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What Matters Most On Monday, November 28, 2016

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Illustrative: An Israel Air Force F-16 fighter jet fires off flares during a demonstration on December 31, 2015. (Hagar Amibar/Israel Air Force/Flickr)

IDF strikes IS target in Syria, day after killing 4 IS-affiliated terrorists following clash

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Military says it took out compound used as base for attack on IDF troops Sunday by members of Khalid ibn al-Walid Army in Golan Heights

IDF forces on the Golan Heights, northern Israel, January 20, 2015. (Basal Awidat/Flash90)

AnalysisFirst IDF-Islamic State clash sends Israeli message: Don’t mess with us

By Judah Ari Gross

An Israeli F-16I fighter jet during an exercise in the United States in 2009. (Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald/US Department of Defense/Wikimedia)

Israel Air Force officer: ‘Syria’s the global stage, everybody’s playing there’

By Judah Ari Gross

Supporters of US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton watch televised coverage of the US presidential election at Comet Tavern in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, on November 8, 2016. (AFP/Jason Redmond)

Israeli pollsters: Our off-mark 2015 surveys were ‘entirely different’ to US election fiasco

By Marissa Newman

As US pollsters lick their wounds after failing to predict Trump victory, Israeli experts insist their models were fine last year; it’s just that Netanyahu electrified his voters at last minute

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tours the village of Beit Meir in the Jerusalem hills, which was ravaged by a wildfire overnight on Friday, November 25, 2016 (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Report: PM warns outposts bill could trigger ICC probe

8 hurt in Ohio State attack, suspect said killed; Tel Aviv terrorist gets 2 life terms; court okays Karim as IDF chief rabbi; Netanyahu says Abbas told him sending PA firefighters was ‘right thing to do’

Smoke billows over the northern Israeli city of Haifa, where a major fire was raging, November 24, 2016. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

'Haifa is a strong city. Relationships are good here'

In Haifa, decades-long coexistence endures trial by fire

By Dov Lieber and Video by Luke Tress

Amid accusations of wildfires being sparked by homegrown ‘terror,’ residents of ravaged port city insist no arsonist came from their midst

In Kafkaesque case, Bedouin man freed on bail after ‘sarcastic’ Facebook post

By ToI Staff and Dov Lieber

Rivlin thanks Erdogan for Turkey’s help battling fires

Fresh blazes break out in north, West Bank, Jerusalem

Men hose down wildfires in Haifa, Israel, November 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

One-third of about 90 fires caused by arson, police estimate

Some 50 people questioned, 24 arrested; no signs of national coordination in spate of blazes

Six minors arrested for starting fire near Acre

Minister floats radical plan to prevent fires amid climate change

By Tamar Pileggi

Jewish Agency to assist families whose homes were damaged in fires

The F-35 Lightning II during a refueling test at dusk in January 2015. (Tom Reynolds/Lockheed Martin)

Israel to buy an additional 17 F-35 fighter planes

Following approval of security cabinet, IAF will now have a fleet of 50 of the high-tech stealth fighters jets

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

You have no right to praise Castro

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

A goyisher fiddler

The classic musical tugs at the heartstrings, even in Wisconsin, where the bread is white and Jewish jokes fall flat

Rama Ben Zvi in front of the charred hull of her renowned country restaurant, Rama's Kitchen, in the village of Nataf, September 27, 2016 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

A ‘rolling ball of fire’ burned up Rama’s Kitchen, in the pastoral hills of Nataf

By Jessica Steinberg

Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi speaks at the Ministry of Finance in Jerusalem on November 2, 2015. (Flash90)

Military Intelligence head warns of instability in West Bank, possible wave of terror

Maj-Gen Herzl Halevi says power struggle in PA over Abbas successor will lead to ‘challenging reality’ in 2017

Kulanu MK Michael Oren shows a 'Made in Europe' label he prepared a few weeks earlier, in response to the European decision to label products made in territories Israel captured in the Six Day War in 1967. (Courtesy Michael Oren)

Michael Oren seems to urge boycott of French products, drawing ambassador’s ire

By Raphael Ahren

Deputy minister’s call to ‘think twice’ before purchasing goods from France follows Paris’s decision to label settlement goods

A street performer plays the bagpipes next to a statue of Scottish philosopher David Hume on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland on June 25, 2016. (AFP/OLI SCARFF)

Israel Securities Authority fines binary options firm — but why is it located in Scotland?

By Simona Weinglass

Scottish and Israeli lawmakers call for crackdown on tax havens that allow binary options firms to launder money

Isle of Skye, Scotland (CC BY Moyan Brenn, Flickr)

How Scotland unwittingly became a tax haven for internet scams

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a rally in New York on Nov. 9, 2016 (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump assails recount push, claims millions ‘voted illegally’

By Steve Peoples and Calvin Woodward

Without evidence, president-elect casts shadow on legitimacy of election he actually won, alleging ‘serious voter fraud’ in 3 key states won by Clinton

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)

Abbas orders Palestinian flags flown at half-staff in honor of Castro

By Tamar Pileggi

PA president hails late revolutionary Cuban president as leader ‘who spent his life fighting for causes of justice’

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)

Jewish choreographer stands by Holocaust-themed ice dance

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ilya Averbukh says routine performed in concentration camp uniforms was his idea, brands outrage ‘a sign of craziness’

Jamaican converts in Kingston's Shaare Shalom Synagogue (photo credit: Rabbi Dana Evan Kaplan)

Remnants of Jamaica’s Jews hold a heritage full of firsts

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Illustrative: A swastika spray-painted at a playground in Lakewood, New Jersey, August 2016. (AP)

Swastikas, racist messages painted outside Boston-area school

By JTA

Palestinian Muslim women from the Murabitun group shout slogans and hold the Koran during a protest against Israel policemen preventing them from entering the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem's Old City on September 17, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90 )

Members of banned Islamic group indicted for stoking Temple Mount violence

By Tamar Pileggi

Skulls remain at the site of a purported mass grave in the city of Sinjar, northern Iraq after it was retaken from Islamic State militants, November 22, 2015. (AP via AP video/File)

Two Yazidi mass graves found near Iraq’s Sinjar

By AFP

The Syqe medical cannabis inhaler (Courtesy)

In global first, Teva signs deal to market medical marijuana inhaler

By Shoshanna Solomon

Mill Lane, Cambridge, UK. (screen capture Google maps)

Jewish students at top UK college allege anti-Semitic attack, cover-up

By JTA and ToI Staff

TV actor Karim Kassem reveals he's Jewish in front of a live studio audience on the Egyptian TV talk show "Mona Elshazly" on November 18, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Prince of EgyptEgyptian TV star reveals he’s Jewish

Israeli settlers grieve over their burnt houses in the Halamish settlement on November 27, 2016. AFP / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Hebrew media reviewFires give way to fears of being left high and dry

By Joshua Davidovich

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