Ben Gvir pulls a gun at E. J’lem clash * Anti-Israel moves widen on US campuses * Hitler art on UK reality TV * Hi-tech pre-IVF testing * Needle-free alternative to amnio

[Times of Israel]( [The daily edition]( Friday, October 14, 2022 [Extremist MK Ben Gvir pulls out gun during Sheikh Jarrah clash]( By [TOI staff]( [Politician brandishes weapon after rock thrown toward him and supporters during appearance in tense East Jerusalem neighborhood, urges cops to open fire on Arabs]( [At least two hurt as East Jerusalem clashes resume; police arrest 5 suspects]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Lapid meets top security officials as police gird for further East Jerusalem unrest]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Israeli needle-free alternative to amnio can detect thousands of mutations]( By [Nathan Jeffay]( [Blood test developed by Tel Aviv University scientist provides detailed info on fetuses without associated health risks of amniocentesis]( [Record number of Jews reported to visit Temple Mount over High Holiday season]( By [Ash Obel]( [Advocacy group says over 6,000 Jewish visitors have gone up to flashpoint holy site in a new monthly high, amid Hamas threats of violence]( [Police brace for tense Friday after 18 arrested in overnight Jerusalem riots]( By [Ash Obel]( [Downplaying concessions, US envoy tells Israelis deal with Lebanon keeps them safer]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Amos Hochstein dismisses Netanyahu’s criticisms as campaign rhetoric, says fact that two enemy countries managed to reach agreement on maritime border ‘enormously significant]( [Lebanon’s president announces official approval of maritime border deal with Israel]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Report finds anti-Israel incidents on US campuses harming Jewish student life]( By [Luke Tress]( [Over 350 anti-Israel acts at colleges last year, Anti-Defamation League says, highlighting a growing trend toward excluding Zionists and fostering a hostile environment for Jews]( [Stanford apologizes for acting to limit Jewish enrollment in 1950s]( By [TOI staff and JTA]( [Palestinian doctor, said to be terror group member, dies in Jenin gun battle]( By [Emanuel Fabian]( [Military says troops only targeted armed Palestinians in area; Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades terror group reported to claim Abdullah Abu Tin as member]( [Meeting Putin, Abbas says Palestinians ‘don’t trust America’ to solve conflict]( By [TOI staff and AP]( [Fatah, Hamas take ‘positive’ steps toward reconciliation at talks in Algeria]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( Science [Designer babies? Hi-tech preimplantation genetic testing may soon come to Israel]( By [Nirit Sandman Eriksson]( [Unlike simpler forms of testing used in IVF today, screening for polygenic diseases doesn’t offer a clear diagnosis but rather a ‘risk score’ for a Pandora’s box full of conditions]( [‘Utterly sick’: UK TV to potentially destroy artwork by Hitler on new reality show]( By [Ash Obel and TOI staff]( [Program will take pieces by ‘problematic’ figures and ask audience to vote on their fate; antisemitism watchdog, other critics, decry ‘desperate’ format]( [In protest, climate activists throw tomato soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’]( By [AP]( Analysis [3 years after sounding off against Ben Gvir, US Jewish groups go mum on far-right MK]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [AIPAC, AJC, Conference of Presidents and JCPA say they won’t wade into Israeli politics, though they weren’t so shy when the prospect of the Kahanist joining Knesset first surfaced]( [Shaked calls Arab lawmakers ‘terrorists in suits’ with ‘no place’ in Knesset]( By [Carrie Keller-Lynn]( [Congressional committee probing Capitol riot votes to subpoena Trump]( By [LISA MASCARO, Farnoush Amiri and Eric Tucker]( [Former president likely to fight summons as panel investigating January 6 insurrection publishes evidence he was warned about violence, airs new footage from inside Congress]( [January 6 probe committee: Trump knew he lost but lied, fought to overturn election]( By [LISA MASCARO, Farnoush Amiri and Eric Tucker]( [Hulu’s ‘The Patient’ gets at a dynamic rarely seen on TV: Orthodox-Reform tensions]( By [Linda Buchwald]( [From the Mourner’s Kaddish to kosher