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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 24, 2016

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A picture taken on November 24, 2016 shows a bushfire raging in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa. Hundreds of Israelis fled their homes on the outskirts of the country's third city Haifa with others trapped inside as firefighters struggled to control raging bushfires, officials said. (AFP PHOTO / Jack GUEZ)

60,000 flee massive fires raging across Haifa; arson suspected

Buildings consumed in several locations; 11 neighborhoods cleared; 100 treated for minor injuries; other fires across country; Greece, Russia, Cyprus, Turkey send help; police chief: some suspects in custody

Israeli firefighter airplanes try to extinguish a forest fire which broke out in the forest near Neve Ilan, outside of Jerusalem on November 24, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Fires flare throughout the country, encroach on Jerusalem

Firefighters struggle to contain blaze raging outside gas station on Route 1; other conflagrations near Modiin, Savyon, Nirit and Wadi Ara

Bennett: Many of the fires are ‘terrorism in every sense of the word’

Prisons service readies to evacuate inmates from Haifa-area jails

Arab lawmaker rejects hint that Arab arson behind fires

An ambulance makes its way through the smoke-filled streets of Haifa as firefighters battle to control a massive blaze across the city on November 24, 2016 (screen capture: Channel 10)

Live updates (closed)

Though many fires still burning, minister says situation ‘under control’

60,000 people, 2 prisons evacuated as Haifa burns; thousands without power, civilian airport closed, local train service suspended; Arab MKs reject charges of arson, say community pained by fires

Credit: Giulio Raccichini

Courageous, foolhardy, naked: The Slovakian professor who walked bare into Gaza to ‘save’ 3 kids he’d never met

By Dov Lieber and Iacopo Luzi

Ilias Miroslav put his life on the line and entered the Hamas-run enclave on a personal mission to ‘rescue’ youngsters who may not even have wanted to leave. What on earth did he think he was doing?

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (AFP PHOTO / Mandel Ngan)

Israeli envoy leads diplomats’ praise of Trump pick for UN ambassador

By AP and ToI Staff

Promising to strengthen ties with US, Danny Dannon calls South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley ‘a longstanding, true friend of Israel’

Trump picks women, including a critic, for cabinet

By Mandel NGAN and Dave Clark

Zionists backed Trump to retain ‘global power,’ says DC imam

Billionaire investor is Trump’s commerce secretary pick

Hateful graffiti sprayed on the Kehilat Ra'anan Reform synagogue in Ra'anana, November 24, 2016. (Yossi Cohen)

Ra’anana Reform synagogue vandalized, death threats left with knife

By Raoul Wootliff

Attackers make reference to Western Wall struggle; progressive leaders call on government to end incitement against non-Orthodox Jews

Elana Stein Hain

Some of my best friends are racist

When loyalty to one’s own prevents the commanding moral voice of Judaism from evoking concern for ‘the other’

Donniel Hartman

The politics of but

Now is the time to rebuild and recommit to the red lines that ensure and protect moral decency

The value of giving thanks

Gratitude for the America she knows may well protect that land of freedom, beauty, diversity, equality, and hard work

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

3 things you can say to survivors of domestic abuse

Hard-won wisdom on how to support those who may be living a nightmare: Start by asking, ‘Are you safe?’

A man wearing his support for Donald Trump on his kippah at Trump’s election night event in New York City, Nov. 8, 2016. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Jewish Trump voters are ready for their party to get started

After tough, divisive campaign — and with 75% of their fellow American Jews voting the other way — those who backed the brash billionaire are now triumphant

Ivanka Trump walks through the lobby of Trump Tower on November 21, 2016 in New York City. President-elect Trump and his transition team are in the process of filling cabinet and other high level positions for the new administration. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Ivanka Trump separates personal, business social media

By AFP

Minister of Education Naftali Bennett speaks at the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference, held at Waldorf Astoria hotel in Jerusalem. November 23, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

After meeting Trump team, Bennett sees opportunity to change two-state paradigm

By Raphael Ahren

At Jerusalem Post conference, cabinet ministers spar over how to approach incoming White House; US envoy speaks of urgency to ‘arrest the slide toward a binational reality’

