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What Matters Most On Saturday, October 1, 2022

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Red spray paint is seen spread across the walls on the Russian Consulate after it was vandalized on September 30, 2022 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/Getty Images via AFP)

Israel rejects annexation as West sanctions Russia, threatens any who back land grab

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US and UK announce new sanctions; G7 says it will punish countries that back Moscow’s claims on Ukrainian regions; EU vows to ‘never recognize’ move

From left, Moscow-appointed head of Kherson Region Vladimir Saldo, Moscow-appointed head of Zaporizhzhia region Yevgeny Balitsky, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, Denis Pushilin, the leader of the Donetsk People's Republic and Leonid Pasechnik, leader of self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic wave during a ceremony to sign the treaties for four regions of Ukraine to join Russia, at the Kremlin, Moscow, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin annexes Ukrainian regions, vows to use ‘all means’ to protect territories

By Jon Gambrell and HANNA ARHIROVA

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during a ceremony to sign the treaties for four regions of Ukraine to join Russia, at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on Sept. 30, 2022. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin invokes Satan, slavery, Goebbels, nukes to denounce West in annexation speech

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

Woman pose with locks of their own hair after cutting them during a protest on October 1, 2022 in Rome, following the death of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in Iran (Vincenzo PINTO / AFP)

Rallies held worldwide in solidarity with Iran protests over death of Mahsa Amini

By AFP

Iran says 9 foreign nationals arrested at demonstrations, along with 256 members of outlawed opposition groups; rights groups say over 80 killed in crackdown

Two men carry an injured man following an exchange of gunfire at a police station in Zahedan, the capital of Sistan and Baluchestan Province in Iran, September 30, 2022. (Twitter screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iranian authorities take aim at protesters as demonstrations enter third week

By AFP

In this photo taken by an individual not employed by The Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, protesters chant slogans during a protest over the death of a woman who was detained by the morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran, September 21, 2022. (AP)

Iran ordered security forces to ‘severely confront’ protesters — rights group

By AP

Mourners carry the body of Rayan Suleiman, 7, at a funeral in Tuqu, West Bank, on September 30, 2022. (Jack Mukand/Times of Israel)

Reporter's Notebook

At funeral for boy allegedly scared to death by IDF, an outpouring of grief, anger

By Jack Mukand and AP

Mourners express sadness and rage over death of 7-year-old Palestinian Rayan Suleiman, underlining fear of IDF raids, though Israel denies culpability

Artillery craters are seen in the field from an aerial view in the recently liberated area of Kharkiv region, Ukraine, September 30, 2022. (AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)

20 killed in Russian shelling of Ukrainian civilian convoy, Kyiv says

By Jon Gambrell and Adam Schreck

Second strike in two days to hit humanitarian convoy; Russia in retreat from most of Kharkiv region

A general view of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in territory under Russian military control, southeastern Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Russia accused of kidnapping head of Ukraine nuclear plant after illegal annexations

By AP

This undated file photo provided Sept. 19, 2017, by Russian Defense Ministry official web site shows a Russian Iskander-K missile launched during a military exercise at a training ground at the Luzhsky Range, near St. Petersburg, Russia (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP/File)

AnalysisUS would know if Russia preparing nuclear strike on Ukraine, experts say

By Paul Handley

Russian recruits board a bus at a military recruitment center in Volzhskiy, Volgograd region, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. (AP Photo)

Israel advises dual citizens visiting Russia they may be drafted to fight Ukraine

No travel warning declared, however, as Jerusalem continues to tread lightly; IDF soldiers with Russian citizenship reportedly barred from traveling there

Ukraine pushes for ‘accelerated’ NATO membership after Putin annexes regions

Russia vetoes Security Council resolution condemning its Ukraine annexations

By Edith M. Lederer

AnalysisSetting up face-off with West, Russian annexation marks harrowing moment in invasion

By TAMER FAKAHANY

In past, Abbas had not ruled out coalition with Likud leader

Ra’am’s Abbas says Netanyahu is ‘history,’ won’t back his bid to retake power

Islamist party’s chair blames former PM for crime wave and empowering far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir, criticizes former partners Ayman Odeh and Ahmad Tibi for voting with opposition

Ra'am leader MK Mansour Abbas leads a discussion and a vote on a bill to dissolve the Knesset, June 29, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Balad party head Sami Abu Shehadeh speaks at an Central Elections Committee meeting against disqualifying Balad from running in the upcoming elections, September 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Rebel Chikli, Arab Balad head to Supreme Court to battle election disqualifications

Lebanese President Michel Aoun (L) receives a proposal from US Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea to resolve a maritime border dispute with Israel, October 1, 2022. (Lebanese Presidency)

Lebanon receives written US-brokered proposal for maritime border deal with Israel

State news agency says Lebanese president spoke with senior officials ‘to provide a Lebanese response as soon as possible’ on draft accord to demarcate sea border

The undebatables

At a book fair in Sweden, I could not present my Zionist take on Israel, as no other (Israeli!) NGO there would engage with a viewpoint different from its own

Jason Fredric Gilbert

Post trauma drama!

Haven’t I suffered enough (to score a prescription for medical weed)?

