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What Matters Most On Monday, November 12, 2018

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Two men walk past a vehicle that was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon, on November 12, 2018. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Gazan rockets pound Israel in largest-ever single day barrage

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Over 300 rockets launched from Strip; One Israeli killed and more than 30 Israelis injured; 3 Gazan fighters killed; terror group threatens to target more areas with rockets

12:15 am

Woman with serious injuries found in rubble of Ashkelon home
12:04 am

Ashkelon man reported killed in rocket attack
11:39 pm

Report: Elderly lady in critical condition after earlier rocket hit in Ashkelon

Israeli soldiers stand guard in Nahal Oz, southern Israel, near the border with Gaza, November 12, 2018. (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Father of slain IDF officer: ‘I hope this is the final loss for Israel’

Special forces soldier who died in secretive Gaza Strip mission gone awry is recalled as contributing to social activism, raising children with patriotic values

A helicopter carrying a wounded Israeli soldier who was injured during an operation in the Gaza Strip lands outside Beersheba's Soroka Medical Center on November 11, 2018. (Twitter)

Netanyahu: ‘The citizens of Israel owe an enormous debt to fallen soldier’

A member of Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades stands next to the remains of a car that was destroyed following an Israeli airstrike, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 12, 2018. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Israel media reviewThe Gaza raid and other things that went awry: 8 things to know for November 12

By Joshua Davidovich

An operator walks by an Iron Dome missile defense battery near the city of Sderot in southern Israel on May 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF sends more Iron Dome batteries, reinforcements to south after Gaza clash

By Judah Ari Gross

As fragile calm sets in following overnight flareup, army remains on high alert and says it’s prepared to deal a forceful blow to Hamas if need be

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman meets with IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot, the head of the Shin Bet security service and other senior defense officials in the army's Tel Aviv headquarters on November 11, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

AnalysisPossibility of Gaza war in balance, as IDF troops caught in gunfight with Hamas

Illustrative. An explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, on October 27, 2018. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Intense clashes with Gaza break out as Hamas commander said killed in IDF raid

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: IDF strikes in Gaza, November 11, 2018 (Channel 10 screenshot)

Israeli special forces officer killed, another injured in Gaza raid

By Judah Ari Gross

Fatal mission appears to have been an operation that went awry, but not an assassination attempt; senior terror commander and six other Hamas members said killed

AnalysisDollars trump death: Hamas seems committed to truce despite deadly Gaza flareup

By Avi Issacharoff

Netanyahu cuts short Paris trip as Gaza fighting rages

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Netanyahu: There is no diplomatic solution for Gaza

Palestinians stand next to the remains of a car allegedly used by Israeli special forces during a raid in Gaza, which was was later destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 12, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)

IDF says Gaza raid wasn’t an assassination, praises troops’ ‘heroic’ extraction

By Judah Ari Gross

Army chief lauds fallen special forces senior officer, says operation was of ‘utmost importance’ to Israel’s security; Gaza media shares photos of car allegedly used by IDF forces

Palestinians stand next to the remains of a building, said to be destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 12, 2018 (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Hamas’s military wing says its forces made a ‘global mockery’ of Israel

From right, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, Military Secretary to the Prime Minister Brig. Gen. Eliezer Toledano and head of the Shin Bet Nadav Argaman speak during a visit to the IDF's Gaza Division on July 17, 2018, amid an increase in violence from the Gaza Strip. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

PM returns to Israel after senior officer killed in Gaza violence

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves, as he arrives at the Elysee Palace in Paris for a lunch after participating in a World War I commemoration ceremony, on November 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Analysis

Put on world stage in Paris, Netanyahu still can’t escape domestic woes

Netanyahu received VIP treatment at the WWI memorial event, but when he went in front of Israeli reporters, the submarine probe and Gaza were all anybody wanted to talk about

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves, as he arrives at the Elysee Palace in Paris for a lunch after participating in a World War I commemoration ceremony, on November 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

At WWI centenary, Netanyahu says Israel is ‘shielding’ Europe from terrorism

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves the White House on March 5, 2018, after meeting with US President Donald Trump. (AFP Photo/ Saul Loeb)

Netanyahu reported to say he would quit, but nobody can succeed him

A small piece of a fat biopsy from a patient is engineered to become any type of tissue implant for regenerating defective organs, including the heart, spinal cord and brain, with minimal risk for rejection (Prof. Tal Dvir's lab; Tel Aviv University)

Israeli team makes implants using patient’s own stomach cells, biomaterials

By Shoshanna Solomon

Breakthrough method makes risk of immune response to an organ implant ‘virtually disappear,’ Tel Aviv University researchers say

