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What Matters Most On Sunday, November 27, 2016

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Avigdor Lieberman inspects burnt houses in the Halamish settlement on November 27, 2016. AFP/ MENAHEM KAHANA)

Senior ministers vow to fight fires with settlement building

By Raoul Wootliff

Liberman and Bennett make separate visits to ravaged Halamish; defense minister says authorities have proof that 17 of 110 recorded outbreaks were caused by arson

Security officials: Arsonists ‘jumped on bandwagon’ after first fires, but this is no new intifada

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

PM: Fires worse than 2010 Carmel blaze, other forms of terror

By Tamar Pileggi and Raoul Wootliff

With fires largely under control, Israel sets up emergency fund for those affected

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during the state funeral of late president Shimon Peres, held at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on September 30, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

In phone call, Netanyahu thanks Abbas for PA help fighting nationwide fires

PM notes appreciation for Jews, Arabs who opened their homes to those affected by blazes; Herzog says tragedy shows ‘glimmer of hope that things can be different’

PA firefighters return home after battling blazes in Israel

Bedouin man arrested for ‘sarcastic’ arson post kept in jail

By Raoul Wootliff

Fire and brimstoneWave of blazes blamed on divine retribution

A picture shows the remains of the popular Nataf restaurant Rama's Kitchen on November 26, 2016, a day after it was burned down in a forest fire. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

Anatomy of a firestorm: 180 injured, hundreds of homes in ruins, 33,000 dunams of parkland burned

At least 35 suspects, mostly Palestinians, arrested for arson or incitement; finance minister approves aid, promises to stand by those affected ‘even after the smoke clears’

US supertanker among 29 aircraft battling blazes across Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Blazes stamped out as officials say spate of fires under control

By ToI Staff and AFP

Fires raging across Israel more damaging than 2010 Carmel blaze

Firefighters battle a blaze near Rishpon in central Israel, on Sunday, November 27, 2016 (Israel Police)

Live updates (closed)

Police say 30 suspected arsonists arrested so far

Israel to buy 17 additional F-35 jets, bringing total to 50; Rivlin calls Erdogan to thank Turkey for firefighting aid

An image from Tatiana Navka and Andre Burkovsky's Holocaust-themed ice skating performance on the Russian reality competition show 'Ice Age,' November 26, 2016. (Screen shot, YouTube)

Cold-hearted

Wife of Putin aide puts on Holocaust-themed ice show

In striped concentration camp uniform with yellow star, Tatiana Navka competes in popular Russian reality TV competition

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton delivers her concession speech after being defeated by Republican president-elect Donald Trump, in New York on November 9, 2016. (AFP Photo/Jewel Samad)

Analysis

The Democrats are winning — and that’s why they lost

By Haviv Rettig Gur

The Republican grip on power is fragile, but the Democratic Party, even as it slowly triumphs in the culture war, must change in fundamental ways before it can take advantage of that fragility

The Islamic Center of Long Beach, California. (Screen capture: Google Street View)

US mosques threatened with anti-Semitic, pro-Trump messages

By AP

New US president will ‘do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the Jews,’ warns letter sent to California houses of worship

Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks during the 6th Session of the Cuban Parliament at the Conventions Palace in Havana on December 22, 2005. (AFP PHOTO/Antonio LEVI)

You have no right to praise Castro

By Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Those who never felt the repression of a Castro or a Stalin would be best advised to keep silent

6 lessons from the fires

Silver linings have emerged from the dry weather and the arson across Israel — including the need to pray for rain

Can we take this voting thing seriously?

The Jewish community should use its electoral power beyond the presidential races — where real change takes place

An urgent need for ambivalence

Time to dial down the outrage against Jewish leaders who haven’t raised a battle cry

Smoke rising from the Syrian village of Jubata al-Khashab, where Israeli aircraft struck Syrian army positions after fire from its war-torn neighbor hit the Golan, September 10, 2016. (AFP/Jalaa Marey)

IDF airstrike kills 4 IS-affiliated terrorists in Syria after clash

By Judah Ari Gross

Soldiers come under attack during ambush raid, exchange small arms fire with Khalid ibn al-Walid Army, military says

A rebel fighter reacts as a landmine, planted by Islamic State jihadists, is exploded by his comrades in the village of Tilalayn on the western outskirts of the northern Syrian town of Dabiq, on November 25, 2016. (AFP/ Nazeer al-Khatib)

Turkey says 22 Syria rebels hurt in IS chemical attack

By AFP

An undated file photograph of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and late Cuban Pesident Fidel Castro, made available by the Palestinian Authority in Gaza City of the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Palestinian Authority)

Palestinian leaders mourn loss of ‘comrade’ Castro

By Tamar Pileggi

Revolutionary Cuban president hailed for supporting Palestinian resistance to ‘imperialism, Zionism, racism and capitalism’

People dance together as they react to the news of the death of former Cuban President Fidel Castro outside the restaurant Versailles on November 26, 2016 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images North America/AFP)

Miami revelers celebrate ‘Freedom!’ at Fidel Castro’s death

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touring the INS Tanin submarine, built by the German firm Thyssenkrupp, as it arrived in Israel on September 23, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Israelis distrust Netanyahu on submarine affair, but prefer him for PM

‘The facts were the first victims of the media coverage,’ says PM’s attorney, insisting Netanyahu is ‘completely untouched by corruption’

Mariam Hammad, of nearby Silwad, points to a piece of land in the West Bank she says belongs to her but was taken by Israelis to build the outpost of Amona, November 2016 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

One month ahead of evacuation, Amona remains a city of two tales

By Raphael Ahren

Palestinian Civil Defense members rescue an Israeli settler who had been stuck in a pit for six days, November 26, 2016. (Screenshot/Channel 10)

Palestinians rescue Israeli settler stuck in pit for 6 days

Resident of Avnei Heffetz in northern West Bank found dazed, dehydrated after nearly a week in dark hole

President-elect Donald Trump listens to questions from the press as he gets into his car after a day of meetings at Trump International Golf Club, November 19, 2016, in Bedminster Township, New Jersey. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump slams recount push as ‘a scam,’ says election is over

By Steve Peoples

Clinton formally joins Green Party-led initiative to revisit vote totals in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania

More Headlines

A portrait of Miriam Eshkol, the late wife of former Prime Minister Levi Eskhol in 1964. (Pridan Moshe/GPO)

Miriam Eshkol, wife of Israel’s 3rd prime minister, dies at 87

By Tamar Pileggi

Illustrative. A man's hands in handcuffs. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Teen arrested for allegedly killing his friend with a metal bar

A Boeing 747 El Al plane (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

El Al flight to Boston canceled amid ongoing labor dispute

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic poses during a recent trip to Canada with a flag carrying a symbol of her country's wartime pro-Nazi regime. (Facebook)

Croatian president poses with pro-Nazi regime symbol

By AFP

A portrait of Hans Globke, the under-secretary of state and chief of staff of the West German Chancellery, from 1953 to 1963. (CC BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons)

Berlin to probe Nazi ties to post-war government

By AFP

Zebra's Medical Vision's scan analysis technology in action (Courtesy)

Israel’s Zebra helps users get second opinion on scans

The 747 Supertanker helps to extinguish a forest fire which broke out near Nataf, outside Jerusalem on November 26, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewFighting fire with ire

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