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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 9, 2019

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A body lies on a road in Halle, Germany, Oct. 9, 2019 after a shooting incident (Sebastian Willnow/dpa via AP)

2 shot dead, several injured as German synagogue targeted in Yom Kippur attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Policemen are seen behind gravestones of a Jewish cemetery close to the site of a shooting in Halle an der Saale, eastern Germany, on October 9, 2019 (Sebastian Willnow/dpa/AFP)

Silent streets, Jews on edge in German city after shooting

By Manuel WALTZ and Deborah Cole

Armed gunman Stephan Balliet, on a street in Halle, Germany, during a shooting outside a synagogue in that city which killed two, October 9, 2019. (Screenshot/Andreas Splett/ATV-Studio Halle/AFP)

German synagogue shooter livestreamed deadly attack, including anti-Semitic rant

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Twitch platform says suspect uploaded video of attack; media reports assailant is 27-year-old German man ‘Stephan B’; interior minister confirms motive of Jew hatred

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: German synagogue attack is expression of rising anti-Semitism in Europe

By Raphael Ahren

Israelis ride their bicycles along the empty Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays, October 9, 2019 (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

2 young children on bikes killed, one badly hurt, in Yom Kippur road accidents

8-year-old hit by vehicle in Tel Aviv; 10-year-old struck by motorbike on 443 highway; paramedics treat over 1,800 people; deliver 3 babies

President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former Attorney General Edwin Meese, in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

As Turkey launches offensive against Kurds

Trump defends Syria move: For us, ‘the stupid, endless Mideast wars are ending!’

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

‘USA should never have been in Middle East’ president tweets, amid scathing bipartisan criticism for withdrawing forces, and mounting concern in Israel

A Turkish army officer prepares to upload a tank from a truck to its new position on the Turkish side of the border between Turkey and Syria, in Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019. . (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Turkey begins assault on Kurdish fighters in Syria, after US forces step aside

By LEFTERIS PITARAKIS and Bassam Mroue

Smoke billows following Turkish bombardment on Syria's northeastern town of Ras al-Ain in the Hasakeh province along the Turkish border on October 9, 2019 (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)

EU demands Turkey halt Syria operation as NATO chief urges ‘restraint’

By AFP

Wounded Kurdish fighters hold portraits of comrades who were killed while fighting against the Islamic State, during a demonstration against an anticipated Turkish incursion targeting Syrian Kurdish fighters, in front the United Nations building, in Qamishli, northeast Syria, Monday, Oct. 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Ahmad Baderkhan)

Trump says despite pullout plan US has not ‘abandoned the Kurds’

A worker hangs an election campaign billboard of the Likud party that shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shaking hands with US President Donald Trump, in Tel Aviv, September 8, 2019. The slogan reads: 'Netanyahu -- a league of his own.' (AP/Oded Balilty)

Analysis

Trump’s new actions, inactions on Kurds, Syria, Iran have Israel deeply worried

Former Israeli ambassador to the US says he no longer thinks Israel can ‘bank on’ the US intervening if a serious war broke out

Skin removal on the proximal part of the metapodials and tendons removal in combination with skinning during the experimentation. (Dr. Ruth Blasco)

Archaeology

Archaeologists discover 400,000-year-old paleo snack pack in Israeli cave

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

In this, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019 photo, Vera Karliner, right, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Aventura, Fla., along with her husband Herb, left, who was on the ship named the St. Louis that was full of Jewish refugees but was turned away from the U.S. in 1939. Aging Holocaust survivors are trying to recover insurance benefits that were never honored by Nazi-era companies, which could be worth billions of dollars. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Aging Holocaust survivors hope to sue in US courts over Nazi-era insurance

By Curt Anderson

(From left) John B Goodenough, M Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino, winners of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for 2019. (Niklas Elmehed/Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)

3 win Chemistry Nobel for lithium-ion batteries, vital to phones, cleaner fuel

John Goodenough, 97, oldest ever laureate, is past winner of Israel’s Samson Prize; his father was expert on Judaism in the Hellenistic period

