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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 2, 2022

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Prime Minister Yair Lapid, wearing a pink ribbon for breast cancer awareness, leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, October 2, 2022. (Amos Ben Gershon/GPO)

Netanyahu: It's a surrender and I won't be bound by it

PM: Proposal for Lebanon maritime border deal preserves Israel’s security interests

Lapid confirms Jerusalem has received text of agreement; says allowing Lebanon to develop gas field will field will ‘weaken dependence on Iran, restrain Hezbollah’

Hezbollah terror group leader Hassan Nasrallah in a live television address, October 1, 2022. (X video screenshot)

In subdued comments, Nasrallah calls maritime border deal proposal ‘important step’

File: Hezbollah terror leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link, as his supporters raise their hands, during the Shiite holy day of Ashoura, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, August 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 2: Nasrallah changes tune on maritime borders; security update

Senator Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, speaks during a hearing of the US Senate Foreign Relations on Capitol Hill, December 7, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Top senator said to warn Netanyahu that having Ben Gvir in gov’t would harm US ties

Robert Menendez, who chairs Foreign Relations Committee, reportedly raised ‘serious concerns’ with ex-premier over potentially including extremist elements in next coalition

Shas Head Aryeh Deri at a Kikar HaShabbat conference in the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem Hotel, September 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shas chief: If judges bar me from being a minister, we’ll legislate to overrule them

By Michael Horovitz

A taxi that was apparently hit by gunfire on a West Bank road, October 2, 2022. (Samaria Regional Council)

Gunmen target taxi, bus in West Bank terror attack; 1 lightly injured

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Shots fired at Israeli vehicles on road between Palestinian town of Bayt Furik and Elon Moreh settlement; security forces search for suspects; armed faction claims responsibility

Border Police officers treat Fayez Damdum, 18, who was shot by forces after he allegedly attempted to hurl a firebomb, October 1, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Police say Palestinian killed after trying to hurl firebomb at cops near Jerusalem

By Emanuel Fabian

Scissors a Palestinian woman stabbed a prison guard with at the Ramon Prison in southern Israel, October 2, 2022. (Israel Prison Service)

Palestinian woman visiting inmate brother stabs prison guard, is arrested

By Emanuel Fabian

Britain's King Charles III reacts as the coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, adorned with a Royal Standard and the Imperial State Crown and pulled by a Gun Carriage of The King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery, arrives at the Palace of Westminster, following a procession from Buckingham Palace, in London on September 14, 2022. (ALKIS KONSTANTINIDIS / POOL / AFP)

From The Hartman Institute

The King of Flesh and Blood

What have the last few weeks been like for British Jews living through royal change and royal loss? Senior Rabbi Joseph Dweck discusses with Yehuda Kurtzer.

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers hold a drill simulating an infiltration of terrorists into the settlement of Elazar in the West Bank, September 21, 2022. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

IDF ‘logistically unprepared’ to continue West Bank arrest op, comptroller warns

By Emanuel Fabian

Investigation finds reservist troops missing essential equipment, given faulty guns, while Kfir training base has poor living conditions

Suspects arrested over alleged Islamic State affilation, in images published by the Shin Bet October 2, 2022, clockwise from top left: Muhammad Ihab Suleiman, Muamen Nijam, Jihad Bakr, Jafar Suleiman, Ahmed Belal Suleiman. (Shin Bet)

6 Arab Israelis arrested for alleged IS ties, plans to attack Nazareth Muslim school

By Emanuel Fabian

Security agency says men consumed jihadist content online, sought to also attack busy bus stop, tourist site and police station in northern Israel

Illustrative: A police car at the scene of a crime. (Israel Police)

Suspect seriously wounded in police shooting in coastal Arab town

State of the campaign

Simon Davies and Joshua Hantman

For Netanyahu, the path to victory is more about mobilization than persuasion

2021’s vote saw a major drop-off in turnout from right-leaning and religious areas compared to 2020; in this campaign’s final month, Likud will focus on reversing that trend

