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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 23, 2018

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Illustrative: The hands of a young man tied with rope (nito100; iStock by Getty Images)

Abbas and Hamas use systematic torture to crush dissent – Human Rights Watch

By ToI Staff and AP

Israeli trucks carrying diesel fuel enter the Kerem Shalom crossing on the Israel-Gaza border, October 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Report: Emerging truce deal would see Qatar fund Gaza’s salaries, fuel

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

Israel releases PA Jerusalem official held over reported abduction

Analysis

Khashoggi disliked Israel, but his brutal murder puts Jerusalem in tough spot

The Jewish state needs a strong Saudi Arabia to help confront Iran, but does not want to be seen as a mouthpiece for a regime that kills journalists

A demonstrator dressed as Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C) with blood on his hands protests outside the Saudi Embassy in Washington, DC, on October 8, 2018, demanding justice for missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (Jim Watson/AFP)

Report: Khashoggi’s body parts found in Saudi consul’s garden

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Erdogan says ‘savage murder’ of Khashoggi was planned days in advance

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Royal aide said to order writer’s death on Skype: ‘Bring me the head of the dog’

By ToI Staff and AFP

A Palestinian waves a flag during a demonstration on the beach near the maritime border with Israel, in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 22, 2018. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Palestinian teen killed during border clash with Israeli troops, Gaza says

By Joshua Davidovich

Gazan, 17, succumbs to wounds after being shot during protest east of Bureij, Hamas run Health Ministry says; six fires started by suspected arson balloons

6:47 pm

Troops shot at in West Bank, no injuries
6:42 pm

London court upholds terror conviction for imam
6:21 pm

Gazan teen killed during border clashes

Jerry Wolkowitz (Facebook photo)

US Jewish journalist dies months after alleged racist attack left him in coma

Jerry Wolkowitz, a freelance photographer and paramedic, was brutally assaulted outside his NJ home; suspect told police he attacked him for being white

A Dead Sea Scrolls fragment from the book of Micah, part of Museum of the Bible's Scholars Initiative research project published by Brill in 2016. (Image by Bruce and Kenneth Zuckerman and Marilyn J. Lundberg, West Semitic Research, courtesy of Museum of the Bible)

Five proven Dead Sea Scroll forgeries only the tip of the iceberg, scholars say

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The Museum of the Bible’s announcement it will pull fragments from display is to be lauded, but is only a first step as accusations fly over dozens of others in global collections

A Dead Sea Scrolls fragment from the book of Genesis, part of Museum of the Bible's Scholars Initiative research project published by Brill in 2016. Of the museum's 13 published scrolls, at least six are of dubious authenticity. (Image by Bruce and Kenneth Zuckerman and Marilyn J. Lundberg, West Semitic Research, courtesy of Museum of the Bible)

US museum says 5 fragments in Dead Sea Scroll collection are fake

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi speaks during a joint conference with Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit in the Jordanian capital Amman, on January 6, 2018. (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)

Jordan foreign minister says will not negotiate with Israel over leased land

Ayman Safadi dismisses Netanyahu’s promise to renegotiate after king says he won’t renew annexes to 1994 treaty, insists ‘only question will be how we cancel these leased areas’

The Jordan river can be seen in the Jordan valley area called Naharayim, October 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli farmers complain loss of Jordan land leases could kill livelihood

By AP and ToI Staff

AnalysisJordan nixing of land leases could sow distrust, but some see hope for reversal

By Raphael Ahren

Video appears to show two rockets launched from the Gaza Strip following a lightning strike on October 17, 2018 (video screenshot)

Ministers believe lightning strike at fault in Gaza rocket that hit Beersheba

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Cabinet reportedly accepts weather behind incident that almost caused major escalation in violence; justice minister confirms ‘Hamas did not mean to shoot’

Palestinian protesters hurl stones at Israeli troops during a protest on the beach at the border with Israel near Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Oct. 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Gazans scale back border protests as Egypt renews cease-fire efforts

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative. A Gazan takes bolt cutters to a border fence in footage released by the IDF from May 14 violence at the border (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF: Gazan tried to get arrested by entering Israel with knife to escape Strip

By Judah Ari Gross

US President Donald Trump (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at the United Nations General Assembly on September 26, 2018, at UN Headquarters. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump said to question Netanyahu commitment to peace, threaten to get ‘tough’

US president reportedly tell French leader he can treat prime minister same as he treats Palestinians. Comments came days before administration backed two-states for first time

Kushner: ‘Reasonable’ Palestinians will back peace plan, status quo unacceptable

Israel media reviewQuestioning commitment: 8 things to know for October 23

By Joshua Davidovich

Netanyahu honors congresswoman on eve of retirement for pro-Israel record

Halie Soifer and Ron Klein

Fact: Jews support Democrats and Dems support Israel

Data show most US Jewish voters just don’t buy scare-tactic claims that the party has turned against Israel

With enemies like this, who needs friends?

