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What Matters Most On Tuesday, November 5, 2019

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Iran's President Hassan Rouhani gives a press conference in Tehran, Iran, October 14, 2019. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

In fresh nuclear violation, Iran says it will renew enrichment at Fordo facility

By AP and ToI Staff

President Rouhani says uranium gas to be injected into 1,044 centrifuges at underground nuclear site

In this January 13, 2015, file photo released by the Iranian President's Office, President Hassan Rouhani visits the Bushehr nuclear power plant just outside of Bushehr, Iran (AP Photo/Iranian Presidency Office, Mohammad Berno)

ExplainerA look at Iran’s nuclear program as atomic deal unravels

By Jon Gambrell

This photo taken on October 26, 2010, shows the inside of reactor at the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran. (HAMED MALEKPOUR/FARS NEWS AGENCY/AFP)

EU, Russia express concern over Iran’s announcement of new enrichment

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Kulanu MK Michael Oren, on June 20, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In chilling detail, ex-envoy to US Oren warns of Israel-Iran ‘conflagration’

A minor miscalculation by Jerusalem could lead to devastating war, with rockets raining down on Jewish state and overwhelming its defenses, former ambassador writes in The Atlantic

A new giant billboard, designed to to mark the 40th anniversary of the Iran hostage crisis, covers the facade of a building in the Iranian capital Tehran, on November 4, 2019. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

US unveils fresh sanctions against top Iranian commanders, officials

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Upper and lower molars from Manot cave, dated to 38,000 years before present, showing a mixture of characteristics. (Dr. Rachel Sarig)

Archaeology

Ancient teeth show some early humans came to Israel from Europe 40,000 years ago

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Nir Hefetz appears in a Tel Aviv court on February 22, 2018. (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

AG to check alleged police wrongdoing in grilling of witness against Netanyahu

Bar Association head calls for immediate inquiry into claims Nir Hefetz was improperly pressured in Case 4000, casting doubt on veracity of his testimony

A blurred image of Johann Rehbogen at the start of the third day of his trial at the regional court in Muenster, western Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018. (Guido Kirchner/pool photo via AP)

Israel media reviewAn enigma wrapped in a █████: 6 things to know for November 5

By Joshua Davidovich

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at a Justice Ministry conference in Tel Aviv, November 4, 2019. (Flash90)

Attorney general rejects request to investigate leaks in Netanyahu’s probes

This photo provided by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office shows Richard Holzer, who was arrested, November 1, 2019, in Pueblo, Colorado. Holzer, who is accused of plotting to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue, appeared briefly in court on November 4, 2019. (El Paso County Sheriff's Office via AP)

White supremacist charged with planning to blow up Colorado synagogue

Richard Holzer also intended to poison water at Temple Emanuel in Pueblo; said he wished Holocaust had happened

Illustrative: Children and adults cross a street in front of a school bus in Borough Park, a neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York that is home to many ultra-Orthodox Jewish families. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

Hasidic Jews chased and punched in series of attacks in Brooklyn’s Borough Park

Pearl Street Mall, Boulder, Colorado. (Google Street View)

Men dressed as Jews hand out Holocaust denial fliers at Colorado mall

By JTA

Israeli human rights activists protest calling for the release of Jordanian national Heba al-Labadi at the entrance to Ofer prison, near Jerusalem, October 28, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 )

2 Jordanians held in Israel to be sent home, Amman set to return envoy after row

Heba al-Labadi and Abdel Rahman Miri, held without charge for months, being released as part of deal with Amman meant to end diplomatic spat, PMO says

Human Rights Watch's Israel and Palestine director Omar Shakir, a US citizen, sits in his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 9, 2018. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Supreme Court upholds expulsion of Human Rights Watch local director

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, November 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, pool)

As proposal for direct PM elections gathers steam, Netanyahu denies weighing it

By Raoul Wootliff

Likud says premier is still aiming for a unity government, though party’s Knesset faction chair claimed PM would support a vote for the top spot only

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R), and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, at a ceremony marking six years since the death of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, at the Knesset, November 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Gantz and Netanyahu finally unite… to praise late Shas rabbi Yosef

By Raoul Wootliff

Yisrael Beytenu leader MK Avigdor Liberman speaks at a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on October 28, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Liberman denies he is prepared to compromise on coalition demands

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

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)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu vows to ‘fight back’ after Iran nuclear enrichment announcement

PM says Israel will never allow Islamic Republic to obtain nuclear weapons, says its aggression ‘expanding everywhere’

7:30 pm

Iran official says uranium will be enriched to 5% at underground facility
7:21 pm

IDF soldiers filmed assaulting Palestinian father in Hebron
7:08 pm

Netanyahu vows to 'fight back' after Iran nuclear enrichment announcement

Deborah Meghnagi Bailey

In my mother tongue

My aliyah has always meant that I’m ’living the dream’ – but raising children has brought new encounters in Hebrew that sometimes leave me longing for English

