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What Matters Most On Tuesday, November 29, 2016

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Illustrative: New immigrants to Israel disembarking a plane in Tel Aviv, on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Diaspora pedophiles increasingly use Israel as ‘a haven,’ activists charge

By Melanie Lidman

As sex offenders flee their home countries for the Jewish state, grassroots efforts at raising awareness of their presence has led to a slander lawsuit

Former Olympic ice dancer Tatiana Navka performed with actor Andrei Burkovsky in a televised Holocaust-themed ice dance in Moscow, November 26, 2016. (Photo: YouTube Screen Capture)

‘Auschwitz on Ice’ is perfectly fine in Russia, where the Holocaust is not about the Jews

By Matt Lebovic

Only after the fall of the Iron Curtain were former Soviet Union countries able to access information about a ‘Jewish’ genocide during the ‘Great Patriotic War.’ Today, critics claim history is again being rewritten

A fire burns in Haifa, Israel, Thursday, November 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Heralding state compensation, arson confirmed in several major fires

By Raoul Wootliff

Haifa and Zichron Ya’akov among 9 locations that were hit by deliberate fires, qualifying residents for state restitution for losses

American and Israeli firefighters posing for photographs after returning from a call in Jerusalem, Nov. 27, 2016. (Courtesy of Emergency Volunteers Program)

As Israel burned, US firefighters ‘dropped everything’ to help battle flames

By Andrew Tobin

Troops from the IDF's Home Front Command assist in evacuations in Haifa in light of a massive fire in parts of the city on November 24, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Blazes quelled, fire service lowers alert, sends help back home

Brig.-Gen. Ofek Buchris, during a visit to Tel Hashomer army base, November 22, 2010. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

IDF general charged with rape reaches plea deal

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Reports say Brig. Gen. Ofek Buchris, will plead to charges of sexual offences against two subordinates, but not rape; will likely avoid jail

Liberal Jewish activists enter the Western Wall carrying Torah scrolls on Wednesday, November 2, 2016 (courtesy)

Haredi lawmakers look to outlaw mixed prayer at Western Wall

Bill proposed by Shas would designate the holy site as subject to religious observance rules of Israel’s rabbinic courts, effectively forbidding non-Orthodox prayer

Every little kid’s dream

How an Ethiopian boy with a disability grew up to be an IDF firefighter

Miriam Bradman Abrahams

Rocking my Cuban world

Despite testimonials by ex-pat family and friends on how Castro destroyed Cuba, she looks forward to its bright future

Israel learned the Carmel fire’s lessons

History offers leaders the chance to do better when the next crisis happens, and Netanyahu has done just that

A chilling performance

Ice dancers who thought it appropriate to don concentration-camp uniforms for the rink were crass — and wrong

850,000 invisible Mideast refugees

Recognizing the Jews who were chased out of Arab lands is a necessary step on any path to peace

Orthodox boys need women teachers

In a world no longer defined by male authority, strong female Jewish role models improve religious education for all

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a rally marking the 12th anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat in Ramallah November 10, 2016. (Flash90)

Fatah unanimously re-elects Abbas as party leader

By AFP

Five-day congress in Ramallah could signal future for party, talks with Israel and Hamas reconciliation efforts

Augusta Victoria Hospital compound on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem (CC BY-SA Ilan Arad, Wikimedia)

East Jerusalem hospitals warn of closure due to unpaid PA debt

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)

A-G proposes absentee land compromise in Amona demolition dispute

As December 25 deadline for removing illegal settlement nears, officials seek a way out of the political deadlock that does not contravene Israeli and international law

Francois Fillon, candidate in the center-right Les Republicains party primaries and former French prime minister, at a polling station on November 20, 2016 in Paris. (AFP Photo/Martin Bureau)

When it comes to Israel, is François Fillon friend or foe?

By Glenn Cloarec

Raed Khalil, 36, arrives to a court hearing at the District Court in Tel Aviv on December 13, 2015. (Flash90)

Stabber who killed 2 in Tel Aviv sentenced to life in prison

Raed Khalil given 2 life sentences plus 20 years for deadly attack on worshipers in Panorama office building synagogue; Petah Tikva stabber sentenced to 16.5 years

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

After he apologizes, court clears nomination of IDF chief rabbi

Decision to unfreeze posting of Eyal Karim comes after he explains controversial statements and Meretz MKs withdraw objection; expected to be sworn in on Thursday

