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What Matters Most On Monday, October 7, 2019

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Illustration (above and at top of article) by Avi Katz

ToI investigatesRadically altering the process of determining Jewishness?

Rabbinate DNA tests seek Jewishness in the blood, become a bone of contention

By Marissa Newman

Controversial method began in Moscow, spread to Jerusalem and Sydney, as a private bid to confirm ex-Soviets as Jews. Now it faces a High Court challenge and a thunderous outcry

Illustrative: The Arrow 3 missile is launched from Palmachim air base in central Israel on December 10, 2015. (Defense Ministry)

Netanyahu said pushing NIS 1b air defense plan to counter Iran threats

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Project would specifically focus on threat of cruise missiles; much of the budget approval will have to wait until next government is sworn in

AnalysisTrump’s policy of inaction is whetting Iran’s appetite for aggression

By Avi Issacharoff

Image of the new Iranian Labeik guidance system upgrade system. (YouTube screen-grab)

Iran unveils kit to convert artillery rockets into guided missiles

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara at a welcoming ceremony for the Brazilian president at Ben Gurion Airport on March 31, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Sara Netanyahu skips court testimony in workplace abuse lawsuit

Judge dismisses arguments by attorney for PM’s wife over why she didn’t need to show up to give testimony: ‘This is outrageous’

Israel media reviewVacation, had to get away: 6 things to know for October 7

Top civil rights lawyer: Netanyahu hearing without lead prosecutor ‘unthinkable’

Netanyahu aides castigate top prosecutor who went on vacation amid graft hearing

An Israeli cannon artillery cannon opens fire from the Sinai Peninsula during the Yom Kippur War, on October 6, 1973. (Avraham Vered/Bamahane/Defense Ministry Archive)

Yom Kippur War anniv.

Fearing shortages, Dayan mulled drafting young, old in 1973 war, papers show

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense Ministry declassifies an intel report from the day before the Yom Kippur War, transcripts from IDF General Staff meetings, and a phone call that relieved a general of duty

Golda Meir's letter to bereaved families sent on the eve of the Yom Kippur War. (Kedem Auction House via JTA)

Golda Meir’s letter to bereaved families on eve of Yom Kippur War uncovered

By JTA

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks at a rally of pro-Israel Christians in Jerusalem, October 6, 2019 (David Azagury, US Embassy Jerusalem)

US Ambassador Friedman at Evangelical rally: ‘Jerusalem literally keeps us safe’

By Raphael Ahren

Is ’dementia prevention’ just blaming the victim?

The Health Ministry should stop harping on diet and exercise and focus on better diagnostics and managing behavioral symptoms

Nobody guessed he’d stab her to death: Michal Sela

Domestic violence is a weapon from within, turning your most intimate and safe spaces against you

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Tenth for a minyan

I know I don’t count to make the quorum for Orthodox prayer, but it hits me differently as I stand waiting for the men to arrive

Let’s see those leadership skills, Mr. Netanyahu

The prime minister who has done a good deal to divide Israeli society can do a good deal to put it back together

Live updates (closed)

Four days of Netanyahu’s pre-indictment hearings come to an end

Prime minister’s attorneys finish marathon discussions on three corruption probes; attorney general’s decision on indictments expected in December

6:31 pm

Palestinian Authority said to remove agreements with Israel from schoolbooks
6:09 pm

Israeli officials reportedly surprised and 'amazed' at Trump's Syria pullout
5:43 pm

David Blatt steps down as head coach of Greek basketball team

In this photo from July 11, 2018, US President Donald Trump, left, talks with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as they arrive together for a family photo at a summit of heads of state and government at NATO headquarters in Brussels. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

As American troops withdraw in Syria, Trump says Kurds are on their own

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In the US, Republicans and Democrats have warned that allowing Turkish attack could lead to a massacre of the Kurds and send a troubling message to allies across the globe

