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What Matters Most On Monday, October 21, 2019

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Democratic Presidential Candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks during a town hall event on October 18, 2019 in Norfolk, Virginia. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images/AFP)

Warren says withholding aid to Israel is ‘on the table’ to curb settlements

Top Democratic presidential contender says Jerusalem’s policies are moving it away from a two-state solution

This June 2, 2017, file image made from video shows the Trump National Doral in Doral, Fla. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019, he is reversing his plan to hold the next Group of Seven world leaders' meeting at his Doral, Florida, golf resort. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz, File)

White House ends plan for summit at Trump property, saying it would look ‘lousy’

By Jill Colvin and Zeke Miller

In this June 18, 2019, file photo, Donald Trump Jr. throws hats to supporters at a campaign rally for President Donald Trump in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Meet Donald Trump Jr.: Provocateur, master preacher for father, 2024 candidate?

By Jonathan Lemire

In this October 29, 2018, file photo, a person pauses in front of Stars of David with the names of those killed in a deadly shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

ADL: Pittsburgh synagogue massacre spawned rash of far-right plots against Jews

By Michael Kunzelman

Masked Israeli settlers from Yitzhar and soldiers watch after Palestinian fields were set on fire in the village of Asira al-Qiblyia on June 2, 2010. (Wagdi Ashtiyeh/Flash90)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross and Jacob Magid

Attack on troops draws fresh scrutiny to army’s response to Yitzhar violence

The hilltop outposts around the northern West Bank settlement have long been a hotbed of ‘price tag’ attacks, with more than 150 incidents this year, and little law enforcement

Labor chief Amir Peretz at the opening of the party's new election headquarters in Tel Aviv, on July 24, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Labor chief demands Knesset discuss settler ‘terror’ against troops in Yitzhar

Yitzhar residents protest in support of IDF soldiers at the entrance to the Samaria Brigade, October 20, 2019, following an attack on Israeli soldiers near the northern West Bank settlement overnight. The sign reads: "IDF soldiers are our brothers." (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

After attack, settlement residents show support for IDF — and ‘hilltop youth’

Syrian families fleeing the battle zone between Turkey-led forces and Kurdish fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in and around the northern flashpoint town of Ras al-Ain on the border with Turkey, October 15, 2019. (Delil SOULEIMAN/AFP)

Syrian Kurdish military official calls on Israel to take action against Turkey

Invoking past persecution of Jews, member of Syrian Democratic Forces expresses confidence the Jewish people will not neglect Syrian Kurds’ plight

US troops in Syria going to Iraq, not home as Trump claims

By Lolita C. Baldor

Subtle art of diplomacy‘Don’t be a dick, ok?’ Mocking Trump, Hillary posts parody Kennedy letter

By AFP

Kurdish fighters withdraw from besieged Syria town

By Nazeer al-Khatib and Delil Souleiman

Kibbutz built by Kindertransport survivors makes furniture for 6,000 synagogues

Community of Lavi in northern Israel has become world’s top producer of furniture for Jewish houses of worship, exporting its carpentry products to over 70 countries

A worker in Kibbutz Lavi's carpentry factory. (Screenshot/Channel 13)

Dana Benvenisti-Gabay, then-director for regional security and counter-terrorism at the Foreign Ministry, attends the opening session of the two-day Warsaw Ministerial Maritime and Aviation Security Working Group meeting in the Bahraini capital Manama, on October 21, 2019. (STR/AFP)

In rare formal visit, Israeli official attends anti-Iran conference in Bahrain

Presence of Foreign Ministry official at meeting in Manama on maritime, civil aviation security marks latest sign of warming ties between Israel and some Arab states

Iran's Arak heavy water nuclear facilities, Jan. 15, 2011. (AP/Fars News Agency, Mehdi Marizad)

Iran official: Second circuit of Arak reactor to be completed in two weeks

By ToI Staff and AFP

In this 2013 file photo, President of the United Arab Emirates Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan arrives to meet Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in Windsor in England (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, pool)

UAE frees millions in frozen funds amid warming ties, Iran says

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: A hacker at work. (supershabashnyi, iStock by Getty Images)