In this Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005 file photo Swiss Astronomers Michel Mayor, right, and Didier Queloz, left, pose for the photographer at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Geneva. The 2019 Nobel prize in Physics was given to James Peebles "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology," and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star," said Prof. Goran Hansson, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that chooses the laureates. (Laurent Gillieron, Keystone via AP)

Three win Nobel Prize in Physics for work to understand cosmos

By david keyton

A sign hangs on a fence surrounding the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on September 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Analysis

How Pittsburgh changed the way American Jews think about security

Synagogues and federations are investing in security, stepping up cooperation with local authorities and other minority groups who have also been targeted by white supremacists

Anti-Semitic drawings found at Beth Jacob Synagogue in Hamilton, Ontaio in October 2019 (Beth Jacob Facebook)

Canadian synagogue targeted with swastikas and anti-Jewish symbols

By JTA

In this Sunday, June 1, 2014 file photo, a boy carries a peace dove sign with others from a Jewish school during the Celebrate Israel parade in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Despite doomsday predictions, US Jewish community grew 10% in last seven years

Time for a crash course on religious toleration

As long as Haredim view IDF service as a religious violation, coercion will not work; what that means for a potential coalition merits careful consideration

DNA, aka: Discrimination Not Accepted

Use DNA testing to validate Jewish ancestry, sure, but excluding Israeli immigrants and their children from Judaism on this basis is just wrong

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In this image made from video provided by NASA, Expedition 59 Commander Oleg Kononenko, center, participates in a spacewalk outside the International Space Station with Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin, obscured, on Wednesday, May 29, 2019. (NASA via AP)

Well doneIn first, Israeli company grows meat in space

Lee Elbaz, an Israeli woman convicted in August 2019 for binary options fraud, enters the Greenbelt, Maryland courthouse on July 25, 2019. Behind her is Larry Burton, an American man who testified during the trial that he lost $140,000 to the Israeli-run website BinaryBook.com (Photo credit: Times of Israel)

Refusing bail, US judge deems binary options fraudster Lee Elbaz a flight risk

By AP and Simona Weinglass

Numa Beron (c) celebrates her bat mitzvah at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Screencapture/Cedars-Sinai)

Girl given only 3 years to live at birth celebrates bat mitzvah at LA hospital

By JTA

Tons of frozen bagel went up in flames when a semi's rear axle caught fire, October 6, 2019. (Courtesy of the Indiana State Police via JTA)

What by fire38,000 pounds of bagels burnt in truck days before Yom Kippur

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., departs Burlington International Airport after disembarking from a plane in South Burlington, Vt., on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019. Sanders is back home in Vermont after being treated for a heart attack in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

After heart attack, Sanders says he was ‘dumb,’ should have listened to symptoms

By AP

This Oct. 28, 2017 photo, shows hunters shooting at birds near the town of Brital, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. Lebanon lies on key migratory routes for several protected European species of birds that winter in the Persian Gulf and Africa. (AP Photo/Philip Issa)

NGOs warn Lebanon skies a death trap for migratory birds

By AFP

Illustrative: Etrogs for sale at the 'four-species' market in Jerusalem on October 13, 2016. (Sebi Berens/Flash90)

Hundreds of etrogs held up at airport in England over new import regulations

By JTA

Rainè Riggs, the daughter-in-law of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders who died Saturday October 5, 2019 (courtesy)

Sanders’ daughter-in-law dies at 46 after cancer diagnosis

By AP

Haiti's Foreign Minister Bocchit Edmond addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters, September 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon)

Israel, US among 64 of 193 UN members not to have paid annual dues

By Edith M. Lederer

Iranian sports journalist Raha Pourbakhsh shows purchased electronic tickets for the Iran - Cambodia World Cup 2022 soccer qualifier match during an interview with AFP in front of Azadi stadium in the capital Tehran on October 8, 2019. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Tickets sell out in minutes as Iran lets women into soccer for 1st time in years

Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila (L) lays a wreath at the Hall of Remembrance on April 25, 2018, during her visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)

Romania approves Holocaust museum aimed at shedding light on its WWII role

By AFP

In this July 10, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump is joined by Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union, second from right, as he arrives at Melsbroek Air Base, in Brussels, Belgium. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump bars envoy’s testimony, escalating impeachment fight

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and Eric Tucker

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