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What Matters Most On Monday, October 28, 2019

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US President Donald Trump (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in the Oval Office of the White House, March 5, 2018, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Netanyahu, Gantz congratulate US on raid that killed IS chief Baghdadi

By ToI Staff and Agencies

PM hails death of jihadist leader as ‘an important milestone’ but warns ‘the battle is still ahead of us’; FM Katz says it sends message ‘terror can be defeated’

Baghdadi assassination succeeded despite Trump, not thanks to him – NYT

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Trump says Islamic State chief ‘died like a dog’

By Sebastian Smith and Omar Haj Kadour

Islamic State still poses threat after death of al-Baghdadi

Women walk on the streets of Kobani, Syria. (Ziv Genesove/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook'Life in Kobani will be normal once again'

On Syria’s border, a snapshot of Kurdish town’s 2018 calm ahead of current storm

By Ziv Genesove

In Kobani last year, The Times of Israel found a Kurdish people interested in Israeli life and hopeful for a peaceful future. That hope was to be dashed

US President Donald Trump speaks October 27, 2019 in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, announcing that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group is dead after being targeted by a US military raid in Syria. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

The tip, the raid, the reveal: The takedown of al-Baghdadi

By Deb Riechmann and AAMER MADHANI

US President Donald Trump heads to the lectern to make a major announcement on October 27, 2019, at the White House in Washington, DC. (JIM WATSON / AFP)

Israel media reviewHot diggity dog, Baghdadi is gone: 7 things to know for October 28

By Joshua Davidovich

Illustrative: Genetic testing. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)

Researchers unveil possible breakthrough treatment for Tay-Sachs

Infants with degenerative genetic disease who underwent experimental gene therapy treatment show preliminary evidence of clinical stabilization

Illustrative: Health workers dressed in protective gear begin their shift at an Ebola treatment center in Beni, Congo DRC, July 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Workings of Ebola vaccine decoded; smaller dose seen yielding similar protection

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir (R) speaks with Jason Greenblatt, the US president's assistant and special representative for international negotiations, during the Arab Summit in the Jordanian Dead Sea resort of Sweimeh on March 29, 2017. (AFP Photo/Khalil Mazraawi)

Farewell interviewQuotes 'Hotel California' to say he'll never leave peace bid

Trump’s departing peace envoy hails ‘huge shift’ in neighbors’ ties with Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Jason Greenblatt acknowledges forthcoming peace plan may not be embraced immediately; stresses US is not judge or jury, ‘and we are not going to force anything on either party’

Biden says Kushner has no ‘credentials’ to be drafting Middle East peace plans

By AP and ToI Staff

US marks 25 years of peace treaty between Jordan and Israel

By JTA

US ambassador toasts opening of new Israeli medical school in West Bank

Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, center, of the Tree of Life/Or L'Simcha Congregation, is comforted after saying a prayer for the souls of the deceased during the one-year commemoration of the Tree of Life synagogue attack, at Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)

Pittsburgh victims remembered at anniversary ceremony with tears and prayers

Jewish community joined by local leaders and other faiths at memorial held under banner of ‘Remember. Repair. Together,’ one year after gunman massacred 11 people in synagogue

Pittsburgh Steelers to hold moment of silence to remember synagogue victims

By JTA

Squirrel Hill Jewish day school students send messages to mass shooting victims

By JTA

One-year commemoration of Pittsburgh synagogue massacre marked around the world

By AP

Likud spokesman Jonatan Urich at a joint press conference by Prime Minister Benjamin Netayahu and Zehut party chairman Moshe Feiglin at Kfar Hamacabiah in Ramat Gan, on August 29, 2019. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu says checking his aides’ phones is a ‘terror attack against democracy’

PM: Law enforcement officials are trying to ‘terrorize my immediate circle’ with investigation into suspected witness harassment

7:22 pm

Monotheistic faiths sign joint paper against euthanasia
7:18 pm

British MPs reject PM's bid for December 12 election
6:49 pm

8 swastikas discovered on Smith College campus

Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Jewish Community Munich, gives a speech during a ceremony to inaugurate a memorial site at the former Muehldorfer Hart concentration camp, on April 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/dpa/Matthias Balk)

Jewish groups voice fear over German far-right surge

By AFP

Munich community leader, a Holocaust survivor, says booming support for AfD shows political system ‘has gone off the rails’

