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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 22, 2017

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Hodaya Asulin, injured at the age of 14 in 2011 Jerusalem terror attack, who succumbed to her wounds on November 22, 2017. (Courtesy)

Girl injured in 2011 Jerusalem bombing dies of her wounds

Hodaya Asulin had been in a coma since bus stop blast, which killed a British tourist and injured dozens

Palestinian who killed Sgt. Elhai Teharlev gets two life terms

New lab at border detects truckload of ‘dangerous material’ headed to Gaza

By Stuart Winer

Driver in deadly NY car-ramming handed terror, racketeering charges

Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III arrives at the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank City of Bethlehem, built atop the site where Christians believe Jesus was born, on Christmas Eve according to the Eastern Orthodox calendar, on January 6, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

ExclusivePlots bought by overseas firms all led by Jewish investors

Selling holy land: Inside the Greek Patriarchate’s Jerusalem property deals

As embattled patriarch seeks overseas support for multi-million-dollar deals that are sparking Israeli and Palestinian controversy, here are the sales and the buyers

Egyptian Ambassador to Israel Hazem Khairat speaking at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, November 22, 2017 (Mark Neiman)

Egyptian envoy: Peace with Israel only ‘partial’ without Palestinian state

By Raphael Ahren

At President’s Residence, Hazem Khairat calls on Jerusalem to support Hamas-Fatah reconciliation, accept Arab Peace Initiative

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a Knesset plenary session marking 40 years since the visit of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to Israel's parliament. November 21, 2017 (Yitzhak Harari/Knesset spokesperson's office)

40 years after historic visit, PM says he’s yet to meet ‘the Palestinian Sadat’

By Marissa Newman

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat waves goodbye before departing Ben Gurion Airport on November 21, 1977 (Miki Tzarfati/GPO archive)

Photo essayWhen Anwar Sadat came to Jerusalem 40 years ago

A tweeted composite picture that shows, at left, a picture of Israeli Jew Ben Tzion (wearing green) inside the Mosque of the Prophet in Medina, and at right, the Saudi royal family with the words, "the cursed Saudi tree." (Twitter)

Israeli Jew’s ‘peace visit’ to Saudi mosque sparks Arabic Twitter storm

Though he said he felt welcome and stressed he visited in a private capacity, many protest Ben Tzion’s visit to Medina, see it as ostensible sign of warming Saudi-Israel ties

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington, August 9, 2017. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Washington rebuffs Palestinians’ claim they’ve frozen communications

By Eric Cortellessa

AnalysisThe Trump administration says it wants to shut down the PLO mission. Now what?

Fatah's Azzam al-Ahmad, right, and Saleh al-Arouri, left, of Hamas talk to journalists after signing a reconciliation deal in Cairo on October 12, 2017, as the two rival Palestinian movements ended their decade-long split following negotiations overseen by Egypt. (AFP/Khaled Desouki)

Live updates (closed)

At Cairo talks, Palestinian factions call for elections by end of 2018

By Tamar Pileggi

Leaders from 13 factions, including Hamas and Fatah, meet in Egypt to discuss return of PA to Gaza

7:23 pm

Mike Pence to address Knesset in upcoming visit
7:09 pm

In Cairo, Palestinian factions call for elections by end of 2018
6:58 pm

Odeh says footage proves police violence at Umm al-Hiran

Faisal el-Natche, the alleged assault victim of Breaking the Silence spokesman Dean Issacharoff speaks to Hadashot News on November 21, 2017 (screen capture: Hadashot News)

Alleged victim of Breaking the Silence official confirms soldiers beat him

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Hebron resident Faisal el-Natche recalls he was arrested violently in 2014, but doesn’t know if Dean Issacharoff was among the troops responsible

The car of Yaqoub Abu al-Qia'an, following an incident initially claimed by police to be a terrorist attack, in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert, southern Israel, January 18, 2017. Evidence subsequently came out that showed the incident was not a terrorist attack (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

State prosecution reopens case of Bedouin teacher shot dead by cops

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan and Israeli Chief of Police Roni Alsheich at an inauguration ceremony marking the opening of a new police station in the northern Arab Israeli town of Kfar Kanna. November 21, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Kafr Kanna residents protest visit by Netanyahu, public security minister

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Are Weinstein, Tambor, Franken Jewish news?

Is just being a member of the tribe enough reason for a Jewish news organization to cover the story?

Reduced taxes for US expats?

Sure, they’re a sure thing, but with residency-based taxation, Americans living in Israel may catch a break

What’s ‘wishbone’ in Hebrew?

When a Thanksgiving turkey doesn’t fit into that small Israeli oven, what’s an American oleh to do?

The good news you missed about tuition

One dramatic improvement in the cost of Jewish education is an increase in public funding

Liran Nathan and Gem Refoufi in 'Parallel Universes.' (Courtesy)

Interview

Novice filmmaker takes Etgar Keret short to international film festivals

Omri Casspi signs a basketball for a Golden State Warriors fan. (Courtesy Golden State Warriors;NBAE/Getty Images)

Israeli athletes

As only Israeli in NBA, Omri Casspi tries to be ‘best ambassador’ he can

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Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri greets his supporters upon his arrival at his home in Beirut on November 22, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / STR)

Lebanon’s Hariri tells supporters ‘I’m staying with you’

By AFP

This combination of pictures created on November 22, 2017 shows, left, Ratko Mladic, then Bosnian Serb general looking on in Sarajevo on February 15, 1994, and, right, Mladic smiling as he enters the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), on November 22, 2017, to hear the verdict in his genocide trial. (AFP Photo/AFP Photo and Pool/Pascal Guyot and Peter Dejong)

‘Butcher of Bosnia’ found guilty of genocide

By Jan Hennop and JO BIDDLE

Rabbi and ultra-Orthodox leader Rabbi Aharon Yehudah Leib Steinman, left, May 2, 2016. (Yaakov Cohen/Flash90)

Venerated leader of Israel’s Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox in intensive care

In this undated image released by HBO, Lena Headey appears in a scene from 'Game of Thrones.' (HBO via AP, File)

Spoilers of warUS charges Iranian over ‘Game of Thrones’ HBO hack

By AFP

Sacha Baron Cohen as "Borat" during 2006 Cannes Film Festival - Borat Arrives in Cannes at Cannes Beach in Cannes, France. (Photo by George Pimentel/WireImage)

Iz niceSacha Baron Cohen offers to pay tourists’ mankini fines

Anthony Scaramucci, center, speaking alongside officials of the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce at a news conference at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, Nov. 21, 2017. (Courtesy of Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce via JTA)

Stumping for Trump in Israel, ‘The Mooch’ gets surprisingly Jewish

By Andrew Tobin

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in Sochi on August 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Sputnik/Alexey Nikolsky)

Netanyahu presses Putin on keeping Iran out of Syria

A dog with glasses and a newspaper. (LightFieldStudios via iStock/Getty Images)

Hebrew media reviewDon’t look a gift headline in the mouth

By Joshua Davidovich

US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and chief Middle East adviser, Jared Kushner left, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem on June 21, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

US investigator Mueller said probing Kushner over bid to help Israel nix UN vote

Former tourism minister Stas Misezhnikov arrives at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on November 21, 2017. (Flash90)

Former minister sentenced to 15 months for breach of trust

Yesha Council head Avi Roeh speaks at a press conference in Jerusalem on March 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ombudsman: Settlement council doctored tenders to reward right-wing NGOs

Larnaca International Airport, Cyprus. (Wikimedia Public Domain)

Israelis booted from Cyprus for trying to enter Turkish territories

By Stuart Winer

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