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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 15, 2018

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Amid coalition turmoil, key partners Kahlon and Deri call for early elections

Following defense minister’s resignation, finance and interior ministers tell Netanyahu that heading to the polls would be beneficial for Israel

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri in Jerusalem on December 27, 2015. (Flash90)

Liberman officially submits resignation, holds last defense meetings

Amid coalition crisis, opposition leaders ramp up calls for elections

Israel media reviewThe Bennett ultimatum: 7 things to know for November 15

By Joshua Davidovich

Likud MK Tzachi Hanegbi at a meeting of the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee in the Knesset. November 19, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Major Israel op would mean 'TLV paralyzed, 500 dead troops'

Outcry as top minister calls largest-ever daily Hamas rocket onslaught ‘minor’

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu condemns remarks by Tzachi Hanegbi, who said it would have been ‘a different story’ had Gaza terrorist groups fired rockets at Tel Aviv, not just at southern towns

Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi at the Knesset on July 9, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister sorry if his comment calling Gaza rockets ‘minor’ was ‘misunderstood’

By Tamar Pileggi

Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett runs a weekly faction meeting in the Knesset on October 23, 2017 (courtesy)

Ratcheting up threat to bolt, Jewish Home votes to back coalition ultimatum

By Raoul Wootliff

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman visits the construction site of the new West Bank settlement of Amichai on October 18, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Analysis

Avigdor Liberman: The settler defense minister who couldn’t please the settlers

Despite advancing more tenders for homes beyond the Green Line than any predecessor in the same time span, the Yisrael Beytenu head found himself cast as an unappreciated outsider

An Israeli tank drives near the Israel Gaza border, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Shaky truce appears to hold, but IDF to keep Gaza reinforcements on border

By Judah Ari Gross

Burning tires are seen on Route 34 at the entrance to the southern Israeli town of Sderot on November 14, 2018, during a protest over the government's handling of violence from the Gaza Strip. (Israel Police)

For second day, Israelis burn tires, block roads in south over Gaza violence

Dr. Emma Maayan-Fanar's reconstruction on top of the face of Jesus found in a Byzantine-era North Church at Shivta in the Negev. (Dror Maayan)

Jesus image, hidden in plain sight at Negev church, is one of earliest in Israel

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The reproduction of a looted Degas pastel 'Portrait of Gabrielle Diot' which art restitution lawyer Christopher Marinello claimed was used to 'shop it around.' (Courtesy)

Art dealer’s heirs decry ‘ransom demand’ for Degas stolen by the Nazis

By Robert Philpot

Analysis

Israelis aren’t happy with Netanyahu, but still look mainly to him to solve Gaza

What matters, as near-war gave way to resignations and bickering, is whether PM really had compelling reasons for pushing to urgently end this round of conflict with Hamas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the border of the Gaza Strip on October 20, 2015. (Haim Zach / GPO)

AnalysisAs Liberman quits, looming draft law deadline puts Netanyahu under the gun

By Marissa Newman

AnalysisWhy Netanyahu may be quietly celebrating the loss of his defense minister

By Raphael Ahren

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)

Analysis

As rockets multiplied, racing first responders struggled to keep up

The 400 rockets launched from Gaza posed a challenge not only to the Iron Dome defense system but also to emergency workers, who respond to multiple incidents for every rocket

Illustrative: Israeli apps alert users whenever a missile is headed into the country. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)

Rocket alert apps save lives — and spread anxiety

Family members carry Mahmoud Abu Asabeh's body to a burial site in Halhoul on November 14, 2018. (Adam Rasgon/ Times of Israel)

Analysis

In Hebron, mourning a Palestinian killed in Ashkelon by a rocket fired from Gaza

Mahmoud Abu Asabeh, a contractor who spent much of his time in Israel, was the sole fatality in 2 days of barrages from Strip; he was buried with little fanfare and no PA presence

PA Police chief in Hebron Col. Ahmed Abu al-Rub helping Israeli soldiers replace a tire on a military vehicle on November 11, 2018. (Screenshot: Twitter)

PA suspends Hebron police chief for helping IDF soldiers repair military vehicle

Border Police officers at the scene of a stabbing attack at a police station in Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv neighborhood on November 14, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

4 policemen lightly hurt in Jerusalem stabbing attack

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Maj. Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi, head of the Iranian Army. (Screen capture)

Iran military officials say Liberman resignation a defeat for Israel

Tehran gloats as defense minister quits in protest of Netanyahu decision to accept ceasefire with Gaza terror groups, says Islamic Jihad rockets pose a ‘major threat’ to Israel

