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What Matters Most On Monday, November 19, 2018

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Education Minister Naftali Bennett (left) and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked deliver a statement to reporters on November 19, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

About-face will likely cost me a political price - Bennett

Bennett drops ultimatum despite cold shoulder from PM, keeping coalition afloat

By Raoul Wootliff

In about-face, Jewish Home leader heaps criticism on Netanyahu’s defense policies but says he will nevertheless ‘stand by his side’

Hemmed in by razor-thin majority, PM blasts ‘irresponsible’ election threats

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

In rare critique, army chief blasts Bennett for disparaging IDF lawyers

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Liberman: Bennett flip-flop shows why Hamas is emboldened

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Analysis

Let me get on with my job: How Netanyahu dwarfed his political enemies within

Liberman was savoring the anticipated revival of his fortunes; Bennett was sure he was onto a win-win. The prime minister had other ideas

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement in Tel Aviv, November 18, 2018, saying he will take over temporarily as defense minister, as early elections loom. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Opposition lawmakers berate Netanyahu for keeping defense portfolio

Ex-IDF chief says politicians shouldn’t ‘exploit’ wars for political benefit

Naming himself defense chief, Netanyahu says ‘no room for politics’ in security

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative: Israeli special forces train in Cyprus as part of a binational exercise in early December 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

IDF squad in Gaza op gone awry reached Hamas leader Sinwar’s house — report

In scoff at remarks by Bennett, who claimed that soldiers overcautious due to punishment from MAG, senior defense official offers window into operation last week in coastal enclave

7:27 pm

Saudi crown prince to attend G-20 summit in first trip abroad since Khashoggi murder -- report
7:23 pm

In threat to Pelosi, 16 Dems say they'll back new leadership
7:18 pm

In Ethiopia, Jews protest Israeli government over immigration delays

Avi Arieli at home in Kfar Adumim in the West Bank settlement on October 21, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Interview

How to prevent Jewish and Arab terror, from a Shin Bet commander who fought both

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)

Crying and chaos in the cabin: Pilots report on El Al flight diverted to Athens

Captain says rabbi intervened and convinced religious passengers it was OK to fly from New York to Tel Aviv and land 90 minutes before Sabbath; passengers say pilots deceived them

Newly revealed 5th century mosaics a kaleidoscope of Jewish and secular imagery

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A police officer stands guard outside Temple Sinai before Friday evening Shabbat services on November 2, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Temple Sinai, just a half mile from Tree of Life Synagogue, opened their doors to Pittsburgh-area Jews and people of all faiths in the wake of the mass shooting that left 11 people dead at the Tree of Life on October 27, 2018.(Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images via JTA)

Analysis

Here’s what it costs to put your synagogue under armed guard

Synagogues across the US have been increasing security in recent years, but that need was dramatically increased following the deadly massacre in Pittsburgh

One ofm ore than 2,000 handmade Stars of David were hung throughout Pittsburgh (Feacebook/Jewish Hearts for Pittsburgh)

More than 2,000 handmade Jewish stars hung throughout Pittsburgh

By JTA

Judith Colp Rubin

When cancer is just bad luck

’Accept everything calmly, and then fight to beat the disease; unlike much of political life, it is not caused by malevolent forces’

Expecting the Inquisition

We looked for traces, threads, shadows of banished Jews in Malta and Sicily; one surprised me in a Midwest high school

Divide and rule in higher education

9 colleges have been on strike for a month, with no resolution in sight, so why exactly do we think we compete academically?!

David-Seth Kirshner

Membership has its privileges

When an octogenerian dies and the synagogue she no longer belongs to won’t announce her funeral, is it petty or practical?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a late Prime Minister Golda Meir's 40th memorial ceremony in Jerusalem on November 18, 2018. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Israel media review

Mr. Security or Mr. Politics? 8 things to know for November 19

By Joshua Davidovich

A speech by Netanyahu appointing himself defense chief is seen as both the final straw before the government collapses, and the first shot in a looming election campaign

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a state memorial ceremony for his late predecessor Golda Meir at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on November 18, 2018. (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Netanyahu said set to appoint foreign minister, hand out other portfolios

By Raoul Wootliff

Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben Dahan speaks during a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on January 19, 2017.(Hadas Parush/Flash90)

After Jewish Home anger, Netanyahu says he’ll reappoint deputy defense minister

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (c) meets with settler leaders in his office on February 25, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/File)

