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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 16, 2021

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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (right) and Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer carry floral tributes as they arrive at the scene of the fatal stabbing of Conservative British lawmaker David Amess, at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea, a district of Southend-on-Sea, in southeast England, on October 16, 2021 (Tolga Akmen/AFP)

UK leaders pay tribute to murdered lawmaker Amess as MPs demand tougher security

By Agencies and ToI Staff

British PM, opposition leader make joint visit to church where Conservative lawmaker was stabbed to death; MPs press for protection after murder of 2nd colleague in 5 years

Floral tributes are placed on one of the roads leading to the Belfairs Methodist Church in Eastwood Road North, where British Conservative lawmaker David Amess has died after being stabbed at a constituency surgery, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Slain British MP remembered as one of ‘most gentle people in politics’

By Jitendra Joshi

A photograph of Conservative British lawmaker David Amess, who was fatally stabbed, is pictured prior to a service at Saint Peter's Catholic Parish of Eastwood in Leigh-on-Sea in southeast England on October 15, 2021 (Tolga Akmen / AFP)

Killer 'literally got knife out and just began stabbing him'

UK police: MP Amess killing was terrorism, potentially tied to Islamic extremism

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Suspect, 25, said to be a Muslim of Somali descent, fatally stabbed veteran MP at meeting in a church; police searching London addresses, but killer believed to have acted alone

Sir David Amess (right) joins members of the Southend and District Reform Synagogue, in his constituency, to celebrate Israel's 70th Independence Day on April 21, 2018. (Courtesy)

From our partnerJewish community leaders react with horror after MP Amess stabbed to death

Police officers talk at the scene outside the Belfairs Methodist Church in Eastwood Road North, where British Conservative lawmaker David Amess has died after being stabbed at a constituency surgery, in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. (AP/Alberto Pezzali)

Counter-terror police leading probe into fatal stabbing of UK lawmaker

By AP

This image, provided by Christie's, shows Vincent van Gogh's 1888 work 'Wheatstacks,' sold as part of sale of 'The Cox Collection: The Story of Impressionism,' in New York, November 11, 2021. The watercolor, seized by the Nazis during World War II, sold to an undisclosed buyer of $35.9 million (Christie's)

Will be briefly on view, in London, for 1st time since 1905

Van Gogh stolen from Rothschilds by Nazis to be auctioned in New York

By Karen Matthews

‘Wheatstacks’ expected to fetch at least $20 million; sale going ahead after agreement reached between estate of current owner and heirs of two Jewish art collectors

(Wikimedia Commons; collage by Grace Yagel/ via JTA)

'Getting a chance to formally study is a great privilege'

Oxford courses on 12 rare Jewish languages aim to keep heritages alive

By Michelle Krasovitski

The classes, which began this week, run for an hour a week online and are free for all students

On not donating bone marrow

Of course I want my life to have meaning. I want to do things that matter. But I’m afraid I have nothing more to contribute to the world, not even my marrow

Laura Ben-David

PHOTO ESSAY: The long overdue aliyah of the Bnei Menashe

It took 27 centuries, but now what a privilege to witness this incredible parade of smiling, happy, flag-waving people at Ben Gurion airport, as if in a dream

Say they warned over 50,000 account-holders in 2021 so far

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has key role in state-backed hack surge, Google warns

Tech giant says Tehran group targeted campaign staffers in US 2020 election; used phishing attacks as well as trying to upload a malware app to Play Store

In this October 8, 2019 file photo, a woman types on a keyboard in New York. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Illustrative. Malware, ransomware attack by a hacker. (solarseven; iStock by Getty Images)

Data shows $590m in ransomware payments reported to US in 2021 as attacks surge

By Joshua MELVIN

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell speaks as he attends a meeting of EU foreign ministers to discuss the situation in Ukraine, at the European Council building in Brussels, on April 19, 2021. (Francois Walschaerts, Pool via AP)

EU czar agrees to discuss nuke talks with Iran, but warns clock is ticking

By AFP

Beachgoers play at floating blow-up water park, at Pure Beach in King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia, on September 17, 2021 (Fayez NURELDINE / AFP)

