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What Matters Most On Friday, October 14, 2022

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MK Itamar Ben Gvir brandishing a hand gun during clashes in East Jerusalem on October 13, 2022. (Screen capture: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Extremist MK Ben Gvir pulls out gun during Sheikh Jarrah clash

Politician brandishes weapon after rock thrown toward him and supporters during appearance in tense East Jerusalem neighborhood, urges cops to open fire on Arabs

Police officers are seen in East Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood following a clash, October 13, 2022. (Israel Police)

At least two hurt as East Jerusalem clashes resume; police arrest 5 suspects

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli police clash with Palestinians in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem, October 12. 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Lapid meets top security officials as police gird for further East Jerusalem unrest

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative image: A 3D illustration of a fetus in the womb. (magicmine via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli needle-free alternative to amnio can detect thousands of mutations

By Nathan Jeffay

Blood test developed by Tel Aviv University scientist provides detailed info on fetuses without associated health risks of amniocentesis

Jews visit the Temple Mount on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, September 25, 2022. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)

Record number of Jews reported to visit Temple Mount over High Holiday season

Advocacy group says over 6,000 Jewish visitors have gone up to flashpoint holy site in a new monthly high, amid Hamas threats of violence

Police forces operate in East Jerusalem, October 13, 2022. (Israel Police)

Police brace for tense Friday after 18 arrested in overnight Jerusalem riots

'Israel negotiated hard on security and got what it wanted'

Downplaying concessions, US envoy tells Israelis deal with Lebanon keeps them safer

Amos Hochstein dismisses Netanyahu’s criticisms as campaign rhetoric, says fact that two enemy countries managed to reach agreement on maritime border ‘enormously significant’

US Envoy for Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein, waves to journalists at Beirut Rafik Hariri international airport after he briefed them about his meetings with the Lebanese officials, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese President Michel Aoun gives a speech on the maritime border agreement with Israel in the presidential palace, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, October 13, 2022. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

Lebanon’s president announces official approval of maritime border deal with Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Pro-Palestinian protestors march along Huntington Avenue at Northeastern University on March 18, 2014. (AP/Stephan Savoia)

Report finds anti-Israel incidents on US campuses harming Jewish student life

Over 350 anti-Israel acts at colleges last year, Anti-Defamation League says, highlighting a growing trend toward excluding Zionists and fostering a hostile environment for Jews

Students walk on the Stanford University campus in Stanford, Califorbua, March 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Stanford apologizes for acting to limit Jewish enrollment in 1950s

By JTA and ToI Staff

Abdullah Abu Tin, a doctor and a reported member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, is seen holding several assault rifles in an undated photo circulated online after his death on October 14, 2022. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli source: He was armed, directly involved in gunfire

Palestinian doctor, claimed as terror group member, dies in Jenin gun battle

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says troops only targeted armed Palestinians in area; Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades terror group claims Abdullah Abu Tin as member

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meet on the sidelines of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit, in Astana, Kazakhstan, October 13, 2022. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Meeting Putin, Abbas says Palestinians ‘don’t trust America’ to solve conflict

By ToI Staff and AP

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune (C) poses for photographs with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh (L) and Azzam al-Ahmad, a Fatah Central Committee member, in Algiers, October 12, 2022. (Algerian Presidency via AFP)

Fatah, Hamas take ‘positive’ steps toward reconciliation at talks in Algeria

By AFP and ToI Staff

ScienceShould Israeli society promote genetically superior babies?

Designer babies? Hi-tech preimplantation genetic testing may soon come to Israel

By Nirit Sandman Eriksson

Unlike simpler forms of testing used in IVF today, screening for polygenic diseases doesn’t offer a clear diagnosis but rather a ‘risk score’ for a Pandora’s box full of conditions

Comedian who hosts show previously joked about the Holocaust

‘Utterly sick’: UK TV to potentially destroy artwork by Hitler on new reality show

By Ash Obel and ToI Staff

Program will take pieces by ‘problematic’ figures and ask audience to vote on their fate; antisemitism watchdog, other critics, decry ‘desperate’ format

Promo pic for Jimmy Carr Destroys Art ((Rob Parfitt/Channel 4)

