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What Matters Most On Tuesday, November 21, 2017

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PA President Mahmoud Abbas (center), arrives with the Arab League's Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby (left), and Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki (right) to attend a meeting of Arab foreign ministers at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday, September 7, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar)

Palestinians freeze all US contacts over threat to shutter PLO office in DC

By Dov Lieber and AFP

Move comes amid intense efforts by Washington to bring Palestinians back to the negotiating table

AnalysisMission impossible: How an old US law could scotch peace talks before they start

Nikolay Mladenov, United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, speaks during a press conference at the UNESCO headquarters in Gaza City, September 25, 2017. (AFP/MOHAMMED ABED)

UN envoy warns new war likely if Palestinian reconciliation fails

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ben Tzion at the Mosque of the Prophet in Medina, Saudi Arabia (courtesy)

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From Qom to Medina: Israeli Jew visits holy sites across Muslim world

By Raphael Ahren

Saudi FM denies kingdom has relations with Israel

By Marissa Newman and ToI Staff

Canada plans to help Islamic State fighters ‘let go of that terrorist ideology’

By AFP

Iran declares ‘victory’ over Islamic State

By AFP

Natalie Portman, right, and her husband Benjamin Millepied, arrive at the 74th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California, January 8, 2017 (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Natalie Portman says she has ‘100 stories about sexual harassment in Hollywood’

‘I’ve had discrimination or harassment on almost everything I’ve ever worked on in some way,’ Israel-born actress tells LA meet

Outgoing head of the Lahav 433 police anti-corruption unit, Roni Rittman, arrives at the Police Investigation Department, Jerusalem, December, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Police to review its reinstatement of senior cop accused of sexual assault

Glenn Thrush on an episode of “The Press Pool” at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, July 20, 2016. (Kirk Irwin/Getty Images for SiriusXM via JTA)

NYT suspends White House reporter over sexual misconduct allegations

By Eric Cortellessa

Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Hazem Khairat (L) meets with Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein in the Knesset on November 21, 2017 (Knesset spokesperson's office)

40 years after Sadat

In Knesset, Egypt’s envoy urges Israel to seize ‘real opportunity’ for peace

By Marissa Newman and Dov Lieber

Marking 40 years since Anwar Sadat’s historic visit to parliament, Hazen Khairat says Jerusalem could ‘open a new page with its Arab neighbors’

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and US President Donald Trump talk as they attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders' summit in the central Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017. (AFP/Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev)

Live updates (closed)

Palestinian identified as man allegedly beaten by Breaking the Silence official

Controversy surrounding Dean Issacharoff’s claim he beat Palestinian continues to rage; Faisal el-Natche confirms to Hadashot news soldiers beat him in 2014 incident

7:25 pm

Prosecutors to reopen investigation into police shooting at Umm al-Hiran
6:50 pm

France's Macron urges both Netanyahu and Rouhani to reduce regional tensions
6:46 pm

UK's May welcomes 'opportunity to forge a new path' for Zimbabwe

Soldiers holding a position in a mountainous area near the eastern town of Ras Baalbek during an operation against jihadist fighters, on August 17, 2017, in a photograph taken during a tour guided by the Lebanese army. (AFP PHOTO / STRINGER)

Lebanese army chief urges troops to ‘be fully prepared’ for Israeli attack

General Joseph Aoun warns the Jewish state has ‘hostile intentions’ against Lebanon, as tensions rise in the region

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, center, meets with Brig. Gen. Yaniv Assur, who commands the division responsible for the Golan Heights, right, and IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, left, during a tour of northern Israel on November 15, 2017. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Eyeing Iran in Syria, Liberman requests NIS 4.8 billion boost for army

By Judah Ari Gross

In this image made from November 20, 2017, video, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, stands with Syria's President Bashar Assad in Sochi, Russia. (RU-24 via AP Video)

Assad makes rare trip outside Syria to meet with Putin ahead of wider talks

By Maria Panina

Seven Israelis who made a deep impact on life in America. (JTA collage/Getty Images)

