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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 21, 2018

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A view of the Jordan River, Naharayim, Isle of Peace (Shmuel Bar-Am)

25-year clauses relate to farm lands, Naharayim tourist spot

Jordan says it will cancel clauses in peace treaty leasing border land to Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

After King Abdullah announces he won’t renew annexes to 1994 deal that expire next year, Netanyahu says he will negotiate with kingdom to keep territory under Israeli control

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 5, 2015. (Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

AG said to warn cabinet that Khan al-Ahmar razing will hurt Israel at ICC

Mandelblit cautions ministers that a forced, rather than voluntary clearing of West Bank hamlet could harm Israeli response to Palestinian claims against Jewish state at The Hague

6:16 pm

US mulls revoking recognition of transgender people -- report
6:14 pm

IDF said to be detonating explosives hurled near Gaza fence during protests last week
5:56 pm

After deeming all-female tank crews trial a success, IDF said to freeze program

The West Bank Bedouin community of Khan al-Ahmar, October 21, 2018 (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Security cabinet approves several weeks’ delay of Khan al-Ahmar demolition

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Residents of West Bank Bedouin hamlet offer to move several hundred meters away; Bennett, Shaked vote against postponement

Residents’ offer to move West Bank hamlet said behind Israeli demolition delay

By Jacob Magid and Alexander Fulbright

As right fumes, Netanyahu vows Khan al-Ahmar ‘will be evacuated’

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Israel indefinitely delays planned demolition of West Bank Bedouin village

By Jacob Magid and Alexander Fulbright

President Rivlin at a ceremony to mark 23 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, October 21, 2018 (Mark Neiman/GPO)

On Rabin anniversary, Rivlin warns of ‘erosion of memory’ of the assassination

President says the challenge for the next generation is to understand the events that led to the murder; slain PM’s grandson attacks Netanyahu for ‘incitement,’ sowing division

Local elections 2018

Meet the contenders seeking to be mayors of Israel’s top cities

On October 30, residents across the country will vote for their local officials. Here’s a look at how the race is playing out in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa (plus some tidbits)

Man voting in the town of Beit Shemesh. (Nati Shohat/Flash 90)

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

Israel reopens Gaza crossings as relative calm holds

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense minister says he will consider allowing Qatari-bought fuel into Strip in the coming days, following decrease in border clashes

MK Tzipi Livni speaks during a visit to the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumin, in the West Bank on May 18, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Livni: Netanyahu government is ‘preserving’ Hamas rule in Gaza

Illustrative: Palestinians wait to travel to Egypt through the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 26, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Gazans at Egypt border seek to escape blockade

By Clothilde Mraffko

A view of the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, some of the holiest sites for for Jews and Muslims, is seen in Jerusalem's Old City, December 6, 2017 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israel said to fear US peace plan includes Jerusalem as Palestinian capital

Yedioth Ahronoth reports upcoming announcement from the Trump administration could include a clause that would make the city a capital for both sides

US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, October 21, 2018 ( Matty Stern/US Embassy Jerusalem)

Netanyahu, Trump’s treasury secretary talk terror financing and Iran sanctions

Illustrative. A protester falls down on barbed fence as he runs for cover from tear gas fired by Israeli troops while others burn tires near the Gaza Strip's border with Israel during a protest east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 5, 2018 (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israel media reviewRethinking positions: 8 things to know for October 21

By Joshua Davidovich

Could the BRCA positive test be a lab error?

No one in my family had ever had breast or ovarian cancer — and I had to make some important decisions

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

I told my kids how the story ends

Spolier alert: Time is short, and I’m done doubting myself every step of the way

A Facebook photo of Lee Elbaz taken during her house arrest in San Francisco in January 2018 (Facebook screenshot)

Joining the likes of Madoff, alleged binary options fraudster to get DOJ website

By Simona Weinglass

Notorious distinction is because US government alleges Lee Elbaz, former CEO of Israeli binary options firm, may have ‘affected thousands’ of victims

MK David Bitan speaks with supporters at a Likud event for Rosh Hashanah in Tel Aviv on Sep. 06, 2018. (Gili Yaari/FLASH90)

Ex-coalition whip interrogated for 11th time in bribery probe

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eldest son Yair Netanyahu is seen at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on June 5, 2018. (Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu trades barbs with TV presenter who hosted his dad’s heckler

PM’s son calls talk show anchor Ofira Assayag a ‘vulgar beast’ for interviewing woman who interrupted his father during a speech this week; Assayag then insults his mother

Illustrative: Likud MK Oren Hazan speaking during a Knesset plenary session, November 27, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

MK files complaint against colleague for inciting violence against activist

Graffiti sprayed on a roadblock in the West Bank city of Hebron reads 'Boycott Israel' (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)

Bill calling to jail Israeli boycott activists to be rejected — report

By Stuart Winer

Deborah Benaim is creating a cookbook to showcase her family’s food, which has influences from Morocco, Spain, Moldova and Venezuela. (Courtesy of Benaim/via JTA)

Venezuelan-American chef wants to show rich culinary tradition of Latino Jews

By Josefin Dolsten

More Headlines

US President Donald Trump arrives for a 'Make America Great Again' rally at Elko Regional Airport in Elko, Nevada, October 20, 2018. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP)

Trump pulling US out of nuclear pact with Russia

By AP

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) looks toward US President Donald Trump, as Trump speaks during a joint news conference in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Russia blasts US withdrawal from nuclear arms deal as ‘dangerous step’

By AFP

Palestinian Authority Jerusalem Governor Adnan Ghaith. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Israel arrests PA’s Jerusalem governor in Beit Hanina

In this Tuesday, February 13, 2018 file photo, Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi stands inside the Ofer military prison near Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

Palestinian protest icon goes from jail cell to VIP suite

By Mohammed Daraghmeh and Josef Federman

Afghan men line up to cast their vote at a polling centre for the country's legislative election in Mazar-i-Sharif on October 20, 2018. (FARSHAD USYAN / AFP)

Chaos, violence mark Afghan parliamentary elections

By AP

A video said to have been shot on October, 19, 2018, purportedly shows Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Video shows wanted Nigerian separatist leader in Israel

By AFP

Ten American baseball players show off their new national identity cards after receiving Israeli citizenship at the Population and Immigration Authority offices in Jaffa on October 17, 2018. (Israel Baseball via JTA)

US baseball players get Israeli citizenship in boost to Olympic team

By JTA

United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman speaks at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, Sept. 12, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

US government seeks to recover Jewish art collector’s painting stolen by Nazis

By ToI Staff and Agencies

From the DocAviv-winning documentary, 'Family in Transition,' which will be shown at DocAviv Maalot-Tarshiha in November 2018 (Courtesy Roy Rot)

Top FiveNo holidays on the calendar? No problem. Autumn’s got cultural festivals

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli startup Beck Medical Ltd. has created NozNoz, contact lenses for the nose, to curb smells and help cut back on hunger (Courtesy)

Scent-blocking nose device aims to take a bite out of weight loss market

By Federico Maccioni

Lena Dunham attends the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts American Songbook Gala at Alice Tully Hall in New York on May 29, 2018. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Critical CareLena Dunham reveals she had ovary removed, blasts US health care

By ToI Staff and AP

Executives from Manchester United, including Avram Glazer, fourth from left, and Joel Glazer, third from left, applaud after ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on August 10, 2012 in New York. (AP/Jin Lee)

Manchester United owner pulls out of Saudi confab, deflating team sale rumors

By ToI Staff and AFP

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