Just Stop Oil activists throw tomato soup on Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London’s National Gallery to protest fossil fuel extraction, October 14, 2022. (Screencapture/ Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Climate activists throw tomato soup over Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ in London

By AP

Analysis

3 years after sounding off against Ben Gvir, US Jewish groups go mum on far-right MK

AIPAC, AJC, Conference of Presidents and JCPA say they won’t wade into Israeli politics, though they weren’t so shy when the prospect of the Kahanist joining Knesset first surfaced

MK Itamar Ben Gvir seen during a plenum session in the Knesset on June 20, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked during an election campaign event of the Jewish Home Party in Givat Shmuel, September 20, 2022. (Flash90)

Shaked calls Arab lawmakers ‘terrorists in suits’ with ‘no place’ in Knesset

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaks as the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, holds a hearing on Capitol Hill in Thursday, October 13, 2022. Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., is left, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., is right. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Congressional committee probing Capitol riot votes to subpoena Trump

By LISA MASCARO, Farnoush Amiri and Eric Tucker

Former president likely to fight summons as panel investigating January 6 insurrection publishes evidence he was warned about violence, airs new footage from inside Congress

A video of then-US president Donald Trump speaking is displayed as the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol holds a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 13, 2022. (Alex Wong/Pool Photo via AP)

January 6 probe committee: Trump knew he lost but lied, fought to overturn election

By LISA MASCARO, Farnoush Amiri and Eric Tucker

In 'The Patient,' Andrew Leeds plays Ezra Strauss, who turns to Orthodoxy in college, a path his parents don't understand. (Suzanne Tenner/FX/ via JTA)

'This is what it's like to be a Jew in America'

Hulu’s ‘The Patient’ gets at a dynamic rarely seen on TV: Orthodox-Reform tensions

By Linda Buchwald

From the Mourner’s Kaddish to kosher observance, creators Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, both Jewish, give a nuanced portrayal of Judaism, reflecting their deep-rooted identities

Nigerian-American filmmaker Ose Oyamendan (Courtesy)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Nigerian-American filmmaker takes on Sderot and Gaza

By Jessica Steinberg

Filmmaker Ose Oyamendan spent the better part of a decade filming documentary, “Other Voices,” in Israel’s Sderot and in Gaza

Israeli housing prices keep soaring, up a record 19% from last year

By Danielle Nagler

Market continues to defy expectations despite a drop in demand, rising interest and mortgage rates, and global property trends; cost of living index also up 4.6% over last year

Apartment construction in Ir Yamim, Netanya, October 2022 (Danielle Nagler/Times of Israel)

A view of Tel Aviv on September 8, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Tel Aviv’s red-hot housing market a ‘bubble risk,’ warns global banking firm

By Danielle Nagler

Italian far-right party Fratelli d'Italia's (Brothers of Italy) Ignazio La Russa addresses the Italian Senate after he was elected its new president, in Rome on October 13, 2022. (Andreas Solaro/AFP)

Far-right collector of fascist memorabilia elected Italian Senate speaker

Ignazio La Russa, of Brothers of Italy party, showed off collection in 2018 newspaper interview; like leader Giorgia Meloni he is ambiguous about party’s neo-fascist roots

Austrian defense minister Klaudia Tanner talks to the press prior to the EU foreign and defense ministers council at the Europa building in Brussels, March 21, 2022. (Olivier Matthys/AP)

Outcry over Austrian soldier wearing self-made Nazi uniform, but no dismissal

By AFP

From left to rights: Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Akesson, Moderate party head Ulf Kristersson, Christian Democrats chief Ebba Busch and Liberal party chair Johan Pehrson attend a press conference on the formation of a coalition government, at the parliament press office in Stockholm, October 14, 2022. (Jonas Ekstromer/Various Sources/AFP)

Swedish conservatives agree to form government with far-right backing

By AFP

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

The mathematics of emotion in Judaism

The holidays changed the schedule of mourning practices for my mother, but my joy at belonging to the Jewish people and keeping its customs mitigates my sorrow

The enduring message of Kohelet for our transient times

When we become aware of how fleeting the breath of existence, we may get angry, as Cain did, or we can come to terms with it, and allow it to elevate us

