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What Matters Most On Friday, September 29, 2023

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View of Gilboa Prison, near the Jordan Valley, December 5, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Female soldiers no longer to guard security prisons amid suspected sex scandal

By Michael Horovitz

Soldier serving as guard allegedly had intimate relationship with prisoner jailed for deadly terror attack; other soldiers also suspected of inappropriate contact with him

Inside Story

Fearing religious takeover, activists see ‘secular awakening’ in Yom Kippur fray

The breaking up of a prayer event over gender segregation has galvanized liberals worried about a slide into coercion, with battle lines mirroring divisions found in overhaul fight

Protesters shout at Israel Zeira (right), founder of the Orthodox Jewish group Rosh Yehudi, which set up a gender divider for a public prayer event on Yom Kippur in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)

Israel Zeira, head of Rosh Yehudi, an Orthodox group, speaks with police officers during protests after the group set up a gender divider for a Yom Kippur public prayer event at Dizengoff Square, in Tel Aviv, September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)

Judge rejects Orthodox group’s petition over canceled permits for its Sukkot events

Activists from the Rosh Yehudi organization set up a divider made of Israeli flags ahead of a public prayer event in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur eve, September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)

Tel Aviv yanks religious group’s permits for Sukkot events after Yom Kippur fracas

By Michael Horovitz

FILE - Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein of California on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Obituary

Dianne Feinstein, the US Senate’s longest-serving Jewish member, dies at 90

San Francisco-born Democrat was known for breaking gender barriers and championing liberal causes during her decades-long political career, while also striving for bipartisanship

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Sukkot Essentials: Lifesaving Support for Ukraine’s Refugees

Chabad of Poland has aided Ukrainian Jewish refugees, providing essentials, education, and support for 18 months.

Hila Galili demonstrates at a prayer rally against the government on September 29, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

At a Tel Aviv prayer rally, anti-government protesters channel ‘a different Judaism’

By Canaan Lidor

AG’s lawyer tells High Court she can’t force a PM’s recusal, then says she can

By Jeremy Sharon

At high stakes hearing, justices make clear they won’t abolish law aimed at shielding Netanyahu from being told to step down, but seem split over whether to delay its implementation

Attorney Aner Helman at a High Court hearing on petitions against the recusal law, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, September 28, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Screen capture from video of MK Itamar Ben Gvir, with a pistol in his right hand, during an altercation with Arab security guards at the Expo Tel Aviv conference center, December 21, 2021. (Twitter)

AG drops probe into Ben Gvir for pulling pistol on Arab parking attendants

Left: Justice Minister Yariv Levin speaks during a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 11, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90); Right: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara attends a conference at the University of Haifa, December 15, 2022. (Shir Torem/ Flash90)

Levin: I would ‘act immediately’ to replace AG if I was given the authority

Justice minister says government lacks an attorney general due to Gali Baharav-Miara’s frequent opposition to it, laments absence of process to appoint new legal adviser

Justice Minister Yariv Levin seen during a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Levin demands AG allow coalition to hire private attorneys in spy tech inquiry

Roger Waters performs at Barclays Arena in Hamburg, Germany, on May 7, 2023, to kick off his 'This Is Not A Drill' tour of Germany. (Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa via AP)

Roger Waters wanted to write anti-Jewish slur on inflatable pig at concert, film says

By Michael Horovitz

Former Pink Floyd frontman mocked Holocaust victim, disparaged Jewish acquaintances, said Jews had no history, according to documentary by UK-based Campaign Against Antisemitism

Strong back, soft heart: Yom Kippur 5784

No matter how you feel, disrupting prayer services is not OK, nor is attacking property or antagonizing people to tears

Daring Dani Dayan and the complicity of Lithuanians in the Holocaust

The locals may never own what they did, but Yad Vashem’s chairman spoke truth to power, calling out their role in eliminating a vibrant Jewish world

The Book of Kohelet and a cup of joy

Sure, Ecclesiastes pitches existential dread, but its clusters of optimism remind us that there’s a time for everything, even coffee

Avidan Freedman

This kosher certificate for Azerbaijan is treif

Those rabbis who voiced support for a regime using starvation as a weapon of war have desecrated Jewish values

Tel Aviv University Prof. Erez Ben-Yosef at Timna National Park. (Courtesy)

ToI podcast'The biblical nomadic culture is part of who we are today'

What Matters Now to archaeologist Erez Ben-Yosef: King David’s tent-dwelling monarchy

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The Tel Aviv University professor proposes that just because early Israelite kings were nomadic doesn’t mean they didn’t control complex societies. ‘Look at Genghis Khan’

File: X CEO Elon Musk leaves a US Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Elon Musk, in chat with right-leaning Jews, claims antisemitism isn’t a problem on X

By Andrew Lapin

Tech entrepreneur says he’s ‘aspirationally Jewish,’ hedges on invite to Auschwitz, during call with Jewish leaders on allegations of antisemitism on his social media platform

President Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, September 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden includes antisemitism in Civil Rights Act protections at 8 cabinet departments

File: Students walk to class at Rice University on August 29, 2022 in Houston, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images/AFP)

Rice University LGBTQ group severs ties with Hillel over its support for Israel

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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Introducing: ToI’s Hidden Gems

By Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Uncover Israel’s secret treasures with this insider’s guide around the country, composed by ToI staff

The Great Hall at the Château de Ferrières. Watercolor by Eugène Lami. From the Rothschild collection. (Courtesy of Christie's Images)

Treasures of the French Rothschild family’s collection to hit the auction block

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Exquisite fine and decorative art objects dating back centuries — and even millennia — will be up for sale in live and online sales at Christie’s in New York on October 3 to 17

Two in Arab community slain in separate shootings as new police powers promised

70-year-old killed near Beit Kama Junction and 20-year-old killed in Fureidis in pair of shootings hours apart, bringing death toll among Israel’s Arabs to 190 this year

Eid Abu Hassan Al Ziyaddin, 70, who was shot dead near Beit Kama Junction in southern Israel, September 28, 2023. (Courtesy)

People react at the scene where five family members were shot to death in the northern Israeli Bedouin town of Basmat Tab’un, September 27, 2023 (Shir Torem/Flash90)

Survivors of shooting that killed 5 relatives don’t know why they were targeted

Police at the scene where a car bomb was found in Lod on September 28, 2023 (Israel Police Spokesperson)

Police foil underworld car bombing in Lod

Performing at Apollonia Park during Sukkot 2023 (Courtesy Mano Grinspan)

Outside of the sukkah, festivals of every kind abound in Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

An array of musical, theatrical, artistic, culinary and historical events livens up the country during Sukkot 5784

US President Joe Biden meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, September 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Report: For Saudi deal, PM open to steps to keep chance for Palestinian peace alive

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Biden told Netanyahu that he wants agreement to include measures that maintain prospects for two-state solution; Netanyahu kept his affirmative response vague

Mohammed al-Ghamdi, a retired school teacher sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia in July for posts on X, formerly Twitter. (Twitter screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Relatives of Saudis facing execution urge ‘ashamed’ crown prince to act

By AFP

Austin Haeems with his etrog trees in Ahmedabad, India. (Courtesy of Haeems/via JTA)

Some Jews pay hundreds of dollars for the perfect fruit

Why are Asian Jews importing etrogs on Sukkot even though their countries grow them?

By Jordyn Haime

With the discovery of the Chinese ‘Buddha’s hand’ citron, debates over the kashrut of local fruit have caused some Jewish residents to order etrogs from Israel or elsewhere online

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This frame grab from video aired by Iranian state television on Sept. 27, 2023, shows what Iran's Communication Minister Isa Zarepour said is a Noor-3 satellite being launched from an undisclosed location in Iran. (IRIB via AP)

US quietly admits that Iranian imaging satellite successfully reached orbit

By Jon Gambrell

President Joe Biden speaks about democracy at the Tempe Center for the Arts, September 28, 2023, in Tempe, Arizona. (AP/Ross D. Franklin)

Biden warns that Trump and Republican party could ‘smash’ democracy in America

By Seung Min Kim, JONATHAN J. COOPER and Will Weissert

The Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg, Germany, which once held 1,200 congregants before it was destroyed in Kristallnacht. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Hamburg Jewish community to rebuild grand synagogue burnt down on Kristallnacht

By Jackie Hajdenberg

File: US President Joe Biden, right, and his son Hunter Biden arrive at Fort McNair, June 25, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Republicans launch impeachment inquiry into Biden, claiming ‘mountain of evidence’

By Farnoush Amiri, LISA MASCARO and Eric Tucker

A Palestinian demonstrator throws a tear gas canister back at Israeli forces during clashes along the Israel-Gaza border, east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on September 15, 2023. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Gazans abort border riots as Israel reopens crossing in reported Egypt-brokered deal

By Gianluca Pacchiani

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers at Prison Four, Israel's largest military prison, located at the Tzrifin military base, April 26, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

4 soldiers arrested on suspicion of beating 3 Arab Israelis

From left to right, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Tim Scott, R-SC, argue a point during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by FOX Business Network and Univision, Wednesday, September 27, 2023, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Israel, prominent in first GOP presidential debate, amounts to bubkes in sequel

Illustrative: Image of testing tube for Dengue fever. (jarun011; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel man diagnosed with dengue fever after returning from trip to Mexico

By Michael Horovitz and AFP

Victor Shamrich (left) and Ido Neuberger, co-founders of Israeli investment bank Value Base. (Courtesy)

Israel’s Value Base raises NIS 700m for debut fund to invest in locally traded firms

By Sharon Wrobel

Peruvian Police escorting Eddie Manuel Nunez Santos, 33, who made string of bomb threats to US institutions including synagogues, in Lima, Peru, September 26, 2023. (Twitter video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Peruvian cops nab man suspected of making bomb threats to US synagogues

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Elisha Yered at the illegal West Bank settlement outpost of Ramat Migron, on September 8, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

IDF bars settler suspect linked to killing of Palestinian from West Bank for 6 months

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a memorial at Babyn Yar in Ukraine on September 29, 2023, marking 82 years since the massacre of Jews at the site by Nazis. (Ukrainian presidency)

Zelensky visits Babyn Yar to mark 82nd anniversary of Jewish massacre

By AFP and Lazar Berman

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