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What Matters Most On Tuesday, November 3, 2015

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Illustrative: Two Israeli Air Force F-15 Ra'ams practicing air maneuvers. (TSGT Kevin J. Gruenwald, USAF/Wikipedia)

Jordanian combat pilots flew with Israel counterparts in recent US exercise

Rare acknowledgement by US official of intimate Israel-Jordan military ties comes as Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon also notes that ‘Arab pilots’ participated in summer’s ‘Red Flag’ exercises

Jordanian protesters wave the national and Palestinian flags during a demonstration near the Israeli Embassy in the capital Amman in solidarity with the Palestinians on October 16, 2015. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)

Jordan fences off Israeli embassy amid pro-Palestinian protests

Remains of the Acra citadel and tower in the City of David in Jerusalem. (Assaf Peretz/courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

2,000-year-old fortress unearthed in Jerusalem after century-long search

Acra fortification, built by Hanukkah villain Antiochus IV Epiphanes, maintained Seleucid Greek control over Temple until its conquest by Hasmoneans in 141 BCE

In this Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015 file photo, a Russian SU-24M jet fighter armed with laser-guided bombs takes off from a runaway at Hmeimim airbase in Syria. (Alexander Kots/Komsomolskaya Pravda via AP, File)

Live updates (closed)

Jerusalem city hall sues bilingual school arsonists for damages

Municipality seeks NIS 518,000 to cover harm to building, psychological treatments for children in aftermath of attack

A member of the Israeli security forces cleans off the blood at the scene of a stabbing attack carried out by a Palestinian man in the Israeli city coastal city of Netanya on November 2, 2015 (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

71-year-old seriously hurt in Netanya terror stabbing

Police say attacker is Palestinian from Tulkarem; stabber shot and wounded by officer near the site of the attack

80-year-old woman among 3 stabbed in Rishon Lezion terror attack

Attack thwarted near West Bank checkpoint, IDF says

By Raoul Wootliff

Cops ward off two lynching attempts after Netanya stabbing

Palestinians carry the corpses of terrorists through the streets of Hebron during a massive funeral march in the West Bank, October 31, 2015. (Flash90)

Israel agonizes over the dirty business of terrorists’ corpses

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense minister is resolved to return the bodies of Palestinian attackers to their families, despite objections from within the cabinet

Knesset approves minimum jail time for rock throwing

Yossi Mansharof

Soleimani’s Curse

Photos of a top Iranian general posing with fighters killed in Syria prove what a mess Iran’s got itself into

Yes to Zionism, no to Feminism?

There’s an Israel shaped hole in the argument that female Orthodox clergy violates tradition

Avi Issacharoff

With no diplomatic horizon, terror wave won’t break

Monday’s attacks puncture the belief that the stabbing intifada was contained; absent new peace talks, things will only get worse

Shmuly Yanklowitz

Can Orthodox Judaism get back on track?

In the face of urgent existential crises, vindictiveness and arrogance are destroying the community

Investigators at the scene of a stabbing attack in Rishon Lezion on November 2, 2015. (Photo by Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Senior cop slams vigilantism following beatings of attackers

By Raoul Wootliff

Commander says police having harder time dealing with angry mobs than actual stabbers

Yossi Beilin at the Israel Conference on Democracy in Tel Aviv, February 17, 2015. (Amir Levy/Flash90)

Oslo architect: Netanyahu will withdraw unilaterally from much of West Bank

By Raphael Ahren

Beilin urges interim deal followed by confederation, but doubts PM will opt for it; slams Kerry for thinking he can ‘come for a few hours’ and solve the problem

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres seen during a ceremony laying a founding stone for the National Memorial Hall for IDF victims of war on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 30, 2014. (Photo credit: David Vaaknini/POOL/Flash 90)

Interview

Peres: Netanyahu was never sincere about making peace

Ex-president says PM’s overtures have never ‘escaped the domain of talking,’ and warns against his notion of continually ‘living by the sword’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the UN Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, October 28, 2015. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

On Europe trip, Abbas gets red carpet — and some hard questions

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Amid mistrust of Netanyahu, former Dutch FM explains European leaders embrace Palestinian leader as they fear alternatives could be worse

Naama and Eitam Henkin, who were killed in a terror attack on October 1, 2015. (Courtesy)

Henkin killers: Murders were revenge for Duma attack

Members of Hamas cell who shot couple dead in front of their children last month say their victims ‘were not innocent’

Israeli security forces stand in the street during clashes with Palestinian demonstrators in the West Bank city of Hebron, on October 30, 2015. (AFP/Thomas Coex, File)

IDF shutters Palestinian radio station over ‘incitement’

Hebron’s Al-Huriya radio urged stabbing attacks, violent riots in city that has been an epicenter of violence, army says

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz delivers a speech during a conference called 'From Operation Protective Edge to the Third Intifada' at Sapir College in Sderot on Nov. 2, 2015. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

A year after Gaza war, Israel’s military experts wonder: Was it worth it?

