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What Matters Most On Saturday, November 4, 2017

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Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri announces his resignation, November 4, 2017. (YouTube screenshot)

'I am aware of what is being plotted to target my life'

Lebanon’s PM resigns, says he fears for his life, slams Iran and Hezbollah

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In striking speech, Saad Hariri says Tehran spreading chaos and destruction, accuses terror group of holding country hostage

Druze men in the Israeli Golan Heights congregate near the Syrian border, waving their community's flag, after they heard about a suicide bombing in the Syrian Druze village of Hadar, on November 3, 2017. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Israeli Druze lawmaker says 4 of the dead in Syria bombing are his kin

Druze men in the Israeli Golan Heights congregate near the Syrian border, waving their community's flag, after they heard about a suicide bombing in the Syrian Druze village of Hadar, on November 3, 2017. (Jalaa Marey/AFP)

Druze try to break into Syria from Israel, IDF brings them back

By Judah Ari Gross, ToI Staff and Agencies

Iranians burn a doll representing Israel and America during a demonstration outside the former US embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran on November 4, 2017, marking the anniversary of its storming by student protesters that triggered a hostage crisis in 1979. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)

Netanyahu, Trump effigies hang on nooses as Iran marks 1979 US Embassy takeover

By ToI Staff and AP

Demonstrators in Tehran chant ‘Down with US’ and ‘Death to Israel’; surface-to-surface missile displayed for first time at annual event

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discusses Israel's foreign policy at Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, in London, on November 3, 2017. (AFP Photo/Adrian Dennis)

Netanyahu: Iran is ‘devouring’ nations; Israel won’t let it dominate Syria

By AFP and ToI Staff

Mourners carry the coffin of Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement terrorist Arafat Abu Morshed during the funeral at the Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza of Palestinians killed in an Israeli operation to blow up a tunnel stretching from the Gaza Strip into Israel, on October 31, 2017. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Islamic Jihad declares tunnel missing dead; toll rises to 12

By AFP and ToI Staff

Some 100,000 attend a rally marking the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in the same Tel Aviv square in which he was killed during a 1995 peace rally, in 2015. (Flash90/Tomer Neuberg)

Thousands expected at annual Rabin rally, with new emphasis on unity

By ToI Staff and JTA

Many streets near Rabin Square to close Saturday evening; speakers to include settlers, ultra-Orthodox as organizers move away from peace message

Former vice president Joe Biden speaks to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs on November 1, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

Scarred by Trump, challengers eye 2020

By Michael Mathes

If presidential tumult persists, Democrats may not be the only ones eyeing a White House run

Robin Bernstein and husband Richard at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, February 13, 2017. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images via JTA)

Trump picks Dominican Republic envoy who helped him win Florida Jewish votes

US President Donald Trump at a meeting with business leaders on tax reform at the White House in Washington, DC, October 31, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM)

The Trump A to Z, from America First to ‘Zero’

By daniel woolls

Netanyahu in Britain

30 years after Thatcher’s rebuff, Theresa May celebrates Balfour with Israel

Downing Street’s warm reception for PM Benjamin Netanyahu comes amid close trade ties and diminishing antagonism between Israel and Arab states

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with British Prime Minister Theresa May in London on November 2, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

The Jewish Museum of Florida in Miami Beach. (Richard Tenorio)

Bomb threat cancels Balfour Declaration event at Florida Jewish museum

By JTA

A picnic at Ra’anana Park celebrating the first anniversary of the Kehila Yalla Chaverim group, October 20, 2017. (Samuel Gabbay/JTA)

Brazilian Aliya

Why hundreds of Brazilian immigrants are flocking to this Israeli suburb

By Marcus M. Gilban

In this handout photo released by the police of Karlsruhe, a Zucchini is pictured in a garden in Bretten, Germany, Friday, Nov. 3, 2017. A worried resident alerted to police to what he thought was a World War II bomb in his garden. Officers found a particularly large zucchini. (Karlsruhe Police Photo via AP)

