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What Matters Most On Friday, October 28, 2022

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Energy Ministry Director General Lior Schillat delivers a statement at the border Rosh HaNikra crossing in northern Israel, known as Ras al-Naqura in Lebanon, following the signature of a maritime border deal between the two countries, on October 27, 2022. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Beirut negotiator cites Abraham Accords; Hochstein: Great day

‘A new era’: At border ceremony without handshakes, Israel-Lebanon deal takes effect

By ToI Staff and AFP

As Israel lauds supposed recognition by enemy state, Beirut insists no political significance; US fetes ‘historic’ deal; Hezbollah claims ‘great victory,’ will stand down forces

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (L) meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) and Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar in Ankara on October 27, 2022. (Turkish Press Office)

Gantz meets Erdogan, Turkish counterpart: ‘Clear signal for positive developments’

By Emanuel Fabian

Samer Haj-Yehia (screen), chairman of Israel's Bank Leumi, attends a panel on the third day of the annual Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh on October 27, 2022. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP)

At Riyadh investor forum, top Israeli banker hails Saudi economy’s prospects

By Haitham el-Tabei

ToI investigates

Ben Gvir’s policy goals: Going to extremes even Europe’s far right won’t touch

Moves advocated by Otzma Yehudit, such as deporting ‘disloyal’ citizens, go far beyond those of the continent’s ascendant nationalists and into areas where only neo-fascists tread

Workers hang a large election campaign poster of Otzma Yehudit head Itamar Ben Gvir and take down a poster of Arab MK Ahmad Tibi, in Jerusalem on September 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former IDF chief of staff Dan Halutz speaks during a conference on July 14, 2016. (Flash90)

Former IDF chief warns that rise of Ben Gvir could lead to ‘civil war’

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

Labor chief Michaeli: Rabin was assassinated with Netanyahu’s cooperation

Left to right: Michael Banks Repeta stars as Paul Graff and Jaylin Webb stars as Johnny Crocker in director James Gray's 'Armageddon Time.' (Courtesy of Anne Joyce/Focus Features)

InterviewA movie memoir of quiet genius

Director James Gray on memoir film, Trump and growing up Jewish in working-class NY

By Jordan Hoffman

Opening in NY and LA Oct. 28, ‘Armageddon Time’ is a fictionalized account rich with details Jews of a certain place and time will pick up on, and a universal ethical dilemma

Reporter's notebook

Furious at Bennett’s betrayal, these national religious voters won’t allow a repeat

After backing Yamina in 2021, Givat Shmuel residents feel burned that their votes were used to oust Netanyahu; many plan to hold their noses and vote for Likud or Religious Zionism

Givat Shmuel on February 10, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Workers prepare ballot boxes for the upcoming Israeli elections, at the Central Elections Committee warehouse in Shoham, before they are shipped to polling stations, October 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

With 200k new voters, 6.2 million eligible to cast ballots in November 1 election

Then-prime minister Naftali Bennett arrives at a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 23, 2022. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

As party heads quarrel days before vote, Bennett calls for broad unity government

Where is the religious Zionism of Rabbi Kook?

How has a religious movement inspired by one who loved all humanity degenerated into a political party whose leaders espouse racist and Jewish supremacist ideas?

Hannah Wacholder Katsman

Jerusalem event honoring Shlomo Carlebach sends harmful message

Instead of a big public display of veneration for a rabbi accused of abuse, worry about the abuse survivors, for whom such events cause additional pain

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

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)

Prime Minister Yair Lapid leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 27, 2022. (Yoav Dudkevitch/Pool)

Cabinet approves major budget redistribution to allow raising teachers’ wages

By Michael Horovitz

Paratroopers from Israel, Bahrain, the UAE and the US are seen in Bahrain on October 26, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter - Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Falling for you

Israeli, Bahraini, UAE, US paratroopers make joint jump over Gulf

By Emanuel Fabian

Senior IDF officers, Israeli and American ambassadors to Bahrain participate in event to mark second anniversary of Abraham Accords

