The Times of Israel oct.29, 2014

The one-stop news site covering Israel, the region and the Jewish people worldwide   THE DAILY EDITION   WHAT MATTERS MOST ON » WED, OCT 29, 2014   Share This:    Visit the timesofisrael.com - updated 24/7. The Jewish world's fastest-growing website. Click here!   US anger at Netanyahu said ‘red-hot’ as ties hit new low   As Israel’s relationship with its critical ally enters ‘full-blown crisis,’ The Atlantic reports, senior American officials refer to Israeli PM as a ‘chickenshit,’ hell-bent on career preservation   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF         PM says personal attacks will not deter him from defending state   By SPENCER HO     Relations with US top priority, Rivlin says amid reports of crisis   By SPENCER HO     Lapid balks at funding settlements, halting high-level meet   By STUART WINER       Obama and Netanyahu: A fractured alliance becomes open conflict   Op-ed: Previously, despite fundamental policy differences, there was a clear sense of shared purpose between the two. Now that is collapsing, and the implications are far worse for Israel than for the US   By DAVID HOROVITZ   Related article: UN Security Council to meet on Jerusalem tensions           Lord of the fruit flies   HELEN MARYLES SHANKMANOn succumbing to the dark allure of a pumpkin — and the divine retribution that followed       Do 1,000 new units really block peace?   SHERWIN POMERANTZ With all the deadly conflict in the region, the fuss over building in existing communities is disingenuous       Dismissal for narrative reasons   RON GERLITZ Hundreds of Arab employees were illegally fired or suspended for their political views this summer       Why is a German museum hanging a Nazi-looted painting backward?   Wiesbaden Museum will flip work around once money is raised to pay heirs of its Jewish owner, killed in Auschwitz       Were Pope’s evolution remarks a break from Catholic teaching?   Media coverage presented Francis’s speech as a move in a new direction, but it reflects long-standing Church ideas       While Jewish DPs languished, Nazi criminals given refuge by US   BOOK REVIEW Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Eric Lichtblau’s ‘The Nazis Next Door’ explores how America became a safe haven for Nazis through CIA recruitment       Many Israelis ‘would dump family, sex – and mom — before Internet’   Web users in Israel are willing to give up a great deal, if a Google study is to be believed       Joe Biden to address US Jewish federations   Vice president headlines list of dignitaries slated to attend Jewish umbrella group’s annual General Assembly       An ‘Exodus’ from the Biblical account?   Some Christian groups fear Ridley Scott’s blockbuster on the Israelite departure from Egypt is straying from Old Testament narrative       Oscar-nominated actor reprises Jan Karski role in Warsaw   David Strathairn plays Polish resistance fighter who warned Allies about Nazi atrocities     HEBREW MEDIA REVIEW   WED, OCT 29, 2:36 PM     The chickenshit hits the fan   The Hebrew press tries to parse the meaning of the latest US insult flung at Netanyahu; child poverty in Israel 4th-highest in developed countries       Sign up for our new Start-Up Daily newsletter!   Get the Start-Up Daily newsletter, free by email, for selected top stories from our 24/7 Israeli high-tech coverage         Unpaid envoys champion Israel in places official diplomacy can’t reach   Israel’s little-known honorary consuls don’t have diplomatic immunity, and aren’t even Israeli, which some say makes for better diplomacy   By RAPHAEL AHREN     ‘Left-brained’ people really might be less creative   Enhanced ‘evaluation’ activity in certain areas of brain may suppress generation of ideas, Israeli study shows   By ANDREW TOBIN       Israel denies barring Palestinians from buses   Attorney general calls on defense minister to explain directive sending West Bank laborers home through Eyal crossing   By AFP and TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF       New EU foreign policy chief’s first destination: Israel   Federica Mogherini takes over from Catherine Ashton on November 1. Days later she’s coming to Jerusalem and Ramallah   By RAPHAEL AHREN       An Iran deal in which both sides can claim victory   ANALYSIS Recent comments by the US nuclear negotiator suggest an agreement could be close at hand   By RON KAMPEAS       What’s wrong with Netanyahu’s coalition?   ANALYSIS On the first day of the Knesset’s winter session, a unified, effective governing coalition was nowhere in sight   By HAVIV RETTIG GUR       US girls accused of trying to join jihadis were ‘stupid’   Father of teenager stopped on way to Syria says daughter was confused about what her role would have been in Islamic State   By AP     Related article: Free Syrian Army joins fight in Kobani     For prospective Orthodox converts, process marked by uncertainty   Lack of clarity about prerequisites for conversion in US poses difficulty for those wishing to become Jews   By URIEL HEILMAN       Converts won’t be recognized if new bill passes, chief rabbis warn   In meeting with PM, rabbis dig in against Knesset bill meant to expand access to rabbinate conversion process   By LAZAR BERMAN         ‘Israel won’t surrender’ in the face of evil, Rivlin says in Warsaw   At Jewish museum opening, president declares: ‘The Jewish journey started in the land of Israel, and always strove to return there’   By LAZAR BERMAN     Egypt begins work on Gaza buffer zone   Official says move, which entails demolition of hundreds of homes, is ‘vital for national security’   By AFP     Related article: Egypt gives residents on Gaza border 48 hours to leave       The ray of hope for Israelis lost in the world   For more than two decades Hilik Magnus has been the man Israelis turn to in order to retrieve their children, whether lost on faraway trails or in a purple haze   By MITCH GINSBURG

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