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What Matters Most On Tuesday, November 20, 2018

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Inbal Zeev walks, on January 17, 2016, by her guest house advertised on Airbnb in the Nofei Prat settlement in the West Bank. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

After Airbnb, watchdog calls for Booking.com to remove settlement listings

By AFP

Human Rights Watch says properties in West Bank can be rented by Israelis and foreigners but not by Palestinians, meaning hosts discriminate based on national or ethnic origin

Vacation rental giant Airbnb bans listings in West Bank settlements

By Tamar Pileggi and Jacob Magid

Quakers in Britain to boycott companies ‘profiting from occupation’ of West Bank

By Stuart Winer

Palestinians welcome Airbnb settlement ban as Israel fumes

By Tamar Pileggi and Jacob Magid

Illustrative. An ambulance belonging to the Magen David Adom ambulance service. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Israeli man lightly injured in West Bank stabbing attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Police declare assault a terror attack; suspect flees scene south of Jerusalem, prompting manhunt near Palestinian town

IDF soldiers take part in an exercise simulating warfare in the Gaza Strip in July 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Hamas radio chatter shows IDF commandos were initially thought to be criminals

Palestinians wave their national flags while others burn tires near the fence of Gaza Strip border with Israel during clashes east of Gaza City, on November 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Hundreds riot along Gaza border; IDF responds with tear gas, live fire

By Judah Ari Gross

Then-interior minister Aryeh Deri attends a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on October 24, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Police recommend indicting Interior Minister Deri for fraud, breach of trust

Investigation finds evidence of making false statements, obstructing court proceedings, money laundering, and tax offenses involving millions of shekels — but not bribery

Shas party leader and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri speaks in the Knesset on November 19, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Opposition lawmakers call for minister to resign amid indictment recommendations

By Raoul Wootliff

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks to the General Assembly before a vote in the General Assembly June 13, 2018 in New York. (AFP photo / Don Emmert)

Israel votes against US attempt to weaken UN measure on sexual harassment

By AFP

In rare move, Israel sides with European nations and helps topple attempt to scrap language in non-binding resolution on access to reproductive healthcare services, safe abortions

Eritrean demonstrators chanted "Refugees, not infiltrators," outside of the Rwandan Embassy in Herzilya on January 22, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/ Times of Israel)

Netanyahu: Israel won’t sign global migration pact, must protect its borders

From left to right, Commissioner for Education and Academia of the World Jewish Congress Jean de Gunzburg, Governing Board Chair of the World Jewish Congress David de Rothschild, UNESCO'S Director-General Audrey Azoulay, World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder and CEO and Vice President of the World Jewish Congress Robert Singer sit under two giant screen during the presentation of the website to counter Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism at the UNESCO headquartered in Paris, France, November 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

UNESCO launches Holocaust education website, as Israel mulls leaving

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters, September 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Analysis

Israel’s ostensible new friends still vote against it at General Assembly

Netanyahu claims foreign ties at ‘all-time high,’ but latest resolutions — with 153 countries saying Israel violates Palestinian rights — show Jewish state still a punching bag

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley speaks at a UN Security Council Meeting on the Middle East on November 19, 2018. (UN/Rick Bajornas)

Haley scolds UN envoy for saying Israel, Gaza should both show restraint

By Eric Cortellessa

Employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and their families protest against job cuts announced by the agency outside its offices in Gaza City on July 31, 2018. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)

UNRWA says budget shortfall down to $21 million after Gulf, EU pony up

By AFP and ToI Staff

Vanilla planifolia flowering in Florida Southern College's greenhouses (Malcolm Manners, CC-BY, via wikipedia)

Residue found in 3,600-year-old Holy Land tomb rewrites the history of vanilla

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Avigayil Koevary, left, as Benny and Moran Rosenblatt as Yael in 'Red Cow.' (Courtesy)

Interview

‘Red Cow’ portrays teenage lesbian love in the heart of Jewish East Jerusalem

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and coalition head David Amsalem during a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, on November 19, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Dismissing ‘spin,’ PM claims entire cabinet supported Gaza ceasefire

By Michael Bachner

Netanyahu tells Likud members no vote was held on the truce with Hamas at last week’s meeting because all participants were in agreement

