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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 16, 2022

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A fire is seen at Evin Prison in northern Tehran, Iran, on October 15, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran says four killed, 61 injured amid blaze at notorious Evin prison

By AP

State media reports flames extinguished, no detainees escaped; officials claim fire unrelated to ongoing anti-government demonstrations

Iranians who live in Brazil protest the death of Mahsa Amini, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, September 23, 2022 (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

AnalysisOver a month in, how far can the mass Iran protests go?

By Stuart Williams

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 Photo, File)

Iran death toll climbs to 233, rights group says, as protests enter fifth week

By SAMYA KULLAB

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas greet each other in Astana, Kazakhstan, Oct. 13, 2022. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

White House ‘deeply disappointed’ after Abbas tells Putin he doesn’t trust US

Biden spokesperson says Russian president ‘a far cry’ from international leader needed to address Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after PA president meets Putin, hails Russian stance

Then-US president Donald Trump (right) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before Trump's departure to Rome at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, on May 23, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO via Flash90)

Netanyahu: Trump said I don’t want peace, in a ‘Houston, we are the problem!’ moment

By Michael Horovitz

In memoir, former PM says he used golf talk and visual aids to get ex-president on Israel’s side; Ron Dermer called peace with Palestinians a ‘hole-in-one through a brick wall’

The expanded resort complex being built at the Dead Sea, September 2022 (Courtesy: Moshe Safdie Architects)

With manmade islands and jetties, new hotel plan set to transform Dead Sea tourism

By Danielle Nagler and Joshua Davidovich

Projects in the works includes guest villas on stilts à la Maldives, spits of land reaching into the sea with a large expo dome, plus rooms along artificial inlets

State of the campaign

Joshua Hantman and Simon Davies

Will weeks of consistent polling suddenly shift in campaign’s last 2 chaotic weeks?

The blocs have remained remarkably stable; even support for the parties within the blocs has been fairly steady; but then, of course, the real campaign is only starting now

President Joe Biden talks on the phone from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, December 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Presidential mazaltovBiden calls PM Lapid’s son to congratulate him on recent wedding

Religious Zionism chair Bezalel Smotrich at a Kikar HaShabbat conference in the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem Hotel, September 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Smotrich says may seek defense, finance, justice portfolios in a Netanyahu coalition

Religious Zionism chair predicts 3-5 ministries for his party; MK Ohana says future government will pass law defining attorney general’s advice as non-binding

Nina Gordon-Kirsch hikes near Salt Springs in California on July 14, 2022. (Courtesy/ Sky Richards)

'I had no idea - it always just came out of my tap'

Thirsty to know where her water comes from, CA Jewish activist hikes to its source

By Melanie Lidman

Over 33 days, Nina Gordon-Kirsch walked 240 miles from her California home to the Highland Lakes in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Now she’s releasing a documentary about her journey

Yonatan Nizri stands in the sukkah a day after he was wounded in a terror attack there in Beit El, October 15, 2022. (Screenshot/Kan)

‘It was a miracle,’ says Israeli who was only lightly injured in West Bank shooting

Yonatan Nizri was in sukkah with his wife and infant son when bullets from Palestinian terrorists pierced the chair he was sitting on

Israeli soldiers block the entrance to the West Bank city of Nablus on October 13, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Following violent weekend, Israel imposes planned West Bank closure over holiday

By Emanuel Fabian

Four Palestinians killed in clashes, attempted attacks over weekend; more than 50 arrested as Jerusalem simmers following week of riots; officials warn of settler attacks

Israeli soldiers stand guard near the West Bank village of Huwara, near Nablus, October 13, 2022. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

Israel revokes entry permits from over 150 relatives of Nablus ‘terror elements’

By Emanuel Fabian

Wounded Palestinians who were injured during clashes with Israeli security forces in the town of Qarawat Bani Hassan, arrive at a hospital, October 15, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Palestinian killed, another seriously wounded in clash with IDF in West Bank

By Emanuel Fabian

Sa'ad Abu Rakaik (left) and Sameh al-Nabari (right), are pictured in undated photos published by the Shin Bet on October 16, 2022. The pair are accused of ties to the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip. (Shin Bet)

Two Bedouin men arrested for alleged ties to Gaza terror group

By Emanuel Fabian

Shin Bet says Sa’ad Abu Rakaik and Sameh al-Nabari, both in their 20s, were in direct contact with members of an organization based in coastal enclave

Illustrative: A Fateh-110 ballistic missile, displayed at an Iranian armed forces parade in 2012. (military.ir/Wikimedia Commons)

Iran reportedly set to ship ballistic missiles to Russia for use in Ukraine

By Michael Horovitz and AFP

Washington Post says Tehran preparing delivery of short-range Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar missiles; in response, Israeli minister says Jerusalem must send military aid to Kyiv

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)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 16: Why Israel likely won’t send the Iron Dome to Ukraine

Illustrative: In this handout photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Monday, September 19, 2022, members of a special forces unit of the Russian army aim their weapons in action at an unspecified location in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

