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What Matters Most On Tuesday, November 28, 2017

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Illustrative. A chess set. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel ‘expects’ its chess players to make history by playing in Saudi tourney

By AFP

World Chess Federation says it is making ‘huge effort’ to ensure visas are approved for upcoming competition in Riyadh

Iran regime hails ‘hero’ wrestler who lost match to avoid Israeli

By AFP

Iranian wrestler told to throw match to avoid facing Israeli

Shtetl schtickJewish wrestler calls out non-Jewish colleague for dressing as Hasid

By JTA

Syrian soccer fans hold a portrait of their president, Bashar Assad, before their match with Iran during a Round 3 - Group A World Cup qualifier at the Azadi Stadium in Tehran, Iran, September 5, 2017. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

With victory assured, why is Assad suddenly wary of Iran’s embrace?

Having fought and bled for the regime’s survival, Tehran looks to cash in its support for a Mediterranean naval base, air bases and even uranium mining concessions

Defense minister: There are no Iranian military forces in Syria

Russian spy chief said to visit Israel for Syria talks briefing

Iran-backed militia in Syria says it’s ‘fully prepared’ to battle Israel

Photo shows what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea, July 28, 2017. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

Live updates (closed)

North Korea fires ballistic missile, South Korean officials say

By Tamar Pileggi

Reports say projectile flew eastward from South Pyongan Province towards Japan

7:22 pm

34 ultra-Orthodox rioters arrested in Jerusalem anti-draft protests
7:11 pm

German neo-Nazi's Holocaust denial convictions upheld
6:52 pm

North Korea fires ballistic missile, South Korea says

Medics at the site of an explosion and building collapse in Jaffa on November 27, 2017 (Magen David Adom)

3 killed, 1 seriously injured as building explodes in Jaffa

After firefighters extinguish blaze, rescue teams still working at the site in the south Tel Aviv neighborhood

Flames at the site of an explosion and building collapse in Jaffa on November 27, 2017. (Magen David Adom)

Deadly Jaffa explosion and fire said caused by illegal gas cylinder

Analysis

It won’t change probe, but police bill could protect Netanyahu from public

Proposed legislation fast-tracked by Likud is seen by critics as a devilishly ‘brilliant exercise’ to silence the attorney general. We’ll soon see if they’re right

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and Chief of Police Roni Alsheikh at an inauguration ceremony marking the opening of a new police station in the northern Arab town of Jisr az-Zarqa. November 21, 2017. (Basel Awidat/ Flash90)

Likud MK David Amsalem, at a Knesset plenary session, on November 27, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

‘Netanyahu-shielding’ police recommendations bill clears first vote

By Marissa Newman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opens the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on November 26, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / GALI TIBBON)

Hebrew media reviewNetanyahu’s hall of shame

By Tamar Pileggi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Nairobi, Kenya, on November 28, 2017. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Netanyahu arrives in Kenya to meet 11 African leaders

Continuing his diplomatic push into the continent, PM says he may announce a new Israeli embassy by the end of the day

A Kenyan army soldier performs during the rehearsal of the inauguration ceremony of the president at the Moi International Sports Center's Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi on November 27, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBA)

Kenya’s president sworn in for new term, amid demonstrations

By ToI Staff and AP

The solar field in Rwanda, pictured here on February 17, 2017, has 28,360 panels which provide 7.8 megawatts of electricity at peak production. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel paves way to boost energy ties to Africa

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative. A female tank instructor peeks out of her vehicle during an exercise on May 4, 2012. (Israel Defense Forces/Flickr)

Israel’s first female tank crews set for deployment as critics fire fresh volley

By Judah Ari Gross

Pilot program, and women combat soldiers in general, meet stiff criticism, with dozens of reservist officers calling for an end to co-ed army service

The Israeli Navy tests a ship-based Iron Dome missile defense system, which is declared operational, on November 27, 2017 (Israel Defense Forces)

Navy says ship-based Iron Dome ready to knock down missiles on high seas

By Judah Ari Gross

The cover of 'I Am Not a Spy,' a new book by Michael Bassin. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Book review

The American Jew who went from UAE student to IDF soldier

By Judah Ari Gross

Reform Judaism is no dog bar mitzvah

An Israeli journalist stooped to tar and feather Progressive Jewry, and mangled the notion of a Jewish People

Too much anti-Semitism at Nottingham U

‘Boycott Israeli Apartheid’ slogans welcomed me to university, and it didn’t stop there

David Batashvili

Israel’s formidable once and future foe

Iran’s Syria and Hezbollah activities have resurrected a military peer opponent on Israel’s frontiers

Andrew Silow-Carroll

How not to write about neo-Nazis

A well-intentioned NY Times profile assumed readers didn’t need to be told how abhorrent Nazism is

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Illustration: One of El Al's Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, August 23, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Workers at Ben Gurion Airport to strike over weekend

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, seen during a visit of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres (unseen) at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, August 28, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

TV report accuses Israel’s UN envoy Danon of systematic corruption

The Rawda mosque, roughly 40 kilometers (nearly 25 miles) west of the North Sinai capital of El-Arish, after a gun and bombing attack, November 25, 2017.(AFP)

Op-ed in PA daily claims Israel behind Sinai terror attack

Prince Harry with his fiancée US actress Meghan Markle announcing their engagement in London. (AFP Photo/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

MoonshotRivlin invites Prince Harry and fiancée to honeymoon in Israel

By ToI Staff and AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset on November 27, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu joins call for Rivlin to reconsider pardoning Hebron shooter

Israeli police stand next to a vehicle that crashed into police officers in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert, January 18, 2017. (Israel Police)

Police still ‘believe’ Bedouin car-ramming was terrorism

Actress and comedian Michaela Watkins will be in Israel as part of a Jewish women influencers trip sponsored by the JWRP (Courtesy Hulu)

Touring and tastingHulu’s Michaela Watkins coming to ‘experience Israel as an adult’

By Jessica Steinberg

The world's most expensive yarmulke (TDaniel/ VeryFirstTo)

Top dollarWorld’s most expensive kippa to go for $167,000

A Torah manuscript, thought to be at least 700 years old, which was seized by police in southern Turkey, November, 2017. (Youtube screenshot)

Turkish security forces seize 700-year-old Torah manuscript

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men clash with police during a protest against the army draft at a main road in Bnei Brak on November 20, 2017. Yossi Zeliger/Flash90

Suspected draft-dodger falls off roof while fleeing Military Police

Santiago Palomero Plaza, director of the Museo Sefardi, giving a massive online class in the Deciphering Secrets series. (Screenshot/Courtesy)

Old tensions come to life as medieval Spanish synagogue goes online

By Rich Tenorio

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