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What Matters Most On Friday, November 18, 2016

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Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer speaks to media at Trump Tower, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Israeli envoy ‘looks forward’ to working with Trump team, including Bannon

By ToI Staff and Eric Cortellessa

Ron Dermer meets with president-elect in NY, hails ‘true friend’ of Israel, and makes unsolicited mention of controversial former editor of Breitbart

Netanyahu reportedly declines to meet with Trump before inauguration

By JTA

Top Trump aide Steve Bannon to attend ZOA dinner

By ToI Staff and JTA

Trump taps senator accused of racism as attorney general

By Julie Pace, Catherine Lucey and Ken Thomas

Nazi-themed graffiti found in the town of Wellsville, New York, on the same day that Donald Trump won the presidential election on November 9, 2016. (Twitter/JTA)

US Jews grapple with election-year eruption of anti-Semitism

After Trump’s win, donations to ADL jump 50-fold, while many Jews express anxiety over spike in anti-Jewish vitriol and abuse

ADL calls for new laws to combat online anti-Semitism

By Eric Cortellessa

US anti-Semitism worst since 1930s, ADL leader says

By JTA

French right-wing presidential hopefuls spar over Trump win

By Gina DOGGETT and Clare BYRNE

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits under a portrait of the first Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion as he speaks during a special cabinet meeting at the Sde Boker academy to mark 40 years since Ben-Gurion's death. November 10, 2013. (Edi Israel/Pool/Flash90)

Energizer Bibi

Netanyahu to break record for single stint as Israeli PM

Likud leader will on Sunday overtake David Ben-Gurion for longest continuous term, with 2,790 consecutive days in office

Minister of Defense Moshe Ya'alon visits an IDF navy base in Ashdod. August 12, 2014. (Photo credit: IDF Spokesperson/FLASH90)

Ex-defense chief urges probe into PM’s German submarine deal

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Moshe Ya’alon says TV report on possible ‘pay-for-play’ deal is ‘disturbing,’ rebuffs National Security Council claims purchase had his ‘full support’

Bennett defends PM on submarine deal: He’s ‘not corrupt’

Officials: Security cabinet was briefed 13 times on Hamas tunnels

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Revised ombudsman report on Gaza war said to focus blame on PM, Ya’alon

By Alexander Fulbright

Illustrative: Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef meets with newly appointed Supreme Rabbinical Court judges in Jerusalem, July 13, 2016. (Photo by Yaacov Cohen/Flash90)

Entire rabbinical court to rule on comatose husband divorce case

In historic first, complete bench of Supreme Rabbinical Court will decide whether lower court was right to grant ‘get’

Member's of Berlin's Jewish community volunteer with refugee children at the Spandau refugee center, with arts and crafts in front and face painting in back. November 13, 2016. (Courtesy)

Out of the synagogue, into the shelter: When Berlin Jews, refugees bond

On annual Mitzvah Day, members of Jewish community volunteer with children living in German center, offering language lessons to adults

I don’t care if Trump is good for Israel

The Jewish values that make him support Israeli settlements make him reject claims that favor the president-elect

6 ideas for ‘tikkun olam’

She advocates for working toward the Jewish concept of world repair, an opportunity born of the ‘tragic’ US election results

The Torah isn’t talking to you

Protect the excluded ones, says the Bible; under Trump, think: immigrants, religious & ethnic minorities, and women

The miracle of a child

Tackling the Torah’s most heart-wrenching story, suggesting nothing less would prevent Jews’ taking children for granted

Katarina Abu Akell, a 20-year-old Christian from Kfar Yasif, is one of the many hundreds of young Arabs who have answered the call to join Israel's police force since September, 2016. (Dov Lieber / Times of Israel)

To combat rampant crime on their streets, Israeli Arabs heed call to join police

Hundreds of young citizens have joined force in recent weeks, but critics ask why Jewish cops couldn’t get the job done

US businessman Henry Kravis in 2009 (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Henry Kravis considered for Treasury secretary — report

By JTA

Donald Trump reportedly spoke to billionaire private equity pioneer after the November 8 election

In this Jan. 16, 2015, file photo, Mitt Romney, the former Republican presidential nominee, speaks during the Republican National Committee's winter meeting aboard the USS Midway Museum in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Trump said to consider Romney for top US diplomat

By AFP

Ex-governor and 2012 GOP nominee for president had criticized the president-elect over his campaign rhetoric

