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What Matters Most On Monday, October 2, 2023

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A screen at the Karolinska Institute shows this year's laureates Katalin Kariko of Hungary (L) and Drew Weissman of the US during the announcement of the winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on October 2, 2023.(Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP)

Weissman sees himself as 'a Daoist... Nature is the supreme'

Drew Weissman, Katalin Karikó win Nobel in medicine for enabling mRNA COVID vaccines

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US-Jewish and Hungarian co-researchers cited for contribution to ‘unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of greatest threats to human health in modern times’

Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a ceremony in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Sephardic chief rabbi claims secular Jews who eat non-kosher food ‘get stupid’

In latest inflammatory remarks, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef also says non-religious Jews ‘don’t find fulfillment in life’ and are ‘jealous’ of the ultra-Orthodox

File: Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Yosef visit at a school in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, January 14, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct 2: Rabbis’ state salaries are real pork barrel, say opposition heads

Obituary

Jessica Steinberg

Alice Shalvi, trailblazing feminist and educator, dies at 97

The Israel Prize laureate, longtime principal of Jerusalem’s revered Pelech school for girls and founder of Israel Women’s Network, was an agent for change

Alice Shalvi, Israeli professor and educator, at her home in Jerusalem on March 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Berkeley Moshav

Open to Families: A New Jewish Cohousing Community

Berkeley Moshav reimagines the Jewish communal future by re-creating the village models of the past.

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi (left) and Knesset Economy Committee chairman David Bitan arrive in Saudi Arabia on October 2, 2023. (Communications Ministry)

Live updates (closed)

Minister, Knesset committee chair land in Saudi Arabia for postal conference

Shlomo Karhi is second cabinet member and David Bitan is first parliamentary representative to publicly visit Gulf country; Karhi to meet with US ambassador to Riyadh

8:47 pm

Air Force chief said giving protesting pilots until Oct. 17 to return or face removal
7:50 pm

Palestinian vehicle damaged by settlers hurling stones during northern West Bank clash
7:38 pm

Minister, Knesset committee chair land in Saudi Arabia

Israel arrests former Mexican diplomat ahead of extradition to face rape charges

Andres Roemer was hailed in Israel after his dismissal as Mexico’s UNESCO ambassador for refusing to vote in favor of a 2016 resolution against the Jewish state

Former Mexican ambassador to UNESCO Andres Roemer. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Did you think they wouldn’t go after the free press?

Communication Minister Karhi’s proposed media reform is a terrifying attack on the independence of Israeli news outlets

A green oasis for the soul: What just one good-news post can do

Amidst the endless flow of bad news and toxic messaging, even a single positive post can bring light to the darkness

Aryeh Deri standing in his sukkah holding an etrog he claimed cost him $5,000, October 1, 2023. (Twitter screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)

Deri boasts of spending $5,000 on an etrog, then says he was joking

Shas leader brags he paid cash for the Sukkot fruit, which would be an illegally high cash purchase; office says he was defending the honor of small Moroccan etrog in humorous way

IDF chief Herzi Halevi and the head of the Shin Bet security agency Ronen Bar hold a security assessment at the Israel Defense Forces’ headquarters in Tel Aviv, with members of the IDF’s General Staff Forum, after rocket barrages from Lebanon, April 6, 2023. (IDF Spokesman)

IDF said to study security implications of possible Saudi normalization deal

Findings to be presented to defense minister and cabinet reportedly to include cooperation possibilities along with dangers and ramifications of Saudi nuclear program

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi seen before the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office, September 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Days after tourism minister’s trip, communications minister heading to Saudi Arabia

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a news conference on the sidelines of the 78th United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters in New York City on September 20, 2023. (Ed Jones/AFP)

Iran’s Raisi slams normalization with Israel as ‘reactionary and regressive’

By AFP

Illustrative: Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with head of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir at a vote in the Knesset plenum, December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90/File)

Netanyahu claims ties with Ben Gvir fine, denies security meeting snub

Prime minister says Iran, not areas in Ben Gvir’s purview, were dealt with during high-level gathering as reports swirl that minister an unwelcome presence

Screen capture from video of National Security Ministry chief of staff Chanamel Dorfman, left, handing his state-issued pistol to a man in the street, September 29, 2023. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Ben Gvir chief of staff hands his pistol to man in street, prompting complaints

At Rutgers Dental School, Holocaust survivor Yelena Olshansky receives free treatment from professor of restorative dentistry Peter L. DeSciscio (Courtesy)

'People who would never smile, now do'

Holocaust survivors school young dentists on ‘trauma-informed’ care in New Jersey

By Matt Lebovic

Since 2020, a free clinic at Rutgers School of Dental Medicine has treated 69 Holocaust survivors, many of whom are afflicted with dental diseases due to childhood malnourishment