Russian hackers posed as Iranians to hit dozens of countries, mostly in Mideast

By AP and ToI Staff

In unprecedented attack, US and UK say cyber pirates believed to have ties to Kremlin hijacked tools of organizations in Islamic Republic to hide their true identities

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 4, 2019. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/POOL/AFP)

Putin, Netanyahu hold phone call, discuss Syria developments, Kremlin says

A picture taken on October 21, 2019, shows smoke billowing from a roadblock set by Lebanese protesters on a road in Zouk Mosbeh, north of the capital Beirut. (JOSEPH EID / AFP)

Lebanon’s government scrambles to respond to mass protests

Protestors block major roads in Beirut and elsewhere in fifth day of countrywide demonstrations against leaders

Lebanese demonstrators wave national flags as they take part in a rally in the capital Beirut's downtown district on October 20, 2019. (Patrick Baz/AFP)

Hundreds of thousands in Lebanon’s biggest protest for years; PM promises reform

Lebanese demonstrators chant slogans as they take part in a rally in the capital Beirut's downtown district on October 20, 2019. (Photo by Anwar AMRO / AFP)

Amid massive protests, Lebanon’s main parties agree to Hariri’s reform package

By AFP

The Great American University Crisis, and how Israel can help

With Israeli tuition just $3K a year, every university in the country should have English-language international programs

At Yizkor we remember the ones we miss

With the loss of a loved one, there is a sense of an unfinished story, a chord as yet unplayed

Illustration by Avi Katz

Necessary Stories

The next to the last time I read Etgar Keret

By Haim Watzman

Attorneys Linda Singer and Mark Lanier hug outside the US Federal courthouse, Oct. 21, 2019, in Cleveland (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

4 drug firms, including Israel’s Teva, reach deal to settle US opioid lawsuit

By AP

$260 million agreement comes hours ahead of federal trial over allegations that distributors failed to stop suspicious orders of drugs from being shipped despite warnings of misuse

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Bulgarian fans gesture during a Euro 2020 soccer match between Bulgaria and England at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia on October 14, 2019. (NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV / AFP)

Twin of Bulgarian charged in soccer racist abuse claims it was him at match

In this Oct. 17, 2019 photo, U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn is photographed in his office in Detroit. Cohn has declined to order prison sentences in an investigation of millions of dollars sent to Yemen by a group of Detroit-area men. Nine people have pleaded guilty, mostly for failing to register as a money transfer business. Cohn said Yemen's financial system is a mess and its residents desperately need help. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

95-year-old Jewish US judge spares Yeminis who illegally funneled money home

Images of Yisrael Beytenu party chief Avigdor Liberman (L), Blue and White leader Benny Gantz (C) and Blue and White No. 2 Yair Lapid from a video Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted to his social media accounts on October 20, 2019, alleging they are planning on forming a minority government with the backing of Arab parties. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Blue and White, Liberman hit back at Netanyahu for ‘secret scheme’ video

A protester kicks a tear gas canister during clashes with police in Santiago, Chile, October 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Foreign Ministry issues travel advisory for Chile amid violent protests

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Amir Yaron, governor of the Bank of Israel, attends a press conference in Jerusalem, March 31, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bank of Israel governor wins US economics award

Burlingame high school in California. (YouTube screenshot)

Former student arrested over swastika graffiti at California school

A hookah is pictured at a restaurant in Saudi Arabia's western city of Jeddah on October 20, 2019 (AFP)

Blowing the coalsSaudi Arabia’s new 100% hookah tax sparks fury

By AFP

An illustrative photo of prison food. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Convicted child rapist in Australia denied kosher food after being rearrested

Rescuers evacuate an injured person near the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris, early on November 14, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/MIGUEL MEDINA)

Probe into 2015 Paris jihadist rampage wraps up, paving way for trial

By AFP

An 8,000-year-old pearl found in Abu Dhabi. (Screenshot/Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism)

Mother of pearl8,000-year-old pearl, world’s oldest, found in Abu Dhabi

By AFP

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