Illustrative photo of a swastika painted at Temple Ohawe Sholam in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. (Courtesy of Marty Cooper/Jewish Alliance for Greater Rhode Island via JTA)

Rhode Island rabbi reports uptick in anti-Semitic harassment

By Matt O'Brien

Leader of Providence congregation says he and others have been taunted often in past year with slurs such as ‘you should have been burned in the ovens’

Members of the covert 'White Rose' resistance group against Hitler, including Hans Scholl (left) and Sophie Scholl, in Munich, 1942 (Public domain)

Trump win sprouts ‘white roses’ in spirit of anti-Nazi youth

By Matt Lebovic

Marcelo Crivella (Wikimedia Commons)

Rio’s incoming mayor says city should be ‘walled like Jerusalem’

By JTA

At event featuring model of Temple-era capital, Marcelo Crivella tells Jewish leaders that barrier would keep out weapons, drugs

A displaced Iraqi woman from the Yazidi community, who fled violence between Islamic State (IS) group jihadists and peshmerga fighters in the northern town of Sinjar, stands at a camp for internally displaced persons in the Sharia area, some 15 kilometers from the city of Dohuk, on November 17, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED)

Interview

Ex-journalist is lonely lifeline for Yazidis sold into sex slavery

Nareen Shammo quit her TV job to rescue her kinswomen from torture, rape and death at the hands of Islamic State

Elior Azaria seen with his father, left, during a court hearing at a military court in Jaffa, November 23, 2016. (Photo by Flash90)

Jail sought for IDF soldier who shot prone Palestinian attacker

By AFP and ToI Staff

Length of sentence for Elor Azaria not specified by military prosecutor; verdict expected in next few weeks

Jordan's King Abdullah II speaks during a donor conference in central London on February 4, 2016. AFP / POOL / Dan Kitwood)

Jordan’s king: Muslims must unite with Jews, Christians to beat IS

Abdullah tells Australian TV that he talked with Trump, doubts president-elect will change US policies to panic-inducing extent

File: Avichai Mandelblit arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on January 17, 2016. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

Attorney general vows no special treatment in navy affair probe

Avichai Mandelblit says info from police investigations chief prompted about-face on opening of inquiry

TV food personality Eden Grinshpan (courtesy)

Exuberant foodie has her TV cake and eats it too

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

Rabbi Eyal Karim attends a State Control committee meeting, in the Israeli parliament, on September 13, 2010. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

IDF chief rabbi-designate: I never claimed rape was acceptable in wartime

Screen capture showing Palestinian cleric Sheikh Abd Al-Salam Abu Al-Izz in a video posted online November 16, 2016. (screen capture, MEMRI - The Middle East Media Research Institute)

Big bang theoryPalestinian cleric urges Muslims to rise up, nuke Israel

In this Oct. 30, 2016 photo Lorrie Zullo, left, and Jillian Eisman embrace at the Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College in the Queens borough of New York. (Leo Correa/Queensborough Community College via AP)

Concentration camp uniform turns up at NY yard sale

By Frank Eltman

An IDF tank in a firing position on the Golan Heights last year (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Sergeant killed when tank flips in training exercise

By Judah Ari Gross

Mellanox headquarters in Yokne'am (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel’s Mellanox to hold network tech hackathon

IAI's new Collision Warning System helps alert combat pilots to collisions with civilian planes (Courtesy)

Israel Aerospace unveils military anti-collision jet system

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: Wall Inscriptions of the Memnonium of Seti I, Abydos. (Brooklyn Museum Archives/Wikimedia)

Predynastic timesAncient city uncovered in Egypt

By AFP

Israel Chemicals' Dead Sea Works, the world's fourth largest producer and supplier of potash products. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israel to hold first corporate social responsibility forum

By Shoshanna Solomon

A real new New York City Department of Transportation sign. (Twitter via JTA)

Lock, stock and bagel‘No locks, yes lox’ plea makes Brooklyn Bridge more Jewish

By Gabe Friedman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Israeli firefighters during his visit at the fire command post in Zichron Yaakov, November 23, 2016. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Hebrew media reviewA blazing scandal and some burning questions

By Joshua Davidovich

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