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What Matters Most On Monday, October 31, 2022

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Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu at a campaign event in Or Yehuda, October 30, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ben Gvir claims Netanyahu enthusiastic about the idea

Netanyahu says Ben Gvir could be police minister, vows to ‘neutralize’ Lebanon deal

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

A day before election, Likud leader asserts he’ll maintain Temple Mount status quo, denies 2021 coalition talks with Arab party, pledges to quash bills that would affect his trial

MK Itamar Ben Gvir, leader of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party, speaks during a press conference ahead of the upcoming elections in Jerusalem, October 30, 2022. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)

Far-right Ben Gvir demands to be public security minister in next government

By Jeremy Sharon

Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, surrounded by security and his supporters visits at Hatikva Market in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 31: Why the rise of the far-right is probable – and problematic

Reporter's notebook

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Yesh Atid is building an Arab voter base, but for now the party just hopes they vote

Despite setting up 32 Arab-focused branches, the party doesn’t expect to win more than a few thousand votes from the community in this election, focusing instead on driving turnout

A Yesh Atid campaign event targeted to Arab voters in Tamra, October 20, 2022. (Carrie Keller-Lynn/The Times of Israel)

Illustrative: An Arab Israeli woman casts her vote at a polling station in the coastal city of Haifa, on March 17, 2015. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Elections panel rejects Likud attempt to shut down Arab voter mobilization groups

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

In DC, Herzog reportedly sought to calm US fears over rise of Israeli far-right

People walk past an election campaign billboard showing Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli prime minister and the head of the Likud party, in Bnei Brak, an ultra-Orthodox Tel Aviv suburb, Oct. 25, 2022. The Hebrew on the billboard reads: "The 61st seat depends only on you." (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Netanyahu turns to key ultra-Orthodox community to get out the vote

By Jeremy Sharon

Opposition leader stumps in Bnei Brak, courts a controversial rabbi, and sits down with Haredi journalists in effort to counter what he claims is voter apathy in the community

Stream hit Israeli drama ‘Unchained’ starring Aviv Alush

Watch Aviv Alush (The Beauty & the Baker) as Yosef, a rabbi-investigator helping women obtain a ‘gett’ while dealing with a crisis of faith in his own home.

United Torah Judaism chairman Rabbi Yitzchak Goldknopf poses for a picture in Jerusalem on September 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Profile

The aggressive grievance politics of UTJ’s novice chief Yitzhak Goldknopf

By Judah Ari Gross

He doesn’t think math matters, says yeshiva students work harder than soldiers, has a ruthless reputation, lacks political experience — and wants to be the next finance minister

Robert Malley, US Special Envoy for Iran, is shown in Vienna, Austria, June 20, 2021. (Florian Schroetter/AP)

Live updates (closed)

US Iran envoy: We’re not wasting our time on Iran nuclear deal

Rob Malley says US focusing on Iran protests and Tehran’s decision to get ‘involved in a European war’ by supplying drones to Russia

7:26 pm

Police: Pelosi suspect wanted to hold her hostage, 'break her kneecaps'
6:54 pm

Man shot in apparent mob hit in northern Israel
6:39 pm

Senior 'Lion's Den' member surrenders to Palestinian Authority

Jonathan Feldstein

The unscientific poll of my crazy, concerned, diverse friends

’I’m probably not going to decide until I’m in the voting booth and then will promptly forget who I voted for.’ Looks like the I-Dunnos are in the lead

It’s not about me – it’s about us

The choice is between those who offer only divisiveness and an Israel that is one extended family despite our differences, where every community feels they have a place

Religious Zionists should vote for Smotrich

While other politicians compromised their values, he held true to the ideals of the Land of Israel for the people of Israel according to the Torah of Israel

Every citizen counts

The number of parties hovering below or above the threshold may make all the difference between another deadlock and an actual majority for one of the blocs

Detail from portrait of Charlotte von Rothschild (1819-1884) by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, 1836. (Public Domain/Courtesy of the Author)

Interview

No longer just pretty faces, Rothschild family women take center stage in new book

