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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 30, 2018

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The victims of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooting, October 27, 2018. (Facebook/Google Maps/JTA Collage)

78 minutes of hell

How the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting unfolded — minute-by-minute

Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life/Or L'Simcha Congregation stands across the street from the synagogue in Pittsburgh, October 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life rabbi: ‘I heard him execute my congregants’

A courtroom sketch depicting Robert Gregory Bowers as he appeared in a wheelchair at federal court on Monday, October 29, 2018, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Dave Klug via AP)

Pittsburgh synagogue massacre suspect appears in court; could face death penalty

Screen capture from video of US President Donald Trump, left, during an interview with Laura Ingraham of Fox News, at the White House, Washington, October 29, 2018. (YouTube)

Trump touts Jerusalem embassy move as proof he is not encouraging anti-Semites

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Asked on Fox News about accusations he is fueling extremism, US president notes his actions benefiting the Jewish state

US President Donald Trump speaks about crude pipe bombs targeting Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, CNN and others, during an event on the opioid crisis, in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, DC, on October 24, 2018. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Trump calls media ‘Enemy’ after Pittsburgh shooting, mail-bomb plot

By Catherine Lucey

In this October 28, 2018 frame from video, Barry Werber describes how he survived the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting during an interview, in Pittsburgh, US. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted)

Pittsburgh survivor asks Trump not to come, likens him to Nazis; others disagree

By Michael Bachner and AP

Vice President Mike Pence, right, prays with 'Rabbi' Loren Jacobs, of Bloomfield Hills' Congregation Shema Yisrael, for the victims and families of those killed in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, at a rally for Republicans in Oakland County, Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, at the Oakland County Airport in Waterford, Mich. (Tanya Moutzalias/Ann Arbor News-MLive.com via AP)

Outrage as Pence brings out Messianic ‘rabbi’ to pray for synagogue victims

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Loren Jacobs invokes ‘Jesus the Messiah’ in his prayer; Pence says he did not know the cleric, who was invited to event by Jewish GOP candidate Lena Epstein

Stars of David with names of those killed in a shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, at a memorial outside the synagogue, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Rampage victims’ funerals begin as Trump heads to Pittsburgh

By MARYCLAIRE DALE and CLAUDIA LAUER

Stars of David with names of those killed in a shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, at a memorial outside the synagogue, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

After Pittsburgh attack, US Justice Department launches hate crimes website

By AFP

French soldiers patrol on January 21, 2015, in front of a synagogue in Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris, as part of France's national security alert system Vigipirate. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Images)

Analysis

In Europe, synagogues are fortresses. Is this the path for the US?

A multilayered defensive doctrine — with armed guards, sterile areas and panic rooms — is the norm in Europe; after Pittsburgh, experts see US congregations heading the same way

A person pauses in front of Stars of David with the names of those killed two days earlier in a deadly shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue, in Pittsburgh, October 29, 2018. (Matt Rourke/AP)

Attacks renew debate: Should US have domestic terrorism law?

By Eric Tucker and MICHAEL BALSAMO

A Pittsburgh police officer walks past the Tree of Life synagogue and a memorial of flowers and stars in Pittsburgh, on October 28, 2018. (AP/Gene J. Puskar)

Iranian refugee raises over $700,000 for Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue

By Josefin Dolsten

Illustrative - A man casts his ballot at a voting station on the morning of the Municipal Elections, on October 30, 2018, in Kedumim. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Mayoral races headed for Haifa upset, Jerusalem runoff and incumbent win in TA

By Jacob Magid and Tamar Pileggi

Einat Kalisch Rotem stuns Yona Yahav in north’s largest municipality, Moshe Lion and Berkovich run away with lead in capital and Huldai fends off upstart Zamir in first Hebrew city

11:56 pm

Berkovitch takes substantial lead over Lion in Jerusalem mayoral race
11:47 pm

Mayoral races headed for Haifa upset, Jerusalem runoff and incumbent win in TA
11:24 pm

Lion, Berkovitch maintain lead in Jerusalem with third of vote counted

A Jewish man walks in a street littered with election campaign posters for the upcoming Jerusalem municipal elections, in Jerusalem on October 28, 2018. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Israelis head to the polls, and the beach, as local elections kick off

By Marissa Newman

Jerusalem contest appears wide open; Tel Aviv deputy mayor challenges city’s longtime leader; and Haifa could elect its first-ever female mayor

Reporter's notebookCivic responsibility and heavenly decree: Keen voters see duty in local ballot

By Raoul Wootliff

ExclusiveBarkat was promised Jerusalem Ministry if Elkin elected mayor – Likud sources

By Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu loyalist calls PM a ‘jerk’ for backing non-Likud mayor candidate

By Michael Bachner

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly government meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, October 28, 2018 (Ohad Zwigenberg/YEDIOTH AHRONOTH/POOL)

Apparently contradicting chief rabbi, PM says shooting took place in a synagogue

Netanyahu’s tweet comes after David Lau was asked about ultra-Orthodox media’s refusal to acknowledge non-Orthodox place of worship

Rabbi Joshua Bolton of the University of Pennsylvania's Hillel center surveys damaged headstones at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia, on February 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma, File)

Anti-Semitic incidents were on the rise even before Pittsburgh shooting

A Jewish emergency crew and police officers at the site of the mass shooting that killed 11 people and wounded six at the Tree Of Life synagogue, on October 28, 2018, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/AFP)

Bennett, Jewish leaders to discuss Israeli help to US synagogues after massacre

By Judah Ari Gross

Trump is not to blame for the Pittsburgh massacre

The President is responsible for creating a polarized atmosphere, but so are Democratic leaders and average Americans

Nesanel Yoel Safran

US Jews are caught in the middle — and I’m worried

As the battlelines get drawn in America, it’s looking like neither camp sees the Jews as one of ‘theirs’

Andrew Silow-Carroll

To feel safe, Jews need a government that says and does the right thing

What many American Jews will want in the wake of Pittsburgh is an administration that stops othering people

Longserving mayors tend to become corrupt, right?