Likud party and opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Kikar HaShabbat conference at the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem Hotel, September 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Ayelet Shaked in the Knesset (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s efforts to sideline Jewish Home’s Shaked a ‘mistake,’ say Likud sources

In this image commissioned by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science to illustrate new research, artists give a conceptual representation of fungi growing within cancerous tumors. (Ella Maru Studio)

Fungus is telltale cancer sign, possibly screenable by blood test: Israel-US study

By Nathan Jeffay

Many tumors are teeming with fungi that shed DNA into blood, and researchers say blood analysis could offer treasure trove of information to detect and to shape treatment

Leaders of Lev Tahor cult released from Mexico jail due to ‘lack of evidence’

Lawyer for pair suspected of human trafficking and sex crimes says they were ‘100% acquitted’; source involved in operation says decision a blow to police’s ‘untainted legal work’

Members of the extreme ultra-Orthodox Lev Tahor sect escaping from a detention shelter in Huixtla, Chiapas state, Mexico, on September 29, 2022. (Benjamin ALFARO/AFP)

How not fasting on Yom Kippur saved my life

The dietician and my Orthodox rabbi insisted I eat, but I knew I could not – it was the holiest fast of the year! Until I realized my error

Heaven is the place where love continues

I can’t prove it exists, but I can tell you why I have faith that my daughter is in a truly ‘Good Place,’ protected by G-d and surrounded by loved ones

In this October 1, 2022, photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, tear gas is fired by security to disperse protesters in front of the Tehran University, Iran. (AP Photo)

Thousands of Iranian students protest violent crackdown since death of Mahsa Amini

By AFP

Demonstrators call for release of detained students; chants of ‘death to the dictator’ as women wave scarves, rights group says more than 80 killed in unrest

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, Lebanon, January 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah chief calls Mahsa Amini’s death a ‘vague incident’ exploited against Iran

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

Iran says 4 Revolutionary Guards members killed in clash at police station

By AP

Jason Sherman wanders through an Israeli pine forest in search of his tree, as seen in 'My Tree' documentary film. (John Minh Tran)

In search of ‘his’ tree in Israel, a Canadian filmmaker unearths unsettling issues

By Renee Ghert-Zand

After learning a sapling planted through JNF for his bar mitzvah is in a forest where once stood a Palestinian village, Jason Sherman asks himself if he is complicit in a cover-up

Labor party leader Merav Michaeli speaks after a faction meeting in Tel Aviv on September 8, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Michaeli promises to run Tel Aviv light rail on Shabbat starting next year

Transportation minister announces norm-busting plan for seven-day public transportation system in Gush Dan area in 2023

The Ayalon Highway on October 01, 2022 after a large sinkhole opened on the main highway in Tel Aviv on September 17, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Tel Aviv highway exit reopens partially after 2-week closure due to sinkhole

Iran says waiting for US to unfreeze $7 billion after releasing American detainees

By AFP

Iranian state media reports funds held by South Korea due to American sanctions will be released following finalization of negotiations

The Iranian flag waves outside of the UN building that hosts the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, office inside in Vienna, Austria, July 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

This undated photo shows Baquer Namazi, left, and his son Siamak, in an unidentified location. (Babak Namazi via AP)

American held in Iran allowed to leave, son freed from detention

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Israelis participate in a triathlon in the Israeli city of Eilat, on December 1, 2017. (Anat Hermony/Flash90)

Jordanian triathlon event bars Israelis from competing over alleged security fears

Israel’s deputy foreign minister says formal diplomatic rebuke unnecessary; athletes missed chance for points toward 2024 Olympic Games qualification

Russian immigrants attend an event marking the 25th anniversary of the major wave of aliya from the former Soviet Union to Israel, at the Jerusalem Convention Center, on December 24, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel approves NIS 90 million for absorbing immigrants from Russia amid Ukraine war

