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What Matters Most On Friday, November 3, 2017

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Illustrative: An explosion on the Syrian Golan Heights on June 16, 2015, as the al-Nusra Front fights against Assad's troops near the Syrian Druze village of Hader. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

In rare step, Israel says it will help Syrian Druze village fend off jihadists

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Announcement by IDF comes hours after suicide bombing kills nine people in Hader, near Quneitra; spillover fire lightly injures resident of Majdal Shams

Syria says it liberated Deir el-Zour from Islamic State

Syria complains to UN over alleged Israeli airstrikes

Putin positions himself as Middle East broker as US retreats

Illustrative: Taglit Birthright participants visit at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 18, 2014. (Flash90)

Birthright cuts out encounters with Arab Israelis

By JTA

Reform movement decries decision, says it ‘shows just how out of touch Birthright is becoming’

UK Labour Party spokesman on Middle East affairs Fabian Hamilton. (Courtesy UK Parliament/CC-SA-3.0)

Israel-UK relations

‘No reason’ for Israel not to trust Corbyn, says his Jewish spokesman

By Robert Philpot

British Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks during a meeting of the Party of European Socialists in Brussels, on October 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/John Thys)

Corbyn urges UK to mark Balfour centenary by recognizing Palestine

British Prime Minister Theresa May walks out of 10 Downing street to greet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in London on November 2, 2017.(AFP PHOTO / Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS)

British PM emphatically rejects call to apologize for Balfour Declaration

By Marissa Newman and Raphael Ahren

In speech underlining pride for UK role in establishment of Israel, Theresa May slams boycott efforts, a ‘new and pernicious form of anti-Semitism’

British Prime Minister Theresa May (L) poses with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside 10 Downing Street in London on November 2, 2017.(AFP Photo/Tolga Akmen)

Full text of May’s speech at Balfour Declaration centenary dinner

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., talks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

US senators propose commemoration of Balfour centennial

By Eric Cortellessa

Palestinian Hitler Abu Hamad, deputy head at a school, sits at his office in the West Bank city of Hebron, on September 26, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / HAZEM BADER)

'I hate what he did, but'

A Hebron teacher named Hitler: Palestinians reckon with loaded names

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinian man formerly named Saddam Hussein says it was ‘the source of psychological and physical suffering’

Members of the Hamas terror group's military wing carry the body of 30-year-old Maslih Shabir in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 31, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas rejects Israeli conditions for return of terrorists’ bodies

Israel refuses access to cross-border tunnel where 5 missing unless progress is made on returning Israeli citizens, bodies of soldiers held by Hamas since 2014

Hamas and Fatah officials attend ceremony in which the Gaza terror group handed over all Gaza border crossing to the Palestinian Authority on November 1, 2017/ (Wafa)

US official welcomes PA takeover of Gaza border crossings

From a vantage point near the Temple Mount, Tzipi Hotovely, now Israel's deputy foreign minister, waves the Israeli flag, with the Dome of the Rock in the background, May, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The case for the settlements: Assertive booklets for pro-Israel students

By Raphael Ahren

Evangelical Christians from Asia carry a replica of the Ark of the Covennant during the annual Jerusalem Parade on October 20, 2016 in the streets of Jerusalem, to mark the Jewish holiday of Sukkot and to express solidarity with Israel. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

In big anniversary year for Israel, Christian Zionists see signs of the Messiah

By Andrew Tobin

Palestinian terrorists from the Islamic Jihad group attend the funeral of comrades killed in an Israeli operation to blow up a tunnel stretching from the Gaza Strip into Israel, during their funeral at the Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, on October 31, 2017 (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Hebrew media review

Give war a chance

By Joshua Davidovich

The press finds Israel headed for the brink, Abbas more willing to butt heads with Israel than Hamas, and leftists who don’t want to hug it out with the right at the Rabin rally

White House Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner exits the West Wing at the White House, on October 17, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

What did Jared know? Plus other Jewish takes on the Russia Affair

George Papadopoulos wrote op-eds for Israeli media, was embraced by settler leader; Paul Singer tied to British spy behind now-infamous dossier

US judge maintains house arrest for former Trump campaign officials

By AFP

Mueller grand jury investigating top DC lobbyists

By Desmond Butler

You're fired?Twitter ‘inadvertently deactivates’ Trump’s account

Gilbert Gottfried and wife Dara Kravitz. (Bingham Bryant/via JTA)

Interview'I've never been to Israel. I fear the Jewish conspiracy'

Gilbert Gottfried loves being on the Nazis’ list of most powerful Jews

By Jordan Hoffman

Ahead of the Friday release of his eponymous documentary, the comedian tells us some dirty jokes, and why it’s best never to apologize

Documentary about comedian Gilbert Gottfried reveals he isn’t a cranky loudmouth

By Curt Schleier

You betrayed us

That’s what American progressive Jewish leaders told an Israeli minister at the Western Wall

My birthland, my homeland

The ANZACS reenactment of the Battle of Beersheba threw me back in time to present Israel as my true inheritance

Let them go home

Ten thousand Israelis with disabilities live in institutions; many of them don’t have to

How Judaism broke down the family

The biblical Binding of Isaac is a painful episode in the drama of human separation and individuation

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In this Feb. 12, 2011, file photo, then-Rep. Mary Bono, Republican of California, listens at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Female members of US Congress allege harassment by colleagues

By Erica Werner and JULIET LINDERMAN

Sen. Charles Schumer, left, chided President Trump for 'politicizing' the deadly attack by an Uzbeki immigrant in New York City. (Schumer photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images; Trump photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

AnalysisTrump attacks an immigration program, Chuck Schumer gets caught in the crossfire

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei slams Trump, calls US Iran’s ‘number one enemy’

Comedian Shani Cohen, dressed as Sivan Rahav-Meir, a Torah commentator and new character on satirical news show 'Eretz Nehederet' (Courtesy 'Eretz Nehederet')

Biblical humorPopular satire TV show takes on the Torah

By Jessica Steinberg

Sayfullo Saipov, in an undated photo. (St. Charles County, Mo. Department of Corrections/KMOV via AP)

New York attacker was ‘soldier’ of Islamic State, group says

By AFP

Renowned Armenian-American oud player Ara Dinkjian, who will appear at the Oud Festival on Saturday night, November 4 (Courtesy Alena Soboleva)

Intimate oudA trio’s tunes made with an oud, lyra and qanun

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: Elbit's Hermes 900 UAV . (Courtesy/Elbit)

Swiss say no more drone tests in ‘occupied’ Golan

By Alexander Fulbright

Tommy Lapid reporting from Adolf Eichman's trial in Jerusalem 1961. (Government Press Office/Israel National Photo Collection)

Veteran journalist alleges Tommy Lapid assaulted her in London in 1963

Ilan Halimi, kidnapped and murdered by an anti-Semitic gang in Paris in 2006, (Courtesy of Stephanie Yin/JTA)

Paris plaque in memory of murdered French Jew vandalized

By JTA

This file photo taken on December 16, 2013 shows Producer Harvey Weinstein (L) and Colony Capital CEO Thomas J. Barrack, Jr. attending the premiere of "August: Osage County," at the Regal Cinemas at LA Live in Los Angeles, California. (AFP PHOTO / ROBYN BECK)

As Weinstein effect spreads, feminist activists say ‘there’s no turning back’

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