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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 27, 2022

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Prime Minister Yair Lapid signs the US-brokered deal setting a maritime border between Israel and Lebanon, at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem October 27, 2022. (RONEN ZVULUN / AFP)

Aoun: Deal does not contradict Lebanon's foreign policy

Israel and Lebanon approve maritime deal; Lapid hails ‘recognition’ by enemy state

Cabinet unanimously votes in favor of agreement ahead of bilateral signing ceremony later in the day; prominent member of Hamas signals support

President Isaac Herzog (left) and US President Joe Biden at the White House on October 26, 2022. (GPO)

Biden lauds ‘historic’ Israel-Lebanon border deal in White House meet with Herzog

Energean floating production, storage and offloading vessel. Energean's floating rig arrived at the Karish field in June 2022. (Energean / Suez Canal Authority / AFP)

Gas extraction begins at Karish field, day before Israel-Lebanon deal signing

By Tobias Siegal and Lazar Berman

Op-ed

With rise of Ben Gvir and Smotrich, Israel risks a catastrophic lurch to extremism

Both will be ministers if Netanyahu wins the elections; their agendas would undo foundational principles and reverse core achievements, weakening Israel within and without

Far-right lawmaker and leader of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party Itamar Ben Gvir during a campaign rally in the southern city of Ashkelon on October 25, 2022, ahead of the November 1 general elections. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt delivers a speech in Paris, France on Oct. 10, 2018. (Conference of European Rabbis via JTA)

Ex-Moscow chief rabbi calls on Russia Jews to flee after top official attacks Chabad

By Judah Ari Gross

Community finds itself in the crosshairs after Russian national security official calls Hasidic sect, the largest Jewish movement in the former Soviet Union, a supremacist cult

Zelensky hails ‘positive trend’ in Israel ties after intel sharing on Iranian drones

By AFP and ToI Staff

Russian TV figure Ksenia Sobchak flees to Lithuania on Israeli passport

By AFP

Daily Briefing Oct. 27: Chabad navigates Russia, and a green agenda in Sharm

Labor party leader Merav Michaeli attends the Maariv conference in Tel Aviv, October 24, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Michaeli: Rabin was assassinated with the cooperation of Netanyahu

Speaking ahead of 27th anniversary, Labor leader singles out Likud leader and Ben Gvir for role in incitement; Likud sources say she’s desperate to pass election threshold

6:21 pm

Israelis warned to avoid travel to Nigeria due to terror threats
6:09 pm

UN Commission of Inquiry says it will investigate apartheid by Israel
6:07 pm

Final poll ahead of vote shows Netanyahu bloc one short of majority

Female soldiers operate a tank in the Negev Desert, in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF to deploy all-female tank crews after two-year trial deemed a success

By Emanuel Fabian

File: An aerobatics team performs in the skies during the Bahrain International Airshow in Sakhir, Bahrain, January 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, file)

Israel to show off defense tech at Bahrain airshow; paratroopers make joint jump

By Emanuel Fabian

The world awaits Netanyahu

History will show the accomplished former PM’s doctrine as ’Peace Through Strength’ and the Lapid legacy as ’Take Whatever You Want – It’s Free’

When I went into space, art and philosophy came with me

To help nurture critical thinking skills and encourage unexpected innovation, we need STEAM education that teaches the humanities along with science

File: A fire is seen after an alleged airstrike near the Syrian city of Masyaf, on August 25, 2022. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Report: Israel warns Syria it will ramp up strikes over Iran weapons transfers

By Emanuel Fabian

Al-Arabiya says Jerusalem sent message to Damascus after three strikes in recent days blamed on Israel; it also reports Iran is sending arms in shipments disguised as aid

Screen capture from a video showing an alleged Israeli strike on Damascus, October 27, 2022. (screen capture: YouTube/SANA)

Israeli airstrikes said to target Damascus for third time in days

A gunman wearing a Lion's Den headband attends the funeral of Tamer al-Kilani, a top fighter in the group, who the group said was killed by an explosive device planted in a motorcycle, during his funeral in the West Bank city of Nablus, October 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

