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What Matters Most On Friday, October 7, 2022

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File: Israeli soldiers are seen in Metula, on the border between Israel and Lebanon, northern Israel, on May 15, 2021. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Gantz puts IDF on alert in north as Lebanese maritime border talks falter

US says it is continuing ‘robust engagement’ to reach deal after Israel rejects Lebanon’s proposed changes; Hezbollah has threatened Israel for months over disputed gas

Shiite Lebanese members of Iranian-backed Hezbollah walk barefoot as they carry a poster showing Hezbollah drones with Arabic words that reads: "We are coming," during the holy day of Ashoura in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Mossad head said to warn of face-saving Hezbollah strike on gas field as deal wavers

Lebanese President Michel Aoun, right, meets with US Envoy for Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein, at the presidential palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, September 9, 2022. (Dalati Nohra, Lebanon's official government photographer, via AP)

Lebanon sticks to guns on maritime deal amid reported US pressure to drop demands

Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh (Social media)

Gay Palestinian living under asylum in Israel murdered, beheaded in Hebron

Suspect uploaded footage of murder to social media; unclear how the victim ended up in the West Bank, with some claiming he was kidnapped

A woman holds up a sign depicting a picture of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman who died while in the custody of Iranian authorities, during a solidarity demonstration in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakeh on September 25, 2022. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

Iranian medical report claims Mahsa Amini died from illness, not beatings in custody

By AFP

Source quoted by state TV says death of Amini, who fell into a coma after being arrested by morality police, related to ‘surgery for a brain tumor at the age of eight’

Sarina Esmailzadeh (Twitter screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran: 16-year-old protester jumped off a roof, wasn’t killed by security forces

By AFP

Nika Shakarami (Wikipedia: Original publication: Unknown / Immediate source: https://www.shethepeople.tv/news/teenager-killed-in-iran-protests)

Iranian mother accuses authorities of murdering her 16-year-old daughter at protests

By AFP

Inflation is taking a heavy toll on support for Ukrainian Refugees

Jewish Ukrainian refugees in Poland need your support now more than any time since the first weeks of the war. Please help Chabad Poland help them.

Yoel Lhanghal (Courtesy)

Teen stabbed to death less than a year after immigrating from India

Yoel Lhanghal killed after brawl breaks out at birthday party in Kiryat Shmona; police say they’ve arrested one suspect; mayor of boy’s hometown calls stabbing ‘act of terror’

Illustrative: Firemen and police officers at the scene where a car exploded in Rishon Lezion on July 3, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Lod man shot dead; separately, blast at restaurant hours after Netanyahu ate there

Underworld figure Benny Shlomo is chased by a gunman just moments before his death on October 3, 2022. (used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Names revealed of suspects in assassination of mob boss Benny Shlomo

After 74 years, IDF identifies remains of 2 soldiers killed in War of Independence

By Alexander Fulbright and Ash Obel

Military determines that Yitzhak Rubinstein and Binyamin Aryeh Eisenberg, who along with a third soldier were captured by Egyptian forces, are among those buried in mass grave

The IDF has identified the remains of Yitzhak Rubenstein (left) and Binyamin Aryeh Eisenberg (right) who were previously listed as fallen soldiers whose remains are missing, October 7, 2022.(supplied)

On slowing down

The poetry of this week’s parsha and the relaxation of Sukkot after the high holidays’ intensity together remind us to linger over the important things

Joseph C. Kaplan

Facts and conclusions: It’s not a science

When there’s no deciding umpire, listen to the other side, respect it, remember that you’re not always as right as you think, and, at worst, agree to disagree

MK Itamar Ben Gvir visits Kibbutz Ayelet Hashahar October 6, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Far-right firebrand Ben Gvir stumps from kibbutz streets after disinvitation

By Jeremy Sharon

Otzma Yehudit leader marches through Ayelet Hashahar, decries efforts to ‘silence’ him after kibbutz committee canceled planned appearance; some yell at him to ‘go home’

Member of the Likud party Idit Silman at Kikar HaShabbat conference in the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem Hotel, September 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Top court rejects appeal to bar Yamina rebel Idit Silman from Likud slate

By Jeremy Sharon

Illustrative: A Metronit bus in Haifa (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Nirvadel)

