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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 31, 2018

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Analysis

In Lion-Berkovitch runoff, rogue Hasidic voters could hold key to the capital

Backed by most ultra-Orthodox, Moshe Lion remains front-runner for Jerusalem mayor on November 13 unless some rabbis decide to seek to spite their rivals in a long-shot maneuver

Supporters celebrate as Jerusalem mayoral candidate Moshe Lion arrives at his campaign headquarters , on October 30, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Campaign posters outside a voting station on the morning of the municipal elections, on October 30, 2018, in Tel Aviv. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In Tel Aviv, upstart deputy gives mayor first real scare in decades

By Raoul Wootliff and Melanie Lidman

Haifa Mayoral Candidate Dr. Einat Kalish casts her ballots at a voting station on the morning of the Municipal Elections, on October 30, 2018, in Haifa. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

In major upset, 3-term Haifa mayor trounced by female rival

By Marissa Newman

Mayor of Netanya Miriam Feirberg poses for a picture, in Netanya, on March 6, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

For some mayors, indictments and criminal probes no impediment to reelection

By Marissa Newman

Ink still fresh on his plea bargain, Tamar regional council head keeps post; Netanya, Hadera, Nazareth leaders also cling to jobs

Beit Shemesh mayoral candidate Moshe Abutbul, the incumbent, casts his ballot at a voting station during the municipal elections, on October 30, 2018, in Beit Shemesh. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Dramas abound as election results pour in from smaller municipalities

An Interior Ministry website showing results for the October 30, 2018, municipal elections. (Screenshot)

Interior Ministry faces backlash after website fails to update election results

By Michael Bachner

At the October 30, 2018, anti-Trump march, 'Pittsburgh Loves All Our Neighbors.' (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

In Pittsburgh, anti-Trump protesters ask the president not to be their neighbor

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

‘I lost a brother’: Pittsburgh Jewish community mourns, buries shooting victims

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and AP

‘I’m going to die’: Survivors relive horrors at Tree of Life

By ADAM GELLER, Allen G. Breed and MARYCLAIRE DALE

In Pittsburgh, Holocaust survivor faces evil, cheats death for second time

By Allen G. Breed

President Donald Trump speaks during the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States National Convention Tuesday, July 24, 2018, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Interview

Foxman after Pittsburgh: Trump is a demagogue, a threat to democracy and Jews

By David Horovitz

The US president is not an anti-Semite, but he emboldens extremists and doesn’t see it, says the former ADL head: ‘Pittsburgh is not Trump. It’s also Trump’

Amid protests, Trump lights candles at synagogue where 11 killed

By AP

AnalysisHow the Pittsburgh massacre is driving American Jews apart

Bennett says blaming Trump for Pittsburgh shooting is ‘unfair’

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)

Messianic ‘rabbi’ who prayed for Jewish victims had been defrocked by own order

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rabbi Loren Jacobs of the Messianic congregation caused outrage among Jews when he invoked ‘Jesus the Messiah’ in prayers at a Republican campaign stop with VP Pence

Jewish doctors treated anti-Semitic Pittsburgh gunman after rampage

By JTA

Republican Muslim hoping for US Congress seat in Trump era

By Javier Tovar

US voters poised to elect 2 Muslim women to Congress

Israeli Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev, middle, shakes hands with Mohamed Bin Tha'loob Al Derai, President of UAE Wrestling Judo & Kickboxing Federation, after one Israeli player won the bronze medal during the Abu Dhabi Grand Slam Judo tournament in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)

Analysis

Aya Batrawy and Josef Federman

Secret no more: Israel’s outreach to Gulf Arab states emerges into the open

Miri Regev’s tears during UAE judo tournament and Netanyahu’s public visit to Oman were unthinkable not long ago, but have been enabled by common Iranian threat

Netanyahu likely to attend inauguration of Brazil’s new strongman president

By Raphael Ahren

Israel appoints its first female ambassador to Egypt

Likud minister calls for ‘peace and security’ at Dubai conference

By AFP

Shaina Be Hirsch

In Pittsburgh, hatred of Jews is nothing new

A few blocks over from Mister Rogers’ neighborhood, where I grew up, was an entirely different world

Jonathan Feldstein

Pence should apologize (but it’s not his fault)

My Christian friends mean well when they invite me to their messianic congregation — they simply don’t get it

He got lunch. I got a whole new perspective

Laughing, running, shrieking kids are just being kids, but it was too loud for me to bear, until an elderly gent opened my eyes

Jonathan Weisman

It’s time for Jews to open our eyes to the anti-Semitism building on the right

Claims that BDS or Farrakhan pose the real threat are just wrong — it’s the Nationalist Right that is a growing global power

Illustrative: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, left, meets locals at Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, after an incident where where a van struck pedestrians, in London, Monday June 19, 2017. (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP)

Poll: 38% of British voters brand Jeremy Corbyn an anti-Semite

By Robert Philpot

After a tumultuous summer of revelations, Britons appear unconvinced by the UK opposition leader’s rebuttal of allegations of anti-Semitism

Illustrative photo of Jewish people praying in a synagogue in Warsaw, Poland, on February 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

Massive European study finds large gap in East, West acceptance of Jews

Illustrative: In this April 23, 2016 photo, members of the Ku Klux Klan participate in cross burnings after a 'white pride' rally in rural Paulding County near Cedar Town, Georgia. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