National security adviser said sent to persuade top rabbi to save coalition

By Michael Bachner

Poll: Most Israelis don’t believe PM avoided elections due to security threats

Bennett about-face buoys PM, but Kahlon says coalition still doomed

By Raoul Wootliff

Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to a faction meeting on November 19, 2018. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Analysis

Bringing coalition back from the dead, PM puts rivals in political purgatory

Four observations on the hairpin twists and turns of Israel’s dramatic realpolitik developments, and their potential consequences

Israel media reviewBack in the fold: 10 things to know for November 20

By Joshua Davidovich

Chaos in Knesset as fragile coalition loses first votes since elections averted

By Michael Bachner

Deriding Bennett, Netanyahu says IDF soldiers ‘are not afraid of anyone’

By Raoul Wootliff

Live updates (closed)

Signalling no change in policy, Booking.com says all rental providers welcome

By Tamar Pileggi

Vacation rental company says all practices ‘in accordance with local laws,’ after rights groups petition site to follow Airbnb in dropping listings in West Bank settlements

7:48 pm

US opposes Russian nominee to head Interpol
7:41 pm

Signalling no policy change, Booking.com says 'all accommodation providers' welcome
7:27 pm

Two killed in car-truck crash on Route 6

Sharona Apterkar, left to right, Rahma-Al-Turi, Amna-Abu-Adayan and another worker at the Idan HaNegev site of SodaStream; Nov. 15, 2018; (Federico Maccioni/TimesofIsrael)

Fizzy-water factory shows coexistence isn’t a bubble in conflicted Israel

By Federico Maccioni

Sivan Rahav Meir

Listen to the children of the Gaza envelope

Growing up in a community near Gaza means trauma remains with you for your entire life, without your choosing it

6 tips to make the most of your shiva visit

Repeating stories about my wife over again was comforting; repeating chitchat with people who didn’t know what to say was not

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet with Moshe Holtzberg and his nanny Sandra Samuel in Kfar Chabad, Israel on July 5, 2017. (Atef Safadi/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

Surviving terror

Decade after Mumbai massacre, murdered Chabad couple’s son flourishes in Israel

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(L-R) Bob Bland, Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez and Tamika D. Mallory. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET via JTA)

Women’s March founder calls on leaders to resign for ‘allowing anti-Semitism’

By JTA

Elite search-and-rescue troops from six countries train in Israel as part of the 'Sky Angels' exercise in November 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

‘Sky Angels’: Elite search-and-rescue teams from six countries train in Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

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

El Al opens probe into events surrounding ‘Shabbat’ flight diverted to Athens

Michal Bachar's laser-cut figurines, creating shadow profiles in black and white, at Illustration Week 2018 (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Old Jaffa provides scope for the imagination during Illustration Week

By Jessica Steinberg

Ivanka Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on February 14, 2018 in Washington, DC. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Ivanka Trump used personal email for government business — report

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Then-attorney general Avichai Mandelblit, left, and then-justice minister Ayelet Shaked at a ceremony in Jerusalem on June 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Attorney general sends controversial deputy to Knesset, testing minister’s ire

Actor Yossi Vasa, left and director Shai Ben Atar pose in the press room with their award for best comedy, 'Nevsu,' during the 46th International Emmy Awards gala in New York City, November 19, 2018. (Amy Sussman/ Invision/ AP)

International Emmys for Israeli interracial comedy series and Etgar Keret film

Screen capture from video of Romanian diplomat Mihnea Constanescu. (YouTube)

Romanian diplomat who fought anti-Semitism dies

By AP

Illustrative: A dialysis machine to treat kidney disease. (Picsfive; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli kidney-cells startup gets backing from billionaire Kahn’s venture arm

By Shoshanna Solomon

Members of Ethiopia's Jewish community protest the Israeli government's decision not to allow all of them to emigrate, at the synagogue in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on November 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

Jews in Ethiopia protest Likud-led government over immigration delays

By ELIAS MESERET

Visitors explore the Duke University campus during Blue Devil Days Monday, April 24, 2006 in Durham, North Carolina (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

Swastika defaces mural at Duke memorializing Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

By JTA

Hezbollah flag flies in Lebanon (CC Upyernoz/Wikipedia)

Mossad said to thwart Hezbollah terror plot against Jewish targets in Argentina

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