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

Demonstrators take part in annual climate change march in Tel Aviv, October 28, 2022. (Dov Greenblat/SPNI)

Thousands march for climate change reform in Tel Aviv ahead of UN conference

Estimated 15,000 people, including MKs, attend demonstration calling for action on climate change ahead of COP27 conference; march only ‘finishes at the ballot box,’ says organizer

An illustrative photo of a baby in a diaper. (Ignacio Campo on Unsplash)

Green-minded dad develops simple, odor-free way to clean reusable diapers

In this frame grab, from video taken by an individual not employed by The Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, Iranian police arrive to disperse a protest to mark 40 days since the death in morality police custody of 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, in Tehran, Iran, October 26, 2022. (AP Photo)

Iran protest deaths mount as Tehran vows ‘severe response’ to shrine massacre

By AFP

Rights group says ‘at least 8’ protesters killed since Wednesday evening as demonstrations intensify; President Raisi links Mahsa Amini riots to Islamic State terror attack

A statue of Swedish inventor and scholar Alfred Nobel is seen prior to a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 1, 2018. (AFP/Jonathan Nackstrand)

Iranian ambassador barred from Nobel Prize ceremony over regime crackdown

By AP

Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov speaks to the media at the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv, on March 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)

Russian ambassador says Israel need not worry about Moscow’s ties with Iran

Pressed on purchase of Iranian drones, Anatoly Viktorov says Moscow not ‘playing against Israel’ and takes its ‘legitimate security concerns’ into account

A Ukrainian soldier fires a mortar in the front line near Bakhmut the site of the heaviest battle against the Russian troops in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Thursday, October 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

As Ukraine advances on Kherson, Putin says next decade ‘most dangerous’ since WWII

Israel's envoy says panel members 'abhor' the Jewish state

UN commission says it will investigate ‘apartheid’ charges against Israel

Inquest members call term ‘a useful paradigm,’ dismiss antisemitism allegations as a ‘diversion’ and security concerns as a ‘fiction’; say Jerusalem may be guilty of war crimes

UN commissioners Chris Sidoti, left, Navi Pillay, center, and Miloon Kothari, right, discuss their probe into Israel and the Palestinians at the United Nations in New York, October 27, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

An off-duty soldier is arrested by IDF troops after allegedly hurling stones at them near the southern West Bank outpost of Avigayil, October 28. 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Off-duty soldier arrested for throwing rocks at troops in West Bank, claims IDF

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli soldiers stand guard by concrete blocks in the Palestinian village of Huwara, south of Nablus in the West Bank on October 26, 2022. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Two Palestinians killed after gunmen fire at IDF troops, as closure on Nablus eased

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Lena Glikson, the Russian-born music editor for 'Stranger Things' Season 4 (Courtesy)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: ‘Stranger Things’ music editor discusses journey to Hollywood from Russia

By Jessica Steinberg

From arranging ‘Running Up That Hill’ for Season 4 to her Hebrew lessons, Lena Glikson talks about her hometown near Ukraine, her Jewish roots and the politics of sound editing

An Afghan worker reconstructs part of the Yu Aw synagogue in Herat, Afghanistan. (AFP/Getty via JTA)

Taliban approves conservation work on historic Afghan synagogue, mikveh

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Yu Aw synagogue in Herat, formerly home to tens of thousands of Jewish residents, set for $500,000 renovation despite last Jew abandoning city after Taliban takeover

A Star of David hangs from a fence outside the dormant landmark Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood on October 26, 2022. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)

Marking 4 years since Tree of Life massacre, Biden rues ‘ugly rise’ of antisemitism

Noting ‘vile conspiracies amplified by a celebrity,’ House speaker Nancy Pelosi urges ‘moral responsibility to combat the scourge of antisemitism’

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)

ADL sounds alarm over Musk Twitter control as Kanye tweets put antisemitism in focus

Jonathan Weinberg, artist and curator of the Maurice Sendak Foundation, discusses the legacy of illustrator and children's book author Maurice Sendak during a tour of a new exhibit of Sendak, 'Wild Things Are Happening' at the Columbus Museum of Art, in Columbus, Ohio, on October 20, 2022. (Andrew Welsh-Huggins/AP)

