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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 24, 2019

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Illustrative. Centrifuges enriching uranium. (Public Domain/US Department of Energy/Wikimedia Commons)

Live updates (closed)

Iran nuclear official says domestically made centrifuges to be unveiled soon

Tehran steadily increasing breaches of 2015 accord as it looks for a way around US sanctions that have kept it from selling oil abroad and crippled the Iranian economy

6:35 pm

Jimmy Carter out of hospital after treatment for fall
6:23 pm

Iran nuclear official says domestically-made centrifuges to be unveiled soon
6:12 pm

PM slams report alleging prosecutors want him charged on all counts

President Reuven Rivlin (center) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on September 23, 2019. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu agrees to meet PM-designate Gantz; other right, Orthodox leaders wait

By Raoul Wootliff

55-member bloc loyal to Likud leader will hold off on direct negotiations with Blue and White; leaders of Joint List, Meretz, Yisrael Beytenu, Labor-Gesher agree to meetings

Charged with forming coalition, Gantz asks Netanyahu to join, vows to heal rifts

By Raoul Wootliff

Deri vows to remain true to right-wing bloc as Gantz starts coalition efforts

Top Balad lawmaker: Gantz didn’t call me, but I won’t meet with him in any case

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz speaks after being tasked with forming a new government, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on October 23, 2019. (Gali Tibbon/AFP)

Analysis

Reaching out to Netanyahu, ultra-Orthodox, Gantz bids to defy Knesset arithmetic

Immense skepticism attended the run-up to Wednesday night’s ceremony, when Blue and White leader was charged with building a government. He did his best to puncture it

Histadrut leader Avi Nissenkorn attends a hearing at the National Labor Court in Jerusalem on December 5, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As Gantz seeks to form government, Blue and White heads up key Knesset panel

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Blue and White party chairman Benny Gantz at party headquarters on elections night in Tel Aviv, early on September 18, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel media reviewGive Gantz a chance: 7 things to know for October 24

By Tamar Pileggi

Sheila Katz, CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women. (Courtesy: NCJW)

Analysis

Cathryn J. Prince

Women forge new coalition to smash ceilings in Jewish nonprofits’ boys clubs

From a 13-step call to action to an advocacy group targeting males, initiatives aimed at leveling the playing field are gaining steam

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, August 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg awarded $1 million prize as profound thinker

By JTA

Woman motorsport racer Amjad Al-Amri, featured in the new HBO documentary, 'Saudi Women's Driving School.' (Courtesy HBO)

Director interview

Film charts how newly licensed Saudi women motorists try to drive social change

By Jordan Hoffman

US President Donald Trump, accompanied by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaks October 23, 2019, in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/ Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump lifts Turkey sanctions, says saved thousands of Kurds with Syria actions

By AAMER MADHANI

‘Let someone else fight over this long, blood-stained sand,’ president says; critics charge move leads to loss of US influence in area and will see Islamic State resurgence

US envoy to Syria says evidence of war crimes during Turkish offensive on Kurds

By ToI Staff and AP

UN expert: Iran continues to execute children, has 90 on death row

By Edith M. Lederer

AnalysisSyria’s Assad gets a prize with Trump’s withdrawal, Russia-Turkey deal

Footage from the Michigan State University Hillel posted on its Facebook page show the alleged vandals enter its sukkah (via JTA)

Michigan State University sukkah ‘totally decimated’ by vandals

Two men, who were apparently drunk, filmed destroying structure during last week’s holiday

A man looks at his cellphone at the Aurora center in Budapest, Jan. 12, 2017. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Neo-Nazis try to torch Jewish center in Budapest, activists say

By JTA

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

Former UK Labour MP says activists accused her of dual loyalty to Israel

The day Zubin Mehta gave us his heart

How can Israel repay the Indian-born maestro who came to comfort a war-shocked land and stayed for half a century?

Adam S. Ferziger

Dancing in the street with everybody

As I learned from Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, when it comes to Torah, it doesn’t have to matter what you wear, as long as you are there

Jeffrey Finkelstein

‘Pittsburgh’ is not the name of a terror attack

A year after the attack at the Tree of Life building, we mustn’t let ourselves be defined by a single, horrific anti-Semitic act

Stephen M. Flatow

On the wings of angels, there but for the grace…

The flight I took on an old WWII bomber this summer was life affirming. That same plane crashed the day after Rosh Hashanah

Dvir Sorek, 18, a yeshiva student who was stabbed to death outside a West Bank settlement on August 8, 2019. (Courtesy)

