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What Matters Most On Monday, October 14, 2019

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US forces take up positions on the outskirts of the Syrian town, Manbij, a flashpoint between Turkish troops and allied Syrian fighters and U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters, in al-Asaliyah village, Aleppo province, Syria, March 7, 2017. (Arab 24 network, via AP)

Critics: US betrayed the Kurds; US def sec: We had no choice

US moves toward a rapid, complete withdrawal of its military forces from Syria

By Robert Burns

Defense Secretary Esper says Trump has ordered all 1,000 troops in country’s north to pull out as quickly as possible; only other presence is small contingent near Jordan border

This picture taken on October 13, 2019 from the Turkish city of Ceylanpinar shows smoke rising and explosions in the Syrian border town of Ras al-Ayn as fighting rages along the border on the fifth day of a Turkish offensive in Syria (Ozan KOSE / AFP)

US says up to 1,000 troops to leave north Syria as dozens more civilians die

By AFP

A student at Rojava University's women's studies program. (Channel 12 screenshot)

Amid ongoing regional strife, Kurdish women battle for equal rights at home

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on October 11, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

Trump claims Kurds may be freeing IS prisoners to keep US engaged in Syria

Turkey accuses Kurdish fighters of ’emptying’ prison holding jihadists before arrival of its troops in the area

Locals welcome Syrian regime forces as they arrive at the western entrance of the town of Tal Tamr, in the countryside of Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, on October 14, 2019. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

Syrian army moves to confront Turkish forces as US withdraws

Mourners attend a funeral, for Kurdish political leader Hevrin Khalaf and others including civilians and Kurdish fighters, in the northeastern Syrian Kurdish town of Derik, known as al-Malikiyah in Arabic, on October 13, 2019 (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)

Kurds announce deal with Syria on troop deployment to confront Turkey

By Rouba El Husseini

Naama Issachar, sentenced to 7.5 years in Russia, in an undated photo (Courtesy)

Russia says Putin to weigh plea to pardon jailed Israeli; mother granted visit

Yaffa Issachar says it’s her daughter Naama’s Hebrew birthday; conveys that Israeli president, PM and justice minister ‘trying to help her’ after she was sentenced to 7.5 years

Aleksey Burkov during a court hearing in Israel (Channel 13 news)

Russian hacker at center of prisoner dispute denies ties to Russian intelligence

Naama Issachar and her mom Yaffa in a post to Issachar's Instagram page in July 2018.

In deepening row, Israel tells citizens to ‘think twice’ before flying to Russia

Members of the Saudi national soccer team with Palestinian officials during a visit to the al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem's Temple Mount (WAFA Images)

Saudi soccer team prays at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa ahead of first West Bank game

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Muslim officials tell players of ‘police harassment of worshipers, state-sponsored attempts by Jewish fanatics to take it over’; Israel has long denied plans to change status quo

Members of Saudi Arabia's national soccer team are welcomed in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 13, 2019, where they will play for the first time their match in the Asian qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup against Palestine in two days. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Saudi fans delight in West Bank soccer match, shrug off geopolitics

By Aziz El Massassi and Hossam Ezzedine

Palestinians welcome the Saudi Arabia national soccer team in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Saudi soccer team makes first W. Bank trip, but locals unsure whether to rejoice

Leader of Poland's ruling party Jaroslaw Kaczynski, center, and party activists react to exit poll results after voting closed in the nation's parliamentary election in Warsaw , Poland, October 13 ,2019. (AP Photo)

Poland’s conservative ruling party declares victory in divided nation

By Vanessa Gera and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA

Critics fear nationalist Law and Justice could reverse country’s recent democratic achievements, including by hampering judiciary and marginalizing minorities

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban of the governing Fidesz party and his wife cast their ballots during local elections in Budapest, Hungary, October 13, 2019. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)

Hungarian opposition wins Budapest in major blow to Orban

By Pablo Gorondi

Thousands protest on October 13, 2019 in Berlin, Germany, against rising anti-Semitism, days after a gunman attacked a synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle. (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)

Starting where Nazis burned books, 10,000 march in Berlin against anti-Semitism

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Thousands more rally elsewhere in Germany four days after neo-Nazi attempted to massacre Jews in Halle on Yom Kippur, failed to enter synagogue, killed 2 bystanders

Illustrative: Hitler graffiti near the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in the Ukrainian city of Uman, October 11, 2019. (Israeli embassy in Ukraine)

