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What Matters Most On Tuesday, October 3, 2023

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Orthodox Jews filmed spitting at Christian tourists in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 2, 2023. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Netanyahu, chief rabbi, ministers denounce reprehensible act

Video showing fresh Haredi spitting attack on Christians draws wide condemnation

By Lazar Berman

No comment from church or police on latest incident of harassment of non-Jewish pilgrims in Jerusalem’s Old City; former Knesset aide claims spitting ‘an ancient Jewish custom’

A member of Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi's delegation holds up a Torah scroll during a morning prayer service in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 3, 2023. (Spokesman's Office, Communications Ministry)

Israeli government delegation holds Jewish prayer service in Saudi Arabia

By Lazar Berman

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, in Riyadh for UN postal conference, joins minyan for Sukkot holiday complete with Torah scroll and four species

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

None ever, then 2 in a week: 2nd Israeli minister makes official visit to Saudi Arabia

Ex-Meretz MK who voted against her own coalition takes job with current gov’t – reports

By Jeremy Sharon

Calls made for police bribery probe of Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi, who helped expedite the demise of Bennett-Lapid coalition, over reports she has taken a position in Interior Ministry

Former Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi (right) tours the The Holy Family Hospital in Nazareth with Health Minister Moshe Arbel of the Shas party, July 4, 2023. (Social media screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

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Anti-Christian protesters gather outside an International Christian Embassy of Jerusalem event in the capital on October 3, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)

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With tensions high, dozens of anti-Christian protesters rally outside Jerusalem event

Following widespread condemnation over spitting incident in Old City, Orthodox Jewish extremists decry Feast of Tabernacles event in capital as missionary activity

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Herzog to Christian gathering: 'We will protect all religious communities'

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A statue of slain Iranian general Qassem Soleimani is placed at Naghsh-e-Jahan stadium in the central city of Isfahan, Iran, October 2, 2023. (Morteza Salehi, Tasnim News Agency via AP)

Saudi soccer team refuses to play in Iran over statues of slain general Soleimani

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Al Ittihad leaves stadium where 60,000 had gathered for Asian Champions League match against Sepahan due to busts of Quds Force head on sidelines, as rapprochement begins to fray

A handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shows him speaking before students and clerics during a rally in Tehran on July 12, 2023. (Photo by KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Iranian leader Khamenei warns Saudis against ‘betting on losing horse’ Israel

Report: IAF commander sets October 17 deadline for protesting pilots to return

Tomer Bar instructs force to map out preparedness levels ahead of major military exercise later this month; IDF confirms he’s called for ‘conversations’ with reserve personnel

Israeli Air Force chief Tomer Bar speaks at an event in honor of the 75th anniversary of the IAF's first-ever strike mission 75 years ago, at the Ad Halom Park near Ashdod, May 29, 2023. (Flash90)

Anti-overhaul activists demonstrate outside the hotel in Neve Ativ where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara are vacationing, in the Golan Heights, October 2, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Hundreds protest outside Netanyahus’ vacation spot in Golan Heights resort village

Performer Yehoram Gaon comes to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant's defense as protesters decry the coalition's judicial overhaul, in Ein Gev, October 2, 2023. (Screenshot/used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Singer intervenes as anti-overhaul protesters heckle Gallant during speech

Illustrative image: A medical worker prepares a vial of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine at Clalit Health Service's center in the Cinema City complex in Jerusalem, on Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

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Piqued by COVID, storyteller Simon Schama takes a stab at the history of vaccines

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In his new book ‘Foreign Bodies,’ the famed historian follows the journey of the emerging microbiologist community of the 18th and 19th centuries toward protecting public health

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Jewish worshippers pray at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City, during the Birkat HaKohanim priestly blessing at the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, October 2, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Worshipers hail ‘remedial’ priestly prayer in Jerusalem after Tel Aviv confrontation

By Canaan Lidor

Many at the vast event at the Western Wall describe it as a corrective experience

Rockets are seen launched from the Gaza Strip toward the sea by Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists, October 3, 2023. (Dadi Fold/Courtesy)

Gazan terrorists test-fire rockets into the sea, setting off alert in southern Israel

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Islamic Jihad armed wing says launches, days after border riots halted and amid uptick in Jewish visits to Temple Mount, part of drill simulating attack against Israel

