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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 4, 2023

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A Jewish man seen spitting at Christians in Jerusalem during a parade for the festival of Sukkot on October 4, 2023. (Israel Police)

Report finds support in Old City for attacking Christians

5 arrested for spitting at Christians in Jerusalem; police minister: It’s not criminal

Ben Gvir says attacks on pilgrims wrong but ‘not everything justifies an arrest’; MK Rothman: Most in procession were perfectly behaved, police blowing things out of proportion

Dozens of Orthodox Jews hold signs during a protest outside a Christian Embassy Feast of Tabernacles eventa t the Pais Arena stadium in Jerusalem on October 3, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Amid tensions, anti-Christian protesters target Christian Embassy event in Jerusalem

By Lazar Berman

Israel Zeira, the head of Rosh Yehudi, arrives for an arbitration hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court in Tel Aviv, October 4, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Court denies Orthodox group’s appeal against Tel Aviv for revoking event permits

Rosh Yehudi vows to appeal to Supreme Court to be allowed to hold public Sukkot celebrations in the city, after municipality cancelled licenses following Yom Kippur confrontations

6:29 pm

Bruno Mars kicks off first of two sold-out shows with shoutout to 'Tel Aviv!!!!'
6:17 pm

Court rejects Orthodox group's appeal over Tel Aviv's revocation of Sukkot event permits
5:52 pm

US military says it has already given some seized Iranian small arms ammo to Ukraine

Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks to reporters hours after he was ousted as Speaker of the House, Tuesday, October 3, 2023, at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US House speaker chaos stuns lawmakers, frays relationships and roils Washington

By STEPHEN GROVES

Moderate Republicans warn of government shutdown, drop in credit rating and end to support for Ukraine as radical wing ousts speaker for the first time ever

Rep. Kevin McCarthy leaves the US House floor after being ousted as Speaker of the House at the Capitol in Washington, October 3, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

A 1st in US history: McCarthy ousted as House speaker as Dems join with GOP critics

By LISA MASCARO and Farnoush Amiri

Vice President Kamala Harris, right, swears in Laphonza Butler, left, to the Senate to succeed the late Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein of California, during a re-enactment of the swearing-in ceremony on October 3, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

US Senate swears in Dianne Feinstein’s replacement, Laphonza Butler

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and Michael R. Blood

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Illustrative: The Mir Yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, September 19, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

OECD calls on Israel to end subsidies for yeshiva students, boost employment

Global organization finds ‘socioeconomic gaps remain wide,’ says Haredi and Arab communities underrepresented in high tech; also criticizes renewable energy efforts

Illustrative: New Israeli shekel bills, September 24, 2023. (Hadar Youavian/ Flash90)

Shekel tumbles to 7-year-low of 3.87 against the dollar

Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf (right) arrives at a weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Haredi minister warns he’ll quit if bill for draft exemption delayed

Israel Zeira (R), the head of Rosh Yehudi, arrives for an arbitration hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court in Tel Aviv, October 4, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Court affirms Tel Aviv’s right to yank Orthodox group’s permits for Sukkot

By Canaan Lidor

Rosh Yehudi plans fresh Supreme Court petition following the ruling on the municipality’s decision to deny permission to hold events over holiday after Yom Kippur clashes

'Fatherland,' by Burkhard Bilger (Courtesy); and Karl Gonner's undated prisoner of war photo. (Dépôt central des archives de la justice militaire)

Interview'He felt the world was shattered and in need of repair'

The ‘reasonable Nazi’ defended by the French villagers he oversaw

By Robert Philpot

In his new book ‘Fatherland,’ Burkhard Bilger tells about his 1992 discovery that his grandfather had been tried for war crimes in postwar France – but that’s not the whole story

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Spitting on Christians: Extracting the DNA of hatred

When Jews spit in contempt, it is likely a symptom of deeper ills, especially ignorance and a refusal to learn about the other

My daughter’s bris and the mystery that reveals itself

In Genesis, chaos is transformed into order – and yet change, disorder and the unexpected are the constants in our lives

Justice Minister Yariv Levin (L) addresses a Sukkot event held by Rafi Kedoshim in Herzliya in October 2023 (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Justice minister again celebrates holiday with ex-con running for Herzliya mayor

Likud activist Rami Ben-Yehuda arrives for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on December 18, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Likud activist charged with threatening Netanyahu prosecutor let off the hook

Ya'ar Shabtai and her father, Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai. (Ya'ar Shabtai/Facebook)

Top cop’s daughter gets police Arabic media monitoring job; she doesn’t speak Arabic

Senior officers reportedly express shock over Ya’ar Shabtai’s hiring; police defend decision, saying she was chosen ‘due to her skills and suitability’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, greets National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the Knesset on May 23, 2023. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

Gantz calls on Netanyahu to not let Ben Gvir choose next police chief

Police are seen in Lod during ethnic rioting in the mixed Jewish-Arab city in central Israel, May 12, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Report: Police eye changes to rules for use of live fire against rioters in wartime

