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What Matters Most On Friday, November 2, 2018

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Delegates at the Labour Party's conference in Liverpool hold up Palestinian flags during a debate on September 25, 2018, as leader Jeremy Corbyn looks on from the podium. (AFP Photo/Oli Scarff)

UK police launch criminal probe of anti-Semitism in Labour

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov at the Evksinograd Palace in Varna, Bulgaria, November 2, 2018. (Amos Ben Gersom, GPO)

Netanyahu: Khashoggi killing was ‘horrendous,’ but Saudi stability is paramount

In Bulgaria, PM says Riyadh’s role in countering Iran must be maintained; meeting with Balkan leaders, premier says Israel’s world status ‘rising’

Netanyahu said to urge Washington to stick by Saudi crown prince

PM: Iran ‘most potent force of militant Islam’; threatens Israel, Europe alike

By ToI Staff and AP

Israel said to warn Beirut it will strike Hezbollah rocket factories

Robert Bowers used the social media site Gab, one of a number of havens for the far-right, to vent his hatred of Jews and immigrants. (AFP/ Getty Images/JTA Collage)

Analysis

Josefin Dolsten

What is Gab and where else are anti-Semites gathering on the internet?

Site frequented by Pittsburgh massacre suspect Robert Bowers is one of many platforms allowing white supremacists to meet like-minded individuals

Brooklyn synagogue defaced with ‘Kill the Jews’ graffiti

Graffiti about ’12 dead’ and Jesus painted on French Jewish center

By JTA

Days after synagogue massacre, online hate is thriving

Analysis

Amanda Borschel-Dan

How to pick up the pieces? Pittsburgh’s Jewish leaders debrief on a tragic week

The heads of the Jewish federation, JCC and Jewish Family and Community Services talk about the practical steps taken and those still left uncharted

These are stones found on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018, part of a makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life Synagogue to the 11 people killed during worship services Saturday Oct. 27, 2018 in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

US Hasidic newspaper omits photos of Pittsburgh’s female victims

By JTA

Pittsburgh synagogue shooter’s mother ‘hurting for Jewish community’

By JTA

Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect Robert Bowers pleads not guilty

By MARYCLAIRE DALE

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

You think Jewish unity is impossible? I know better

What it means for all Jews to come together… for one Jewish cause

Israel’s new mayors and the matriarchs

It takes a special woman for the Bible to seek out her opinion — and value it!

Ilana Goldstein Saks

Praying and planting

Isaac seems like the boring patriarch, until you realize that he’s the Torah’s archetype for all humanity (Chayei Sarah)

A ‘balanced’ Rabin rally does us all a disfavor

The event should be a chance to remind Israelis that incitement is still rife against the left — not against the right

Newborn baby suffering from measles. (Illustrative, iStock by Getty Images/andriano_cz)

Toddler dies of measles in Jerusalem, in first such incident in 15 years

Amid spike in cases throughout Israel, Health Ministry chief considers banning from schools children whose parents refuse to vaccinate them

Supporters of far-right lawmaker and presidential candidate for the Social Liberal Party, Jair Bolsonaro, celebrate in Rio de Janeiro, after the former army captain won Brazil's presidential election, on October 28, 2018. (CARL DE SOUZA / AFP)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro confirms embassy move to Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and AFP

President-elect vows to fulfill campaign promise, says ‘Israel is a sovereign state’ that decides for itself where its capital lies, ‘and we shall duly respect that’

Palestinian politician Hanan Ashrawi (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Palestinians condemn ‘provocative’ Brazil embassy move to Jerusalem

By AFP and ToI Staff

Police arrest a protester during a demonstration in Bnei Brak against the conscription of ultra-Orthodox seminary students on November 1, 2018. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)

Israel media reviewNew alliances: 5 things to know for November 2

By Joshua Davidovich

Then-US president Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, accompanied by Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, place stones and flowers on a memorial as they pay their respects at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on October 30, 2018. (Saul Loeb/AFP)