11 killed as two men open fire on soldiers at Russian military training site

A view of a damaged administrative building after a missile attack in Donetsk, the capital of Donetsk People's Republic, eastern in Ukraine, October 16, 2022. (AP/Alexei Alexandrov)

Separatists blame Ukraine for rocket strike on mayor’s office in Donetsk

By AP

Kyiv has not claimed responsibility for attack; no casualties reported, but municipal building, nearby cars damaged

Ukrainian territorial defence deminers walk past a body of a local man who was killed after an explosion of a Russian mine near Hrakove village, Ukraine, October 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Kyiv pushes to recapture Russian-annexed areas, as Moscow conducts massive air raids

By YESICA FISCH and Leo Correa

Karen Miller Jackson

Better when I’m dancin’ (on Simchat Torah)

Celebrating the annual completion of reading the Torah is not reserved for the intellectual, ivory-tower educated elite, but for everyone – including women

Who needs our prayers for the dead?

The notion that the souls of the departed benefit from prayers said on their behalf by people on this earth strains credulity

US President Joe Biden speaks at the White House complex in Washington, October 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Iran slams Biden for US ‘interference’ in anti-government protests

By AFP

Tehran calls American president a ‘politician tired of years of failure,’ says he will not succeed in swaying Iran’s ‘strong will’

US State Department spokesperson Ned Price pauses while speaking during a media briefing at the State Department in Washington, on July 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US: Iran ‘responsible’ for safety of Americans being held in Evin prison

By AFP

Iranian singer Homayoun Shajarian performs on stage in Melbourne, Australia, against a background image of Mahsa Amini, on September 23, 2022. (Screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iranian celebrities arrested, passports confiscated over support for protests

By SAMYA KULLAB

Clockwise from top left: Editor David Horovitz, political correspondent Tal Schneider, senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur, deputy editor Amanda Borschel-Dan, settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon and political correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn. (Ariel Jerozolimski and courtesy)

ToI@10 event

TONIGHT: Join us in Jerusalem for a live elections event in which you set the agenda

On October 19 at the Train Theater, our team of political experts are ready to answer your burning questions ahead of the November 1 elections — plus interactive polling

Screen capture from video of opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu during an interview with Bill Mahler for HBO's 'Real Time' show, October 14, 2022. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israel has dealt with bigger issues than Kanye West’s ‘stupidities,’ says Netanyahu

In TV interview with US pundit Bill Maher, former PM urges support for ‘the brave women of Iran’ who are ‘showing the world what courage is’

Tourism Minister Yoel Razvozov impersonating James Bond as part of a tourism marketing video. (Youtube screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

From Israel with love

Israel’s tourism minister channels James Bond in promotional video

By Michael Horovitz

Judoka-turned-politician Yoel Razvozov wades through water shirtless and dresses in a tuxedo similar to Daniel Craig’s take on fictional British spy

More Headlines

Israel's Foreign Ministry building in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

24-year-old Israeli tourist drowns during post-army trip to Laos

A truck involved in a collision along Route 505 in the northern West Bank, October 16, 2022. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Two drivers killed as trucks collide in northern West Bank

Rafa' Harsha, 61, from the northern town of Meiser, in an undated photo. Harsha died on October 15, 2022, two months after he was set on fire while sleeping. (Courtsey: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Arab man dies 2 months after being set alight while sleeping amid criminal dispute

Mel Gibson arrives at the 89th Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon in Beverly Hills, California, February 6, 2017. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Mel Gibson can testify at Weinstein trial despite past racist remarks, judge rules

By ANDREW DALTON

Israeli Ambassador to Poland Yacov Livne pays his respects at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw on July 12, 2022. (Courtesy)

Poland summons Israeli envoy over ‘misleading’ remarks on youth Holocaust trips

Shervin Aazami holding his son Barrett and a sign protest outside City Hall during the Los Angeles City Council meeting, October 11, 2022 in Los Angeles. (AP/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

Los Angeles mystery: Who taped Democrat councilors’ meeting with racist rants?

By Michael R. Blood

In this aerial view, train tracks follow along a coastline now devoid of all sand, near the exclusive Cyprus Shore residential community in San Clemente, California, on October 12, 2022. (Robyn Beck/AFP)

Beaches, homes and railways are disappearing into rising seas in California

By Romain FONSEGRIVES

Tesla CEO Elon Musk smiles as he addresses guests at the Offshore Northern Seas 2022 (ONS) meeting in Stavanger, Norway, on August 29, 2022. (Carina Johansen/NTB/AFP)

‘The hell with it’: Musk decides to keep funding Starlink for Ukraine

By AFP

Motorists wait in lines at a gas station amid a fuel shortage and rising prices in Paris on October 15, 2022. (Christophe ARCHAMBAULT/AFP)

Paris girds for cost of living protests as fuel strike rages for third week

By AFP

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives for the opening ceremony of the 20th National Congress of China's ruling Communist Party held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. (AP/Mark Schiefelbein)

China opens meeting expected to give Xi Jinping 5 more years in power

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