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What Matters Most On Friday, October 26, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) talks with Sultan Qaboos bin Said in Oman on October 26, 2018 (Courtesy)

PMO hails 'significant step' in deepening ties in the region

In dramatic sign of warming ties, Netanyahu makes secret visit to Oman

By Raphael Ahren

The first Israeli leader to visit Muscat since 1996, prime minister discusses peace process with Sultan Qaboos bin Said

Trump envoy to visit Israel next week for talks on peace plan, Gaza

By Eric Cortellessa

Poll: Likud would come out on top in elections with Netanyahu rival at helm

Israel media reviewHiding in the shadows: 9 things to know for October 26

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative: Jordanian rescuers with sniffer dogs search for survivors of flash floods at the Dead Sea area, Jordan, on October 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Omar Akour)

Death toll rises to 20 in Jordan school trip flooding tragedy

By Agencies and ToI Staff

As Israeli rescuers return home, general sends condolences to families of victims and notes similarity to Dead Sea flash flood in April that killed 10 students

A Jordanian flag hangs on a bridge leading from Israel to Jordan in the Jordan valley area called Naharayim, or Baqura in Arabic, in northern Israel, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Jordan says peace treaty won’t be affected by decision to nix land leases

By ToI Staff and AP

A general view shows the location of the accident where people were killed in a flash flood near the Dead Sea, Jordan, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018. (AP/Raad Adayleh)

18 die as school trip swept away in Jordan flooding; Israel joins rescue effort

By Judah Ari Gross and Agencies

Interview

Amanda Borschel-Dan

To mend Israel-Diaspora gulf, Reform Jewry intends to ‘double down’ on Israel

On the heels of the JFNA GA, Rabbi Rick Jacobs voices frustration at the lack of recognition for his movement — but is determinedly optimistic the status quo will soon shift

President of the Union for Reform Judaism Rabbi Rick Jacobs at the JFNA's General Assembly in Tel Aviv, on October 24, 2018. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

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)

Egypt said to broker deal between Israel and Hamas to end Gaza violence

Sources tell Al-Hayat the agreement is not a ceasefire, but will bring an end to practice of flying incendiary balloons into Israel and attempts to breach the border

Liberman says he expects quiet weekend on Gaza border

By Judah Ari Gross

Incendiary balloon found in settlement north of Jerusalem

IDF troops arrest further suspected accomplices of Barkan terrorist

Michael Bloomberg speaks during the plenary session of the Global Action Climate Summit in San Francisco, September 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Now a Democrat, Bloomberg gives $11 million to help party in midterms

By JTA

Money to pay for ads to run in 24 districts, will also serve as proving ground to test strategies ahead of his possible 2020 presidential run

Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman (R) speaks as US President Donald Trump looks on during a strategic and policy discussion with business executives at the State Department Library in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC, April 11, 2017. (Olivier Douliery/Pool/Getty Images)

China said listening to Trump’s phone calls with some wealthy Jewish friends

By JTA

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gestures as he addresses members of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018 (AP Photo/Ali Unal)

Erdogan to Saudi Arabia: Where is Khashoggi’s body?

By Suzan Fraser and Christopher Torchia

Kingdom’s chief prosecutor to arrive in Turkey on Sunday as president says he has more ‘information and evidence’ about the killing of the crown prince’s critic

AnalysisJared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin walk a fine line on the Saudi crown prince

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (right) shakes hands with Salah Khashoggi, a son of Jamal Khashoggi, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 23, 2018. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Son of murdered journalist Khashoggi leaves Saudi Arabia

By AFP

Adi Greenberger, left, and Nadav Freeman at a Shabbat Project event in New York's Times Square last year. (Ido Simantov/Courtesy)

Over 1 million to ditch phones for Day of Rest, says South Africa’s chief rabbi

By Yaakov Schwartz

German Bundestag President Wolfgang Schaeuble pays his respects during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Memorial for Fallen Israeli Soldiers during his visit to the Knesset the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem, October. 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Germany will fight but won’t outlaw BDS, head of Bundestag says

