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What Matters Most On Tuesday, November 18, 2014

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Israeli Zaka emergency services volunteers carry the body of a Palestinian assailant who was shot dead while attacking a synagogue in Jerusalem on November 18, 2014. (photo credit: AFP / GALI TIBBON)

Liveblog November 18: Har Nof synagogue attack (closed)

Four Jews at prayer, Druze policeman, killed in Jerusalem synagogue terror attack

By Lazar Berman and Adiv Sterman

Two Palestinian East Jerusalemites launch attack in Har Nof; Abbas, Western diplomats, UN chief condemn assault; PM says Israel to ‘settle score’ with killers

PM blames Abbas, calls emergency meet in wake of attack

Abbas condemns attack amid Palestinian justification

By Elhanan Miller

Kerry condemns Jerusalem attack, Palestinian incitement

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

Blood on prayer shawls and prayer books seen inside the synagogue where four people were killed in Jerusalem on November 18, 2014. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/FLASH90)

Analysis

Palestinian terrorists should know: It’s not going to work

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Adding to the overwhelming feeling of awfulness pervading Jerusalem today is the dismal sense of déjà vu. We’ve been through all of this before, in the Second Intifada terror war. But that didn’t drive us out of here. And neither will this wave of evil

An ultra-Orthodox man prays at the scene of an attack in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem, November 18, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Jack Guez)

Eyewitness accounts

The silence of prayer, shattered in a synagogue bloodbath

By Mitch Ginsburg

Congregants and eyewitnesses describe the attack in the Har Nof synagogue, as congregants were jarred from the silent Amidah prayer into a scene of carnage

Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox shocked by synagogue massacre

By John DAVISON

AnalysisThe Gaza connection to terror in Jerusalem

By Avi Issacharoff

Four killed in terror attack at Jerusalem synagogue

By Lazar Berman

Our bitter tears

A decision on the best way to keep living while mourning the loss of life and the lack of humanity

Menachem Creditor

We cry as family

Was it an ultra-Orthodox synagogue that was attacked? Wrong question

Why the RCA conversion system is best

Taking on the criticism by Rabbis Avi Weiss and Marc Angel — the centralized approach is better

Jewish former servicemen march in the annual Association of Jewish ex-Servicemen and Women parade in London, November 16, 2014. (Jennifer Lipman/The Times of Israel)

After 84 years, time to retire UK Jewry’s annual veterans parade?

By Jennifer Lipman

PA airs ‘anti-Semitic’ film as tensions mount in Jerusalem

Watchdog group says movie about history of Fatah movement demonizes Jews, casts Balfour Declaration as scheme to cleanse Europe of them

Rabbi Yehudah Glick and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau November 17, 2014 (YouTube screenshot)

Wounded rabbi says terrorist called him ‘enemy of al-Aqsa’

By Marissa Newman

Yehudah Glick describes October 29 attack in meeting with chief rabbi, jokes that he wasn’t shot ‘for being a redhead’

European Union's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, speaks to journalists as she arrives for a Foreign Affairs Council meeting at the EU Headquarters in Brussels, on November 17, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/JOHN THYS)

EU threatens ‘further action’ to protect two-state solution

By Raphael Ahren

Leaked working paper shows union considering banning contacts with settler leaders and endorsing Palestinian statehood

Margot Wallstrom, Sweden's minister of foreign affairs, in her office in Stockholm, October 31, 2014 (AFP/Jonathan Nackstrand)

Sweden says it won’t open Ramallah embassy

By AFP

Despite recognition of Palestinian state, Stockholm says Jerusalem consulate to manage diplomatic affairs

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting on, November 16, 2014. (photo credit: Amit Shabi/POOL)

Netanyahu tells Likud chiefs to prepare for early elections

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

As coalition wobbles, prime minister tells senior party members he hopes the precaution won’t be necessary

US Secretary of State John Kerry (L), former EU top diplomat Catherine Ashton (C) and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (R) meet in Muscat on November 10, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/POOL/Nicholas KAMM)

On Iran nuclear deal, down to the wire in Vienna

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

With John Kerry waiting in the wings in London, any outcome is still possible in final week before deadline in negotiations on Tehran’s rogue program

Militants from the Islamic State parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle on a main street in Mosul, Iraq, Monday, June 23, 2014. (photo credit: AP, File)

UN experts recommend new sanctions on jihadis

By Edith M. Lederer

Panel pushes seizure of oil tanker trucks belonging to Islamic State and al-Nusra Front

Illustrative: Palestinian lawmakers attend an emergency session at the Palestinan Legislative Council in the West Bank city of Ramallah, July 11, 2007 (Ahmad Gharabli/Flash90)

Analysis

Mahmoud Abbas’s parliamentary headache

By Elhanan Miller

Hamas and Fatah are both using the defunct Legislative Council to settle political scores with the Palestinian Authority president

Chopin at 28, from Delacroix's joint portrait of Chopin and Sand (photo credit: Wikipedia / Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH)

Chopin’s heart survives the Nazis, undergoes secret examination

By Vanessa Gera

In April, the preservation of the composer’s organ was checked in a hushed-up overnight inspection

Illustrative: Several kessim, or Ethiopian rabbinical leaders, at a past Sigd celebration at Jerusalem's Haas Promenade when thousands gather to pray and recite Psalms. (Flash90)

Top five

Non-Ethiopians join in Sigd, the holiday of Torah and ‘aliya’ to Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

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The AirHop team accepts the $100,000 prize from PayPal (Photo credit: Courtesy)

AirHop app lets you make calls without a cellphone plan

By David Shamah

Illustrative: Passengers boarding an Egged bus in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Arab Egged bus drivers in Jerusalem strike after suicide

By Marissa Newman

Illustrative: Zim shipping containers. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Zim shipping suspends services at California port

By JTA

An Egyptian army vehicle patrols along the border with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in the divided border town of Rafah on November 4, 2014. (Mohamed El-Sherbeny/AFP)

Suspicion haunts Egypt border residents evicted by army

An Egyptian helicopter hovers over houses destroyed by the Egyptian army on the Egyptian side on the border town of Rafah, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014. (Photo credit: AP/Eyad Baba)

From the webEgypt to deepen buffer zone with Gaza after finding longer tunnels

The Kinderlach boys choir. (screen capture: YouTube/KinderlachOfficial)

German pro-Israel charity irked at singing settler children

By Stuart Winer

The Babi Yar memorial in Kiev, Ukraine, is defaced with swastikas, in September 2014. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Babi Yar memorial in Kiev defaced with swastikas

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address the Likud faction meeting on November 17, 2014 (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewLet’s all take a deep breath

By Yossi Nachemi

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