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What Matters Most On Friday, October 19, 2018

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Candidates for regional and local council chairman of Israeli municipalities in the West Bank (From L-R) Yael Ben Yashar, Ruti Spitzer and Sosh Adar. (Ron Luba, courtesy, courtesy)

'Politics unfold at synagogue while I'm tucking my kids in'

In the land of the forefathers, some female settlers challenge the patriarchy

Shosh Adar, Yael Ben Yashar and Ruti Spitzer are testing the extent of gender equality in Israeli communities in the West Bank, where men have long dominated the political arena

A Palestinian woman carries her national flag during a protest for lifting the Israeli blockade on Gaza on a beach in Beit Lahia near the maritime border with Israel, on September 17, 2018. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Terror leader tells Gazans to keep border protests nonviolent after flareup

By Judah Ari Gross

Organizer of ‘March of Return’ says Friday demonstrations along security fence is about ‘masses gathering in a peaceful manner,’ not clashes with Israeli troops

Palestinian protestors place their national flag on a metal structure during a demonstration on the beach near the maritime border with Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 8, 2018. ( Said KHATIB / AFP)

Israel, Gaza brace for Friday protests as region lurches between war and calm

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot at the Glilot military base near Tel Aviv, March 28, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ministers rail at IDF chief for failure to stem Gaza violence – report

Mom describes ‘miracle’ dash to shelter seconds before rocket ravaged home

Miri Tamano, who dragged sons into bombproof room of Beersheba house, dismisses hero talk, credits divine providence with allowing family to escape Gaza missile attack unharmed

United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov addresses a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, on March 24, 2016, at United Nations headquarters in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

UN peace envoy warns Gaza is ‘imploding’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Lightning is seen above the coastal city of Netanya on January 4, 2018, as the worst storm of the winter hits Israel. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

An unlikely suspect arises in Wednesday’s rocket fire: Lightning

By Judah Ari Gross

An electrical discharge could theoretically have triggered the projectile that destroyed a Beersheba home, experts say

Illustrative: Masked Hamas members carry a model of a rocket during a rally in the central Gaza Strip on December 12, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas pledges probe of Gaza rocket fire, while threatening Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

In this file photo taken on January 23, 2018 Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh delivers a speech in Gaza City (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Haniyeh hosts senior Egyptian intelligence officials in Gaza

The US consulate on Agron Street in Jerusalem. (CC BY-SA, Magister/Wikimedia)

In blow to Palestinians, US places Jerusalem consulate under embassy

By Alexander Fulbright

Pompeo insists move doesn’t signal a change in administration’s position on city’s status; Ramallah accuses White House of adopting ‘Israeli narrative’

Donald Trump walks with Ronald Lauder after meeting at Mar-a_Lago on December 28, 2016, in Palm Beach, Florida, (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

TV report: Lauder met Abbas on Trump’s behalf in bid to jump-start peace talks

Illustrative: Israeli army jeeps patrol on the border with the Gaza Strip on October 17, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media reviewKeep it calm and get ready to rumble: 7 things to know for October 19

By Joshua Davidovich

Interview

In film on Nazi-turned-UN head, director evokes memory of risky postwar populism

Opening Friday, documentary ‘The Waldheim Waltz’ is eerily contemporary, even for those born after the fury surrounding the 1986 election of former Wehrmacht officer Kurt Waldheim

Former UN secretary-general Kurt Waldheim campaigns for president of Austria at Zistersdorf on April 30, 1986. Documents from the UN, reportedly showing Waldheim's knowledge of Nazi atrocities, were released in May to Israeli officials. (AP Photo/Werner Vollmann)

British relatives of Nazi victims seek German passport as Brexit looms

By AFP

Tens of thousands of documents show how Argentina supported the Nazis

By JTA

Dutch government apologizes over diplomat punished for saving Jews in WWII

By ToI Staff and JTA

B’Tselem Executive Director Hagai El-Ad speaks to the UN Security Council on October 18 (Hadashot TV screenshot)

Netanyahu denounces B’Tselem chief’s UN speech as ‘full of lies’

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

PM says Israeli human rights group is a ‘disgrace’ and will be remembered as a ‘temporary episode’ in country’s history