US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) speaks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif after the UN atomic watchdog verifies that Iran has met all conditions of the July 2015 nuclear deal, in Vienna, Austria, on January 16, 2016. (AFP/Kevin Lamarque/Pool)

Iran arrested 12 top officials for spying in last 2 years, MP says

By ToI Staff and AFP

Detainees reportedly infiltrated top government posts, held dual citizenship; Tehran denies breaching nuke deal

Professor Sadegh Zibakalam in an interview with Hossein Dehbashi, November 13, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

In rare dissent, Iran scholar slams regime’s anti-Israel rhetoric

Professor Sadegh Zibakalam takes on Supreme Leader Khamenei in clip posted by independent, but state-sanctioned website

Palestinian protesters throw rocks and fireworks at an Israeli guard tower on July 25, 2014, in the Beit Ummar village, north of the West Bank city of Hebron (Photo credit: Hazem Bader/AFP)

Settlers urge army to return body of Palestinian teen

By AFP

15-year-old was shot and killed last month in clashes with IDF, but petitioners say he was not involved

A group of new recruits arrive at the army's induction center outside Tel Aviv on January 11, 2015. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

More religious women, more ultra-Orthodox, dip in overall enlistment: IDF reveals stats

By Judah Ari Gross

Modiin, Tel Aviv suburbs lead nation in draft rates; number of female combat soldiers quadruples in 4 years

Palestinian children attend a class at the UNRWA elementary school in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, in April 2013 (Illustrative photo: AP/Hatem Moussa)

Canada reinstates funding to UN agency that aids Palestinians

By JTA

Ottawa to restore financial support to UNRWA after the previous Conservative government halted all assistance

Trinidad did not house the only refugee camps in the Caribbean during WWII. Pictured are residents of Jamaica's 'Gibraltar Camp,' where approximately 300 Polish Jews and 500 Dutch Jews were housed between 1942 and 1944. (YouTube screenshot)

In Jamaica, a once-in-a-lifetime reunion for Jews who weathered WWII in an island camp

Ruth Gruber, Alaska, 1941-43 (Unidentified photographer, courtesy)

Trailblazing journalist who brought 1,000 Jewish refugees to US dies at 105

By ToI Staff and AP

Ruth Gruber, who captured some of the most iconic photos of the SS Exodus in 1947, dreamed of a world ‘with no more refugees who require haven’

Illustrative photo of a Facebook 'Like' button (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

US buys ads on Facebook to fight jihadists

By AFP

Social media companies’ detailed user data allows easy access to audiences susceptible to extremist propaganda, official says

Jewish refugees aboard the German liner St. Louis, June 29, 1939. (Planet News Archive/SSPL/Getty Images/via JTA)

In Israel, famed pre-WWII ship survivors relate to Mideast refugees

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Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova (screen capture via YouTube)

Russian spokeswoman says Jews behind Trump win

Rabbi Eliezer Berland (c) at the Jerusalem District Court in Jerusalem on August 1, 2016.(Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Fugitive rabbi convicted of sexual assault in plea deal

Jewish-American singer Barbra Streisand in concert at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, on June 20, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

EvergreenBarbra Streisand appears pantless on W magazine cover

By Gabe Friedman

An effigy of an Orthodox Jew is torched at an anti-Islam rally in Poland in November 2015 (YouTube screenshot)

Under fireBurned Jew effigy represented Soros, Polish court hears

By JTA

Screen capture of security camera footage showing a tefillin set falling from a cubby into a garbage bin at a Satmar Hasidic synagogue in Brooklyn, New York. (YouTube screen capture/Yeshiva World News)

Religious DedicationSatmar Hasidim search 300 tons of garbage for tefillin

By JTA

A GetTaxi vehicle in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)

Gett offers hurried New Yorkers new car pool service

Self-taught designer Daniella Farin in one of her own dresses, but it's her velvet handbands that will make it to the Golden Globes in January 2017 (Courtesy Daniella Farin)

Sweet styleJerusalem swag at the Golden Globes

By Jessica Steinberg

Parvella hazelnut chocolate spread (Josefin Dolsten)

Not-ellaParve ‘Nutella’ and other must-try new kosher foods

By Josefin Dolsten

A participant at the Homeland Security and Cyber Conference 2016 tests Elbit's Emergency Scenarios Virtual Reality Trainer. (Courtesy)

Elbit unveils new security technology at Tel Aviv cyber conference

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aboard the new submarine 'Rahav' at the Israeli navy base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Hebrew media reviewDeep sea blues

By Adiv Sterman

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