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What Matters Most On Monday, October 22, 2018

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President Reuven Rivlin speaking at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly in Tel Aviv, October 22, 2018. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

GA 2018, Tel Aviv'We have to talk, and we need to listen'

Rivlin calls for ‘Reverse Birthright’ trips to better Israel-Diaspora ties

By Michael Bachner

President tells Jewish Federations assembly that recent rift between Israel and world Jewry requires reworking of 1950 pact

Analysis

Raoul Wootliff and Adam Rasgon

Dismantling ‘Isle of Peace,’ Jordan chooses hardliners over Israel ties

King Abdullah’s announcement that he won’t renew clauses in 1994 peace deal that lease border lands to Israel comes amid rising domestic pressure and economic woes

The power plant at the Isle of Peace. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

AnalysisIsraeli-Jordanian peace deal is strong – despite Amman’s ingratitude

By Avi Issacharoff

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

Israel media reviewTaking heat and taking land: 9 things to know for October 22

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative: A participant wears a kippah during a 'wear a kippah' gathering to protest against anti-Semitism in front of the Jewish Community House on April 25, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images via JTA)

Head of German Jewish community is not a Jew – report

By Michael Bachner

Der Spiegel says documents prove Wolfgang Seibert is a ‘scammer’ whose parents, grandparents were Protestant and even fought for Nazi regime; he rejects accusation

The Garland Independent School District headquarters. (CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikipedia/Frj)

Texas school asks mom to prove daughter is Jewish to excuse Yom Kippur absence

By JTA

Khalil Jabarin, who fatally stabbed Israeli Ari Fuld in a West Bank terror attack on September 16, 2018 (Screenshot/Twitter)

Palestinian terror suspect indicted for West Bank murder of Ari Fuld

Khalil Jabarin appears before court over September stabbing attack at Gush Etzion Junction

Illustrative: Border Police guard a station near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, June 10, 2018. (Israel Police)

Soldier lightly injured in stabbing attack in Hebron; assailant shot dead

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Israeli border police officers stand guard in Jerusalem's old city, Friday, Aug. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Lawyer says top PA officials held by Israel suspected of kidnapping US citizen

Israeli soldiers taking positions during clashes with Palestinian protesters across the Gaza border on October 19, 2018 near Nahal Oz. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Cabinet said to mull Gaza cease fire that’ll see Qatar fund PA salaries in Strip

Precondition for deal will be cessation of weekly border protests, but Israel expects Abbas to respond to Egyptian-mediated agreement by cutting all funds to strip

6:25 pm

Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life, study says
6:21 pm

Israel releases PA official on condition he remain under house arrest for week
6:13 pm

Jewish Home reintroduces Supreme Court override bill to deport migrants

Lebanese men, whom the IDF says are members of the Hezbollah terrorist group, peer into Israel from an observation post near the border, as seen in images released by the military on October 22, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says Hezbollah still on border illegally, posing as environmental NGO

By Judah Ari Gross

Military says it found a sixth observation post along Lebanese security fence connected to ‘Green Without Borders’ — an alleged front for the Iran-backed terror group

Betti Rosenbaum Bachenheimer, namesake of the author's mother and original writer of the recipe book; one of the original recipes, handwritten in ancient German script. (Courtesy)

A great-grandma’s recipes recall sweet stories of pre-Holocaust life in Germany

The GA and Ethiopian Jewry: Look who hasn’t been invited to dinner

The Jewish Federations allocate funds to assist Jews worldwide, so why is one particular community being ignored?

‘Your child no longer needs the meds’: Postscript to sorrow

To be honest, a part of me almost hoped that day would never come — letting go of treatment was terrifying

Nevertheless, they persist

If women manage to reduce the gender gap in the upcoming local elections, they’ll have the chance to make a real difference

Kumbaya is not what we need at the GA

We have to discuss the truly divisive issues, starting with: Is Israel the nation state of the entire Jewish People?