Hitler graffiti found on wall near Jewish pilgrimage site in Ukraine

Tunisian presidential candidate and law professor Kais Saied speaks to the reporters and supporters, October 13, 2019 in Tunis. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Outsider Kais Saied, backed by Islamist party, set to win presidency in Tunisia

By Kaouther Larbi

Conservative academic, whose campaign focused on opposition to Westernized and corrupt elites, headed for landslide victory, garnering 90% of young peoples’ votes

Conservative academic Kais Saied, center, flanked by his wife Ichraf Chebil, right, celebrates his victory in the Tunisian presidential election in the capital Tunis on October 13, 2019. (Fethi Belaid/AFP)

Kais Saied: Austere upstart poised to be Tunisia’s next president

By Caroline Nelly Perrot

A view of the heavy-water production plant in the central Iranian town of Arak, August 26, 2006. (AP/ ISNA, Arash Khamoushi)

UK experts in Iran to upgrade heavy water reactor

By AFP

As Iranians breach nuclear deal in protest of US sanctions, British embassy says ‘we are upholding our obligations to cooperate’ with Tehran on modernizing Arak facility

Iran says it nabs exiled opponent ‘directed by French intel,’ backed by Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran releases photos from alleged attack on its tanker off Saudi coast

Khamenei urges Revolutionary Guards to build more ‘advanced and modern weapons’

Mossad chief Yossi Cohen attends US Independence Day celebrations at the residence of US ambassador David Friedman in Herzliya, July 3, 2017. (Heidi Levine, Pool via AP/File)

Loose lips? Mossad denies its chief gave interview on Iran, killings, ambitions

But spy agency doesn’t dispute Yossi Cohen met with ultra-Orthodox magazine, just says quotes presented ‘out of context’; editor now claims statements were made in ‘closed talks’

The Jordanian border crossing into the Island of Peace, January 29, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Israeli farmers sweat as land they worked for decades to be given back to Jordan

By Omer Sharvit

Sean Goldman-Hunt

In synagogue, listening for gunfire instead of God

Halle, Poway, Pittsburgh: These attacks force us to turn synagogues into fortresses and corrupt our bonds to each other

Allen S. Maller

Hajj Sukkot and a vision of Near East peace

Yes, the Arabic ’hajj’ is the Hebrew ’chag’ and both refer to pilgrimage, a practice shared by Judaism and Islam

Jodi Kantor's new book 'She Said,' written with her New York Times colleague Megan Twohey, gives readers an inside look at the reporting of the Harvey Weinstein story and others integral to the #MeToo movement. (Martin Schoeller/70 Faces Media Montage)

Interview

Jodi Kantor on what’s changed since the Weinstein story transformed #MeToo

By Emily Burack

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US President Donald Trump speaks at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, October 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Fake video of Trump stabbing, shooting opponents said shown at his Miami resort

By AP

Dan Markel (Wikipedia, va JTA)

Hit-man found guilty in murder of Jewish law professor in Florida

By JTA

Illustrative. Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York. March 21, 2012. (Serge Attal/FLASH90/File)

Jewish man slapped and called ‘dirty Jew’ in Brooklyn

An anti-Semitic flier found on a New Jersey vehicle. (Screenshot/CBS Philly)

Anti-Semitic fliers left on cars in New Jersey town

In this photo from October 10, 2019, Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer speaks during a press conference following the Federal leaders French language debate at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec. (Dave Chan/AFP)

Trudeau’s main challenger would move Canada’s embassy to Jerusalem

By AFP and ToI Staff

In this photo from October 8, 2019, police officers hold the coffins of their fallen colleagues during a ceremony at police headquarters in Paris, held to pay respects to the victims of a deadly stabbing attack at the prefecture on October 4, 2019. (Ludovic Marin/AFP)

5 detained over deadly knife attack at Paris police HQ

By AFP

The co-winners of the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (L-R) Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer (Nobel institute)

Trio win Nobel Prize in economics for work on poverty

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of heads of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan on October 11, 2019. (Alexey Druzhinin/Sputnik/AFP)

Putin says Russia seeking free trade area with Egypt and Israel

From left to right: Cpl. Aleksandra Vodenskov, Sgt. Alexander Sachs, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sgt. Eddie Laufer in the prime minister's sukkah in Jerusalem, October 13, 2019 (Koby Gideon/GPO)

Home is where the hut isPM hosts lone soldiers at his sukkah

The aftermath of a car blast that injrued a woman and her two young children on Road 65 near Pardes Hannah, October 13, 2019 (Magen David Adom)

Car blast near Pardes Hannah hurts wife of known criminal figure, two toddlers

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