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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 25, 2015

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German police officers search between the seats of the stadium prior to an international friendly soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands in Hannover, Germany, November 17, 2015 (Markus Schreiber | The Associated Press)

‘Israeli intel led Germany to call off soccer match’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Specific details of terror threat were relayed by Israel, leading to emergency cancellation of match against Holland last Tuesday, four days after Paris bloodbath, German reports say

German police hunt Paris terrorist in Hannover area

Teenage ‘poster girl’ for Islamic State beaten to death

By Stuart Winer

Haim Saban walks back call for scrutiny of Muslim refugees

By JTA

Likud MK Anat Berko attends a Foreign Affairs and Security committee meeting in the Knesset, November 19, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Knesset advances bill to imprison terrorist minors

By Stuart Winer and Tamar Pileggi

Lawmakers approve preliminary version of legislation lowering the age of incarceration to 12 for terror offenses

Israeli soldier seriously injured in Hebron-area stabbing attack

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Police confirm knife-wielding man was would-be terrorist

By Raoul Wootliff

Driver tries to hit Israeli troops in West Bank; no injuries

By Stuart Winer

Screen capture from video by Haberturk TV showing a Russian warplane on fire before crashing on a hill as seen from Hatay province, Turkey, November 24, 2015. (Haberturk TV via AP)

Live updates (closed)

France votes for more strikes against IS, urges Germany to join in

By Ilan Ben Zion

Russia strikes Syrian rebel targets near Turkish border; Palestinian who stabbed IDF soldier near Hebron dies

Itai Halperin, 8, and the head of an Iron Age statuette he found while walking near Tel Beit Shemesh. (Arik Halperin, courtesy of Israel Antiquities Authority)

8-year-old stumbles on First Temple-era archaeological find

By Ilan Ben Zion

Indiana Jones fan Itai Halperin unearths a 3,000-year-old statuette of a fertility goddess at Tel Beit Shemesh

US Secretary of State John Kerry (L) meets with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas upon his arrival to the West Bank city of Ramallah on November 24, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/POOL/JACQUELYN MARTIN)

Kerry in Ramallah: US committed to Palestinian statehood

By AFP

Speaking after meeting with Abbas, secretary of state says he is in region at Obama’s request, ‘to see what we can do to try to help’

PM to Kerry: Calm must return before we make West Bank gestures

By Raphael Ahren and Joshua Davidovich

Kerry: Israeli-Palestinian conflict may ‘spin out of control’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Obama calls Ezra Schwartz’s parents to express condolences

By JTA

Pro-Palestinian protesters at Loyola University, 2014. (courtesy ADL)

How would Orwell feel about today’s college campuses?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

As students ‘occupy’ Brandeis University this week, a look at how the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is playing out at universities in a new post-PC world order

The lies of Saeb Erekat

The PA’s chief negotiator is spreading blatant lies that expose how Palestinian propaganda undermines peace efforts

How cancer changed Thanksgiving forever

On the painful path to being thankful every day of the year, and not just one afternoon in November

Emanuela Barasch Rubinstein

The Young Women’s Farm

In 1911 Palestine, Hannah Meisel was training girls to be farmers’ wives until her students united and made other plans

The Ivy League’s Israel problem

The next generation of US leaders needs nuanced Mideast education, not the BDS-style courses currently on offer

Albert Einstein, during a lecture in Vienna in 1921. (Wikipedia/public domain)

Einstein once kept kosher, and 7 other Jewish facts for relativity’s 100th birthday

By Gabe Friedman

Exiled Iranian poet Payam Feili, in an undated image from a YouTube video in which Feili asks Israelis to help him in his bid to come visit Israel. (YouTube screenshot)

Israel issues entry permit for exiled Iranian poet

Minister approves visit by Payam Feili, a supporter of Jewish state who is persecuted in home nation for his sexuality and views

Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi speaking in Tehran, Iran, on October 22, 2013. (AFP/Atta Kenare)

Iran sees nuke deal coming into effect in January

By AFP

Comments by deputy FM come on heels of IAEA report saying Tehran still has thousands of centrifuges to dismantle

Jewish Home MK Yinon Magal following allegations of sexual harassment from former employees, November 24, 2015. (Flash90)

MK loses Knesset whip post amid sexual harassment scandal

By Stuart Winer and Raoul Wootliff

Jewish Home lawmaker Yinon Magal apologizes for ‘misconduct’ that was ‘unbecoming of a public figure,’ but won’t resign parliamentary seat