To those who think it’s time to set limits on mayors’ term of office — think again

Emergency workers from ZAKA at the scene of a deadly head-on collision on Route 90 near the Dead Sea on October 30, 2018. (ZAKA)

Six kids, parents killed in fiery wreck on Dead Sea highway

Eight victims named as Atar family from Psagot; 3 others injured in head-on collision on Route 90; medic: ‘I’ve never seen a disaster like this in all my years’

A hydrogen-powered Toyota Mirai in 2014 (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

Israeli scientists find chemical process that could lead to hydrogen-fueled cars

Researchers say they’ve unlocked a mechanism enabling use of solar energy to split hydrogen peroxide, potentially helping create cheap, efficient and clean fuel

Illustration of a how car that will run on Electriq~Global's water-based fuel will work (Courtesy)

Australian-Israeli startup creates water-based fuel for electric vehicles

By Shoshanna Solomon

The Volkswagen Group, Intel's Mobileye and Champion Motors on Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, announced plans to deploy Israel’s first self-driving ride hailing service in 2019. (Credit: Volkswagen Group)

Mobileye and VW team up for Israel’s first driverless ride-hailing system

Palestinian protesters protect their faces from tear gas fired by Israeli troops during a demonstration on the beach near the maritime border with Israel, in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip, on October 29, 2018. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP)

Despite mounting pressure, Netanyahu says Israel seeking to prevent war in Gaza

By Raphael Ahren

PM says that while a large-scale military operation might prove inevitable, it is in Israel’s interest to avert that outcome, while maintaining security

Palestinian security forces stand guard at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip on November 18, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Egyptian intelligence officials in Gaza for resumption of ceasefire talks

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party in the Knesset, October 29, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

‘Mistaken’ cabinet members holding back army from hitting Hamas, says Liberman

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, second right, at a meeting of the Palestinian Central Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on October 28, 2018. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Top Palestinian body calls for revoking recognition of Israel, nixing agreements

By Michael Bachner

Decision by Palestinian Central Council is not binding, but Abbas has vowed not to sidestep it, as he has done in the past

Saeb Erekat speaks to journalists in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on September 1, 2018. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Palestinian official says Arab states should honor Arab Peace Initiative

Volunteer paramedic Razan Najjar, 21, center, is seen before she was killed, running with protesters to take cover from tear gas fired by Israeli troops, in the Gaza Strip, near the border with Israel, during a violent demonstration east of Khan Younis, June 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

IDF launches criminal probe into killing of Gazan medic in June

By Judah Ari Gross

Portrait of Garry Winogrand (Judy Teller)

Film focuses on uncompromising street photographer’s unexposed work

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

Jair Bolsonaro, then a presidential candidate with the Social Liberal Party, waves after voting in the presidential runoff election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Silvia izquierdo)

Israel hails election of Brazil’s controversial Bolsonaro, who plans visit soon

By Raphael Ahren

Adam Thomas and Claudia Patatas, accused neo-Nazis living in the UK who named their baby after Hitler. (West Midlands Police via BBC)

Alleged UK neo-Nazi who named kid Adolf had studied in Israel, tried to convert

By Robert Philpot

Smoke rises near the Syrian village of Kafr Ain in the southern countryside of Idlib province after an airstrike on September 7, 2018. (AFP Photo/Anas Al-Dyab)

Israel has continued strikes in Syria since Russian plane downed – official

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video Selene Ticchi, an activist with the Italian neo-fascist Forza Nuova movement, wears a t-shirt with the slogan 'Asuchwitzland' on it at a rally in the northeast town of Predappio, October 28, 2018. (YouTube)

Fascist rally organizer in Italy wears ‘Auschwitzland’ T-shirt

By JTA

Screen capture from video of Israeli judoka Peter Paltchik, right, who taking a gold medal in the under 100 kilogram category at the International Judo Federation Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi, October 29, 2018. (International Judo Federation)

Israel wins second judo gold in Abu Dhabi, ‘Hatikva’ plays again

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Indonesia President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, front left, walks with Australia former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, front right, during their bilateral meeting at Our Ocean Conference in Bali, Indonesia Monday, Oct. 29, 2018.(AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

Australia’s ex-PM warns Jerusalem embassy move could harm ties with Indonesia

Anders Samuelsen, second from right, Denmark's Minister for Foreign Affairs , meets with representatives of Israeli high tech industry in Jerusalem (Courtesy: Yossi Zwecker)

Denmark won’t fund groups that promote BDS, question Israel’s legitimacy

By JTA

Rogerio Jonas Zylbersztajn, a Jewish Brazilian businessmen and philanthropist, died in Rio de Janeiro at 58 (courtesy via JTA)

Rogerio Jonas Zylbersztajn, Jewish Brazilian philanthropist, dies at 58

By Marcus M. Gilban

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