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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 26, 2022

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President Isaac Herzog, left, and US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the US Capitol in Washington, October 25, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

In US, Herzog says elections shouldn’t affect ties amid tensions over far-right

President says Israel and US must ‘respect each other’s democracies’ ahead of votes in both countries and despite some friction over rise of far-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir

Then-opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu meets with UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed in Tel Aviv on September 16, 2022. (Benjamin Netanyahu/X)

UAE warns Netanyahu against government with Ben Gvir and Smotrich

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, right, and Israeli President Isaac Herzog, left, talk to reporters October 25, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Mariam Zuhaib)

Herzog invited to address US Congress, 1st Israeli to get honor since Netanyahu

By Jacob Magid and AP

2022 elections

Carrie Keller-Lynn, Haviv Rettig Gur, Tal Schneider, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Fifth time’s a charm? ToI’s guide to the 39 parties vying for your vote, again

From Netanyahu supporters to those trying to block his return to power, plus a TikTok star and a Telegrass activist, what you need to know about the parties running on November 1

Prominent Israeli politicians ahead of the 25th Knesset election: Top row, left to right: Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, Benjamin Netanyahu, Aryeh Deri, Moshe Gafni; middle row, left to right: Zehava Galon, Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid, Avigdor Liberman, Merav Michaeli; bottom row, left to right: Ayelet Shaked, Sami Abou Shahadeh, Mansour Abbas, Ahmad Tibi, Ayman Odeh. (Flash90, GPO)

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (left) with opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu at a Knesset session in memory of Israel's first prime minister David Ben-Gurion, on November 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

One week out, election poll predicts continued gridlock, Yesh Atid with record seats

Illustrative: In this photo released by the Iranian Army on August 25, 2022, a drone is launched in a military drone drill in Iran. (Iranian Army via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Zelensky sees ‘positive trend’ in Israel ties after intel sharing over Iran drones

‘After a long pause, I see us moving forward,’ says Ukraine president amid frustration over Israel’s refusal to supply air defense weapons to Kyiv

6:22 pm

UK minister under fire for telling gay World Cup soccer fans to 'respect' Qatar
6:08 pm

Lapid reiterates Hadash-Ta'al will not sit in his coalition
5:55 pm

Lapid dismisses Likud criticism that Nablus raid an election stunt

Labor, Meretz slam Lapid, warn his ‘irresponsible’ campaign could make Netanyahu PM

Left-wing parties say premier’s siphoning of their votes is pushing them perilously close to threshold; meanwhile, Yesh Atid source says party will not let Gantz be prime minister

Meretz chair Zehava Galon, in Tel Aviv, August 23, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Prime Minister Yair Lapid speaks at a conference hosted by the Movement for Quality Government in Tel Aviv, October 25, 2022. (Elad Gutman)

Lapid: A Netanyahu-Smotrich-Ben Gvir government would be the ‘end of democracy’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Ayelet Shaked, then Interior Minister and head of the Jewish Home party, speaks during a press conference in Ramat Gan, October 25, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Brushing off dire polling, Shaked says Jewish Home will ‘run to the end’

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Joint Arab List MK Aida Touma-Sliman in the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 8, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Arab MK slammed for praising slain Lion’s Den terrorists as ‘martyrs’

After Aida Touma-Sliman lauds ‘resistance,’ Gantz says her position shows Hadash-Ta’al not a partner; opposition MKs accuse Lapid of hoping to form coalition with terror backers

Prime Minister Yair Lapid, (center-left) meets with Arab municipal leaders in the northern Arab Israeli city of Nazareth, October 25, 2022. (Kobi Wolf)

In Nazareth, Lapid urges Arab Israelis to vote in election — for their own sakes

Israeli troops arrest a wanted Palestinian man in the West Bank, early on October 26, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF arrests 3 Lion’s Den members, 15 more Palestinian suspects in overnight raids

By Emanuel Fabian

I’m an American Jew and Ben Gvir is my business

Friends don’t let friends go down a path that weakens Israeli democracy, weakens the US-Israel bond, and weakens ties between Israel and US Jewry

WWJSD? (What Would Jonathan Sacks Do?)