Right-wing pans Merav Michaeli for plan to inaugurate Haifa bus route on Shabbat

Analysis

Persistent protests over woman’s death in custody become threat for Iran regime

Current unrest poses a challenge Tehran has not faced since 2009 Green Movement, with demonstrations focused on urban areas with more affluent Iranians

A police motorcycle burns during a protest in downtown Tehran over the death of Mahsa Amini, September 19, 2022. (AP Photo)

In this file photo released by the US Navy, a Saildrone Explorer unmanned sea drone sails in the Gulf of Aqaba on Feb. 9, 2022. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Dawson Roth/U.S. Navy via AP)

US, UK hold naval drone drill in Persian Gulf despite Iran seizures

By Jon Gambrell

Activists demonstrate in New York against the Iranian regime following the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the Islamic Republic's notorious morality police, October 1, 2022. (Yuki IWAMURA/ AFP)

US sanctions 2 Iranian ministers, 5 senior officials over bloody protest crackdown

By AFP

'On the side of the Iranian nation against the cruel regime'

Israelis rally in Jerusalem in solidarity with Iranian women protesters

‘We want to say here in Israel that we believe you deserve your freedom,’ says co-organizer Shoshana Keats Jaskoll, as protesters wave signs in Hebrew, English and Farsi

Israelis rally in Independence Park in Jerusalem on October 6, 2022, in solidarity with Iranian women (Amy Spiro/Times of Israel)

A woman takes pictures of a mural called 'The Cut' by street artist aleXsandro Palombo depicting Marge Simpson, a character of the animated television series 'The Simpsons,' cutting her iconic hair, in front of the Consulate of Iran, in Milan, Italy, October 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Animated angerMarge Simpson joins protests outside Iranian consulate in Milan

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Screen capture from video of French citizen Cecile Kohler who is being held in Iran on suspicion of spying. (Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

France accuses Iran of staging ‘confession’ video of ‘state hostages’

By AFP

Energean's floating production system (FPSO) at the Karish gas field in the Mediterranean Sea. (Energean)

Energean announces new Israel gas discovery, estimated at 7-15 billion cubic meters

UK-Greek company informs Tel Aviv, London stock exchanges

An Israeli Sa'ar Class 4.5 missile boat guards the Energean floating production, storage and offloading vessel at the Karish gas field, in footage published by the military on July 2, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

European official says maritime deal will likely be postponed, but not dead yet

By Lazar Berman

A 2022 photograph of Lahav Shani, artistic director and chief conductor of the Israel Philharmonic. (Courtesy IPO)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: IPO’s Lahav Shani compares orchestra conducting to film direction

By Jessica Steinberg

The 33-year-old Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conductor speaks to ToI ahead of a nine-city US tour in November, the symphony’s first since the pandemic. NEW: Full transcript

FILE - Ales Bialiatski, the head of Belarusian Vyasna rights group, stands in a defendants' cage during a court session in Minsk, Belarus, on November 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

Panel claims 'this prize is not addressing President Putin'

Nobel Peace Prize given to Belarusian activist, rights groups in Russia and Ukraine

By HANNA ARHIROVA and Frank Jordans

Winners of prestigious award named as Ales Bialiatski, who is jailed in Belarus, as well as the Russian organization Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties

An abandoned Russian tank at a gas station on the outskirts of Izyum, in the Kharkiv region, eastern Ukraine on September 16, 2022, after Ukrainian forces recaptured the eastern city from the Russians. (Juan Barreto/AFP)

Russian elite voice rare anger at military amid battlefield losses in Ukraine

By AFP

Russian soldiers guard an area as a group of foreign journalists visit in Kherson, Kherson region, south Ukraine, May 20, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

Ukraine says it recaptured swaths of Kherson region as Zelensky urges more EU help

By Dmytro Gorshkov and Joris FIORITI

'Russia mobilized soldiers, but we prepare for the holidays'

Somber High Holidays in Ukraine reveal a local Jewish community changed by war

By David Saveliev and Nicholas Bennett

Resilient, united, and even growing, the country’s Jews see how 7 months into the Russian invasion difficult times are bringing people closer – including their non-Jewish neighbors

Abortion rights supporters chant their objections at the Kentucky Capitol on April 13, 2022, in Frankfort, Kentucky. (AP/Bruce Schreiner)

Three Jewish women sue Kentucky over abortion ban, say it violates their faith

By bruce schreiner

Suit claims legislation barring abortions runs counter to Jewish law, also cite state rule forbidding government from infringing on freedom of religion

