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What Matters Most On Friday, November 25, 2016

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A woman stands amid the damage and burned vehicles in the northern Israeli city of Haifa following a wildfire, on November 25, 2016. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Live updates (closed)Latest: 10 homes in Halamish burning

Nataf blaze contained, but residents told to stay away, restaurant destroyed; US supertanker arrives

By Joshua Davidovich

Locals flee Jerusalem hills community, nearby areas also threatened; West Bank settlement evacuated; Haifa residents return home; 15 arson suspects in custody

3 residents of Arab village arrested for arson in Galilee

Blaze at Nataf contained after residents evacuated, restaurant destroyed

Palestinian Authority sends a team to help combat blazes

An Israeli woman carries some belongings from a burnt house, hit by a massive forest fire in the Northern city of Haifa, Israel on November 25, 2016. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)

Haifa residents cleared to go back home after fires; 600-700 apartments damaged

Mayor says evacuation of over 60,000 was largest mass civilian mobilization in Israel’s history; 26 people in hospital, no major injuries

Egypt and Jordan send firefighting help

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Police detain several in Haifa for looting evacuated homes

Security cam captures apparent arson attempt near Ariel

By Judah Ari Gross

Residents fight a wildfire in Haifa, Israel, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016. The blaze ripped through parts of Israel's third-largest city, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Analysis

Israel on fire — what we know, and what we don’t

By David Horovitz

Despite what may be an unprecedented wave of fires, and widespread allegations of arson, no lives have been lost as of Thursday night — in contrast to 2010

Officials say evidence of widespread arson unclear as fires burn overnight in many parts of Israel

As Israel burns, many on Arabic social media cheer

AnalysisTerrorism, at home, by fire

By Avi Issacharoff

An Israeli artist stands in his studio, burned in an overnight fire in Beit Meir, outside of Jerusalem on November 25, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Jerusalem hills fire almost consumes mountainside village, is beaten back

Blaze surrounds Beit Meir, burns at least 10 buildings before firefighters gain control of flames; one suspected arsonist held; tens of thousands can’t yet return to Haifa homes

Israel says it will revoke residency of arsonists

Netanyahu: Arsonists are ‘terrorists,’ will be punished severely

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Police chief: Arson behind some fires, several arrested

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli firefighters inspect the damage to the community of Beit Meir in the Jerusalem hills , on November 25, 2016. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Analysis

Security services tread carefully with arson allegations

By Judah Ari Gross

Some politicians claim many fires deliberately set by Arabs; experts are more wary; several Arab villages in Israel also battled blazes

The wedding photo of Allegra Confino and Calev Elias, the grandparents of the film's director, Lawrence Russo. (Screenshot)

'As a kid, I always wondered why I didn’t have grandparents'

Wiped out ‘in the blink of an eye’: Only 35 Jews survived from a 2,000-year-old Greek community

By Reut R. Cohen

A new film from co-producer and director duo Lawrence Russo and Larry Confino documents the WWII decimation of the Jews of Kastoria

A journey of a thousand miles

Find Abraham’s serenity in the confidence that others will continue your life’s mission when you cannot (Chayei Sarah)

The real arsonists here

Allegations that Arabs purposely set the fires raging across Israel are unfounded and highly inflammatory

The Trump era was my trigger warning

It took 20 years for her to recognize the date rape for what it was, and understand what she can do to protect others

Confessions of an ingrate

Those who are wise are happy with their lots — making the real challenge achieving gratitude for all he had

Chowing down on maklouba and hummus with Open Restaurants at the Old City market (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Culinary tour samples pomegranates and chickpeas, upgraded Ottoman fare

By Jessica Steinberg

People carry their belongings inside a supermarket cart as they evacuate from wildfires in Haifa, Israel, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israelis reach out to Haifa’s 75,000 fire-ravaged homeless

By Stuart Winer and Gavin Rabinowitz

From the Arab town of Kfar Qassem in the north to Arad in the Negev, offers come in to host the evacuees, pets too

A picture shows the wreckage of a truck following a suicide bombing that targeted Shiite pilgrims returning from the Arbaeen commemoration in Karbala, on November 24, 2016. (AFP/Haidar HAMDANI)

Islamic State claims car bomb that killed 56 in Iraq

By AP

Blast at gas station targeted Shiite pilgrims, many of them Iranians

The Ahava factory in the West Bank settlement of Mitzpeh Shalem (Flash90)

