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What Matters Most On Friday, October 18, 2019

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A man who was injured during the ongoing Turkish offensive against Kurdish-controlled areas of northeastern Syria lies at a hospital in Tal Tamr, near the Syrian Kurdish town of Ras al-Ain, October 18, 2019. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

Deadly Turkish airstrikes shatter deal to pause Syria offensive

By Delil Souleiman

Deal between US, Turkey spawns more questions than answers

By Lolita C. Baldor

Amnesty International accuses Turkey of war crimes in Syria

By AFP

Leading Democrats blast Trump over ‘sham ceasefire’ in Syria

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A picture taken during a guided tour with the Russian army shows Syrian elite soldiers taking part in an instruction session with Russian military trainers at an army base in Yafour, some 30 kilometers west of Damascus, September 24, 2019,(Maxime POPOV / AFP)

Analysis

As US withdraws, Jerusalem spooked by Moscow’s growing control over Middle East

Russia is becoming the last global power militarily engaged in the region. Many analysts warn of great dangers for Israel, though one also sees opportunities

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (center) visits the prime minister's holiday sukkah, during talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 18, 2019. At left is US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Hosting Pompeo amid concerns about policy in Syria, PM hails US-Israel alliance

By Agencies and ToI Staff

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner listens as he attends a working breakfast with US President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Susan Walsh/AP)

Kushner to make Israel trip later this month, meet with Gantz for first time

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C-L) and US Vice President Mike Pence (C-R), joined by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (4R), Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay (4L), Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (3L) and senior aides, meet at the presidential complex in Ankara, Turkey, on October 17, 2019. (Shaun TANDON / POOL / AFP)

Turkey and Kurds agree to Syria truce; Trump: ‘A great day for civilization’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Deal, which will see US remove sanctions from Ankara, appears to give Erdogan all he sought to achieve with offensive

US Senator Bernie Sanders speaking at the J Street 2017 National Conference at the Washington Convention Center, Feb. 27, 2017. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images via JTA)

Numerous 2020 Democratic candidates set to attend J Street conference

By Eric Cortellessa

US President Donald Trump speaks as he arrives at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Forth Worth in Texas on October 17, 2019. (Nicholas Kamm / AFP)

Trump says Turkey and Kurds needed to fight ‘like two kids’

By AFP

The former Pussycat Club building in Tel Aviv. (Esther Rubyan/Flash90)

How Tel Aviv’s Pussycat strip club became a Jewish values center

By Cnaan Liphshiz

International Space Station (ISS) crew member, NASA's US astronaut Jessica Meir waves as she boards the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft before its blasts off for the ISS, on September 25, 2019 at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (Maxim Shipenkov/Pool/AFP)

1st female spacewalking team, including Jewish astronaut, makes history

By AP and ToI Staff

Jessica Meir and Christina Koch step out of International Space Station to fix part of its solar power network

Host and executive producer Jonny Caplan stands in front of an Urban Aeronautics flying car during filming for Season One of
'TechTalk,' to be released on Amazon Prime on October 18, 2019. (Courtesy)

Amazon launches series on hi-tech, with focus on Israel’s Startup Nation

By Nadine Wojakovski

Rabbi Daniel Bortz helps a Coachella music festival attendee put on phylacteries and pray. (Courtesy)

Interview

Globetrotting ‘Millennial Rabbi’ uses Insta-fame to click with younger Jews

By Joseph Wolkin

Then-Maldives Foreign Minister Ahmed Shaheed addresses the United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York, September 21, 2005. (AP Photo/John Marshall Mantel)

People of the Pod

LISTEN: Architect of UN’s first anti-Semitism report says it is ‘long overdue’

Episode #7: UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion Dr. Ahmed Shaheed discusses why anti-Semitism is a unique hatred * TOI’s Amanda Borschel-Dan dives deep into Pilgrims’ Path

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro gestures while giving a speech in Caracas, Venezuela, on February 12, 2019. (Orangel Hernandez/AFP)

US, Israel ‘appalled’ as Venezuela wins seat on UN Human Rights Council

By Edith M. Lederer

An effigy of Igor Kolomoisky at the entrance to the Brodsky Synagogue in Kyiv, Ukraine, Oct. 14, 2019. (Courtesy of Eduard Dolinsky)

Bloody effigy of Ukrainian-Jewish oligarch found outside synagogue

By JTA

When the 4 species of Sukkot create a symphony

Given the value of diversity and unity within Judaism, how do we transcend our tendency to exclude those who are different from ourselves?