Bring it on BDS — you have nothing to lose but your battle to harm Israel

Israel and tomorrow’s America

Who’s in the perfect position to champion the Jewish state’s cause? Israeli immigrants to the US

Voting as a new Israeli: So proud, so confused

If we’re all supposed to cast ballots based on identity, what about those of us who don’t fit in any one box?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with MK Miki Zohar during a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset, on December 7, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM curbs bill that could save him from prosecution: ‘There’ll be no indictment’

By Raoul Wootliff and Stuart Winer

Legislation sponsored by Miki Zohar would have required indictments of lawmakers to be approved by the House Committee, which he chairs, and the Knesset

Likud MK floats bill that could hinder Netanyahu prosecution

By Stuart Winer and Raoul Wootliff

Jewish Home pushes narrow Supreme Court override bill to deport migrants

By Raoul Wootliff

High Court reinstates Haifa mayoral candidate, bans Elad contender

By Marissa Newman

Opposition chairman Isaac Herzog speaks on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 25, 2018. (Courtesy)

Jewish Agency chair warns of ‘existential threat’ to Israel-Diaspora ties

‘We can no longer pretend we are all the same,’ Isaac Herzog tells Federations assembly in Tel Aviv, calling for a celebration of difference

Illustrative: A 2011 marriage ceremony of an interfaith couple from Boston. (Courtesy Jared and Laurie Berezin)

Conservative rabbis given blessing to attend mixed marriages

Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis, left, speaks about his Democratic opponent Andrew Gillum during a CNN debate, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018, in Tampa, Florida (Photo by Chris O'Meara-Pool/Getty Images via JTA)

Israel is a hot, if not always relevant, topic in Florida’s governor debate

Barry Atsma, left, and Jacob Derwig portray Walraven and Gijs van Hall respectively in 'The Resistance Banker.' (Dutch FilmWorks/via JTA)

Film on forgotten Holocaust resistance fighter rocks the box office in Holland

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

George Soros, Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Foundations as he arrives for a meeting in Brussels, April 27, 2017.
(AFP/OLIVIER HOSLET)

Explosive device found in mailbox at George Soros’s New York home

Haifa terrorist Muhammad Shinawi in court (Channel 10 screenshot)

Haifa terrorist handed life sentence for killing man, wounding another

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosts Chinese VIce President Wang Qishan at the prime minister's residence, Jerusalem, October, 22, 2018 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

PM lauds ‘growing friendship’ between Israel, China as he hosts vice president

By Raphael Ahren

Head of Mossad Yossi Cohen speaks at the launch event for Libertad foundation. June 27, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Counterterrorism tech is making spy craft harder, Mossad chief says

A female prostitute stands outside a brothel in south Tel Aviv, looking at a policewoman nearby, September 21, 2008. (Kobi Gideon / FLASH90)

Knesset advances bill imposing hefty fines on prostitution clients

By Raoul Wootliff

An illustrative photo of an IDF commander at a swearing-in ceremony for female recruits on February 18, 2015 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flickr)

IDF to provide morning-after pills in effort to decrease abortions

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Check Point Software Technologies co-founder Marius Nacht (Courtesy)

Check Point billionaire Nacht: Digital healthcare is Israel’s next growth engine

By Shoshanna Solomon

Screenshot from a video showing extremist Israeli Jewish wedding-goers celebrating the killing of the Dawabsha family. (screen capture: Channel 10)

State prosecutors admit losing original video of anti-Arab ‘hate wedding’

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative image of a man using a laptop computer. (iStock by Getty Images/ Suradech14)

Police arrest 26 suspected pedophiles after online undercover op

Zionist Union chairman Avi Gabbay leads a faction meeting in Knesset on May 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Gabbay: If you can’t acknowledge causes of Rabin’s murder, don’t attend ceremony

By Raoul Wootliff

US student Lara Alqasem at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 17, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew University students protest arrival of US ex-activist held at airport

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

French revisionist writer Robert Faurisson arrives at Paris Courthouse to testify in the Roger Garaudy trial, February 27, 1998.(MICHEL GANGNE/AFP)

Robert Faurisson, a father of the Holocaust denial movement, dies at 89

By JTA and AFP

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