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What Matters Most On Saturday, November 21, 2015

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In this Friday, Nov. 20, 2015 photo released by the Tasnim News Agency, members of the Basij, the paramilitary unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, gather around a replica of Jerusalem's gold-topped Dome of the Rock mosque as one of them waves an Iranian flag from atop the dome during a military exercise. (AP Photo/Tasnim News Agency, Mahmoud Hosseini)

Iran trains for capture of Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa, but uses Dome of Rock model

By AP and ToI Staff

Thousands of Revolutionary Guards fighters storm a replica of wrong Jerusalem site in war games in Qom

Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, speaks with Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, left, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015 (Syrian presidency Facebook page)

55 Iranians killed in Syria fighting, Israeli intelligence says

By Tamar Pileggi

Malian security forces evacuate a man from an area surrounding the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako on November 20, 2015. (AFP/Habibou Kouyate)

Analysis

Israeli killed, another rescued in Mali attack — Foreign Ministry

By ToI Staff and Avi Issacharoff

Shmuel Benalal was among 27 slain when Islamist gunmen stormed Radisson Blu in Bamako in early hours of Friday

US President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with representatives from civil society organizations during a visit to Kuala Lumpur on November 21, 2015, on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

Obama condemns ‘appalling’ Mali siege, vows no safe haven for IS

By AP and AFP

Anne Pollard, the former wife of Jonathan Pollard, returns to Washington for the first time in 30 years, in an interview aired November 20, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Pollard’s ex-wife: I still don’t understand why he divorced me

30 years after she and her then-husband were arrested for spying for Israel, as he finally goes free, Anne Pollard says she wants to ‘see, talk and meet with Jonathan’

Jonathan Pollard, the American convicted of spying for Israel, leaves a New York courthouse following his release from prison after 30 years, on November 20, 2015 in New York. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Obama aide: No plans to change Pollard’s parole terms

By Eric Tucker and David B. Caruso

In this still image from video provided by WCBS-TV, convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, left, arrives at a federal courthouse in New York with his wife, Esther, to check in at a probation office just hours after he was released from prison on Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. (Ilana Gold/WCBS-TV via AP)

Jonathan Pollard’s lawyers fighting terms of his parole

Mamilla at night (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Mamilla, the Jerusalem border neighborhood that rose from the rubble

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

An incredible story of destruction, division, unification, renewal — and now shopping — begins at Jaffa Gate a century ago

What our vulnerability demands of us

Justified fears of Islamic extremism must not cause us to demonize an entire religion and vilify those seeking refuge

Sheldon Kirshner

In France, a victory against bigotry

On the European Human Rights Court welcome ruling to uphold the hate crime conviction of racist comic Dieudonne

Israel’s other oil bonanza

Reports of copious oil deposits in the Golan Heights and Jezreel Valley bode well for Israel’s economy

The Nuclear Research Center NEGEV, located in Dimona. (screen capture: YouTube, via Channel 10)

Israel has 115 nuclear weapons, says US think tank

New report alleges Israel produced some 660 kg of plutonium at Dimona nuclear facility over past 50 years

Syrian refugees queue for food in northwestern Turkish province of Edirne, as they headed to the Greek border, September 17, 2015. (AFP/Bulent Kilic)

Moved by moral imperative, Canadian synagogues sponsor Syrian refugees

By Renee Ghert-Zand

The closed entrance of the Shuman Subway Station in Brussels on November 21, 2015. All metro train stations in Brussels were shut after Belgium raised the capital's terror alert to the highest level. (AFP/John Thys)

Belgium raises terror alert to highest level amid imminent threat

By AFP

PM says highest security warning triggered by risk of attacks by individuals with ‘weapons and explosives’ in Brussels

Members of the Security Council vote at United Nations headquarters in New York, July 20, 2015. (AP/Seth Wenig, File)

UN Security Council votes unanimously to destroy Islamic State

By Edith M. Lederer

French-sponsored resolution calls on world nations to redouble efforts, coordinate action to fight terror group

Illustrative photo of a customs officer checking a passenger's passport at Washington-Dulles International Airport. (James Tourtellotte/Department of Homeland Security)

After IS attacks, Israelis and Palestinians caught up in US flight fears

By AFP

Arabic speakers and those of Middle Eastern appearance are kept off planes as anxious fellow travelers report ultimately groundless suspicions

Syrian refugees arrive aboard a dinghy after crossing from Turkey to the island of Lesbos, Greece, on September 10, 2015. (AP/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Can plight of Syrian refugees today, Jewish refugees in WWII be compared?

Illustrative: Palestinian protesters throw stones towards Israeli security forces during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron on November 20, 2015. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

Palestinian woman arrested with knife at Hebron security post

Police detain 27-year-old who ignored calls to halt as she approached troops near the Tomb of the Patriarchs

Israeli security forces and rescue personnel at the scene of a drive-by shooting near the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut, in the Etzion Bloc, November 19, 2015. (Photo by Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Analysis

The new normal: Stabbings, shootings and lulls

By Avi Issacharoff

After a period of relative calm, Thursday’s five deaths marked the blackest day of Palestinian terror in the new upsurge. In prospect, more of the same

Illustrative: Palestinians throw stones at Israeli security forces during clashes in the Palestinian town of al-Bireh on the outskirts of Ramallah on November 20, 2015. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)

Border Police thwart two attempted Palestinian attacks

Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, walks away after speaking to the media following the security cabinet's decision to outlaw the movement. (November 17, 2015)

Arab Israelis protest ban on Northern Branch of Islamic Movement

Hundreds demonstrate in north and center over decision to outlaw radical group; carry banners in support of Raed Salah

Danny Burstein performs the song 'If I Were a Rich Man' in a press rehearsal on October 15, 2015 ahead of a new production of 'Fiddler on the Roof.' (YouTube screenshot)

Tevye in new Broadway production as humble as the milkman

By Mark Kennedy

More Headlines

Joel Laloux, the former owner of Paris' Bataclan theatre from 1976 to September 2015, speaks from his home in the Israeli Mediterranean coastal city of Ashdod, on November 18, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ)

Ex-owner of Bataclan: My Jewish, Israel ties had no link to attack

By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU

Pope Francis addresses the crowd during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on November 18, 2015. (AFP/Andreas Solaro)

Pope: Christmas a ‘charade’ in world that has chosen ‘war and hate’

By AFP

Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi is interviewed on PA television on October 27, 2015. (screen shot: YouTube via PMW)

WATCH: PA official praises toddler son for wanting to kill ‘Zionists’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to guests following a town hall meeting in Newton, Iowa, on November 19, 2015. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

ADL ‘dismayed’ by GOP candidates’ anti-Muslim rhetoric

Migrants and refugees arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey on November 20, 2015.(AFP PHOTO/BULENT KILIC)

Holocaust Museum says US shouldn’t turn its back on refugees

By AP

Illustrative: Yeshiva students in Israel (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

NY yeshivas sued for failing to provide ‘adequate’ secular education

By JTA

Iran's Surena III humanoid robot, unveiled in November 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

By your commandWATCH: Iran unveils new humanoid robot

Tel Aviv University (CC BY-SA/MathKnight/Wikipedia)

US anthropological association moves closer to Israel boycott

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