Palestinians step on a burnt image of Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman in front of the house Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh's home in Gaza on November 14, 2018. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Hamas head says Liberman resignation an ‘admission of defeat’ by Israel

Head of the Mossad Tamir Pardo speaks during a ceremony marking 50 years since the death of Mossad agent Eli Cohen, at the President's residence on May 18, 2015. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Harvard hoax site claims former Mossad chief called Liberman a Russian agent

By Judah Ari Gross

A still from filmmaker Duki Dror's 'Inside the Mossad.' (Courtesy/Ron Katzenelson)

Interview

Mossad unveiled: Human side of the world’s most mysterious intelligence agency

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

What would Freddie Mercury do?

When the band itself doesn’t show: A tale of music and longing and disappointment and redemption

Micah Lakin Avni

A tale of two libraries

The Palestinians glorify my father’s murder by honoring his killer; those who knew Dad pay tribute to the kind, peace-loving man he was

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with Interior Minister Aryeh Deri during a plenum session in the Knesset, January 11, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu said to tell ministers he may not be able to hold coalition together

Reports follow demands by leaders of Shas and Kulanu that the prime minister call early elections, which appear set to take place sometime between March and May

7:36 pm

Fearing more incendiary attacks, Israel confiscates balloon shipment to Gaza
6:55 pm

Netanyahu said to tell ministers he may not be able to hold coalition together
6:43 pm

Miami Beach Jewish center vandalized with swastika and upside-down cross

Illustrative: Visitors to the 5th International Homeland Security and Cyber Exhibition, Tel Aviv, are picked up by surveillance software that uses facial recognition, November 13, 2018. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Guns, drones, and surveillance equipment: Big Brother steps out in Tel Aviv

Some of the technology on show at the 5th International Homeland Security and Cyber Exhibition is positively spooky

As influence of AI, big data grows, cyber experts discuss tech safety and trust

Shutterstock removes photos of ‘happy man in a Jewish cap’ waving wads of cash

By JTA

Facebook fires Republican firm behind anti-Soros campaign

By AFP

More Headlines

Democrat Ilhan Omar on November 7, 2018, in Minneapolis after winning Minnesota's 5th Congressional District race in the 2018 US midterm elections. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Israel critic elected to House backtracks on her previous opposition to BDS

By JTA

Jerusalem mayoral candidate Moshe Lion celebrates his victory with supporters at his campaign headquarters, after winning the Jerusalem municipal elections on November 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Moshe Lion clinches Jerusalem mayoral win by 3,765 votes

By Marissa Newman

Ex-Beit She'an mayor Jacky Levy (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Heichal Hakodesh)

Likud MK quits Knesset after being elected mayor of Beit She’an

Jeffrey Clark (Lacy MacAuley/Twitter, via JTA)

Police arrest white nationalist who called Pittsburgh shooting a ‘dry run’

By Michael Kunzelman

Britain's Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (Brexit Minister) Dominic Raab gives a speech in the main hall on the second day of the Conservative Party Conference 2018 at the International Convention Center in Birmingham, on October 1, 2018. (Paul ELLIS/AFP)

Prominent UK politician with Jewish roots resigns as Brexit minister

Screenshot from Australian TV's "60 Minutes" broadcast about live shipments, "Sheep, Ships and Videotape," shown April 8, 2018.

Knesset votes to stop live animal transports within three years

Lev Leviev at a gathering for Jews from Bukhara, Uzbekistan, held in Tel Aviv on January 13, 2013. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Police believe Leviev workers had diamonds smuggled into Israel in condoms

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

In this illustrative photo taken on August 27, 2013, a Russian S-300 air defense system is on display at the opening of the MAKS Air Show in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, Russia (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)

Israeli satellite firm: Images indicate Syrian S-300 not yet operational

A photograph of Adolf Hitler together with Rosa Bernile Nienau, a Jewish girl, taken at Hitler's home, the Berghof, in the Bavarian Alps, April 20, 1932. (Alexander Historical Auctions)

Photo of Hitler embracing girl he knew was Jewish sells for $11,000

By AP

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

After first Western Wall visit, Czech FM signals Prague won’t move embassy

By Raphael Ahren

Sara Netanyahu (C), wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, attends a hearing at the Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem on October 7, 2018. (AFP Photo/ Pool/Amit Shabi)

Sara Netanyahu’s $100,000 fraud case to go to arbitration

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative image of dog poop (C_FOR; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel researchers heat up human poop for fuel and fertilizer

By Shoshanna Solomon

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