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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 8, 2018

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An Israeli submarine sails during Independence Day celebrations marking 70 years since the founding of the state in 1948, in Tel Aviv, April 19, 2018. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Police recommend charging ex-Netanyahu lawyer, others in submarine bribery case

David Shimron among those accused of bribery, fraud and other charges in naval acquisitions scheme with German shipbuilder; PM’s former adviser Molcho cleared

Finance professor and Governor of the Bank of Israel Amir Yaron. (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Live updates (closed)

Appointments committee approves Amir Yaron as next Bank of Israel governor

Netanyahu welcomes Goldberg Committee’s decision, plans to bring decision to government vote on Sunday

7:23 pm

Air Force confirms short freeze on flights into Ben Gurion, calls it 'routine'
7:22 pm

Jewish Democrat Kim Schrier takes Washington House seat from Republicans
7:11 pm

Google reforms sexual misconduct rules after criticism

12 killed in shooting at California bar packed with college students

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Gunman also dead after opening fire inside Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, outside of Los Angeles

US President Donald Trump addresses a 'Make America Great Again' rally at Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport, November 3, 2018 in Belgrade, Montana. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP)

J Street poll: 72% of US Jews find Trump partly to blame for Pittsburgh shooting

By Eric Cortellessa

In this August 8, 2018, photo, Fadwa Tlaib, an aunt of Rashida Tlaib, points to a young Rashida in a 1987 picture with her mother Fatima and brother Nader, at the family house in the West Bank village of Beit Ur al-Foqa. (AP/Nasser Nasser)

In West Bank town, Palestinians celebrate family member’s ascent to Capitol Hill

Congresswoman-elect Rashida Tlaib has expressed support for a one-state solution and an end to US military aid to Israel, but her Palestinian relatives are more circumspect

California Democrat, smeared over terrorist grandfather, fails in midterm bid

By AP and ToI Staff

Political pioneers: US voters elect trailblazing candidates

By ERRIN HAINES WHACK

Trump watched US midterm results with top GOP donor Sheldon Adelson

Congressional candidate Kim Schrier addresses the crowd at an election night party for Democrats Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018, in Bellevue, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Analysis

5 Jewish takeaways from the US midterm elections

There will be more Jewish lawmakers, more Jewish women and lots of pro-Israel Senators and members of the House of all shades; most of the overt anti-Semites lost

More than 75 percent of Jews voted for Democrats in the midterm

The Jewish women who won elections in the US midterms

By Josefin Dolsten

6 Democrat candidates faced alleged anti-Semitic attacks. Here’s how they fared

Illustrative: A man measuring his belly. (iStock by Getty Images)

As obesity surges, Israeli startup develops sweet protein to help cut calories

By Shoshanna Solomon

Rehovot-based Amai Proteins redesigns rare substances, much sweeter than sugar, found in equatorial belt plants; plans to produce a shandy and then other foods and drinks

A statue of Miri Regev placed by an artist outside of Tel Aviv's Habima National Theater on November 8, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In apparent protest, statue of Minister Miri Regev placed in Tel Aviv square

Piece erected outside national theater overnight shows culture minister staring into mirror amid spat over Culture Loyalty Law; Regev: ‘I’ve held up a mirror to art’s arrogance’

Yesh Atid MK Elazar Stern speaks from the Knesset plenum on November 23, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MK apologizes for appearing to say minister gave sexual favors to advance in IDF

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein seen at a state ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem as Israel marks the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 12, 2018. (Noam Moskowitz/POOL)

PM, Knesset chair rebuke lawmakers who tarnish public discourse

By Raoul Wootliff

The opening night at the Other Israel Festival, with director of film programming Isaac Zablocki and Tzahi Grad at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, November 1, 2018. (Courtesy)

At alternative NY film fest, the ‘Other Israel’ takes center stage

By Jordan Hoffman

US President Donald Trump speaks during a post-election press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on November 7, 2018. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Trump says of anti-Semitism: ‘It’s very sad, I hate to see it’

By JTA

President is asked about the dangers of right-wing extremism, especially in light of the massacre last month in Pittsburgh synagogue

US President Donald Trump looks to the cheering crowd as he arrives to speak at a rally at Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, November 5, 2018, in Fort Wayne, Indiana (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Israel media reviewMidterm mayhem: 7 things to know for November 8

By Tamar Pileggi

Screen capture from video of Sara Attia, a Las Vegas resident who found Nazi graffiti sprayed on her family's home in Las Vegas, November 5, 2018. (Fox 5 Vegas)

