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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 5, 2019

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In this December 3, 2003, file photo, death row inmate Randy Halprin, then 26, sits in a visitation cell at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas. (AP Photo/Brett Coomer, File)

Texas execution halted over claims judge was anti-Semitic

Illustrative: Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, New York, April 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Anti-Semitic hate crimes in NYC have risen significantly in 2019

Emily Austen (Screen capture: YouTube)

Fox Sports reporter who kvetched over ‘stingy’ Jew hired by evangelical school

A Belgian politician presented this painting featuring a large swastika at the Bog-Art Gallery in Brussels. (Courtesy of LBCA/via JTA)

In Belgium, Jewish leaders worry that anti-Semitism has become kosher

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: German soldiers in Warsaw during the Nazi invasion of Poland, September 1939. (AP Photo)

Wikipedia page on Warsaw death camp where 200,000 were killed was 15-year fake

Haaretz shows online encyclopedia since 2004 hosted false entry on Nazi camp complete with gas chambers where Poles were murdered; untrue claims made way onto other Wikipedia pages

Alan Dershowitz speaks at an event at the David Intercontinental Hotel in Tel Aviv on December 11, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PM’s lawyers present opinion from Dershowitz branding Case 4000 undemocratic

Report says 5 top US law scholars argue that criminalizing Netanyahu’s efforts to sway media coverage constitutes a danger to democracy; hearing resumes on Sunday

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the opening of the 22nd Knesset in Jerusalem on October 3, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Abandoning leadership primary, Likud to confirm Netanyahu as choice for PM

Ayelet Shaked (R), leader and candidate of the New Right party that is part of the Yamina political alliance, speaks to the press while flanked by Jewish Home member and candidate Moti Yogev (L), National Union party leader and candidate Bezalel Smotrich (2nd-L), (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Shaked’s Yamina faction to officially dissolve next week

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the Fourth National Forum for the Fourth Industrial Revolution during the forum's opening session in the West Bank city of Ramallah, September 9, 2019. (Nasser Nasser/AP)

PA agrees to accept tax funds from Israel, ending stand-off over terror payments

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Transfers amount to some $170 million a month; Jerusalem reportedly will continue to withhold $12 million a month, the amount it says goes to Martyrs’ Fund

Explosive detonated near West Bank IDF position, 2nd device neutralized

2 rockets fired from Gaza set off sirens, fall short of border fence, IDF says

Palestinian said killed in border riot as 6,000 join Gaza protests

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, pauses while speaking at a campaign event, September 29, 2019, at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)

Sanders had heart attack, campaign says, as he is released from the hospital

By Michelle L. Price

‘I look forward to getting back to work,’ 78-year-old presidential hopeful says after cancelling campaign events for second time in as many months due to health problems

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer left, talks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, before a House vote at the Capitol in Washington, June 26, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pelosi, Schumer to headline J Street conference

US President Donald Trump talks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House, October 4, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Impeachment probe reaches directly into White House with new subpoena

By Zeke Miller and Jill Colvin

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, October 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Iranian hackers reportedly targeted Trump 2020 presidential campaign

By AP and ToI Staff

Microsoft says attackers breached 4 of its customers’ accounts, went after US government officials, journalists, dissidents

US President Donald Trump speaks during an Armed Forces welcome ceremony for the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, Sept. 30, 2019, at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump insists he, not Iran, called off talks with Rouhani at UN

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: A Shiite supporter of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group with a portrait of a dead Hezbollah fighter on his head weeps as he listens to the death story of Imam Hussein during the holy day of Ashoura, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, on September 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

AnalysisUS sanctions on Iran-backed Hezbollah deepen Lebanon’s economic crisis

French spymaster Marie-Madeleine Fourcade's false identity card as Marie-Suzanne Imbert. (Granger)

Author Interview

Forgotten female spymaster led French Resistance’s largest intelligence ring

By Rich Tenorio

Representative Elaine Luria, right, followed by Representative Abigail Spanberger, left, leave a House Democratic Caucus meeting with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi where she was persuaded to launch a formal impeachment inquiry against US President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington, September 24, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

A Jewish congresswoman gets flak in her swing district for taking on Trump

Paula Mack Drill

We experience loss differently

Two people in similar circumstances reacted to similar condolences in opposite ways; there is no one-size-fits-all way to bring comfort to the grieving

Writing to remember

Socrates refused to write down his ideas, but committing a text to writing can make an author’s words immortal — that’s the point of the written Torah

Jolie King and Mark Firkin (YouTube screenshot)

In apparent swap, Iran frees Australian travel bloggers charged with spying

By AP

Simultaneous with return of Jolie King and Mark Firkin, Iranian state TV reports release of scientist detained by Australia for buying defense system from US

Russian journalist Yulia Yuzik, arrested in Tehran in October 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Russian journalist held in Iran as alleged spy for Israel ‘to be freed soon’

By AFP and ToI Staff

The windmill plaza in the Mishkenot Sha’ananim neighborhood of Jerusalem, which was first established in 1860. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Tombs, palaces, poverty and plague: Follow Montefiore’s early Holy Land travels

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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A sign for Chabad in the main bazaar in New Delhi, India, December 12, 2016 (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

India issues terror alert for Jewish, Israeli targets on Yom Kippur

Iraqi security forces keep watch at Tahrir Square in central Baghdad on October 5, 2019, after a curfew was lifted following a day of violent protests. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)

Curfew lifted in Baghdad after nearly 100 killed in protests

By Maya Gebeily

Michal Sela, found stabbed to death at her home outside Jerusalem on October 3, 2019. (Facebook)

Court remands man suspected of stabbing wife to death before attempting suicide

French soldiers stand guard near the police headquarters in Paris on October 3, 2019, after four officers were killed in a stabbing attack. (Bertrand Guay/AFP)

Probe into deadly stabbing at Paris police HQ handed to anti-terror prosecutor

By Gregory Danel and Benjamin Legendre

Parliament Speaker Ali Abdel Aal presides over Egypt's Parliament as it meets to deliberate constitutional amendments allowing Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to stay in office till 2034, in Cairo Egypt, February 13, 2019. (AP Photo)

Egypt parliament speaker praises Hitler to defend government spending

By ToI Staff and AP

Signs about measles and the measles vaccine are displayed at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, New York, March 27, 2019. (Seth Wenig/AP)

Measles remains ‘eliminated’ in US despite over 1,200 cases, many ultra-Orthodox

By AFP

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