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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 13, 2019

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Illustrative: Rockets are fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, on November 13, 2019. (Anas Baba/AFP)

Nov. 13 updates (closed)

Rocket barrage, IDF airstrikes and ceasefire reports cap day of Gaza fighting

By Jacob Magid and Joshua Davidovich

Israeli source says ‘quiet will be met with quiet’ after terror group lays out demands; death toll in Gaza up to 26; at least 360 rockets fired out of Strip in two days of violence

10:31 pm

Coverage continues in new liveblog
9:53 pm

Rocket sirens in Nahal Oz
9:46 pm

Abu al-Ata was no rebel, Islamic Jihad leader says

Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on November 13, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

IDF strikes Islamic Jihad rocket production facility as barrages pummel south

By Judah Ari Gross

Military says it also bombed terrorists readying to fire anti-tank missiles; 23 Palestinians said killed in Israeli strikes, 12 of them confirmed members of terror groups

People take cover during an air-raid warning siren in Sderot, southern Israel on November 13, 2019. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

IDF: Israeli forces are ‘walking a tightrope’ to prevent Hamas joining fray

By Judah Ari Gross and Stuart Winer

Dor and Orel Huri at their wedding in Beit Hagadi in southern Israel on November 13, 2019. (Screen capture: Instagram)

Borrowed but not blueCouple marries in a bomb shelter, defying Gaza rockets

By Stuart Winer

Joint List MK Ahmad Tibi (bottom) verbally clashing with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) during a Knesset plenum debate on Gaza, November 13, 2019. (Adina Wellman/Knesset spokesperson's office)

Netanyahu clashes with Arab MKs in Knesset, defends Gaza operation

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

PM accuses lawmakers from Joint List of supporting terrorism and ‘glorifying war crimes,’ says Israel taking meticulous care to avoid Palestinian civilian casualties

Relatives of Islamic Jihad terrorist Abdullah Al-Belbesi, 26, who was killed in Israeli airstrikes, at his funeral in the town of Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, November 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 24, most of them terrorists

People take cover during an air-raid warning siren in Sderot, southern Israel, November 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Massive early morning rocket fire from Gaza shatters brief overnight calm

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

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)

Islamic Jihad says it doesn’t want a ceasefire yet

Spokesman for terror group says that only after it completes its response to Israel’s elimination of its commander will it be possible to discuss efforts to restore calm

Netanyahu: Islamic Jihad knows Israel will keep striking ‘with no mercy’

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Iran accuses Israel of committing ‘terrorist attack’ against Gaza

Egypt, UN push for ceasefire as Gaza terror groups warn of imminent escalation

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)

Analysis

By design or not, Gaza escalation increases chance of unity government

Benny Gantz claims nothing’s changed, but he knows an operation limits his options and bolsters Netanyahu, while putting nail in coffin of Plan B, an Arab-backed minority coalition

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and then-Education Minister Naftali Bennett during a Knesset vote on December 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM said to admit he only made Bennett defense minister to stop him joining Gantz

A girl being interviewed in Ashkelon while bracing for rocket fire on November 13, 2019. (screen capture: Channel 12 news)

Israel media reviewOK, boomers: 9 things to know for November 13

By Joshua Davidovich

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Abby Stein on February 27, 2018. (Ovrim/Wikipedia CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Interview

Hasidic rabbi who can’t ‘pray the girl away’ transitions to female activist

By Cathryn J. Prince

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu taken off stage during a campaign event in Ashdod due to incoming rocket sirens, September 10, 2019. (Screenshot: Twitter)

PM sought Abu al-Ata’s killing after rocket forced him offstage before election

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Reports say Netanyahu wanted to immediately eliminate Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror chief after September 10 incident in Ashdod, but security officials made him wait

Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Liberman speaks at a faction meeting at Neve Ilan west of Jerusalem, September 22, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

‘This is actual surrender’: Liberman assails Netanyahu for Hamas policy

By Raoul Wootliff

Rockets fired from Gaza towards Israel, followed the targeted killing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror chief Baha Abu al-Ata, by an Israeli strike, on November 12, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

Gaza rocket said to hit Palestinian Human Rights Commission office in Strip

By Stuart Winer

Herbert Gildin and two of his grandchildren, Tyler Gildin, right, and Alex Utay. Utay was a producer on the film. (Courtesy Tyler Gildin)

In film, grandfather returns to Sweden to thank post-Kristallnacht saviors

By Rich Tenorio

Israel Katz attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 17, 2019. (Sebastian Scheiner/Pool/AFP)

Israel rejects ‘unacceptable’ EU court decision on settlement labeling

By Raphael Ahren

FM Katz vows to prevent implementation of ‘gravely flawed policy,’ argues it contradicts Brussels’ position that peace must be a result of bilateral negotiations, not legal rulings

Sarah Ansbacher

When each chime means an incoming attack

And the ominous siren, when it comes, allows for about a minute to reach a safe space, before the rocket’s impact

Who is authorized to take Israel to ’war’?