By Raphael Ahren

Visiting Jerusalem, Wolfgang Schäuble vows to tackle boycotts ‘politically,’ dismisses concerns over state of Israeli democracy

GOP congressman sympathizes with Austrian far-right after Auschwitz visit

By Josefin Dolsten

Holocaust institute stops training guides for Poland over its rhetoric law

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Call for GWU student group head to resign over alleged anti-Semitic comment

By JTA

Chavi Eisenberg

No, Rabbi Shafran, modesty won’t prevent sexual assault

People don’t want to know that there are some terrible things that all the precautions in the world simply won’t prevent

Chana Tannenbaum

The miracle of the ram

When God created the world, it included testing Abraham with the command to sacrifice his son, Isaac (Vayera)

Mirele B. Goldsmith

Climate change is the Jewish emergency you should be talking about

The threat to our communities could not be more dire, and yet it’s still possible to take effective action

God and strangers (Vayera 5779)

What was great about Abraham is that he understood that serving God and welcoming strangers were not two things but one

A view of the Jerusalem to Ben Gurion Airport electric train seen near Jerusalem, September 25, 2018. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

The fast train from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv isn’t fast and doesn’t go to Tel Aviv

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The University of Winnipeg (CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikipedia, KrazyTea)

Canadian university admits anti-Semitic comments made at faculty-sponsored event

By JTA

Julie Swetnick in a photo provided by her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, on Twitter. (Michael Avenatti/Twitter via JTA)

Top Republican asks for criminal investigation into Jewish Kavanaugh accuser

By KEVIN FREKING

A suspected 'price tag' hate crime attack in Yafa an-Naseriyye in northern Israel, October 26, 2018. The graffiti reads, 'Revenge'. (Police Spokesperson's Unit)

Vandals target cars, houses in suspected anti-Arab hate crime

Yermi Kaplan onstage at the Piano Festival in Tel Aviv on Thursday, October 25, 2018 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Key performanceA duet of the new and familiar with Yermi Kaplan and Maya Isacowitz

By Jessica Steinberg

Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, right, with Barack Obama in the Oval Office on September 10, 2014. (White House/Pete Souza)

Israeli spy firm sought info from Obama aides on Iranian assets — report

In this file photo taken on September 17, 2017 Chairman of Arcadia Group, Philip Green, is pictured before the start of the Topshop catwalk show for the Spring/Summer 2018 collection on the third day of The London Fashion Week Women's in London. (CHRIS J RATCLIFFE / AFP)

UK Jewish fashion mogul named in sexual harassment scandal

By AP

In this photo from January 19, 2018, billboards from Hezbollah's committee for the support of the Islamic resistance, that shows a Hezbollah fighter while holding the group's yellow banner and the Lebanon's national flag, are displayed on the Beirut airport highway, in southern Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

US sanctions on Iran pressure Tehran’s regional allies

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Bassam Mroue

Borey Ai poses for a photo at the Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco, October 23, 2018. (Jeff Chiu/AP)

Cambodian refugee who killed Jewish woman as teen seeks pardon

By Don Thompson

In this Dec. 21, 2016 file photo, Robert Durst sits in a courtroom in Los Angeles. (AP/Jae C. Hong, Pool)

Real estate heir Durst ordered to stand trial for friend’s slaying

By AP

IDF Military Intelligence Director Major General Aviv Kochavi, August 08, 2013. (photo credit: FLASH90)

Liberman names pick for next IDF chief: Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli sailor Roy Erez. (Facebook)

Israeli sailor said to be indicted in Colombia for smuggling 234 kgs of cocaine

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, right, greets Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi at the presidential palace, in Carthage near Tunis, Tunisia, October 2, 2018 (Hassene Dridi/AP)

Palestinian teen icon Tamimi urges more assaults on Israeli troops

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