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What Matters Most On Friday, November 17, 2017

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Even Ezer Holaring, 35, who was seriously wounded in a car-ramming terror attack on November 17, 2017 (courtesy)

Wife of seriously wounded terror victim urges prayers for his life

Even Ezer Holaring, from the Bnei Menashe community, undergoing surgery for head injury after car-ramming attack south of Jerusalem

A car that a Palestinian terrorist rammed into two Israelis in the central West Bank on November 17, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Two injured, one seriously, in West Bank car ramming; terrorist shot

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli soldiers operate a checkpoint at the entrance to the village of Halhul, the hometown of a terrorist who rammed his car into two Israelis earlier in the day, on November 17, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF enforces closure on West Bank hometown of car-rammer

By Judah Ari Gross

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir addresses a joint press conference with his French counterpart in the Saudi capital Riyadh on November 16, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Fayez Nureldine)

Saudi Arabia calls on Hezbollah to disarm, threatens its ouster from Lebanon

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Riyadh’s foreign minister says ‘peace loving countries’ exploring ways to reduce terrorist group’s influence in Beirut

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a meeting with Lebanon's Christian Maronite patriarch on November 14, 2017, in Riyadh. (AFP/ Fayez Nureldine)

Report claims Saudi king, 81, to hand reins to son next week

ImageSat International images of what is thought to be an Iranian military base in Syria, close to the Syrian-Israeli border, November 16, 2017. (Hadashot news screenshot)

Alleged Iranian base near Syria border caught on camera

Fighter jets take part in the international Blue Flag exercise in early November 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel wraps up largest-ever air force drill, with seven allies

With 1,200 personnel, India, US, Greece, Poland, France, Italy and Germany joined IAF in mock aerial battles and other complex exercises

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the Justice and Development (AK) Party's provincial heads meeting in Ankara, on November 17, 2017. (AFP/Adem Altan)

Insulted Erdogan pulls Turkish troops out of NATO exercise

Ahmad Jalali with former UNESCO head Irina Bokova (UNESCO)

Iranian front-runner loses race for influential UNESCO post

By Raphael Ahren

Then-prime minister Golda Meir visiting a wounded soldier in hospital during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. (Herman Chanania/GPO)

Biography

Who (or what) was Golda Meir’s one true love? A new biography has answers

By JP O’ Malley

Illustrative: Screen capture from video of a Kuwait Airways airliner taking off. (YouTube/LAXSPOTTER97)

Germany to press Kuwait to let Israelis fly on its national airline

Berlin promises diplomatic action after a German court ruled that Kuwait Airways has the right to bar Israelis from its flights

This March 18, 2012, photo shows a view of empty Kuwait Airways check-in counters at Kuwait Airport. (AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)

Shock as German court rules Kuwait Airways can ban Israelis

By Kirsten Grieshaber

Benjamin Netanyahu greets one of Arnon Milchan's children in one of many photographs he has given to police to prove that champagne and cigars he received from the Hollywood mogul were gifts provided within the framework of a long friendship between the two families, November 16, 2017. (Hadashot news screenshot)

Netanyahu’s defense in corruption probe includes pics with Milchan

Photos of PM’s and Hollywood mogul’s families spending time together reportedly presented to police in bid to void bribery suspicion

Former prime minister Ehud Barak attends a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War, at the Ben Zvi Institute in Jerusalem on June 5, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Former PM Ehud Barak testifies in submarine case

Arnon Milchan and the Netanyahus pose with one of Milchan's children in a family setting. (Hadashot news screenshot, November 16, 2017)

Hebrew media reviewComity of errors

By Joshua Davidovich

Orthodox feminism

Spiritual leader at NY Orthodox community says she’s no ‘bra-burning feminist’

By Cathryn J. Prince

Jeffrey Tambor arrives at the 'Transparent' FYC special screening in Los Angeles, April 22, 2017. (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, file)

‘Transparent’ co-star alleges impropriety by Jeffrey Tambor

By AP

Trace Lysette is second person connected to hit drama to accuse the Jewish star of sexual harassment or assault

Accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, Donald Trump, left, leaves the Capitol after he attended a House Republican Conference meeting November 16, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Silent on Moore, Trump mocks ‘Al Frankenstien’ over sexual misconduct

By ToI Staff and AP

Sen. Al Franken participates in a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands, on Capitol Hill November 14, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Sen. Franken faces ethics probe after accused of groping woman

By AP

Lori Prashker-Thomas

I’m pro-choice, but abortion wasn’t for me

Pregnant women need unconditional help from the Jewish community, whatever path they choose

An ex-Haredi transgender father had her day in court

How the UK justice system handles intentional (illegal) discrimination in the Jewish community

Joshua Hammerman

The Talmud says yes, creating barriers to protect them from succumbing to their predatory natures

Why Isaac? Why Jacob?

Specifically because they were not their brothers, men of strength and skill, but needed God to survive (Toledot)

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Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan delivers a speech and talks about US President Donald Trump, at the Watergate Hotel, on November 16, 2017 in Washington, DC. Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

In talk featuring Jew-bashing, Farrakhan tells Trump: Repent for America’s sins

By AP

Screen capture from video in which Breaking the Silence spokesman Dean Issacharoff described how he beat a passive Palestinian protester in Hebron, filmed at a rally in April, 2017. (YouTube/hakolhayehudi)

Investigation finds Breaking the Silence spokesman didn’t beat Palestinian

Health Minister Yaakov Litzman attends a discussion at the Health committee regarding a reform to ease access to medical cannabis on January 09, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Litzman calls off threat to quit over Shabbat train work after deal reached

University of Maryland's campus at College Park. (screen capture: YouTube)

U of Maryland student government scraps BDS bill before vote

By JTA

Four female culinary entrepreneurs talk about what they love and find challenging in their work, at Open Restaurants Jerusalem, the culinary event taking place November 14-18, 2017 (Courtesy Jessica Steinberg)

Dishing the dirtFemale foodies hash over culinary entrepreneurship

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli 'Kessim' or religious leaders of the Ethiopian Jewish community lead the prayers during the Sigd holiday marking the desire to 'return to Jerusalem', as they celebrate from a hilltop in the holy city, on November 16, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / GALI TIBBON)

Thousands of Ethiopian Jews gather in Jerusalem for Sigd

By David Sedley

Paramedics at the scene of a rappelling accident at Mitzpeh Ramon on November 16, 2017. (MDA spokesperson)

Man falls to death while rappelling in Ramon crater

Hebrew poets Rachel (left) and Leah Goldberg (right) on new NIS 20 and 100 banknotes. (Courtesy of the Bank of Israel)

Women of noteNew bills to feature famous Israeli women poets

Israeli MKs Oded Forer and Avraham Neguise with Reps. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Bill Johnson (R-OH) at a Capitol Hill event on November 15 launching announcing "joint principles" to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Courtesy)

US and Israeli right-wing lawmakers scorn ‘Palestinian rejectionism’

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner attends a bilateral meeting with China's President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Thomas Peter)

Senate panel says Kushner withholding info from Russia probe

By AP

Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of the right-wing Austria Freedom Party (FPOe), attends the party's election event following Austrian parliamentary elections on October 15, 2017 in Vienna, Austria. (Alex Domanski/Getty Images, via JTA)

Austria accepted its Holocaust guilt. So why is its far-right on the rise?

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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