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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 15, 2019

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Lightning illuminates the sky over Jerusalem on October 14, 2019. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Boy, 13, fights for his life after lightning strike on beach near Ashkelon

Paramedics treating five Israelis, members of the Hazut family from Beersheba, for injuries

Irmela Mensah-Schramm (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German ‘Graffiti Grandma’ fined on Yom Kippur for painting over neo-Nazi slogans

By ToI Staff and AP

Irmela Mensah-Schramm, who has spent 30 years removing racist slurs, to appeal $330 fine handed down on same day as Halle synagogue attack: ‘I did not do anything wrong’

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 police lost Halle synagogue gunman for an hour, lawmakers say

By AP and ToI Staff

Girl with a Dove by French artist Antoine Pense that the German Nazis stole from Poland's National Museum in Poznan during World War II (Wikimedia Commons)

French court refuses to surrender US dealer holding Nazi-looted art to Poland

By AP

Bulgarian fans make the Nazi salute during the Euro 2020 Group A football qualification match between Bulgaria and England at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia on October 14, 2019. (Nikolay Dovchinov/AFP)

England soccer game in Sofia halted twice as Bulgaria fans make Nazi salutes

By AP

Black players Raheem Sterling, Marcus Rashford, Tyrone Mings targeted with monkey chants; English FA calls for ‘very stringent’ action; England wins European qualifier 6-0

Live updates

Turkey vows to pursue Syria offensive ‘with or without world support’

Ankara defies mounting pressure by Europe, NATO and Washington, says military operation against Kurdish fighters designed to eradicate regional ‘terror groups’

6:17 pm

Iran says Turkey's Syria offensive must 'end now'
6:00 pm

Spain halts arms exports to Turkey over Syria invasion
5:48 pm

US official says no 'major' breakout of IS jihadists in Syria

From the blogs

Would a race change for Marvel’s Jewish Magneto be anti-Semitic?

Some fans are outraged that the X-Men villain with a Holocaust survivor backstory may become a black man. They have a point

A US Air Force F15 fighter jet takes off at Incirlik Air Base near Adana, Turkey, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015. (AP Photo)

US said considering plan to remove nukes from Turkish base near Syrian border

American military believed to keep some 50 tactical nuclear bombs at Incirlik in southern Turkey; official says bombs effectively hostage to Erdogan

Trump sending Pence to Turkey to ‘pursue a ceasefire and negotiated settlement’

By Shaun Tandon

AnalysisFor Syria Kurds, the end of autonomy?

By Alice Hackman

Trump announces sanctions against Turkey over Syria invasion

Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David

Trump says let ‘Napoleon Bonaparte’ rescue Kurds

By AFP

President says he doesn’t care who helps Kurds in the face of Turkish assault, even if it has to be the 19th century French emperor, because US troops will be ‘7,000 miles away!’

Erdogan: Syria offensive to continue until ‘objectives achieved’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Syrian Kurds defend key border town as Turkey continues onslaught

By Delil Souleiman and Shaun Tandon

AnalysisIn one fell swoop, Trump throws US goals in Syria into disarray

By Shaun Tandon

New Zealand military personnel protect themselves from mosquitoes while receiving US military training on the Pacific island of Espiritu Santo, April 23, 1944. (US Navy via AP)

Researchers rediscover fast-acting insecticide used by Nazi army, lost after war

DFDT was dismissed by US military officials following World War II in favor of DDT, but could be used to combat malaria and other mosquito-borne illnesses

From left: Tel Aviv University researchers Dr. Yaron Carmi, Diana Rasuluniriana, Dr. Peleg Ride. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)

Leukemia immunotherapy treatment could fight other cancers, Tel Aviv team finds

Avinoam Bar-Yosef

WATCH: Israel, the most tolerant nation ever

Jewish Israeli or Israeli Jew? What it means to be a secular Israeli Jew with so much Judaism in the national culture

Henry Greenspan

The nuance industry invades Syria

Above the blather, one fact remains: Trump made a profound, impulsive blunder that unleashed the forces of hell on the Kurds

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

Minister: PM to formally ask Putin for release of Israeli jailed in Russia

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Yuval Steinitz says prime minister is doing what he can to help Naama Issachar; sister says although she has US citizenship family has not asked Washington to intervene

Naama Issachar, sentenced to 7.5 years in Russia over alleged drug smuggling, in an undated photo (Courtesy)

Minister said set to extradite Russian hacker to US despite jailed Israeli

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

Israel media reviewNot without my daughter: 8 things to know for October 15

By Tamar Pileggi

Orly Graves chats with customers as she monitors a blackjack table at the Wynn Las Vegas hotel, September 22, 2019. (Josefin Dolsten/JTA)

Meet a Hebrew-school teacher turned blackjack dealer in Las Vegas

By Josefin Dolsten

Palestinian Dalia al-Darawish holds her truck driver's license after passing her driving test, in the West Bank town of Hebron on September 25, 2019 (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

‘Braking’ boundaries: Palestinian women take to wheel to seek new chances

By AFP and ToI Staff

A triangular house in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Baka, available for house tours during Batim Mibifnim, Houses from Within weekend, October 31-November 2, 2019 (Courtesy Ilan Nachum)

Jerusalem’s secret charms to come out into open during Houses from Within event

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Australian Jewish News homepage

Australian Jewish News becomes Times of Israel’s seventh local partner

Canadian Sheikh Younus Kathrada of Victoria, British Columbia, gives a sermon on October 11, 2019. (Screen capture: Middle East Media Research Institute)

Canadian imam: ‘Filthy’ candidates in elections support Zionism, homosexuality

Cooking gear found under the gravestone of a nine-month old in Rosh Ha'ayin, October 7, 2019. (Facebook)

Frying in a grave: Family horrified to find cooking gear under baby’s gravestone

By Michael Bachner

Harold Bloom (Screencapture/YouTube)

ObituaryRenowned American Jewish literary critic Harold Bloom dies at 89

By Hillel Italie

An undated photo of the interior of the LianTech Finance Marketing call center as it appeared on the company's website (Screenshot)

US securities regulator charges two more Israelis with binary options fraud

By Simona Weinglass

Rabbi Jeffrey Newman, 77, is arrested during the Extinction Rebellion protest in London on October 14, 2019 (Screencapture/YouTube)

77-year-old UK rabbi arrested at London climate protest

Japan's new Emperor Naruhito, accompanied by new Empress Masako, makes his first address during a ritual after succeeding his father Akihito at Imperial Palace in Tokyo, May 1, 2019. (Japan Pool via AP)

PM plans Tokyo trip next week for emperor enthronement, amid coalition stalemate

By Raphael Ahren

The ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski leaves polling station after his vote in Warsaw, Poland, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019 (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Polish conservatives win lower house but lose Senate

By Vanessa Gera

Samer Arbid, the suspected ringleader of a terror cell believed to be behind a deadly bombing attack that killed Israeli teenager Rina Shnerb in August 2019, in an undated photograph. (Twitter)

Palestinian terror suspect injured in Israeli custody regains consciousness

A male acacia gazelle with a new fawn. (Eran Hyams, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Fauna to fawn overFawn born to endangered gazelles in southern Israel

A WeWork office in New York City, July 19, 2019. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP)

WeWork warns it found cancer-causing chemical in some of its office phone booths

This combination photo shows Pulitzer Prize-winning US writer Ronan Farrow at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California on February 24, 2019, left, and NBC News President Noah Oppenheim at the 2016 AFI Festival "Jackie" Centerpiece Gala in Los Angeles on November 14, 2016. (AP Photo)

NBC News hampered Harvey Weinstein exposé, reporter says

By David Bauder

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