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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 19, 2015

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The scene of a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv on November 19, 2015. (Judah Ari Gross/ Times of Israel)

Two killed in stabbing attack at Tel Aviv office building

By Judah Ari Gross, Adiv Sterman and Stuart Winer

2 more wounded in assault at entrance to prayer service; terrorist, a Palestinian from near Hebron with permit to work in Israel, caught

14-year-old gets attempted murder rap in light rail stabbing

Kerry said to plan Israel visit in bid to ease tensions

By Tamar Pileggi

Soldier lightly wounded in Hebron grenade attack

Security officers stand next to a car used in a shooting attack in the West Bank on Thursday, November 19, 2015 (Gush Etzion municipality)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu: Same radical Islam behind Israel, Paris attacks

By Adiv Sterman

3 killed in Etzion Bloc shooting and at least six wounded; earlier, Palestinian man stabs 2 people to death in Tel Aviv

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind of the Paris terror attacks on November 13, 2015, waves an Islamic State flag in this undated picture taken from a magazine published by IS. (screenshot)

Mastermind of Paris attacks confirmed killed in raid

By AP

Body of Belgian jihadi Abdelhamid Abaaoud identified after Wednesday’s bloody police shootout in Paris suburb

Paris police raid halted terror cell that was ‘ready to strike’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In call with Hollande, Netanyahu urges ‘global solution to terror’

By AFP

French PM warns of potential for chemical attacks

By AP

Rabbi Tzion Saadoun of Beth Chabad of Marseille, left, with Rabbi Yosef Y. Labkowski, director of Beth Chabad of Marseille. Chabad.org/News)

Marseille teacher stabbed in face by IS sympathizers, says fellow rabbi

By AFP, ToI Staff and JTA

Chabad emissary and Judaic-studies instructor, Tzion Saadoun, 56, sustains serious injuries but is in stable condition

Reporter's notebookFour weddings and a new resilience, in Paris after the terror

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Paris rabbi: Terrorists will not affect Jewish life here

By JTA

WATCH: Security footage shows Paris diners diving for cover in bar attack

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Oh, that I could take off my kippah!

An urge to cast off the ‘dullness of observance’ in favor of genuine religiosity that allows entry to the divine

Cycling through a traumatized Paris

She finally got up the nerve to venture into the city, and start coming to terms with the New Normal

Mixed up anti-Israel anthropologists

On the American Anthropological Association’s upcoming vote on an academic boycott of Israel,

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Adam Sandler: The price of Jewish ‘cool’

The comic’s Hanukkah songs are hits because they offer pride by association, no particular strings attached

Then-Israeli President Shimon Peres meets the humanoid robot "Hubo" during his visit at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, South Korea in 2010. Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Why Luddites in Lod shouldn’t worry about robots stealing their jobs

By Jenni Frazer

Palestinian Minister of Civil Affairs Hussein al-Sheikh, right, and Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai sign a "memorandum of understanding", November 19, 2015. (IDF)

Landmark Israel-PA agreement paves way for Palestinian 3G service

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Under framework signed Thursday, Palestinian cellular companies could be delivering faster data speeds within 6 months

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini (left) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York, September 30, 2015. (Courtesy PMO)

Israel said to mull downgrading ties with Europeans over labeling

Envoys from 16 countries may be reprimanded, and meetings limited to low-tier diplomats; expertise-sharing on fighting terror could be cut

Lars Faaborg-Andersen, EU ambassador to Israel, at the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference, November 18, 2015 (Flash90)

EU envoy: Comparing labeling to Holocaust cheapens memory

By Raphael Ahren

Those accusing Europe of hypocrisy should explain how settlement expansion jives with commitment to two states, Faaborg-Andersen says

The mother of Tariq Abu Khdeir (portrait), the 15-year-old cousin of the murdered Palestinian youth Mohammed, shows a picture of her son that she took at the hospital after he was allegedly beaten by Israeli border police in East Jerusalem on July 5, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Cop who beat US-Palestinian teen gets community service

By Tamar Pileggi

Tariq Abu Khdeir was beaten during protests following the murder of his cousin Muhammed by Jewish extremists