By Michael Horovitz

3 European FMs barred by Israel from visiting Palestinian towns in Area C

By Lazar Berman

Foreign Ministry says decision to deny access to parts of West Bank made ‘after consulting with security officials,’ but defense bodies say they made no such recommendation

An Israeli soldier mans a checkpoint at the closed-off southern entrance to the southern West Bank city of Hebron, on August 22, 2023, a day after a deadly terror shooting in the area. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

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Opposing coalition moves, AG caught between government fealty and loyalty to the law

Gali Baharav-Miara has come out strongly against coalition legislation. Ministers say she should be faithfully representing them; she argues her duty goes further

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara in Tel Aviv on June 20, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

National Security Council chairman Tzachi Hanegbi (in blue shirt at far left) listens to anti-judicial overhaul protesters in front of his house in Mevaseret Zion on October 3, 2023. (Protest movement)

Hanegbi sits with protesters in front of his home who urge him to obey High Court

Likud MK Tally Gotliv attends a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on September 26, 2023. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)

Mossad denies Likud MK’s claim that spy chief met with anti-overhaul protest leader

First responders at the scene of a suspected motorcycle bombing in Or Yehuda on October 3, 2023. (Israel Police)

Man killed as bomb rips through motorbike in Or Yehuda

Initially unclear if fatality was victim of hit or was transporting explosive that detonated

Umm al-Fahm on October 29, 2022. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Body of man shot dead found in abandoned home in northern town of Umm al-Fahm

Illustrative: A police car at the scene of a crime. (Israel Police)

Man stabbed to death in suspected drunken brawl in Haifa suburb

By Michael Horovitz

Carey Mulligan and Bradley Cooper in "Maestro." (Netflix via JTA)

Many Jewish fans unfazed by ‘Jewface’ row surrounding new Leonard Bernstein biopic

By Gabe Friedman

Ticket holders at screenings of ‘Maestro’ more occupied with film’s plot than ancestry of Bradley Cooper, who plays Jewish conductor and took some heat over use of prosthetic nose

Poor and working-class Jews are underrepresented in US pop culture, analysis argues

By Andrew Lapin

Corals from the Dendronephthya genus found off the coast of Kibbutz Sdot Yam, south of Haifa, in northern Israel. (Hagai Nativ/Morris Kahn Center for Marine Research, Haifa University)

Discovery of soft coral species offers new evidence Mediterranean turning tropical

Due to global warming, coral species common in Red Sea are finding sufficiently warm waters in which to survive off Israel’s northern Mediterranean coast

Visitors tour the interior of the Pantheon's dome in Rome, on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. The structure was built under Roman Emperor Augustus between 27-25 BC to celebrate all gods worshipped in ancient Rome and rebuilt under Emperor Hadrian between 118 and 128 A.D. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Defying the ages: Scientists try to explain how ancient buildings are still standing

By Maddie Burakoff

Reverse-engineering pinpoints materials and techniques used by Romans, Mayans and Chinese; the research could help contemporary architecture to endure

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Screen capture from video purportedly showing 16-year-old Armita Garawand being carried unconscious from a metro train in Tehran, Iran, October 3, 2023. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iranian girl in coma after alleged assault on metro by morality police

By AFP and ToI Staff

An illustration shows 2023 Nobel chemistry laureates US Chemist Moungi Bawendi, US Chemist Louis Brus and Russian physicist Alexei Ekimov (Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach)

Three scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on minuscule quantum dots

By david keyton and Mike Corder

In this courtroom sketch, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, second from right, seated at defense table, looks behind as Courtroom Deputy Andrew Mohan, center, holds a seating diagram while announcing the jury's seating order for Bankman-Fried's fraud trial, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)

Trial of disgraced crypto star Bankman-Fried kicks off in NYC

By Thomas URBAIN

Louis Feutren during World War II. (Courtesy)

Dublin school urged to apologize for French ex-Nazi teacher who abused students

By AFP

Sen. Ben Cardin, Democrat-Maryland, speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 8, 2021. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP)

US senator says military aid to Egypt on hold until Cairo’s rights record improves

By AFP

Brett Ratner speaks at The Simon Wiesenthal Center's 2017 National Tribute Dinner at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., April 5, 2017. (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images via JTA)

Disgraced Hollywood director Brett Ratner immigrates to Israel

Amir Guy (left) and Hanan Savyon in the upcoming Netflix comedy 'Bros.' (Courtesy: Netflix)

Capital comedyHebrew-language comedy ‘Bros’ slated to hit Netflix next month

Illustrative: An empty classroom. (Getty Images via JTA)

Avowed Holocaust denier running for school board in Minnesota

By Andrew Lapin

Marina Ovsyannikova, a Russian state TV employee, interrupts the evening news broadcast, holding a sign condemning President Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine on March 14, 2022. (Screen capture/Twitter)

Exiled Russian reporter who protested Ukraine war on state TV jailed in absentia

By AFP

No-go logoNational Library reverts to former logo, after new one sparks uproar

By Jessica Steinberg

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