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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 13, 2022

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A police officer is seen in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem, during clashes with Palestinians, on October 12, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Police deploy 4 reserve companies amid growing unrest in East Jerusalem

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Officers respond to rioting in East Jerusalem's Issawiya neighborhood on October 12, 2022. (Israel Police)

East Jerusalem quiets after hours of riots as police brace for more clashes

Palestinian youths clash with Israeli security forces in the Shuafat Refugee Camp, Jerusalem, October 12, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Heavy clashes seen across East Jerusalem amid surging Palestinian unrest

In this Thursday, October 20, 2016, file photo, Christian leader Michel Aoun speaks to journalists after former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri endorsed him for Lebanese president, in Beirut, Lebanon. Lebanon's parliament has elected Michel Aoun, a former army commander and strong ally of Hezbollah, as president, ending a more than two-year vacuum in the country's top post. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

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Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez, at podium, at a news conference in Los Angeles on April 1, 2022. (AP/Damian Dovarganes)

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Prime Minister Yair Lapid (L), alongside Energy Minister Karine Elharrar (C) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz, speak to the press in Jerusalem about the Israel-Lebanon maritime border deal, October 12, 2022 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

Gantz: Deal could 'reduce Iran's influence on Lebanon'

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PM slams Netanyahu’s ‘toxic propaganda’ on border agreement; defense minister says opposition chief ‘harming Israel’s interests’ with talk of ‘historic surrender’ to terrorism

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)

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Lebanese lawmakers cast their vote to elect a president at the parliament building in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, September 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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Hundreds of people attend the funeral ceremony of Staff Sgt. Ido Baruch killed in a shooting attack in the West Bank yesterday, at the military cemetery in Gedera, October 12, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

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IDF commander says Ido Baruch, 21, who was killed in the northern West Bank, had ‘spirit of devotion, human love and optimism’

Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces in the city of Hebron in the West Bank, on October 12, 2022. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Palestinian teenager shot dead while stoning Israeli cars in West Bank — IDF

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Members of a Hamas cell, Aslam Tubasi (right) and Anas Maraeva (left), arrested by Israeli security forces in the West Bank in October 2022. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet busts Hamas cell in West Bank accused of plotting shooting attacks

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Amid W. Bank violence, Arab parties bring treatment of Palestinians to campaign fore

With Israel imposing lockdown and conducting raids in East Jerusalem’s Shuafat after soldier’s killing, Hadah-Ta’al and Balad see little difference in so-called ‘change government’

MK Ahmad Tibi, head of the Ta'al party, visits the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem. (Courtesy: Ta'al)

Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu (L), in Jerusalem on September 11, 2022 and Otzma Yehudit's Itamar Ben Gvir (R), in Jerusalem on July 11, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

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