Fears squashed

Zucchini mistaken for WWII bomb in Germany

By AP

Offending vegetable, which was discovered by an 81-year-old man and was very dark in color, weighed about five kilograms

Rob Reiner on the set of his biopic 'LBJ.' (Electric Entertainment/JTA)

Jewish celebrities

Rob Reiner on Judaism, his new movie ‘LBJ’ and his experience ‘home shuling’

By Curt Schleier

Scarlett Johansson learning about her ancestry on 'Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr.' (Screenshot from 'Finding Your Roots')

Roots

Watching PBS show, Jewish family learn they are related to Scarlett Johansson

By Curt Schleier

Watching actress tear up on ‘Finding Your Roots,’ member of family split between Israel, US recognizes name of Holocaust victim as a common ancestor

Egyptian television hostess Doaa Salah (YouTube screenshot/Al-Nahar TV)

Egyptian TV host jailed for speaking of pregnancy outside marriage

By AFP

Doaa Salah sentenced to 3 years in prison for suggesting a woman could marry only to conceive, then divorce

An EgyptAir plane flies past minarets of a mosque as it approaches Cairo International Airport, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, May 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

UK woman jailed in Egypt for carrying painkillers

In this Wednesday, April 12, 2017 photo, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters during a referendum meeting in Istanbul. (Kayhan Ozer/Presidential Press Service, Pool Photo via AP)

Critics fear for Turkey’s secular foundations as religious marriage law passes

By Fulya Ozerkan

Shayna Abramson

My open-heart surgery won’t break the bank

Israel’s socialized healthcare is becoming the most important benefit of American aliyah

Nasreen Haddad Haj-Yahya

Yitzhak Rabin, warrior for equality

I am an Arab citizen of Israel and I salute the man who sanctified people over land

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A hippo escapes from the Ramat Gan Safari on November 1, 2017 (Screen capture/YouTube)

Great escape... notHippo at Israeli safari makes dash for freedom, then regrets it

This file photo taken on May 22, 2009 shows US actress Paz de la Huerta during the photocall for "Enter The Void" by Argentinian director Gaspar Noe presented in competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. (AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCE)

NY assigns sex crimes prosecutor to Weinstein case

By AFP

Yoram Israeli stands next to his torched car in Netanya on November 3, 2017. (Screen capture Channel 2)

Arab Israeli hounded by neighbors for living in Orthodox Jewish area

Ratan Tata (Public Domain)

Indian billionaire testifies on Netanyahu corruption allegations

Illustrative photo of small-arms ammunition used by the Israeli army (Pierre Terdjman/Flash90)

Uzbekistan releases Israeli held after gun clip found in bag

Dutch far-right politician and leader of the Freedom Party Geert Wilders (C) addresses journalists as he officially launches his parliamentary election campaign in Spijkenisse on February 18, 2017. (AFP/John Thys)

Netherlands must oppose anti-Israel efforts at UN, Dutch parliament says

By JTA

Jews and non-Jews in Vitebsk, Belarus waiting to enter the city’s newly inaugurated synagogue in October, 2017. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Vitebsk)

Marc Chagall’s Belarus hometown celebrates first synagogue opening in a century

By JTA

Israel's Ambassador to UNESCO Carmel Shama-Hacohen. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Filibuster successfully delays anti-Israel vote at UNESCO

Far-right activist Laura Loomer (Screen capture: YouTube)

Far-right activist Laura Loomer banned from Uber, Lyft for anti-Muslim tweets

By JTA

Illustrative: Torah scroll Ink on gevil. Spain, 15th century (photo credit: Green Collection)

Torah scroll that women helped write to be unveiled in Madrid

By JTA

Robert Mercer, one of US President Donald Trump's biggest campaign donors (YouTube)

Billionaire Trump backer Robert Mercer selling his Breitbart stake

By JTA

Professional cyclists ride near the Jaffa Gate to Jerusalem's Old City in a race organized by the Jerusalem Municipality, on November 26, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Next year in Jerusalem: Giro riders face political hurdles

By Josef Federman and Andrew Dampf

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