Jewish home in Las Vegas targeted with anti-Semitic graffiti; owner plans aliya

By Stuart Winer

In this photo from July 20, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions accompanied by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

With Sessions out, Rod Rosenstein no longer watching over the Russia probe

By JTA

The deputy attorney general had supervised the investigation and defended its integrity against Trump’s attacks

New acting US attorney general has questioned Mueller investigation

By RYAN J. FOLEY

Jeff Sessions forced out as US attorney general by Trump

By Eric Tucker and MICHAEL BALSAMO

White House suspends CNN’s Acosta after Trump confrontation

By David Bauder

My minute with Nas Daily’s radical humanity

The Facebook megastar gave United Hatzalah unprecedented exposure — and, for me, that wasn’t even the best part

Latino Midterm win means Israel needs to Hablar Español

America’s fastest growing minority is getting fake news about Israel from bad actors including Iran

What’s your name?: From the Western Front to Pittsburgh

Let the defiance of our hope counter the culture of hatred, let the audacity of our courage quell the contempt of the cruel

Stephen Horenstein

A Government Handbook For the Arts

Regev’s ’Culture Loyalty Law’ has a proud record in the arts traditions of some of history’s finest totalitarian regimes

Screen capture from video of a computer generated image of the Oumuamua asteroid. (YouTube)

Experts say Israeli researchers’ ‘alien spacecraft’ theory is science fiction

By AFP

Study published by pair of Harvard scientists pointing out unusual journey of cigar-shaped rock is dismissed as based on ‘numbers with large uncertainties’

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned anti-Semitic acts that took place in Canada following Donald Trump's election in the US. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

Trudeau issues apology for Canada’s refusal to let in Jews fleeing Holocaust

Prime minister says Canada ‘turned its back’ on 907 refugees on board the MS St. Louis when they tried to escape Nazi Germany in 1939

Netanyahu thanks Merkel for helping Israeli security, after she says she’ll quit

Netanyahu to visit Vienna, a first for an Israeli premier in 20 years

By Raphael Ahren

Poland blocks far-right march, will instead hold inclusive event

By Vanessa Gera

More Headlines

Incoming Jordanian Ambassador to Israel Ghassan Majali inspects an honor guard during a ceremony for new ambassadors at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, November 8, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In Jerusalem, new envoys from Cairo and Amman recommit to peace with Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Ron DeSantis speaks to supporters at a rally, November 5, 2018, in Orlando, Florida (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Florida governor-elect says his first trip abroad will be to Israel

Screen capture from video showing the delivery of Russian S-300 air defense missiles to Syria. (YouTube)

Syrian Army claims S-300 air defenses keeping Israel at bay

By Judah Ari Gross

Screen capture from video of producer Jason Blum speaking at the Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles, November 6, 2018. (YouTube)

Jewish producer booed off LA Israeli film festival stage for anti-Trump remarks

By JTA

A bullethole is seen in the window of a bus that was fired upon on Route 466 in the West Bank near the settlement of Beit El on November 7, 2018. (Beit El security)

Bus driver, passenger lightly injured in shooting attack near W. Bank settlement

University of Rochester (Public domain, Douglas.flowe, Wikipedia)

‘Reprehensible’ anti-Semitic flyers found at Rochester University

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife Sara at her 60th birthday party in Tiberias on November 6, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Work spouseSara Netanyahu is a diplomatic asset, PM gushes

Mellanox headquarters in Yokne'am (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

US tech firm Xilinx mulls buying Israel’s Mellanox – report

By Shoshanna Solomon

Moshe Lion (R) seen with Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat, during the wedding of Lion's daughter in Neve Ilan, June 19, 2016. (Yaakov Cohen/Flash90)

Incumbent Nir Barkat endorses Moshe Lion for Jerusalem mayor

By Marissa Newman

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi meeting in Sharm al-Sheikh on November 3, 2018. (Credit: Wafa)

Abbas agrees to Egypt-mediated ‘calm’ between Israel and Hamas — report

Screen capture from video of activist Uzi Mushalem. (YouTube)

Minister seeks posthumous pardon for controversial ‘Yemenite children’ activist

By Stuart Winer

Transportation Minister Israel Katz, second left, stands next to Omani officials during the opening ceremony of the International Road Transport Union World Congress in Muscat, Oman, on November 7, 2018. (Mohammed Mahjoub/AFP)

Rail from Israel to Gulf ‘makes sense,’ Israel’s transport minister says in Oman

By AFP and ToI Staff

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