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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 7, 2019

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Iranian technicians working at a facility producing uranium fuel for a planned heavy water nuclear reactor, outside Isfahan, in 2009. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

US warns Iran could be positioning for ‘rapid nuclear breakout’

By AFP

Pompeo urges international community to step up pressure after Tehran resumes enrichment; EU expresses ‘deep concern’ over cancellation of IAEA inspector’s accreditation

IAEA accuses Iran of evading attempts to probe uranium production – report

Iran cancels accreditation of UN nuclear inspector

Iran says 3 tankers attacked in Red Sea in six-month period, warns route unsafe

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Rabbi Eliezer Berland shrouds himself with his talit (prayer shawl) at the Magistrates Court in Jerusalem, as he is put on trial for sexual assault charges, November 17, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Police probing sex offender rabbi who told cancer patient to refuse treatment

By Michael Bachner

Eliezer Berland, who has a cult of devout and often violent supporters, accused of manslaughter by lawyer for victim’s mother

6:55 pm

US judge orders Trump to pay $2 million for charity foundation misuse
6:48 pm

Police open investigation into rabbi who told cancer patient to refuse treatment
6:27 pm

Judge said feeling threatened after shooting in which his relatives were killed

Head of the Shin Bet security service Nadav Argaman attends the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset on November 6, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Shin Bet thwarted over 450 terror attacks in 2019, chief says

By Judah Ari Gross

Head of the security service credits advanced technology with helping prevent attacks and allowing Israelis to live ‘full, comfortable lives’

Report: Trump said Israel should pay for PA security assistance instead of US

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF maps home of Dolev terrorist bombmaker ahead of demolition

By Judah Ari Gross

UN Palestinian refugee agency chief quits amid misconduct probe

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Justice Minister Amir Ohana delivers a statement to the press, at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem, on October 29, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Defying gag order, justice minister says cops extorted state witness in PM probe

By Raoul Wootliff

Slamming Netanyahu corruption investigation, Amir Ohana tells Knesset that police threatened to publicize Nir Hefetz’s alleged affair and ‘drop a bomb on your family’

In shocking rebuke, attorney general says justice minister misleading the public

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Israel media reviewEnough with the cheap gags: 6 things to know for November 7

By Joshua Davidovich

In transcripts, media outlet CEO takes orders on news coverage from PM spokesman

Members of a bipartisan delegation of US Congresswomen at a kibbutz near the Gaza border, November 2019. The group included Congresswomen Bonnie Watson Coleman, Brenda Lawrence, Angie Craig, Mikie Sherrill, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Susie Lee and Martha Roby.(Courtesy)

Bipartisan group of US congresswomen visits to show ‘no daylight’ on Israel

By David Horovitz

Delegation of Democratic and Republican women meets Netanyahu, Gantz, Erekat, hears similar message from all 3 on need for Israelis, Palestinians to live ‘side by side in peace’

Andy Levin, Democrat of Michigan, arrives for member-elect briefings on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Jewish Democratic congressman visiting W. Bank blasts treatment of Palestinians

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks before a map of the Jordan Valley, vowing to extend Israeli sovereignty there if reelected, during a speech in Ramat Gan on September 10, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Liberal US Jewish groups ask Israeli politicians to oppose West Bank annexation

A member of the Kurdish Internal Security Forces of Asayesh flashes the V for victory sign during a demonstartion against Turkish threats in the northeastern city of Qamishli, the de-facto capital of Syria's embattled Kurdish minority, on November 2, 2019. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)

Israeli official: Jerusalem providing aid to Kurds since US pullout in Syria

By ToI Staff and Agencies

‘We are proud of our taking a stand alongside the Kurdish people,’ says Deputy FM Tzipi Hotovely, adding the Kurds provide a bulwark against spread of Iranian influence in area

In this file photo taken on July 11, 2018, US President Donald Trump (L) speaks with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) as they arrive for a NATO summit at NATO headquarters in Brussels. (AFP Photo/Pool/Tatyana Zenkovich)

Erdogan to meet Trump in Washington next week as tensions flare

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Illustrative: A man reads Twitter at a coffee shop in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

US: Saudis recruited Twitter workers to spy on thousands of users

By DAISY NGUYEN

Participants of Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem’s Neighborhood League (courtesy Hapoel Katamon Jerusalem)

US gives large grant to Jerusalem soccer program for Israeli, Palestinian kids

By Raphael Ahren

After cutting funds for Israeli-Palestinian coexistence projects, embassy hands $200,000 to neighborhood league bringing together Jewish and Arab children in the city

AnalysisPalestinian elections are looking likely, and may be spectacularly bad for Abbas

By Avi Issacharoff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a meeting at the presidential compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 6, 2019. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Abbas bans child marriage, with some legal exemptions

In this file photo dated March 31, 2019, Tom Watson, Britain's main opposition Labour Party Deputy Leader seen in London. In an announcement Wednesday Nov. 6, 2019, Watson has said he will not be seeking re-election in the forthcoming Dec. 12, General Election, and is stepping down as deputy leader of the Labour Party. (Dominic Lipinski/PA FILE via AP)

Tom Watson, UK Labour No.2 and top voice against anti-Semitism in party, resigns

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Watson’s departure a blow to dwindling moderate wing of party, leaves hard-left leader Jeremy Corbyn with little opposition over issues like Brexit and anti-Israel stance

Britain's main opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech on leadership and what a Labour government will achieve, during an election campaign event in Telford, central England on November 6, 2019. (Adrian DENNIS / AFP)

In front-page editorial, Jewish Chronicle urges Brits not to vote Corbyn

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at the Conservative Party's General Election campaign launch, at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham, central England, on November 6, 2019. (Adrian DENNIS / AFP)

