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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 29, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eldest son Yair Netanyahu is seen at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on June 5, 2018. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

In leaked transcript, PM’s son calls police Gestapo, accuses ex-aide of murder

By Joshua Davidovich

Foul-mouthed and combative Yair Netanyahu makes unfounded claims about Gideon Saar and Nir Hefetz, says cops worse than mafia in transcript of police questioning

7:32 pm

WhatsApp files complaint against NSO over alleged cyber attack using service
7:07 pm

Leak reveals Yair Netanyahu's combative, conspiratorial police interrogation
6:40 pm

Dozens of Netanyahu-backers protest outside Mandelblit's home

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri gives an address at the government headquarters in the center of the capital Beirut on October 18, 2019. (Marwan Tahtah/AFP)

Lebanon’s PM considering resigning after nearly 2 weeks of protests — report

By ToI Staff and AP

Saad Hariri to give press conference at 4 p.m. local time after reports he could step down imminently

Burning tires light up the night skies during anti-government protests in the Shiite shrine city of Karbala, south of Iraq's capital Baghdad, late on October late October 28, 2019. (AFP)

18 protesters killed in Iraq as pressure on government mounts

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

An explosion during an attack on an Egyptian police checkpoint in el-Arish, north Sinai, Egypt, on January 9, 2017. (Islamic State Group in Sinai/AP)

Egypt officials: 1 policeman, 13 jihadists killed in Sinai incidents

By ASHRAF SWEILLAM

This September 9, 2015, image shows the sign posted outside during the re-opening of the Israeli embassy in Cairo, Egypt, four years after an Egyptian mob ransacked the site where the mission was previously located. (Israeli embassy in Egypt official Facebook page via AP)

Israeli embassies said to ramp up security amid fears of Iranian attack

Heightened security measures come amid growing concern in Jerusalem that Tehran is plotting strikes in retaliation for raids on its regional proxies

Netanyahu says Iran seeking to fire missiles at Israel from Yemen

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel media reviewSaw you at Sanaa: 7 things to know for October 29

By Joshua Davidovich

Netanyahu proposes slashing civilian budgets to fund anti-Iran defense

By Raphael Ahren

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks at the J Street National Conference, with the 'Pod Save the World' hosts Tommy Vietor, left, and Ben Rhodes, October 28, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

'Not anti-Semitism to say Netanyahu gov't has been racist'

Democratic hopeful Sanders urges giving chunk of US military aid to Gaza instead

By Eric Cortellessa

At J Street confab, 2020 candidate attacks Trump and Netanyahu credibility, saying ‘one is going to be impeached, the other one may end up in jail’

Aya Maasarwe pictured in a Melbourne cafe, October 1, 2018. (Instagram)

Australian jailed for 36 years over rape, murder of Israeli student Aya Maasarwe

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Codey Herrmann to serve minimum of 30 years without parole for brutal January attack on 21-year-old in Melbourne; judge says society must be protected from him

A private investigator tagged Malka Leifer as she spoke on the phone, while sitting on a bench in Bnei Brak, on December 14, 2017. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Netanyahu says Israel will extradite Leifer as soon as court okays it

Israel's Ambassador Danny Danon speaks in the Security Council at United Nations headquarters, Monday, April 29, 2019. (AP/Richard Drew)

Israel’s UN envoy: Erdogan has turned Turkey into a ‘regional hub for terror’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Danon tells Security Council that Ankara is persecuting Kurds in Turkey and sending troops ‘to massacre Kurdish people in Syria as well’

Not over yet: New US Syria mission after al-Baghdadi death

By Robert Burns

Syrian, Turkish forces exchange fire in first border zone clash

By AFP

Beheaded journalist’s parents thank Trump for ‘eliminating’ Islamic State chief

By JTA and ToI Staff

Made in the Italian Peninsula?, ca. 1300–before 1349. Gold, enamel. This wedding ring is the most technically accomplished example of goldsmith’s work in the Colmar Treasure. Its miniature dome and supporting arches mimic the imagined form of the lost Temple in Jerusalem, metaphorically connecting that site to the newlyweds’ home. (Musée de Cluny – Musée National du Moyen Âge, Paris/The Colmar Treasure/Met Cloisters, New York)

Medieval jewels hidden by Jews during Black Death on show at NY Met Cloisters

By Cathryn J. Prince

Rokhl Kafrissen

Want to help women battling breast cancer? Give them money

Pink ribbons and awareness campaigns won’t help patients who are struggling under the exorbitant costs of their treatment

