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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 17, 2019

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A Roman road known as the Pilgrim's Path being excavated at the City of David archaeological site in Jerusalem, September 24, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebookAt a Jerusalem dig, 'dubious methods' or admirable ingenuity

On an ancient road to the Temple, archaeological innovation, mystery and dispute

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

As they excavate 2,000-year-old Stepped Street under thriving Arab neighborhood, careful to avoid collapsing the homes above, are archaeologists bending, or recreating, the rules?

Steve Green, the owner of Hobby Lobby and a founder and major backer of the Museum of the Bible, poses for a portrait at the museum, October 30, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Museum of the Bible says Oxford professor sold stolen biblical papyrus fragments

By Yonat Shimron

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, talks with US Vice President Mike Pence, during their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, October 17, 2019. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

Live updates (closed)

Pence announces Turkey has agreed to ceasefire in Syria

US VP says Turkish forces will halt offensive for 5 days to allow American-allied Kurds to withdraw; Trump: ‘Tough’ love helped get it done, ‘millions of lives will be saved’

6:25 pm

Trump hails suspension of Turkish offensive in Syria, credits 'tough' love
6:19 pm

Turkish FM confirms suspension of Syria offensive
6:00 pm

Pence says Turkey agrees to ceasefire in Syria

This picture taken on October 17, 2019 from the Turkish side of the border with Syria in the Ceylanpinar district city of Sanliurfa shows smoke and fire rising from the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn during the Turkish offensive against Kurdish groups in northeastern Syria. (Ozan KOSE/AFP)

Kurdish politician urges Israeli diplomatic intervention to stop Turkish assault

By ToI Staff and AFP

Speaking to Israeli radio, lawmaker calls for action ‘to save the Kurdish people,’ as authorities ask for humanitarian corridor, accuse Ankara of using banned weapons in Syria

US President Donald Trump (L) talks to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) as they arrive for the NATO summit, at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, July 11, 2018. (Tatyana ZENKOVICH/AFP)

Erdogan threw Trump’s ‘Don’t be a fool!’ letter in trash

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A Syrian woman who is newly displaced by the Turkish military operation in northeastern Syria, carries her son upon her arrival at the Bardarash camp, north of Mosul, Iraq, October 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Aid groups scramble to reach Syrians as battle lines shift

By Joseph Krauss and Andrea Rosa

Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrive at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, as they depart en route to Turkey. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Pompeo to meet Netanyahu in bid to reassure Israel on Syria pullout

By ToI Staff and AFP

Secretary of state due on Friday after talks in Ankara aimed at achieving ceasefire in Turkish invasion of northern Syria; discussions to also focus on Iran

US President Donald Trump adjusts his jacket before posing for photos with leaders at the Gulf Cooperation Council meeting, at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center, May 21, 2017, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

AnalysisConcern in Gulf Arab states after US pullout from Syria

By Jon Gambrell

An image tweeted on October 16, 2019 by US President Donald Trump showing a confrontation with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. (Twitter)

‘See you at the polls’: Trump and Pelosi have it out amid ‘meltdown’ accusations

By LISA MASCARO

In this Sept. 21, 2019, photo, released by the US Army, a US soldier oversees members of the Syrian Democratic Forces as they demolish a Kurdish fighters' fortification as part of the so-called "safe zone" near the Turkish border. (U.S. Army/Staff Sgt. Andrew Goedl via AP)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

US Mideast pullback didn’t start with the Kurds, and it won’t end there either

Trump’s decision to pull troops away from Syria means Israel is losing a key ally in the region, but it should not come as a surprise

File: IAEA inspectors at Iran's nuclear power plant in Natanz on January 20, 2014. (IRNA/AFP/Kazem Ghane)

Iran said planning to limit international inspector access to its nuclear sites

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz arrives at a ceremony for incoming chief of staff Aviv Kohavi, at the IDF Headquarters in Tel Aviv, on January 15, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/ Flash90)

IDF chief briefs Gantz on unspecified regional ‘security challenges’

Louise Ellman resigned from the Labour party due to systemic antisemitism within the party. (Courtesy)

After 55 years, UK Jewish MP quits Labour, condemns Corbyn, over anti-Semitism

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Dame Louise Ellman says leader is unfit to be PM, has attracted support of many anti-Semites; her local branch had tried to schedule a vote against her on Yom Kippur eve

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures as he departs from Hudson Yards, in New York, September 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Johnson announces Brexit deal with EU, but parliaments still need to agree

By AP

Gas chamber at Stutthof (Courtesy)

From our partnerUK teacher sacked after ‘joking’ about sending kids to gas chambers — report

In her graphic novel 'White Bird,' R.J. Palacio tells a story of how a young Jewish girl survived World War II in France. (Heike Bogenberger)

‘Wonder’ author explains why today’s news made her write a Holocaust story

By Emily Burack

At Bard, hurt feelings sidetrack a crucial conversation

What was most needed at the Hannah Arendt Center’s anti-Semitism conference was for Jews to stay and keep talking to each other

With so many memorable events in the Torah, why do we commemorate the temporary dwellings of the Israelites in the wilderness, of all things?

