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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 14, 2018

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Defense Minister Liberman resigns, says Israel ‘capitulated to terror’ in Gaza

By Raoul Wootliff

Yisrael Beytenu leader slams ‘drastically inadequate’ response to massive rocket fire on south, calls for elections as soon as possible; Netanyahu to take over defense portfolio

Avigdor Liberman announces his resignation as defense minister during a Jerusalem press conference, November 14, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Labor Party chairman Avi Gabbay in Ashkelon, November 12, 2018. (Ra'anan Cohen)

Opposition slams Netanyahu, calls for elections after Liberman exit

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Hamas members in a parade in Jabalya in Gaza "in support of the resistance," following a ceasefire with Israel after two days of violence, November 13, 2018. (Twitter screen capture)

Hamas claims Liberman’s resignation as a ‘victory for Gaza’

By Judah Ari Gross and Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks with Education Minister Naftali Bennett on November 13, 2017, in the Knesset. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jewish Home in ultimatum to Netanyahu: Give us Defense Ministry or we leave

By Raoul Wootliff

Party officials say they will pull out of government, forcing new elections, if the PM doesn’t appoint Bennett as Liberman’s successor

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman announces his resignation following a ceasefire with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, during a press conference in the Knesset on November 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Avigdor Liberman: An outspoken firebrand turned pragmatic defense chief

By AFP

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin (c), Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, (r) and IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkott, attending a security cabinet meeting at the Kirya, the IDF Headquarters, in Tel Aviv, on February 10, 2018. (Ariel Hermony/Ministry of Defense)

Defense minister, 3 colleagues oppose Gaza ceasefire said pushed by Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff

Supporters of Jerusalem mayoral candidate Moshe Lion (center) react as the preliminary results of the mayoral race are announced, November 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Moshe Lion confirmed as Jerusalem mayor as votes by soldiers, prisoners tallied

By Michael Bachner

Ultra-Orthodox-backed candidate gets insurmountable lead over secular rival Ofer Berkovitch after extremely close race

7:35 pm

Moshe Lion confirmed as Jerusalem mayor as votes by soldiers, prisoners tallied
7:27 pm

PM leaning toward rejecting Bennett's demand to be defense minister -- report
7:22 pm

All roads blocked by anti-ceasefire demonstrators in south reopen

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and leader of the Yisrael Beytenu political party Avigdor Liberman sign a coalition agreement in the Knesset on May 25, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Analysis

Liberman’s exit puts election ball in Netanyahu’s court, but not on his terms

The prime minister now has to choose between a Yisrael Beytenu-pushed national election or capitulation to Bennett’s Jewish Home

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks to residents of the Gaza periphery in Kibbutz Kerem Shalom on October 26, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Israel media reviewLose the battle, ready for (electoral) war: 10 things to know for November 14

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Netanyahu and then- Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman speak with IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot at the IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv on November 12, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershom)

Netanyahu defends Gaza ceasefire amid rumors Liberman set to quit over it

By ToI Staff and AFP

Protesters burn tires at the entrance to the southern town of Sderot, Novermber 13, 2018 (Hadashot screenshot)

Hundreds protest reported Gaza ceasefire, block Sderot roads with burning tires

Some demonstrators in rocket-battered town clash with police, chant ‘Bibi go home’; protesters said planning rally in Tel Aviv Wednesday

Hamas members in a parade in Jabalya in Gaza "in support of the resistance," following a ceasefire with Israel after two days of violence, November 13, 2018. (Twitter screen capture)

Claiming victory in 2-day rocket barrage, Hamas backers rally across Gaza

A wounded Israeli woman is evacuated from her apartment, which was set ablaze by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on November 12, 2018. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)

At least 108 people wounded in Israel in two days of rocket fire

Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks during a Security Council meeting on the situation between the Israelis and the Palestinians, June 1, 2018 at UN headquarters in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Israel envoy sounds rocket siren as UN debates Gaza violence

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Security Council meeting ends with no action, Palestinians blame US for blocking motion to condemn Israel

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

US, France condemn Hamas rocket fire ahead of Security Council meeting

By ToI Staff and AFP

Illustrative: A picture taken on November 12, 2018, shows smoke rising above the building housing the Hamas-run television station al-Aqsa TV in the Gaza Strip during an Israeli air strike. (Mahmud Hams / AFP)

Arab public opinion of Israel worse than in past Gaza crises — Foreign Ministry

By Raphael Ahren

Officials assess the damage to a house after it was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip, in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, Israel, November 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Life in south slowly returns to normal after two days of rockets from Gaza

As a reported ceasefire appears to take hold, IDF Home Front Command says schools, businesses to reopen Wednesday in communities near Gaza

A Palestinian uses a slingshot to hurl a stone towards Israeli forces across the fence during clashes by the border with Israel east of Gaza city on July 13, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Gaza man throws grenades at security fence, is shot and arrested

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF forces seen gathering near the border with Gaza in southern Israel on November 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

After two days of rockets, army announces ‘return to normalcy’ in south

A host on Hamas's Al-Aqsa TV shortly before the station's building was destroyed in an Israeli strike, November 12, 2018 (screen capture)

Hamas TV station captures its own final moments on air before Israeli bombing

Host cuts guest mid-interview to evacuate as booms are heard overhead — the result of IDF warning shots — and panicked shouting is heard outside the studio

A picture taken on November 12, 2018, shows a bus set ablaze after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, at the Israel-Gaza border near the kibbutz of Kfar Aza, on November 12, 2018. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