Germany’s far-right AfD more than doubles its power in eastern heartland vote

By Julien GATHELIER and Frank Zeller

Polish president withholds signature on paper to name Jewish scholar a professor

By Katarzyna Markusz

Polish students clean up local Jewish cemetery in Zalewo

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on October 27, 2019. (Gali Tibbon/AFP)

Netanyahu associates probed over suspected harassment of state witness

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Likud spokesman, campaign manager reportedly questioned about video alleging Shlomo Filber falsely incriminated PM in corruption probes

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, October 27, 2019. (Gali Tibbon/Pool Photo via AP)

‘You are hurting me,’ Netanyahu heard telling publisher in leaked recording

Likud spokesman Jonatan Urich speaks at a Central Elections Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, April 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Right-wing leaders decry police confiscation of PM aides’ phones under probe

PHOTO ESSAY: Shirin Neshat’s Iran

The Western world can take a look beyond itself — at displacement, alienation, political oppression, and more — with the artist’s acute eye

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)

J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami addressing the group’s annual national conference in Washington on April 15, 2018. (Courtesy, J Street)

J Street launches bid to push anti-occupation stance in DNC platform

By Eric Cortellessa

On first day of confab, liberal group seeks to pressure 2020 Democrats to take stronger stance against settlement expansion, for Palestinian rights

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, on October 27, 2019. (Elad Malka)

Gantz meets Netanyahu for first time since receiving mandate to form coalition

No progress toward unity government reported, but sides agree to meet again in effort to break logjam that threatens third election in a year

Then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting of Likud party members at the Knesset in Jerusalem on October 3, 2019. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Netanyahu takes over Diaspora Ministry, his fourth portfolio

By Raphael Ahren

(Collage by Kveller via JTA)

Even prior to ‘Jojo Rabbit,’ Jews have long played Nazis onscreen

By Lior Zaltzman

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

Wheelchair battery ignites fire in hold of El Al plane before Paris takeoff

An Israeli teen wrapped in an LGBT Pride flag near the settlement of Efrat, June 3, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Support group for religious parents of LGBT children to launch in settlements

Daniel Siryoti, reporter for Israel Hayom who says he was targeted in attack for being a journalist, October 27, 2019 (Screen grab via Channel 13 News)

‘You’re a journalist?’ Reporter says he was targeted in attack while working

An IKEA store in Netanya, November 3 2007. (Hagit Rabinowitz/Flash90/File)

IKEA Israel to eliminate single-use plastics at start of 2020

Israeli security forces outside the Palestinian refugee camp of Arroub, outside the West Bank Hebron, on October 28, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF arrests 19 Palestinian suspects in overnight West Bank raids

Illustrative. In vitro fertilization (IVF) of an egg cell. (iStock by Getty Images/ man_at_mouse)

Israeli court okays posthumous use of sperm despite man’s request to destroy it

Lebanese protesters hold hands to form a human chain along the coast from north to south as a symbol of unity, during ongoing anti-government demonstrations in Lebanon's capital Beirut on October 27, 2019. (ANWAR AMRO / AFP)

Lebanon protesters successfully form 170-kilometer human chain, says organizer

Soldiers from the IDF Netzah Yehuda battalion argue with Bedouin men before fighting with them at a gas station in southern Israel on October 17, 2019. (Screen capture)

Three of 13 soldiers suspected of attacking Bedouin men released

Screen capture from video of alleged white supremacist graffiti discovered sprayed on The Holocaust Center for Humanity in Seattle, October 2019. (YouTube)

Seattle Holocaust center vandalized with white supremacist graffiti

By JTA

Kafr Yasif Mayor Shadi Shweiri (Screenshot: Elhmra TV)

Arab Israeli mayor’s home targeted by gunfire in north

Illustrative: Postal workers help Palestinians, who arrived at the central post office in Gaza City on January 26, 2019, to receive financial aid from the Qatari government given to impoverished families. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Gazan banks dish out fresh round of Qatari grants to poor families

Argentina's former president and new vice president Cristina Fernandez waves at supporters next to president elect Alberto Fernandez, at the headquarters of the party in Buenos Aires on October 27, 2019. - Peronist candidate Alberto Fernandez won Argentina's presidential election in the first round on Sunday, official results showed, bringing to an end the crisis-plagued rule of market-friendly incumbent Mauricio Macri. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)

Peronist challenger Fernandez wins Argentine presidential election

By Denis BARNETT

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