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What Matters Most On Sunday, November 18, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, on November 18, 2018 (ABIR SULTAN / POOL / AFP)

Netanyahu says ‘no need for elections’ now, in apparent bid to save coalition

By Raoul Wootliff

Citing ‘period of sensitive security,’ PM slams junior partners in government for threatening to bring it down

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and then-Education Minister Naftali Bennett, left, attend the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Tuesday, August 30, 2016. (Abir Sultan/Pool/via AP)

As elections loom, Netanyahu ally slams Bennett’s ‘unprecedented chutzpah’

From left, Gilad Erdan, Moshe Kahlon and Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset on November 18, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu set for last-gasp bid to save coalition as budget battle brews

Live updates (closed)

After Netanyahu speech, Likud members pin political crisis on coalition partners

By Alexander Fulbright

Ministers from ruling party accuse Bennett and Kahlon of threatening government’s stability, echo PM on need for security focus

7:34 pm

Meretz head accuses Netanyahu of playing politics with Defense Ministry
6:57 pm

Backing Netanyahu, Likud ministers pin political crisis on coalition partners
6:43 pm

Trump to meet with advisers on when to roll out peace plan -- report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, June 13, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Israel media review

Netanyahu throws up a Hail Moshe: 8 things to know for November 18

By Joshua Davidovich

The prime minister’s hopes of avoiding his government’s collapse are pinned on a meeting with Kulanu chief Kahlon, with few giving it much chance of succeeding

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (r) and Education Minister Naftali Bennett, at a press conference regarding the reduction in vacation days in the education system at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem on January 8, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Bennett, Kahlon said pushing for elections on March 26, but PM still resisting

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon at a special cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 11, 2018. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool/Flash90)

After bitter debate, cabinet approves budget cut to raise cops’ salaries

Hamas senior political leader Khalil al-Hayya in Cairo, Egypt on November 22, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mohamed El-Shahed)

Special forces were apparently trying to install spying gear in Gaza, Hamas says

Terror group claims IDF soldiers were seeking to boost Israel’s eavesdropping capabilities, in incident that touched off an intense round of fighting

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon speaks during a conference in Jerusalem on May 7, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Kahlon: We knew Gaza truce would be unpopular, but security chiefs unanimous

Hamas members watch as a bus carrying Palestinian prisoners arrives at the Rafah crossing with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip as part of the deal for the release of hostage Gilad Shalit on October 18, 2011. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Israel denies reported progress on prisoner swap with Hamas

A flight attendant speaking to a passenger on an El Al flight from New York to Israel on November 16, 2018. (screen capture: Israel Hayom)

Religious passengers push back against claims of violence on El Al flight

Passenger claims carrier lied and told ultra-Orthodox they would be let off in New York before taking off; airline says it is filing complaints against passengers who used violence

Illustrative: An El Al airline plane at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 17, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

El Al diverts flight after religious passengers cause uproar over Shabbat scare

Analysis

10 lessons from that El Al flight to Athens

I’m a transatlantic frequent flyer, and these are my take-aways from a travel experience like no other

BlogEl Al, here’s a Shabbos marketing idea for you

BlogI’m one of those ‘violent’ religious passengers on El Al #002

By Betsalel Steinhart

Deborah Lipstadt, author of 'Antisemitism: Here and Now' (Osnat Perelshtein via JTA)

Deborah Lipstadt wrote a new book on anti-Semitism. Then Pittsburgh happened

Rep.-elect Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., smiles during an interview following a photo opportunity on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018, with the freshman class. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Hijabs and kippas may be allowed in Congress for first time since 1837

By Joshua Davidovich

Female Muslim representative Ilhan Omar, who wears a headscarf, pushing to end ban on head coverings in House of Representatives

A picture taken on January 19, 2018 shows Saudi women clad in the Abaya robes and men walking during the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Rumah, some 160 kilometers east of Riyadh. (AFP Photo/Fayez Nureldine)

Fashion statementSaudi women mount ‘inside-out’ abaya protest

By AFP

Aliza Bloch, center, on October 30, 2018. (Yaakov Lederman/FLASH90)

Interview

Beit Shemesh’s first female mayor wants her city to be a ray of light for Israel

By Marissa Newman

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting of the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the West Bank city of Ramallah, October 28, 2018. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

US mulling ‘consequences’ after Palestinians join international bodies

State Department calls move by Abbas to sign on to UN agency and 10 conventions ‘counterproductive’; Washington had already planned on cutting funds to UN body

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony at the Foreign Ministry to celebrate the opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem, May 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu said worried Trump peace plan could hurt Likud in elections

Illustrative photo of a man smoking an electronic cigarette. (CC BY, Lindsay Fox, Wikimedia Commons)

US Jewish day schools ‘not immune’ to e-cigarette epidemic among teens

From '93Queens,' about ultra-Orthodox female judge Rachel Frier, being screened on December 1, 2018 at the Jewish Film Festival at the Jerusalem Cinematheque (Courtesy Jerusalem Cinematheque)

Jerusalem Jewish film fest offers chance to schmooze about food, art and more

By Jessica Steinberg

Six days and 40 screenings bring into sharp focus such trailblazing characters as the first Haredi female judge in the US, a Nuremberg prosecutor, and an Israeli rock music pioneer

Children listening to books published by the Israel Audiobook Project (Courtesy)

Listening to a world of adventures, one magic book at a time

By Federico Maccioni

More Headlines

Col. Alon Madanes in 2016. (Screenshot: YouTube)

In rare criticism, IDF officer says army ‘failing its mission’ in West Bank

By Michael Bachner

Paramedics treating victims after a terror attack at the Beersheba Central Bus Station on October 18, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Man convicted on reduced charge in lynching of Eritrean mistaken for terrorist

Boaz Harpaz arrives for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on March 15, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-officer convicted in 2010 IDF scandal, won’t go to jail

Violence between right- and left-wing protesters at Philadelphia's Independence Mall, November 17, 2018. (NBC10 screen capture)

Jewish man said accidentally attacked by left-wing protesters in Philadelphia

A screen capture from video footage reportedly filmed in Amman, Jordan, shows cars with Israeli license plates being used in the production of a Netflix project based in Tel Aviv. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Jordanians angered by Netflix project filming Amman as Tel Aviv

Finance professor and Governor of the Bank of Israel Amir Yaron. (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Ministers confirm Amir Yaron as next Bank of Israel governor

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