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What Matters Most On Tuesday, November 12, 2019

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Over 200 rockets launched at Israel since killing of Islamic Jihad commander

Sporadic fire from Strip continues as IDF hits rocket launching cells; 10 Gazans said killed in strikes; schools can reopen Wednesday in Tel Aviv area, will be closed in south

8:59 pm

Rockets fired from Gaza land in open fields
8:52 pm

More rocket sirens sound in Gaza-area communities
8:35 pm

Rocket alarms sound in Gaza-area communities

Israeli firefighter trucks douse a burning factory in the southern town of Sderot, after it was hit with a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip on November 12, 2019. (Ahmad GHARABLI/AFP)

IDF girds for several days of fighting

By Judah Ari Gross

In this photo taken on October 21, 2016, Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror leader Baha Abu al-Ata attends a rally in Gaza City. (STR/AFP)

Islamic Jihad declares ‘We’re going to war,’ after IDF kills its strongman

By Adam Rasgon and Jacob Magid

Smoke billows in Gaza City following an Israeli strike on November 12, 2019. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

In fresh strike, Israel targets Islamic Jihad terror squad in Gaza, killing 1

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi during a press conference at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv on November 12, 2019 (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

PM: Terror chief was ‘ticking time bomb’; IDF head says braced for escalation

Netanyahu stresses Israel not seeking further conflict with Gaza after killing Baha Abu al-Ata; strike was okayed 10 days ago, with ministers telling IDF to choose the time

Palestinian rockets are being fired from Gaza city on November 12, 2019. (BASHAR TALEB/ AFP)

EU condemns ‘utterly unacceptable’ Gaza rocket fire on Israeli civilians

By Raphael Ahren

Blue and White head Benny Gantz, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right. (Flash90)

Netanyahu and Gantz meet for security update as Gaza violence rages

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Blue and White leader, a former IDF chief, says escalation of hostilities won’t affect coalition talks; says slain Palestinian terror commander was ‘destined for death’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with then-defense minister Avigdor Liberman at a joint press conference on May 30, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman: Netanyahu vetoed killing of terror chief Abu al-Ata last year

Blue and White party chairman MK Benny Gantz speaks at faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on November 11, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

As others slam timing as ‘political,’ Gantz backs slaying of Gaza terror chief

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Islamic Jihad leader Baha Abu al-Ata (IDF Spokesperson)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Hamas let PIJ terror chief act with impunity; now it needs to control the flames

Israel repeatedly urged Gaza’s rulers to stop Baha Abu al-Ata, but was ignored. Hamas was betting Israel wouldn’t dare eliminate him and risk a new conflict. It was wrong

Members of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group, march with their weapons to show loyalty for the Iranian-backed Palestinian movement's newly elected leader Ziad al-Nakhalah during a rally in Gaza, October 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

AnalysisPalestinian Islamic Jihad is smaller than Hamas, but boasts equal arsenal

In this photo taken on October 21, 2016, Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror leader Baha Abu al-Ata attends a rally in Gaza City. (STR/AFP)

Slain Islamic Jihad commander rocketed to prominence in year before his death

By Judah Ari Gross and Adam Rasgon

Tel Aviv's usually crowded Habima Square, which sits above the city's largest bomb shelter, is empty on the afternoon of November 12, 2019. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Reporter's Notebook

Rockets on Tel Aviv prick city’s bubble of nonchalance

Big Orange’s residents and tourists attempt to have a ‘normal’ day, hours after Gaza rains rockets on southern, central Israel following targeted IDF killing of Baha Abu al-Ata

Palestinian rockets are seen being fired from Gaza on November 12, 2019. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Sirens wail in Tel Aviv, suburbs as Israel bombarded by dozens of Gaza rockets

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Palestinians inspect the damaged house of Islamic Jihad leader Baha Abu Al-Ata after an Israeli attack in Gaza city, on November 12, 2019.(Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Israel kills powerful Islamic Jihad commander Abu al-Ata in targeted Gaza strike

IDF kills Baha Abu al-Ata, says he was planning ‘imminent’ attacks; rocket sirens sound in south as schools closed and army prepares for fresh round of fighting

Security forces and municipality workers outside a building targeted by an airstrike in the Syrian capital Damascus' Mazzeh neighborhood overnight on November 12, 2019. (LOUAI BESHARA / AFP)

Islamic Jihad says senior commander targeted in Damascus strike, son killed

Illustrative. A hearing of the Court of Justice of the European Union. (Court of Justice of the European Union)

In landmark ruling, EU’s top court says settlement product labeling mandatory

By Raphael Ahren

Palestinians fete decision, urge Europeans not only to label but to ban West Bank goods; EU delegation in Ramat Gan: We still reject ‘any form of boycott or sanctions’ on Israel

Palestinians inspect the damaged house of Islamic Jihad leader Baha Abu Al-Ata afther an Israeli attack in Gaza city, on November 12, 2019. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Israel media review

Operation Unity Government: 7 things to know for November 12

As right and left debate whether IDF elimination of PIJ leader was politically motivated, most agree the strike all but put to bed chance of a Gantz-led minority government