After Israeli raid, at least 4 Lion’s Den members turn themselves into PA custody

By Emanuel Fabian

Prominent operative wounded in Israeli operation against terror group leader surrenders to Palestinian security services for protection

Maj. Bar Falah, 30, the deputy commander of the elite Nahal reconnaissance unit, who was killed in a firefight with two terrorists near the West Bank security fence on September 14, 2022. (Courtesy: Family)

IDF probe finds ‘errors’ led to death of senior officer in West Bank gun battle

By Emanuel Fabian

Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu appears in a campaign aid targeting Israel's Arab citizens on September 4, 2022. The message in Arabic reads "Come let's make an amazing story come true together" (Screen capture/Twitter)

Analysis

Campaigning among Arabs, Netanyahu may be trying to pare down votes, not win them

Analysts say Likud’s outreach to Arabs is aimed at calming fears and keeping turnout low, after several previous elections saw scare campaigns backfire and bring out the voters

Arab-Israelis cast their ballots as they vote in Israel's general election, in Kafr Manda, northern Israel on March 23, 2021. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Surveys predict bump in Arab voter turnout ahead of November 1 elections

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative photo of a woman on a scale. (Shutterstock)

'I am reclaiming fat from being a slur'

Fat is the final frontier when it comes to full inclusion in the Jewish community

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Fat Torah organization aims to end weight stigmas and fatphobia by ‘connecting with sacred text, tradition, and spirituality that fosters body liberation for people of all sizes’

Central Elections Committee director-general Orly Adas speaks at a press conference at the Knesset, October 26, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Election explainer

Carrie Keller-Lynn

How Israel’s low-tech voting system helps ensure the integrity of the count

From the casting of the ballot to its arrival and counting at the Central Elections Committee, Israel uses a variety of means to ensure the accuracy of its election results

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Lapid’s near-impossible task: Why victory may not be in the cards

The prime minister’s campaign is beset on all sides by political paradoxes. For a start, how does he grow his party without cannibalizing his allies?

Prime Minister Yair Lapid leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 4, 2022 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A bus drives through Jerusalem with a large election poster of the Meretz party for the upcoming elections on October 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yesh Atid orders canvassers to lay off Labor, Meretz as parties appear to slump

Prime Minister Yair Lapid's wife Lihi (L) is interviewed by Neria Krauss of Channel 13 news on October 26, 2022. (Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Lapid’s wife walks out of interview over question about his military service

Analysis

White House’s Lebanon success, Iran failure on display during Herzog visit

Biden and other US leaders celebrate Israel’s ‘historic’ border agreement with Beirut, but are more muted on Tehran, as they appear to lose hope in nuclear talks

President Isaac Herzog, left, and US President Joe Biden, right, at the White House, October 26, 2022. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

A general view of Palais Coburg, the site of a meeting where closed-door nuclear talks with Iran take place in Vienna, Austria, on February 8, 2022. (Lisa Leutner/AP)

US despairing over increasingly distant Iran nuke talks, Israeli official says

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (left) attends a conference in Tel Aviv, October 26, 2022. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) during a CICA summit, in Astana, Kazakhsta, October 13, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90 ; Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Gantz to meet Turkey leader Erdogan during landmark Ankara trip Thursday

By Emanuel Fabian

Elderly activist beaten by settlers: Cruelty happening in those hills all the time

Hagar Gefen, 70, says she was attacked in the West Bank on October 18 for taking footage of extremists’ onslaught against Palestinian olive harvesters

Settlers are seen assaulting a woman near the West Bank town of Kisan, October 18, 2022. (WAFA)

Illustrative image: a woman undergoing radiotherapy (Mark Kostich via iStock by Getty Images)

Radiotherapy fights excruciating back pain from pancreatic cancer, in Israeli study

By Nathan Jeffay

Patients often report intense upper body pain, thought to be from tumor pressing on nerves; MDs at Israeli hospital find radiotherapy has major benefit, following 4-year research

Illustrative image: a newborn baby (iStock via Getty Images)