File: A screen capture from a video purporting to show the Syrian Army firing a Scud missile (image capture: YouTube)

Israel: Assad used 90% of Syria’s missiles on rebels

Senior IDF official says some projectiles transferred to Hezbollah, which now has some 150,000 rockets

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu surrounded by Knesset members after a vote on the 2015-2016 state budget, November 18, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Knesset passes 2015-2016 budget by 61-59 majority

By Raoul Wootliff and Marissa Newman

Lawmakers vote on hundreds of amendments submitted by opposition; fiscal plan stands at $85b for 2015, rising to $89b in 2016

A screenshot of the IED the Islamic State group says it used to down the Russian plane over the Sinai Peninsula (screen capture: Dabiq)

Islamic State shows off bomb it says downed Russian plane

By AFP, ToI Staff and Agencies

Terror group’s propaganda magazine publishes pictures of IED hidden inside soda can; announces execution of Norwegian, Chinese hostages

A still from an Islamic State video threatening New York released on November 18, 2015. (Screen capture: CNN)

New York shrugs off Islamic State threat in new video

By AFP and ToI Staff

Footage shows suicide bomber and midtown Manhattan, but mayor and police officials urge daily life to continue, saying terror targeting Big Apple is nothing new

Former PM Ehud Olmert meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jerusalem, November 2008. (photo credit: Moshe Milner GPO/Flash90)

Abbas admits he rejected 2008 peace offer from Olmert

By Josef Federman

PA president says he declined proposal — which included near-total withdrawal from West Bank and relinquishing Israeli control of Jerusalem’s Old City — because he wasn’t allowed to study map

In this Monday, Nov. 16, 2015 file photo, US President Barack Obama, right, talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin prior to a session of the G-20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey. (Kayhan Ozer/Anadolu Agency via AP, Pool)

Analysis

With Islamic State targeted, what happens to Syria’s Assad?

By Jon Gambrell and Adam Schreck

Assad’s allies ‘don’t want to see the leader go down, and then there’s chaos afterwards,’ notes US Secretary of State John Kerry

May Peleg, shown at the Jerusalem Open House, was an activist in Israel’s LBGT community. (Screenshot from Facebook/JTA)

Body of Israeli transgender woman to be cremated, court orders

By JTA

Orthodox family had sought to block cremation following LGBT activist’s suicide, argued for a Jewish burial

A young Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach playing guitar. (YouTube screenshot)

Family and seller out of tune as Carlebach guitar goes under hammer

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

Daniel Tragerman, 4, seen during a visit at the presidential residence in Jerusalem in early August 2014. Daniel was killed by shrapnel from a mortar shell that hit his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz on Friday, August 22, 2014. He was laid to rest on August 24. (Photo by Flash90)

Negev town to be named for Daniel Tragerman, 4, killed by Gaza mortar

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative: Syrian refugee children look from their tent during a visit by UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien to the Zaatari Refugee Camp, near Mafraq, Jordan, September 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Obama threatens to veto House Republican bill on Syrian refugees

By Erica Werner

A view of Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor (Youtube screen capture)

Iran cuts down on some, but not all nuke technology

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaking at a fundraising reception in Los Angeles, California, on October 14, 2015. (David McNew/Getty Images/via JTA)

Bernie Sanders accuses Netanyahu of overreacting in Gaza war

In this photo taken Tuesday, November 10, 2015, artist Itzchak Belfer, who grew up in an orphanage headed by Janusz Korczak, displays a painting of his mentor at his house in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Israeli artist draws upon fading memory of Holocaust victim Korczak

Merchandise at the Stockton Street Disney Store in San Francisco, Sept. 4, 2015. (George Nikitin/Invision for Disney Consumer Products/AP Images)

The Jewish Force awakensA ‘Star Wars’ Hanukkah gift guide

By Gabe Friedman

A French soldier patrols near the church of Sacre Coeur, on top of Montmartre hill, in Paris, Wednesday, November 18, 2015. (AP/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

Hebrew media reviewParis is Paris again

By Raoul Wootliff

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