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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 20, 2014

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Ashkelon Mayor Itamar Shimoni (left) with Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, May 2014. (Photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash 90)

PM, senior ministers pan Ashkelon mayor for barring Arab workers

Rights group to sue coastal city’s mayor for discrimination, but Shimoni says he’s comfortable with his decision

Ashdod mayor orders security measures that may target Arabs

Police bust massive shipment of firecrackers, knives bound for capital

By Tamar Pileggi

Public security minister eases rules for gun permits

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox men study toward professional degrees at Kemach, a Jerusalem-based organization that guides Haredim through study programs and job placement. (photo credit: Kemach/JTA)

Can a creative British banker get Israel’s ultra-Orthodox to work?

Sir Ronald Cohen pioneered a ‘Social Impact Bond’ program to finance rehabilitation for repeat offenders in the UK. Now he’s adapting it to spur haredi employment in Israel

Ex-haredi sues Quebec for lousy education

By JTA

Tziporah Heller

A personal report on the terror attack in Har Nof

Tziporah Heller’s grandson escaped the carnage; her son-in-law was attacked by a terrorist with a cleaver, and wounded in his hand, back and arm. This is her story

Donniel Hartman

Oh, the humanity

The blood was still fresh in Har Nof when politics set in

Between now and 1929

Despite claims to the contrary, the only thing Israel is doing on the Mount is exercising surprising restraint

Ariane Tabatabai

An Iran nuclear deal is best for Israel

An Israeli attack would strengthen the Islamic Republic, reaching an agreement would boost the moderates

Was Jacob right to take Esau׳s blessing?

The biblical tale of distrust and deception suggests an ongoing conflict between two sons, but not who would win

President Reuven Rivlin attends the funeral ceremony of Israeli-Druze policeman, Zidan Saif, in the Druze village of Yenuch-Jat, northern Israel, on November 19, 2014. (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO)

Israeli president: We are not at war with Islam

By Adiv Sterman and Stuart Winer

Rivlin advises leadership to not raise issue of control over Temple Mount, but does not hesitate to label surge of violence an intifada

CNN mislabels Har Nof terrorism as "mosque" attack (screen capture: HonestReporting)

Foreign press group rejects claims it supports terror

Foreign Ministry spokesman accused media outlets of inadvertently encouraging evil with misleading headlines about Tuesday’s attack

Israeli border police check the ID's of Arab-Israelis outside the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber on November 19, 2014. Photo credit: Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Police set up checkpoints at East Jerusalem neighborhoods

By Stuart Winer

Elite unit volunteers offer to bolster Civil Guard, as new efforts are made to secure city after Har Nof attack

A congregant at the Har Nof synagogue where five people were killed by Palestinian terrorists examines a bullet hole. November 18, 2014. (photo credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Analysis

Why Netanyahu thinks blaming Abbas is vital for peace

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Screenshot from a Channel 10 report on November 19, 2014 on the Jordanian Parliament's moment of silence for the two Palestinian terrorists who killed five people in a terror attack on a Jerusalem synagogue on November 18, 2014.

Jordanian MPs hold moment of silence for two Palestinian terrorists

Lawmakers read Koran in memory of cousins who perpetrated deadly Jerusalem synagogue attack, hail them as ‘martyrs’

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

Netanyahu to present ‘softened’ Jewish state bill for Sunday cabinet vote

By Marissa Newman

Livni, Elkin, Shaked reportedly on board with new draft of legislation that seeks to enshrine both Israel’s unique Jewish status and its democracy

Israeli police officers carry the coffin of their comrade Zidan Saif, 30, a member of Israel's Druze minority killed in a terror attack, during his funeral in his northern home village of Yanuh-Jat, on November 19, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Har Nof Jews join funeral for Druze policeman who ‘sacrificed himself for Jerusalem’

By Spencer Ho and Marissa Newman

Rabbi from synagogue where four worshipers were killed hails Zidan Saif for his courage in battle with terrorists; Druze leader tells Rivlin: ‘We and you pay a heavy price in the blood of our sons’

Heavy water reactor facility near Arak, Iran (photo credit: CC-BY nanking2010/Wikipedia/File)

Nuclear watchdog says Iran still evasive on nuke issues

By AFP and ToI Staff

Tehran has yet to provide answers about its research; Iranian nuclear chief won’t budge on Arak reactor design

Demonstrators hold signs calling for the release of Jonathan Pollard during a demonstration in 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Group says board denies Jonathan Pollard parole request

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

US officials tell federal panel releasing convicted spy would ‘constitute contempt for severity of crime and rule of law,’ activist organization says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on November 18, 2014, hours after the Har Nof synagogue attack. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Global ire at Har Nof terror won’t reduce criticism of building over ’67 lines

By Raphael Ahren

Leaders from countries as improbable as Turkey and Bahrain slammed the synagogue murders. But that won’t help when it comes to settlements

A view of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot, most of which lies over the Green Line. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US slams Israeli construction in E. Jerusalem, renewed home demolitions

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A group of Ethiopian-Israeli cadets at Sigd on Thursday in Jerusalem (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Ethiopians celebrate Sigd holiday in tense Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg

With helicopters buzzing above, the annual Ethiopian-Jewish celebration gets underway on a promenade next to a flashpoint neighborhood overlooking Old City

Rakuten president Hiroshi Mikitani (L) shakes hands with Viber Media CEO Talmon Marco in Tokyo on February 14, 2014. (Photo credit: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP)

Tech gives vital boost to US-Israel relationship, says expert

By David Shamah

Itay Frishman: Jerusalem and Washington don’t always see eye-to-eye, but Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley are consistently on the same, evolving page

Janna Gur has fond memories of her family's Novy God celebrations (Dan Perez/via JTA)

Cookbook guru Janna Gur says Israelis make vegetables ‘sexy’

By Shannon Sarna

More Headlines

Screen capture from an animated video warning ‘Zionists’ they will be targeted in car ramming attacks. (screen capture: YouTube/JewTube.tv)

Video warns ‘Zionists’ more car attacks are coming

By Stuart Winer

Journalist Diane Sawyer and her husband director Mike Nichols arrive at the AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards in this June 10, 2010 photo taken in Culver City, Calif. (photo credit: AP/Chris Pizzello)

Obituary‘Graduate’ director Mike Nichols, caustic crafter of films and plays, dies at 83

By AP and AFP

A New York subwat station, pictured in 2012. (photo credit: AP/Seth Wenig)

Teen arrested for anti-Semitic subway attack in Brooklyn

By JTA

Students paint over SS and Nazi symbols in Buenos Aires park

By JTA

Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich, a chief rabbi of Ukraine. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Ukraine rabbi: US Jews helped us beat Russia’s anti-Semitic propaganda

By JTA

Mourners attend the funerals of four Jewish men murdered at prayer in a Har Nof synagogue in Jerusalem by Palestinian terrorists on November 18, 2014. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Americans in Israel told to make themselves ‘a harder target’

By JTA

Samsung CEO and CSO of Device Solutions Young Sohn introduces the Simband platform earlier this year (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli start-up is Samsung’s secret weapon against Apple Watch

By David Shamah

Jerusalem's chief rabbi Shlomo Amar (right, seated) shakes hands with an imam as leaders from the Christian and Muslim communities show their support outside Kehilat Yaakov Synagogue in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof, one day after two Palestinian terrorists entered the synagogue with a pistol and meat cleavers and killed four worshipers and a Druze policeman, November 19, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewFrom united state to discrimination nation

By Joshua Davidovich

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