‘Try to kidnap the settler. If you can’t, murder him’: Terrorists recount attack

After stabbing Dvir Sorek to death, one of the suspects returned home and hid the bloodied knife above his kids’ closet, investigation transcripts show

The Israeli military demolishes the rebuilt home of a Palestinian terrorist in the al-Amari refugee camp near Ramallah on October 24, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF once again demolishes home of soldier’s killer after it’s rebuilt

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Saad and Riham Dawabsha, with baby Ali. All three died when the Dawabsha home in the West Bank village of Duma was firebombed by Jewish extremists on July 31, 2015 (Channel 2 screenshot)

Court deems Duma attack accomplice a terror group member

Because suspect was a minor at time of attack that killed 3 members of Dawabsha family, law requires him to undergo Welfare Ministry probation assessment before he can be convicted

After attacks on troops, forces raze structures in illegal outpost near Yitzhar

UN Palestinian rights official calls for ban on Israeli settlement products

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Tires slashed, graffiti daubed in Palestinian town in apparent hate crime

Facebook chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC on October 23, 2019. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Defensive Zuckerberg grilled by skeptical Congress on Facebook’s currency plans

By Marcy Gordon, Barbara Ortutay and Ken Sweet

Founder of social media giant questioned at hearing amid concerns over company’s track record on civil rights, hate speech, privacy and misinformation

A picture taken on October 23, 2019, shows a Palestinian man holding a cell phone displaying the message "this website is not accessible," at an office in the city of Hebron in the West Bank, following a Ramallah court's ruling to block access to dozens of websites. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

Press freedom groups blast PA court for banning dozens of news sites

Reporter's notebook

After feting Virgin’s maiden voyage, Branson to meet with Israel space industry

By Jenni Frazer

Flamboyant travel company founder Sir Richard Branson says he’s wide open for Startup Nation pitches during brief Israel stay

Richard Branson kiss the ground as he arrive to Ben Gurion airport to inaugurate the start of Virgin Atlantic airline in Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Visiting Israel, Virgin’s Branson calls Brexit ‘saddest’ event for UK since WWII

By AP

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Actress Rose McGowan poses for photographers prior to the Pam Hogg Spring/Summer 2019 runway show at London Fashion Week in London, Friday, Sept. 14, 2018. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)

Rose McGowan sues Weinstein, Israel’s Black Cube, alleging intimidation

By ANDREW DALTON

A Jewish boy allegedly being forced to kiss a classmate's feet is causing outrage in Australia. (Twitter via JTA)

Teen charged in Australia for threats to bullied Jewish schoolboy and his mother

Ultra-Orthodox Jews wait among other visitors to enter the Tombs of the Kings, a 2,000-year-old archaeological gem in the heart of Jerusalem owned by France, as it reopens for the public for a second time in six months, on October 24, 2019. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP)

France reopens disputed ancient tomb in Jerusalem to the public

By AFP and ToI Staff

One of the women allegedly harassed by Brig. Gen. Shai Elbaz speaks to Channel 12 (Channel 12 screenshot)

Second navy officer resigns ahead of sexual harassment exposé

This undated image taken from evidence filed in a forfeiture case in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, is of the painting often entitled "Winter," by the artist Gari Melchers. The painting, stolen by the Nazis in 1933, was recovered by the FBI from a collection at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie, N.Y. (US Attorney's Office via AP)

Painting stolen by Nazis recovered from New York museum

By AP

Then-US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley meets with President Reuven Rivlin, not seen, at his official residence in Jerusalem on June 7, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Nikki Haley to be honored by World Jewish Congress for calling out bias in UN

Neta Rivkin carries the flag for the Israeli delegation during the opening ceremony for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Israel expected to send largest-ever delegation to 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo

By JTA

A view of St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy, June 2019 (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Israeli tourist holds Venice money exchange worker hostage over rates

Portrait of the Duchess of Sutherland in 1904 (John Singer Sargent/Public Domain)

British duchess’s 1938 ‘crowdfunding’ campaign saved Jewish family from Nazis

This picture taken on July 22, 2019, shows the demolition of a Palestinian building that was under construction in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Baher. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

Rights group: Record number of Jerusalem home demolitions this year

By AP and ToI Staff

Cellphones found hidden in the fender of a food delivery truck arriving at the Ketziot Prison, October 24, 2019. (Israel Prison Service)

Prison guards thwart attempt to smuggle cellphones to security inmates

The Bar-Ilan University campus in Ramat Gan (CC BY-SA Bar-Ilan University/Wikimedia Commons)

Bar-Ilan University removes regulations requiring modest clothing, skullcaps

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