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What Matters Most On Friday, October 4, 2019

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A Jewish boy allegedly being forced to kiss a classmate's feet is causing outrage in Australia. (Twitter via JTA)

Australian Jewish boy forced to kiss Muslim classmate’s shoes, drawing outcry

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustration: Adriana Alvarez

From our partner‘They don’t want to call it antisemitism’: Ignored abuse at an Australian school

By REBECCA DAVIS

A Jewish boy allegedly being forced to kiss a classmate's feet is causing outrage in Australia. (Twitter via JTA)

From our partnerMinister calls to investigate anti-Semitic incidents at Australian schools

Undated picture of Russian journalist Yulia Yuzik, arrested in Tehran in October 2019.

Russian journalist arrested in Tehran on suspicion of spying for Israel

Yulia Yuzik could face 10 years in prison if found guilty of working for Israeli intelligence agencies

Archaeologist Prof. Jodi Magness at Masada, July 11, 2019. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Maybe there was no mass suicide at Masada? Top archaeologist questions a legend

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Thousands of Arab Israelis protest violence in the community and perceived government and police inaction on the issue, October 4, 2019 (Screen grab via Channel 13)

Thousands of Arab Israelis march, block roads to protest deadly crime wave

On 2nd day of rallies, community leaders demand police action to stem violence; Joint List’s Odeh urges Jews to join struggle, says society free of firearms should be shared goal

Israeli Arabs protest against violence, organized crime and recent killings in their communities, in the Arab town of Majd al-Krum in northern Israel on October 3, 2019. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

20,000 join rally as Arab Israelis strike to protest deadly crime wave

By AP and ToI Staff

Ceen Gabbai was born and raised as a Jew in Iraq, and received asylum in the United States in 2015. She now lives in Brooklyn. (Courtesy of Gabbai)

What it was like growing up as a hidden Jew in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq

This combination photo shows
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in June 17, 2019 in Paris, and US President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, September 20, 2019. (ludovic MARIN and SAUL LOEB / AFP)

People of the Pod

LISTEN: Zelensky and the Trump call — good for the Jews?

Episode #5: JTA’s Cnaan Liphshiz delves into the Jewish angle to the current US crisis * Sole US blood libel case * Delving into powerful Yom Kippur prayer Kol Nidre’s pull

Former Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker departs following a closed-door deposition led by the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill on October 3, 2019 in Washington, DC. ( Zach Gibson/Getty Images/AFP)

US diplomats pushed Ukraine to investigate Bidens, dangled Trump visit

By LISA MASCARO, Eric Tucker and MARY CLARE JALONICK

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press as he departs the White House in Washington, DC, for Florida on October 3, 2019. (Jim Watson/AFP)

Doubling down, Trump calls for China to investigate Bidens

By Jill Colvin and Zeke Miller

Yossi Klein Halevi

Israel is singing

The pulse of Israel beats in the rejuvenated musical tradition of prayer poems, an ingathering of hip-hop, devotional music, the Yom Kippur service, and clapping for unity

Shari Sarah Motro

That time I saved my elderly neighbor’s life

It was Yom Kippur and I was meditating on Bible Hill, when I remembered the gift I meant to send Barbara in recognition of who she is and how she lives with joy

Yardaena Osband

Moses’s parting command moves the people from acute dependence on God to daily life – no wonder it is read on Shabbat Shuvah, at the horizon of a new year (Vayelech)

The Torah as God’s song

The 613th commandment of making the Torah new in each generation means the text is more than history and law; it must speak to our emotions (Vayelech)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) fixes his eyeglasses during the swearing-in ceremony at the Knesset in Jerusalem on October 3, 2019 (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

In pivot, Netanyahu considers proposal to set Likud primary for next year

Amid criminal probes and challenge from rival Sa’ar, PM urged by party colleagues to avoid flash leadership vote, with ministers warning he has much to lose and little to gain

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on October 3, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Likud appears to back away from leadership primary, hours after floating idea

From left to right: Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, Culture Minister Miri Regev (standing), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then-transportation minister Israel Katz and Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis during a Knesset vote on a bill to dissolve parliament, at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 26, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As Likud girds for possible snap primary, Regev, Katz line up behind Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting at the opening of the 22nd Knesset, on October 3, 2019. Next to him is then-justice minister Amir Ohana with one of his children. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Explainer

Ambition revealed, ambition stalled, but still no path to new Israeli coalition

Netanyahu faces a rival challenge, Lapid puts aside his prime ministerial hopes, but a great deal still hinges on another would-be PM: Avigdor Liberman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) speaks during a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on October 3, 2019. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Israel media reviewOn your mark, get set, just kidding: 7 things to know for October 4

By Joshua Davidovich

Gabi Ashkenazi, one of the leaders of the Blue and White political alliance, speaks during a press conference in Tel Aviv on March 18, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Former IDF chief Ashkenazi takes helm of Knesset’s powerful defense committee