The time we all got bombed at Friday night dinner

After 10 minutes in the shelter, we were able to sit around the table and pretend that things were normal. Until a second barrage of rockets, anyway

Blue and White Chairman Benny Gantz speaks at the ADL's Israel Social Cohesion conference in Airport City near Tel Aviv on November 5, 2019. (Avshalom Shoshoni/Flash90)

Gantz: Israel must not sell arms to genocidal regimes or back racist leaders

Speaking at ADL conference, Blue and White leader says of attempts to form government: ‘Unity is not a bloc in which everyone thinks as one and labors for one man’

Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, speaks to foreign correspondents in his office in Gaza City, May 10, 2018. (Khalil Hamra/AP)

Hamas leader threatens Gantz: ‘You will curse the day that you were born’

Labor leader Amir Peretz at the Labor party faction meeting at the Knesset, November 4, 2019. (Hadas Porush/Flash90)

Labor presents Hamas demilitarization ultimatum as coalition demand

By Raoul Wootliff

Interview

European MP: We need to increase security ‘wherever Jewish life takes place’

Karoline Edtstadler, who chairs EU parliament’s working group on anti-Semitism, says Brussels should not tell Israelis how to solve their conflict with the Palestinians

MEP Karoline Edtstadler (Gerd Pachauer/BMI)

Police arrive after a synagogue was attacked in Gothenburg, Sweden, December 9, 2017. (Adam Ihse/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

Anti-Semitic hate crimes in Sweden rise by 53% to all-time high

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: Neo-Nazis march in Berlin, Germany, on October 11, 2009. (AP/File)

Outrage in Germany over neo-Nazis’ political ‘kill list’

By AFP

Jordan Valley Regional Council chairman David Elhayani. (Miri Tzachi)

Netanyahu ally elected head of settler umbrella body

Jordan Valley Regional Council chairman David Elhayani edges out candidate backed by group of council chairmen seeking more aggressive approach in lobbying government

Chairman of the Labor-Gesher party Amir Peretz speaks at a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, October 28, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

‘Enemies within’: Left-wing leaders slam government inaction on settler violence

Illustrative: A military jeep is damaged in riots by settlers near the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar on October 20, 2019. (Courtesy)

Settler youth suspected of stoning security forces in fresh attacks

Yigal Amir, the convicted assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, seen during a court hearing in Tel Aviv, November 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel’s Oscar entry ‘Incitement’ gets inside the head of Yitzhak Rabin’s killer

By Delphine Matthieussent

More Headlines

Israeli singer Shlomo Artzi performs at Park Hayarkon in Tel Aviv on July 2, 2015. (Moshe Shai/ Flash90)

Charity concert cancelled following uproar over exclusion of female singers

File: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, at Georgetown Law's second annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Clinton says Facebook chief should ‘pay price’ for endangering US democracy

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Sara Netanyahu, left, and her husband Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyau, right, attend the Jewish Moroccan celebration of Mimuna, in Or Akiva on April 27, 2019.( Flash90)

Mazal tovSara Netanyahu, Yair Lapid are birthday buddies

The Lebaron family, targeted in an apparent drug cartel attack that killed at least 10 on November 5, 2019, in northern Mexico. (Facebook screen capture)

At least 9 American Mormons killed in ambush in notorious drug area in Mexico

By Mark Stevenson

A poster in a stairwell at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in December 2016 showed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a noose hanging in front of him and the word “Rope” in capital letters at the bottom. The image was used in a Facebook post against Netanyahu in November 2019 (Courtesy)

Police open investigation into Facebook user threatening to kill Netanyahu

A campaign spot by the Republican Jewish Coalition published on November 4, 2019, slamming US Democrats as a 'disgrace' in Yiddish for backing aid cuts to Israel. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Republican Jewish group’s campaign slams Democrats as a ‘disgrace’ — in Yiddish

The scene of a suspected double murder at the entrance to the Bedouin town of Tel Sheva, November 4, 2019. (Magen David Adom)

Two shot dead near Tel Sheva in suspected underworld hit

Dr. Giora Praff during a 2012 interview with Channel 1. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Suspect in wife’s murder named as veteran doctor with history of aid, abuse

By Michael Bachner

Dudi Zilbershlag, an ultra-Orthodox advertiser, journalist, publisher, activist on January 16, 2011. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Businessman to donate Holocaust letter after court prevents auction sale

Democratic presidential hopeful Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota onstage at a campaign rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 3, 2019. (Kerem Yucel/AFP)

Omar emphasizes Sanders’ Jewish background in endorsement at Minnesota rally

UK Parliament hopeful Zarah Sultana. (Screenshot from Twitter via JTA)

UK Labour candidate said she would ‘celebrate’ deaths of Netanyahu, Blair, Bush

By Josefin Dolsten

Illustrative image of an optical fiber connection (alphaspirit; iStock by Getty Images)

New fund will pay telecom firms to deploy fiber optic cables for faster internet

By Shoshanna Solomon

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