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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 24, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the US Jewish Federations' annual General Assembly, in Tel Aviv, on October 24, 2018 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

GA 2018, Tel Aviv

Blaming ‘ultra-Orthodox street,’ Netanyahu defends freezing Western Wall deal

By Raphael Ahren

PM tells US Jewish leaders that spats over the holy site and conversion can easily be overcome and that he’s worried more by the loss of Jewish identity in the Diaspora

A woman reads a newspaper while floating in the Dead Sea, May 20, 2017. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

GA 2018 at the KnessetCome for the falafel, stay for the poll; MK says give Jewish tourists the vote

By Raphael Ahren

AnalysisAmerican Jews seek dialogue with Israelis, but which Israelis, and to what end?

Police gather outside the Time Warner Center after a suspected explosive device was sent to the CNN offices on October 24, 2018, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Package sent to CNN bureau had possible live bomb, white powder — NYPD

By Michael Bachner

US police said to intercept suspicious package sent to Rep. Maxine Waters, after wave of threats against US Democratic targets authorities believe were made by the same person

6:32 pm

Suspicious package sent to US Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters
6:24 pm

George Soros’s son links bomb attacks to anti-Semitism, Trump campaign
6:14 pm

Egypt angered by scuffle at Jerusalem church

Illustrative: Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, speaks at the Jewish Democratic Council of America's launch reception in Washington, DC, on November 8, 2017. (Chris Kleponis)

Jewish Dems launch ad campaign targeting voters in US swing districts

By Eric Cortellessa

Ahead of midterms, JDCA says it’s pouring six figures into reaching Jewish voters across country, with their vote likely to be crucial in several key battles, particularly Florida

AnalysisRepublicans and Democrats both try to paint the other side as worse for the Jews

Non-orthodox leaders downplay Netanyahu’s ‘back channel’ delegation of rabbis

Racist, anti-Semitic robocall targets Florida governor candidate Andrew Gillum

By JTA

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks to Palestine TV, the official PA television station. (Screenshot: Facebook)

Abbas: PLO to review agreements with Israel, could abrogate many of them

PA president says Ramallah could also cancel deals with the US because of its opening of embassy in Jerusalem, other sanctions

Palestinian Authority PM calls for Chinese role in peace process

Macron to unveil peace plan soon if Trump doesn’t, top diplomat said to tell MKs

Israel media reviewTough breaks: 8 things to know for October 24

By Joshua Davidovich

Trucks are seen at the gate of the Kerem Shalom crossing, the main passage point for goods entering Gaza, in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, on July 17, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)

Qatari fuel flows into Gaza as relative calm persists on border

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense minister allows shipments to enter Strip after halting them following a rocket that struck a Beersheba home

Senior Egyptian intelligence officials hold talks with Hamas in Gaza

Outgoing Gaza Division chief: Hamas in control of Gaza border violence

By Judah Ari Gross

Netanyahu on visit to Gaza border: Hamas ‘fully understands’ Israel’s messages

By Michael Bachner

This is a 'ridiculous conspiracy theory' - ex-minister Sa'ar

PM said to stall on elections due to plot by Rivlin, who calls notion ‘paranoia’

Former minister Gideon Sa’ar also tied to purported ‘coup’ attempt highlighted by pro-PM daily; Likud MKs say they’ll limit president’s power to choose who will form coalition

President Reuven Rivlin (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a memorial service marking 23 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, on October 21, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the his office in Jerusalem on October 14, 2018. (Amir Cohen/Pool/AFP)

Investigators said to wrap up graft probes into Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for newly appointed Supreme Court judge at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on August 9, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Top judge says lawmakers fuel ‘violent discourse’ with attacks on Supreme Court

Analysis

Despite death threats, I want to serve Jerusalem

I’m running for city council to stem the forces of extremism born of hopelessness

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, center right, arrives for a tour in the East Jerusalem neighborhoods of Beit Hanina and Shuafat. October 22, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jerusalem mayor makes rare visit to East Jerusalem refugee camp