By Judah Ari Gross

Then-IDF chief Benny Gantz blandly defends operation against Hamas as ‘the right thing to do,’ but joins chorus concluding it achieved little

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz in May 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Gantz: We might not achieve peace, but we must try

By Tamar Pileggi

Rabbi Rick Jacobs at his 2012 installation as head of the Reform movement. (Clark Jones, Courtesy the Union for Reform Judaism)

9 things to know about Reform Jews

By Uriel Heilman

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaking at a meeting in Tehran, November 1, 2015. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)

Khamenei: Washington ‘will not hesitate’ to destroy Iran

By AP

Iran’s supreme leader issues warning ahead of 1979 hostage crisis anniversary; says ‘Death to America’ slogan means policies, not people

Illustrative photo of a construction site in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, December 2012 (AP/Dan Balilty)

No East Jerusalem building freeze, but a delay for some projects

By Tamar Pileggi

Deputy mayor says he’s looking carefully at some sensitive plans, as PM prepares for trip to meet Obama

View of the Knesset plenum, June 17, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Knesset advances bill targeting ‘incitement to terrorism’

Legislation would lower standards of evidence for prosecuting calls for attacks, removing requirement to link them to specific incidents

Debris of the A321 Russian airliner a day after the plane crashed in Wadi al-Zolomat, a mountainous area in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, on November 1, 2015. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

Satellite imagery shows Russian plane wasn’t downed by missile

By ToI Staff and AFP

Photos reveal evidence of explosion but no heat trail, all but ruling out Islamic State claims it targeted airliner from the ground

Repairs are carried out at Joseph's Tomb on the outskirts of Nablus, overnight November 2, 2015. (Meir Brachia)

Joseph’s Tomb, torched by Palestinians, restored overnight

Over 50 painters, electricians and stoneworkers carry out repairs at West Bank shrine damaged by mob two weeks ago

Professor Theodore Sasson, Senior Research Scientist at Brandeis University’s Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, presents the new study, 'Millennial Children of Intermarriage: Touchpoints and Trajectories of Jewish Engagement' in New York, October 2015. (courtesy)

Children of intermarriage’s attachment to Judaism most fluid in college

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

A father from Abu Ghosh was arrested and his detention extended on November 2, 2015 after a video shared online appeared to show him pushing his daughter into a bucket "in order to teach her." (screen capture: Walla news)

WATCH: Court detains man who sealed his daughter in a bucket

Zionist Union Member of Knesset Tzipi Livni (left) and Zionist Union Chairman Isaac Herzog (right) at a party meeting at the Knesset on November 2, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Herzog accuses Shaked of hypocrisy over NGO ‘transparency’ bill

By Tamar Pileggi

Heavy machinery for exploratory oil drilling on the Golan Heights at Oil Site 5. (Courtesy Afek Oil and Gas)

Oil exploration in Golan gets two-year extension

By Melanie Lidman

Italian Soccer Federation President Carlo Tavecchio on Aug. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Italian soccer chief: ‘Nothing against’ Jews and gays, just keep them away from me

By JTA

In this Oct. 29, 2015 photo, Josh "The Fat Jew" Ostrovsky poses for a portrait in New York. Ostrovsky and his upright ponytail have leaped off his racy Instagram account onto the pages of a new book, "Money Pizza Respect," a memoirish collection of debauchery out Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015. (Photo by Drew Gurian/Invision/AP)

Money Pizza RespectJosh ‘The Fat Jew’ Ostrovsky pens memoir

By Leanne Italie

Illustrative photo: filling up at an Israeli gas station. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Burning cashUS built $43m useless gas station in Afghanistan

By AFP

File: Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks in Ankeny, Iowa, October 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

From the webBen Carson surges in national Republican race — poll

Polish born Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt, one of the joint plaintiffs during the Demjanjuk trial, waits in the court room in Munich, southern Germany, prior to the trail against John Demjanjuk, January 20, 2010. (Photo by Christof Stache/Pool Photo via AP, file)

Thomas Blatt, survivor of escape from Sobibor, dies at 88

By Vanessa Gera

Investigators at the scene of a stabbing attack in Rishon Lezion on November 2, 2015. (Photo by Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewOld folks, new low

By Joshua Davidovich

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