Supreme Court President Esther Hayut (left) and Justice Minister Yariv Levin attend the opening of the Magistrate's Court in the northern city of Safed, on September 27, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Justice minister, others barred from speaking at farewell for court head Hayut

Court says pending cases would make speech by Levin at ceremony inappropriate, will instead only allow justices to deliver remarks; President’s Residence swearing-in called off

File - Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives to casts her ballot for the head of the Israel Bar Association at a voting station in Tel Aviv on June 20, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Attorney general rejects Levin’s ‘conflict of interest’ allegation in spyware inquiry

By Jeremy Sharon

Paramedics at the scene of an underworld car bombing near the southern town of Kiryat Malachi, October 1, 2023. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)

2 killed, 3 injured as gangland car bombing sparks police chase, shootout

Assailant said to hurl explosive at car carrying rivals, as cops tracking them give chase, fatally shoot suspect; suspected gunman shot by cops deployed to Ramle neighborhood

Illustrative: Firemen and police officers at the scene where a car exploded in Rishon Lezion on July 3, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Man shot dead in Ashkelon in suspected gang hit

File - Police inspect the scene of riots where one person died and several were seriously injured in fight between Eritreans, in Netanya, Israel on September 30, 2023. (Flash90)

Ben Gvir calls to detain without trial, deport Eritreans linked to Netanya killing

By Canaan Lidor

An Israeli soldier takes measurements at the home of Khaled Kharousha, accused of helping his father, a Hamas terrorist, in carrying out a deadly attack in Huwara, in the West Bank city of Nablus early May 13, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Court okays razing West Bank home of terrorist who plotted killing of Israeli brothers

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Judge says ample evidence that destroying terrorists’ homes a deterrent; Khaled Kharousha accused of murder for helping his father plan shooting that killed Hallel and Yagel Yaniv

File: A view of the West Bank settlement of Asael on February 13, 2023. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

Suspected Palestinian gunmen hit settlement homes in southern West Bank; no injuries

By Emanuel Fabian

Inside Story

AFP and ToI Staff

‘Victory’ against Israel in 1973 war shaped Egypt but is now a fading memory

Current leader Sissi still uses conflict in effort to rally Egyptians, though figures show 85% of population was not alive at the time

People attend a presentation of a recreated war scene while visiting the "6th of October War Panorama" museum and memorial of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War in Cairo, Egypt, on October 1, 2023. (Khaled DESOUKI/AFP)

'Zhen Yu and the Snake,' by Erica Lyons. (Courtesy via JTA)

'A lot of people don't know about China's ancient Jews'

Talmudic tale with 12th-century Chinese twist expands Jewish world for young minds

By Jordyn Haime

In ‘Zhen Yu and the Snake,’ author Erica Lyons adapts a well-known story about Rabbi Akiva’s daughter while also highlighting China’s rich Jewish history

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Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (left) greets US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at Ben Gurion Airport, March 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Gallant to meet US counterpart in Washington, after Netanyahu’s sit-down with Biden

By Emanuel Fabian

Screen capture from video of British actress Dame Helen Mirren during an interview with the BBC broadcast on October 1, 2023. (Daily Mail. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Helen Mirren defends Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose in ‘Maestro’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Anti-judicial overhaul activists prepare to demonstrate near a hotel in Neve Ativ, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara are planning to vacation, in the Golan Heights, October 1, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Amid protests, Netanyahus arrive in middle of the night for Golan Heights vacation

Operators at an ERAN call center. (Courtesy of ERAN)

Government said to slash budget for mental health organizations

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell speaks during a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 1, 2023. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

Top European diplomats meet in Kyiv to back Ukraine amid strains among allies

An exterior view of Adolf Hitler's birth house, front, in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on September 27, 2012. (AP Photo / Kerstin Joensson, File)

Work begins in Austria on turning Hitler’s birthplace into police station

By AP

Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, walks to the House chamber, at the US Capitol, in Washington, September 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Far-right Republican seeks to oust McCarthy after bill to avoid government shutdown

By KEVIN FREKING

Yonatan (Yoni) Zeevi of Israel's national baseball team gets on base during the European Baseball Championship, held from September 23-October 1, 2023, in the Czech Republic (Jan Benes/ Eurobaseball 2023)

Israel finishes 6th overall at European Baseball Championships

By Gavriel Fiske

Israeli 'Fauda' series actor Tsahi Halevi, second from left, during a weapons raid in the city of Lod, October 2, 2023. (Israel Police)

Life imitating art‘Fauda’ star takes part in real-life police weapons raid

American pop star Bruno Mars will perform in Tel Aviv on October 4 and 7, 2023, from his October 1, 2023 show in Tbilisi, Georgia. (Courtesy: B.N.)

Too good to say goodbyePop star Bruno Mars makes his way to Tel Aviv for two shows

By Jessica Steinberg

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