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What Matters Most On Tuesday, November 15, 2016

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President-elect Donald Trump's appointment for senior counselor and chief White House strategist Stephen Bannon looks on during a national security meeting with advisers at Trump Tower, October 7, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Bannon not an anti-Semite, but happy to court them, ex-editor says

By Eric Cortellessa

While calling Breitbart website pro-Israel, Ben Shapiro says Trump’s White House pick is still ‘willing to pander to the worst of the worst in terms of the alt-right’

Edgy over rise of Trump, Jews and Muslims ramp up alliances

Neo-Nazis, KKK join chorus of white supremacist praise for Bannon

By ToI Staff and AFP

FBI: Hate crimes against Muslims up by 67% in 2015

By AP

Top left, clockwise, Ivanka Trump, Jason Greenblatt, Boris Epshteyn and Steven Mnuchin (Trump photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; Greenblatt photo: Uriel Heilman; Epshteyn photo: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images for SiriusXM; Mnuchin photo: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images for City Harvest)

Meet the Jews in Donald Trump’s inner circle

By Josefin Dolsten

A look at the president-elect’s advisers and their possible roles in his incoming administration

Ivanka Trump says she won’t serve in father’s administration

By JTA

In Trump’s orbit, Jewish son-in-law expected to stay a power center

Actress Emmy Rossum targeted by anti-Semitic Trump backers

By JTA

Donald Trump speaking at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2016 Policy Conference at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC, March 21, 2016. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Rebuffing reports, AIPAC says it still backs a two-state solution

By Raphael Ahren

Section of Israel lobby’s website dealing with peace process dropped reference to Palestinian statehood, but can be found elsewhere

Abbas affirms Palestinians to attend French peace talks

By AP and ToI Staff

Bennett: Trump election is time to ‘reset’ policies

By Josef Federman

Giuliani emerges as favorite for Trump’s secretary of state

By Steve Peoples, Julie Pace and Jill Colvin

A mobile home in the outpost of Amona (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Live updates

Amona bill unlikely to pass in Knesset — report

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Kulanu party plans to skip the vote and the ultra-Orthodox parties also say they won’t automatically support the bill

Nexar's network detects road event (Courtesy)

Israeli tech alerts drivers to crashes, road hazards

Tel Aviv-based Nexar says it has created a first vehicle-to-vehicle, or V2V, network to make driving safer

Amona, an Israeli outpost in the West Bank, east of the Palestinian town of Ramallah, May 18, 2016 (AP/Oded Balilty)

US ‘deeply concerned’ by Israeli push to legalize outposts

State Department says Regulation Bill would be ‘an unprecedented and troubling step’ in Israeli settlement policy

Amona residents vow to ‘stand as a fortified wall’ to stop evacuation

AG says bill circumventing High Court rulings ‘unacceptable’

UN envoy warns West Bank camp could ‘explode’

By AFP

An Iranian professor avoids stepping on an Israeli flag painted onto the ground at a university in northeastern Iran, in footage released November 5, 2016. (MEMRI/screenshot)

Best foot forward

Iranian scholar refuses to tread on Israeli, US flags

Professor Sadegh Zibakalam avoids stepping on the symbols at university entrance, calling such acts disrespectful

Joanne Wilson, angel investor with an 85-strong portfolio and Birthright Excel mentor. (Courtesy Birthright Excel)

'There are still so many men who don’t understand'

Angel investors seeking the ‘invisible’ next big thing find women key to Israel’s tech growth

By Cathryn J. Prince

Targeting female demographic, Birthright Excel encourages young Jewish business leaders to interface with Israelis and then act as ambassadors abroad

They’re in the army now

He can’t wait until the IDF Special in Uniform program that trains the disabled for army and life is no longer newsworthy

Ephraim Asculai and Emily B. Landau

Repairing the Iran nuclear deal’s damage

The Trump administration must uphold the severely flawed JCPOA and stand against even minor Iranian infractions

Under the reign of Ahashverosh

Using the Bible to illuminate the current US political extravaganza: when minorities work together, they can triumph

Betsalel Steinhart

From Jewish educator to car mechanic

He’s debating giving up the classroom for the instant gratification of helping people

Former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi in a makeshift courtroom at the national police academy, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, June 18, 2016. (AP/Amr Nabil)

Egypt court overturns death sentence for ousted leader Morsi

By AFP

Former Islamist president to be retried for role in violent uprising along with co-defendants from Muslim Brotherhood

President Reuven Rivlin, left, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hug each other after a joint media briefing in New Delhi on November 15, 2016. AFP/MONEY SHARMA)

Israel and India hail growing defense ties as Rivlin visits

By Raphael Ahren

In New Delhi, Modi welcomes security cooperation, calls for ‘more broad-based’ economic partnerships, joint efforts against terror