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approaches rival Benny Gantz as they and other party leaders including Avigdor Liberman and Aryeh Deri prepare to pose for a group picture during the swearing-in of the 22nd Knesset in Jerusalem, on October 3, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Riffing on Elvis, Netanyahu warns of ‘heavy price’ if no unity government

By Raoul Wootliff

PM does not mention possible Likud leadership contest or Lapid unity offer in speech to newly sworn-in Knesset; says Iran working to wipe out Israel

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the swearing-in of the 22nd Knesset on October 3, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

At Knesset swearing-in, Rivlin urges lawmakers to shed politics of division

By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid and Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's attorney Amit Hadad arrives at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem for the hearing on the corruption cases in which Netanyahu is a suspect, on October 3, 2019 (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Netanyahu hearing may be extended as his lawyers fail to wrap up arguments

Protesters clash with Iraqi riot police vehicles during a demonstration against state corruption and poor services, between the capital Baghdad's Tahrir Square and the high-security Green Zone district, on October 1, 2019. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Iraqi PM addresses the nation, urges protesters to go home; death toll at 33

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

Thousands of anti-government demonstrators have clashed with riot police in mass rallies across the country

A protester flashes the V for victory sign as a riot police vehicle burns behind him during clashes amidst demonstrations against state corruption, failing public services, and unemployment in the Iraqi capital Baghdad's central Tayeran Square on October 3, 2019 (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

Thousands protest across Iraq for third day as death toll tops 30

A scene from the movie 'Mean Girls' photoshopped to include Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. (IDF/Twitter)

So fetch

Israeli military marks ‘Mean Girls Day’ by trolling Iran on Twitter

IDF photoshops supreme leader, Hezbollah chief and Iran general into scene from 2004 hit teen comedy, calls them ‘mean girls of the Middle East’

Joaquin Phoenix attends the 57th New York Film Festival - "Joker" Intro and Q&A at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on October 02, 2019 in New York City. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Film at Lincoln Center/AFP)

Joaquin Phoenix dishes on ‘Joker,’ dramatic weight loss, and De Niro

By Lindsey Bahr

Actor widely praised for Oscar-worthy portrayal of man who goes on to become the iconic comic book villain

Director Todd Phillips, left, and cast member Joaquin Phoenix arrive at the Los Angeles premiere of "Joker" at TCL Chinese Theatre on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Happy now? Everyone is talking about ‘Joker’

By Lindsey Bahr

More Headlines

A WhatsApp photo of Michal Sela, who was found stabbed to death at her home outside Jerusalem on October 3, 2019

Police identify woman stabbed to death in suspected murder, attempted suicide

Malka Leifer at the Jerusalem District Court on February 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli officials warn of damage to Australia ties over Leifer sex abuse case

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Malka Leifer at the Jerusalem District Court on February 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court delays release of sex abuse suspect Leifer to mull appeal

Illustrative: Orthodox Jewish women walking in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, April 10, 2019. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via JTA)

Teen allegedly attacks Jewish woman in Brooklyn, pulling off her wig

By JTA

James Franco attending the Independent Filmmaker Project’s 27th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards in New York, Nov. 27, 2017. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images via JTA)

James Franco’s ex-students sue, allege sexual impropriety

By ANDREW DALTON

In this photo taken on July 25, 2019 Democratic presidential hopeful and Vermont US Senator Bernie Sanders speaks on stage during a Town Hall event at the Aratani Theater in Los Angeles, California. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP)

Bernie Sanders still hospitalized but expected to be at next debate

By Michelle L. Price

Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Matt Lieberman, son of former senator Joe Lieberman, in a screenshot from a YouTube ad announcing his Senate bid, October 2, 2019.

Joe Lieberman’s son throws hat in ring for Georgia Senate seat

By AP

Spectators hold a huge flag depicting Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock shrine during a match between Palestinian team Hilal al-Quds and Morocco's Raja Casablanca in the Arab Champions Cup at Faisal Husseini stadium in the town of al-Ram, between Jerusalem and Ramallah, on October 3, 2019. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

In first, Moroccan soccer team plays in West Bank, Saudis next

By Hossam Ezzedine

Cars stuck in a traffic jam on Highway 2 (Coastal Road) on the eve of Passover, April 19, 2018. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Israel unveils first-ever carpool lanes in bid to ease crippling congestion

Far-right paraphernalia is on sale at the Schild und Schwert (Shield and Sword) neo-nazi festival, in the small eastern German town of Ostritz on April 20, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / John MACDOUGALL)

Holocaust denial not a human right, European court rules

By AFP

The former Sackler Health and Sciences complex at Tel Aviv University. (screen capture: Google Street View)

From Tel Aviv to Oxford, schools took in millions from OxyContin maker

By Collin Binkley and JENNIFER McDERMOTT

Illustrative image of a circumcision. (yoglimogli, iStock by Getty Images)

Jews join fight against Swedish party’s call to ban circumcisions

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