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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 29, 2018

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Views and cross-section of finger ring that may have belonged to Pontius Pilate (drawing: J. Rodman; photo: C. Amit, IAA Photographic Department, via Hebrew University)

Archaeology

Amanda Borschel-Dan

2,000-year-old ‘Pilate’ ring just might have belonged to notorious Jesus judge

Uncovered 50 years ago at the Herodian palace near Bethlehem, a simple copper-alloy ring is now given a good cleaning — and a second look by skeptical scholars

Rand Paul speaking at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting on Capitol Hill, April 23, 2018. (Alex Wong/Getty Images, via JTA)

Rand Paul on his blocking military aid to Israel: We can’t be doing it forever

Kentucky Republican, who is holding up $38 billion defense package, says he’ll introduce an amendment shortly

US Jews sue Airbnb for delisting rentals at West Bank settlements

Ireland advances bill criminalizing sale of goods made in settlements

By Raphael Ahren

Chad said to condition resumed ties with Israel on ‘extensive’ weapons sales

By Tamar Pileggi

IDF’s Kfir Brigade simulates war in Gaza ahead of deployment to border next year

By Judah Ari Gross

The formerly West Bank-focused unit prepares to fight in the Strip, training inside tunnels and in cramped multi-story buildings

Six female recruits for an Israeli Navy pilot program to see if women can serve on warships, at the navy's Haifa Base in November 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

After tanks, IDF now trying out women in combat roles on navy warships

By Judah Ari Gross

Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police as they protest the army draft in Jerusalem, November 28, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox protesting military draft clash with police in Jerusalem

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh gives a speech on the first day of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday in Gaza City on August 21, 2018. (AFP Photo/Anas Baba)

Hamas says rocket fire legal, slams ‘miserable’ US-led UN resolution against it

By Michael Bachner

Letter from terror chief claims international law supports fire on Israeli cities; Israeli UN envoy likens missive to ‘a serial killer asking the police for assistance’

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked in Jerusalem on October 15, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shaked touts ‘confederation’ of Jordan, Gaza, and parts of West Bank

By Raphael Ahren

In this file photo taken on January 23, 2018 Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh delivers a speech in Gaza City (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Hamas leader invited to Moscow as Russia seeks greater Mideast involvement

By ToI Staff and AP

Reporter's notebook

Amanda Borschel-Dan

In rare Knesset Q&A, Netanyahu is served soft pitches with a side of adulation

International journalists, bloggers and social media gurus at the Jewish Media Summit meet with Israel’s top leadership and discuss anything but prickly domestic Israeli affairs

David Keyes speaks to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as he opens the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office, July 23, 2018. (Gali Tibbon/Pool via AP)

Civil Service Commission drops probe of Netanyahu spokesman David Keyes

By Raphael Ahren

Police and medical personnel outside the home of Sylvana Tsegai, after she was found dead on November 26, 2018. (Flash90)

Israel media reviewSee no evil: 10 things to know for November 29

By Joshua Davidovich

Zabolon Simantov holding his Jewish prayer book. (Ezzatullah Mehrdad/ Times of Israel)

Interview

Afghanistan’s last Jew fights to keep his home — the country’s sole synagogue

By Ezzatullah Mehrdad

Illustrative: Flames rising after an attack in an area known to have numerous Syrian army military bases, in Kisweh, south of Damascus, released by Syria's official news agency on May 9, 2018. (SANA, via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Syria says its air defenses fired at ‘enemy targets’ near Damascus

Military sources tell state media that incoming projectiles were heading toward el-Kiswah, which has been bombed by Israel in the past for serving as a base for Iran

7:51 pm

Syria says its air defenses fired at 'enemy targets' near Damascus
7:25 pm

Reform movement’s Kutz Camp, incubator for teen leaders, is shutting down
7:04 pm

Kremlin surprised by Trump's Putin cancellation

Elizabeth Midlarsky (Facebook)

Swastikas graffitied in office of Columbia Jewish professor

NYPD open probe into apparent hate crime targeting Elizabeth Midlarsky, whose work space was similarly targeted in 2007

Patrick Little (Twitter via JTA)

A Holocaust denier who ran for Congress is still active on YouTube and Twitter

By Josefin Dolsten

Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life/Or L'Simcha Congregation stands across the street from the synagogue in Pittsburgh, October 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Rabbis who survived Pittsburgh shooting mark 30 days of mourning