Protesters in Gush Etzion holding a poster of Israelis killed in terrorist attacks, Nov. 23, 2015. (Ben Sales)

Terror shakes suburban normalcy of Gush Etzion

Children pass a police officer as they arrive for school in the center of Brussels on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Brussels schools reopen, maximum threat alert still in place

‘I’m concerned, but I think that life must go on,’ says father of four in Belgian capital amid terror scare

Illustrative photo of the FBI emblem at the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building. (Flickr/Cliff/CC BY 2.0)

N. Carolina Jewish day school threat prompts closing

By JTA

FBI investigating racist letter sent to B’nai Shalom Day School, whose 112 students stayed home for two days

An Israeli F-16 during an exercise on November 25, 2013. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Report: Israel strikes Hezbollah positions in Syria, killing 13

According to unconfirmed reports, eight fighters, five Syrian soldiers die in four IAF raids Monday; ‘dozens’ said injured

What's really in that cheese? SCIO knows (Courtesy)

How Israeli tech makes science fiction into fact, on display

By David Shamah

From Star Trek to the Six Million Dollar Man, what was once the product of an imaginative scriptwriter has now become real-world tech

Migrants waiting to be processed at the increasingly overwhelmed Moria camp on the island of Lesbos in Greece, October 21, 2015. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/via JTA)

In fight for Syrian refugees, US groups recall Jews’ flight from Europe

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, accompanied by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, center, meets with top military officials at the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Moscow, November 17, 2015. (AFP/Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky)

Russian pilot of downed warplane rescued in Syria

By AFP

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reveals advanced S-400 anti-aircraft system to be deployed at Moscow’s Syrian airbase

London transport: An old classic double-decker bus in London on April 23, 2015. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

See-saw demography: Israelis in the UK vs. British aliyah

By Jenni Frazer

New report finds the number of Israelis migrating to Britain outnumbers the number of British Jews migrating to Israel by a 3:2 ratio. But who are the people behind the statistics?

Evan Fallenberg (right) with a friend and neighbor outside his new home in Acre (Courtesy Elana Seger)

This old house

An ancient Acre home becomes a writer’s residence

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

The 2015 Tech Awards laureates, including Eddie Horowitz (bottom row, one from left) CEO of PrePex, a nonsurgical circumcision device, November 12, 2015. (Jakub Mosur)

Israeli invention to fight AIDS wins coveted tech prize

By Raoul Wootliff

These ads for an Amazon series have caused controversy. (Screenshot from Twitter via JTA)

Amazon pulls ads using Nazi insignia from NYC subway

By JTA

Chelsea’s John Terry is taken on a stretcher during Group G Champions League soccer match against Maccabi Tel Aviv in Haifa, Israel, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Chelsea thrashes Maccabi Tel Aviv 4-0 in European soccer

By ToI Staff and AP

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

Supreme Court upholds transgender activist’s cremation request

By JTA

File: Israeli Druze from the village of Yarka attend a demonstration in support of their brethren in Syria threatened by fighting in that country's civil war, June 14, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Israel to establish first new Druze town

By Raoul Wootliff

A screenshot of the 'Bastards' TV show, which was bought by HBO (YouTube screenshot)

Inglourious IsraelisHBO snaps up yet another Israeli TV show

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of a lecture by a member of Breaking the Silence. (Gili Getz)

Court cancels lefty NGO lecture amid threats by right-wing activists

Actress Roseanne Barr arrives on the Life Ball plane on May 15, 2015 in Vienna, Austria. The Life Ball, an annual charity ball raising funds for HIV & AIDS projects, will take place on May 16, 2015 at the city hall in Vienna. (Monika Fellner/Getty Images/JTA)

Barr KnucklesRoseanne, Israeli writer butt heads on Twitter

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President of Panama, Ricardo Martinelli, in Jerusalem, on May 29, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Panama and Israel sign free trade agreement

By JTA

US President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to movie director Steven Spielberg at the White House, Washington, DC, November 24, 2015. (AFP/NICHOLAS KAMM)

Spielberg, Streisand, Perlman receive America’s top honor

By AFP and ToI Staff

Yinon Magal during a discussion at the Knesset on June 29, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewRoasted Turkey and an MK no longer in the gravy

By Joshua Davidovich

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