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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 28, 2018

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A 9,000-year-old stone mask discovered in the South Hebron Hills area of the West Bank in early 2018. (Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Smooth finish achieved with stone tools of the Neolithic age

9,000-year-old mask from Hebron Hills sheds light on the dawn of agriculture

Archaeologists say rare stone artifact uncovered in southern West Bank was used in ancestor worship during a pivotal period in Neolithic culture

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks to members of the Christian press, during an event in Jerusalem, October 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US envoy tells PA to free US citizen arrested for selling Old City home to Jews

David Friedman says Issam Akel’s 2-month detention over Jerusalem property deal is ‘antithetical’ to US values and ‘peaceful coexistence’

US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters following his teleconference with troops from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, November 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump indicates concern for Israel requires US troops remain in Middle East

By Michael Bachner

Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky speaks during a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill, July 25, 2018. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Senator Rand Paul blocking US military aid to Israel

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meeting with soldiers from the IDF's Commando Brigade, on November 27, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu to elite troops: Israel and the IDF are ‘best answer to anti-Semitism’

Following CNN poll that found rampant anti-Jewish views among Europeans, PM tells army commandos: ‘Once they could slaughter us, today we can respond’

A protester against Airbnb's listing of West Bank settlement rentals during an interview with Ashton Kutcher at Airbnb Open in Los Angeles. November 19, 2016 (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israel asks US states to act against Airbnb delisting of rentals at settlements

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the official state ceremony held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 11, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Denying Israel’s right to exist is the ‘ultimate’ anti-Semitism

Illustrative: students seen during their break at the University of Haifa, on April 11, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

California college’s faculty suspends study abroad in Israel

Pitzer College slams Israel’s entry restrictions, unequal policies; University of Haifa condemns move as a blow to multiculturalism, pluralism

Israeli academics dropped from conference in South Africa due to BDS pressure

Somali-born man charged in attempted car-ramming outside Los Angeles synagogue

By AFP

Anti-Semitic vandalism painted outside Jewish homes in Seattle

By JTA

An Israeli is seen at the Rose Garden across from the Knesset during international marijuana smoking day in Jerusalem, on April 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Federico Maccioni

Too high or drunk to drive? Israeli startup has an app that can tell

Jerusalem based Otorize’s smartphone app asks users to indicate which of two black lines is shorter, allowing drivers to know in real time if they are cognitively impaired

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu his wife Sara and President of the Czech Republic Miloš Zeman attend the opening ceremony of the Czech House in Jerusalem, November 27, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Czech House, feted as ‘first step’ in embassy move, opens in Jerusalem

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu cuts ribbon for new center alongside visiting Czech President Zeman, who calls it a ‘candle against the darkness’

Omar al-Bashir, center, president of Sudan, stands between Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, left, and Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa at the annual Arab League summit on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 held this year on the Dead Sea in Jordan. (AP Photo/ Raad Adayleh)

Israeli envoy said to have met Sudan officials, offered aid in bid for new ties

Palestinians inspect a crater caused by an Israeli airstrike earlier this week during fighting with Palestinian terror groups, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 14, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Hamas claims IDF officers installed spying equipment near secret Gaza HQ

By Michael Bachner and Judah Ari Gross

Hezbollah-affiliated outlet publishes details of Israeli operation gone awry, saying soldiers entered Strip with fake ID, attempted to eavesdrop on terror groups’ communications

Saudi Arabia pledges $50 million to UN Palestinian refugee agency

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iran ‘adopts’ families of Gazans killed and wounded in border clashes

US lobbies Europe to back United Nations vote on condemning Hamas

By AFP

Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili. (Facebook)

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On election day ex-Georgian leader says he’s been falsely smeared as anti-Semite

By Simona Weinglass

Former president Mikheil Saakashvili says he is one of Putin’s greatest enemies, touts his pro-democracy, pro-Israel bona fides, warns Georgia today chooses between West and Russia

Live updates (closed)

No proof Saudi prince ordered Khashoggi killing, US secretary of state says

Pompeo defends ties with Riyadh in closed-door briefing with senators, who have been growing uneasy with Washington’s response to journalist’s death

7:29 pm

Days after concert, Gaza's grand piano seized by merchant
7:06 pm

Argentina prosecutor acts on complaint against Saudi prince
6:55 pm

Irish Senate advances bill banning settlement goods

'Mavericks, Mystics, & False Messiahs,' by Rabbi Pini Dunner. (Courtesy Toby Press)