By Tobias Siegal

Funds to go toward housing, employment, education and health services for new arrivals, as Israel sees most significant immigration wave from Russia since USSR’s collapse

Ukrainian servicemen drive a tank on the way to Siversk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, October 1, 2022. (Inna Varenytsia/AP)

Russian suicide drones hit Zelensky’s hometown as Ukraine presses counteroffensive

By Jon Gambrell

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov attends a ceremony formally annexing four regions of Ukraine Russian troops occupy - Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, at the Kremlin in Moscow on September 30, 2022. (Mikhail METZEL / SPUTNIK / AFP)

Russia should use low-yield nuclear weapons in Ukraine, says Chechen leader

By AFP

A Booking.com search for the settlement of Ma'ale Adumim shows a new travel advisory banner (Screenshot)

Booking.com introduces travel warnings for Israeli, Palestinian West Bank properties

By ToI Staff and AP

Company adds small text advisory on search results denoting ‘conflict-affected area’; Israel says it dissuaded company from using harsher wording

An image of Tel Aviv's city lights at night taken from the International Space Station by Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. (Samantha Cristoforetti/ISS via Twitter)

Space views

Space station commander snaps nighttime photos of Israeli city lights

By AFP and ToI Staff

Italian astronaut sends warm ‘shalom’ to Jewish state alongside images of Tel Aviv, Haifa, Dead Sea taken aboard orbiting installation

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Chile's President Gabriel Boric (right) speaks with Israeli Ambassador Gil Artzyeli at the Presidential Palace in Santiago, Chile, October 1, 2022. (Twitter video screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Chile’s president accepts Israeli envoy’s credentials, two weeks after snub

A self-driving vehicle from Mobileye’s autonomous fleet sits outside Mobileye’s autonomous vehicle workshop in Israel. (Mobileye, an Intel Company)

Israeli self-driving tech firm Mobileye, purchased by Intel in 2017, files for IPO

A demonstrator dressed in the colors of the Brazilian flag performs in front of a street vendor's towels for sale featuring Brazilian presidential candidates, current President Jair Bolsonaro, center, and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in Brasilia, Brazil, September 27, 2022. (Eraldo Peres/AP)

Brazil votes as leftist candidate seeks to oust Bolsonaro in comeback

By DIANE JEANTET

Soccer fans enter the pitch during a clash between supporters at Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang, East Java, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Panic following police actions left over 100 dead, mostly trampled to death, police said Sunday. (AP/Yudha Prabowo)

At least 125 dead in Indonesia after fans trample each other to exit soccer match

An aerial view of a damaged trailer park after Hurricane Ian passed by the area in Fort Myers, Florida, October 1, 2022. (Steve Helber/AP)

Florida deaths rise sharply to 47 amid cleanup from Hurricane Ian

By AP

Supporters of the Sweden Democrats cheer during the Party's election night in Nacka, near Stockholm, after exit polls were released during the general elections in Sweden on September 11, 2022. (Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP)

Swedish far-right party with roots in neo-Nazi movement to chair 4 Riksdag panels

By AP

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, welcomes US President Joe Biden to Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 15, 2022. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP, File)

Critics fear Saudi crown prince seeks cover from legal troubles with new PM title

By AFP

Illustrative: A Palestine viper in Israel. (CC BY-SA 3.0, Guy Haimovitch, Wikimedia Commons)

13-year-old boy seriously injured by snake bite in northern Israel

Serbia's Novak Djokovic returns the ball during the men's singles semifinal tennis match against Russia's Roman Safiullin at the Tel Aviv Watergen Open 2022 in Israel on October 1, 2022. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

In Tel Aviv, ‘quite emotional’ Djokovic reaches his fourth tennis final of season

By AFP

A pink whipray spotted off the coast of Eilat, October 2, 2022. (Omri Amosi via Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

The long tailPink whiprays, endangered in most of the world, seen near Eilat

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