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What Matters Most On Friday, October 25, 2019

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IDF chief of staff Aviv Kohavi holds a meeting around a camp fire with senior Air Force officers on October 23, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

The IDF's guiding principle: Win quickly

IDF unveils ‘Momentum Plan’ to make it deadlier and faster, if it can pay for it

By Judah Ari Gross

Army chief intends to spend large sums to outfit troops with better gear and improve air defenses in order to deal a powerful blow to Israel’s enemies before they can hit back

IDF chief warns ‘precarious’ security situation could lead to conflict in north

By Judah Ari Gross

AnalysisA strike on Israel by an emboldened Iran looms, but may not be imminent

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel media reviewReadying to rumble: 6 things to know for October 25

By Joshua Davidovich

The beach in Tel Aviv on a stormy winter day in Tel Aviv, January 5, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Rare tropical-like storm to batter Israel and Egypt on Saturday

‘Medicane’ brewing over Mediterranean will likely see heavy rains, strong winds and flooding in low lying areas

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)

Gantz to headline Yitzhak Rabin memorial rally in Tel Aviv on November 2

In March, Blue and White leader accused Netanyahu of incitement that led to assassination; now, as premier-designate, he is seeking government with Likud

Blue and White-Likud talks to address specifics of PM’s leave of absence: report

By Michael Bachner

Courting Blue and White, Joint List opposes Zionism but supports ‘compromise’

Odeh calls on Gantz to ‘show courage’ and invite Arab parties to join government

By Michael Bachner

An 18-month-old baby is filmed playing with a gun in his crib in the northern city of Umm al-Fahm. (screen capture: Kan public broadcaster)

Baby filmed playing with loaded gun; father charged with arms trafficking

Police discover footage of 18-month-old in crib, fiddling with weapon, during investigation of Umm al-Fahm man on various illegal weaponry charges

Jordanian protesters wave national flags and chant slogans during a demonstration near the Israeli embassy in the capital Amman on July 28, 2017, calling for shutting the embassy, expelling the ambassador, and canceling the 1994 peace treaty with Israel. (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)

Colder than ever: 25 years on, Israel and Jordan ignore peace treaty anniversary

By Raphael Ahren and Adam Rasgon

Analysis

What happened to the memorials left for Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims

Archivist for local Jewish community is collecting and documenting the tangible tributes to the 11 slain Tree of Life worshipers

Quilted hearts sent in memoriam of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. (Courtesy of the Tree of Life Congregation and Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives)

Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh President and CEO Jeff Finkelstein speaks at the Tree of Life vigil, October 28, 2018. (courtesy)

LISTEN: People of the PodDon’t use ‘Pittsburgh’ as shorthand for US anti-Semitism, says federation head

Two people support each other in front of flowers at a makeshift memorial at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Sunday, October 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Pittsburgh gears up to mark first anniversary of Tree of Life synagogue massacre

By Ramesh Santanam

Joseph Joanovici's identity card photo, October 1944. (Public domain via wikimedia commons)

Graphic novel depicts French Jew who got rich by helping both Nazis, Resistance

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The divine power in 3 small words

Human beings are prone to intertia, but when we let go and allow the spirit of God to move us and change us, we may create entire worlds

Why I got arrested at the Extinction Rebellion protest in London

We Jews cannot be bystanders in the greatest potential tragedy facing humanity and all nature, as we wipe out more species faster than ever before

When Adam named the animals, he didn’t name the fish

How many different types of dog do you know? What about types of sloths, crows, or cockroaches? The words we use define the way we understand the world (Bereishit)

Shlomo Biderman

The changing world needs a different academic system

Does academia have the courage to make the changes that are required, or will institutions be swept aside and left to gather dust?

'Synonyms' director Nadav Lapid on set. (Courtesy Kino Lorber)

Interview

Is filmmaker Nadav Lapid Israel’s best champion — or its biggest dissident?