Illustrative. Israeli troops walk through the Palestinian town of Halhul, north of Hebron, after a resident stabbed a security guard in a terror attack at a nearby settlement on February 7, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF arrests Palestinian for shooting that it says never happened

By Judah Ari Gross

Soldiers reported hearing gunfire at a military post in the southern West Bank, but an investigation revealed no shots had been fired

Palestinian said killed by soldiers in northern West Bank clash

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Police arrest terror suspect on Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway

Gazan teen said killed in border clashes with Israeli troops

Stuart Weinblatt

About that rabbis’ meeting with Bibi

The purpose of our Reform, Conservative and Orthodox Unity Mission was to engage constructively and not to hurl public criticism at Israel

Kahane and Carlebach: Counterculture and its rabbis

How two very different Orthodox rabbis defied the establishment to promote true religiosity, for better and for worse

John Bercow, the Speaker of the House of Commons, makes an address at the Houses of Parliament in London, Thursday, February 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool)

UK’s beleaguered speaker of the House could block Brexit, say opponents

By Robert Philpot

Cardi B arrives at the American Music Awards on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2018, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Costly coming of age

Cardi B ‘paid $500K’ to play at ‘epic’ New York bar mitzvah party

By JTA

The ‘Bodak Yellow’ singer reportedly earns around half a million dollars to perform for a boy called Jake at the swanky Tao club in Manhattan

Sarah Silverman, and Louis C.K. attend the Governors Ball after the Oscars on February 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (PAl Powers/Invision/AP)

Sarah Silverman says she allowed Louis C.K. to masturbate in front of her

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Israel Police officers restrain a Coptic cleric during a protest against safety maintenance work at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Old City of Jerusalem, October 24, 2018. (Patriarchate of the Orthodox Copts in Jerusalem/Facebook)

Police forcibly remove Coptic priests blocking workers from Holy Sepulchre

By Stuart Winer

Israeli Premier League soccer player Itzhak Asefa, seen during a hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court, October 24, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Soccer player indicted in hit-and-run that killed teen cyclist

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative. (Bet_Noire; iStock by Getty Images)

RedHill gets added backwind for drug to treat Crohn’s disease

By Shoshanna Solomon

In this photo from January 26, 2013, George Soros attends the World Economic Forum at the Swiss resort of Davos. (Eric Piermont/AFP)

Device found on Soros property confirmed by NY police as active bomb

By AP and ToI Staff

Albania's Taulant Xhaka,, left, fights for the ball with Israel's Munas Dabbur during the UEFA Nations League soccer match between Albania and Israel at Elbasan Arena, in Elbasan, southern Albania, Sept. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)

Israel to broadcast soccer games to settlements as European body gives up demand

By Michael Bachner

President Reuven Rivlin visits students at the Religious school "Noam Eliyahu" in the southern Israeli city of Netivot, on the first day of school on September 2, 2018. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Rivlin opens home to public with new ‘Israeli Hope’ visitor’s center

A Barak-8 missile, developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is launched during a test. (IAI)

IAI wins $777 million deal to supply India with maritime missile defense system

Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III delivers a statement to the press as he stands next to the Custodian of the Holy Land Fr. Francesco Patton and Armenian Bishop Siwan (L) on February 25, 2018, outside of the closed doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)

Israel reassures churches it does not seek to seize their lands

By AFP and Sue Surkes

US President Donald Trump stops to talk to the media before walking across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, October 22, 2018, to board Marine One helicopter for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland., en route to Houston. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Most Israeli men support Trump’s critique of #MeToo — survey

By Michael Bachner

Members of the nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) party carry torches during a rally in Kiev, Ukraine, Jan. 29, 2017, to mark the anniversary of a battle near the town of Kruty (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Ukrainian politician posts picture of Cossack beating a Jew with a bloody flail

By JTA

Illustrative: Israeli schoolchildren, August 27, 2013. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90/File)

Education Ministry ends suicide prevention program over missing budget – report

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (Illustrative photo: CC BY rutlo, Flickr)

Measles cases in New York linked to travel to Israel

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