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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 19, 2019

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President Donald Trump accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., right, arrives for a Senate Republican policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

McConnell rips Syria withdrawal as ‘a strategic nightmare’

By Delil Souleiman

As scattered fighting flares, top Republican in Congress warns that Trump’s pullout of US forces will ’embolden our enemies, and weaken important alliances’

Syrian Kurdish forces and Turkey exchange blame for continued fighting

By Mehmet Guzel and Sarah El Deeb

‘Tremendous success’: Trump touts Syria truce as scattered fighting continues

By Agencies and ToI Staff

‘Only God is with us’: A Syrian family feels betrayed by the US

By Andrea Rosa and Joseph Krauss

Students gather for a debriefing session on J Street's 'Let Our People Know' trip to Israel and the West Bank in July 2019 (Courtesy)

In one-off alternative to Birthright, J Street lets students focus on occupation

By Eric Cortellessa

Israelis visit Naharayim, October 19, 2019 (Courtesy of Naharayim)

Last chance? Record Israeli group tours Naharayim, set to be reclaimed by Jordan

Site manager at parcel of land worked by Israeli farmers for decades, including ‘Isle of Peace,’ believes 150-strong convoy of visitors took what may be final opportunity

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers guard near the security fence between Israel and Jordan in the Arava Valley in southern Israel, February 9, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Security forces nab 7 people crossing into Israel from Jordan

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz speaks near the Jordan Border, October 18, 2019 (Facebook screenshot)

At Jordan border enclave, Gantz calls for improved ties with Arab countries

An Aeroflot Airbus A330-200 seen departing from Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport on June 17, 2011. (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons)

Israeli baby girl dies on flight home from Thailand

1-year-old pronounced dead after plane makes emergency stop in Russian city of Kazan

In this photo provided by NASA, astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir exit the International Space Station on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019. (NASA via AP)

After historic spacewalk, first all-female team insist it’s just part of the job

During congratulatory call with President Trump, Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir says ‘there have been many others — female spacewalkers — before us’

Why I let my daughter get a nose job

I had once been self-conscious about my own nose, but I knew the knife was not for me. I didn’t think it was for my beautiful daughter either

Rescue the balabusta: Anti-Slavery Day 2019

Was Bertha Pappenheim never recognized for her crusade on behalf of prostitutes because she presented a threat, as a ’carefree’ single woman?

The Te’enim checkpoint in the West Bank where a Palestinian man was shot and killed after running at guards with a knife in his hand on October 18, 2019, the Israeli Defense Ministry said. (Defense Ministry Border Crossing Authority)

Knife-wielding Palestinian runs at West Bank checkpoint, is shot dead

Defense Ministry says initial investigation shows suspect ran at security personnel at Te’enim crossing, ignoring calls to halt

Illustrative: A Palestinian uses a slingshot to throw a stone at Israeli forces during clashes along the border with Israel, east of Bureij in the central Gaza Strip, on October 18, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Gazan said wounded by Israeli fire near border overnight

A Palestinian uses a slingshot to throw back a tear gas canister at Israeli forces during a riot along the border with Israel, east of Bureij in the central Gaza Strip, on October 18, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Palestinians riot on Gaza border; 48 said wounded

A speech by Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Hezbollah terror group, is transmitted on a large screen in the Lebanese capital Beirut's southern suburbs on September 2, 2019. (AFP)

Amid protests, Hezbollah chief says he opposes Lebanese government’s resignation

As protesters gather for fresh demonstrations in Beirut, Hassan Nasrallah calls demands for government to step down a ‘waste of time’

Lebanese demonstrators stand by a fire a make-shift barricade amid clashes with security forces during a mass protest at Riad al-Solh Square in Beirut on October 18, 2019. (STR/AFP)

Lebanese PM gives gov’t 72-hour ultimatum as riots bring country to standstill

By Hachem OSSEIRAN

In this Monday, Feb. 11, 2019 file photo, a woman passes by the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Year after massacre, Pittsburgh synagogue plans to become center for Jewish life

By Ramesh Santanam

Leaders of Tree of Life congregations say rebuilt site likely to include houses of worship, memorial to 11 victims, anti-Semitism education center and city’s Holocaust museum

An undated picture of Andrea Wedner (L) with her mother Rose Mallinger, who was killed in the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting on October 27, 2019. (screen capture)

Tree of Life shooting survivor opens up about losing her mother in attack

By JTA

Bullet holes are seen on October 10, 2019 at a door of the synagogue in Halle, eastern Germany, one day after the attack where two people were shot dead. (Axel Schmidt/AFP)

From our partnerUK synagogues urged to keep doors locked following Germany attack

Police secure the old synagogue in Essen, Germany, October 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Analysis

Germany rethinks security for Jewish community after synagogue shooting

While some have called to post police outside Jewish institutions after Halle attack, others favor technological measures that won’t undercut sense of normalcy like in France

‘Dirty Jew’ spray-painted on Judaica shop in France

Bulgaria soccer coach quits after racist chants, Nazi salutes at England match

By Diana SIMEONOVA

Ukraine’s chief rabbi sounds alarm over Jewish tycoon’s effigy

By AFP

Former president of Argentina Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner arrives at federal court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sept. 18, 2018. Fernandez had been ordered to testify as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina’s Jews split as ex-president Kirchner looks to make political comeback

By Alan Grabinsky

White House lawyer Steven Menashi, US President Donald Trump's nominee for US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, appears for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The arguments at the heart of Trump’s Jewish judicial nominee controversy

The battle over Steven Menashi’s nomination for the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals has touched raw nerves on immigration, feminism, LGBTQ rights and nationalism

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Cadets in the IDF Cyber Defense Unit course, June 10, 2013 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

UAE-based intelligence firm said recruiting IDF veterans from elite cyber unit

Volunteers carry an injured man on a stretcher to a hospital, following a bomb blast in Haska Mina district of Nangarhar Province on October 18, 2019. (Noorullah Shirzada/AFP)

Blast at Afghan mosque kills 62 during Friday prayers

By AP

Followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr chant slogans against corruption, the US and Israel during demonstrations between the holy shrines of Imam Hussein and Imam Abbas on the Arbaeen Shiite festival in Karbala, Iraq, October 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraqi cleric’s backers chant against Israel as Shiites make Arbaeen pilgrimage

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Hadi Mizban

Sacha Baron Cohen arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 4, 2018, in Beverly Hills, California. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Sacha Baron Cohen makes Nazi analogy to slam Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook policy

President Reuven Rivlin at his official residence in Jerusalem for an event celebrating the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, October 17, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

BookendsA presidential gift from the father returns to the son

Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at an election event in Tel Aviv, September 18, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu calls to boycott firms that advertise on Israel’s top TV channels

Hillary Clinton listens during a lecture on foreign policy at Rackham Auditorium, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019 in Ann Arbor, Mich.(Jacob Hamilton/Ann Arbor News via AP)

Clinton says Russia is ‘grooming’ US Democrat for third-party 2020 run

By AFP

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein speaks to reporters in Raleigh, North Carolina, August 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Emery Dalesio, File)

Local governments reject opioid settlement from Teva, other drugmakers

By GEOFF MULVIHILL

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