UN peacekeepers from the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, also known as UNDOF, observe Syria's Quneitra province at an observation point on Mount Bental in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, overlooking the border with Syria, Friday, August 29, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

UN peacekeepers return to Syrian side of Golan Heights

By AFP and ToI Staff

Two years after withdrawing amid clashes with Al-Qaeda-linked Syrian rebels, UNDOF back in camp Faouar

Illustrative: A missile launched from the Alborz mountains in Iran on March 9, 2016, reportedly inscribed in Hebrew, 'Israel must be wiped out.' (Fars News)

Iran to continue missile tests, says program ‘non-negotiable’

By AFP

Tehran brushes off EU call to halt launches; says ballistic weapons part of defense policy ‘framework’

Illustrative: A knife wielded by a Palestinian assailant at the scene of a car-ramming attack in northern Jerusalem on Friday, March 6, 2015 (Channel 2 News)

Palestinian handed 17.5 years for stabbing IDF soldier

By Tamar Pileggi

21-year-old West Bank native Tariq Yahya expresses remorse for knife attack, declines to disavow nationalist motives

Illustrative: Israeli tourists look at a BDS stand with photos and Palestinian flags, calling to 'Free Palestine,' at Dam Square in central Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on June 24, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Bill to bar BDS activists from Israel passes first reading

Legislation seeking to prevent boycott advocates from entering country clears initial hurdle at Knesset

In this January 3, 2011 photo, Fatah leader Mohammad Dahlan in his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Analysis

Abbas cuts salaries to dozens backing rival Dahlan

By Avi Issacharoff

As rift widens, PA president’s nemesis threatens demonstrations against this month’s Fatah General Conference

State Attorney Shai Nitzan, May 24, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israeli men could be jailed for refusing divorce

By ToI Staff and AFP

New directive from state prosecutor authorizes criminal charges against husbands who won’t grant their wives religious divorce

The Dead Sea Scrolls (photo credit: courtesy)

Israel to launch major expedition to find more Dead Sea Scrolls

By AP

3-year bid to find biblical manuscripts will begin next month, Antiquities Authority official says; first big survey since 1993

The supermoon rises over the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem's Old City on November 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Sky gazers around the world marvel at ‘supermoon’

By ToI Staff and AP

Earth’s satellite appears bigger and brighter Monday night than at any time since 1948

Hungarian Jews arriving at Auschwitz. (Courtesy)

On quest to clear Kasztner, historian ‘shocked’ to prove Nazi collaboration

By Jenni Frazer

More Headlines

US First Lady Michelle Obama addresses delegates on Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 25, 2016.(AFP / Robyn BECK)

Racist post about Michelle Obama causes backlash

By AP and ToI Staff

Sarah Bard, the Jewish Outreach Director for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign (Twitter)

After Trump win, Clinton’s Jewish outreach director moving to Israel

By JTA

Morris "Moe" Berg (photo credit: Goudey, Wikimedia Commons)

$17,000 for autograph of Jewish baseball player, WWII spy

By JTA

Illustrative: A truck with the words 'fuck off' and another with swastika graffiti on it were found outside a Jewish school in a Hasidic neighborhood in London, November 14, 2016. (Shomrim N.E. London/Twitter)

Swastikas painted on vans outside London Jewish school

By JTA

Swimmers attempt a seven-hour swim across the Dead Sea in from Jordan to Israel a bid to draw attention to its environmental degradation on November 15, 2016. (EcoPeace Middle East)

Swimmers attempt 7-hour crawl across shrinking Dead Sea

By Sam McNeil and Video by Iacopo Luzi

This Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016 photo released by the Washington National Opera shows US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, left, as the Duchess of Krakenthorp in a dress rehearsal of Donizetti's "The Daughter of the Regiment" at the Washington National Opera, in Washington. (Scott Suchman/WNO via AP)

Sonorous RBGRuth Bader Ginsburg trades robes for opera costume

By mike silverman

Illustrative image of New Balance 997 shoes (CC BY sling@flickr, Flickr)

Don't tread on meNew Balance kicks back at white supremacist praise

By AP

Iconic journalist Tatiana Hoffman, January 5, 2015 (CC-BY-SA-4.0, Eyalbenyaish,Wikimedia Commons)

Iconic Channel 2 journalist Tatiana Hoffman dies at 69

Reform female and male rabbis pray together at Robinson's Arch, the Western Wall site slated for future egalitarian services, on February 25, 2016. (Y.R/Reform Movement)

Jewish federations call for Western Wall deal to be fully implemented

By JTA

View of caravan homes at the Amona Jewish outpost in the West Bank, October 6, 2016. (FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewMuch ado about Amona

By Ilan Ben Zion

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