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What Matters Most On Saturday, November 7, 2015

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Former president Yitzhak Navon (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yitzhak Navon, Israel’s fifth president, dies at 94

Jerusalem-born politican was key adviser to Ben-Gurion, diplomat, Labor MK and respected author

Then-president Shimon Peres presents Yitzhak Navon with a special 'presidential award' in Jerusalem on February 9, 2012. (Photo by Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Leaders pay tribute to ‘beloved president’ Yitzhak Navon

A still image from a clip posted on Facebook by a man claiming he is named Bara’a Issa, who says he carried out a stabbing attack in the West Bank on Friday, November 6, 2015, in which an Israeli man was seriously wounded. (Screen capture: Ynet)

Analysis

Palestinian surrenders to PA after confessing on Facebook to Friday stabbing

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Fatah activist Bara’a Issa held by PA forces after admitting online that he attacked Israeli man outside West Bank supermarket

16-year-old Israeli boy badly hurt in Hebron shooting attack

IDF soldier seriously hurt in day’s second Hebron shooting

IDF seizes homes, blocks roads in Hebron following shootings

President Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on Wednesday, October 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Analysis

The row over Netanyahu’s media czar: When gross negligence becomes deliberate harm

By Raphael Ahren

By declining to quickly cancel the appointment of a man who called Obama anti-Semitic, Netanyahu risks signaling that he doesn’t care to heal ties with this US administration

Jerry Silverman, CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, speaking at the umbrella group's General Assembly in Jerusalem, Nov. 7, 2013. (Flash90/via JTA)

Ahead of the GA, what Jewish federations actually do

By Uriel Heilman

As 3,000 gather for annual assembly, here’s a primer on the groups from across North America that harness the collective power of the Jewish community

The night of the murder: (From right) Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Miri Aloni, foreign minister Shimon Peres and Knesset speaker Shevah Weiss sing a Song for Peace at the end of a rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday, November 4, 1995. Rabin was assassinated as he left the rally minutes later. (AP photo)

Rabin bodyguard: ‘If only I’d looked left 2 or 3 seconds sooner…’

‘I feared I’d be blamed for the murder,’ says A.H. in first ever interview, still emotional 20 years after that terrible night

Andrew Silow-Carroll

What did you do in the war, Vater?

On a new documentary that contrasts the very different reactions of two men, both of them sons of Nazis

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Aging gracefully

Retirement paradoxically offers the leisure time to get to work, and tend to spiritual demands from within

Amos Oz in Jerusalem, May 3, 2010 (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Love and darkness

Amos Oz won’t attend events hosted by Israeli embassies

By AP

Celebrated author protests ‘growing extremism in the present government’s policy’

Gene Simmons attends a Friends of the Israel Defense Forces gala in Beverly Hills on November 5, 2015. (Noam Chem)

Star-studded US gala raises $31m for IDF, in one night

By AP

Actors Jason Alexander, Antonio Banderas, Liev Schreiber among guests at Beverly Hills event, with a performance by The Beach Boys

Illustrative photo of soldiers from Nahal Haredi, an ultra-Orthodox battalion in the Israel Defense Forces (Abir Sultan/Flash90, File)

Ultra-Orthodox to get draft exemptions until 2023

Amendment to Equal Service Law, which passed last year, also overturns automatic sanctions on draft-dodgers

Illustrative photo of signs calling for the boycott of Israel at an anti-Israel protest in San Francisco, April 2011. (CC BY-dignidadrebelde, Flickr)

NY state senator pushes bill with teeth to combat BDS

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Arguing that anti-Israel efforts create climate of anti-Semitism, Queens’s Michael Gianaris spearheads law to counter discrimination

British tourists arrive at the airport in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on November 6, 2015. (Mohamed el-Shahed/AFP)

British airliner ‘dodged missile’ over Sinai in August

UK attributed the incident, in which projectile came within 1,000 feet of plane, to an Egyptian army drill

