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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 30, 2019

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Naama Issachar and her mom Yaffa in a post to Issachar's Instagram page in July 2018.

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Issachar family slams ‘inhumane’ decision to extradite Russian hacker

Justice minister’s decision to hand Alexey Burkov to US means his release can’t be used to help free Naama Issachar from Moscow prison

7:30 pm

French far-rightist, 84, charged in mosque shooting
7:29 pm

Issachar family slams 'inhumane' decision to extradite Russian hacker
7:11 pm

NY medical examiner dismisses doubts about Epstein autopsy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Jordan's King Abdullah II, left, at the Royal Palace in Amman, Jordan, on January 16, 2014. (AP/ Yousef Allan, Jordanian Royal Palace/ File)

Officials say Jordan not linking 2 detained citizens to arrested Israeli

By Raphael Ahren

Foreign Ministry sources say that contrary to Amman official’s suggestion, government hasn’t indicated that man who illegally crossed border is being held as a bargaining chip

Jordan recalls ambassador in Israel to protest detention of two of its citizens

Hunger-striking Jordanian woman in Israeli custody hospitalized for 3rd time

Jordanian official: Use detained Israeli as ‘chip’ for return of 2 Jordanians

Lebanese security forces guard the entrance of Al-Ahed stadium in Beirut's southern suburbs during a tour organized by the Lebanese foreign minister for ambassadors on October 1, 2018, of alleged missile sites around the Lebanese capital in a bid to disprove Israeli accusations that the Hezbollah movement has secret missile facilities there. (AFP PHOTO / ANWAR AMRO)

Israel asks West to condition Lebanon aid on action against Hezbollah missiles

By Raphael Ahren

AnalysisHariri’s resignation and Lebanon’s raging protests are bad news for Hezbollah

By Avi Issacharoff

An image published on Ali Khamenei's official website on September 25, 2019 showing Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader, left, alongside Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, center, and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani. (Khamenei.ir)

Iran accuses Israel, US of causing protests in Lebanon, Iraq

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: Russian police guard outside the Israeli embassy in Moscow, on September 18, 2018. (AFP/Vasily Maximov)

Israeli embassies around the world shut as diplomats, military attachés strike

Foreign and Defense ministries unite in long-simmering dispute with Treasury over bid to retroactively cut envoys’ expense stipends; no consular services for Israelis abroad

US presidential adviser Jared Kushner speaks to Channel 13 news, October 29, 2019 (Channel 12 screenshot)

Kushner urges PM, Gantz to unite to seize ‘tremendous opportunities’ in region

By ToI Staff and AFP

Benny Gantz speaking at the Jewish Agency's Board of Governors in Jerusalem, October 29, 2019 (Ofek Avshalom)

Gantz: I’ll always prefer diplomacy to thwart Iran, but all options on the table

By Raphael Ahren

Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Flash90)

In probe transcripts, PM’s son accuses Likud rival of rape, ex-aide of murder

Yair Netanyahu calls police ‘Gestapo’ and a mafia; denies any attempts to influence media coverage of family

Senior Likud party lawmaker MK Gideon Sa'ar speaks during the conference of the Israeli Television News Company in Tel Aviv on September 5, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Sa’ar asks to see Yair Netanyahu’s police testimony after reported ‘rape’ claim

Justice Minister Amir Ohana holds a press conference in Jerusalem, October 29, 2019 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice minister rails against prosecution as biased, enabled by media ‘cult’

In scathing attack, Amir Ohana claims body under his purview engages in blind persecution of public officials; top justice officials decry comments, say they won’t be intimidated

Justice Minister Amir Ohana delivers a statement to the press, at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem, on October 29, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice minister rant on ‘biased’ prosecution seems partly taken from Wikipedia

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)

Netanyahu aide files complaint against police over phone search

Israeli professor Mordechai Kedar claims wrong man convicted of killing Rabin

Bar-llan University lecturer says ‘a leading politician’ wanted premier eliminated; Netanyahu calls his remarks ‘nonsense’

Mordechai Kedar (photo credit: Courtesy Facebook)

Chairman of the Labor-Gesher party Amir Peretz speaks at a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, October 28, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Labor party head Amir Peretz prevented from speaking at Rabin memorial rally

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat from Colorado, speaks at the J Street National Conference, with the hosts of "Pod Save the World," October 28, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Interview

How Holocaust survival of Michael Bennet’s family shaped his 2020 campaign

By Eric Cortellessa

Is denying Israel’s right to exist anti-Semitic?