US President Donald Trump, right, shows a chart highlighting arms sales to Saudi Arabia during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, March 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Analysis

Josef Federman

Khashoggi’s killing threatens Trump dreams for Israeli-Palestinian peace

Saudi Arabia’s Prince Mohammed, who has been linked to journalist’s death, was meant to be linchpin of the plan, providing diplomatic cover to both sides

Report: 4 calls made from consulate to Saudi prince office on day Khashoggi died

By Suzan Fraser and Jon Gambrell

Turkey vows to reveal ‘naked truth’ over Khashoggi death

By Fulya Ozerkan

Saudi king, crown prince telephone slain writer Khashoggi’s son

By CHRIS TORCHIA, ZEYNEP BILINGSOY and Jon Gambrell

View of caravan houses in the illegal West Bank outpost of Amona on January 16, 2017. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

For years, taxpayer money reportedly used to fund illegal outposts

By Stuart Winer

Haaretz obtains documents showing the World Zionist Organization Settlement Division facilitated loans for settlers

An Israeli soldier stands next to excavators in the West Bank Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar on October 16, 2018. (Ahmad Gharabli/ AFP)

Attorney general warned cabinet against forcibly demolishing Bedouin village

A vehicle found vandalized with graffiti in the northern West Bank village of Madra, October 22, 2018. Hebrew slogan reads 'We will not sleep while our brothers are murdered.' (Israel Police)

Palestinian vehicles vandalized in West Bank hate crime

Screen capture from video of a scene from the 1996 Disney movie 'The Lion King.' ( YouTube)

The circle of life

Israeli photographer’s real-life ‘Lion King’ photo grabs headlines

By Stuart Winer

Dafna Ben Nun snaps monkey holding infant aloft in image that mirrors iconic scene from Disney movie where Simba is presented to the world

Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev speaks at an event marking the Jewish new year in the northern Israeli city of Safed on September 3, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Ministers advance bill conditioning arts funding on ‘loyalty’

By Raoul Wootliff

Proposed law would withhold state funding from works that deny Israel is Jewish-democratic country, promote racism, incite violence, destroy state symbols

Ministers support bill banning family visits to Hamas prisoners in Israeli jails

PM again puts brakes on draft law to confiscate land sold by churches

Ministers delay debate on equal rights bill aimed at reassuring Druze

By Stuart Winer and Raoul Wootliff

Students at the Shefa school in Manhattan, October 8, 2018. (Ben Sales)

Jewish education

Academy preps kids with learning disabilities for mainstream Jewish high school

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Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks at the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on October 22, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Liberman says Israel has ‘exhausted all options’ on Gaza

Contestants participate in the final round during the National Amateur Body Builders' Association competition in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 18, 2018. (Oded Balilty/AP)

Big is betterIt’s flextime as Israeli bodybuilders compete in Tel Aviv

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's granddaughter, Noa Rothman, at the state memorial service, marking 23 years since the assassination of Rabin, October 21, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

PM rebuts claim by Rabin’s granddaughter that his aide cast ex-PM as ‘traitor’

By Raoul Wootliff

Walter Bingham prepares to skydive over northern Israel. (via UK Jewish News)

Golden parachuteWWII vet, 94, becomes Israel’s oldest skydiver

Julia Louis-Dreyfus arrives at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 21st Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor presented to Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus feted for career achievement in comedy

By ASHRAF KHALIL

In this Friday, Jan. 29, 2016 file photo, Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu attends a court hearing at the Federal High court in Abuja, Nigeria. (AP Photo/ File)

Nigerian separatist leader admits he’s in Israel, says owes life to Jewish state

By AFP

New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial nominee Phil Murphy speaks to supporters during his election night victory party at the Asbury Park Convention Hall, November 7, 2017, in Asbury Park, New Jersey (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

New Jersey, Israel sign accord to boost tech, economic cooperation

By Shoshanna Solomon

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

Farrakhan’s Jewish ‘termites’ video removed from Facebook

By JTA

Illustrative photo: A viper (photo credit: CC-BY-H. Krisp, Wikimedia Commons)

Woman, 70, dies of snake bite in northern Israel

Pro-Palestinian supporters protest against Radiohead's planned concert in Tel Aviv at the TRNSMT music Festival in Glasgow, Scotland, July 7, 2017. (AFP/Digital/Andy Buchanan)

Scottish Jewish lawyer sent to diversity training after row with BDS activist

By Michael Bachner

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