From miracle men to global spies, book of Jewish wild cards is sure to surprise

By Rich Tenorio

Israeli women protesting violence against women outside the Prime Minister's Residence, in Jerusalem, on November 27, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel media review

A deadlier terror finally gets attention: 8 things to know for November 28

By Joshua Davidovich

Violence toward women is not going away, and the deaths of two teen girls has only raised more alarms and more questions about what is not being done to prevent it

Lazar Wall, left, wrote a song for Holocaust survivor Freddy Glatt. (Marcus Gilban)

A Brazilian Holocaust survivor’s life gets memorialized in song

By Marcus M. Gilban

Then-IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Navy ceremony on September 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Netanyahu, now defense chief, consults with ex-IDF head and likely rival Gantz

The popular former chief of staff is said to be considering running for Knesset, polls suggest his party could come in second only to PM’s Likud

Soldiers take part in a ceremony marking the creation of the new Faran Brigade in the Israel Defense Forces, which will defend the Egyptian-Israeli border, in November 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

In reshuffle, army forms new Faran Brigade to defend Israel-Egypt border

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: An Israeli military jeep patrols along the border with Egypt on March 29, 2005. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Egyptian police ‘accidentally’ shot at IDF jeep on border, army finds

By Judah Ari Gross

Inna Yoffe Veytsman

My kids are not deficient, they’re bilingual!

The teacher thinks my kindergarten kids should have Hebrew as their mother tongue, but our Russian home is the best gift we could give them

‘My rabbi didn’t make the Rabbinate’s list. Now what?’

The Chief Rabbinate’s ’whitelist’ demonstrates its disdain for most Jews, and its departure from Judaism’s love of the convert

Migrant crisis: Is it the economy? Stupid!

Eritrea’s brutally repressive regime — not a money quest — is what drove so many Africans to seek safety in Israel

The shot glass and other Budapest secrets

It took 1,500 forint for the Hungarian clerk at the Christmas bazaar to reveal himself to me

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Illustrative: Two Italian explosive police experts walk their sniffer dogs on the stairs of the sanctuary of Madonna di Bonaria in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. (AP/Pier Paolo Cito)

Palestinian arrested in Italy for plotting to poison town’s water supply

By Federico Maccioni and ToI Staff

An Israeli woman uses her iPhone in front of the building housing the Israeli NSO group, on August 28, 2016, in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

Israeli spyware said used by Mexican government to target dissident journalists

Former Australian principal Malka Leifer, wanted in her home country for child sex abuse crimes, seen at the Jerusalem District Court, February 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

PR firm plans smear of minister to block extradition of alleged sex abuser

Smoke billowing above the Bureij Refugee Camp in the central Gaza Strip after the area is rocked by a series of explosions in what Hamas officials called a 'work accident,' November 28, 2018. (Twitter screen capture)

Explosions rock Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza

The Green Pine radar system, manufactured by ELTA Systems Ltd., a subsidiary of the state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries. (ELTA Systems Ltd.)

South Korea buys Israeli radar tech, likely to counter North’s missiles

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: A man stands outside the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Rabbinic court awards custody to father suspected of sexually abusing his kids

Ex-NBA star Dikembe Mutombo inaugurates a YMCA sports center in Jerusalem on November 27, 2018 (Courtesy)

Spiritual centerEx-NBA star Dikembe Mutombo moved to tears in Jerusalem

By AP

Dar Williams performed in Jerusalem on Tuesday, November 27, 2018 as part of a four concert tour in Israel (Photo courtesy of Dar Williams website)

Faithful folkFolk singer Dar Williams thrills faithful fans in Jerusalem

By Jessica Steinberg

Likud ministers Yuval Steinitz and Ze'ev Elkin (R) arrive to the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Ministers to share spot in security cabinet to bring it in line with law

Illustration: One of El Al's Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, August 23, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Pilot error could have endangered US-bound El Al flight with 300 on board

Minneapolis Representative Ilhan Omar delivers a speech at the 162nd General Assembly of BIE, in Paris, on November 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Ilhan Omar lauds Jewish-Muslim cooperation in fighting bigotry

By JTA

Illustrative: A police officer giving a ticket in the West Bank. (Israel Police)

Israeli police give traffic tickets to Palestinians, but no one’s collecting

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