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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 10, 2019

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In this image taken from video made available by ATV-Studio Halle, a man shoots from a long-barreled gun, in Halle, Germany, October 9, 2019. (ATV-Studio via AP)

Halle synagogue killer’s guns jammed 3 times as he fired directly at victims

By ToI Staff and AFP

Yom Kippur gunman, named as neo-Nazi Stephan Balliet, used homemade weapons in failed effort to burst into synagogue; would have killed more people if guns hadn’t failed

German synagogue attacker, identified as neo-Nazi Stephan Balliet, during his rampage in Halle, October 9, 2019 (Screencapture)

Live stream of deadly German synagogue attack shows brutal yet bumbling assault

By AFP and ToI Staff

An armed man fires on a street in Halle, Germany, following a shooting outside a synagogue in that city which killed two. (Screenshot/Andreas Splett/ATV-Studio Halle/AFP)

Germany shooter livestreamed deadly attack despite efforts by tech firms

By AFP and ToI Staff

A person believed to be the suspect in the Halle shooting is escorted by policemen after landing in a helicopter at the Federal Supreme Court in Karlsruhe, (Uli Deck / dpa / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Halle synagogue shooter appears in federal court after release from hospital

Gunman charged with two counts of murder and nine counts of attempted murder for what prosecutors have described as far-right ‘terror attack’

11:17 am

Israeli police release Palestinian officials
6:29 pm

Security Council fails to pass resolution condemning Turkish invasion of Syria
6:03 pm

NATO chief urges Turkey to show 'restraint' in Syria offensive

Jewish worshipers react after they were evacuated by bus following an attack on a synagogue in Halle, Germany, October 9, 2019. (Jens Meyer/AP)

Jewish leader who was in Halle shul: God counted us 1 by 1 as deserving of life

By Agencies and ToI Staff

‘We prayed with extra fervor,’ says Rebecca Blady; Ambassador Richard Grenell says 10 Americans were in synagogue as gunman tried to enter; ‘all are safe and unharmed’

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

By Raphael Ahren

Merkel vows ‘zero tolerance’ for hate after deadly anti-Semitic attack

Jews demand action from Germany after deadly anti-Semitic attack

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Schoolchildren and others brought to watch the burning of synagogue furnishings on Kristallnacht in Mosbach, Germany, November 1938 (courtesy)

Wiesenthal Center warns synagogue attack precursor to Kristallnacht anniversary

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Director criticizes slow police response to deadly shooting spree and urges Germany to step up security ahead of anniversary of Nazi pogrom

Synagogue shooter’s father: He ‘wasn’t at peace with himself or the world’

By AFP and ToI Staff

From Djerba to San Diego, previous attacks on synagogues around the world

By AFP

Germany shooting latest indication of increasing anti-Semitism worldwide

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a memorial ceremony at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl for those killed in the Yom Kippur War, on October 10, 2019. (Flash90)

Pledges 'humanitarian assistance to gallant Kurdish people'

Netanyahu condemns Turkish invasion of Syrian Kurdistan, offers aid

Prime minister warns against ‘ethnic cleansing’ of minority in northern Syria, does not mention decision by US president that paved way for offensive

As US pulls out of Syria, Netanyahu insists Israel can defend itself on its own

World calls for restraint, warns of resurgent IS as Turkey begins Syria assault

By AFP

As Turkey launches ground invasion, Shaked calls for Kurdish state

By Raphael Ahren

US President Donald Trump speaks during an event on "transparency in Federal guidance and enforcement" in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Oct. 9, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump defends Syria pullout, saying Kurds did not ‘help us in Normandy’

By AFP

Comments come hours after Turkey launches air and ground assault on Kurdish-controlled areas in northeastern Syria

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during an extended meeting with provincial heads of ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party in Ankara, Turkey, on October 10, 2019. (Adem ALTAN / AFP)

Erdogan threatens EU with refugee influx if it criticizes Syria operation

By AFP

Shortly after the Turkish operation inside Syria had started, local residents cheer and applaud as a convoy of Turkish forces vehicles is driven through the town of Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, at the border between Turkey and Syria, Oct. 9, 2019 (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Turkey launches Syria ground assault on Kurdish forces after US troop withdrawal

By Delil Souleiman and Luana Sarmini-Buonaccorsi

Avinoam Bar-Yosef

WATCH: ‘Israel will separate state and religion’