Yamina party leader Ayelet Shaked arrives for a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem on September 18, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shaked on PM’s loyalty pledge: Couples don’t keep reaffirming marriage contracts

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Former justice minister, whose New Right party didn’t sign statement against joining minority coalition backed by the Joint List, says earlier document was enough

ExplainerIt’s almost unthinkable, but how would a minority government work?

By Raoul Wootliff

Israel media reviewIt’s not spin if you believe it: 6 things to know for October 17

AnalysisWhy Likud MKs aren’t trying to replace Netanyahu, yet

By Raoul Wootliff

Rabbis for Human Rights activist Moshe Yehudai, who the NGO says was assaulted by a group of masked settlers in the northern West Bank on October 16, 2019. (Rabbis for Human Rights)

Settlers accused of beating rabbi, 80, who was aiding Palestinian olive harvest

Octogenarian Israeli activist and four foreigners injured in northern West Bank when assailants arrived with crowbars, went on to burn hundreds of trees, Yesh Din says

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks during the annual AIPAC conference in Washington on March 26, 2019. (Jim Watson/AFP)

Friedman: US peace plan won’t call for settlement evacuations

By Raphael Ahren

The car said to have been driven in an attempted car-ramming attack on Border Police near Ramallah, October 17, 2019 (Border Police)

Driver tries to ram IDF troops in West Bank; is shot, badly injured — police

In this August 7, 2019, photo, US Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Maryland Democrat, speaks during a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Obituary

US Rep. Elijah Cummings of Baltimore dies aged 68; founded program in Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Maryland lawmaker established Israel project to bring Jewish and black communities closer; led probes into Trump, who responded with remark about his district slammed as racist

Zoe Kravitz attends the premiere of HBO's "Big Little Lies" season two at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Purrfect

Zoe Kravitz to play Catwoman in new Batman film

By JTA

Jewish actress will play Selina Kyle opposite Robert Pattinson in latest Batman reboot

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Asher Hazut. (Courtesy)

14-year-old struck by lightning at beach dies of injuries

A police officer (R) using a taser gun on a man who asked not to be taken to a police station by car on Shabbat, October 12, 2019. (Screenshot: Facebook)

Cop filmed using taser on man who asked not to be taken by car on Shabbat

By Michael Bachner

Screen capture from video of ultra-Orthodox protesters clash with police in Jerusalem, October 16, 2019. (YouTube)

7 arrested as hundreds of ultra-Orthodox riot in Jerusalem

By Stuart Winer

File: Officials count the ballots from soldiers and absentees at the Knesset in Jerusalem, a day after the general election, April 10, 2019 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Election czar urges probes into voting fraud at 30 polling stations

Illustrative: A drone belonging to the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed wing, flies over Gaza City on December 14, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/MAHMUD HAMS)

IDF downs drone flown in from Gaza Strip

Lenny Pozner with his son Noah. (Courtesy)

Father of Sandy Hook victim awarded $450,000 in defamation case

By AP

In this image released by NASA on October 4, 2019, astronauts Christina Koch, right, and, Jessica Meir, left, pose on the International Space Station. (NASA via AP)

1st all-female spacewalk, including Jewish astronaut, brought forward to Friday

By AP and ToI Staff

Morton Mandel, shown in 2018, founded more than a dozen nonprofit organizations and served as president of United Way Services in Cleveland. (Alyssa Schmitt/Cleveland Jewish News via JTA)

ObituaryMorton Mandel, Jewish businessman and philanthropist, dies at 98

By JTA

The main gate leading into the former Nazi German Stutthof concentration camp in Sztutowo, Poland, July 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Former SS camp guard, 93, goes on trial for 5,230 counts of accessory to murder

By Mathieu FOULKES

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meeting in Riyadh on February 12, 2019. (Credit: Wafa)

Abbas and Saudi crown prince meet, agree to establish economic committee

Al-Shabaab terrorists in Mogadishu, Somalia, October 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

US researchers develop data model to predict terror groups’ future lethality

In this photo from January 16, 2018, Adam Neumann, co-founder and then-CEO of WeWork, attends the opening bell ceremony at Nasdaq, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Troubled WeWork founder used Kabbalah Center contacts to fund business — report

By JTA

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