US troops begin Syria pullout as Turkey readies offensive, alarming Kurds

US steps aside for Turkey to invade northern Syria, crush Kurds

By Zeke Miller and Lolita C. Baldor

UN ‘preparing for the worst’ from Turkey’s Syria operation

By AFP

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

Reporter's notebook

Massive Bronze Age megalopolis to be covered over, immortalized in 3-D imaging

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan speaks at the Israel Police Independence Day ceremony at police headquarters in Jerusalem on May 5, 2019. (Flash90)

Police minister called racist after blaming Arab culture for violence

‘It’s a very, very violent society,’ Gilad Erdan claims amid protests over lack of police action, drawing accusations of victim-blaming

Then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting of Likud party members at the Knesset in Jerusalem on October 3, 2019. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

PM condemns violence in Arab Israeli community, pledges resources to fight it

Screen capture from video of a deadly shooting in the Arab Israeli city of Qalansawe, September 6, 2019. (Channel 13)

Police say deadly shooting in Arab town solved; 4 men to be charged

Bananas on display in a Jerusalem market. Banana farming is one of the most stable and profitable agricultural sectors in Israel and the largest among the country's plantation-based crops. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Banana republic: Israel faces killer fungus that can destroy the crop nationwide

By Amir Ben-David

A man enters the WeWork cooperative co-working space in Washington, DC, on March 13, 2014. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Embattled WeWork puts on hold plan to open co-living spaces in Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Office sharing company had planned to open WeLive residential facilities in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, but program put on ice after disastrous IPO announcement, ouster of CEO

Next founders Nissim Tapiro and Alon Huri. (Courtesy)

Israeli-founded insurance tech firm hits $1 billion valuation

Illustrative: The DLD Tel Aviv Digital Conference, Israel's largest high tech gathering, September 27, 2016. The tech industry is the among the highest paid in Israel, with an average salary of NIS 23,375 ($6,719) per month. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Average Israeli salary rises slightly to NIS 11,004 per month

Cookbook author Adeena Sussman (center) with a copy of 'Sababa' and the Amrani brothers in the Carmel Market (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Cookbook author gives taste of her adopted home with a little help from the shuk

By Jessica Steinberg

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A Jewish man holds a child as he participates in morning prayers before the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site in Jerusalem's Old City, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Poll: Over 60% of Jewish Israelis plan to fast on Yom Kippur

Sahar Tabar (Instagram)

Satanic SiliconIran said to arrest Instagram star for blasphemy

By AFP

A Libra marketing image (Facebook)

PayPal drops out of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency; Apple indicates opposition

Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (R) and former MK Avraham Neguise (L) welcome Meseret Warika and her two sons to Israel. Warika's brother Solomon Tekah was shot and killed by an off-duty policeman (courtesy)

Sister of Ethiopian-Israeli killed by off-duty cop allowed to move to Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

ILLUSTRATIVE- A victim of child sexual abuse. (Sam Thomas/iStock)

Welfare Ministry says calls to abuse hotline rose 160% in five years

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 4, 2019. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/POOL/AFP)

Netanyahu wishes Putin, turning 67, a happy birthday

In this March 20, 2017 file photo, Demi Lovato participates in the BUILD Speaker Series to discuss "Smurfs: The Lost Village" in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Wouldn't change a thingDemi Lovato’s mom is not sorry about their visit to Israel

By JTA

Omar Barghouti gives an interview in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser/File)

Interior minister moves to deport Palestinian BDS founder

French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, center, and Paris police prefect Didier Lallement, right next to Castaner, give a press conference outside the Paris police headquarters, October 3, 2019 in Paris. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

France admits ‘failings’ over Paris police attacker’s Islamic radicalization

By Gregory Danel and Alice Lefebvre

Shimon Hayut, the so-called 'Tinder Swindler,' is expelled from the city of Athens, Greece, on July 1, 2019. (Tore KRISTIANSEN/various sources/AFP)

‘Tinder Swindler’ extradited back to Israel to face charges

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting at the presidential compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 6, 2019. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Abbas says he’ll discuss elections with Hamas, factions but provides no timeline

Israelis donate blood at the Samaria Regional Council in the northern West Bank, on October 6, 2019. (Magen David Adom)

Good SamaritansWest Bank blood drive breaks Israel’s single day record

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