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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 21, 2018

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MK Oren Hazan poses for a selfie with a statue of Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, November 8, 2018.(Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Bill conditioning arts funding on ‘loyalty’ approved for final votes

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Opposition warns government MKs to ‘get their sleeping bags ready’ for filibuster during next Monday’s debate on controversial legislation

Regev booed at awards show over bill conditioning arts funding on ‘loyalty’

Minister in charge of combating BDS calls for Airbnb boycott

By Raphael Ahren

Israel may look to punish Airbnb with special tax after settlement ban

A First Temple period weight measure called a 'beka' was unearthed in a City of David excavation in the Davidson Archaeological Park and discovered in the wet sifting project in Jerusalem's Tsurim Valley. (Eliyahu Yanai, City of David)

1st time this exact inscription found in ancient capital

Straight from the Bible: Tiny First Temple stone weight unearthed in Jerusalem

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Volunteer at City of David sifting project finds rare ‘beka’ measure, used by pilgrims paying half-shekel tax before ascending to Temple Mount, in dirt from dig near Western Wall

In this aerial view, fountains of lava, up to 60 meters high, spurt from a fissure in the ground on the north side of the Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland, Tuesday, September 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Stefano Di Nicolo)

Harvard historian pinpoints the worst year ever to be alive — and it’s not 2018

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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)

Ministers say Israel close to retaking Gaza, Hamas leaders’ days are numbered

By Raphael Ahren

Security cabinet members Gilad Erdan, Yoav Gallant, and Israel Katz call for targeted killings of terrorist group’s leaders

Press group demands ‘credible’ investigation into shooting of Gaza cameraman

By ToI Staff and AP

Fatah dissidents rally in Gaza behind top Abbas rival, call for unity

Palestinian suspect in West Bank stabbing attack turns himself in

By Judah Ari Gross and Jacob Magid

Candle lighting with Rabbi Sidney Helbraun & Acharya Rohit Joshi at the Hindu-Jewish Festival of Lights at Temple Beth-El in Northbrook, Illinois, Sunday, November 18, 2018. (Ronit Bezalel/ Times of Israel)

Two holidays, one theme: Hindus, Jews celebrate joint festival of lights

By Ronit Bezalel

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice minister says Trump’s peace plan is ‘a waste of time’

As White House mulls date for publicizing ‘deal of the century,’ Ayelet Shaked warns ‘gap between Palestinians and Israelis much too big to be bridged’

US President Donald Trump and Saudi Deputy Crown Prince, left, and Saudi Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman, who later that year became Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, shaking hands in the State Dining Room before lunch at the White House in Washington, DC, March 14, 2017. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP)

Citing ‘US, Israeli interests,’ Trump balks at punishing Saudis over Khashoggi

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ivanka Trump and Tiffany Trump walk from Marine One Helicopter to Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2018. They are joining President Donald Trump for a trip to Florida for a week at Mar-a-Lago for Thanksgiving. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump defends Ivanka’s private emails as lawmakers launch probe

By Olivia Hampton

Amit Peled ( Courtesy)

Out of tune

Warsaw airport confiscates Israeli cellist’s strings: he could strangle someone

Renowned from concert with Warsaw Philharmonic, Amit Peled told — at Chopin Airport — that his strings are ‘too dangerous’ to take on board a flight

Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as they prepare to deliver joint statements, after a meeting and a lunch in the Israeli leader's Jerusalem residence, June 25, 2012. (AP/Jim Hollander, Pool/File)

Putin floated deal to remove Iran from Syria for sanctions relief — TV report

PM reportedly tells Knesset committee that Russian president said Moscow could push Tehran out, but only if Washington eases up on penalties levied after nuke deal pullout

Kremlin critic Bill Browder in May 2018 (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Jewish Kremlin critic faces ‘absurd’ new charges by Russian prosecutors

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA

This file photo provided on October 20, 2017 by the government-controlled Syrian Central Military Media shows Iran's army chief of staff Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, left, looking at a map with senior officers from the Iranian military as they visit a front line position in the northern province of Aleppo, Syria. (Syrian Central Military Media, via AP)

IDF says its efforts to keep Iran from Syrian foothold are succeeding

By Judah Ari Gross

David Keyes, right, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on May 7, 2017. (AP/Oded Balilty, Pool)

Live updates (closed)

PM aide accused of sexual harrasment to formally step down — report

Civil Service Commission closes probes into conduct of David Keyes as well as one into Ambassador Ron Dermer who was tipped off on adviser’s behavior but did not relay to PM

7:26 pm

Woman pronounced dead after being shot in southern town of Tel Sheva
7:19 pm

PM interviews candidates for deputy IDF chief of staff; decision to be made in coming days
7:16 pm