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Captivating, meticulously researched historical work brings to light myriad ways banking dynasty’s ‘silent’ mothers, daughters, and wives exerted key soft power for three centuries

Screen capture of details about the Israel voter registry that were available via a security breach on a Shas party website, October 2022. (Ran Bar-Zik. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Entire voter registry exposed again, this time in Shas party security breach

Addresses, phone numbers, family connections all accessible; Privacy Authority was aware of issue a while ago; Shas says it took swift action to plug unauthorized access

Israeli triathlete Shachar Sagiv (screenshot: YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Shachar Sagiv becomes first Israeli athlete to compete in Saudi Arabia

By AFP and ToI Staff

Sagiv participates in Neom triathlon on the same day that an Israeli tennis player faces a Saudi opponent at a tournament in Bahrain

Family and friends attend the funeral of Ronen Hanania, who was killed in a shooting attack near the Kiryat Arba settlement, in Jerusalem, October 30, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Ronen Hanania, victim of Kiryat Arba terror attack, laid to rest in Jerusalem

‘My dear husband was such a good person who enjoyed helping others,’ eulogizes his wife, Merav, at funeral ceremony from which members of current government were barred

Israeli security forces at the scene of a vehicle-ramming attack at the Almog Junction in the West Bank, October 30, 2022. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

IDF sends reinforcements to West Bank, will impose closure during election day

By Emanuel Fabian

Emergency services at the scene of a deadly road accident on Route 60 in the West Bank, October 31, 2022. (Magen David Adom)

Woman killed, 8-year-old girl seriously hurt in West Bank traffic accident

Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk, interviewed at his country's embassy in Tel Aviv, March 22, 2022.(Times of Israel)

‘Our secret weapon’: Ukraine enlisting US to push Israel into sending military aid

By Michael Horovitz

Kyiv’s Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk says he meets weekly with US envoy Tom Nides as part of efforts to bring Israel in line with Western position

Kyiv residents fill plastic containers and bottles at a water pump in one of the parks in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on October 31, 2022 (SERGEI CHUZAVKOV / AFP)

80% of Kyiv residents without water after Russian barrage targets infrastructure

By Emmanuel PEUCHOT

Technion undergrads wow Paris meet with plan to reduce chemo-induced hair loss

By Nathan Jeffay

Students working toward developing synthetic method for hard-to-obtain compound shown likely to prompt hair growth win accolades at international bio-engineering competition

Illustrative: A chemotherapy patient lying in a hospital bed. (iStock via Getty Images)

Iran plans public trials of 1,000 protesters in Tehran for ‘subversive actions’

By AP

Judiciary chief indicates that some will be charged with collaborating with foreign governments, vows judges will deal with all cases with ‘accuracy and speed’

Iranians protest the September death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police in Tehran, October 27, 2022. (Photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, Middle East Images/AP)

Iranians protest the death of Mahsa Amini in Tehran, October 27, 2022. (This photo was taken by an individual not employed by The Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran)

EU considering listing Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as terror group, says Berlin

By AFP and ToI Staff

Workers clean up following an deadly armed attack at the Shah Cheragh mausoleum in the Iranian city of Shiraz on October 26, 2022. (Mohammadreza Dehdari/ISNA News Agency/AFP)

Iran arrests ‘accomplice’ of Islamic State-claimed shrine attack that killed 15

By AFP

Israelis cast their votes at a voting station in Tel Aviv, during the Knesset elections, March 23, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Paralyzed Nation podcast

Ranked voting & chaotic electoral reform: ToI takes on listeners’ voicemails, part 2

TOI COMMUNITY ONLY – In our 6th episode, we hear from political correspondents Tal Schneider and Carrie Keller-Lynn and analyst Haviv Rettig Gur. Transcript included

10 potential freshman congresspeople running for office this fall. (via JTA)

Deep dive

These 10 Jewish candidates could be elected to Congress for the 1st time this fall

The daughter of a Holocaust survivor, a gay man in a conservative-leaning area, and a Black woman from California are among the Jews who are hoping to enter the House next year