The compound of Joseph's Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus, April 10, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

PA police extract 5 tourists mobbed after illegally entering Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus

Mazen Al-Qaadi at Ramon Prison. (Courtesy)

Prisoner in suspected sex scandal is Mazen Al-Qadi, convicted in 2002 terror attack

A lizard perches on a rock in the newly declared Ramat Mazar Nature Reserve in the Negev Desert, southern Israel. (Arieh Rosenberg, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Planners green-light new nature reserve in Negev Desert

Ramat Mazar is home to several species that are unique to Israel, among them the Nubian ibex, dorcas gazelle, desert tawny owl and Blanford’s fox

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky meet on the UN General Assembly sidelines on September 19, 2023. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Zelensky ‘happy’ in wake of Netanyahu meeting, Ukrainian official says

By Lazar Berman

Sit-down at UN General Assembly improved relations, diplomat states, though ‘It is not a breakthrough’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) shakes hands with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (R) at the Knesset, alongside other coalition party heads ahead of passing the 2023-2024 state budget vote, May 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to meet Ben Gvir one-on-one after minister left out of security talks

PM and allies reportedly reaching out to Otzma Yehuda leader to undo damage as well as address demands on reducing prisoners rights, but unclear if any progress made at sit-down

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid introduces Ram Ben Barak (L) as a new party member during a faction meeting at the Knesset on January 15, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In first, Yesh Atid to hold leadership election; MK Ram Ben Barak to challenge Lapid

Members of The Together Plan catalog gravestones from the Jewish cemetery in Brest, Belarus. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)

'Currently, there’s nothing there to say it was a cemetery'

A new memorial rises up from the rubble of a Belarus cemetery destroyed by the Nazis

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Once a vibrant center of Torah study, Brest saw its 20,000 Jews eradicated in the Holocaust. Now, its shattered gravestones get a new purpose after gathering dust for decades

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Visitors evacuate from a shopping mall in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday, October 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Shooting at Bangkok mall popular with tourists leaves 3 dead, 6 injured

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Rep. Matt Gaetz answers questions from members of the media after speaking on the House floor, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, October 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

GOP lawmaker Gaetz files motion to oust McCarthy as speaker, sparking House tumult

By Farnoush Amiri and KEVIN FREKING

Elon Musk departs the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Court House in San Francisco, January 24, 2023. (Benjamin Fanjoy/AP)

Jewish man sues Musk for amplifying false claim linking him to neo-Nazi group

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Illustrative: Missiles in the sky near the international airport, in Damascus, Syria, on January 21, 2019. (SANA, Syria's official news agency, via AP/ FIle)

Syria says Israeli airstrikes on military targets injure two soldiers

File: Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman addresses the audience at the Community Justice and The Rocket Foundation reception during the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference, in Washington, DC, on September 20, 2023. (Shannon Finney/Getty Images for The Rocket Foundation/AFP)

Democrat slams document sent by his office that cited ‘Nazi members’ of GOP

By Michael Horovitz and AP

Winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize for Physics (from left): Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier. (Nobelprize.org)

3 scientists share physics Nobel for work observing electrons in fractions of seconds

By david keyton, Seth Borenstein and Mike Corder

Police at the scene of a criminal shooting in Haifa, September 23, 2023. (Israel Police)

Woman, man wounded in overnight shootings as crime wave continues

FILE — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves Manhattan federal court in New York, February 16, 2023. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Sam Bankman-Fried must convince jury that the former crypto king was not a crook

From 'Tatami,' the first Iranian-Israeli co-production, from 'Golda' director Guy Nattiv and Iranian-born director Zar Amir Ebrahimi, shortlisted for the European Film Award (Courtesy PR)

Israeli-Iranian ‘Tatami,’ thriller ‘Vanishing Soldier’ make European Oscars shortlist

By Jessica Steinberg

Tel Aviv High School of the Arts principal Udi Klein. (Facebook)

Tel Aviv high school principal takes leave after report of relationships with minors

Il Volo, three Italian operatic singers who perform 'popera' and will appear in Israel on October 14, 2023. (Courtesy: Opera Bleus)

Popera timeIl Volo, trio of Italian operatic singers, to perform in Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

The United States Postal Service released a new stamp honoring Jewish Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on October 2, 2023. (USPS)

US Postal Service releases stamp of liberal Jewish icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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