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz at a memorial ceremony marking 24 years since the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in the Knesset on November 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz and Netanyahu may be closing in on deal for unity government: report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a conference organized by the Makor Rishon newspaper and the Bnei Akiva youth movement at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, November 11, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

PM: Government backed by Arabs would be a ‘slap in the face’ to IDF soldiers

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Dispatch from a bomb shelter somewhere in Israel

A day under rocket attacks, driving between home and work, and praying not to get hit en route

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer and Norman A. Bailey

Pick-up sticks, political tricks, and the power of definition

OP-ED: There’s a pathway to a unity government, but first we need to know what ‘unity’ means, and then we need to create a new (Likud) party

Jordan’s King Abdullah II, second right, tours the Baqura enclave formerly leased by Israel with Crown Prince Hussein and military officers, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019. (Yousef Allan/Jordanian Royal Court via AP)

Jordan’s king visits Naharayim enclave after Israelis clear out

Day after termination of annexes in peace accord that allowed Israeli farmers access to border territory, Abdullah II says kingdom’s sovereignty ‘is above all else’

Jordan says it thwarted terror plot against US, Israeli diplomats

Netanyahu: There was never a ‘real reconciliation’ between Israel and Jordan

By Raphael Ahren

First Jordanian envoy to Israel says peace accord should be reexamined

By Michael Bachner

Palestinian Karam Qawasmi, who was shot in the back by Israeli forces in an incident caught on video last year, sits in his garden, in the West Bank city of Hebron, Sunday, Nov. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israel looking to speak to Palestinian shot in back, as new allegations emerge

Karam Qawasmi, filmed being hit by non-lethal round at checkpoint, says officers also rammed him with jeep, beat him; ministry request for interview rare, activist says

Mourners carry the body of 22-year-old Palestinian man Omar Haithm al-badawi who was shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes in al-arowb camp in the West Bank city of Hebron, on November 11, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

PA, UN condemn fatal shooting of Palestinian man by IDF soldiers

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press statement in the Knesset on September 15, 2019, a few days before the Israeli elections. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Case of ex-mayor seen as damning for Netanyahu, contrary to his lawyers’ claims

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

In acquitting Itamar Shimoni of bribery in alleged deal involving favorable media coverage, officials say judge has laid the groundwork for PM’s potential conviction in Case 4000

PM’s lawyer cheers as Ashkelon ex-mayor acquitted over media quid pro quo

State witness threatens to sue justice minister; demands apology, compensation

Report: Milchan said he’d worked hard to get Yossi Cohen appointed Mossad chief

Illustrative: Dignitaries lead the 53rd annual Celebrate Israel Parade down 5th Avenue in New York City, June 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

A new book explores the ties that no longer bind the Jews. It’s a good start

By Haviv Rettig Gur

More Headlines

Aleksey Burkov, a Russian hacker slated for extradition to the United States, arrives for a hearing at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem on November 3, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel extradites Russian hacker to US despite Moscow’s protests

In this May 7, 1945 file photo, Gen. Alfred Jodl, center, signs the unconditional surrender of all armed German forces imposed by the Allied Powers, at Supreme Commander Eisenhowers headquarters in Rheims, France. He is flanked by Gen. Wilhelm Oxenius, Commander of the German Luftwaffe, left, and General Admiral and Commander in Chief of the German fleet, Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, right. (AP Photo/File)

Nazi surrender agreement on sale

Screen capture from video of presidential candidate and US Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont) speaking to the New York Times. (New York Times)

In essay on anti-Semitism, Sanders says Trump inspired synagogue shooting

By ToI Staff and JTA

Neria Zarog attaches himself to a saw machine in Yitzhar to avoid arrest for violating an administrative order on November 10, 2019. (Honenu)

State to indict fugitive settler who chained himself to machine to avoid arrest

A sign for Chabad in the main bazaar in New Delhi, India, December 12, 2016 (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

India says Israeli, Jewish targets under immediate terror threat — reports

A panel of speakers at the TechnoArt conference held in Tel Aviv on Nov. 10, 2019 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)

Israel VC that matches tech with art sees global scope

By Shoshanna Solomon

Meital Weiss, a paraplegic and regular rider in the annual Alyn bike ride, November 10-14, 2019 (Courtesy Atara Weiss)

Not about the disabilityWith sparkly crown atop helmet, biking bat mitzvah girl goes all in for Alyn

By Jessica Steinberg

John Demjanjuk in a Munich courtroom, March 2012. (AP/Matthias Schrader)

Poland protests map used in Netflix documentary about Nazi guard Demjanjuk

By ToI Staff and Agencies

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)

IAEA: Uranium traces found at undeclared Iranian site

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Hezbollah chief: Chance of US-Iran war down by 99%, Trump’s strategy failed

US President Donald Trump speaks at the opening ceremony of the Veterans' Day Parade on November 11, 2019 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump says Baghdadi successor being pursued by US

By AFP and ToI Staff

A photo of a rubber duck outside the Auschwitz death camp posted by a blogger on November 6, 2019. (Auschwitz Memorial via Twitter via JTA)

DuckDuckNoBlogger sorry for photo of rubber duck on Auschwitz tracks

By JTA and ToI Staff

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