In his absence, I survey what he’s written, recall when I learned from him, and work to shift the outsized role politics plays in our lives these days

French U.N. peacekeepers walk on a road that leads to a United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon position, in the southern coastal border Lebanese-Israeli town of Naqoura, Lebanon, Monday, June 6, 2022. The Lebanese government invited on Monday a U.S. envoy mediating between Lebanon and Israel over their disputed maritime border to return to Beirut as soon as possible to work out an agreement amid rising tensions along the border. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Israel, Lebanon to sign maritime boundary deal Thursday afternoon at UN base

By Lazar Berman

Energy Ministry director general to head delegation after cabinet approves agreement; gas production begins in Karish field

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

Israel gives final approval for start of production at Karish gas field

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

A Palestinian worker from UNRWA (United Nations Relief and works Agency) sprays a van, carrying bread, as a precaution against the coronavirus, at the closed entrance of Jalil, or Galilee Palestinian refugee camp, in Baalbek, Lebanon, April 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

UN: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon sinking deeper into poverty amid economic crisis

By AFP

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (L) and Natan Sharansky in Kyiv, October 25, 2022 (courtesy Ukraine Presidential Office)

Zelensky to Sharansky: Israel is one of few countries that can help defend our skies

By Lazar Berman

Ukraine’s president meets members of Babyn Yar memorial board in Kyiv, pledges government support for expansion of museum

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, left, meets with Israel's President Isaac Herzog in Washington, October 25, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Herzog says will present US officials with evidence of Iranian drone use in Ukraine

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

File: Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) speaks with Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar (left), during a ceremony unveiling the memorial to members of the Jewish resistance in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, on June 4, 2019. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool/AFP)

Russian chief rabbi protests as top official describes Chabad as a supremacist cult

By Judah Ari Gross

In an article calling for the ‘desatanization’ of Ukraine, Russia’s assistant national security adviser includes Chabad-Lubavitch in his list of ‘neo-pagan cults’

Emotion emoticons used by a psychologist during a therapy session with a child with autism. (iStock)

Israeli study: People with autism don’t have less empathy, paradigm shift needed

By Nathan Jeffay

In-depth, peer-reviewed research finds people with autism have a gap between the ability to empathize emotionally and knowing how to respond and process the feeling

Interview'Forgiveness made her feel she had gotten her power back'

Gap in children’s Holocaust literature filled by memoir of former ‘Mengele twin’

By Matt Lebovic

Before her death, survivor Eva Mozes Kor partnered with author Danica Davidson on book, ‘I Will Protect You,’ aiming to contextualize antisemitism – and forgiveness – for kids

Israeli troops and medics are seen at the scene of stabbing in the West Bank village of al-Funduq, October 25, 2022. (Courtesy)

Israeli man seriously wounded in terror stabbing in West Bank village, IDF says

By Emanuel Fabian

55-year-old attacked in store in al-Funduq; alleged Palestinian stabber arrested following manhunt

Dudu Assayag (left) the security coordinator for the Har Bracha settlement is seen pointing at a group of Palestinians, as the settler next to him prepares to hurl a tear gas grenade, October 21, 2022. (Screenshot: Yesh Din)

IDF suspends settlement security coordinator filmed aiding attack on Palestinians

By Emanuel Fabian

ToI investigates

Israel gets set to press firms and investors to come clean on fossil fuels

Following EU lead with launch of list of criteria defining what is green, Israel aims to get finance, business sectors aboard to steer money and activities to fight climate change

A child stands on a waste landfill site with a call to save our planet. (Halfpoint, June 12, 2020, iStock bs Getty Images)

A sign warns of polluted water outside the northern city of Haifa on May 18, 2013. (Shay Levy/Flash 90)

Ministry drafts plans to recruit finance, business sectors to fight climate change

New British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak waves after arriving at Downing Street in London, after returning from Buckingham Palace where he was formally appointed to the post by Britain's King Charles III, October 25, 2022. (Kin Cheung/AP)

Lapid congratulates Rishi Sunak: ‘Israel and the UK are close allies’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israeli PM says the two countries share mutual interests as well as an ‘unwavering’ commitment to democratic values, looks forward to future cooperation

Art teacher Sagar Kambli paints a picture of new Conservative Party leader and incoming British prime minister Rishi Sunak, in Mumbai on October 25, 2022. (INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP)

‘Full circle’: New UK prime minister’s heritage a point of pride for Indians

By Sean GLEESON and Archana THIYAGARAJAN

Iranian security forces open fire as thousands mourn Mahsa Amini in her hometown

By AFP

No immediate word on casualties; rights group says mourners poured into Saqez despite heightened security measures; strikes reported there and in other cities