Egyptian army soldiers stand guard next to the luggage and belongings of passengers of the A321 Russian airliner piled up at the site of the crash in Wadi el-Zolmat, a mountainous area in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on November 1, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/KHALED DESOUKI)

Egypt FM: No ‘hypothesis’ yet from Russian plane crash probe

By AFP

Sameh Shoukry says foreign intel suggesting a bomb was on board ‘has not been provided’ to Egyptian security services

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

US official: IS in Syria heard ‘celebrating’ after Sinai crash

By ToI Staff and AFP

A policeman stands guard on January 21, 2015, in front the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket where jihadist gunman Amedy Coulibaly killed four Jewish men on January 9, 2015 in Paris. (AFP/Eric Feferberg)

Madrid jihadists planned to kill Jews in Paris copycat action

By JTA

Three IS-affiliated Moroccan suspects arrested for plotting ‘imminent attack on security forces, or against Jewish interests’

An Israeli 'Shimshon' C-130 transport aircraft flies over the southern United States during the 'Southern Strike' exercise on October 30, 2015. (Courtesy: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Israeli pilots train over southern US, with focus on mountainous areas

By Judah Ari Gross

IAF sends transport planes to America for ‘Southern Strike’ exercise to forge ties, prepare for missions; officer mum on any Iran relevance

File: A file picture taken on September 21, 2015 shows a portrait of Hassan Nasrallah (top), the head of Lebanon's militant Shiite Muslim movement Hezbollah, and portraits of pro-government force members killed in combat displayed on a street in the Syrian capital, Damascus. (AFP PHOTO/JOSEPH EID)

Hezbollah said redeploying to help defend Damascus

Opposition source says Lebanon-based militia sending troops to reclaim two areas around capital held by rebels

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) with Mikhail Lesin in 2002. (ITAR-TASS/Sergei Velichkin/Kremlin.ru. CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons)

Russian-Jewish media executive dies suddenly in DC hotel

By AP and AFP

Mikhail Lesin, a Putin associate and former aide, suffered a heart attack, Russian authorities say

The coast at Palmachim (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

At Palmachim, a beautiful and historic coastline

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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ToI team to hold meetings on innovative journalistic partnership with American Jewish counterparts at Jewish Federations’ General Assembly in November

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Kensal Green cemetery in London, where David Freud would like his mother to be buried, against the wishes of his sister. (Wikimedia Commons)

Last ritesJewish or Christian burial for mom? Siblings go to court

By JTA

Joanna Angel, right, arriving at the 29th annual Adult Video News Awards Show at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, Jan. 21, 2012. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images, via JTA)

Religious toleranceJewish porn star says Orthodox parents accept her

By JTA

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks to the media before speaking at a gala for the Black Republican Caucus of South Florida at PGA National Resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on November 6, 2015. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

White House hopeful Carson bristles under intense scrutiny

By Michael Mathes

Illustrative photo of a Torah scroll (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Polish city of Lodz receives first new Torah scroll since WWII

By JTA

Screenshot from a Lebanese TV report allegedly showing the beheading of a Lebanese man lured to Raqqa, Syria by his son to be executed by the Islamic State terror group. The report aired on October 30, 2015. (Screenshot/MTV)

Lebanese man ‘lures father to Syria to be beheaded by IS’

Eberhard Van der Laan (Wikipedia)

Amsterdam adds Ramallah to twin cities pact with Tel Aviv

By JTA

PA shutters paper that criticized its ties with Israel

By JTA

Footage from the Mavi Marmara security cameras shows activists on board as they prepare to attack incoming IDF soldiers on May 31, 2010. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

ICC: Prosecutor must rethink decision against Gaza flotilla probe

Maria Barlin modeling bridal wear. (Facebook)

In first, Israeli competes at international pageant for models

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Shas leader and then-economy minister Aryeh Deri in the Knesset on June 17, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel leads world for cabinet resignations within first 6 months

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