PM aide accused of sexual harassment to step down as probe against him closed

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz speaks to an Israeli Holocaust survivor from Austria in Jerusalem, June 10, 2018. (Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

Analysis

With far right in its government, Austria fights anti-Semitism in Europe

Critics suggest conferences and statements are a fig leaf over the growing normalization of xenophobic and anti-Semitic politics in the country and Europe at large

Bones lying in heaps at a construction site that began in 2018 outside the oldest Jewish cemetery of Wysokie Mazowieckie in Poland. (Courtesy of J-Nerations)

Skeletons dug up from Jewish cemeteries in Poland, preservation group says

By JTA

The silver cigarette case made by Jewish artist Chaim Klieger that was used to bribe Lodz Ghetto prison warden Salomon Hercberg, right, during the Holocaust.

Polish man returns cigarette case that saved a Jewish prisoner from the Nazis

Extras being filmed in Lithuania for 'Sobibor.' (Courtesy of Rosiya Segondiya/via JTA)

Film premiere

Russia’s Oscar entry is depiction of (gratuitous?) violence at Sobibor revolt

By Jordan Hoffman

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Airbnb is picking on our very genes

Let there be no mistake: those settlements ’at the core of the dispute’ are the historic core of our identity as Jews

Rechie J. Eisner

Airbnb: Why all the outrage?

It feels like apologetic justification of our right to defend ourselves, as if that were needed

What have the Romans ever done for us?

When technology changes our lives, often for the better, we have a hard time living without it (Vayishlach)

Jerold S. Auerbach

My silent encounter with Aaron Appelfeld

The paths we each tread highlight our differences, from Jerusalem’s streets to its cafés

Maj. Yod (right) and Maj. Aleph, of the Joint Cyber Defense Division (JCDD) Tech Center in the Cyber-Communications and Defense Division of the Israeli army. (Israel Defense Forces)

Analysis

Shoshanna Solomon

Armed with laptops, IDF warriors tasked with securing Israel’s cyber-borders

Earlier this month, Maj. Yod and Maj. Aleph were awarded the IDF Chief of General Staff’s Technological prize for their ‘outstanding work’ in the IDF’s cyber defense division

Generation Z, those born after 1996, are confident about their tech skills but unsure about their readiness for work, research commissioned by Dell Technologies shows. (nd3000; iStock by Getty Images)

As Generation Z enters workforce, study reveals they are tech savvy yet insecure

By Shoshanna Solomon

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Clemet Attlee smiles at the cheering throngs which gathered at Transport House, in London on July 26, 1945, to hear Labour’s great victory at the polls. Violet Attlee stands beside her husband,left. (AP Photo)

UK PM Clement Attlee hosted Jewish boy fleeing Nazis in 1939, never spoke of it

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri speaks at an Interior Affairs Committee meeting regarding the deportation of African asylum seekers at the Knesset, January 29, 2018. (Alster/Flash90)

Israel media reviewGetting away with it: 8 things to know for November 21

By Joshua Davidovich

Black Friday sales are cropping up across Israel. Here is a sale sign in the Arim Mall in Kfar Saba, northern Israel. (Marcy Oster/JTA)

First personBlack Friday is now a thing in Israel

The Diamond Exchange in Ramat Gan, outside Tel Aviv, December 18, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Woman probed in Leviev smuggling case jumps to her death from Diamond Exchange

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of an El Al plane taking off from Ben Gurion Airport, August 5, 2013. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

‘Shabbat’ flight passengers demand compensation from El Al over violence claims

By Tamar Pileggi

Linda Sarsour speaks onstage during the Women's March on Washington on January 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Theo Wargo/Getty Images/via JTA)

Linda Sarsour apologizes to Jewish members of Women’s March over anti-Semitism

Police accompany bulldozers demolishing storefronts in the Shuafat Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem, November 21, 2018. (Courtesy Ir Amim)

Jerusalem municipality demolishes 21 businesses in Shuafat refugee camp

File: View of the Hadarim prison complex, August 1, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Drive-by shooting at maximum-security prison seen as attempt to scare jailers

Police detectives brutally apprehend an Ethiopian Israeli high school student in Ashdod as his principal looks on. (Kan Public Broadcaster)

Cops brutally detain Ethiopian Israeli high school student as principal watches

Rabbi Sharon Brous, wearing a blue tallit, can be seen on Time Magazine’s latest cover. (Time Magazine via JTA)

Four FreedomsFemale rabbi featured on Time cover based on Rockwell painting

By JTA

Cornell University (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/CC SA 2.0)

Three swastikas drawn on Cornell campus in 9 days

By JTA

Illustrative: A child receives the polio vaccine at the Health Ministry office in Beersheba on August 5, 2013. (Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

Knesset advances bill to ban the unvaccinated from schools, sanction parents

By Raoul Wootliff

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