Illustrative: Border Police officers guard at the Mahane Yehuda Market in central Jerusalem, September 30, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Terror warnings seen on rise as security forces gird for tense holiday season

PA security official reportedly tells PA’s Abbas he cannot promise end to attacks; IDF said to more than double its presence in West Bank since beginning of terror wave

The lines 'have been at the back of my head for a long time'

Stoppard’s ‘Leopoldstadt’ tackles Holocaust, intermarriage, Zionism for NY audience

By Gabe Friedman

Semi-autobiographical work by acclaimed British playwright begins Broadway run on Sunday; follows generations of a Jewish family to tell story of assimilation and Nazi genocide

Illustrative -- In this May 15, 2018, photo, a scientist picks up a vial containing frozen donor sperm samples in a lab in Melbourne, Australia. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Probable biological mother in embryo mix-up: ‘I wish I could hug the other woman’

‘We’re both victims of this terrible error,’ she says of woman pregnant with wrong embryo. ‘I wish I could cry with her’; couple learned from TV that fetus is female

Iranians hurl stones at police station in Zahedan on September 30, 2022. (Screen capture/AFP)

Iran says 19 killed in attack on police station; unclear if tied to protests

By AP

State TV says attack in Zahedan carried out by unnamed separatist group, killing 1 IRGC commander; police also arrest nine foreigners allegedly linked to protests

Iran's forward Mehdi Taremi (L) and Senegal's midfielder Nampalys Mendy vie for the ball during the friendly football match between Senegal and Iran in Moedling, Austria on September 27, 2022. (JAKUB SUKUP / AFP)

Iranian soccer players signal support for protesters ahead of World Cup

By Graham Dunbar

People gather with Kurdish flags during a demonstration denouncing the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini -- who died while in the custody of Iranian authorities -- by Iraqi and Iranian Kurds outside the UN offices in Erbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on September 24, 2022. (SAFIN HAMED / AFP)

Kurdish exiles back Iran protests but deny orchestrating unrest

US President Joe Biden speaks during a reception to celebrate the Jewish new year in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff applaud at right. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Minyan man

‘I went to shul more than most of you’: Biden hosts High Holiday reception

At White House event, US president jokes about his many visits to synagogue near his Delaware home, says lessons of Jewish holidays relevant to current state of the country

Artist Jenny Kagan's immersive exhibition 'Out of Darkness' in Kaunas, Lithuania, July 2022 (photo: Grazvydas Jovaisa)

Exhibition

In Kaunas, a British artist shines light on Holocaust massacre forgotten by locals

By Matt Lebovic

Near the site of one of the genocide’s most heavily photographed atrocities, lighting designer Jenny Kagan brings the city’s wartime past ‘Out of Darkness’

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (R) and his British counterpart Liz Truss at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office in London, November 29, 2021. (Stuart Mitchell)

Arab states said to warn UK that moving embassy to Jerusalem could risk trade deal

Ambassadors from countries, including Abraham Accords members, penned letter to British PM before she notified Lapid she’d be launching review of mission’s location

Ronen Bar, the new head of the Shin Bet, leaves his home in Rishpon on October 11, 2021. (Flash90)

Shin Bet head said to visit Greece amid scandal over Israeli-made spyware

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni, flanked by Coldiretti Ettore Prandini, left, prepares to speak during an Italian farmers association event, at the Sforzesco Castle in Milan, Italy, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Italian Jews worry and wait as far-right leader Meloni prepares to take power

By Simone Somekh

Some members of Jewish community are willing to overlook the fact that far-right leaders are ‘intrinsically fascist,’ focusing instead on their championing of Israel, says writer

David "Sandy" Gottesman. (Matt Greenslade/photo-nyc.com; courtesy of the Gottesman family via JTA)

Obituary

Buffett business partner, scion of Jewish philanthropic dynasty, dies at 96

By PHILISSA CRAMER

David ‘Sandy’ Gottesman often opted to remain out of spotlight, but through family foundation supported various causes, including Israel National Library’s new building

Judah Samet stands next to his portrait, part of Luigi Toscano’s “Lest We Forget” project at the University of Pittsburgh in 2019. (Photo by Hector Corante, courtesy of Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh via JTA)

ObituaryJudah Samet was community pillar long before he survived Tree of Life shooting

By Beth Kissileff

Rain from Hurricane Ian floods a street in Charleston, South Carolina, on September 30, 2022. (SCOTT OLSON/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/Getty Images via AFP)

After killing 21 in Florida, Hurricane Ian delivering second blow to South Carolina

By Gerard Martinez

Biden warns that storm will rank among ‘worst in nation’s history,’ urges residents to heed safety instructions as category 1 hurricane makes landfall in Georgetown

Damaged homes and businesses are seen after Hurricane Ian, in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, September 29, 2022, (Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Lapid sends ‘thoughts and prayers’ to Florida as hurricane aims at Carolinas

By AP and ToI Staff

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A TV screen showing a news program reporting about North Korea's missile launch with file footage, is seen at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

North Korea tests missiles for 4th time this week in response to rivals’ army drills

By Hyung-Jin Kim and Mari Yamaguchi

Israeli Jonathan Erlich appears with his friend and former doubles partner Novak Djokovic, right, to explain the cancellation of their scheduled match at the Tel Aviv Watergen Open in Tel Aviv, Sept. 28, 2022. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)

Israeli doubles star Jonathan Erlich retires from tennis at Tel Aviv tournament

By Juan Melamed

Illustrative: An Ebola victim is put to rest at the Muslim cemetery in Beni, in Congo, on July 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Health Ministry warns against travel to Ugandan regions amid Ebola outbreak

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer media award in Berlin on December 1, 2020. (Hannibal Hanschke/ Pool Photo via AP/ File)

Pushing his buttonsMusk shows prototype humanoid robot; experts unimpressed

By Tom Krisher and Matt O'Brien

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