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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 9, 2017

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UK international development minister MP Priti Patel (Wikipedia/Russell Watkins/Department for International Development/CC BY 2.0) and Jeremy Corbyn. (Public domain/CC0/Garry Knight)

Analysis'There'd be no fuss if she had met people in Belgium'

Will resignation of possible May successor boost Britain’s Jeremy Corbyn?

By Robert Philpot

A blow-by-blow of what led up to Priti Patel’s humiliating recall from Africa over holding secret meetings with Israeli officials to fund Golan hospitals aiding Syrian refugees

Britain's International Development Secretary Priti Patel leaves 10 Downing Street in London on November 8, 2017, after a meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May (AFP/Adrian Dennis)

UK aid minister forced to quit over unauthorized meetings with Israeli officials

By Raoul Wootliff and AFP

Britain's International Development Secretary Priti Patel arrives at 10 Downing Street in London on November 8, 2017, (AFP/Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS)

May government seen in tailspin after minister ousted over Israel meetings

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israeli Stella Penn Pechanac named as Weinstein spy

By Tamar Pileggi

Britain’s Daily Mail identifies Bosnian immigrant as operative who posed as woman’s advocate in bid to dissuade Rose McGowan from publicizing rape by Hollywood mogul

Stella Penn Pechanac, the Israeli intelligence operative who allegedly duped at least one of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers, seen performing in a play in August, 2009. (screen capture: YouTube)

Radio host Gabi Gazit seen here working at the radio station of 103FM on July 5, 2010. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Veteran radio host accused of sexual harassment by 4 women

Corey Haim in 2008. (CC BY-SA Bree, Wikimedia Commons)

Charlie Sheen accused of sexually assaulting 13-year-old Corey Haim

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on November 7, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Ariel Schalit)

Police interrogate Netanyahu for a fifth time

PM is suspected of receiving illicit gifts from foreign businessmen, colluding with a newspaper editor to hobble the competition in exchange for favorable coverage

Hebrew media reviewDon Netanyahu

By Joshua Davidovich

Likud MK: Cut police chief’s salary, give Netanyahu raise

By Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu confidants grilled by police for 4th day over sub scandal

By Raoul Wootliff

Workers hang a poster of outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri with Arabic words that read, "We are all Saad," on a seaside street in Beirut, Lebanon, November 9, 2017. (AP/ Hussein Malla)

Live updates (closed)

Lebanon PM’s party calls for his return from Saudi Arabia

Saad Hariri’s return ‘is necessary to restore dignity and respect to Lebanon,’ his Future party says

7:18 pm

McGill student group admits using anti-Semitic tropes to keep Jew off board
7:08 pm

Jewish woman, 70, attacked in London by assailant shouting ‘Jew’ in Polish
7:05 pm

‘Transparent’ star Jeffrey Tambor accused of harassment by former assistant

Illustrative: Smuggled cellphones discovered in an Israeli prison, October 2017 (Israel Police)

5-year-old boy caught smuggling phones to Palestinian security prisoners

Guards place convict responsible in solitary confinement after finding 10 devices and 3 SIM cards in the child’s underwear

Palestinian nabbed outside settlement with meat cleaver, Quran

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinians confirm security coordination with Israel has resumed

By AFP and ToI Staff

PA police chief: Hamas must disarm under unity deal

By AFP and ToI Staff

I was just accused of being an Israeli spy in the Dutch parliament

Lawmakers from pro-immigrant, Muslim rights party claim Jewish journalist and naturalized citizen spying on ‘pro-Palestine activists in Europe’

I wish I’d been taught acceptance

I should not have felt pity for Chani when she told me that she’d made the choice to stop being religious

No real freedom for Soviet Jewry

The draconian demands of the Israeli Rabbinate prevent 350,000 Russian Jews from living fully in Israel

‘You raised me to think for myself’

Response to an Orthodox Jewish mother grappling with a son’s decision to take a new path

Shayna Abramson

God must think I’m up for the hard stuff

If I believe that God is above statistics, the 98% likelihood of no major surgical complications is small comfort

Illustrative: Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, speaks at the Jewish Democratic Council of America's launch reception in Washington, DC, on November 8, 2017. (Chris Kleponis)

Jewish Democrats launch political advocacy group for the Trump age

By Eric Cortellessa

More than 250 people on hand at Capitol Hill hotel, as Democratic heavy-hitters say US Jews are ready to resist

Rep. Ron DeSantis, center, speaks at the National Oversight and Government Reform Committee on moving the US Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem on Capitol Hill on November 8, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/AFP)

As deadline nears, US lawmakers hear case for moving embassy to Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

AnalysisBut is it good for the Jews? 5 takeaways after Democrats’ Election Day sweep

Suffragist Maud Nathan, circa 1913, and (right) sister Annie Nathan Meyer, circa 1920. (public domain)

Votes for women

100 years ago in NY, suffrage movement pitted Jewish sisters against each other

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Journalist Matthew Kalman (left) and David Hirsh, author of 'Contemporary Left Anti-Semitism,' at a Times of Israel Presents event at Jerusalem's Beit Avichai on November 8, 2017. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

TOI Presents

British Jews fight to regain the Labour party they once called ‘family’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

At a Times of Israel event screening of ‘Whitewashed: Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party,’ author David Hirsh delves into a disappointed community’s reactions to a botched inquiry

Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Hazem Khairat addressing the Herzliya Conference, June 17, 2016 (screen shot)

Egyptian envoy hails peace with Israel as top officials snub memorial invite

By Tamar Pileggi

Ambassador Hazem Khairat declares 1979 accord should serve as blueprint for wider Israeli-Arab peace, says ‘genuine and lasting’ peace still needed

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi participates in a meeting with a group of young people from around the world in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on November 7, 2017. (MENA via AP)

Taking Saudis’ side, Egypt warns Iran against regional ‘meddling’

By AP

More Headlines

The Satmar Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel. (JTA/Uriel Heilman)

Kiryas Joel residents vote to create first ultra-Orthodox city in US

By JTA

Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway. (Screen capture: Google maps)

Bomb threat faxed to Orthodox Jewish high school in New York

By JTA

A frame grab from video provided by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media, shows firing on militants' positions on the Iraq-Syria border, November 8, 2017. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP)

IS militants evacuate last stronghold in Syria to government

By Sarah El Deeb

Karen Benezra, left, and Catherine Goldberg, leading the havdalah blessings at a recent 'Chai Havdalah' event in Brooklyn. (Lucy Cohen Blatter/via JTA)

Elevated ShabbatNew community havdalah events mix tokes with tikkun olam

By Lucy Cohen Blatter

American comedian Jerry Seinfeld performs in Tel Aviv on December 19, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

HelloooooSeinfeld heading back to Israel for more shows

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past a billboard that was vandalized, near the entrance to Jerusalem, November 2, 2017. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90/File)

Haredi man arrested for vandalizing women’s faces on Jerusalem billboards

By Stuart Winer

Culture Club bassist Mikey Craig and lead singer Boy George perform their 1980s hits on November 7, 2017, in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy)

Love is loveAfter Tel Aviv concert, Boy George says Israel ‘in my heart’

By ToI Staff and Jessica Steinberg

In this Jan. 15, 2015 file photo, the new Airbus A350 of Qatar Airways coming from Doha, Qatar, approaches the gate at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. (AP/Michael Probst-file)

Turbulent MarriageWife discovers husband’s affair mid-flight, forcing emergency landing

By AFP

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