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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 14, 2019

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

Live updates (closed)

South braces for possibility of renewed fighting after day of truce violations

With rockets targeting Israeli communities throughout the day despite Islamic Jihad’s pledge to hold fire, it remained unclear whether the IDF planned to respond — and if so, how

9:20 pm

Netflix to fix Holocaust documentary after Poland complains
9:12 pm

Elizabeth Warren welcomes Gaza ceasefire, urges end to rockets, blockade
8:59 pm

Liberman to PM: Promise no third election under any circumstances

Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists attend the funeral of one of their members in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, November 14, 2019. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Flare-up bequeaths new ‘alliance,’ as Hamas, Israel avoid fighting each other

Previously, Israel always blamed Hamas for Gaza terror; not this time. And Gaza’s rulers were happy for Islamic Jihad to fight alone. Why the change, and what does it presage?

Illustrative: An Israeli missile launched from an Iron Dome missile defense system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, is seen above Gaza City on November 13, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Israel media reviewWar on, war off: 9 things to know for November 14

By Joshua Davidovich

Members of the Izz-a-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamist terror group Hamas, take part in a march in Gaza City, July 25, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

Hamas official suggests group will join fight if Israeli strikes don’t cease

A child lies inside a bomb shelter in the coastal city of Ashkelon, Israel, amid a two-day bout of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, November 13, 2019. (Tsafrir Abayov/AP)

Tenuous calm holds after Israel-Gaza ceasefire initially broken by rocket fire

IDF: 450 rockets fired at Israel in 48 hours; Hamas: Gaza death toll 34; Israel: Most were terrorists; conflict in which IDF eliminated terror commanders named Operation Black Belt

Opposition lawmakers: Gaza ceasefire is just delay before next round of violence

Gaza ceasefire between Israel, Islamic Jihad said in effect from 5:30 a.m.

Gaza rocket slams into old age home in Ashkelon, injuring a woman

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Analysis

Fragile Gaza ceasefire signals resumption of Gantz-Netanyahu political battle

Still not quite accepting president’s unity plan, Blue and White leader claims PM ‘charging toward elections,’ does not really want to negotiate; Netanyahu holds his fire, for now

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, on October 27, 2019. (Elad Malka)

Blue and White party chairman MK Benny Gantz, left, and Yisrael Beytenu party leader MK Avigdor Liberman at the Kfar Maccabiah Hotel in Ramat Gan, November 14, 2019. (Elad Malka)

Liberman: Netanyahu said no to unity; Blue and White hasn’t given a clear yes

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

President Reuven Rivlin (left) and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz attend a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Kibbutz Yad Mordecha in southern Israel on May 2, 2019. (Flash90)

President: Despite Gaza conflict, no extension possible for would-be PM Gantz

By Raoul Wootliff

Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, a prominent member of Iran's powerful Guardian Council, speaks in an interview with The Associated Press, in Tehran, Iran, November 9, 2019. (Vahid Salemi/AP)

Powerful Iranian hard-liner says Tehran should stop honoring nuclear deal

By Nasser Karimi

In AP interview, Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei, a member of the Guardian Council controlling all parliamentary legislation, says pulling out of 2015 pact would ‘punish’ the US

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)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

As rockets paralyze half the country, was eliminating Abu al-Ata worth it?

IDF says slain Islamic Jihad terror chief was behind most attacks from Gaza in recent months and was planning more, but high cost of killing him, conspicuous timing raise questions

UN envoy urges ‘maximum restraint’ as shaky Gaza ceasefire takes hold

By ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF falsely claims it hit nonexistent rocket chief in strike that killed family

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Islamic Jihad posts video showing off missiles, bashing Israel

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

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

The Gush Etzion winery in the West Bank, July 18, 2019. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Europe is failing to implement EU settlement labeling directive, study shows

By Raphael Ahren

Survey by pro-Palestinian group finds 9 out of 10 wines from Golan and West Bank in European stores don’t comply with 2015 policy declared legally binding by EU court Tuesday

View of the fields at the Psagot vineyard in the West Bank near the city of Ramallah on December 13, 2012. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US condemns ‘anti-Israel bias’ in EU court verdict on settlement labeling

By Raphael Ahren

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Career Foreign Service officer George Kent, left, and top US diplomat in Ukraine William Taylor, right, are sworn in to testify during the first public impeachment hearing of US President Donald Trump by the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, November 13, 2019. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Battle lines harden as Trump impeachment goes public