observance, creators Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, both Jewish, give a nuanced portrayal of Judaism, reflecting their deep-rooted identities]( Times Will Tell [Podcast: Nigerian-American filmmaker takes on Sderot and Gaza]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( [Filmmaker Ose Oyamendan spent the better part of a decade filming documentary, “Other Voices,” in Israel’s Sderot and in Gaza]( [Israeli housing prices keep soaring, up a record 19% from last year]( By [Danielle Nagler]( [Market continues to defy expectations despite a drop in demand, rising interest and mortgage rates, and global property trends; cost of living index also up 4.6% over last year]( [Tel Aviv’s red-hot housing market a ‘bubble risk,’ warns global banking firm]( By [Danielle Nagler]( [Far-right collector of fascist memorabilia elected Italian Senate speaker]( By [Agencies]( [Ignazio La Russa, of Brothers of Italy party, showed off collection in 2018 newspaper interview]( [Outcry over Austrian soldier wearing self-made Nazi uniform, but no dismissal]( By [AFP]( [Swedish conservatives agree to form government with far-right backing]( By [AFP]( Top Ops [Sam Lehman-Wilzig]( [The Mathematics of Emotion in Judaism]( [The holidays changed the schedule of mourning practices for my mother, but my joy at belonging to the Jewish people and keeping its customs mitigates my sorrow]( [Tanya White]( [The enduring message of Kohelet for our transient times]( [When we become aware of how fleeting the breath of existence, we may get angry, as Cain did, or we can come to terms with it, and allow it to elevate us]( [The daily edition] Paralyzed Nation How Israel's dysfunctional electoral system still can be fixed [Toi Community Exclusive] [US presses allies, including Israel, to assemble patchwork air defenses for Ukraine]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [American military chief cites ‘whole series of Israeli systems that are quite capable’ of countering Russian strikes; Jerusalem has previously rebuffed Kyiv’s request for Iron Dome]( [UN envoy: Russia uses rape as part of ‘military strategy’ in Ukraine]( By [AFP]( [Russia to evacuate residents of occupied Kherson as Ukrainian forces advance]( By [Sabra Ayres]( [EU warns Russian army will be ‘annihilated’ if Putin uses nuclear weapon on Ukraine]( By [AFP]( [Peace with Israel, Jewish agricultural law have Morocco’s etrog industry blossoming]( By [David I. Klein]( [Though Israeli import laws favor domestically grown citrons, every 7 years growers from the high Atlas Mountains corner the market during the biblical farming sabbatical of shmita]( [Herzog presides over quasi-biblical gathering revived by his grandfather]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Every 7 years, the people of Israel are commanded to hear their king read from the Bible; in the absence of a monarch, thousands turn out for a presidential reenactment]( [CRM]( More Headlines [Plans underway for new Jerusalem hotel after city gets okay to raze central eyesore]( By [Danielle Nagler]( [Unable to agree on death penalty, jury hands Parkland school shooter life sentence]( By [TERRY SPENCER]( [Iraqi lawmakers elect new president despite threat of rocket fire]( By [Qassim Abdul-Zahra]( [Jerusalem lets convicted cult leader use municipal parking lot for Sukkot events]( By [Ash Obel]( [Qatari sheikh behind giant replica of World Cup trophy urges ties with Israel]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Long-lost manuscripts by Nazi-supporting French author published]( By [AFP]( [Fifth suspect arrested in killing of mob chief Benny Shlomo]( By [Ash Obel]( [Glimpse of upcoming Bob Dylan book hints at artist’s riffs on songwriting]( By [AFP]( [Bridging history / 19th century US Jewish novelist has hometown bridge named after her]( By [Penny Schwartz]( [Man suspected of killing 2 in Slovakia found dead; authored antisemitic manifesto]( By [AP]( [Iran orders judges to hit main instigators of riots with tough sentences]( By [AFP]( [Israel’s mixed judo team wins bronze at world championships in Uzbekistan]( By [Sara Serfaty]( [The daily edition]() [facebook]( [twitter]( [instagram]( [View in browser]( [Contact support](mailto:support@timesofisrael.com) [Advertise with us](mailto:advertise@timesofisrael.com) Were you forwarded this email? 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