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Illustrative: A military jeep is damaged in riots by settlers near the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar on October 20, 2019. (Courtesy)

IDF soldier lightly injured by rock as 30 settlers attack troops, puncture tires

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Security forces fire in air to disperse riot near Yitzhar; protesters hurl stones, slash tires of military vehicles; settler leader condemns incident

Netanyahu, Gantz condemn settler violence against IDF soldiers

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

IDF, Shin Bet, police to work together to find settlers who attacked troops

By Judah Ari Gross and Jacob Magid

Settler youth arrested for threatening IDF officer

Masked settlers near Givat Ronen hurl stones at Palestinian farmer on October 19, 2019. (Screen capture/Yesh Din)

Masked settlers filmed hurling rocks, stealing olives of Palestinian farmers

Rights group says 3 residents of Burin in West Bank hurt by Israeli youth from Givat Ronen outpost in week’s 2nd reported incident of settler violence surrounding harvest

New Right party leader Naftali Bennett speaks during a press conference at the Expo Tel Aviv on September 5, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Bennett accuses judiciary of seeking to ‘topple’ Netanyahu, intimidate the right

New Right party leader says whether or not Netanyahu should be replaced, this must be done by ‘the voters’ ballots and not through an indictment’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, September 25, 2019, when Rivlin tapped Netanyahu to form the next Israeli government. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90

Netanyahu won’t seek more time to form coalition, says Likud MK

South Front, Waddesdon Manor. (Studio 8 (c) National Trust Waddesdon Manor)

When UK’s ‘Jewish Downton Abbey’ hosted royalty, PMs, and young wartime evacuees

By Robert Philpot

Illustrative image of a brain (iStock)

Our brains are wired to prevent us thinking about our own death — Israeli study

While our brains may recognize the notion of death, they shield us from thinking about it as something that can happen to us, but rather only to others, Bar-Ilan researchers find

US military vehicles drive on a street in the town of Tal Tamr on October 20, 2019, after pulling out of their base. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)

US forces withdraw from key base in northern Syria

By AFP

Two days before ceasefire with Turkey expires, troops leave Sarrin base on edge of proposed ‘safe zone’

Syrian Kurds will withdraw from border in accordance with US deal

US defense chief: American troops leaving Syria to go to western Iraq

By Lolita C. Baldor

Erdogan wants Syrian forces to leave border areas, aide says

By Karl Ritter and Sarah El Deeb

Lili Shain (left) teaches Liat Bartal how to cross-stitch. (Courtesy of Lili Shain)

Simchat Torah

It takes 1,400 strangers from around the world to cross-stitch a Torah

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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

Israel media review

On the shoulders of a judicial giant: 7 things to know for October 20

By Joshua Davidovich

Late Supreme Court president Meir Shamgar is remembered for his legacies, which still stand tall today, while the ugliest fruit of his most controversial role rears its head

Ilana Sober Elzufon

Remembrance of Simchat Torah past

I have searched for the perfect Orthodox women’s experience of celebrating the Torah. I haven’t found it, but I think I’ve made my peace with that

Parshat VeZot HaBeracha — Hidden treasure

Jewish immigrants to Jamaica didn’t find gold, but Moses’ blessings to the tribes of Israel suggest a tradition of digging for nuggets (VeZot HaBeracha)

Bahraini Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa arrives at the 'Peace to Prosperity' workshop in Manama, Bahrain, June 25, 2019. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

In latest sign of thaw, Israel sending official to anti-Iran summit in Bahrain

By Raphael Ahren

Senior Foreign Ministry official working on regional security and counter-terrorism to make rare formal trip to Arab state for Monday meet on maritime and civil aviation security

US Middle East Peace Envoy Jason Greenblatt at the Champions of Jewish Values International Awards gala at Carnegie Hall, in New York, on March 28, 2019. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

US peace envoy Greenblatt said set to leave post at end of October

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Michael Stuhlbarg in his breakout role as physics professor Larry Gopnik in the Coen Brothers' 'A Serious Man.' (Screenshot from YouTube/via JTA)

Analysis

A decade on, real rabbis weigh in on Coen brothers’ film ‘A Serious Man’

The famed directors’ most overtly Jewish work is a tragicomedy said to be loosely based on the Book of Job, and lampoons both the clergy and American Jewry as a whole

Taika Waititi, center, playing Hitler, wrote and directed 'Jojo Rabbit.' Roman Griffin Davis, jumping to his right, co-stars. (Kimberley French/Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. via JTA)

Film review‘Jojo Rabbit’ doesn’t glorify Nazis, but is a lesson in how hate is taught

By Emily Burack

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Illustrative: An El Al airline plane at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

El Al flight canceled in NY, forcing passengers to spend holiday there

The scene of a deadly car crash on Route 6 near Ben Shemen, October 19, 2019. (Magen David Adom)

Pregnant woman and 12-year-old daughter killed in car crash

Tourists observe sarcophagi displayed in front of Hatshepsut Temple in Egypt's valley of the Kings in Luxor on October 19, 2019. (Photo by Khaled DESOUKI / AFP)

Egypt reveals details of ancient coffins – biggest such find in over a century

By AP and ToI Staff

Samir Geagea, the leader of the Christian Lebanese Forces party, right, and his wife Strida Geagea, on April 4, 2014 (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Party quits Lebanon government after third day of protests

By Layal Abou Rahal

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks to supporters during a campaign rally on Oct. 19, 2019 in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

‘I am back,’ Bernie Sanders tells supporters at first rally after heart attack

By Steve Peoples

View of the Bear Mountain Bridge over Popolopen Creek feeding into the Hudson River. (John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Boy from Israel dies in New York boat mishap

By AP

Supporters call for the release of Naama Issachar, an Israeli woman imprisoned in Russia on drug offenses, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on October 19, 2019 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Rallies held in Tel Aviv, New York for release of Israeli jailed in Russia

Liberal Party cadidate for Wentworth Dave Sharma (L) waits for voters outside a polling station during the Wentworth by-election in Bondi Beach in Sydney on October 20, 2018 (PETER PARKS / AFP)

Ex-Australian envoy says Israel’s failure to extradite Malka Leifer damages ties

Ori Ansbacher, who was murdered in Jerusalem on February 7, 2019 (Courtesy)

Prosecutors believe Ori Ansbacher murder wasn’t a terror attack — report

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Itay Margi (Courtesy)

Driver suspected of killing boy in Yom Kippur crash released to house arrest

Two women light candles among others and flowers next to the entrance of the synagogue in Munich, during a protest against anti-Semitism on October 11, 2019 two days after a deadly shooting outside a synagogue in Halle. (Photo by Christof STACHE / AFP)

Social media networks withhold livestream data of Halle synagogue attack

People with flags of the Kurdish YPG protest against the Turkish invasion in Kurdish territories in northern Syria in Hamburg, Germany on October 12, 2019. (Axel Heimken/dpa via AP)

Tensions between Germany’s Turks and Kurds boil over with Syria offensive

By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU

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