Analysis

‘Things are going so well’: Settler leaders line up in opposition to elections

West Bank mayors urge ministers to resolve differences and avoid early vote that would freeze or possibly reverse expansion of Israeli presence beyond Green Line

AnalysisIn looming Israeli elections, Trump may find excuse to delay peace plan

By Eric Cortellessa

Trump to discuss launch of Mideast peace plan with advisers this week — report

Hailing US vote against UN resolution, PM says Golan will ‘always’ be Israeli

By ToI Staff and AFP

In this 2012 file photo, Lana Marks and her husband, Dr. Neville Marks, are shown at the 2012 Mental Health Association of Palm Beach County, Inc. Bell Society Dinner at The Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida (Meghan McCarthy/Palm Beach Post via AP)

Trump nominates handbag designer Lana Marks as envoy to South Africa

Marks grew up in the Jewish community in the South African city of Port Elizabeth; now she lives in Florida, where she is a member of the president’s Mar-a-Lago club

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations with Andrea Mitchell of NBC News in Washington, DC, February 16, 2018. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images/via JTA)

Schoolyard tauntsTrump uses derisive nickname for Rep. Adam Schiff in tweet

By AP

Screen capture from video of a man shouting 'Heil Hitler' during a performance of 'Fiddler on the Roof' at a theater in Baltimore. (YouTube)

Man who shouted ‘Heil Hitler, Heil Trump’ in Baltimore theater apologizes

By JTA

An off-grid bio-toilet produced by Israeli startup HomeBiogas set-up (PR Photos)

To tackle global toilet crisis, startup converts human waste into cooking fuel

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli startup, HomeBiogas, says its bio-toilet can be used anywhere, solving the global problem of sanitation and creating an environmentally friendly cooking fuel

More Headlines

A knife hidden in a Pringles container found on the person of a Palestinian woman at the Qalandiya checkpoint near Jerusalem, November 19, 2018 (Israel Police)

Palestinian woman caught at checkpoint with knife hidden in Pringles container

Roni Cohen. (screen capture: Hadashot news)

After thousands swabbed to find donor, woman receives bone marrow from brother

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

US activist Linda Sarsour speaks during a 'Women For Syria' gathering at Union Square, in New York City, April 13, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via JTA)

Linda Sarsour rapped for appearing to accuse US Jews of dual loyalty to Israel

By JTA

Screen capture from video of a man giving the Nazi salute and shouting 'Heil Hitler' at a Jewish car driver in Brooklyn , New York, November 15, 2018. (YouTube)

Man arrested in NY for harassing Jewish car owner with ‘Heil Hitler’ salute

By JTA

Canadian real estate mogul Sylvan Adams, right, with Morris Kahn, at Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)’s MBT Space facility in Yehud where SpaceIL's spacecraft to the moon is being assembled (Eliran Avital)

Canadian mogul Adams gives $5 million to Israel moon bid project

By Shoshanna Solomon

In this October 7, 2018 file photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem. (Abir Sultan/Pool via AP, File)

Netanyahu graft probe renewed, delaying decision on indictment – report

An child is vaccinated at a Children's Medical Center in Neve Yaakov, Jerusalem, September 10, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/ File)

Ministers advance bill to ban the unvaccinated from schools

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Michael Bloomberg speaks during the plenary session of the Global Action Climate Summit in San Francisco, September 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Bloomberg donates ‘unprecedented’ $1.8B to Johns Hopkins

By AP

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)

Iran’s Rouhani says US has ‘failed to stop oil exports’

By ToI Staff and AP

Israeli entrepreneurs and the UK Innovations Minister Sam Gyimah opens the London Stock Exchange on July 3, 2018, to celebrate growing links between Israeli tech and UK firms, organized by the UK Israel Business (UKIB).

UK executives from Mastercard, Citi in Israel to scout out partnerships

By Shoshanna Solomon

Screen capture from video of Israeli judoka Peter Paltchik winning the under 100 kilogram contest at the Hague Grand Prix in the Netherlands, November 18, 2018. (YouTube)

Israeli judoka wins gold in the Netherlands

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative image of a baby holding hands (boonchai wedmakawand; iStock by Getty Images)

Whistleblower claims vindication as France probes babies born with missing limbs

By ToI Staff and AFP

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