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What Matters Most On Friday, October 6, 2023

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Dashcam footage shows a Palestinian terrorist opening fire at close range at an Israeli car in the West Bank town of Huwara, October 5, 2023. (Courtesy)

Israeli parents, baby escape unscathed as West Bank terrorist opens fire on car

By Emanuel Fabian

Palestinian gunman flees, is shot dead by troops hours later; video shows moment he started shooting at family driving on Route 60 highway in flashpoint Huwara

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (seated with blazer) in the northern West Bank town of Huwara on October 6, 2023. (via Facebook; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Smotrich urges closing Huwara’s Palestinian shops until bypass road built for settlers

Far-right Religious Zionism MK Zvi Sukkot and other Israeli Jews pray in Huwara, after he set up a sukkah in the Palestinian town to protest a shooting attack there, October 5, 2023. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Netanyahu huddles with top security chiefs after day of terror violence

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

US tourist who smashed ancient statues may have ‘Jerusalem syndrome’ — lawyer

At suspect’s remand hearing, attorney says police and the man have agreed to a psychiatric examination after he caused serious damage to Roman-era sculptures at Israel Museum

Damage seen to statues inside the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on October 5, 2023. (Israel Museum)

Damage seen to statues inside the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on October 5, 2023. (Israel Museum)

US tourist arrested for smashing Roman-era statues at Israel Museum

Michael Sfard (L) and Rabbi Leo Dee at a prayer event on Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, October 5, 2023 (Video screenshot)

As politicians decry ‘attack’ on bereaved rabbi at prayer, both sides deny it occurred

PM says ‘no limit to madness’ after prayer clash at Dizengoff Square; but Rabbi Leo Dee states there was no violence, and man who bumped into him says he was trying to flee scene

Head of Rosh Yehudi, Israel Zeira, bottom right, attends a hearing on Tel Aviv Simhat Torah celebrations at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 6, 2023 (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)

At High Court, Tel Aviv officials acquiesce to Orthodox group holding Sukkot event

After judges criticize municipality’s conduct, sides agree on Saturday night Simhat Torah celebration in city center provided no physical barriers are erected to separate sexes

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

Herzog urges unity on Simhat Torah amid divisions over religion in public spaces

Activist hopes it strengthens protesters: 'Victory is near'

Imprisoned Iranian women’s rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize

Mohammadi honored ‘for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all’

Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian women's rights campaigner imprisoned by Iran who won the Nobel Peace Prize, on October 6, 2023. (AFP/ Narges Mohammadi Foundation/ File)

Iranian women's rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi is seen at her home in Tehran on September 4 2001. (Behrouz MEHRI / AFP)

InterviewChange sparked by Iran protests ‘irreversible,’ says jailed activist who won Nobel

By Cecile Feuillatre and Stuart Williams

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani speaks during a press conference in the capital Tehran on October 3, 2022. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Iran snaps back at West after criticism over Iranian teen injured on metro

By AFP

Efraim and Shoshi Zinger in Israel after his release from Syrian prison in 1974. (Courtesy)

'I'm happy she didn't listen when I told her to move on'

In an unusual love story, a hopeless optimist recalls surviving Syrian captivity

By Canaan Lidor

Efraim Zinger’s prison diary and his would-be wife’s journal serve as the basis for a new book about a family’s triumph over their Yom Kippur War trauma

Staff at the ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv welcome the Codex Sassoon to its new home on October 5, 2023 (Courtesy Peri Bindelglass)

Biblical round trip

Codex Sassoon, oldest near-complete Hebrew Bible, in Israel for permanent display

By Jessica Steinberg

Rare, 1,100-year-old manuscript travels in cockpit on historic El Al flight, will take up residence at Tel Aviv’s ANU Museum of the Jewish People after $38 million purchase in May

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Giving unheard-of assent to Saudi nuclearization, Israel girds for Cold War with Iran

After Tehran proved how little the international community will do to stop nuclear proliferation, Israel knows Riyadh may eventually have the bomb. Maybe that’s the point

Israeli F-35 fighter jets escort an American B-52 bomber through Israeli airspace on November 10, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Let’s meet in the sukkah

When we sit together to discuss our diverse, complex Israeli identities, we won’t solve the big questions any time soon, but it matters

Women dancing with the Torah? Meh!