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK

Democrats say House session revealed a US president abusing his office for political gain, while Republicans insist witnesses gave testimony that was secondhand at best

Career Foreign Service officer George Kent and top US diplomat in Ukraine William Taylor, right, are sworn in to testify during the first public impeachment hearing of the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, November 13, 2019 in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

US diplomats testify on Trump impeachment in first televised hearings

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK

In this Dec. 2013, photo, US Representative Paul Gosar, Republican of Arizona, speaks during a Congressional Field Hearing on the Affordable Care Act in Apache Junction, Arizona (AP Photo/Matt York)

Initial impressionsGOP congressman seems to cryptically tweet Epstein conspiracy theory

US President Donald Trump and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) take part in a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on November 13, 2019. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Trump says US to leave some troops in Syria ‘only for the oil’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US president contradicts his own aides, GOP leadership, who insist remaining American soldiers will continue fight against Islamic State

US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

At White House meeting, Trump dodges US-Turkey row, says he’s a ‘fan’ of Erdogan

By Sebastian Smith

Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds refused a Nazi command to identify Jewish American soldiers. (Yad Vashem via JTA)

On Veterans Day, Trump told story of US POW who saved Jewish comrades from Nazis

By Josefin Dolsten

Jonathan Muskat

Alcohol in our synagogues: Should our shul go dry?

When the adults go bananas over a fancy bottle of Scotch for kiddush, our teens are watching and learning what we truly value

Michelle Rojas-Tal

Disconnecting the app: An Israeli in America

So far away from home, we have the privilege of avoiding the minute-by-minute updates on rockets from Gaza, but can we? Should we?

French journalist and writer Eric Zemmour arrives at the Criminal Court in Paris on November 6, 2015, where he was prosecuted for incitement to racial hatred. (BERTRAND GUAY/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

The Ann Coulter of France is a Jew of Algerian heritage

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Jordanian television host Rana Hmouz in a November 12, 2019 broadcast on Jordan Today TV in which she called to cancel the Israel-Jordan peace agreement and 'gouge out the eyes of the Zionists.' (YouTube screen capture)

Jordanian TV host calls to ‘gouge out eyes of the Zionists’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Yosef David says his Brexit Party is a "safe and friendly place" for Jews despite racism allegations. (Courtesy of David via JTA)

Orthodox Jew announces pro-Brexit party run in bid for Corbyn’s parliament seat

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A young boy looks at the fenced off entrance to the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on October 27, 2019, the first anniversary of the shooting at the synagogue, that killed 11 worshipers. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

FBI: Jews were victims of most religion-based hate crimes in 2018

Hezbollah supporters take part in a rally to mark the anti-Israel al-Quds day in Beirut, Lebanon, May 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

US rejects Israeli request to condition Lebanon aid on disarming Hezbollah

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative: A view of the Cyprus coastline (YouTube screenshot)

Cyprus teams up with Israel to promote Eastern Mediterranean cruises

By AP

Quentin Tarantino and Daniella Pick attend the 'Once Upon a Time In Hollywood' UK Premiere at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London, July 30, 2019. (Karwai Tang/WireImage/Getty Images/via JTA)

Once Upon a Time in TAQuentin Tarantino and wife Daniella Pick rent home in Israel

File: Pope Francis does the sign of the cross during his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, May 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope blasts ‘inhuman, un-Christian’ rebirth of anti-Semitism

By AP and ToI Staff

The Haim sisters, from left, Alana, Danielle and Este, of the group Haim at Rodarte's fashion week show in San Marino, California, February 5, 2019. (Presley Ann/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images/via JTA)

So Much FunukkahHaim, Jack Black and more record a Hanukkah album

By Gabe Friedman

From top left, clockwise: Ezra Miller, Beanie Feldstein, Audrey Gelman and Aly Raisman made Time magazine's 100 Next List. (Getty Images via JTA)

100 NextJoint List’s Odeh, Aly Raisman among Time magazine’s ‘rising stars’

By Josefin Dolsten

Alan Feld, general partner at Vintage Investment Partners (YouTube screenshot)

Vintage gets $133 million in investor commitments for new fund

By Shoshanna Solomon

Hillary Rodham Clinton (L) discusses 'The Book of Gutsy Women' with British historian Mary Beard (R) at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall in London on November 10, 2019. (Isabel Infantes / AFP)

Clinton warns harassment of female lawmakers is putting UK ‘on path to fascism’

Ex-Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick announces 2020 presidential bid

By Julie Pace, Bill Barrow and Steve Peoples

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