Historian Aviad Kleinberg says most secular Israelis aren’t detached from Judaism: Even most atheists still circumcise their sons

Yom Kippur with Mr. Fishbag

He took a seat in front of us and the entire row of worshippers cleared out; Here’s what my Holocaust-survivor mother told us

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks at a faction meeting at Neve Ilan, west of Jerusalem, on September 22, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

‘Useless,’ ‘unhelpful’: Blue and White, Likud sources trash Liberman unity plan

By Raoul Wootliff

Yisrael Beytenu leader has called for Gantz to relinquish first place in premiership rotation and for Netanyahu to give up on right-wing bloc

Photo composition (L to R): Blue and White chief Benny Gantz, Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Yonatan Sindel, Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Liberman presents coalition plan: No right/Orthodox bloc; Netanyahu first as PM

Ayelet Shaked (R), then-leader of the New Right party that is part of the Yamina political alliance, flanked by then-Jewish Home candidate Moti Yogev (L), National Union party leader Bezalel Smotrich (2nd-L), and Jewish Home party leader Rafi Peretz (C) at the alliance's headquarters in Ramat Gan, September 17, 2019. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Yamina party officially splits into New Right, Jewish Home-National Union

By Raoul Wootliff

The leader of the Jewish community Max Privorozki (R) is pictured on October 10, 2019 in Halle, Germany, a day after the Yom Kippur attack outside a synagogue there in which two people were shot dead. (AXEL SCHMIDT / AFP)

Holding fast, driving too fast: 6 things to know for October 10

By Joshua Davidovich

A synagogue attack is stopped short but is no less horrifying for German Jews and a pair of deadly crashes spark questions about the biking holiday of Yom Kippur

Surfers protest plans to install a breakwater at the last open beach in Tel Aviv, October 4, 2019. (eyesurf productions)

Surfers protest plans for breakwater off last open beach in Tel Aviv

Adi Gluska, 12-time Israel surfing champion, says submerged geotube planned by Tel Aviv Municipality will strike blow to surfing, endanger swimmers, cause pollution

Screen capture from video of vehicles participating in a protest convoy by the Arab Israeli community calling for government action against violence within the community, October 10, 2019. (Twitter)

Arab Israelis launch convoy to Jerusalem to protest rising violence

Joint List leaders to meet public security minister and demand prison sentences and heavy fines for possession of illegal firearms, crackdown on organized crime

A relative on October 7, 2019, shows a photo of Ahmed Manaa with his children at the family home in Majd al-Krum, Israel. Two brothers, Ahmed and Khalil Manaa, and a third man, Mohammed Sabea, were killed in a midday shootout in Majd al-Krum, that left another Manaa brother wounded. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

‘It’s not safe anymore’: Crime wave in Arab Israeli towns exposes rift with cops

By Areej Hazboun and Joseph Krauss

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Holocaust Garden of Remembrance in White Plains, New York. (Westchester County Government Facebook page)

Anti-Semitic posters, graffiti found at NY Holocaust memorial on Yom Kippur eve

By JTA

Itay Margi (Courtesy)

Driver suspected of killing child on Yom Kippur had cocaine in his car – police

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

Aggravated murder suspected in case of man accused of killing wife

Future Meat Technologies' beef kabab. (Courtesy)

Future Meat Technologies to build lab meat production facility outside Tel Aviv

The scene of a stabbing at the Maccabim Junction along Route 443 on September 25, 2019. (United Hatzalah)

15-year-old Palestinian indicted for stabbing Israeli woman near Modiin

Illustrative: Jews in a sukkah in Jerusalem, September 21, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Open Sukkah offers a holiday home to weary travelers, city dwellers in Israel

Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in Rochester, New Hampshire, October 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Biden for the first time says Trump should be impeached

By AFP

Newly constructed earthworks and sniper posts on the Gaza border in footage broadcast by Channel 13 on October 9, 2019. (Screenshot)

IDF nears completion of new Gaza border fortifications

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

Iran said to release Russian journalist said suspected of spying for Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

An Israeli woman uses her phone in front of a building in Herzliya that housed the NSO Group intelligence firm, August 28, 2016. (Jack Guez/AFP/File)

Amnesty says Morocco rights advocates targeted by Israeli-developed spyware

By AFP and ToI Staff

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