In this May 19, 2021, photo, a licensed practical nurse draws a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe at a mass vaccination clinic at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

4th shots of Pfizer, Moderna vaccines provide near equal protection — Israeli study

By Nathan Jeffay

Sheba-led research team says that 6 months after boosters, ‘antibody levels and cumulative vaccine efficacy do not differ between the two vaccines’

US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, left, meets with Palestinian Authority Minister of Civilian Affairs Hussein al-Sheikh in Washington DC, on October 4, 2022. (US State Department/Twitter)

US officials say they conveyed commitment to 2 states in DC meetings with Abbas aide

In sit-downs with Jake Sullivan, Wendy Sherman and others, PA minister Hussein al-Sheikh says he pressed to end Israeli ‘unilateral actions that destroy’ prospects for peace

Palestinians watch the funeral of seven-year-old Rayan Suleiman, who died a day earlier on the sidelines of an Israeli army search in his hometown of Tuqu, south of Bethlehem in the West Bank, on September 30, 2022. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

IDF: Probe finds no ties between village raid and death of 7-year-old Palestinian

A handout photo released by the military on October 7, 2022, shows Israeli forces arresting Palestinian terror suspect Amad Asleem, a resident of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian nabbed for attempted shooting attack, placing bomb at gas station

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In this Saturday, May 9, 2009 file photo, a column of Russia's Topol intercontinental ballistic missiles rolls across Moscow's Red Square, during the annual Victory Day parade.(AP/Ivan Sekretarev)

World closest to nuclear ‘Armageddon’ since Cuban missile crisis, Biden warns

By AAMER MADHANI and Zeke Miller

Illustrative photo of swastika graffiti. (Flash90)

Swastikas scrawled on Jewish newspaper boxes in New York on Yom Kippur

This file photo dated June 11, 1952 shows Russian-born French painter Marc Chagall working in the Madoura studio in Vallauris. (MEUNIER / AFP)

1911 Chagall painting stolen by Nazis to be auctioned next month in New York

By AFP

File: a US AH-64 Apache attack helicopter flies above US soldiers patrolling along the frontlines between areas held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Turkish-backed fighters near the village of Dardara in the countryside of Tal Tamr in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province, December 26, 2021. (Delil souleiman/AFP)

US kills two Islamic State leaders in airstrike after rare Syria ground raid

By AP

A view of Tiberias and the Sea of Galilee, 2019. (Thomas Leirikh via iStock by Getty Images)

Tiberias secures NIS 2.7b budget to reinvigorate ‘capital’ of north

By Danielle Nagler

A crowd protests against Israel during a demonstration by an estimated 10,000 people in Madrid, Spain, Monday April 15, 2002 (AP/Denis Doyle)

In landmark ruling, top Spanish court says BDS movement ‘infringes on basic rights’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A false killer whale swimming off the coast of Eilat in southern Israel on October 4, 2022. (Omri Omessi, INPA)

Whale of a timeMarine ranger enjoys first known swim by Israeli with pod of false killer whales

Berlin fans cheer prior to the German Bundesliga soccer match between Hertha BSC Berlin and VfL Wolfsburg in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021. (AP/Michael Sohn)

Owner seeking to unload Berlin soccer team roiled by Israeli spy firm allegations

By Ciaran Fahey

America's Jesse Owens, center, salutes during the presentation of his gold medal for the long jump, alongside silver medalist Luz Long, right, of Germany, and bronze medalist Naoto Tajima, of Japan, during the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, August 11, 1936 (AP Photo/File)

Medal of Olympian who defied Hitler by embracing Jesse Owens goes under the hammer

Musical director and conductor Daniel Barenboim stands in the main concert hall of the newly renovated Staatsoper Opera House in Berlin, Germany, September 29, 2017. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa via AP/File)

Star Israeli-Argentine conductor Barenboim to break from performing due to health

By AFP

The rabbi of the Jewish community of Hannover, Germany posted pictures of a broken window he said followed an attack during Yom Kippur services in 2022. (Instagram via JTA)

German synagogue vandalized during Yom Kippur services

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Democratic candidate for the Third Congressional District for Colorado Adam Frisch speaks during an appearance on the campus of the University of Colorado-Pueblo, September 28, 2022, in Pueblo, Colorado. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Poll puts Jewish Democrat just 2 percentage points behind Boebert in Colorado

By PHILISSA CRAMER

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