Listen to her voice

Yossi Klein Halevi credited so many marginalized figures coming to the fore in the piyut revival movement, yet he forgot a key population: the women

Former chief justice Meir Shamgar at the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem, May 19, 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Former Supreme Court president Meir Shamgar, Israeli judicial giant, dies at 94

Rivlin mourns a ‘founding father’ of legal system; he served on Israel’s top court for over 20 years, was also attorney general and IDF’s top legal official

Harold Bloom spoke with the Yiddish Book Center weeks before his death. (Yiddish Book Center via JTA)

AppreciationHarold Bloom dreamed in Yiddish until his death

By Gabe Friedman

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz delivers a statement in Tel Aviv, September 26, 2019. (Avshalom Shoshoni/Flash90)

Gantz reportedly looking to form minority government with Liberman’s backing

If tasked with assembling coalition, Blue and White chief plans to invite Likud to unity talks, knowing it won’t show up, and then move forward without majority support

Report: Netanyahu would share PM job even if Gantz brings only some of his party

Likud’s Sa’ar vows to eventually challenge Netanyahu, despite ‘personal attacks’

Netanyahu floats new offer for unity government, Gantz swiftly rejects it

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown University, October 17, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

Zuckerberg says Facebook stands for free speech, takes no questions from press

By Marcy Gordon

Reporters sidelined, media filming barred as CEO hails his platform’s role in ensuring ‘free expression,’ defends its refusal to take down some problematic political content

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, speaks at the DLD Munich Conference 2019, January 20, 2019. (Picture Alliance for DLD | Verwendung weltweit)

Sheryl Sandberg pledges $2.5 million to Anti-Defamation League

By JTA

An anti-government protester stands by a fire of plastic barriers and trash blocking a road during a demonstration against corruption in Beirut, Lebanon, October 17, 2019.(AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon drops plan to tax WhatsApp users after thousands protest economic crisis

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The work of street art created by Spanish artists PichiAvo on a Jaffa wall as part of Patron of Arts (Courtesy Patron of Arts)

Paint the wallsInternational street artists paint Jaffa’s port in Sukkot celebration

By Jessica Steinberg

Thousands of Israelis and Christian evangelists take part in Sukkot's Jerusalem March in the capital, October 17, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Photo essayThousands of pro-Israel marchers from dozens of countries gather in Jerusalem

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

Family of Israeli jailed in Russia seeks to delay extradition of hacker

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

Israel hoping woman jailed in Russia will be freed by Putin visit in January

In this Oct. 8, 2019, photo, Associated Press journalists visit the Sustainability Pavilion at the under construction site of the Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Dubai bets billions that Expo 2020 won’t be a desert mirage

By AP and ToI Staff

Iraqi security forces fire tear gas to disperse anti-government protesters who set fires and close a street during a demonstration in Baghdad, Iraq on October 5, 2019. (AP/Hadi Mizban)

Iran-backed militias used snipers in Iraq to help quell recent protests – report

Illustrative: People worship at a Baptist church in, New York, April 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Decline of Christianity in America continuing at rapid pace, poll finds

A scene from ITV's "Singletown." (video screenshot)

Novel Israeli program among deluge of dating shows aimed at women

By Fiachra GIBBONS

93-year-old former SS guard Bruno Dey in the concentration camp Stutthof near Danzig in the regional court in Hamburg, Germany, October 17, 2019. (Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa via AP)

Ex-Nazi concentration camp guard, 93, tells German court ‘sorry for what he did’

By Mathieu FOULKES

Palestinians gather during a protest march dispersed by the IDF near the Shiloh settlement on October 17, 2019. (Sharona Weiss/Yesh Din)

Protesting new West Bank outpost, Palestinians clash with soldiers and settlers

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh chairs a cabinet meeting in the Jordan Valley village of Fasayil, on September 16, 2019. (Majdi Mohammed/AP)

Palestinian PM says Israeli doctors should treat patients in West Bank

Illustrative: A performance during the Acre in Hebrew Fringe Theater Festival in Acre on October 16, 2019. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Israel celebrates 40 years of alternative theater in Acre festival

By Alexandra Vardi

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