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What Matters Most On Sunday, November 20, 2016

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The East Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, November 17, 2015. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

Trump win spurs plans for Jerusalem building spree over Green Line

By Tamar Pileggi

Officials unconcerned by potential rebuke from outgoing Obama administration, say new housing will ‘send message’ to president-elect

Trump’s top Pentagon pick said settlements were creating ‘apartheid’

By Eric Cortellessa

Jerusalem said to welcome Trump’s ‘pro-Israel’ security picks

By ToI Staff and JTA

Trump has ‘great’ meeting with Romney, but no word on job offer

By AFP and AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on November 20, 2016. (Emil Salman/POOL)

Security, not cronyism, behind submarine deal, PM insists

By Tamar Pileggi and Raoul Wootliff

Amid growing calls for an investigation, Netanyahu says defense concerns were ‘only consideration’ for multi-billion shekel plan to purchase German vessels

Lapid demands criminal probe into PM’s German submarine deal

Opposition MK seeks ‘urgent’ probe into PM’s submarine deal

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Women increasingly join the fight in Israel’s army

By Michael Blum

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks to Israel's Channel 2 in an interview aired Sunday, November 20, 2016 (screen capture)

Live updates (closed)

Erdogan: ‘Impossible’ Israeli soldiers acted in self-defense on Marmara

Trump team confirms Romney vetted for secretary of state; France vows to proceed with peace summit; invoking Trump, officials say thousands of housings planned for E. Jerusalem

Jewish, Muslim and Christian leaders from Israel and the Palestinian territories attend an interfaith summit in Spain in November 2016. (Media Department of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Hamas-linked imam, Israel chief rabbi unite in call for peace

At Spain interfaith summit, Jewish, Muslim and Christian clergy denounce violence, vow to promote ‘life of mutual respect’

Arab MK slams bill to muffle Muslim call to prayer

Pope cautions against those who ‘raise walls, label people’

By Frances D'Emilio

Nephew of first Muslim police dep. commissioner shot dead

Assaf Granit, one of the three owners and founders of Jerusalem's famed Machneyuda restaurant. Granit will participate in Open Restaurants Jerusalem, held November 22-24, 2016 (Courtesy Machneyuda)

Jerusalem opens its doors to foodies in culinary festival

By Jessica Steinberg

In nod to its gastronomic diversity, Open Restaurants comes to the capital for the first time after several stints in Tel Aviv

Middle Eastern refugees and IsraAID staff and volunteers at a picnic in a Berlin park, summer 2016. Hillel Zand is in the lower left corner. (Hillel Zand)

First person

What Muslim refugees in Berlin taught me about being a mensch

Working with IsraAID in the German capital for a summer, an American college student learns from those fleeing Mideast carnage how to be a Jew, a Zionist and a human being

What to do when your monastery’s artwork lauds forced conversions of Jews and Christians as the new beloved of God

Daniel Orenstein

The 3 sins of the Israeli lottery

It’s bad enough to dupe the poor, but mocking the needs of children and the environment is too much — ban the ads!

Joshua Hammerman

How to survive your Thanksgiving dinner

The basics, like ‘no name-calling and ‘focus on the food,’ help elevate the meal as part of a moral, blessed life

Police at the scene where unknown perpetrators chalked a Gay Pride flag at the entrance to the Jerusalem rabbinate offices, November 20, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Protesters ‘decorate’ Jerusalem chief rabbi’s office with gay pride flag

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Police to investigate after Meretz activists hang banner, draw rainbow colors on sidewalk in protest of Shlomo Amar’s homophobic comments

Airplanes seen at Ben Gurion International Airport, August 14, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

El Al suffers cancellations, delays as pilots strike over conditions

Saturday night flights to NY, Bangkok and Beijing affected, amid warnings of further disruptions and full walkout to come

Palestinian students supporting the Fatah movement wave both their national and the movement's flag during an election campaign rally for the student council at Birzeit University, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 26, 2016 / AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI

