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What Matters Most On Sunday, October 1, 2023

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A rubber dinghy with no one on board but carrying identity papers of foreign nationals, that washed up on the shore near Netanya, October 1, 2023. (Israel Police)

Dinghy carrying 8 foreign nationals’ ID papers, but no people, washes up in Netanya

Police find documents of Somali citizens, reportedly also Turks, along with personal effects of several others; search launched to find missing occupants

Op-ed

Netanyahu has yet another new plan for choosing judges. It, too, is highly problematic

PM’s close aides argue that opposition leaders should grab with both hands his latest idea for changing the Judicial Selection Committee. They shouldn’t and they won’t

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R), President of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut (C) and Benny Gantz (L), then-leader of the Blue and White party, attend a memorial ceremony for late president Shimon Peres, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on September 19, 2019. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

National Security Itamar Ben Gvir during visit to southern Tel Aviv, September 3, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Ben Gvir again excluded from top-level security meeting

National security minister left out of gathering that includes Netanyahu, defense minister, head of army; Likud source says far-right lawmaker turns meetings into ‘kid’s game’

The DreamWorks Water Park is seen at the American Dream mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey, September 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

'This is our only chance to swim all year'

NJ megamall to offer gender-segregated swimming on Sukkot for Orthodox clientele

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Haredi Jews often throng to American Dream Mall for mini golf, ice skating, a theme park and more during the Jewish holidays – but this year, its water park is making waves

Dov (Berale) Broder (right) and his wife Batya Broder in 1947. Dov was killed during a battle on May 13, 1948, and his remains were identified in 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

After 75 years, IDF identifies remains of soldier killed in War of Independence

By Emanuel Fabian

Military determines Dov Broder, killed during assault on Palestinian village on May 13, 1948, is ‘anonymous’ soldier buried at Petah Tikva cemetery

Caroline G. Harris

Cease fire! A memory of the Yom Kippur War

I was an American visitor to a ward of amputees and all I could do was help sing ’David Melekh Yisrael’ (David, king of Israel)

Susannah Schild

9 perfect hikes in Israel for Sukkot 2023

It’s the perfect holiday for hiking: cooler weather, blooming fall wildflowers, and time in nature to appreciate Israel’s bounty

Former minister and army general Avigdor Kahalani gives an interview at his home in Tel Aviv on September 7, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Interview

Yom Kippur War was a needed ‘slap in face,’ says vet who helped reverse battle’s tide

By Delphine Matthieussent

Avigdor Kahalani recalls how unit he commanded in Golan Heights managed to halt the Syrian momentum after twin attacks by Egypt and Syria on October 6, 1973 caught Israel off guard

Police at the scene of a brawl between Eritrean migrants in Netanya, Sept. 30, 2023. (Israel Police)

Eritrean man stabbed to death in Netanya, in latest brawl between migrants

Illustrative: Police 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)

Arab man shot and killed in north, community’s 11th murder this week

Police at the scene of a stabbing in Jerusalem, Sept. 30, 2023. (Israel Police)

Man stabbed to death in Jerusalem in apparent criminal incident

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut and Justice Minister Yariv Levin attend the opening of a new courthouse in Katzrin on June 1, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

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Supreme Court chief cancels her retirement ceremony in protest over Levin

Esther Hayut reportedly refusing to hold event until justice minister appoints her replacement; also asks him not to speak at ceremony for outgoing judge Anat Baron

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Tel Aviv municipality tells court it stands by refusal to allow 'Rosh Yehudi' Sukkot events
6:01 pm

1 killed, several hurt in suspected car bombing, shooting near Kiryat Malachi
5:45 pm

Chief rabbi says secular Jews who eat non-kosher food 'get stupid'

Protesters blocking the Ayalon freeway with a sukkah in Tel Aviv, Sept. 30, 2023. (Eitan Shley / Protest organizers)

Rabbi Benny Lau denounces dark, coercive approach to Judaism

‘You won’t divide us’: Protesters against overhaul rally for a 39th weekend

Demonstrators in Tel Aviv block Ayalon freeway with sukkah after week that saw clashes between religious and secular Jews on Yom Kippur

United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni speaks at a UTJ event in Kibbutz Hafetz Haim on September 30, 2023. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Haredi MK: Yom Kippur scuffles prove anti-gov’t protesters waging ‘religious war’