When a rabbi is asked about this or any matter of women’s inclusion, the response should be just three simple words

Elchanan Poupko

An open letter to Rabbi Leo Dee

You’ve been a unifying figure for all Jews, so why the divisive, polarizing move of praying in the streets of Tel Aviv at this time?

First, Saudi Arabia – then the Palestinians

The less support Palestinians get for refusing to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist, the more flexible they may become

Bo Nidaber activist Eytan Cohen-Munwes waits, while founder Daphne Haim-Langford engages with a passerby in the background, in Or Akiva, on September 22, 2023. (Gavriel Fiske/Times of Israel)

'There's pushback, but we see it as an opportunity'

Establishing dialogue outposts nationwide, activists seek to hash out Israel’s rifts

By Gavriel Fiske

Taking inspiration from Jewish religious outreach groups, the ‘Let’s Talk’ initiative sets up 50 ‘liberal democratic’ civil discourse tables across Israel every Friday morning

Screen capture from video apparently showing a Syrian military parade in Homs moments before a deadly drone strike, October 5, 2023. (X/Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

More than 80 reported killed in drone attack on Syria military academy ceremony

Army says drones laden with explosives hit event in Homs; defense minister reportedly left shortly before attack; Damascus blames ‘insurgents,’ vows revenge

ToI Community

Introducing: ToI’s Hidden Gems

By Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Uncover Israel’s secret treasures with this insider’s guide around the country, composed by ToI staff

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen meets counterpart Paul Gallagher in Vatican, July 17, 2023. (Israel Embassy to The Vatican)

In call with Vatican, Israel condemns ‘ugly phenomenon’ of spitting incidents

By Lazar Berman

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen tells Archbishop Paul Gallagher behavior by some Haredi Jews toward Christian worshipers in Jerusalem ‘does not represent Jewish values’

Firefighters monitor as flames consume brush along Gilman Springs Road during the Rabbit Fire, July 14, 2023, in Moreno Valley, California. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer, File)

Jews more likely than any US religious group to see climate change as crisis — poll

Survey finds 32% of Jewish Americans deeply concerned about warming planet, though non-religiously affiliated higher than any religious group

A member of the Bnei Menashe community in northeastern India works to construct a temporary structure used in celebrating Sukkot. (Courtesy Shavei Israel via JTA)

'Even in these circumstances, they've upheld the tradition'

Displaced by ethnic violence, India’s Bnei Menashe Jews construct sukkahs nonetheless

By Jordyn Haime

As conflict in the northeastern state of Manipur enters its sixth month, a Jewish community fleeing decimated homes and burned synagogues is starting to see its exile as permanent

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A poisoned water vessel in northern Israel, October 2023 (Natan binosovich, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)

Man suspected of poisoning dozens of animals in northern Israel

A view of the Secure Community Network's new command center in Chicago. (Courtesy of SCN via JTA)

US synagogue bomb threats continue despite arrest of suspect

By Andrew Lapin

Israeli troops carry out maintenance and exposure works near the Blue Line between Israel and Lebanon, close to Misgav in northern Israel, June 12, 2023. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

IDF says structure found on its side of northern border, taken down by Lebanon

By Emanuel Fabian

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert arrives for a court hearing related to the Netanyahu family lawsuit against him, at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on June 12, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Former PM Olmert worked for blacklisted Israeli company behind attack spyware

The scene of a deadly hit-and-run near Netanya that claimed the lives of two people, October 6, 2023 (United Hatzalah)

2 killed in hit-and-run on coastal highway; driver steals truck to flee, is arrested

Works of art by Austrian expressionist artist Egon Schiele on display at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, September 20, 2023, during a ceremony returning the pieces to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum. (AP/Bobby Caina Calvan)

Nazi-looted art to be auctioned in US after return to Holocaust victim’s heirs

By AFP

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a video celebrating the anniversary of the referendum called illegal by the UN in four Ukrainian regions one year ago, in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, September 30, 2023. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin calls Canada’s former house speaker ‘an idiot’ for applauding Nazi war veteran

By AFP

A photograph of US senator Dianne Feinstein is flashed on a screen during a memorial service in her honor, October 5, 2023, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Biden, other US leaders honor Dianne Feinstein’s legacy at memorial ceremony

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