Tense quiet settles over Gaza * Israel raps ICC over war crimes warning * B’Tselem chief set to address Security Council * Israeli museum loans artifacts to China

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Thursday, October 18, 2018 [Report: Gaza factions had agreed to scale back protests before rockets launched]( By [TOI staff]( [Arabic daily al-Hayat says Hamas and other groups had decided to curb violent rallies in order to give ceasefire negotiations a chance]( [After night of tense quiet, IDF removes Gaza border home front restrictions]( By [TOI staff]( [Security cabinet meeting ends after 5 hours of talks on Gaza flareup]( By [TOI staff]( [Beersheba says no decision yet on reopening schools as tense night sets in]( By [TOI staff]( [We can hit Gaza harder, general warns as leaders meet on flareup]( By [TOI staff and Judah Ari Gross]( [Following overnight rocket attack, head of IDF’s Southern Command warns Hamas that Israel ready ‘to respond more forcefully’ in future]( [US peace envoy says Gaza rocket attack ‘sets back’ humanitarian efforts]( By [TOI staff]( [Egyptian intel chief said to postpone trip to region amid Gaza tensions]( By [Adam Rasgon]( [EU says rocket fire toward Israel ‘completely unacceptable’]( By [TOI staff and Judah Ari Gross]( [Australia’s spy agency said to warn embassy move may spark Palestinian violence]( By [Tamar Pileggi]( [Top-secret bulletin says formally recognizing Israeli capital will ‘attract attention’; PM Morrison hits back at criticism from opposition, calls NSW Labour party ‘anti-Semitic’]( [Abbas meets J Street leadership, thanks group for lobbying work]( By [Adam Rasgon and TOI staff]( [Israel scolds ICC prosecutor over warning of war crimes in Bedouin village]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [Fatou Bensouda ignoring rocket on Beersheba house is ‘alarming’ and raises questions over her impartiality, senior official says]( [Palestinian PM tells residents of Bedouin village to ‘disrupt’ demolition]( By [TOI staff]( [Hagai El-Ad]( [Why I’m speaking against the occupation at the UN Security Council]( [An Israeli government drunk on power believes it can do as it pleases. Domestically, political opposition is practically non-existent. The politicians who are supposed to be an alternative to the government are either vigorously arguing that they are practically joined at the hip with the occupation regime (and therefore deserving of Israeli voters’ trust and support), or else they are busy mounting assaults against government policy from further to the right, seeking even greater oppression of the Palestinians. Meanwhile, in the international arena, we find a reckless American presidency and...]( [Danny Danon]( [B’tselem: Bringing its lies to the UN Security Council]( [Today, there will be a discussion in the UN Security Council about the “Situation in the Middle East.” Predictably, the discussion will not focus on Hamas’s terrorism and firing rockets into Beersheva in the middle of the night, or the arson balloons that land throughout Israel. It will not address the chemical attacks in Syria, the hanging of opponents and homosexuals in Iran, nor the government-sanctioned incitement in the Palestinian Authority. Instead, the discussion will turn into an attack on the only free and democratic country in the Middle East....]( [Christian cemetery outside Jerusalem vandalized in apparent hate crime]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Police probing smashing of 30 headstones at Beit Jamal Monastery’s graveyard, which has been targeted several times in recent years]( [Vandals target Palestinian village in suspected settler hate crime]( By [Jacob Magid]( Live updates [Cabinet instructs army to step up response to Gaza violence]( By [Michael Bachner]( [Ministers say Israel should ‘change the rules of the game’ in retaliation for rocket fire and border riots, but don’t rule out truce efforts]( Top Ops [Lior Tal Sadeh]( [Intermarriage is not the same as assimilation]( [The task of our generation is to help mixed couples integrate Jewish culture and peoplehood into their new family life]( [Andrew Silow-Carroll]( [Why Roseanne Barr and Shmuley Boteach need each other]( [Their apology roadshow aims at using the imperfect vessel of celebrity to offer up Jewish values and Jewish politics]( [Head of pro-Corbyn group seeks to become MP in Britain’s most Jewish district]( By [Robert Philpot]( [Army warns Tulkarem residents not to help Barkan terrorist evade capture]( By [TOI staff]( [Posters put up by IDF across West Bank city warn that anyone abetting Ashraf Na’alowa, who shot dead two Israelis, could face detention, home demolition]( Israel media review [Back where we were: 8 things to know for October 18]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [A day after intense fighting in Gaza, nobody is sure what to make of the sudden flareup, and whether more fighting or some other development is on the horizon]( [Abbas rival ‘hired Israeli mercenary to assassinate UAE’s enemies in Yemen’]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Buzzfeed reports Mohammed Dahlan paid Israeli-Hungarian Abraham Golan’s firm to carry out assassinations in the war-torn country on behalf of the Gulf nation]( [Two Arab Israelis indicted for trying to join Syrian jihadists]( By [TOI staff]( [AG warns of increased effort to delegitimize him as decision on PM probes nears]( By [TOI staff]( [Mandelblit vows to ‘march straight in the path of the law’ in graft cases involving Netanyahu, amid attempts by PM’s supporters and detractors to sway investigations]( [Late Netanyahu lawyer said to have scripted plan for PM to quit amid graft probe]( By [TOI staff]( [At historic Boston Common, passersby come face-to-face with the Holocaust]( By [Matt Lebovic]( More Headlines [Days before election, courts disqualify Haifa, Elad mayoral candidates to uproar]( By [Marissa Newman]( [Cultural envoy / Israeli museum loans Bronze Age artifacts to Chinese museum]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Twitter says no plans to ban Farrakhan after comparison of Jews to termites]( By [TOI staff]( [Kushner shielded from reporter on plane trying to ask about Khashoggi]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Sticking together / Israel and US postal services issue joint Hanukkah stamp]( By [JTA and TOI staff]( [Man arrested for stealing Torah scroll from Kentucky hospital]( By [JTA and TOI staff]( [Vandalized anti-intermarriage election posters in Ramle taken down]( By [TOI staff]( [Israel ranks 7th in global life expectancy rankings for 2040]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [Environmental factors can trigger onset of multiple sclerosis — Israeli study]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Group kicks off pilot to give Arabs, ultra-Orthodox women a leg up in tech]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2018 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved