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What Matters Most On Friday, November 8, 2019

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Education Minister Naftali Bennett, left, speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right during the Israel Prize award ceremony at the International Conference Center (ICC) in Jerusalem on May 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu appoints Bennett as defense minister; Likud, New Right to unite

Move is temporary until new government formed, widely seen as bid to prevent Bennett joining with Blue and White

Gantz says he’s doubtful Likud wants unity, and so is ‘examining alternatives’

Ex-aide threatens to sue minister, PM’s son for airing gagged information

Kahlon said planning to nix public day off in the event of 3rd elections

The stone steps leading up to Clifford's Tower, York, site of the most notorious anti-Semitic bloodshed in medieval English history. (Times of Israel staff)

In 1190, an 'English Jewish Masada'; today, hiring a rabbi

Coming back to the castle: The improbable return of the Jews of York

By David Horovitz

800 years later, the ‘herem’ on this bloodied city is evidently over, and local authorities are finally memorializing the most notorious act of anti-Semitism in English history

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds up a placard showing a suspected Iranian atomic site while delivering a speech at the United Nations during the United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2018 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

Netanyahu: Europe ‘must stop stalling,’ confront Iran over its nuclear program

PM accuses Islamic Republic of lying about alleged atomic facility in Tehran; Gantz calls resumption of work at Fordo a ‘wake-up call for the world’

Iranian officials say air defenses shot down ‘foreign’ drone in country’s south

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IAEA disputes Iran claim that inspector tested positive for explosives

By KIYOKO METZLER, Philipp Jenne and Jon Gambrell

Iran winning Middle East struggle with its use of proxies, report says

A Belgian politician presented this painting featuring a large swastika at the Bog-Art Gallery in Brussels. (Courtesy of LBCA/via JTA)

LISTEN: People of the Pod

Jews in Belgium expect already dire anti-Semitism problem to get worse, says AJC

Episode #10: AJC Transatlantic Institute’s Daniel Schwammenthal gives a sobering debrief from Brussels * Former Israeli ambassador to China Matan Vilnai says ties will only grow

Pompeo lays flowers at German synagogue after far-right shooting

By AFP and ToI Staff

Man wearing kippa attacked in German fitness studio

By Toby Axelrod

Far-left French leader says Jews promote ‘violent sectarianism’

By JTA

Miriam Green (left), with her mother, Naomi Cohen, circa 1983 (Courtesy Miriam Green)

A daughter shares lessons from her mom in memoir on Alzheimer’s and cooking

By Jessica Steinberg

Shayna Abramson

Only boys can be rabbis, right?

Now that I’m going for the Orthodox ordination I never thought possible, I understand Sarah’s laughter of disbelief – and joy (Lech Lecha)

Chana Tannenbaum

How Abraham got roped into a world war and won

If Lot’s capture was a deliberate insult to Abraham, then the patriarch’s victory in the name of God foreshadows the redemption of his descendants (Lech Lecha)

Beliefs to die for

How committed to upholding truth are you? Bruno, Abraham, and Maimonides faced death for their convictions (Lech Lecha)

‘Never look for a good reason to do the right thing’

Max ’Nico’ Leons can’t be counted as a Righteous Among the Gentiles, so my father found another way to honor the man who saved him and hundreds more

US president Donald Trump arrives for the Presidential Citizens Medal ceremony posthumously given to Rick Rescorla in the East room of the White House on November 7, 2019. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

Judge fines Trump $2 million for misusing charity foundation

By AP

President to donate money to US Holocaust Museum, other organizations as part of settlement after admitting to using charity money to pay legal fees, campaign

Senior US diplomat in Syria excoriates his own administration for failing Kurds

Book by ‘senior official’: Trump is volatile, incompetent, makes racist comments

By AP and ToI Staff

Bloomberg preparing possible run for 2020 Democratic nomination

By AP

A 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible, called the Washington Pentateuch, November 7, 2019. (Courtesy Museum of the Bible)

DC museum unveils rare 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible

Manuscript dating from 10th or 11th century is one of the most ‘well-preserved texts’ from that era, says Museum of the Bible

The Vindman twins Alexander and Yevgeny are seen in the mid-1990s. (Carol Kitman/via JTA)

A Jewish photographer has captured Alexander Vindman and his twin since the ’80s

By Josefin Dolsten

Labour lawmaker Chris Williamson, seen in 2018, was suspended by the party in February. (Jack Taylor/Getty Images via JTA)

Barred from election, Corbyn ally quits Labour, citing anti-Semitism witch hunt

By JTA

Chris Williamson to run as independent after party rules him out as candidate, suggests decision traceable to Zionist Jews, Israel

Kate Ramsden (Facebook photo)

Labour candidate quits after calling Israel ‘abused child turned abusive adult’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Fred Behrend celebrates the 80th anniversary of his bar mitzvah. (screenshot from CBS 3 Philly)

Holocaust survivor celebrating bar mitzvah on 81st anniversary of Kristallnacht

By JTA

93-year-old Fred Behrend had his original ceremony 80 years ago in Cuba, where his family had fled from Germany

Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre speaks with young students on the occasion of an Holocaust remembrance, at the Arcimboldi theatre in Milan, Italy, January 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Holocaust survivor in Italy gets police guard due to threats

By AP and ToI Staff

Giuseppe Minera next to two tombstones in the Jewish cemetery of Ostiano, Italy. (Giovanni Vigna/ Times of Israel)

In Italy, a good Samaritan restores a Jewish cemetery abandoned for centuries

By Giovanni Vigna

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The new Hula Valley Reserve's visitors' center, officially opened on November 6, 2019. (Michael Huri)

State-of-the-art visitors’ center opens at Hula Valley Nature Reserve

Brig. Gen. Ziv Avtalion, left, takes over as the new head of the IDF's Digital Transformation Administration in a ceremony at the military's Tel Aviv headquarters on November 7, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

As IDF goes high-tech, new ‘digital transformation’ commander takes role

By Judah Ari Gross

Israelis visit Naharayim, October 19, 2019 (Courtesy of Naharayim)

Jordan said to reject extending lease on border lands, but offer compensation

In this February 3, 2007, file photo, an Iranian technician works at the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan 255 miles (410 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Israel media reviewThe sum of all fears: 6 things to know for November 8

By Joshua Davidovich and Tamar Pileggi

View of the United Nations General Assembly during a vote on the US-imposed embargo on Cuba on November 7, 2019. (Evan Schneider/UN)

Israel joins US, Brazil as lone backers of Cuba embargo at UN

By AP

Charly Lowy in Brussels, Belgium. (Courtesy of Lowy/via JTA)

Not loafing aroundBelgian Jewish baker launches mass-produced cannabis bread

By Cnaan Liphshiz

An aerial view of the Israeli Tamar gas processing rig 24 kilometers off the Israeli southern coast of Ashkelon.

Cyprus signs $9 billion gas extraction deal with Israel’s Delek, other firms

By AFP

A woman smells the flowers at a street market on the eve of the International Women's Day in Minsk, Belarus on March 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Nothing to sniff atIsraeli scientists: Some women smell without olfactory bulbs

The cast of Israeli drama series 'Fauda' (Ohad Romano via JTA)

Making a HitIsraeli TV show ‘Fauda’ to get Indian remake

By JTA

An illustrative photo of a Jewish grave (Robert Alexander/Getty Images via JTA)

Dead chickens found in a dug up Jewish grave in Connecticut

By JTA

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)

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

A view of the crowd at the Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly, November 10, 2015. (JTA)

Jewish Federations to hold invite-only meet instead of annual General Assembly

By Josefin Dolsten

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