N. Ireland police probe group that posed in KKK costumes outside Islamic center

By AFP

French President Emmanuel Macron, right, speaks as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens during a joint press conference after their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on June 5, 2018.
(PHILIPPE WOJAZER/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

France sends top envoy to push restarting Israel-Palestinian talks — report

By Raoul Wootliff

National security adviser reportedly meets with Israeli, Palestinian officials to discuss including Mideast conflict in Paris Peace Forum agenda next month

7:33 pm

Israeli officials traveled to Chad to discuss renewing ties -- report
7:14 pm

Macron sent envoy to discuss peace process with Israelis, Palestinians -- report
6:32 pm

Dramatic count of soldiers' votes underway in Beit Shemesh mayoral race

US-Israeli startup Silo has developed a vacuum technology to help keep food fresh for longer (Courtesy)

Is the cheese still good? and other questions a new food technology can answer

By Federico Maccioni

US-Israeli firm Silo aims to cut food waste with vacuum-sealing containers that keep track of what’s in the fridge and keep it fresh for longer

Rounding up the herd on the Golan Heights (Courtesy Mire Golan)

Herd mentality: Golan Heights cowboys form cooperative for top-quality beef

By Jessica Steinberg

Jerusalem Mayoral candidate Ofer Berkovitch speaks at his campaign headquarters in Jerusalem, on October 31, 2018. ( Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Municipal elections 2018

Lion roars, and other snap takeaways from local election results

Elkin down and out as four become two in Jerusalem, while Tel Aviv’s Huldai fights off insurgent challenge and Haifa sees first female mayor of major Israeli city

Jerusalem mayoral candidates Ofer Berkovich (L) and Moshe Lion during an October 21, 2018 debate ahead of the Jerusalem Municipality elections on October 30, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In shocker, Lion and Berkovitch headed for runoff in Jerusalem

By Marissa Newman and ToI Staff

Tel Aviv mayoral candidate Ron Huldai casts his ballot on October 30, 2018. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Tel Aviv mayor fends off deputy, cruises to fifth term

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Israeli security forces stand guard as Druze men protest against municipal elections in front of a polling center in the village of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights on October 30, 2018. (Photo by JALAA MAREY / AFP)

Protests and violence as Druze in Golan vote in local elections

By AFP and ToI Staff

Community largely boycotts polls citing allegiance to Syria, with stun grenade thrown at voting station in Yarka; poll is also controversial in East Jerusalem

A Palestinian from Jerusalem prepares to cast her vote during local elections on October 30, 2018, in Shuafat, East Jerusalem. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Breaking boycott, some East Jerusalemites vote in hope for better services

An Israeli man hangs campaign posters for local elections in the center of Jerusalem on October 30, 2018. (THOMAS COEX / AFP)

Polling stations close with slightly higher turnout, close races in major cities

By Michael Bachner

More Headlines

Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen gives a press conference in Copenhagen, on October 30, 2018. (Martin Sylvest/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP)

Israel says Mossad tipped off Danes to alleged Iranian assassination plot

By Judah Ari Gross and AFP

An Israeli man hangs campaign posters for local elections in the center of Jerusalem on October 30, 2018. (THOMAS COEX / AFP)

Israel media reviewRunoffs, revolutions and rage: 9 things to know for October 31

By Joshua Davidovich

US President Donald Trump (left) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

The Daily Kickoff: October 31, 2018

The Anti-Defamation League said this flier depicting a Jewish candidate suggested anti-Jewish imagery. (Ed Charamut flier via JTA)

Connecticut candidate sends out flier with Jewish opponent holding $100 bills

By JTA

Illustrative: Members of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the US, hold a swastika burning after a rally on April 21, 2018, in Draketown, Georgia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Halloween haunted house holds ‘Swastika Saturday’ on day of Pittsburgh attack

By JTA

The Atar family, killed in a car crash near the Dead Sea on October 30, 2018. (Courtesy)

Driver held on suspicion of killing family of 8 while under influence

Religious Affairs Minister David Azoulay arrives at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem for the weekly cabinet meeting on December 11, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Religious Affairs Minister Azoulay dies after battle with cancer

By Alexander Fulbright and Raoul Wootliff

Mourners carry the bodies of three teens, wrapped in Palestinian flags, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike during their funeral in the town of Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip, October 29, 2018. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Army says it didn’t know Palestinians targeted on border were minors

By Judah Ari Gross and Agencies

Cpt. (res.) Eliav Gelman (Hagar Amibar/Israel Air Force)

Court avoids murder conviction for Palestinian involved in officer’s killing

US President Donald Trump speaks, following a ceremony signing the 'America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018' into law in the Oval Office at the White House on October 23, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US mosque bomb plotters blame Trump’s rhetoric for their attempted attack

By ROXANA HEGEMAN

Jon Bon Jovi rocking Tel Aviv in October 2105 (Courtesy Bluestone Group)

Livin' on a prayerBon Jovi to return to Israel in July as part of European tour

By Jessica Steinberg

An Israeli Air Force F-15 takes off during the Blue Flag air exercise at the Ovda air force base, north of the Israeli city of Eilat, on November 8, 2017. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Israel, Boeing sign multi-billion-dollar ‘reciprocal’ spending agreement

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