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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 20, 2018

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Germany sees dramatic rise in citizenship applications by British Jews

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A screenshot of the Dutch animated show 'Mocro Park' that aired on a state-funded broadcaster in October 2018. (screen capture: YouTube)

Dutch state-funded broadcaster pulls South Park spoof with Holocaust jokes

By JTA

A demonstrator participates in a rally in Boston’s Copley Square in support of a lawsuit against Harvard contending that the university discriminates against Asian Americans in admissions, October 14, 2018. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images/via JTA)

Is Harvard capping the number of Asian Americans it admits, as it once did Jews?

The Stormer Book Clubs took credit for anti-Semitic fliers that appeared across the country last week. (Anti-Defamation League/JTA Collage)

The neo-Nazi group behind the fliers blaming Jews for the Kavanaugh allegations

By Josefin Dolsten

From R to L : Hamdi Amar, Moamen Amar, Maria Amar, Miri Tamano's child and Tamano herself meet in a Beersheba hotel on October 20, 2018. (screen capture: Channel 10)

Gaza teen paralyzed in IDF strike visits Beersheba home destroyed by rocket

Maria Aman — a bystander seriously injured in a 2006 Israeli raid — and her family bring clothes to Miri Tamano, Israeli mother of 3 whose family barely escaped harm this week

White House slams ‘sick-minded terrorists’ flying explosive balloons into Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

Police: Palestinian arrested near Jerusalem, says he planned stabbing attack

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

More than 100 Palestinians wounded in clashes at Gaza-Israel border

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Protesters near the Gaza Strip border with Israel east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, October 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israeli officials said to believe Hamas has changed tack on Gaza rallies

With terror group seemingly working to curb violence, defense officials reportedly weigh renewing fuel transfer into Strip to create positive momentum

AnalysisBoth Israel, Hamas tout ‘accomplishments’ in Gaza — but is calm truly possible?

By Avi Issacharoff

Lapid says Israel should destroy homes of Hamas leaders in Gaza

IDF troops arrest suspected accomplice of Barkan terrorist — report

In this photo taken on December 15, 2014, Jamal Khashoggi looks on at a press conference in the Bahraini capital Manama. (AFP/Mohammed Al-Shaikh)

Saudis admit Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside consulate, claim it was in fight

By Jon Gambrell and Suzan Fraser

Monarchy announces sacking of a top intelligence official following an internal investigation into journalist’s disappearance

US officials deeply skeptical of Saudi claim Khashoggi died in ‘fistfight’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Trump says Saudi claim Khashoggi died in fight at consulate is credible

By AFP and ToI Staff

ObituaryKhashoggi: From Saudi royal insider to open critic

By AFP

This 1994 photo provided by Katherine Roth shows her standing with Yemeni fighters. The photo was taken by Jamal Khashoggi in Yemen after the country’s civil war. Khashoggi was Roth’s friend and mentor when she was a young reporter on a fellowship studying Islamic movements. (Jamal Khashoggi/Courtesy of Katherine Roth via AP)

First person

The Jamal Khashoggi I knew: Mentor, bridge between cultures

AP contributor recalls Saudi journalist’s work ethic and ability to earn the respect of Islamists and leftist seculars alike

AnalysisWhy are some pro-Israel voices joining whisper campaign against Jamal Khashoggi?

Jamal Khasoggi in 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

Shortly before death, Khashoggi said Saudi prince has ‘tribal leader’ mentality

By AFP

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to media after the official opening of the refurbished ANZAC Memorial in Sydney on October 20, 2018 (Saeed KHAN / AFP)

Australia government loses crucial vote, leaving Israel embassy move in doubt

By AFP and ToI Staff

Result in by-election snuffs out coalition’s one-seat majority, sends country into period of political instability, diminishes prospects of mission relocating to Jerusalem

A man wearing an American flag watch the flags march outside Damascus Gate on May 13, 2018 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

Most American Jews say you can support Israel and criticize its government

For the first time, a pollster asked respondents not only whether they were pro-Israel, but if they were also critical of Israeli policies; 59% said yes

AIPAC underscores commitment to two-state solution

By JTA

Trump praises lawmaker for bodyslamming a journalist

By JTA

Bolton heads to Russia amid talk of Trump leaving 30-year-old nuclear deal

By AFP

Farrakhan says he is an anti-termite

Without his social acceptance and the power it brings, he’d be just another racist preacher selling hate on the corner of Nowhere and Irrelevant

Israel and polar bears

President Reuven Rivlin told me, ’I am jealous of you! You made aliyah. You got to do what Abraham our forefather did!’

One of Aya Ben Ron's rusted metal sculptures depicting the wounds and injuries suffered in war and conflict, hung on the walls of the Polonsky Building of the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem for Manofim 2018 (Courtesy Manofim)

Historic Jerusalem neighborhood of Talbieh at center of Manofim art festival

By Jessica Steinberg

Gili Bar-Hillel with her Hebrew-language version of 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,' one of the four Harry Potter books she translated, in her Tel Aviv office, June 23, 2003. (David Silverman/Getty Images via JTA)

The magic words

How a Hanukkah song made its way into Harry Potter’s Hebrew version

By Josefin Dolsten

Translator Gili Bar Hillel speaks about the challenges of interpreting the series in a manner that would resonate with Israeli readers

Greg Joseph celebrates after the Cleveland Browns defeated the Baltimore Ravens at FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland, October 7, 2018. (Jason Miller/Getty Images via JTA)

Greg Joseph’s long journey from Jewish day school to the NFL

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Christopher Krebs, undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security's National Protection and Programs Directorate, speaks during a news conference on election cyber security on October 19, 2018, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US warns of ‘ongoing’ efforts to disrupt elections by Russia, China, Iran

By AP and ToI Staff

People join together as they attend a rally protesting violence against women, in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Demonstrators across Israel demand an end to violence against women

In February of 1941, Amsterdam’s Nazi occupiers rounded up 427 Jewish men in their first ‘razzia’ and deportation from the Netherlands. Only two of the men survived the war. (Wikimedia Commons).

Dutch activists seek release of archive on Holocaust war criminals

By JTA

Robrecht Vanderbeeken (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)

Belgian trade union boss says Israel kills Palestinian kids for their organs

By JTA

Protestors demonstrate outside the closed doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on February 27, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Churches urge Netanyahu to thwart bill restricting land sales

By AFP and ToI Staff

In this April 1996 photo, two fighters from the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah stand near Katyusha rockets in the southern village of Ein Qana, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Iran sends Hezbollah GPS parts to turn rockets into precision missiles — report

Illustrative photo of Israeli students at the Hebrew University on the first day of the academic year, October 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel offers free online course for local version of SATs

By JTA

Israeli-Georgian businessman Shabtai Michaeli (Facebook screen capture)

Georgian-Israeli reportedly behind controversial Hungarian ‘golden visa’ law

Albert Stankowski, director of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum, stands in front of the former hospital that will house the museum which is under creation and scheduled to open in 2023, in Warsaw, Poland, on Oct. 19, 2018 (AP Photo/Vanessa Gera)

Poland hands over site of future Warsaw Ghetto Museum

By Vanessa Gera

Then-Boston Red Sox's Ian Kinsler bats in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Indians, September 23, 2018, in Cleveland (AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar)

Batting for the teamIan Kinsler and Red Sox advance to World Series, Bregman’s Astros out

By JTA

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