A gift may well be bribery if you’re the prime minister

Just because something is sociable doesn’t mean it’s not corruption

A strategic attack deep in the heart of Samaria

At-risk, uncontrolled teen boys carrying out attacks in Judea and Samaria are handing the extreme left victory on a silver platter

Sheldon Paul Stone

A hijab, a Spurs scarf, and a lost Uyghur protest

That time the only people who came to protest genocide in China were an older Jewish man and a young Muslim woman

Violinist Vanessa-Mae performs at Tel Aviv's Heichal Menora on October 28, 2019. (Chai Shalom)

Concert review

Violinist rock star Vanessa-Mae is hooked on classics in Tel Aviv show

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Former classical prodigy burns up stages — and ski slopes — while maintaining a comfortable foothold in mainstream music charts

Belgian band K's Choice to arrive in Israel December 12, for a long-awaited concert. (Courtesy K's Choice)

Special KAddicted to Israel, Belgium’s K’s Choice headed back for 8th gig

By Jessica Steinberg

Blue and White party chairman MK Benny Gantz attends a faction meeting at the Knesset, on October 28, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Gantz, Lapid accuse Netanyahu of stalling coalition talks

Blue and White chief says ‘no tangible progress’ made in his first sit-down with PM since being tapped to form coalition, vows to continue talks with small parties

Joint List leader Ayman Odeh arrives for a meeting with party members at the Knesset on September 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz to meet leader of Arab-majority Joint List for coalition talks

By Raoul Wootliff

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)

PM aide claims police illegally searched his phone in witness harassment case

Dr. Frank Tallis, author of 'The Incurable Romantic.' (Courtesy)

Interview

The tech age offers easy free love — but we’re hardwired for guilt, says author

By JP O’ Malley

From the exhibit 'Nurse, Nurse' at the Manofim art festival opening October 29, 2019, at Bikur Cholim Hospital in Jerusalem (Courtesy Tzadok Basan/Yad Ben Tzvi Collection)

At historic Jerusalem hospital, art festival exhibit focuses on cries for help

By Jessica Steinberg

(Collage by Alma via JTA)

These 5 female Jewish superheroes are busting villains in a universe near you

By Cali Halperin

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Rabbi Prof. Avraham Steinberg and other religious authorities present to Pope Francis a document denouncing euthanasia, October 28, 2019. (Courtesy/Chief Rabbinate spokesperson Kobi Alter)

Rabbis join ‘historic’ interfaith call at Vatican against assisted suicide

By AFP and ToI Staff

Belgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes at her office in Brussels on October 27, 2019. (Vincent Duterne/Getty Images/via JTA)

Jewish mom gets nod as Belgium’s first female prime minister

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Hundreds marching through Kafr Qasim on October 29, 2019, to mark the 1956 massacre in which Border Police shot and killed 48 Arab Israelis. (Joint List)

Hundreds march through Kafr Qasim to mark 63rd anniversary of massacre

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

After weeks of protests, PM announces team to tackle violence in Arab community

Ayah Ali speaking at Benedictine University in Lisle, Ill. (Screenshot/Benedictine SJP/Twitter via JTA)

Palestinian student tells Holocaust survivor Israel guilty of ‘ethnic cleansing’

Illustrative: Career soldiers and soldiers in mandatory service in the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate attend a ceremony for the appointment of the new chief of intelligence at Glilot military base, near Tel Aviv, March 28, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In first, IDF names female colonel as chief intel officer for regional command

By Judah Ari Gross

In this Monday, Sept. 16, 2019 photo, Rafael Mariano Grossi, who has been chosen as the new head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, attends a news conference in Vienna, Austria. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Argentina’s Rafael Grossi elected head of UN’s nuclear watchdog

By Julia ZAPPEI

Anti-Abbas activist Fadi Elsalameen is originally from a West Bank village but currently resides in Washington, DC. (Courtesy of Fadi Elsalameen)

Palestinian anti-PA activist says Facebook closed his popular page

The scene where a man was suspected of stabbing his father to death and seriously injuring his mother in Gan Yavne, September 26, 2019. (Israel Police)

‘It’s what God wants’: Man indicted for killing dad, attempted murder of mom

Illustrative: Hikers near the Dead Sea, May 15, 2009. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Hiker dies in fall from cliff near Dead Sea

Children play on trees in the Kaudwane settlement outside the Kalahari Game Reserve, November 19, 2005 (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

New study traces humanity’s ‘homeland’ to ancient Botswana

By Patrick Galey

Actress Rachel Weisz poses for photographers backstage with her Best Supporting Actress award for her role in the film 'The Favourite' at the BAFTA awards in London, February 10, 2019. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

A place in the sunRachel Weisz will portray Elizabeth Taylor in new film

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