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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 6, 2019

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Liat Ben-Ari (Ynet video screenshot)

Key official said to have flown to South Africa with family

Lead prosecutor in PM graft on vacation for this week’s pre-indictment hearings

Liat Ben-Ari absent from Sunday, Monday sessions; Netanyahu attorneys enter third day of arguments predicting success: ‘When we’re done, no choice but to close the cases’

Communications Minister David Amsalem, speaks during a ceremony at the Communications Ministry in Jerusalem, July 10, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

After woman murdered, minister says police should deprioritize Netanyahu probes

Demonstrators back Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his corruption hearings near the home of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, on October 5, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Report: Justice officials say PM’s lawyers failed to refute charges in Case 4000

Foreign Minister Israel Katz at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, during a UN climate conference in the city, in late June, 2019. (Courtesy Katz's office)

FM confirms initiative to sign ‘historic’ non-aggression pact with Arab states

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

In this photo released on July 1, 2019, Foreign Minister Israel Katz visits the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Center in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Courtesy Katz's office)

Israel and Gulf states working on ‘historic pact’ to end conflict between them

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a meeting with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on September 18, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP)

Saudis said moving toward detente with Iran amid US reluctance to act militarily

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Aerial photograph of the Early Bronze Age excavation site near modern Harish. (Assaf Peretz, Israel Antiquities Authority)

ArchaeologyIt's the 'Early Bronze Age New York of our region'

‘Israel’s ancient NYC’: 5,000-year-old Canaanite megalopolis may rewrite history

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Uncovered in northern Israel, Ein Esur, largest Early Bronze Age settlement ever excavated here, set to ‘change forever what we know about emergence of urbanization in entire area’

From the blogs

Syrian artillery shells fell around them. They kept walking.

It was the Yom Kippur War, in the heat of battle, and as those bearded men in black came toward me I no longer felt fear

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on December 25, 2016. (AFP/POOL/Dan Balilty)

Israel media review

Who said, who said: 6 things to know for October 6

By Joshua Davidovich

Netanyahu’s legal woes and his Likud maneuverings against Gideon Sa’ar engender many accounts, few sources and almost no way to know how to cut through the BS

Likud party member Gideon Saar at the party faction meeting during the opening session of the 22nd Knesset, on October 3, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Sa’ar confirms he will take on Netanyahu once Likud calls leadership contest

View of the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on June 23, 2009. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

In leak, officials admit PM’s residence staff had to work without pay on Shabbat

Lacey Schwartz Delgado. (Courtesy)

Interview

A biracial Jewish filmmaker refuses to shy from thorny questions of identity

By Rich Tenorio

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

Jewish law says they’re married; the Rabbinate says, not so much

When Israel’s state rabbis undermine private weddings, they are consolidating their own power, not protecting Halakhah

US Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt speaks at a conference in New York City, June 16, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Exiting US peace envoy says he tried to change the discourse about the conflict

By Eric Cortellessa

Jason Greenblatt tells newspaper Israeli-Palestinian strife ‘not the core conflict of the region’; defends unilateral decisions as right for US, even if not helpful to broker deal

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

Top-level security cabinet meets for 1st time in 2 months, amid warnings on Iran

Israeli Arabs protest against violence, organized crime and recent killings in their communities in the town of Majd al-Krum, northen Israel, October 3, 2019. (David Cohen/FLASH90)

As Arab leaders slam police ‘neglect,’ officers report fear for their own safety

While political leaders blame each other for failure to rein in deadly violence in Arab Israeli towns, law enforcement agencies call for more manpower, harsher prosecution

Arab Israelis protest against violence, organized crime and recent killings among their communities, Majd al-Krum, October 3, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Arab leaders plan protests throughout October over police inaction on violence

Illustrative: A missile launched from Palmachim air base in central Israel on July 4, 2018. (Defense Ministry)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu said pushing major missile defense program to counter Iran

Public broadcaster reports that project aimed at improving Israel’s ability to cope with cruise missiles would likely require budget cuts, raising of taxes

6:24 pm

Iran reportedly arrests Instagram celebrity for 'blasphemy'
6:07 pm

Abbas says he'll discuss elections with Hamas, other factions
5:49 pm

Third day of Netanyahu pre-indictment hearings ends

A cyclist passes by signs for Portuguese political parties during national elections in Porto, Portugal, on October 6, 2019. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

New citizenship in hand, Israelis vote from abroad in Portuguese elections

By Melanie Lidman

Thousands of recently naturalized Jews of Sephardic descent were able to cast absentee ballots ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary poll — even if they had never lived in Portugal

A voter casts his ballot at a polling station in Lisbon, Oct. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Socialists tipped to stay in power as Portugal votes

By Thomas Cabral

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Jerusalem District Psychiatrist Jacob Charnes in 2016 (Facebook)

Psychiatrist tied to deputy health minister probe removed from Malka Leifer case

The Taba border crossing between Israeli and Egypt, February 15 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israeli woman detained in Egypt for 40 hours after bullets found in guitar case

Michal Sela, husband Eliran Malul and their baby, in a photo uploaded September 30, 2019. (Facebook)

Man suspected of killing wife regains consciousness, is questioned by police

Israeli security forces guard the scene of a stabbing attack at the Temple Mount's Chain Gate, in the Old City of Jerusalem, September 26, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

12-year-old indicted for Jerusalem attack in which officer was lightly injured

File: The Neue Synagoge (New Synagogue) in Berlin in 2014. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Man crying ‘Allahu Akbar’ tries to run into Berlin synagogue with knife

A view of the border with Israel, from the southern Lebanese village of Kafr Kila, with Israeli vehicles driving on the right side and UN and Lebanese vehicles driving on the left, on December 4, 2018. (Ali Dia/AFP)

Lebanon arrests Syrian for making phone calls to Israel

By AFP

An Iraqi protester waves the national flag during a demonstration against state corruption, failing public services, and unemployment, in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on October 5, 2019. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP)

Iraqi PM pledges reforms to calm angry, deadly protests

By AFP

Illustrative -- In this Dec. 5, 2016 photo, long-tail boats sit near a small beach on Ko Phi Phi Leh, an island off the southwestern coast of Thailand (AP Photo/Courtney Bonnell)

22-year-old Israeli tourist dies in Thailand diving accident

In this image released by NASA on October 4, 2019, astronauts Christina Koch, right, and, Jessica Meir, left, pose on the International Space Station. (NASA via AP)

Jewish astronaut to take part in 1st all-female NASA spacewalk

By AP and ToI Staff

Mickael Harpon (Courtesy)

Paris police killer had ‘radical vision of Islam,’ French officials say

By AFP

Julie Robertson painted a mural of Hannah Senesh in downtown San Diego. (Courtesy of Robertson)

Why a Japanese-American artist painted a mural of Nazi fighter Hannah Senesh

By Josefin Dolsten

In this undated file photo released online in the summer of 2014 on a militant social media account, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, terrorists of the Islamic State group hold up their weapons and wave its flags on their vehicles in a convoy on a road leading to Iraq, in Raqqa, Syria. (Militant photo via AP, File)

Bedouin man arrested on suspicion of wanting to join Islamic State in Syria

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