B’Tselem Executive Director Hagai El-Ad, left, next to Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour, at a session of the UN Security Council, October 18, 2018. (Courtesy UN WebTv)

At UN, B’Tselem chief blasts Israel; envoy calls him a ‘collaborator’

By Raphael Ahren

The Ben Yehuda 2 pizza shop in Jerusalem. (Sammy Kanter/Facebook)

Gay rabbinical student sues Jerusalem pizzeria that refused to serve him

Ohioan Sammy Kanter seeking NIS 33,500 from Ben Yehuda 2 pizza shop after August incident following pride parade

Lara Alqasem, a 22-year-old American graduate student, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 17, 2018, prior to winning an appeal against deportation for alleged BDS activities. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Entering Israel after 15-day ordeal, barred US student expresses relief

By ToI Staff and Alexander Fulbright

Lara Alqasem thanks lawyers, family and friends for supporting her through weeks of detention and court cases to be allowed to study in Jerusalem

A ‘big victory for BDS’: Ministers pan Supreme Court for letting student stay

Supreme Court nixes deportation of US student accused of BDS support

By Alexander Fulbright

Ministers to debate bill to imprison Israeli boycott activists

By Stuart Winer

Dr. Sharon Nazarian, the Anti-Defamation League's Senior Vice President for International Affairs, at the Israel Social Cohesion Summit, October 16, 2018. (Sharon Amit)

Once a witness to unchecked hate, now she travels the globe to fight it

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Rebecca Bardach

The day I witnessed a hit-and-run

I didn’t tell the cops what I saw because I’m Jewish, but because I’m human

Abraham Katsman

Please, pro-Israel Democrats: Rescue your party

Dems, I must ask you: Is winning in the Midterms worth the price of sacrificing your ideals, of electing radical, Israel-hostile candidates?

For, with, to, by — 4 aspects of a Godly journey

To be a child of Abraham is to have the courage to challenge the idols of the age, whatever the idols and whenever the age

Why did God choose Abraham?

How do you know what difference you’re supposed make in your home, your community, and the world at large?

Illustrative image of conceptual cyber attack code. (DaLiu/iStock by Getty images)

Report: Israeli spyware helping dictatorships track dissidents, minorities

From Indonesia to Qatar to Mexico, investigation by Haaretz finds Israeli firms continue to sell their products to governments even where there is evidence of abuse

An iconic Rube Goldberg cartoon, featuring one of his signature contraptions (this one, a mustache wiper), was used on a US postal stamp in 1995. (Rube Goldberg Inc./via JTA)

Timeless ingenuity

Rube Goldberg did way more than draw those wacky machines

By Stephen Silver

More Headlines

Russian S-300 air defense missile systems drive during the Victory Day military parade marking 71 years after the victory in WWII in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on May 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Report: Russia sends Syria improved S-300 to counter Israeli strikes

Illustrative -- A cargo ship is seen between Iranian city port of Bandar Abbas and Qeshm island in the strategic water way of Persian Gulf, on Dec. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Crew of Iranian cargo ship poisoned, 3 seamen die — report

By AP and ToI Staff

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

‘Desperate’ times for Australian government as crunch election looms

By AFP and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video of Khalid Batarfi, a senior figure with Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. (YouTube)

US offers reward for jihadist who urged attacks over Jerusalem embassy move

By AFP

Israeli journalist Dan Margalit speaks to students of the Har Etzion Yeshiva in the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut on December 13, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Senior Israeli journalist resigns amid wave of sexual misconduct claims

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One, as he departs from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland for a 3-day trip to hold campaign rallies in Montana, Arizona and Nevada. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP)

Trump says Saudi journalist likely dead, threatens ‘severe’ consequences

By AP

Jared Kushner’s brother Josh and supermodel Karlie Kloss, who converted to Judaism for him, tie the knot in 2018. (Karlie Kloss/Twitter via JTA)

BromanceJoshua Kushner, Jared’s younger brother, weds supermodel

By JTA

Illustrative. Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) vaccine vials, with syringe. (iStock by Getty Images/ Andrey Popov)

Health Ministry to mull sanctions on anti-vaxxer families

By Stuart Winer

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