Who better to weigh in on anti-Semitism than American Jews? We asked ’em, from all walks of life and belief

The pedophile who abused me is home from jail

From those triggered because David Cyprys is not behind bars to his family to the community at large, we must all navigate his return with caution and humanity

A fledgling family genealogist

When the Nazis destroyed the historical records of my family, they made it very hard for me to find the origin story I was seeking

Richard L. Cravatts

Sen. Warren’s plan to divide Jerusalem is immoral and dangerous

A Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem would boost the PA’s long-term strategy to rid the area of Jews and establish the House of Islam at Israel’s expense

Yair Amitzur, director of the Usha excavation, with the 1,400 year-old iron hammer and nails, October 2019. (Yoli Schwartz, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Nailed it: Rare 1,400-year-old iron hammer found by family at Sanhedrin site

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Palestinian teenager Othman Helles climbs the Gaza security fence moments before he is shot by an IDF soldier during a riot along the Strip's border on July 13, 2018. (Screen capture)

In first, soldier convicted over killing of Gaza rioter, gets 1-month sentence

By Judah Ari Gross

Serviceman agrees to plea deal, admits to opening fire without the required approval at a Palestinian teenager scaling the security fence during border protests

Illustrative: Border Police officers stand at a checkpoint near Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs on January 19, 2018. (Border Police)

Palestinian woman tries to stab Israeli troops in Hebron, is shot – police

Illustrative photo: Masked Jewish settlers, background, and Palestinians, foreground, hurl stones during clashes in the West Bank, Friday, May 3, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Settlers clash with Palestinians harvesting olives near Yitzhar

By Jacob Magid and Adam Rasgon

Protesters hold portraits of Armenian intellectuals during a rally held to commemorate the 104th anniversary of the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in the Ottoman Turks in Istanbul, Wednesday, April 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Pelosi: One of the greatest atrocities of 20th Century

In historic vote, US House recognizes Armenian genocide

By Michael Mathes

Turkey slams vote as ‘meaningless political step’ and warns move to acknowledge killing of some 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Empire will harm ties between Washington and Ankara

Israeli politicians call for recognition of Armenian genocide after US vote

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Turkey summons US envoy over Armenian genocide recognition

Trump says IS leader Baghdadi’s top replacement also killed

By AFP

Flowing waters at the Bokek Nature Reserve, which a class action suit claims have been polluted by industry. (YouTube screenshot)

Trailblazing bid to make factories pay $400m for pollution enters final stage

Largest ever environmental class action suit says two Israel Chemicals plants allowed industrial, radioactive wastewater to contaminate aquifer and stream near Dead Sea

Disposable spoons. (Youtube screenshot)

Fork it overTel Aviv starts to phase out single-use plastic in schools

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Illustrative: A bus in Tel Aviv on Febuary 6, 2017. (Sebi Berens/Flash90)

Tel Aviv, other cities seek to launch public transport on Shabbat by year’s end

An Israeli woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group, on August 28, 2016 in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

WhatsApp sues Israeli firm NSO Group over alleged cyber-espionage

By Glenn Chapman

Two new F-35 fighter jets land at the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel from the United States on July 14, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Cost of pricey F-35 fighter jets to come down next year

By Judah Ari Gross

Malka Leifer at the Jerusalem District Court on February 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Accused sex abuser Malka Leifer refuses to appear before key psychiatric panel

Illustrative: The DLD Tel Aviv tech conference, Israel's largest international tech and startup gathering, Tel Aviv, September 27, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israeli tech companies raise $2.24 billion in third quarter; most since 2013

Illustrative: BDS supporters in New York, October 2015. (BDS Facebook page via JTA)

Oslo City Council bans purchase of Israeli settlement goods and services

This letter, written by Rachel Mintz when she was 11, five years before she was murdered in the Holocaust, stands at the center of a court battle between a Haredi activist and the victim's relatives. (Courtesy of Adva Lotan)

Court blocks sale of Holocaust letter by Yad Vashem board member

Daniel Shorr, far right, and other members of Stanford’s Student Space Initiative escort a rocket he built. (Courtesy of Shorr/via JTA)

Going to heavenStudents blast a Rosh Hashanah custom sky-high, sending misdeeds into space

By David A.M. Wilensky

Adina Bar-Shalom, the daughter of the late Shas spirtual leader, Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. (Flash90)

Ovadia Yosef’s daughter awarded NIS 20k after rabbi calls her ‘Reform’

By ToI Staff and JTA

Thousands protest on October 13, 2019 in Berlin, Germany, against rising anti-Semitism, days after a gunman attacked a synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle. (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)

Jewish man, 70, beaten by anti-Semitic assailant on Berlin street

Illustrative: A prisoner behind bars. (sakhorn38/ iStock via Getty images)

Man jailed for 15 years for raping his partner’s daughter over 4 years

Illustrative: Soldiers guard a power plant near Kueblis, Switzerland, Jan. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Keystone, Ennio Leanza)

Israeli defense firm Elbit selected to provide Swiss army with tactical radios

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