Video from the Iranian city of Saqez shows mourners gathering at the cemetery where Mahsa Amini is buried, to mark 40 days since her death, October 26, 2022. (Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Protesters chant in the Iranian city of Saqez, following the burial of Mahsa Amini (right), who died following her arrest by the so-called morality police, September 17, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter; courtesy)

Iranians flock to Mahsa Amini grave 40 days after her death, despite regime warnings

By AFP

This image released by Utopia shows Zar Amir Ebrahimi in a scene from "Holy Spider." Ebrahimi stars as a journalist investigating a serial killer in the eastern Iranian city of Mashhad who is murdering women and sex workers. (Utopia via AP)

Exiled actress stars in a piercing portrait of Iran amid ongoing nationwide protests

Cloned cannabis cells with 12 times more potency are grown in Israeli bioreactor

By Nathan Jeffay

Company behind the tech says each gram of its product will stretch much further in treating patients than a gram from cannabis plant — and needs far less water and other resources

A person smoking marijuana. (Illustrative photo: Mr KornFlakes/iStock by Getty Images)

Hebrew U to open joint PhD program, research partnership with Meta AI

The Jewish Sports Review has ceased publication after a 25-year run. (Courtesy Ephraim Moxson; design by Mollie Suss/ via JTA)

'Nobody’s going to do what we did'

Octogenarian ‘Who is a Jew?’ sports writing team throws in the towel after 25 years

By jacob gurvis

Since 1997, Ephraim Moxson and Shel Wallman have produced the Jewish Sports Review, a print-only magazine identifying Jewish athletes from college through professional sports

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Medics at the scene of a fatal accident in Jerusalem on October 26 2022 (MDA)

9-year-old boy who fled Russian invasion of Ukraine killed by truck in Jerusalem

Sagi Ayalot speaking with Channel 12 on October 25, 2022. (Screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli hiker recounts spending 16 hours injured, alone on freezing Georgia mountain

Undated photo of Asaf Ben Barak, an Israeli doctor who died on October 24, 2022 during a trek in Nepal. (Courtesy)

Israeli doctor, 71, killed by a plunging boulder on Nepal trek

Paris Saint-Germain's French forward Kylian Mbappe celebrates after scoring his team's fifth goal during the UEFA Champions League Group H second leg football match between Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Maccabi Haifa FC at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris on October 25, 2022. (Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)

SoccerLights out for Maccabi Haifa as dominant PSG clobbers Israelis 7-2

By Joshua Davidovich and AFP

Producer Arnon Milchan accepts the Film Tribute Award at the 26th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards at Cipriani Wall Street, on November 28, 2016, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Netanyahu trial session on day before election canceled as Milchan testimony delayed

Kanye West attends the Vanity Fair Oscar Party following the 92nd annual Oscars at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California, February 9, 2020. (Jean-Baptiste Lacroix/AFP)

Jewish educator leaves West’s secretive LA school amid rapper’s antisemitic comments

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Screen capture from video of a woman later arrested as a suspect in the April death of her 65-year-old relative who fell from a roof in Tel Aviv, October 2022. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Large insurance claim led to sister’s arrest in case of woman who fell from roof

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

18-year-old man found shot dead in plant nursery in suspected murder

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addresses the parliament in a vote of confidence session for his proposed labor minister in Tehran, Iran, October 4, 2022. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s Raisi accuses US of ‘dragging their feet’ over nuclear deal talks

By AFP

A police officer strikes a detained suspect during an arrest in the south of the country, October 25, 2022. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law.)

Authorities to investigate after video shows officers beating detained suspect

The moment a beer can is thrown at Jewish comedian Ariel Elias while she performs a set at Uncle Vinnies, Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, October 9, 2022. (YouTube screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Joke's on themJewish comedian spins viral video into late-night debut

By CALEB GUEDES-REED

In this file photo taken on December 28, 2018, Amou Haji (uncle Haji) sits on the outskirts of the village of Dezhgah in the Dehram district of the southwestern Iranian Fars province. (AFP)

Cleanliness is...nevermind‘World’s dirtiest man’ dies in Iran at 94… soon after 1st wash in decades

By AFP and ToI Staff

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