By JTA

Grass carpets southern Israel following winter rains after arson attacks from Gaza decimated the area during the hot summer months, November 28, 2018. (YouTube screenshot)

With winter rains, green returns to scorched Gaza periphery

After a summer plagued by hundreds of arson attacks, southern Israel’s flora is beginning to bloom again

Tamar Ben Porath

Good enough to vote; not good enough to run for office

Recent elections show that the ’cultural norms’ of ultra-Orthodox women should stop getting in their way on the Israeli political scene

Grant Arthur Gochin

Before you judge Walmart and Amazon

Lithuania got roiled when American retail giants sold Soviet-themed shirts — but has no problem lionizing a local Nazi

Donniel Hartman

The dire effects of playing the fear card

The government’s false claims of ’threats from within’ unravel Israel’s social cohesion and degrade its moral bedrock

Andrew Silow-Carroll

My day job is translating from Jewish to English. Gevalt!

How much insider vocabulary should a Jewish news agency tahke use? A bisele

Illustrative: A medical team performs surgery in a modern operating room. (gorodenkoff; iStock by Getty Images)

As medicine converges with technology, Israel faces ‘tremendous opportunity’

By Shoshanna Solomon

Healthtech chiefs explain why Startup Nation can benefit from the push toward digitalized and personalized medicine that is changing the pharma landscape

A simulation of cars using Autotalks’ vehicle-to-vehicle communication system. (screen capture, YouTube via JTA)

Two Israeli startups named among 36 in new international ‘game changers’ report

By Shoshanna Solomon

Severe traffic on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv on October 28, 2015. (Simcha Simon, courtesy)

Israel said to seek private sector help to limit transportation woes

More Headlines

The scene of a fatal collision between a car and a bus on Route 5 in the northern West Bank on November 29, 2018. (Credit: MDA)

Israeli woman killed, man seriously hurt in West Bank collision

Screenwriter Gloria Katz (YouTube screenshot)

Gloria Katz, screenwriter of ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘American Graffiti,’ dies at 76

By AP

In this photo from July 21, 2016, then-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort stands between the then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump says he wouldn’t take Manafort pardon ‘off the table’

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

Ivanka Trump says ‘Lock her up!’ doesn’t apply in her case

By AP

Eritrean national Tesfebarhan Tesfasion arrives for a court hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on November 29, 2018. (Flash90)

Suspect in rape, murder of 13-year-old girl remains silent in questioning

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu his wife Sara, Guatemala President Jimmy Morales (2R) his wife Patricia (R) and Guatemalan Foreign Minister Sandra Jovel (L) pose for a picture at the official opening ceremony of the Guatemala embassy in Jerusalem on May 16, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Sara Netanyahu to head delegation to Guatemala

Illustrative. German soldiers assigned to Surface Air and Missile Defense Wing 1 fire the Patriot weapons system at the NATO Missile Firing Installation, in Chania, Greece, on November 8, 2017. (Sebastian Apel/US Department of Defense, via AP)

US finalizes $15 billion sale of missile defense system to Saudi Arabia

Illustrative: Police patrolling an Israeli highway. (Israel Police)

Judge slams ‘shocking’ police violence after officers break suspect’s nose

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

Court orders 2 suspects held in Galilee teen’s killing remain in jail

Masked Israeli settlers from Yitzhar and soldiers watch after Palestinian fields were set on fire in the village of Asira al-Qiblyia on June 2, 2010. (Wagdi Ashtiyeh/Flash90)

Defense Ministry officer slams IDF for not taking settler violence seriously

William Shatner speaking at a “Star Trek” conference at the Javits Center in New York, Sept. 4, 2016. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images via JTA)

Flawed enterpriseWilliam Shatner doesn’t include Hanukkah song on new Christmas album

By Josefin Dolsten

In this Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018. file photo, Japanese pianist Kaoru Imahigashi plays the piano during a concert to mark the debut of Gaza's only grand piano after it was rescued from conflict, at a theater nestled in the Palestinian Red Crescent Society's building in Gaza City. Palestinian businessman Saed Herzallah has seized Gaza Strip's only grand piano, claiming he owns the instrument, just days after it made its public debut. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Dischordant sagaDays after concert, Gaza’s only grand piano seized by merchant

By AP

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