Teenage founders of the startup Enter+; from left to right Emmanual Leibovici, 17, the vice president; Moshe Schwartzberg, 16, the CEO; Ariel Safanov,16, and Elazar Zabari, 16 (Ariel Safanov)

Beach boys: High-schoolers’ startup aims to develop wrist band for water safety

By Shoshanna Solomon

Zaki Shalom and Jacob Aaron Collier

Those ineffectual US sanctions

Here’s why punitive measures are not up to the task of convincing Iran or the PA to change their ways

Please go out and vote for Ofer Berkovitch

He really can win, but he needs every single person who believes he’s the better path for Jerusalem to go to the polls on Tuesday

Israel must make a decision on Gaza

A focus on political expediency leaves Israel putting out fires, instead of strategizing for the good of the country and its neighbors

Adam Thomas and Claudia Patatas, accused neo-Nazis living in the UK who named their baby after Hitler. (West Midlands Police via BBC)

UK jury convicts neo-Nazi couple that named son after Hitler

By AP and ToI Staff

Adam Thomas, who had studied in Israel and tried to convert to Judaism, and Claudia Patatas found guilty of membership in outlawed far-right group

Members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, led by Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate, have their picture taken in front of a convoy of buses getting ready to enter the towns of Fuaa and Kefraya, in Syria, to evacuate their residents on July 18, 2018. (AFP Photo/Omar Haj Kadour)

Would-be Arab Israeli jihadist’s Syria trip foiled by his mother taking passport

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Ahmad Sarsour allegedly aimed to join anti-regime fighters, tried to arrange killing of Dutch activist who organized Prophet Mohammed art contest, and wanted to stab Jews

Kaufman in front of the Hayes Theater in New York City, where the play he’s directing will debut on November 1. (Courtesy of Torch Song on Broadway/via JTA)

A Venezuelan yeshiva student’s journey toward directing a Broadway classic

By Curt Schleier

Vendors take a break in Amsterdam’s Waterloo Square Market, October 25, 2017. (Huub Zeeman/Flickr/via JTA)

Is this the last stand for Amsterdam’s Jewish market?

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

US President Donald Trump takes part in a ceremony at the American Cemetery of Suresnes, outside Paris, on November 11, 2018 as part of Veterans Day and commemorations marking the 100th anniversary of the 11 November 1918 armistice, ending World War I. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump largely alone as world leaders take aim at nationalism

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and Jill Colvin

Screen capture from video of a Channel 20 interview with Yitzhak Gabai, a right-wing Jewish extremist, as he explained how he torched a Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem. The show was broadcast on November 11, 2018. (Channel 20)

Channel 20 slammed for amicable interview with torcher of Arab-Jewish school

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative. A pile of $100 bills. (choness, iStock by Getty Images)

Bank of Israel to halt forex purchases program to offset natural gas production

By Shoshanna Solomon

A girl holds a portrait of late leader Yasser Arafat as Palestinians celebrate the 14th anniversary of his death in the the West Bank city of Ramallah, on November 11, 2018. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP)

Marking Arafat death anniversary, Abbas rages against US ‘conspiracy’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, seen at a welcoming ceremony for a new submarine, Rahav, at the Israeli naval base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO)

Police defend handling of submarines probe after criticism by ex-defense chief

By Raoul Wootliff

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri attends a swearing in ceremony for the Rabbinate Council at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on October 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Haredi minister apologizes for implying secular Jerusalem candidate is the devil

Flames surround a house in Malibu, California, on November 9, 2018, part of the Woolsey fire that has led to the evacuation of about 75,000 homes in southern California. (David McNew/ Getty Images)

Several Jewish institutions burned by fires racing through California

By JTA

Supporter of the far-right movement Oboz Narodowo Radykalny (National Radical Camp) wearing a cape reading 'Anti-Antifa. Good night left side' attends the 'March of Independence,' on November 11, 2018, in Warsaw to mark 100 years of Polish independence. (Janek SKARZYNSKI / AFP)

Polish leaders march with far-right groups to mark Independence Day

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and Vanessa Gera

A view of Route 90 along the Dead Sea, September 30, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Transportation minister orders expansion of key highway after fatal crashes

By Raoul Wootliff

Rows of olive trees planted at Eretz Gshur (Courtesy Eretz Gshur)

When green makes goldCrushed and separated, this olive oil is fresh off the press

By Jessica Steinberg

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison (C) delivers a speech in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra on October 22, 2018. (Sean Davey/AFP)

Australia PM says no decision made on Jerusalem embassy move

By Tamar Pileggi

Emergency workers from ZAKA at the scene of a deadly head-on collision on Route 90 near the Dead Sea on October 30, 2018. (ZAKA)

Driver in crash that wiped out family of 8 to face manslaughter charges

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