The nu world

7 Israelis who have impacted American life

By Gabe Friedman

Footage of Dean Issacharoff (right) leading away a Palestinian in Hebron in March 2014. (Screen Capture/B'Tselem)

Breaking the Silence says new video proves its spokesman assaulted Palestinian

Footage from 2014 shows Dean Issacharoff escorting bruised Palestinian in Hebron, which group says means prosecutor was wrong to label him ‘liar’ for confessing to beating detainee

Hebrew media reviewBreaking down Breaking the Silence

By Adiv Sterman

Commanders reprimanded over killing of Palestinian in apparent misunderstanding

By Judah Ari Gross

Army rescues 3 Israelis after Palestinians torch their car in Nablus

Curator Yuval Saar at an Illustration Week exhibit Grace Austin/Times of Israel)

Funky, provocative illustrations beckon visitors to Tel Aviv

By Grace Austin

Irina Nevzlin and Andrew H. Tisch

This is where Jewish dialogue will happen

An ambitious new center to be built at Beit Hatfutsot will be open to hosting any Jewish group

Laurie Zimmerman

US Congress looks to protect Palestinian kids

The children of Israel’s occupation suffer a parent’s worst nightmare; American Jews must decry their treatment

Dexter Van Zile

Witch trial propaganda in US Congress

A proposed bill ignores apparent ties of its sponsors to Palestinian terror and the violence of Palestinian teens

Irina Chernobryvets

Ukrainian Jews are in crisis

My organization does all it can to help those in thrall to extreme poverty, neglect, and abuse, but it’s not enough

Tourists at Israel's Beit Sh'ean National Park test drive the Roman-era public latrine, March 2017. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Potty time

4 ancient toilets almost wiped from Israel’s history

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

More Headlines

Depiction of the finding of Moses in the Nile by Pharaoh’s daughter. Hispano-Moresque Haggadah, Spain 1275-1324 (courtesy British Library)

British Library publishes treasure trove of Hebrew manuscripts

By Raphael Ahren

The giant swastika-shaped base of a Nazi-era statue discovered on a construction site for a sports field in Hamburg, northern Germany, November 21, 2017. (Christian Charisius/dpa via AP)

Digging up the pastGiant swastika unearthed on construction site in Germany

By AP

Musician Roger Waters performs during his 'Us + Them' tour at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA, on June 20, 2017. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images/AFP)

Roger Waters accuses Nick Cave of ‘arrogant unconcern’ after Israel gig

By David Sedley

Agamesh Mengistu, with her son Ilan, in Washington, DC, Nov. 17, 2017. (Ron Kampeas)

Family of Avera Mengistu wants US help to get him back from Gaza

Hasidic rabbis prepare to pose a group photo, part of the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries, in front of the group's World Headquarters, November 19, 2017, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York. (Amir Levy/Getty Images/AFP)

Into AfricaUganda marks 100th outpost for far-flung Chabad

By JTA

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest against the army draft, at the entrance to Jerusalem, November 19, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox protesters try to set fire to Jerusalem army draft office

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Linda Sarsour speaking at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health’s inaugural commencement ceremony at the Apollo Theatre in New York City, June 1, 2017. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

New School criticized for panel on anti-Semitism featuring anti-Israel activists

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, leads a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on November 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Not all criticism is incitement, PM says after Rivlin comes under fire

Reggie Yates during a BUILD series event at BUILD Studio London, in London, England, September 7, 2017. (Nicky J Sims/Getty Images)

BBC host apologizes for ‘fat Jewish guy’ comment

By JTA

Scene from a video clip made by Israeli graffiti art group Broken Fingaz for U2's 'American Soul.' November 20, 2017. (Youtube screenshot)

Writing on the wallHaifa graffiti group creates clip for U2

Darya Henig Shaked is the founder of WeAct, an organization that brings Israeli female entrepreneurs on networking missions to Silicon Valley. (Courtesy of Shaked)

How Israeli women techies are opening doors for each other in Silicon Valley

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