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What Matters Most On Friday, November 1, 2019

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Iranian Revolutionary Guard members participate in a Jewish memorial service for Jewish soldiers killed during the Iran-Iraq War, October 2019. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Revolutionary Guards honor Jewish soldiers at religious memorial in Iran

Troops, Muslim clerics filmed listening as Kadish is recited for Jewish victims of Iran-Iraq War, highlighting regime’s efforts to appear tolerant

40 years on, embassy hostage crisis still haunts US-Iran ties

By Amir Havasi and Shaun Tandon

US extends nuclear waivers, puts new sanctions on Iran

By AP

US envoy: Iran has spent $16 billion on militias in Iraq, Syria

Syrian Jews celebrate Passover at the al-Franj Synagogue in downtown Damascus, Syria, April 20, 2008. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi, File)

Community is gone, but Putin claims to help Syrian Jews restore their holy sites

By Raphael Ahren

Although no Jews are known to still live in the war-torn country, Russian president says his government is cooperating with Syrian Jews on ‘ongoing basis’

Assad says Israel behind all anti-government forces in Syrian civil war

By ToI Staff and AFP

Turkey, Russia begin joint patrols in northern Syria

By Mehmet Guzel

IS confirms Baghdadi death and names successor, calls Trump ‘crazy old man’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iranian protesters burn Israeli and US flags in their annual anti-Israeli Al-Quds, Jerusalem, Day rally in Tehran, Iran, June 8, 2018. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Netanyahu told ministers Trump can’t be counted on to act against Iran — report

Statement from prime minister Thursday that Iran is growing bolder given lack of US response was public hint at growing unease expressed privately, according to Channel 13 news

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a joint press conference with US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (not pictured) in Jerusalem October 28, 2019. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu: Iran emboldened by lack of response to its attacks

US President Donald Trump, left, welcomes visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington, March 25, 2019. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Bye bye bromance: 6 things to know for November 1

By Joshua Davidovich and Tamar Pileggi

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a town hall meeting, Oct. 31, 2019, in Fort Dodge, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Biden: ‘Outrageous’ to leverage aid to Israel against settlement expansion

Responding to Democratic presidential nominee hopefuls who say they would cut aid to stop Israel expanding settlements, former VP says move would be a ‘gigantic mistake’

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) addresses a crowd outside of the Francis Marion Performing Arts Center October 26, 2019 in Florence, South Carolina. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images/AFP)

‘Everything is on the table’: Breaking down Elizabeth Warren’s Israel policy

Illustrative: Construction work in the Dagan neighborhood of the settlement of Efrat, in the West Bank on July 22, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Israel advances 2,342 settler homes, capping off record year under Trump

A secret listener eavesdrops on conversations of German prisoners of war. (Courtesy Helen Fry)

Interview

How Britain’s German-born Jewish ‘secret listeners’ helped win World War II

By Robert Philpot

Israeli fighter jets are checked in the Israeli Air Force's Ovda base north of Eilat on October 31, 2019, before the launch of the next week's international Blue Flag exercise, which is being hosted by Israel. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel to host massive aerial exercise with F-35 jets taking part for first time

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF’s fourth biannual Blue Flag drill to launch next week; at least four foreign countries will participate

IDF chief Aviv Kohavi speaks at a graduation ceremony for new IDF officers on October 31, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF chief rails against efforts to gender-segregate military service

By Judah Ari Gross

Smoke trails seen as rockets are launched from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip toward Israel on May 4, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Gaza rocket fired at southern Israel, drawing IDF retaliation

An army armored personnel carrier removes a garbage container set on fire by anti-government protesters in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 28, 2019. (AP/Hussein Malla)

After Israeli plea, US cutting $105 million in military aid to Lebanon — report

Reported decision by State Department comes day after Israeli officials said diplomats had asked allies to condition funds on action against Hezbollah missile program

A client enters a bank with a front window shattered during anti-government protests in Beirut, Lebanon, Nov. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanon’s banks reopen after 2-week closure due to protests

By Bassam Mroue

Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force commander Gen. Qassem Soleimani, center, attends a meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Revolutionary Guard commanders in Tehran, Iran, September 18, 2016. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran said working to keep embattled Iraqi PM in power amid growing protests

Kveller collage. (Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

New kind of matchmaking site looks to mitigate the hell of flying with kids

By Lior Zaltzman

Assortment of swag -- stuff we all get (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)

The US firm looking to slash the environmental cost of that supposedly free swag

By Matt Lebovic

Blue and White chair Benny Gantz (C) meeting with leaders of the Joint List alliance, Ayman Odeh (L) and Ahmed Tibi, October 31, 2019. (Ofek Avshalom)