Kicking off UK election campaign, Johnson likens Corbyn to Stalin

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre, file (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

200 online attacks a day: Auschwitz survivor is symbol of anti-Semitism in Italy

By Colleen Barry

Battle over Senator Liliana Segre’s call for committee to combat racism highlights politicians’ role in what observers say is growing boldness in anti-Semitic attitudes

Father Charles Coughlin, known as 'the founder of hate radio,' a leading proponent of American anti-Semitism during the 1930s (Public domain)

Anti-Semitism in the US today is a variation on an old theme

By Pamela S. Nadell

Illustrative: Anti-Semitic flyers found on the campus of Arizona State University in Tempe in November 2019. (Video Screenshot)

Anti-Semitic flyers plastered across Arizona State University campus

Idit Shafran Gittleman

A dangerous vision of the IDF as the Army of the Lord

A booklet on modesty penned by rabbis counsels behavior that humiliates women soldiers. It also cloaks the authors’ true motives

Avinoam Bar-Yosef

WATCH: A Reform Jew can be right-wing

A conversation with Israeli psycholinguist, Prof. Tsvia Walden. who says tagging people undermines free choice

The rabbi’s son who became a swami

Swami Vijayananda, once named Abraham, declined a ’lech lecha’ call to the Land of Israel, and instead set out to find his inner world

Home, sweet Belarus?

Accusations that Alexander Vindman harbors Ukrainian loyalties are preposterous and terrifying. I should know

The receding shore line leaves a thin crust of salt behind as the water level of the Dead Sea drops more than a meter a year, like this area pictured on January 11, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

ToI investigates

Sinking Israel-Jordan relations leave Dead Sea, a natural wonder, low and dry

17 years after latest round of talks began on Red-Dead canal, Israel drags its feet, Jordan bans Israeli scientists from its side, and the iconic lake relentlessly contracts

A view of the oil leak in the Arava area of southern Israel, on December 9, 2014 (Environmental Protection Ministry)

State-owned pipeline firm to pay NIS 100m over massive 2014 oil spill in south

The SSCV Thialf crane vessel laying a foundation platform for the Leviathan natural gas field, January 31, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/AFP)

Environment Ministry issues Leviathan gas platform pollution permit

Yair Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's son, speaks with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on Nov. 6, 2019 in New York City. (Ben Sales / JTA)

Reporter's notebook

Yair Netanyahu tells Boteach in NYC his father saves Jews ‘from annihilation’

By Jordan Hoffman

Stella Levi and David Roubini cut a rug at the exhibition, 'The Hearts Speak,' October 29, 2019. (Isaak Liptzin/ Awen Films)

Exhibition

In the heart of NY, pop-up education center revives extinguished Rhodes Jewry

By Jordan Hoffman

Jenni Kleinman Berebitsky with her husband, Jeff, and their son, Philip, as a baby. (From the film 'Grateful')

In film, recently deceased Jewish naturopath says ALS actually ‘saved her life’

By Rich Tenorio

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa makes his State of the Nation address in parliament, in Cape Town, South Africa, February 7, 2019. (Rodger Bosch, Pool via AP)

As South Africa cools ties, leader says it ‘can learn a lot’ from Israeli tech

By Raphael Ahren

Jonathan Pollard, left, arrives at a federal courthouse in New York with his wife, Esther, to check in at a probation office just hours after he was released from prison, November 20, 2015. (Ilana Gold/WCBS-TV via AP Images/via JTA)

Orthodox groups ask Trump to end Pollard’s parole so he can care for ailing wife

This combination picture created on September 18, 2019 shows, Benny Gantz (R), leader of the Blue and White political alliance, waving to supporters in Tel Aviv early on September 18, 2019, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing supporters at his Likud party's electoral campaign headquarters in Tel Aviv early on September 18, 2019. (Emmanuel Dunand and Menahem Kahana / AFP)

Blue and White and Likud negotiators meet, say ‘big gaps remain’

File: Rabbi Avraham Elimelech Firer, chairman and founder of the Ezra Lemarpe medical support organization, attends an event in Tel Aviv on November 10, 2010. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Haredi medical charity raises NIS 1m. after concert nixed over female singer ban

Illustrative: Father holding his baby girl at home. (Wavebreakmedia; iStock by Getty Images)

Top economist says fathers must take parental leave, for the good of the country

Men attending the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting wear red yarmulkes with the word 'Trump' on them, April 6, 2019, as they wait for President Donald Trump to arrive to speak in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump to meet 100 Orthodox Jews for fundraising lunch in New York City

Illustrative: The messaging app Telegram is displayed on a smartphone. (AP Photo)

12 arrested in ‘revenge porn’ crackdown after sharing nude photos on Telegram

Vandalism discovered in the West Bank town of Qabalan on November 7, 2019 reads 'revenge' (courtesy of local municipality)

Palestinian town targeted by vandals in apparent hate crime

Illustrative: Members of the restored Synagogue of Barcelona carry a Torah to its new home in Barcelona, Spain, January 22, 2006. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

At least 27% of applicants under Spain’s Sephardic ‘law of return’ are not Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Heavy metal band Iron Maiden will perform for the first time in Israel in May 2020 (Courtesy John McMurtrie)

Run to the hillsHeavy metal band Iron Maiden plans concert in Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Medic Issachar Weiss, 24, delivers three babies in the span of 48 hours (courtesy of Magen David Adom)

Labor of loveVolunteer paramedic delivers 3 babies in 48 hours

A picture of Greta Thunberg in the Associated Press office in Jerusalem. (Allison Kaplan Sommer via Patty Nieberg/Twitter via JTA)

Hostile climateIsraelis are ‘Greta shaming’ each other over plastic

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