Prof. Moshe Koppel at a Times of Israel Live event at Jerusalem's Israel Democracy Institute, December 15, 2022. (Oded Antman/IDI)

Head of think tank behind overhaul push says it was rushed, poorly prepared

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Illustrative: This image circulating online purports to show flames and smoke rising from a site in Damascus following an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria, early July 19, 2023. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF reportedly strikes Iranian weapons shipment near Damascus

State media doesn’t confirm reports from opposition media outlets, which claim shipments were en route to Lebanon; no immediate reports of casualties

Illustrative: Two Arrow 3 interceptors are launched during a test of the missile defense system on January 18, 2022. (Defense Ministry)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 1: How ‘Jewish space missiles’ will soon protect Germany’s skies

Iranians protest the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police, in Tehran, October 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Middle East Images)

Dozens arrested in Iran in demonstration commemorating ‘Bloody Friday’ anniversary

By Stuart Williams

A work by Zavi Apfelbaum from her exhibit, 'Observation Point' at Tel Aviv Artists' House through October 14, 2023 (Courtesy Zavi Apfelbaum)

Artist sees romantic realism at the beach, in a hammock and on the street

By Jessica Steinberg

Zavi Apfelbaum shows latest collection, ‘Observation Point’ at Tel Aviv Artists’ House

Former Prime Minister Robert Fico arrives at his party's headquarters after polling stations closed for an early parliamentary election, in Bratislava, Slovakia, September 30, 2023. (Darko Bandic/AP)

Pro-Russia former premier leads leftist party to victory in Slovakia elections

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Populist Robert Fico’s opposition to supplying arms to Ukraine could strain fragile unity on matter in European Union and NATO

Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attend a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk, File)

Op-edIs Poland’s government shooting itself in the foot with its cooling stance on Ukraine?

By Paul Hockenos

An aerial view of some of the sukkahs at the Chicago Sukkah Design Festival. (Joseph Altshuler/Chicago Sukkah Design Festival via JTA)

Chicago Sukkot festival reflects on complex history between city’s Blacks and Jews

By Lindsay Eanet

Chicago Sukkah Design Festival, now in second year, aims to build connections between Lawndale’s African-American community and city’s Jews who used to live there

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Screen capture from video of Israeli kibbutz resident leaving the West Bank Palestinian village of Jalbun, October 1, 2023. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

After shots fired, kibbutz residents enter nearby Palestinian village

An undated photo of Nafha and Ramon prisons in southern Israel. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Female prison guards, officials to be questioned over alleged sex scandal

This image from U.S. Senate video shows the vote total, 88-9, on a temporary funding bill in the Senate at the US Capitol in Washington, Saturday, September 30, 2023. (Senate Television via AP)

Shutdown averted with little time to spare as Biden signs funding before midnight

By LISA MASCARO, KEVIN FREKING and STEPHEN GROVES

Traffic makes its way through flood waters along the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, Friday, September 29, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted)

New York City begins to dry out after record rainfall, intense flooding

By Jake Offenhartz, Jennifer Peltz and BOBBY CAINA CALVAN

Israelis protest against the visit of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, in Moshav Neve Ativ, August 7, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Netanyahus set to vacation again at Golan Heights hotel, despite local opposition

Illustrative. A person in handcuffs. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Palestinian-Italian student, held by Israel for a month, faces court hearing

By ToI Staff and AFP

Members of Turkish Police Special Forces secure the area near the Interior Ministry following a bomb attack in Ankara, on October 1, 2023. (Adem Altan/AFP)

Suicide bomber detonates device in Turkish capital, wounding 2 police officers

Workers work on a wooden cake display on the North Lawn of the White House, Saturday, September 30, 2023, in honor of former President Jimmy Carter's 99th birthday this weekend. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Jimmy Carter admirers across generations celebrate former president’s 99th birthday

In this March 13, 2014, file photo, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Women of the Senate remember Dianne Feinstein as tireless fighter, true friend

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

Armenian refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh are seen in the center of the town of Goris on September 30, 2023 before being evacuated in various Armenian cities. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/AFP)

90% of ethnic Armenians flee Karabakh enclave overrun by Azerbaijan army

By Thibault MARCHAND

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