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What Matters Most On Saturday, November 17, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot attend the graduation ceremony at the National Security College, on July 13, 2016. (Flash90)

Report: PM aims to sustain coalition till Dec. to approve new police, IDF chiefs

Associate says immediate Knesset dissolution would negate Netanyahu’s ability to confirm nominees; Meretz says it will bring bill to disband parliament next week

Justice minister: ‘Netanyahu is next PM, but with what coalition?’

Labor leader Gabbay calls for early elections ‘as soon as possible’

AnalysisChallenged from right on security, PM may face his worst case election scenario

By Raoul Wootliff

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

We should all hope the victories of Gaza’s Yahya Sinwar haven’t gone to his head

Hamas leader in the Strip won a ceasefire on his terms, and may well have brought about the end of Netanyahu’s government. But his ‘achievements’ have changed little on the ground

Hamas's leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, center, chants slogans with protesters during a visit to the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, April 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Hamas warns of consequences should Israel walk back economic steps — report

Hamas Gaza chief to Israel: Don’t test us again, next barrage will hit Tel Aviv

Officer wounded in Gaza undercover op that led to flareup released from hospital

Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Sept. 29, 2018 (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

ExclusiveVienna-born foreign minister lived in Israel for two years

Austrian FM vows to stand up for Israel, which is currently boycotting her

By Raphael Ahren

Karin Kneissl, who is affiliated with the far-right Freedom Party, stresses need to oppose both anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, says EU’s attitude to Israel requires ‘more realism’

Adam Gussow, left, and Sterling 'Mr. Satan' Magee, of the musical duo Satan & Adam. (Courtesy)

Interview

The devil went down to Harlem — to team up with a Jewish harmonica player

By Rich Tenorio

An Israeli soldier opens the border gates as a UN vehicle enters Syria at the Quneitra crossing in the Golan Heights, Monday, October 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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

Despite American support, world body overwhelmingly condemns Israel, and no one else, in 9 separate resolutions

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman meets with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis at the Pentagon in Washington,
on March 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

CIA said to conclude Jamal Khashoggi was killed on orders of Saudi crown prince

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US Vice President Mike Pence gestures at the APEC CEO Summit 2018 in Port Moresby on November 17, 2018 (Fazry ISMAIL / POOL / AFP)

Pence vows US will hold Khashoggi murderers to account

By AFP

In this March 28, 1977 file photo, William Goldman accepts his Oscar at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles, for best screenplay from other medium for 'All The President's Men.' Goldman, the Oscar-winning screenplay writer of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' and 'All the President’s Men,' died, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. He was 87. (AP Photo, File)

Appreciation

Who was that guy?! The diverse genius of William Goldman

Novelist, playwright, coruscating non-fiction writer, screenwriter of comedies, of thrillers, of president-ousting investigative journalism, his stories defied indifference

William Goldman after winning the Oscar for best Screenplay from another medium for 'All the President's Men' at the 49th Academy Award presentation at Los Angeles Music Center, March 28, 1977.(AP Photo/Pendergrass)

William Goldman, Oscar winner behind ‘Butch Cassidy,’ ‘Princess Bride,’ has died

A Spanish flag shown near Estremera, in Madrid province, December 19, 2018. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images/via JTA)

Passport to freedom?

Is Spain really ready to become a haven for people with Jewish roots?

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A view of the Ilan Ramon Day School in Agoura, California, after the fire. (Courtesy of Yuri Hronsky/via JTA)

Analysis

Gabrielle Birkner

Los Angeles fire races through the heart of a Jewish community

From summer camps to schools, synagogues and homes, many touchstones for the city’s Jews have been consumed by the blazes that torched nearly 100,000 acres

Rescue workers carry a body away from a burned property in the Holly Hills area of Paradise, California on November 14, 2018. (Josh Edelson / AFP)

Number of missing in California fires soars past 1,000 as Trump set to visit

By Javier Tovar

A group of Jews from Irkutsk inside the synagogue. (Eli Itkin/ Dorit Wagner/The Jewish Community of Irkutsk)

Jews of former Cossack fort Irkutsk mark 200 years of prosperity and persecution

By Rossella Tercatin

Mischael Modrikamen at his home near Brussels holds up an anti-Semitic caricature favored by anti-Israel circles in Belgium, Oct. 26, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

Analysis

A Jewish lawyer is Steve Bannon’s main ally in uniting Europe’s right

Mischael Modrikamen, a Belgian politician whose party has one seat in parliament, has been at the forefront of the fight against the kingdom’s anti-Semitism problem

Steve Bannon, US President Donald Trump's former chief strategist, August 19, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

From the webSteve Bannon says he’ll work with Hungary’s Orban on EU parliament elections

Prince Charles is a friend to Anglo-Jewry

On the future king’s 70th, UK Jewish leaders reflect on how he has gone above and beyond to support their community

Israelis are blunt and rude. You got a problem with that?

While startling to many immigrants and visitors, the aggressive arguing and disdain for lines is part of Israel’s cultural DNA

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Jan Grabowski (Courtesy)

Holocaust scholar sues group that said he ‘slandered’ Poland

By Vanessa Gera

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks during a press conference inside 10 Downing Street in London, November 15, 2018 (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool)

UK’s Theresa May fights back against critics, defends Brexit deal

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg. (CC BY-SA 2.0/Scanlan/Wikimedia Commons)

Facebook’s COO vows ‘thorough’ review of reported lobby efforts targeting Soros

By AFP

President Donald Trump awards Miriam Adelson, the wife of Las Vegas Sands Corporation Chief Executive Sheldon Adelson and Republican mega donor the Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump awards GOP megadonor Miriam Adelson the Presidential Medal of Freedom

By Eric Cortellessa

Illustrative: A shared meal (Foxys_forest_manufacture; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel dig provides clues on how feasting became an important ritual

By Natalie Munro

US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, November 7, 2018. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Trump says he has written answers to Russia probe questions

By Paul Handley

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a discussion with citizen at the East German city Chemnitz, Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Kay Nietfeld, Pool)

Merkel tours scene of far-right protest, defends refugee policy

By CHRISTOPH NOELTING and Frank Jordans

Jerusalem mayoral candidates Ofer Berkovich (L) and Moshe Lion during an October 21, 2018 debate ahead of the Jerusalem Municipality elections on October 30, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Three days after Jerusalem mayor vote, Berkovitch calls Lion to concede

By ToI Staff and Marissa Newman

Clarkstown, New York councilman Peter Bradley (YouTube screenshot)

New York state councilman sorry for suggesting Orthodox Jews aren’t ‘normal’

By JTA

Yesh Atid leader MK Yair Lapid speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 11, 2018. Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Lapid held regular, secret meetings with major newspaper publisher

An image from Talal Derki's documentary 'Of Fathers and Sons' (YouTube screenshot)

New film ‘Of Fathers and Sons’ is a bleak look at children training for jihad

By Jocelyne ZABLIT

Alan Arkin, left, and Michael Douglas star in 'The Kominsky Method,' the latest from 'Big Bang Theory' creator Chuck Lorre. (Mike Yarish/Netflix/JTA)

Good old boysMichael Douglas and Alan Arkin mine aging for laughs

By Curt Schleier

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