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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 12, 2019

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Stephan Balliet, the suspect in the Halle shooting, gets out of a helicopter at the Federal Supreme Court in Karlsruhe, southern Germany, October 10, 2019. (Uli Deck/dpa/AFP)

Germany: 12,000 far-right extremists with ‘a very high affinity for firearms’

By AFP

Interior minister warns of ‘elevated’ risk of violent attacks after near-massacre on Yom Kippur at Halle synagogue in which 2 killed; plans to ban six small far-right groups

Stephan Balliet (Screengrab)

Stephan Balliet confesses to German synagogue attack, admits anti-Semitic motive

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)

Synagogue attacker reportedly admits to receiving anonymous funding online

By JTA

Illustrative: Rabbi Rebecca Blady, center, performs the havdallah ceremony in 2017. (Courtesy Base BERLIN)

Interview

Yaakov Schwartz

Synagogue shooting survivor says German Jewry can’t only be about anti-Semitism

US Rabbi Rebecca Blady and husband Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz arrived in Berlin in May to do Jewish outreach. After surviving near-massacre on Yom Kippur, their resolve isn’t weakened

Mourners stand around a makeshift memorial of candles and flowers at the synagogue in Halle, eastern Germany, on October 11, 2019, two days after a deadly shooting. (Photo by Hendrik Schmidt / dpa / AFP) / Germany OUT

Germany’s Jewish community marks first Shabbat after Halle synagogue attack

By AFP and ToI Staff

People stand in front of the synagogue in Halle, Germany, October 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

As a gunman loomed outside their synagogue, Jews in Halle kept praying

By Rebecca Spiess and Toby Axelrod

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accompanied by Colombian Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo, speaks to reporters after a bilateral meeting at the Department of State in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

‘My walk with Christ’: Pompeo gives contentious speech on being Christian leader

By Eric Cortellessa

Jewish Democratic activist calls secretary’s address at State Department event ‘an affront to our separation of church and state’

Pastors from the Las Vegas area pray with then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a visit to the International Church of Las Vegas and International Christian Academy, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Religious right sticks by Trump as impeachment threat looms

A Turkish-backed Syrian rebel watches as smoke billows from the border town of Ras al-Ayn on October 12, 2019. (Nazeer Al-khatib/AFP)

Turkish forces claim to capture center of key Syrian border town; Kurds deny it

By Mehmet Guzel

War monitor group also says Erdogan’s troops enter heart of Ras al-Ayn, marking most significant gain since invasion began; Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces say they’re still there

US troops come under fire as Turkish forces advance in Syria

By Mehmet Guzel and Sarah El Deeb

Turkey vows Syria onslaught ‘won’t stop’ as US threatens sanctions

By Nazeer al-Khatib and Delil Souleiman

US deploying 3,000 more troops to Saudi Arabia to boost air defenses

In this photo from August 1, 2018, Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for US President Donald Trump, addresses a gathering during a campaign event in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said under investigation for lobbying violations

By Agencies and ToI Staff

NY Times says federal prosecutors have launched a probe into Giuliani’s dealings in Ukraine, including efforts to undermine ex-envoy Marie Yovanovitch

Defying Trump, ex Ukraine envoy tells impeachment probe he pushed to oust her

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Matthew Lee and Alan Fram

Orthodox synagogue association honored 2 Giuliani associates before arrests

Arrest of Giuliani associates ensnares ‘Congressman 1’

By Michael Biesecker, Desmond Butler and bryan slodysko

Vandalized graves in a British military cemetery in Haifa, October 11, 2019. (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)

British military cemetery vandalized with swastikas in Haifa

Dozens of tombstones of fallen soldiers defaced in what police are investigating as a hate crime; in separate incident, 35 graves damaged in northern town of Nof Hagalil

Israeli-American woman Naama Issachar, 26, was sentenced to 7.5 years in Russia over alleged drug smuggling (Courtesy)

Russian hacker held in Israel asks family of jailed woman to urge prisoner swap

Aleksey Burkov has appealed to relatives of Naama Issachar, 26, sentenced in Russia to 7.5 years for alleged drug smuggling, to push Israeli officials for exchange

Naama Issachar has been detained in or near Moscow since April. (Naama Issachar/Instagram via JTA)

Russia jails Israeli-American for 7.5 years for smuggling pot, despite PM’s plea

Scene from a promotional video issued by the Tamir Recycling Corporation showing a green bin for general household waste being joined by an orange bin for recyclable containers. (Screenshot)

Jerusalem breaks law on recycling packaging and containers, faces fines

Environmental Protection Ministry warns city hall it is acting illegally by failing to provide special orange recycling bins for each apartment building

Jerusalem's Flag Street originates on Maaleh Midrasha (School Ascent) in the Old City's Muslim Quarter. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Mamelukes, muftis and Moses: The short Old City lane with a long history

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

From left: Alan Zweibel, Adam Mansbach, and Dave Barry. (Courtesy)

Author interview

Cuttingly funny guide to Jews (and foreskins) puts a laugh track to yiddishkeit

By Jordan Hoffman

In an age of confusion, big business exploits pseudo-science for its own agenda, and humanity needs the reminder that we depend on the majesty of nature (Haazinu)

Of impeachments past and future

If Nixon and Clinton bear out the truth that history repeats its tragedies with farces, what will Trump’s impeachment yield?

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit arrives at Justice Ministry headquarters in Jerusalem for the start of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pre-indictment hearings in a series of corruption cases, on October 2, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

AG aims to finalize PM case by mid-Nov., with some said opposing bribery charge

Unsourced TV reports claim Avichai Mandelblit considering ‘alternative narrative’ regarding Bezeq Case 4000 in wake of presentations by Netanyahu lawyers at hearing

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press statement in the Knesset on September 15, 2019, a few days before the Israeli elections. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rivlin unlikely to grant Netanyahu more time to form government: report

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Illustrative: Travelers seen at the arrival hall of Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, on April 11, 2018. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Nothing to declare? Two French-Israelis indicted on money laundering charges

By Simona Weinglass

Israeli soldiers seen during a raid in the village of Shuweika, near the West Bank town of Tulkarem, October 20, 2018. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Israeli military position comes under fire from passing vehicle in West Bank

Illustrative: A Lockheed Martin F-16I 'Sufa' takes off during the Israeli Air Force flight school's 156th graduation ceremony. (Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash 90)

‘Defending the home:’ Soldiers recall mission to thwart Iran drone attack

The Portland Trail Blazers play against the Denver Nuggets in a preseason game in Portland, Oregon, Oct. 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Craig Mitchelldyer)

Portland Trail Blazers deny cutting ties with company due to BDS pressure

Signs of support and flowers adorn a post in front of the Chabad of Poway synagogue, April 29, 2019, in Poway, California. (AP/Gregory Bull)

California establishes fund to protect nonprofits from hate crimes

By JTA

This undated photo provided by the family of the late Iranian-Canadian professor Kavous Seyed-Emami, shows him, right, and his wife, Maryam Mombeini, in an unidentified place in Iran. (Family of Kavous Seyed-Emami via AP)

Widow of Iranian-Canadian accused of spying for Israel returns to Canada

By AFP

Palestinians riot by the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Gaza City, on October 11, 2019. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Palestinians riot on Gaza border; 49 said wounded

A man is brought for a remand hearing at the Haifa Magistrate's Court after the body of his wife was found with stab wounds in the Haifa suburb of Kiryat Bialik on October 11, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Man arrested after wife found stabbed to death in Haifa suburb

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