Woman mistakenly implanted with wrong embryo gives birth to baby girl

An undated photo of the Shah Cheragh mosque in Shiraz, Iran, where three gunmen opened fire on bystanders, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, on October 26, 2022. (Herbert Karim Masihi / Wikipedia)

Gunmen attack major Shiite holy site in Iran, killing 15

By AP

Islamic State claims credit for Shah Cheragh mosque assault; judiciary says two gunmen arrested, a third on the run

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 blames recent protests for deadly attack on Shiite holy site

By AFP

Demonstrators rally at the National Mall to protest against the Iranian regime, in Washington, October 22, 2022, following the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of the Islamic Republic's notorious morality police. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Female foreign ministers from across globe condemn Iran crackdown

By AFP

Kanye West at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California, February 9, 2020. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Kanye kicked out of Skechers headquarters after showing up uninvited

By AP and ToI Staff

Jewish-owned footwear brand says it is not considering working with antisemitic rapper dropped by Adidas; Herzog says he is ‘extremely pleased’ with backlash against West

File - Rapper Kanye West wears a Make America Great Again hat during a meeting with then-US president Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on October 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Madame Tussauds scraps Kanye West wax figure over antisemitic remarks

From top: Political correspondent Tal Schneider, senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur and settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon. (courtesy)

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An illustrative image of a hacker (Михаил Руденко; iStock by Getty Images)

Kremlin-affiliated hackers said to attack Knesset website, citing Ukraine aid

Mobileye celebrates its IPO by ringing the opening bell at the Nasdaq MarketSite, on October 26, 2022. (Michael M. Santiago / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Mobileye gets warm Wall Street welcome, raising $861m in long-awaited IPO

By Ricky Ben-David

Far-Right party Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni speaks to the media at her party's electoral headquarters in Rome, early September 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Italy’s unresolved fascist past in spotlight as far-right government takes power

By Colleen Barry

A row of solar panels on display at the first Climate Prize Solutions Festival, a climate tech gathering honoring Israeli innovation, October 26, 2022. (Studio Thomas)

Israeli climate tech scientists, startups nab over $2m in prizes at inaugural confab

Ilan Shor, then-mayor of the town of Orhei, Moldova, arrives to meet with supporters during a campaign event in the city of Comrat on February 15, 2019. (Daniel MIHAILESCU/AFP)

US sanctions Israeli citizen for promoting Kremlin agenda in Moldova

By Tobias Siegal

Audrey Glickman, a survivor of the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, blows the shofar outside the building in the new HBO documentary "A Tree of Life." (HBO)

Four years after Tree of Life attack, documentary gives traumatized a voice

By Andrew Lapin

Former Israeli basketball player US-born Tal Brody, sculpted in wax and fiberglass at Israel's first Wax Museum, opened October 2022 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Imitation gameIsrael’s ‘Select Few’ carved in wax in 1st local exhibit of its kind

By Jessica Steinberg

A Netto store in Munich powered by Trigo's checkout-free tech, October 2021. (Stefan Hobmaier)

Israel’s Trigo secures $100m investment for shop-and-go retail tech

By Ricky Ben-David

Police search the home of one of six suspects arrest on suspicion of involvement in the killing of Arab Israeli journalist Nidal Agbaria, October 26, 2022. (Israel Police)

Police arrest six more suspects in killing of Arab Israeli journalist

Then-director of the Criminal Investigation Agency of Mexico Tomas Zeron listens during a press conference at the Attorney General building in Mexico City, on October 27, 2014. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP)

Mexican investigator met fugitive official in Israel over missing students – report

Becca Balint (left), a Democratic candidate for the US House for Vermont, stands with Sen. Bernie Sanders (center), and Rep. Peter Welch, at a campaign rally in Barre, Vermont, on October 22, 2022, (AP/Lisa Rathke)

Democrat Becca Balint likely to be Vermont’s first openly gay congressperson

Pope Francis arrives for an audience with members of the International Christian Union of Business Executives, in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, October 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Bad habitEven nuns and priests watch porn, says Pope Francis

By AFP

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