Iron Dome anti-missile system fires interception missiles at rockets fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, in Ashkelon on August 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US presses allies, including Israel, to assemble patchwork air defenses for Ukraine

By AFP and ToI Staff

American military chief cites ‘whole series of Israeli systems that are quite capable’ of countering Russian strikes; Jerusalem has previously rebuffed Kyiv’s request for Iron Dome

UN envoy: Russia uses rape as part of ‘military strategy’ in Ukraine

By AFP

Russia to evacuate residents of occupied Kherson as Ukrainian forces advance

EU warns Russian army will be ‘annihilated’ if Putin uses nuclear weapon on Ukraine

By AFP

Illustrative: Jewish merchants come from around the world to buy from Moroccan etrog growers like Mohammed Douch in Assads, September 8, 2015. (Ben Sales/JTA)

'It shows how two religions can stand up for each other'

Peace with Israel, Jewish agricultural law have Morocco’s etrog industry blossoming

By David I. Klein

Though Israeli import laws favor domestically grown citrons, every 7 years growers from the high Atlas Mountains corner the market during the biblical farming sabbatical of shmita

President Isaac Herzog reads from the Bible during the septennial Hakhel ceremony at the Western Wall on October 12, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO(

Herzog presides over quasi-biblical gathering revived by his grandfather

By Judah Ari Gross

Every 7 years, the people of Israel are commanded to hear their king read from the Bible; in the absence of a monarch, thousands turn out for a presidential reenactment

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The Dan Pearl hotel in Jerusalem seen in this photo on the right side. (Chris Yunker from St. Louis, United States, Jerusalem, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39497276)

Plans underway for new Jerusalem hotel after city gets okay to raze central eyesore

By Danielle Nagler

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz leans against a wall in the courtroom at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on October 13, 2022. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun Sentinel via AP, Pool)

Unable to agree on death penalty, jury hands Parkland school shooter life sentence

By TERRY SPENCER

Abdul Latif Rashid delivers his speech during a session of the 37th FAO Conference in Rome, June 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

Iraqi lawmakers elect new president despite threat of rocket fire

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

Supporters and followers of Rabbi Eliezer Berland protest outside the Nitzan Prison in Ramle, on October 27, 2021 (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Jerusalem lets convicted cult leader use municipal parking lot for Sukkot events

Screen capture from video of Qatari Sheikh Hamad Al Suwaidi with a three-meter high stone replica of the soccer world cup he installed outside his home in Doha. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Qatari sheikh behind giant replica of World Cup trophy urges ties with Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Framed extracts of French writer Louis-Ferdinand Celine's (portrait) correspondence displayed at the Gallimard gallery during the exhibition titled 'Celine, recovered manuscripts' in Paris, May 3, 2022. (Christophe Archambault/AFP)

Long-lost manuscripts by Nazi-supporting French author published

By AFP

This combination photo shows Benny Shlomo (top left) and the scene where Benny Shlomo and another man were shot in a suspected assassination in Azor, October 3, 2022. (Channel 13 screengrab, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)/(Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Fifth suspect arrested in killing of mob chief Benny Shlomo

Bob Dylan performs at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California, February 26, 2002. (Hector Mata/AFP)

Glimpse of upcoming Bob Dylan book hints at artist’s riffs on songwriting

By AFP

Front cover of Cora Wilburn's book 'Cosella Wayne'. (Screenshot/Youtube: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Bridging history19th century US Jewish novelist has hometown bridge named after her

By Penny Schwartz

People lay flowers and light candles at the scene of Wednesday's attack on Zamocka Street in Bratislava, Slovakia, October 13, 2022. (Pavol Zachar/TASR via AP)

Man suspected of killing 2 in Slovakia found dead; authored antisemitic manifesto

By AP

A picture obtained by AFP outside Iran shows a woman walking without a head scarf in the heart of the Iranian capital Tehran, on October 11, 2022. (AFP)

Iran orders judges to hit main instigators of riots with tough sentences

By AFP

Bronze medallists Team Israel celebrates during the medal ceremony for the mixed teams event of the 2022 World Judo Championships at the Humo Arena in Tashkent on October 13, 2022. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP)

Israel’s mixed judo team wins bronze at world championships in Uzbekistan

By Sara Serfaty

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