Ohio exhibit romps through work of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ artist Maurice Sendak

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS

Columbus Museum of Art debuts major display featuring over 150 sketches, storyboards and paintings by creator including designs for opera, theater, film, and television

In this Dec. 13, 2016, file photo, Kanye West enters Trump Tower in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Kanye says he lost $2 billion in a day as Adidas, others flee antisemitic comments

By Huw Griffith

Rapper, now back on Instagram, says in ‘love speech’ post addressed to Jewish agent that ‘money is not who I am,’ days after shoe brand ended lucrative deal

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)

Report: Kanye West infatuated with Hitler, wanted to name album after Nazi dictator

Australian rock musician Nick Cave attends a news conference to promote his concert in Mexico City, Oct. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Musician Nick Cave says Kanye rants ‘disappointing,’ but ‘I value the output more’

By AFP

Artist Sigalit Landau and her team submerging items in the Dead Sea as part of her artistic process. (Courtesy Shaxaf Haber)

Salt-encrusted art from the Dead Sea lands at the Israel Museum

By Jessica Steinberg

Sigalit Landau’s work over the last 20 years brings treasures, therapies and worries about the salty wonder to the museum’s galleries

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of a clock. (Shutterstock)

Clocks in Israel turn back an hour as daylight saving time ends

Illustrative: Britain's then-prince Charles and Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis visit the 1736 Suriname reconstructed Tzedek ve-Shalom Synagogue at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/Pool Photo via AP)

UK chief rabbi to spend coronation eve with King Charles to avoid breaking Shabbat

Illustrative: Nigerian security forces in Jangebe town, Zamfara state, northern Nigeria February 28, 2021. (Ibrahim Mansur/AP)

Israelis warned against visiting Nigeria because of terror threats

Illustrative image: a patient is inoculated with the monkeypox vaccine in a vaccination clinic on August 19, 2022, in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

Israel rolls out 2nd monkeypox vaccines as US research spotlights ‘tragic’ outcomes

By Nathan Jeffay

Using social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Rev. Pat O'Brien, of St.Pius X Catholic Church, leads a Eucharistic procession through a neighborhood near his church in San Antonio, Monday, April 27, 2020. (AP/Eric Gay)

Nearly half of US adults say America should be a ‘Christian nation’

By Andrew Lapin

This photo provided by Iraqi Parliament Information Office shows ministers of the new Iraqi government being sworn in during the parliamentary session to vote on the new government in Baghdad, Iraq, October 27, 2022. (Iraqi Parliament Information Office via AP)

Iraqi parliament approves new government, ending yearlong stalemate

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

Fritz Grünbaum, left, was an Austrian Jewish cabaret performer and art collector. Egon Schiele's 'Woman in a Black Pinafore' is shown right. (Courtesy of CHRISTIE'S IMAGES LTD. 2022 and Getty Images via JTA)

2 Nazi-looted paintings, returned to heirs of owner, to be auctioned for charity

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Rubble and debris of the Champlain Towers South condo can be seen in Surfside, Florida on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. (Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald via AP)

Miami building near site of deadly condo collapse evacuated after warning

By AP

Caesarea mansion on sale with 42% reduction, October 2022 (via Sotheby International Realty)

Once the most expensive property in Israel, baroque palace gets 40% price cut

By Danielle Nagler

This photo provided on October 10, 2022, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a missile test at an undisclosed location in North Korea, as taken sometime between September 25 and October 9. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea fires ballistic missile toward sea, Seoul says, amid nuclear test fears

By AFP

A view of a construction site for new apartment buildings in the southern city of Beersheba on July 28, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Third round of Israeli housing lottery to offer 3,300 discounted units

By Danielle Nagler

A woman floats in the Dead Sea at Ein Bokek. Illustrative. (Subbotsky via iStock by Getty Images)

Israel to build 8,000 new hotel rooms by 2023 as tourism ramps up

By Danielle Nagler

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