Tree of Life rabbi says he was ‘pleasantly surprised’ by Trump’s personal side

Jeffrey Myers saw the president in a way he doesn’t think ‘America has ever seen’ during visit after Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

Trump: Troops should shoot migrants who throw rocks

By AFP

Married grandparents slain in synagogue mourned for loving lives cut short

By Arielle Kaplan and Ben Sales

After Pittsburgh massacre, painstaking and painful care for the dead

A snake catcher holds a coin-marked snake he pulled from the Western Wall, October 31, 2018. (Facebook screenshot)

Serpent in the stone

Snake emerges from Western Wall cracks, halting prayers

Harmless coin-marked snake’s capture prompts speculation of its portent by internet commentators

New Beit Shemesh Mayor Aliza Bloch celebrates with supporters as the results from the municipal elections are announced on November 1, 2018. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

Women cheered for election victories, but men are still over 95% of mayors

By Marissa Newman

While Haifa and Beit Shemesh elect their first female leaders, representation of female politicians on local councils remains far lower than in Knesset

Illustrative: Vote counting in the municipal elections on October 30, 2018 (David Cohen/Flash90)

Thousands of soldiers’ votes in Tel Aviv annulled over suspected fraud

Coin toss decided village's local election results (Video screen capture)

Up in the airVillage near Israel’s airport decides its election with a coin toss

Screenshot from Adam Sandler's new Netflix special, '100% Fresh.' (Netflix)

TV review

It’s funny how you don’t see stand up like Adam Sandler’s anymore

By Jordan Hoffman

More Headlines

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, right, and then-Jerusalem police chief Moshe Edri, left, at a press conference at the Russian Compound in Jerusalem, on October 7, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Former Tel Aviv commander tapped as next Israel Police chief

Police clash with ultra-Orthodox protesters in the city of Bnei Brak on November 1, 2018. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)

13 arrested in violent ultra-Orthodox anti-draft protest

In this photo provided by Egypt's state news agency, MENA, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi salutes as he inspects troops with Minister of Defense Sedki Sobhy, in the Red Sea port city of Suez, Egypt, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017. (MENA via AP)

Egypt hosts Arab war games, in possible nod to growing anti-Iran alliance

By AP

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas speaks to the press after meeting French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris on September 21, 2018. (AFP Photo/Ludovic Marin)

Netanyahu dispatched Shin Bet chief in bid to renew ties with Abbas — report

A view of the Dead Sea in southern Israel, on October 18, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

Israel said looking to push Dead Sea canal project to repair Jordan ties

A car belonging to a Palestinian couple is seen after it was involved in a deadly crash reportedly due to stone-throwing by Israeli settlers at the Tapuah Junction in the northern West Bank on October 12, 2018. (Zachariah Sadeh/Rabbis for Human Rights); Aisha Muhammad Talal Rabi (Courtesy)

Growing Shin Bet conviction that Jews threw rock that killed Palestinian woman

Palestinians detained by police for taking part in a conference in East Jerusalem, November 1, 2018 (Courtesy)

Israel breaks up PA-led conference in East Jerusalem, arrests local governor

Illustrative: Protesters wave Palestinian flags while riding a truck full with tires near the fence of the Gaza Strip border with Israel during a protest east of Gaza City, Friday, October 26, 2018. (AP/Adel Hana)

Gaza protest leaders to urge calm on border amid ceasefire efforts

By ToI Staff and AFP

Soldiers from the Maglan reconnaissance unit take part in a training exercise in Cyprus in October 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF special forces return to Cyprus for counterterrorism exercises

By Judah Ari Gross

Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Marie Eriksen Soreide during a lunch at the government house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 6, 2018 (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Norway summons Iranian ambassador over Denmark assassination plan

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Smoke rises from a large forest fire in the Sataf area west of Jerusalem, October 26, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Large blaze breaks out in Jerusalem Forest

Workers protest against Google's handling of sexual misconduct allegations at the company's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Israeli Google workers join global walkout over sexual misconduct policies

By AP and ToI Staff

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