Sun, sea and the opposite sex as Saudi Arabia slowly loosens up

By Haitham el-Tabei

At Pure Beach near Jeddah, there is music, dancing and an inflatable water park, while some women even wear once unthinkable bikinis

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (left) and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita (right) sign three framework agreements in Rabat, on August 11, 2021. (Shlomi Amsalem/GPO)

Morocco said set to approve aviation, culture and sport agreements with Israel

Members of the Beja ethnic group of eastern Sudan gather around burning tires as they demonstrate outside the Osman Digna port in Sudan's northeastern Red Sea coastal city of Suakin on October 9, 2021 (ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP)

Sudan’s transitional government facing its ‘worst crisis,’ PM says

By AFP and ToI Staff

The main synagogue in Malmö, Sweden. (CC BY-SA jorchr/Wikimedia Commons)

‘Holocaust was a scam’ projected on Swedish synagogue during antisemitism summit

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Words were seen on several buildings in country; neo-Nazi group claims responsibility for the incident

Slovenia's Prime Minister Janez Jansa speaks during a media conference at the conclusion of an EU summit at the Brdo Congress Center in Kranj, Slovenia, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

EU slams Slovenian prime minister for antisemitic conspiracy tweet

By Samuel Petrequin

Former president Donald Trump listens as Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker speaks during his Save America rally in Perry, Ga., on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)

Senate hopeful Herschel Walker nixes event over host’s anti-vax swastika

Entrance to the Wittenberg/Sharon house in Jerusalem's Old City. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

Discover an unsung hero’s many imprints on the holy city of Jerusalem

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Rabbi Yaakov Mann was a scholar-turned-contractor who felt Israel should be built up with the work of its residents’ own hands. His influence continues to benefit the capital today

Illustrative: Police at a scene of a crime, August 19, 2021. (Flash90)

TV: Police ignored rape of girl, 16, charged her father for stabbing rapist

Report claims officers have still not questioned rape suspect after several months; police deny account, say victim did not cooperate with authorities

Supporters of the Shi'ite Amal group fire weapons in the air during the funeral processions of Hassan Jamil Nehmeh, who was killed during yesterday clashes, in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, on Friday, October 15, 2021. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

Analysis

Beirut street battles may spell even darker times

Supporters of the Shiite Amal group fire weapons in the air during the funeral processions of Hassan Jamil Nehmeh, who was killed during clashes, in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Lebanon on edge as funerals held for seven killed in Beirut gunbattle

By Rouba El Husseini

Shiite fighters from Hezbollah and Amal terror movements take aim with (L to R) a Kalashnikov assault rifle and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher amidst clashes in the area of Tayouneh, in the southern suburb of the capital Beirut, on October 14, 2021 (IBRAHIM AMRO / AFP)

ExplainerA who’s who of the groups involved in Beirut violence that left 7 dead

By AFP

Using an expired Spanish law that extended citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, Ángel Sanz-Briz saved 5,200 Hungarian Jews from being deported to Auschwitz in 1944. (Centro Serafad-Israel/ via JTA)

'Humanity prevailed over legality'

Spain wants to find descendants of 5,200 Jews saved by the ‘Spanish Schindler’

By Orge Castellano

Ángel Sanz Briz saved 5,200 Jewish Hungarians by issuing fake passports and buying 11 apartment buildings as safe havens, but the anti-Israel Franco regime stifled his legacy

Afghan residents and family members of the victims gather next to a damaged vehicle inside a house, day after a US drone airstrike in Kabul on August 30, 2021. (WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)

US offers condolence funds to families of 10 killed in errant Kabul drone strike

By AP

Pentagon doesn’t say how much money to be paid, but notes Defense Department also working with State Department to help surviving family members relocate to the US

Afghan men sit in a courtyard inside a Shiite mosque in Kandahar on October 15, 2021, after a suicide bomb attack during Friday prayers (Javed TANVEER / AFP)

Islamic State group claims Afghanistan mosque attack that killed dozens

By AFP

In this Sept. 5, 2019 file photo, security forces block a road as teachers protest in Amman, Jordan. (AP Photo/Omar Akour, File)