By Jordan Hoffman

"Regards from the Yitzhar hilltop" is graffitied on a car in Yatma targeted in a price tag attack on October 25, 2019. (Yatma municipality)

For 2nd time in 3 days, Palestinian town targeted in apparent hate crime

30 cars vandalized in Yatma; as in Wednesday incident, Hebrew graffiti references Yitzhar area outpost that’s been hotbed of violence

A fire set to a Border Police tent on the Kumi Ori outpost near Yitzhar on October 24, 2019. (Courtesy)

Suspect sets Border Police tent ablaze at flashpoint outpost near Yitzhar, flees

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)

PM said to have nixed IDF request to clear hilltop youth from outpost 5 times

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at a welcoming ceremony for a new submarine, Rahav, at the Israeli Navy base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Interview

Netanyahu must be questioned in submarine graft case, ex-prosecutor says

‘In other countries, a person facing criminal charges can’t run for office, let alone for the position of prime minister,’ says former deputy state prosecutor Yehuda Sheffer

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit arrives at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem for the hearing on the corruption cases in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a suspect, on October 2, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90).

State prosecutors seek to keep bribery charge in Netanyahu indictment – report

Former Israel Police commissioner Roni Alsheich speaks during a Channel 12 TV conference in Tel Aviv on September 5, 2019. (Flash90)

Ex-police chief called Netanyahu’s attacks on him ‘sad’ in leaked recording

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Researchers screen for finds at the Stelida, archaeological site in Greece in 2017. (Jason Lau/courtesy)

Upending wisdom, Stone Age pre-humans traveled Mediterranean 200,000 years ago

Findings in Greece could rewrite accepted narrative of how early humans reached Europe; study’s authors raise possibility that pre-sapien hominins used boats

Turkish soldiers, right, and Turkey-backed opposition fighters, left, stand on a building next to their flags the town of Ras al Ayn in northeastern Syria, October 23, 2019. (Ugur Can/DHA via AP)

Syria says Turkish-led forces attacked its troops, killing some

By Bassam Mroue

Turkey and Kurdish-led SDF also fighting despite truce; clashes underscore risk of spiraling violence as multiple armies jostle for position in volatile border region

AnalysisDeclaring success in Syria, Trump strengthens Russia’s hand

By AAMER MADHANI and Robert Burns

US to send ‘additional military assets’ to protect Syrian oil

President offers to meet protesters paralyzing Lebanon, hear their demands

By Layal Abou Rahal and Anwar Amro

More Headlines

A yawning dog in bed with feet and an alarm clock. (Damedeeso, iStock by Getty Images)

Winter timeClocks in Israel turn back overnight Saturday-Sunday

A parade float at the Aalst Carnaval in Belgium featuring caricatures of Orthodox Jews atop money bags, March 3, 2019. (Courtesy of FJO, via JTA)

Anti-Semitic Belgian parade float not intentionally racist, government says

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A Palestinian man shows his money after receiving his salary in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, November 9, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Qatari official said to arrive in Gaza to deliver cash payments

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Harvey Weinstein arrives at the New York Supreme Court, December 20, 2018. (AP/Julio Cortez)

‘Elephant in room’: Female comedian confronts Weinstein at NY event, is booed

By AFP

Illustrative photo of a vaccine for infants at an Israeli hospital. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Tel Aviv to host event for anti-vaccination activists

The cover of 'P is for Palestine.' (Courtesy of Golbarg Bashi/via JTA)

NJ library hosts public reading of ‘P is for Palestine’ amid protests

John Demjanjuk in a Munich courtroom, March 2012. (AP/Matthias Schrader)

Netflix docuseries probes life of Nazi guard John Demjanjuk

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ron Cobi, mayor of Tiberias, seen outside the city's municipality building, April 1, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Unknown assailants attack controversial Tiberias mayor on city street

Illustrative: Bend the Arc activists protest former US president Donald Trump's visit to Pittsburgh, October 23, 2019. (Bend the Arc/Facebook via JTA)

14 Jewish activists arrested protesting Trump visit to Pittsburgh

By JTA

Adam Neumann, co-founder and chief executive officer of WeWork, speaks during a signing ceremony at WeWork Weihai Road flagship on April 12, 2018 in Shanghai, China. (Jackal Pan/Visual China Group via Getty Images via JTA)

Not the messiahWeWork founder has joined Chabad movement, his mother says

By Josefin Dolsten

Demonstrators gather in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, October 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Anti-government protests resume in Iraq after earlier bloody demonstrations

By AFP

Illustrative: Authorities carry out the court-ordered amputation of the fingers of a convicted thief in a public square in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, January 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Mohsen Tavarro)

Iranian authorities reportedly chop off convicted thief’s hand

By AP

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