Israel blasts France’s move to label settlement goods

By AP and ToI Staff

Following 2015 EU guidelines, Paris issues directive to clearly mark origin of Israeli products from beyond ’67 line

French Gendarmes patrol cars near the village of Montferrier-sur-Lez, southern France, Friday, Nov. 25, 2016. (AP Photo)

Manhunt underway after killing at monks’ residence in France

By PHILIPPE SOTTO

National gendarme police rush to southern French town after reported murder, no word on attacker’s motive

Illustrative: French policemen at the arrest of a man in the Normandy city of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, where an elderly priest was killed by two terrorists who claimed to be acting on behalf of the Islamic State jihadist group, on July 26, 2016. (AFP/Charly Triballeau)

Terror gang was set to hit Paris on December 1 — police

By AFP

Seven suspects arrested in raids in Strasbourg, Marseille; jihadist cell may have planned Disneyland attack

Illustrative: Egyptian soldiers in an armored vehicle in northern Sinai, May 2013. (AP)

8 soldiers killed in car bombing in Egypt’s Sinai

By Haitham el-Tabei

Three jihadists die in assault; as insurgency grinds on, Cairo insists it will ‘eradicate’ local IS affiliate

Civilians search for survivors in the rubble at the scene of a car bomb attack near the city of Hilla about 95 kilometers (60 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016. (AP/Hadi Mizban)

Death toll in Iraq bomb claimed by IS rises to 73

By MURTADA FARAJ

Attack appears to have targeted bus with Iranian pilgrims heading home after Shiite religious event in holy city of Karbala

A refugee tries to save his belongings as a fire burns at the Moria refugee camp on the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, early Friday, Nov. 25, 2016. (AP Photo)

Woman and child die in blaze at Greek island refugee camp

By AP

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras expresses shock; NGO says loss underlines ‘ineptitude of European response to refugee crisis’

Rabbi Menachem Creditor, in this undated photo, wrote on social media that he disavows the use of his song 'Olam Chesed Yibaneh,' by anti-Zionist groups, citing its genocide accusation. (Courtesy: Menachem Creditor)

US Jewish musicians offer up songs of hope to buoy post-election spirits

(L to R) Vice president-elect Mike Pence, President-elect Donald Trump and Mitt Romney leave the clubhouse after their meeting at Trump International Golf Club, November 19, 2016 in Bedminster Township, New Jersey. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Battle surrounds Trump’s secretary of state pick

By Mandel NGAN and Nicolas Revise

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani front-runners for top diplomat spot

Spray-painted swastikas on the doors of the Machzikei Hadas synagogue in Ottawa, November 2016. (Screenshot)

Has the ‘Trump effect’ spilled over the border to Canada?

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

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)

Genetic research claims to trace mysterious origins of Israel’s Druze

By Ilan Ben Zion

Solidarity protest against the Dakota Access Pipleline near Standing Rock Indian Reservation in San Francisco, California, on November 15, 2016. (CC-BY-SA/Pax Ahimsa Gethen/Wikimedia Commons)

Jewish woman injured at Standing Rock protests, could lose her arm

By JTA and ToI Staff

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)

Home of San Diego Jewish family vandalized with anti-Semitic message

By JTA

Hapoel Beesheba's players celebrate after winning the UEFA Europa League group K football match against Italy's Inter Milan at the Turner Stadium in the southern city of Beersheba, November 24, 2016. (AFP/Gil Cohen-Magen)

Hapoel Beersheba grabs last-minute victory over Inter Milan

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative photo of Israeli students at the Hebrew University on the first day of the academic year, October 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Study finds Hebrew U graduates among most employable

By JTA

This undated photograph released by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial shows World War II US Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds. (Courtesy of Yad Vashem via AP)

Soldier who protected 200 American-Jewish POWs to be awarded

By JTA

The inside of the Westfield Garden State Plaza mall in Paramus, New Jersey. (CC BY-SA, LuigiNovi, Wikipedia)

D*ck moveIsraeli: US police made me strip, mocked my penis

This 2015 photo provided by Iranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi, shows him in Kuedistan, Iran. (Keywan Karimi via AP)

No writing on the wallIran jails filmmaker for ‘insulting footage’

By Adam Schreck

Handing out chocolates at the YMCA tree trimming in November 2015 (Courtesy YMCA)

Jingle bellsTrim the tree, no matter what you preach

By Jessica Steinberg

A man watches wildfires in Haifa, Israel, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Hebrew media reviewThe fire and the terror

By Adiv Sterman

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