There is a shocking vagueness about the authority to make fateful decisions for the country, including what even counts as war

Being a Jewish person without a Jewish last name

It took a canoe trip in Kentucky to make me realize how much of my family heritage lies in a name that is no longer ’Cohen’

Noshing in Tarnów

If you build a kosher cafe in Poland, they will come out of the woodwork, acknowledging ’some Jewish roots’

US resident Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he leaves the White House in Washington for a trip to New York City, November 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump says he worries about Israel as missiles fly, jokes at political deadlock

At Orthodox Jewish event, president boasts of ‘98%’ approval rating in Israel, quips he could move there and soon become PM: ‘They keep having elections and nobody is elected’

In new book, Haley says Tillerson vehemently opposed embassy move to Jerusalem

By Eric Cortellessa

Pence slams rocket fire, says terror groups prefer violence to welfare of Gazans

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US ambassadors back Israel, lash ‘barbaric attacks’ from Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

This image made available by NASA on January 2, 2019 shows images with separate color and detail information, and a composited image of both, showing Ultima Thule, about 1 billion miles beyond Pluto. (NASA via AP)

NASA renames faraway ice world after backlash over name’s Nazi link

‘Not enough due diligence was done’ in naming cosmic body Ultima Thule, says team member; site is renamed Arrokoth, a Native American word for sky

Fish and chips, the iconic British dish, has Jewish roots. (Getty Images/via JTA)

Food for thought

The surprising Jewish history behind fish n’ chips

Traced back to 16th-century crypto-Jews fleeing the Portuguese Inquisition, Britain’s favorite food has even been described by Thomas Jefferson as ‘fish in the Jewish fashion’

More Headlines

One of the greenhouses at Breath of Life Pharma near Beit Shemesh, where producers are anticipating the passage of a law that would allow them to export medical cannabis. (Courtesy)

Government throws its weight behind medical cannabis sector

By Shoshanna Solomon

Barcelona's Lionel Messi, right, and Luis Suarez, left, celebrate after a Messi goal in Barcelona, Spain, March 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Messi’s soccer match in Israel could be canceled over Gaza fighting

File: Wafa Na'alowa at an Israeli military court (video screenshot)

Mother of Barkan terrorist gets 18-month sentence for failure to stop attack

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

Court orders release of settler who violated ban from West Bank

A WhatsApp photo of Michal Sela, who was found stabbed to death at her home outside Jerusalem on October 3, 2019

Man charged with murder of wife in Jerusalem suburb

UMass Amherst students head across campus in 2014. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images via JTA)

High-profile BDS conference at UMass Amherst sparks concern — and a peace march

By Penny Schwartz

Andor Stern’s concentration camp tattoo is seen despite his tefillin straps. (Courtesy of the Sao Paulo Holocaust Memorial via JTA)

Brazilian-born Holocaust survivor has bar mitzvah at age 91

By Marcus M. Gilban

In this January 2, 2019, file photo White House senior adviser Stephen Miller listens as US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump adviser Stephen Miller sent white nationalist materials to journalist

By JTA

FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2017 photo director Roman Polanski poses during a photo call to the screening of "Based on a true story" in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

French support for Polanski crumbles amid new rape accusations

By Sophie LAUBIE and Fiachra GIBBONS

Anti-Semitic incidents in New York City have increased significantly this year. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/via JTA)

ADL strives to uproot spike in NY anti-Semitic attacks with increased education

Illustrative image of business and tech (metamorworks; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel to provide grants to attract savings funds to tech bonanza

By Shoshanna Solomon

Tombstones vandalized at the Jewish cemetery in Randers, Denmark, November 10, 2019. (Bo Amstrup/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

2 arrested over Jewish cemetery vandalism in Denmark

By AP

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