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What Matters Most On Saturday, November 18, 2017

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Former prime minister Ehud Olmert at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on February 10, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool)

Top radio reporter says Ehud Olmert sexually harassed her

Army Radio’s Hadas Shtaif says years ago former PM pressed her against the wall and licked her ear: ‘I was sickened’; Olmert responds: ‘None of it ever happened’

US President Donald Trump attends a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo on November 6, 2017.
(AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON)

As sex scandals topple the powerful: Why not Trump?

By Nancy Benac and Calvin Woodward

US Army soldiers (illustrative photo; credit: Rishwanth Jayapaul/ Flash90)

US troops reported 20,000 allegations of sexual assault at bases in past 4 years

By AFP

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks during a briefing at the State Department on August 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)

US may close PLO’s DC office over Abbas urging ICC to prosecute Israelis

By Eric Cortellessa and AP

While saying it’s putting Palestinians on notice in accordance with Congressional provision, Washington insists it’s not ‘backing off’ its peace efforts

Palestinians reject ‘extortion’ in face of US move to close PLO’s DC office

By AP and Eric Cortellessa

13 years later, PA continues to accuse Israel of murdering Arafat

In first since 2007, Gaza’s border with Egypt opens under PA control

By AP and ToI Staff

Kids can be Samson bringing down the walls at Courageous Pages, the play area at the new Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC (Ron Kampeas)

Netanyahu sends 'warm greetings from Jerusalem'

Judaism is the star at a Bible museum built by Hobby Lobby

Newest DC institution celebrates Jewish origins; Israel’s ambassador to US and host of Israeli dignitaries attend opening ceremony

Visitors go through an exhibit on the Old Testament at Museum of the Bible November 15, 2017 in Washington, DC. The 430,000-square-foot museum, with a purpose to invite people to engage with the Bible, will be opened to the public on November 17, 2017. ( Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Museum of the Bible, built by Hobby Lobby owner, opens in DC

A 22-story tall portrait of Leonard Cohen on the side of a building on Montreal's Crescent Street. (Robert Sarner/Times of Israel)

Reporter's Notebook

In Montreal, legacy of ‘patron saint’ Leonard Cohen looms larger than in life

By Robert Sarner

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)

Israeli troops raid home of Gush Etzion car-ramming terrorist

Soldiers search the Halhul house of 17-year-old who injured two in Friday attack, encounter rock-throwing by residents

Breaking the Silence spokesman Dean Issacharoff speaks in a November 17, 2017 video statement. (Screen capture/Facebook)

Breaking the Silence spokesman doubles down on claim he beat a Palestinian

Illustrative photo: Masked Jewish settlers, background, and Palestinians, foreground, hurl stones during clashes in the West Bank, Friday, May 3, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Masked Israelis throw stones at Palestinians as IDF looks on, video indicates

Former military compound and prison, the Kishle, accessibly only via organized tours. (Noam Chen)

Photo essay

Hidden gems of Jerusalem

A mission to reveal treasures that are inaccessible to the general public, and others that are just out of sight

A picture taken on July 26, 2017 during a tour guided by the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah shows its members manning an anti-aircraft gun mounted on a pick-up truck in a mountainous area around the Lebanese town of Arsal along the border with Syria. (AFP Photo/Anwar Amro)

Hezbollah raises alert status across Lebanon — report

Kuwaiti paper says terror group is wary of threats from Israel and other countries, amid political crisis with Saudis

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri speaks after meeting with French President at the Elysee Presidential Palace on November 18, 2017 in Paris. (AFP PHOTO / Thomas Samson)

Hariri, in France, vows to return to Lebanon by Wednesday

A picture taken on November 16, 2017, shows an Israeli soldier walking next to a tank at an army position overlooking southern Lebanon in the northern Israeli town of Metula, along Israel's border with Lebanon. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

AnalysisSaudi-Iran dispute unlikely to take Israel to war: analysts

By Stephen WEIZMAN

Support Israel by ending hunger in America

The best possible ‘hasbara’ to create Israel’s good name is when Jews and Israelis do good for the world

Shayna Abramson

I serve God by vacuuming

We need a Judaism that acknowledges the spiritual worth inherent in our daily tasks and routines

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Rats, illustrative photo (YouTube screen capture)

A leg upIsraeli scientists use stem cells to help disabled rats walk again

People celebrate during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Zimbabwe's president on November 18, 2017 in Pretoria, South Africa. (AFP PHOTO / GULSHAN KHAN)

Elated Zimbabweans celebrate as Mugabe era fades

By Susan NJANJI and Fanuel JONGWE

An illustrative photo of a Kuwait Airways plane taking off from Berlin-Tegel Airport in Germany in September 2014. (screen capture: YouTube)

German official demands ban on Kuwait Airways over anti-Israel discrimination

Michael Dami (NBC Florida screenshot)

Jewish family’s adopted son accused of scrawling Hitler slur on Chabad preschool

By JTA

African migrants protest outside Holot detention center near Ktsiot, in the Negev Desert, southern Israel, February 17, 2014. (photo credit: FLASH90)

UN ‘seriously concerned’ by Israeli plan to deport African migrants

An F/A-18F Super Hornet takes off from the US navy's super carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Mediterranean Sea on July 7, 2016. (AFP Photo/Alberto Pizzoli)

Top GunUS Navy aircrew grounded for drawing penis in the sky

By AFP

French comedian Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala gestures to the media as he leaves a Paris court house, February 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French courts punish promoters of anti-Semitic hate speech

By JTA

Illustrative: Guests visit Santa at Macy's Herald Square Santaland on November 17, 2017 in New York City. (Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Macy's/AFP)

Bah Humbug!Irish priest calls on Church to abandon the word ‘Christmas’

Gene Simmons (photo credit: CC-BY-Alberto Cabello, Wikimedia Commons)

Kiss it GoodbyeKiss’s Gene Simmons banned from Fox News for life

The uses of the 3D lace textiles are manifold, and Eden Saadon is exploring different ways to use her skills. (Doron Sieradzki)

Cool coutureIsraeli design grad takes 3D pen boldly where it has never gone before

By Jessica Steinberg

Comic Shlomo 'BabyBaby' Shmuel will perform his one-man show at The Eighth Hullageb Israeli-Ethiopian Arts Festival in December (Courtesy Esther Wonde)

Trailblazing Ethiopian-Israeli comic finds laughs in life’s serious experiences

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: An Israeli Bedouin woman. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)

Israel tries to save Bedouin from polygamy, but finds little love for plan

By Dov Lieber and Video by Luke Tress

Illustrative: Residents of the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al Hiran walk to their homes after a protest against the town's demolition, on August 27, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

IDF issues evacuation order for Bedouin village near major settlement

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