Jordanians eye bleak future as economic woes, corruption and repression mount

Dr. Jonathan Weinkle of Pittsburgh's New Community Chevra Kadisha pours water as part of an October 3 ritual completion of tahara ruchanit, or spiritual cleansing. (Adam Reinherz/ Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA)

'It feels like we cheated them out of something'

After tweaking rituals during pandemic, a US Jewish burial society makes amends

By Adam Reinherz

A chevra kadisha in Pittsburgh returns to the graves of over 100 people who died in 2020-21 to pray and ‘apologize’ for being unable to perform preparation for burial in entirety

Illustrative: An Israeli soldier (Top-R) looks on as Palestinian and foreign volunteers and activists pick olives next to the outpost of Evyatar in in the West Bank, on October 10, 2021. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Palestinian olive pickers attacked by large group of settlers, PA says

By AP and ToI Staff

Four people lightly wounded, police arrest four settlers stealing possessions of one olive picker; in separate incident, settler youth attacked by Palestinians while herding sheep

Illustrative: An Israeli tank takes position on the Israel-Gaza border. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

IDF says it arrested two Palestinians who planted bomb on Gaza border

Illustrative: Female soldiers of the Military Police Erez Battalion at a checkpoint near Jerusalem, on December 22, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

IDF probing reports new conscripts attacked at East Jerusalem gas station

'Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical' tells the story of Kahane’s radicalism, from his critique of liberalism through his ever-changing Zionism. (Princeton University Press/ via JTA)

Interview'People love him or hate him, but nobody actually reads him'

How some of extremist rabbi, onetime MK Kahane’s ideas entered Jewish mainstream

By Emily Burack

Along with Kahane’s militancy and violent tactics, there was a social, national, religious critique that is surprisingly relevant today, says Shaul Magid, author of a new biography

Workers take a break before European Union officials visit the construction site for the Givat Hamatos neighborhood in East Jerusalem, November 16, 2020. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo/ File)

Wary of Biden, Israel goes quiet while advancing major East Jerusalem projects

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Thousands of homes going up in controversial Givat Hamatos neighborhood, and many more units set for approval in other areas; US says it is formulating reaction

A scene from 'Ave Maria' by Basil Khalil. (Incognito Films)

Netflix launches film collection of 32 ‘Palestinian Stories’

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A fire at the Z Center shopping mall in the central Israel town of Qalansawe, on October 16, 2021. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Fire breaks out at mall in central town of Qalansawe; fears of building collapse

Ido Shkuri, a wheelchair basketball player for Israel's national team, takes a free throw during the Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem, July 9, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

US man sentenced for stealing $830,000 from charity for disabled Israeli kids

By AP

View of the Arab village of Daburiyya as seen from Mount Tabor, on July 27, 2019. (Mila Aviv/Flash90)

15-year-old shot, moderately hurt as teens play with gun in northern Arab town

Illustrative -- In this April 25, 2020, photo, a man reads the holy Quran on his phone during the first day of Ramadan in Mumbai, India (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

China crackdown on Apple store hits apps for reading Bible, Quran

By Matt O'Brien

In this Nov.26, 2020 file photo, Hubert Germain, a WWII Resistance fighter and the last 'Compagnon de la Liberation' is pictured before a ceremony in homage to fellow Compagnon de la Liberation Daniel Cordier, at the Invalides monument in Paris (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool, File)

Last of elite group of fighters who helped liberate France from Nazis dies

By AP

Real estate developer Eldad Peri poses for a picture in Jerusalem on February 26, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: Police have lead on potential killer of indebted real estate developer

Ancient Herculaneum is seen on a backdrop of modern Ercolano and Vesuvius (CC BY-SA Qfl247/ Wikimedia Commons)

Who by fireNewly found skeleton may bring fresh insights on Vesuvius eruption

By AFP

Jurgen Krauss, who bakes challah for his family's synagogue, shows off his Passover-inspired pavlova in 'The Great British Bake Off' tent. (Screenshot from Netflix)

Sweet!Jürgen brings Passover to ‘Great British Bake Off’

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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