Yesh Atid party chairman MK Yair Lapid speaks during a party faction meeting at the Knesset, November 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yair Lapid: Coalition wants to ‘insult Muslims’ with muezzin bill

By Raoul Wootliff

Yesh Atid chair says law to limit sound pollution already exists but isn’t enforced, latest efforts ‘serve the haters of Israel’

Former prime minister Ehud Barak at the launch event of the defense news Reporty App in Tel Aviv, March 16, 2016. (Flash90)

Former PM Barak accuses Netanyahu of inciting against Arabs

‘Nationalist spirit’ on the right is ‘central threat today to Israel’s future,’ says veteran ex-politician

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath during a memorial ceremony for the 1956 Suze (Kadesh) military operation, at Mount Herzl cemetery, Jerusalem, on November 28, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Bereaved families fume after waiting for Netanyahu at memorial

By Stuart Winer

Public had to arrive at Jerusalem cemetery an hour early, linger in discomfort until dignitaries came to commemorate the fallen of 1956 Suez campaign

Like a kid in a candy store, IDF salivates over incoming F-35 jets

By Judah Ari Gross

Interpretive park ranger Caitlin Kostic, center, gives a tour near the high-water mark of the Confederacy at Gettysburg National Military Park to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, and campaign CEO Steve Bannon, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, in Gettysburg, Pa. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Analysis

With his appointments, Trump may be ‘institutionalizing conflict’ in the White House

By Eric Cortellessa

An administration comprising a ‘team of rivals’ could represent an attempt to keep any single staff member from rising to the top

Rabbi Eliyahu Asulin, a certified mohel, telling an undercover reporter that he should practice on babies from low-income families. (Screen capture: Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation)

Mohel urges apprentices to practice on babies from low-income homes

Veteran Israeli circumciser filmed saying Ethiopian and Sudanese children are ‘cannon fodder’ for inexperienced students

Crime scene investigators collect evidence from the pavement as police respond to an attack on campus at Ohio State University, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Terrorism suspected in Ohio university stabbing assault

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS and JULIE CARR SMYTH

Somalia-born Abdul Razak Ali Artan drove his car into a campus crowd, then began knifing passers-by; he injured 11 before he was killed

Austrian writer Stefan Zweig (public domain)

Letters show paternal side of literary giant Zweig

By Jonah Mandel

A trove of previously unseen correspondence highlights Austrian Jewish author’s concern with the fate of Jews, admiration for Zionist visionary Herzl

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Nazi cupcake decoration at birthday party of Jewish teenaged girl in Arizona. (Twitter)

Arizona teens decorate cupcakes with swastikas at Jewish friend’s party

By JTA

British Home Secretary Amber Rudd delivers a keynote address on the third day of the annual Conservative Party conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, central England, on October 4, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / BEN STANSALL)

From our partnerTop UK politicians headline Jewish News-BICOM Israel conference

Nazi-themed smoothie drink sold in London cafe, November 2016 (Campaign Against Antisemitism)

Unfair shakeSwastika smoothie no longer on menu at London cafe

El Al airplanes on the tarmac at the Ben Gurion International Airport on August 14, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

El Al management, pilots end labor dispute

By AFP

Danny Ashkenazi, left, and Tom Franz preparing to eat filet Osvaldo Aranha in Jerusalem, November 2016. (Courtesy of World Bnei Akiva/via JTA)

Why Brazilian Jews celebrate UN vote on Israel with prime beef and a ton of garlic

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The storefront of Hahummus shel Tehina, a Nahlaot eatery (Courtesy Hummus shel Tehina)

Day of restiveness‘Open for Shabbat’ cafe project gets shut down

By Jessica Steinberg

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)

Fideler on the roof7 moments that define Castro’s ties with Jews

By Josefin Dolsten

Scene of the bus accident on the Route 1 highway near the Anava intersection on February 14, 2016. (United Hatzalah)

Driver in deadly bus crash to get 4 years jail in plea deal — report

Israeli students seen on the first day of the new academic year. October 21, 2012. (Miriam Alster/FLASh90)

Nobel Prize winner says Israel needs more science students

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: An IDF soldier during training in the Golan Heights on December 15, 2014. (Matan Portnoy/IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flickr)

IDF: Incoming rocket siren in Golan was false alarm

By Judah Ari Gross

Jewish kids play with a ball in Amona, an Israeli outpost in the West Bank, east of the Palestinian town of Ramallah, May 18, 2016. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Hebrew media reviewBlazes extinguished, fears rise Amona could char country anew

By Joshua Davidovich

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