Analysis

Palestinian leadership may choose Abbas’s successor, and tear itself apart

By Avi Issacharoff

An imminent Fatah congress in Ramallah will shape the future of the Palestinian movement, laying bare its rivalries and its rifts

A general view during a gun battle between Palestinian security forces with gunmen in the Balata refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Nablus, October 29, 2016. (Nasser Ishtayeh/FLASH90)

Palestinian leadership struggle tangled in deadly infighting

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

The Cantinho do Avillez restaurant in Porto, Portugal following vandalism on Nov. 19. 2016 attributed to BDS activists. (Photo courtesy of WJC/via JTA)

Portuguese eatery trashed over chef’s visit to Israel

By JTA

Anti-Israel activists daub ‘Avillez collaborates with Zionist occupation’ on facade of Porto’s Cantinho do Avillez

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives a press conference on July 23, 2016 at the Chancellery in Berlin, one day after the attack at the shopping centre in Munich, southern Germany. (AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ)

Merkel tells party she’ll seek fourth term as chancellor

By Deborah Cole

German leader, in power since 2005, announces she will run for re-election in 2017

In this image made from a video provided by Hamilton LLC, actor Brandon Victor Dixon who plays Aaron Burr, the nation’s third vice president, in 'Hamilton' speaks from the stage after the curtain call in New York, Friday, Nov. 18, 2016. (Hamilton LLC via AP)

Trump accuses ‘Hamilton’ cast of harassing Pence with post-show plea

President-elect demands apology for speech in which actor Brandon Victor Dixon urged incoming VP to ‘work on behalf of all of us’

Senate Minority Leader-elect Chuck Schumer of New York in an interview with The Associated Press in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Interview

Top Democratic Senator Schumer draws red lines over Obamacare, bank oversight

By Erica Werner

New minority leader says Trump may be closer to Democrats than GOP on economy, backs president-elect’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan

US Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Senator John McCain speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 15, 2016. (AP/Susan Walsh, File)

McCain to Trump: We are not bringing back waterboarding

By AP

Leading Republican warns any effort by president-elect to restore extreme interrogations will be challenged in court

The fans of Maccabi celebrate the victory of basketball team Maccabi Tel Aviv and winning the European cup 1977. Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Film on Israeli basketball’s ‘miracle on hardwood’ set to screen in the US

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

Giora Livne uses Sesame Enable's hands-free phone technology (Screenshot)

Hands-free phone opens worlds for paralyzed users

Magnitude 3.6 quake in Lebanon felt in northern Israel

First responders at the scene of a multiple vehicle collision at the Holon Junction on Route 44 on November 20, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Dozens injured as bus careens into traffic near Tel Aviv

Smoke billows in the government-held side of west Aleppo, on November 20, 2016, following reported rocket fire by the opposition forces that hold the eastern part of the city. (AFP PHOTO/GEORGE OURFALIAN)

Syrian government refuses UN truce terms for Aleppo

Indian municipal cooperation workers clear water from a main road in Gurgaon on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, July 30, 2016. (AFP/CHANDAN KHANNA)

New Pears Challenge to address India’s health woes

By Shoshanna Solomon

Getting the groove on while shopping for cucumbers at Haifa's Wadi Nisnas neighborhood, every Friday, from November 24 through the end of December (Courtesy Yifat Bar Lev)

Musical mojoDecember music will leave Haifa ‘all shuk up’

By Jessica Steinberg

Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and CEO of Facebook, speaks at the CEO summit during the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Lima, Peru, November 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

Facebook CEO vows to fix fake news problem

US President Barack Obama smiles during a speech at a town hall with Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) in Lima, Peru, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

What more to discuss? For Obama and world leaders, it’s Trump

By Josh Lederman

The INS Rahav, a Dolphin class made by German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp, sets off from the German port of Kiel toward Haifa, December 17, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Hebrew media reviewDown kaleidoscope

By Ilan Ben Zion

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