

Top-secret bulletin says formally recognizing Israeli capital will ‘attract attention’; PM Morrison hits back at criticism from opposition, calls NSW Labour party ‘anti-Semitic’

Members of the liberal Mideast policy group J Street meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at his headquarters in Ramallah, October 17, 2018. (Courtesy)

Abbas meets J Street leadership, thanks group for lobbying work

By Adam Rasgon and ToI Staff

Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda waits for the start of a trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands. November 27, 2013. (Peter Dejong/AP)

Israel scolds ICC prosecutor over warning of war crimes in Bedouin village

By Raphael Ahren

Fatou Bensouda ignoring rocket on Beersheba house is ‘alarming’ and raises questions over her impartiality, senior official says

The Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the West Bank on September 6, 2018. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Palestinian PM tells residents of Bedouin village to ‘disrupt’ demolition

Analysis

B’tselem: Bringing its lies to the UN Security Council

Director Haggai El-Ad seeks the support of Israel’s enemies because the Israeli public has already rejected him and his organization

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

Vandalism discovered at a Christian cemetery outside Beit Jamal Monastery on October 17, 2018. (Tag Meir)

Christian cemetery outside Jerusalem vandalized in apparent hate crime

Police probing smashing of 30 headstones at Beit Jamal Monastery’s graveyard, which has been targeted several times in recent years

A car whose tires were slashed and was graffitied with the Hebrew phrase "death to the murderers" in the Palestinian village of Asira al-Qabaliya on October 15, 2018. (Said Shartah)

Vandals target Palestinian village in suspected settler hate crime

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri attends a Finance Committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 27, 2018. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Ministers slam ‘shameful’ court decision to allow Lara Alqasem into Israel

By Michael Bachner

Interior Minister vows to prevent similar cases in the future; Hebrew University welcomes US student after supporting her legal battle against deportation

6:28 pm

After ruling, US student released from detention facility, allowed into Israel
6:20 pm

Prosecutors set to indict teen bike rider over death of his friend
6:11 pm

Erdan slams ruling in favor of Lara Alqasem as 'big victory for BDS'

Intermarriage is not the same as assimilation

The task of our generation is to help mixed couples integrate Jewish culture and peoplehood into their new family life

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Why Roseanne Barr and Shmuley Boteach need each other

Their apology roadshow aims at using the imperfect vessel of celebrity to offer up Jewish values and Jewish politics

Jenny Manson interviewing Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell at a Labour event, October 2018. (YouTube screenshot)

Head of pro-Corbyn group seeks to become MP in Britain’s most Jewish district

By Robert Philpot

Israeli troops searching for suspected Barkan shooter Ashraf Na'alowa in the northern West Bank village of Shuweika on October 7, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Army warns Tulkarem residents not to help Barkan terrorist evade capture

A man watches a house that was hit by a missile fired from Gaza Strip, in the city of Beersheba, southern Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israel media review

Back where we were: 8 things to know for October 18

By Joshua Davidovich

A day after intense fighting in Gaza, nobody is sure what to make of the sudden flareup, and whether more fighting or some other development is on the horizon

Abbas rival ‘hired Israeli mercenary to assassinate UAE’s enemies in Yemen’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Buzzfeed reports Mohammed Dahlan paid Israeli-Hungarian Abraham Golan’s firm to carry out assassinations in the war-torn country on behalf of the Gulf nation

Mohammed Dahlan during an interview with The Associated Press in his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on January 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

File: An undated photo of fighters from al-Qaeda's branch in Syria, the al-Nusra Front, marching toward the northern village of al-Ais in Aleppo province. (Al-Nusra Front via AP)

Two Arab Israelis indicted for trying to join Syrian jihadists

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at a conference in Jerusalem on September 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG warns of increased effort to delegitimize him as decision on PM probes nears

Mandelblit vows to ‘march straight in the path of the law’ in graft cases involving Netanyahu, amid attempts by PM’s supporters and detractors to sway investigations

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

Late Netanyahu lawyer said to have scripted plan for PM to quit amid graft probe

Illustrative: The Boston installation of 'Lest We Forget,' a Holocaust remembrance project centered on survivor photographs taken by Luigi Toscano, October 16, 2018 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

At historic Boston Common, passersby come face-to-face with the Holocaust

By Matt Lebovic

More Headlines

Dr. Einat Kalisch Rotem, a candidate for Haifa mayor. (YouTube screenshot)

Days before election, courts disqualify Haifa, Elad mayoral candidates to uproar

By Marissa Newman

A protective goddess presents a worshipper before a king seated on a throne, Mesopotamia, 21st century BCE, one of the artifacts being lent to the Sichuan University Museum for a fall 2018 exhibit (Courtesy Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem)

Cultural envoyIsraeli museum loans Bronze Age artifacts to Chinese museum

By Jessica Steinberg

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan speaking on October 14, 2018, in Michigan. (Twitter screen capture)

Twitter says no plans to ban Farrakhan after comparison of Jews to termites

Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, attends a Cabinet meeting at the White House on August 16, 2018. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Kushner shielded from reporter on plane trying to ask about Khashoggi

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, right, and Israel's Communications Minister Ayoub Kara unveil the Israel Post and US Postal Service joint stamp for Hanukkah at the American Center, Jerusalem, October 16, 2018. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Jerusalem)

Sticking togetherIsrael and US postal services issue joint Hanukkah stamp

By JTA and ToI Staff

Jewish Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky (Google Streetview)

Man arrested for stealing Torah scroll from Kentucky hospital

By JTA and ToI Staff

View of Ramle (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Vandalized anti-intermarriage election posters in Ramle taken down

An elderly couple walk on Jaffa street in downtown Jerusalem on February 20, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel ranks 7th in global life expectancy rankings for 2040

By AFP and ToI Staff

A man with multiple sclerosis gets help drinking water, August 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Environmental factors can trigger onset of multiple sclerosis — Israeli study

By Shoshanna Solomon

President Rivlin (seated, third left) at the inauguration of the program in Jerusalem to boost Arab and, Haredim in the Israeli tech sector. (Yanai-Rubaja)

Group kicks off pilot to give Arabs, ultra-Orthodox women a leg up in tech

By Shoshanna Solomon

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