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What Matters Most On Friday, November 16, 2018

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Outgoing Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman addresses soldiers during a farewell tour of the Gaza border region, November 16, 2018 (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Liberman: Government has given ‘immunity’ to terrorist leaders in Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

In final volley, outgoing defense minister rails against security cabinet, says Hamas will become like Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah terrorist army

Palestinian reported killed in Gaza border clashes

IDF general warns Gazans not to riot on border: ‘Our patience has run out’

By Judah Ari Gross

Netanyahu rebukes Likud ally for downplaying Gaza rocket fire on south

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, seen with Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on August 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/Pool)

Israel heads toward elections as Jewish Home says it will leave coalition

By Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu says he will still try to ‘preserve right-wing government,’ but Jewish Home says elections now inevitable after PM rejects Bennett’s demand he be made defense minister

Netanyahu meets southern community leaders amid criticism over Gaza ceasefire

Hundreds from rocket-battered south protest against Netanyahu in Tel Aviv

Israel media reviewSave the date: 9 things to know for November 16

By Joshua Davidovich

Still photo from 'Family in Transition.' (Courtesy)

Interview

In new Israeli film, family ties get knotty when dad decides to become a woman

By Jordan Hoffman

United States ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, center, raises her hand as she votes yes to levy new sanctions on North Korea during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council concerning North Korea at UN headquarters, in New York City, September 11, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

In first, US to vote against UN resolution condemning Israeli presence in Golan

Signifying dramatic shift in policy, outgoing Ambassador Haley says mission will oppose ‘plainly biased’ annual motion after years of abstaining

UN set to vote Friday on slew of measures critical of Israel… and only Israel

UN committee criticizes human rights violations in Iran

By Edith M. Lederer

UN Palestinian refugee agency says it’s overcoming Trump funding cuts

By AFP and ToI Staff

Interview

MP who heads Labour Friends of Israel is ‘concerned’: Corbyn might become PM

Joan Ryan, battling Labour extremists who want to oust her from Parliament, says her party leader should apologize to the Jewish community ‘for the anguish and anger he’s caused’

UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn sits on stage as supporters wave Palestinian flags during the party's annual conference in Liverpool, England, on September 25, 2018. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

Screen capture from video of rights activist and international lawyer Simone O’Broin, during an altercation on an Air India flight. (YouTube)

Boycott everythingUK BDS promoter arrested following apparently drunken rant on plane

By JTA

Illustrative: An areal view of a Muslim cemetery in East Jerusalem, 2015 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Palestinian shunned for selling land to Jews to be buried in Jewish cemetery

By JTA

Mufti rules East Jerusalem resident Alah Kirsh, killed in Route 90 crash that claimed lives of 5 others last week, is ‘not a member of the Muslim nation’

Mother, brother of Barkan terrorist charged for failing to prevent fatal attack

Pushing for global recognition, Abbas’s PA to join UN body, 10 int’l conventions

Palestinian indicted for planning attacks on right-wing activists

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

When the ‘I’ is silent (Vayetze 5779)

If we could only stop asking the question, ’How does this affect me?’ we would see that we are surrounded by miracles.

Jews don’t bend their knees

Nobody says you have to agree with everything your school stands for, but don’t publicly disrespect the very ethos of the place

A spitting image

If this is how Jews treat other Jews, how can we ever move to a place of peace and respect?

Shayna Goldberg

Infertility and sensitivity: Parshat Vayetze

The story of Rachel and Jacob schools us to be sensitive, in the hopes of preventing additional pain for those who yet await a child

Brent Chaim Spodek

Shabbat after the Law

Be connected, be still, and be satisfied — my 3 essential principles of Shabbat do more for me than all the halacha I learned to be a rabbi

Air raid sirens, prosthetic legs, and Tel Aviv lattes

Having a disability doesn’t mean you get any more seconds to reach the bomb shelter

Illustrative: Gallows (CristiNistor/iStock)

As Knesset advances death penalty bill, Israel at UN joins calls to end practice

By Raphael Ahren

Jerusalem one of 123 nations voting for resolution hailing the ‘possibility of moving away from capital punishment through domestic decision-making’

Illustrative: Orthodox Jews read the morning Torah portion at the Jewish Community Center in Larnaca, Cyprus. (Larry Luxner/ Times of Israel)

With Larnaca synagogue and museum, small Cypriot Jewish community has big plans

By Larry Luxner

More Headlines

Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin speaks to the audience during the Republican Party's Lincoln Dinner on August 25, 2018, in Lexington, Kentucky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Kentucky bars state contractors from involvement in Israel boycotts

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara, center, sits in a courtroom in Jerusalem, on October 7, 2018. (Amit Shabi, Yedioth Ahronoth, Pool via AP)

PM’s wife suspected of fraud in employment of former aide — report

Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg testifies during a US House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing about Facebook on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 11, 2018. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

Facebook aims to quell new storm over efforts to target Soros

By AFP

Israeli midfielder Dia Saba (R) shoots the ball past Guatemalan goalkeeper Paulo Motta to score in a FIFA friendly soccer match between Israel and Guatemala at Netanya Municipal Stadium on November 15, 2018. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Israel thrashes Guatemala 7-0 in soccer friendly

Kosherfest participants at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, New Jersey, November 13, 2018. (Josefin Dolsten)

Kosher, in style5 unique kosher foods you’ll be eating in 2019

By Josefin Dolsten

Rabbi Hara Person, appointed head of Central Conference of American Rabbis in November 2018. (Courtesy of CCAR via JTA)

The Reform movement’s rabbinical group appoints its first female leader

By Josefin Dolsten

The West Avenue Jewish Center in Miami Beach, Florida. (Screen capture: Google Maps)

Miami Beach Jewish center graffitied with swastika, upside-down cross

By JTA

Amity High School in Woodbridge, Connecticut (Screen capture: Google Maps)

Jewish students in Connecticut say they don’t feel safe due to anti-Semitism

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Chancellor of Austria Sebastian Kurz at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 11, 2018. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool)

Amid coalition crisis, Netanyahu cancels upcoming Austria trip

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Still from the 1971 Norman Jewison film production of 'Fiddler on the Roof.' (United Artists/The Kobal Collection)

Man shouts ‘Heil Hitler, Heil Trump’ during Baltimore ‘Fiddler on the Roof’

By David McFadden

Johann Rehbogen, a 94-year-old former SS guard holds his walking stick at the beginning of a trial in Muenster, Germany, November 6, 2018. (Guido Kirchner/dpa via AP)

Ex-Nazi guard testifies he thought deaths were from disease, not gas chambers

Dr. Miriam Adelson, a major funder of the Israeli American Council, on a panel at its annual Washington conference, Nov. 5, 2015. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

Miriam Adelson says ‘deeply humbled’ by honor of Presidential Medal of Freedom

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

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