Arab MKs meet with Gantz, call for ‘real diplomatic process’ with Palestinians

By Raoul Wootliff and Adam Rasgon

Blue and White chair’s sit-down with Joint List leadership opens the door to possibility Arab-majority parties will back or join the government

Head of the Blue and White party Benny Gantz speaks to supporters at a party rally in Tel Aviv on October 31, 2019. (Avshalom Shoshoni/Flash90)

Gantz raps Netanyahu for criticism of prosecutors, media during coalition talks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara at a welcoming ceremony for the Brazilian president at Ben Gurion Airport on March 31, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

PM’s wife during police questioning: Media ‘stepping on me like a cockroach’

By Michael Bachner

Leaked transcripts detail Sara Netanyahu’s defense of her meddling in Walla news site; ex-MK said to testify billionaire Adelson offered to make him ‘king of the world’

Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at an election event in Tel Aviv, September 18, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

PM’s son speaks at event hosted by Hungarian accused of Holocaust distortion

(R-L) Ofer Golan, Likud campaign manager, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, digital adviser Topaz Luk, and Likud spokesman Jonatan Urich at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police search of Netanyahu aides’ cellphones delayed

US President Donald Trump speaks October 27, 2019 in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, announcing that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group is dead after being targeted by a US military raid in Syria. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump wades into UK election, says Labour’s Corbyn would be ‘so bad’ as PM

By Alice Ritchie and Joe JACKSON

US president, calling in to hardliner Nigel Farage’s talk show, criticizes British leader’s Brexit deal, saying it makes it impossible to strike a future trade agreement

Rabbi Dr. Jonathan Romain

From our partnerLeading UK rabbi urges congregants to vote against Labour

Don’t call it a lynching

It’s a term for the unspeakably brutal murder of innocents, not impeachment proceedings or Senate confirmation hearings

Jennifer Raskas

The great confusion of miscommunication

After the flood, all of humanity joined together to build a tower to the sky and revealed that unity isn’t all it’s cracked up to be (Noah)

The hidden US role in the Balfour Declaration

Before Britain would declare its support for the Zionist cause, it wanted Woodrow Wilson’s public approval — but the American president needed convincing

Donniel Hartman

Politicians must stop asking what the country can do for them

Israel’s next government will inevitably be a unity government — but, given the current tenor of Israeli politics, who will be left to unite?

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A Boeing 767-300ER plane remodeled as an Israeli version of Air Force One during a test run at Ben Gurion Airport on October 31, 2019. (Israel Aerospace Industries)

Israeli Air Force One unveiled, malfunctions during test run

Israel’s NSO Group said to hack senior officials in US-allied states on Whatsapp

By ToI Staff and AFP

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring talks with University of Richmond students at the school in Richmond, Virginia, October 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Virginia sues Teva Pharmaceuticals over opioid crisis

By AP

Facebook chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC on October 23, 2019. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Screenwriter Sorkin and Facebook’s Zuckerberg scrap over free spech

By ToI Staff and JTA

Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, center, poses with his daughter Mathilde, left, and Dr. Ernest Jones on his arrival at his Hampstead home in London, England, on June 6, 1938 (AP Photo)

Intimate Freud letter up for sale in Jerusalem reveals his softer side

By Patty Nieberg

Gilad Ben-Shlomo, who was killed in Panama City, October 31, 2019 (Instagram)

Israeli man, said to be known to police, gunned down in Panama City mall

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, left, and Avichai Mandelblit at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 13, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu aides ask AG to drop investigation over ‘illegal’ phone search

Heba al-Labadi in an undated photo (Courtesy)

Hunger-striking Jordanian woman in Israeli custody put under medical supervision

Palm Beach County School principal William Latson, October 31, 2019. (WPTV Screen grab via CNN)

Board fires Florida principal who said couldn’t confirm Holocaust was ‘factual’

One of the works featured in Tel Aviv's 6th Illustration Week, starting November 21, 2019 (Courtesy City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa)

Draw interestTel Aviv Illustration Week to feature dozens of colorful exhibits

By Jessica Steinberg

Nazi artifacts discovered by police in 2017 are displayed during a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2, 2019. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)

Expert says Nazi artifacts found hidden in Argentina are mostly fake

Illustrative: Israeli school kids, Filipino workers, and their children take part at a protest against deportation of children's of Filipino workers on the first day of school, outside the Balfour School in Tel Aviv, on September 1, 2019. (Avshalom Shoshoni/Flash90)

Hundreds protest outside prison where children of Filipina workers held

By JTA

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