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What Matters Most On Thursday, October 5, 2023

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Israeli soldiers patrol near the West Bank city of Tulkarm after clashes between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli forces on October 5, 2023. (Photo by Zain JAAFAR / AFP)

Netanyahu: Iran to blame for rise in West Bank violence

5 officers hurt, including 3 seriously, in West Bank clashes with Palestinian gunmen

By Emanuel Fabian

Border Police forces were hit by shrapnel from own grenade during raid in Tulkarem camp; troops shoot dead 2 Hamas assailants who targeted Israeli driver on nearby highway

Illustrative: Israeli troops operate in the West Bank, early August 15, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian reportedly shot after attacking civilian Israeli vehicle in West Bank

Palestinian terrorists of the Islamic Jihad movement participate in an anti-Israel military parade marking the 36th anniversary of the movement's foundation in Gaza City, October 4, 2023. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Islamic Jihad flaunts rocket arsenal at 36th anniversary parade in Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

Saudi blogger Mohammed Saud speaks to Israeli TV on September 28, 2023. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

As minister visits, pro-Israel Saudi blogger goes offline amid fears he was arrested

By Michael Bachner

Mohammed Saud, who’s advocated normalization and staunchly backed Netanyahu for years, disappears ahead of planned meet with visiting Israeli minister; media appearances nixed

Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi addresses the UN Universal Postal Union in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on October 4, 2023. (Screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

In Saudi Arabia, Israeli minister hails ‘blossoming’ bilateral ties

By ToI Staff and AFP

Reporter's notebook

As spitting attacks continue, some religious Jerusalemites embrace Christian marchers

Delegations at annual ICEJ Feast receive warm welcome from Haredi teens, families lining route, on same day police arrest five for spitting at pilgrims

Israelis watch the International Christian Embassy of Jerusalem march, October 4, 2023 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)

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)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Oct. 5: Why Orthodox radicals are spitting at the hand that feeds them

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (right) walks with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Minister of Defense Col. Gen. Zakir Hasanov in Baku, Azerbaijan, July 13, 2023. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Expert: 'Israeli arms have played a very significant role'

Israeli weapons quietly helped Azerbaijan retake Nagorno-Karabakh — sources, data

By Isabel Debre

Flight tracker info shows many visits to Ovda airport in southern Israel by Azerbaijani planes before offensive, amid strategic partnership against Iran; region’s Armenians dismayed

Red paint is seen smeared on the facade of the Mordechay Navi Jewish Religious Center in Yerevan, Armenia, following a suspected antisemitic incident on October 3, 2023. (CER)

Synagogue vandalized in Armenia, apparently over Israeli-Azeri ties

By Canaan Lidor

Op-ed

They ‘davened’ in Riyadh: Lessons for Netanyahu from a small, remarkable prayer gathering

A careful yes to Bin Salman for an effort at peace with Saudi Arabia; an urgent no to the likes of Ben Gvir for the accelerating descent into internal division, hatred and bloodshed

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)

Pop singer Bruno Mars performs at Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv on October 4, 2023. (David Granot)

Concert review

Pop superstar Bruno Mars declares his love for Tel Aviv in first-ever Israel show

Singing ‘I love you’ in Hebrew and with his keyboardist playing a classic Israeli children’s song, singer gives a show to remember to more than 60,000 Israeli fans

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem, September 15, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Israel looking to limit scope of Palestinian component of Saudi normalization deal

As Biden advisers make another trip to Riyadh for talks with MBS, Netanyahu’s aides dismiss Abbas as ‘mayor of Ramallah’ and insist he won’t dictate agreement’s terms

Defense Minister Benny Gantz meets with US national security adviser Jake Sullivan in Washington DC, August 26, 2022. (Yossi Mai/Defense Ministry)

Gantz makes quiet visit to Washington amid Saudi normalization talks

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Can Biden succeed where Trump failed?

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Dizengoff, the Temple Mount, and the Western Wall: One for all or all for none

All 3 have called for religious freedom, led to doubting others’ sincerity, involved the court and police, and resulted in violence. We need a new kind of tolerance

Israeli soldiers in the West Bank on October 5, 2023 (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Settler leader: Right-wing government failing time after time to bring security

Head of Samaria Regional Council demands military set up checkpoints, launch major operation to root out terror: ‘We expect results’

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6:10 pm

Military says concrete structure that violated Blue Line on Lebanon border removed
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IDF says troops shoot suspected terrorist who opened fire at Israeli family

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (left) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar (Flash90/composite image)

Shin Bet chief said to persuade Ben Gvir to delay planned Temple Mount visit

By Michael Bachner

Ronen Bar reportedly calls up the hardline minister to warn him of security ramifications, with Ben Gvir saying that while touring the holy site is sacred, the timing isn’t

Religious Jews standing atop tombs at the Bab al-Rahma cemetery in Jerusalem. (X screenshot)

Jordan slams vandalism of Muslim sites; US pans spitting on Christians in Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Otzma Yehudit party chief Itamar Ben Gvir (L) speaks with his chief of staff Chanamel Dorfman, during a Knesset special committee to discuss his proposed Police Ordinance changes, December 18, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Ben Gvir defends aide who was panned for handing pistol to another man

Protesters decry 'transparent attempt to flatter' Ben Gvir

Senior cop: Officers not fighting violent crime because they’re policing protests

Declaring himself a candidate for police chief, central district head Avi Bitton complains force being sent to demonstrations instead of addressing criminal violence in Arab towns

Central District Police Commander Avi Bitton at a ceremony in Tel Aviv, July 19, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Yasmin Jabareen.