Smartphone waste. (MikroLogika, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)

Green tech

Israeli-made vending machine offers easy sale, trade and recycling of used phones

RE-Refurbished Smartphones Revolution provides a one-stop shop to reduce e-waste, production energy, natural resource depletion and mining-related damage

Israelis enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv on a hot day, July 9, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

More than 2 tons of microplastics pollute Israel’s coast, say researchers

People walk along the beach in warm weather, in Capbreton, southwestern France, on October 27, 2022. (GAIZKA IROZ / AFP)

‘These are summer temperatures’: Growing concern over Europe’s unseasonal warm spell

By Mathieu GORSE

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Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami (second from right) is joined by (left to right) CMO Omer Shai, President and COO Nir Zohar, Co-Founder and CTO Giora (Gig) Kaplan, and Co-Founder and VP Client Development Nadav Abrahami, November 2013. (Courtesy/Nasdaq/Wix)

Negative energy; significant opportunity; or pitched battle?

Israeli tech firm Wix under the gun after activist investor Starboard acquires stake

By Shoshanna Solomon

NY-based investment firm presents maker of DIY website development software with big challenge amid push to improve performance and operations

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Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula waves to supporters after he defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in a presidential run-off election to become the country's next president, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Oct. 30, 2022 (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil’s Lula set to reclaim presidency, but far-right Bolsonaro yet to concede

By Mauricio SAVARESE and DIANE JEANTET

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)

After ‘Kanye is right’ displayed at football game, sports figures slam antisemitism

By DENNIS WASZAK Jr.

Undated photo of Abdel El Fattah Nassar, an Israeli citizen shot dead in South Africa, October 29, 2022. (Social media. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law

Israeli citizen with alleged crime ties shot dead in South Africa

Rebecca Mastriano, the wife of Republican candidate for governor in Pennsylvania Doug Mastriano speaks during a press question and answer session at a Mastriano campaign stop on October 29, 2022. (Twitter screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

‘We probably love Israel more than a lot of Jews do,’ says GOP candidate’s wife

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Soldier question a Palestinian shepherd near the southern West Bank outpost of Avigayil, October 28. 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)

IDF backtracks after accusing off-duty soldier of ‘violently attacking’ troops

By Emanuel Fabian

Search and rescue work is going on as a cable suspension bridge collapsed in Morbi town of western state Gujarat, India, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. (AP/Ajit Solanki)

Death toll in India bridge collapse soars to at least 132

By Ajit Solanki, Krutika Pathi and SHEIKH SAALIQ

Lebanon's outgoing President Michel Aoun delivers a speech to mark the end of his mandate, outside the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, on October 30, 2022. (ANWAR AMRO/AFP)

Lebanese President Aoun set to exit without successor, leaving country in turmoil

By Layal Abou Rahal and Aya Iskandarani

A building damaged by Syrian government forces following clashes with rebel fighters is seen in the southern city of Daraa, Syria, September 12, 2021. (AP Photo)

Report: Syrian regime burned bodies during civil war to make corpses unidentifiable

By AFP

People march in the hometown of former dictator Benito Mussolini to mark the 100th anniversary of the coup d'etat by which he sized power in 1922, in Predappio, Italy, on October 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Thousands of Italian fascist sympathizers stage rally in memory of Mussolini

By Colleen Barry

A damaged car is seen in the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, allegedly after an attack by settlers, October 31, 2022. (Yesh Din)

Jewish extremists accused of vandalizing cars, homes in Palestinian town

By Emanuel Fabian

View of a cellular shop that was allegedly set on fire early Sunday, in the ultra-Orthodox Geula neighborhood in Jerusalem, October 2, 2022. (Yonathan Sindel/Flash90)

Man arrested over arson attack on Jerusalem Haredi phone store

Elon Musk, arriving for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, on May 2, 2022. (Angela Weiss / AFP / File)

Musk tweets conspiracy theory about Pelosi attack, raising concerns about platform

By Sarah TITTERTON

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