IDF to probe anti-tank missile attack on bus near border that injured soldier

By Judah Ari Gross

Dolls on a dresser just below a hole caused by shrapnel from a rocket in the wall of a bedroom in a home in Netivot, November 12, 2018 (Hadashot TV news)

Op-ed

The path of a piece of shrapnel: A minor story that made no headlines

Late on Monday night, a rocket destroyed the home of a family in the southern Israeli town of Netivot. This is not that story

A ball of fire above the building housing the Hamas-run television station al-Aqsa TV in the Gaza Strip during an Israeli air strike, November 12, 2018. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP)

Israel indicates acceptance of Gaza ceasefire reached with Hamas

By Judah Ari Gross

People gather outside a house that was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, on November 13, 2018 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

As some families flee Gaza border area, municipalities look to help

Supporters of Jerusalem mayoral candidate Moshe Lion (center) react as the preliminary results of the mayoral race are announced, November 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

'Jerusalem tonight chose unity, togetherness' - Moshe Lion

Lion declares he’s won Jerusalem mayoral race, but rival says it’s not over

By Marissa Newman

Ofer Berkovitch vows not to give up, says his legal team will be checking into ‘irregularities’ at polling stations; 8,500 outstanding votes will only be tallied Wednesday

New mayors, more women: 2018 local elections summed up

Incumbent Shlomo Ne’eman keeps seat in lone West Bank election run-off

AnalysisSecond round in local elections ends with dramatic shakeup for long-time mayors

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Talia Dekel Fleissig

Hush little baby, don’t you cry

When fire power prevents the children of Israel’s south and the children of Gaza from sleeping at night, do their parents teach them of peace?

What about Farrakhan?

Add him to the list of those we roundly condemn, from David Duke and the KKK to neo-Nazis and all kinds of anti-Semites

Bracha Goldstein

I’ve been in Israel through intifadas and wars. I’ve seen the cycle. And I know we cannot go on much longer like this

Stan Lee, our superhero

What the late comic book creator showed us with his flawed but relatable heroes was how to be good people.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 14, 2018. (Amir COHEN/AFP)

Analysis

How Netanyahu‘s cozy relationship with the Saudi crown prince could cost Israel

PM’s defense of Mohammed bin Salman in the wake of the Khashoggi killing has angered many

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a press conference in New York on September 26, 2018, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (AFP Photo/Jim Watson)

Rouhani: US will be defeated after ‘wrong path’ with sanctions

By ToI Staff and AFP

In this September 5, 2018 file photo, various currency rates are displayed at a window of an exchange shop in downtown Tehran, Iran (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Iran executes ‘Sultan of Coins’ convicted of hoarding currency

By AP

A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh, on October 29, 2018 in which eleven Jews were killed while at Shabbat services. (AP/Matt Rourke)

FBI says hate crimes against Jews in the US rose by 37% last year

By JTA

Anti-Semitic attacks counted for 58 percent of all religion-based hate crimes in 2017, even though Jews make up only some 2% of the population in America

Photographer: Wisconsin schoolboys’ ‘Nazi salute’ wasn’t meant to be offensive

By Gretchen Ehlke

K-Pop band BTS apologizes for member’s A-bomb shirt, Nazi emblem hat

By Hyung-Jin Kim

Tunisian Scouts movement bars French Jews from interfaith meeting

By JTA

More Headlines

The Toronto skyline, 2015. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Attack on Jewish teens in Toronto investigated as hate crime

By JTA

Hamas deputy political chief Saleh al-Arouri, after signing a reconciliation deal with senior Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmad, during a short ceremony at the Egyptian intelligence complex in Cairo, Egypt, October 12, 2017. (AP/Nariman El-Mofty)

US posts $5m. reward for help capturing top Hamas official, Hezbollah commanders

Israel's Ambassador in Prague Daniel Meron, left, accompanies Czech Foreign Minister Tomáš Petříček to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, November 13, 2018 (Twitter)

Israeli official takes Czech FM to Western Wall, drawing Palestinian ire

By Raphael Ahren

A vehicle torched in an apparent hate crime in the northern West Bank Palestinian village of Urif on November 14, 2018. (Israel Police)

Palestinian car torched in apparent hate crime

Albert Einstein, at home in Princeton, New Jersey, June, 1954. (AP Photo, File)

Einstein letter warning of German anti-Semitism auctioned for nearly $40,000

By AP

Sheldon Adelson and Miriam Adelson at the ceremony marking the establishment of a new Faculty of Medicine at Ariel University in the West Bank, on August 19, 2018. (Ben Dori/Flash90)

5 things to know about Miriam Adelson

A hearse carries the remains of two deceased victims of the Camp Fire on November 10, 2018 in Paradise, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)

Rabbi saves 4 Torah scrolls from destruction in California wildfires

By Josefin Dolsten

The Yungas Road in Bolivia, commonly known as the "Road of Death." (Alex Proimos)

Israeli backpacker dies in Bolivia

Raziel (left) and Yael Huri after their wedding on Monday night, November 12, 2018 (Hadashot TV news)

Raining on their paradeYoung couple wed near Gaza despite rocket salvos

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on August 12, 2018. (AFP Photo/Pool/Jim Hollander)

Busy with Gaza violence, Netanyahu misses vote for Jerusalem mayor

By Raphael Ahren

The Student Union and university library at Northwestern University (photo credit: CC BY-SA Amerique, Wikimedia Commons)

Tel Aviv, Northwestern universities set up joint nanotechnology program

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: An Elbit UAV. (Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)

Defense contractor Elbit wins $167 million contract with an Asia-Pacific country

By Shoshanna Solomon

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