2 women shot dead in separate attacks, as murder wave shows no sign of abating

Israeli Air Force chief Tomer Bar salutes at the funeral of Giora Romm, a former deputy commander of theI IAF, at Savyon cemetery in central Israel, August 13, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

As reserve pilots protest overhaul, air force chief says trust key to success in war

Tel Aviv officials, activists disrupt protest prayer led by terror-bereaved rabbi

By Canaan Lidor

Municipal workers dismantle sex-segregation barrier placed in Dizengoff Square by Rabbi Leo Dee and other worshipers in response to confrontations over the divider on Yom Kippur

A protester tackling Rabbi Leo Dee as he prays at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, Israel on October 5, 2023. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Inside StoryReligion has outsized role in Israel, yet most of its Jews aren’t really observant

By Ilan Ben Zion

Professor Mohammed Dajani speaks at Brooklyn College in New York City, September 28, 2023. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

'We need people here to talk about peace'

Palestinian activist preaches peace at NY colleges where the conflict is a flashpoint

Professor Mohammed Dajani tours CUNY college system, warning students against ‘importing the conflict to campus’ and pushing for dialogue and reconciliation

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Participants complete an exercise during a dialogue session at a sukkah as part of the SOS Home project, October 2023. (Courtesy/SOS Home via JTA)

'Sukkot is a time when we leave our safe spaces'

Anti-overhaul protest group invites strangers to debate politics in their sukkahs

By Deborah Danan

Activist organization Safeguarding Our Shared Home looks to engage a cross-section of Israelis during holiday, hoping to help the public ‘learn and understand the issues at play’

Protest leader vows not to let coalition ‘take democracy away,’ predicts its collapse

By Jay Deshmukh

Israel's Ambassador to Sweden Ziv Nevo Kulman (center), and Gothenburg Book Fair director Frida Edman (left), at Professor Christer Mattsson's forum on antisemitism in the book fair program, September 29, 2023 (Israel Embassy in Sweden)

Israeli ambassador accuses major Sweden book fair of antisemitism

By Lazar Berman

Ziv Nevo Kulman alleges that Gothenburg Book Fair organizers ‘systematically’ excluded Israel, despite Jewish culture theme; fair directors say they’re ‘puzzled’ by charge

FILE - A person rests under an umbrella as the sun sets, September 12, 2023, in Newport Beach, California. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun, File)

After record summer highs, temperatures in September ‘mind-blowingly’ high

By Seth Borenstein

Cranes arrive at the Hula Lake Park in northern Israel, October 4, 2023. (Inbar Shlomit Rubin)

First cranes of fall season arrive at Hula Lake nature reserve

A young couple cycles through Central Park on the first day of Chol Hamoed Sukkot 2023. (Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA)

Sukkot turns New York City into a playground for local Jews

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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President Isaac Herzog hosts a Sukkot event for the public at his official residence in Jerusalem, October 3, 2023. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)

Herzog says his Telegram account hacked by scammers

Yiannis Habaris, the lawyer for three of five Israelis who are accused of raping a British woman, speaks on his cellphone outside the Famagusta District Courthouse in Paralimni, Cyprus, on September 12, 2023. (Petros Karadjias/AP)

Cyprus gang rape trial delayed as Israeli suspects seek DNA results, other evidence

By AP

Susan Hall, a lawmaker for the UK Conservative Party, in the town of Ruislip near London, July 21, 2023. (Justin Tallis/AFP)

UK Conservative Party candidate says Jews are ‘frightened’ by London’s Muslim mayor

By Gabe Friedman

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Co-leader of German far-right AfD party taken to hospital after ‘violent incident’

By AP

Former US president Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he leaves the courtroom during a lunch break in his civil business fraud trial, October 4, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Trump asks to postpone classified documents trial until after 2024 election

Students praying at Schechter Manhattan. (Screenshot via JTA)

Schechter Manhattan school to close at end of year as enrollment declines

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)

Western governments outraged after Iranian police assault said to leave girl in coma

By Stuart Williams

FILE - A Ukrainian civil defense member holds a Kalashnikov assault rifle while patrolling in Kyiv, Ukraine, February 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

US seizes 1.1 million bullets from Iran, sends them to Ukraine

Shaufik Nassar. (Facebook screen capture, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Israeli gunned down in Cape Town a year after his cousin met similar death

FILE - Julia Ormond arrives at the NBCUniversal Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hill, California, August 3, 2016. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP, File)

Actress Julia Ormond sues Harvey Weinstein for alleged assault

By Deepti Hajela and ANDREW DALTON

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa, Canada, Mach 24, 2023. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

After inadvertently hailing SS vet, Trudeau may declassify list of ex-Nazis in Canada

By AFP

The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, May 15, 2019. (AP/Matt Rourke)

UPenn to review policies after event featured speakers accused of antisemitism

By Jackie Hajdenberg

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