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What Matters Most On Friday, November 15, 2019

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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with thousands of students in Tehran, Iran, November 3, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

‘Not anti-Semitic’: Khamenei defines Iran’s goal of ‘wiping out Israel’

Belying Tehran’s relentless threats to ensure ‘nothing left’ of Jewish state, ‘raze’ Tel Aviv and Haifa, leader says aim is to abolish ‘regime,’ get rid of ‘thugs’ like Netanyahu

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks at a public gathering in the city of Rafsanjan in Iran's southwest Kerman province, Monday, November 11, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Presidency via AP)

Rouhani warns Muslim countries against ‘friendship’ with Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Sahar Nowrouzzadeh (YouTube screenshot)

US State Department faults envoy for removing employee of Iranian heritage

By AFP

Britain's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech during an election campaign event on Brexit in Harlow, England, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019. Britain goes to the polls on Dec. 12. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

How bad would it get? Month before vote, UK Jews worry over a Corbyn government

By Robert Philpot

Victory for the hard-left Labour leader on December 12 could radically reshape Britain’s ties with Israel, prompt Jewish emigration, spell an end to domestic displays of Zionism

UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn talks with locals during an election campaign visit to Linlithgow, west of Edinburgh, Scotland, on November 14, 2019. (Andy Buchanan/AFP)

UK notables say they can’t vote Labour because of anti-Semitism

A British police officer is in hot water for allegedly dangling a slice of pepperoni pizza over a Jewish fellow officer's food. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/For The Washington Post via Getty Images via JTA)

British cop who ‘dangled’ pepperoni pizza over Jewish officer faces hearing

An Iron Dome battery in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on November 13, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Local councils in southern Israel announce return to normal after hours of calm

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Israelis living near Gaza had awoken to uncertainty after rockets violated ceasefire throughout Thursday and IDF retaliated with air strikes; schools in region shut Friday

Two new F-35 fighter jets land at the Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel from the United States on July 14, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Senior official: ‘Israel didn’t agree to halt targeted killings for ceasefire’

Palestinians attend the funeral procession of members of the same family who were killed in an Israeli airstrike, on November 14, 2019 in Deir al-Balah (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

IDF probing deaths of 8 family members in Gaza strike, believed home empty

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinians gather around the remains of a house that the IDF says was used as a weapons cache controlled by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which was destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip November 13, 2019. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)

As fighting fades, Islamic Jihad’s losses seen as less than catastrophic

Former IDF official says terror group suffered a significant, but not fatal, setback, while Gazan analyst contends Israel caused only limited damage

Palestinian members of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group, parade with a replica rocket on a truck during a march to show loyalty for the Iranian-backed Palestinian movement's newly-elected leader Ziad al-Nakhalah during a rally along the streets of Gaza, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israel media reviewCease in our time: 8 things to know for November 15

By Joshua Davidovich

A man looks at the damage to a house in Sderot, Israel, after it was hit by a rocket fired from Gaza Strip, November 12, 2019. (Tsafrir Abayov/AP)

As rocket drizzle persists, some fume over ‘indecisive’ end to Gaza fighting

Don Salman in his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz on November 14, 2019. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

At a Gaza border kibbutz, there’s no such thing as returning to ‘normal’

Listen: People of the Pod

Israelis mull if violence this week ‘worth it’ as life slowly returns to normal

By Yaakov Schwartz

Episode #11: Tol analysts Avi Issacharoff and Judah Ari Gross give update on Gaza flareup * Zalman Mlotek and Steven Skybell on why Yiddish version of ‘Fiddler’ is such a hit

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with then-cabinet secretary and current Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, May 26, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/ Pool/ Flash90)

Report: Likud expects announcement of indictment against PM as early as Tuesday

PM’s party said planning major rally near attorney general’s home ahead of declaration of corruption charges

State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan speaks at the annual Justice Conference in Airport City, outside Tel Aviv on September 3, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

State prosecutor urges former officials to defend justice system in media

Accused Nazi John Demjanjuk in the Netflix series "The Devil Next Door." (Netflix screenshot)

Netflix review

Miniseries on ‘Ivan the Terrible’ Nazi trial as gripping, open-ended, as in life

When retired Ohio autoworkerJohn Demjanjuk was extradited to Israel to be tried as the infamous butcher of Treblinka, people held their breath, as they will for this Netflix series

John Demjanjuk in Munich, May 2011. (AP/Matthias Schrader)

Netflix to change Holocaust documentary after Poland complains

By AFP and ToI Staff

Two-year-old Emmy de Waal is held by her father John de Waall (L) and grandfather Victor de Waal during their reunion in Vienna, Austria on November 4, 2019. Ephrussi family members returned to Vienna in November for their first reunion in more than eight decades to attend the opening of an exhibition about their family story (JOE KLAMAR / AFP)

Jewish family scattered by Nazis reunites at Vienna exhibit tracing their story

By Sophie MAKRIS

When you live in the south of Israel, people ask you questions

What I really want is to be able to sit outside with a friend and share a cup of hot tea without the fear of an onslaught of rockets

An Arab-Israeli Jewish* student’s take on anti-Semitism at UMass

How can my college community accept a one-sided narrative that incites hate against Jews on something as complex as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

How to succeed in Hebrew without really trying

I’ve been managing Israel well, with my elaborate mixture of chutzpah, creativity, and roughly 25 Hebrew words… At least, I haven’t been sued yet

What kind of God asks a father to sacrifice his son?!

Abraham could have obeyed, or argued, or come to terms with what he knew to be true about the Divine Will

Anne Salomon, a Cuban Jew who immigrated to Israel, then had her citizenship revoked three months later. (Screenshot/Channel 12)

Cuban immigrants have their citizenship revoked 3 months after moving to Israel

Anna Salomon and her husband immigrated to Jewish state under Law of Return, only to be arrested later under order of Population and Immigration Authority

Holocaust survivor Khana Kuperman, right, with Samantha Schabot, left, and Diana Hoffstein, center, at the Witness Theater production, 'The Spirit of Hope,' by students at the Yeshiva of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School, Sunday April 23, 2017. (Debbie Egan-Chin/New York Daily News/ Courtesy Rudavsky)

Director interview

When Holocaust survivors join students in theater class, it produces movie magic

By Rich Tenorio

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Retired General Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue and White political alliance, is pictured after paying his respects in front of the coffin of the recently deceased former Supreme Court president Meir Shamgar, in Jerusalem on October 22, 2019. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

5 days before deadline, Gantz’s chances of forming coalition seen as fading away

With no breakthrough in negotiations with Likud, internal disagreements in Blue and White, and expectations of coming indictment against PM, political deadlock persists

Unity talks stalled over Netanyahu immunity demand — report

Netanyahu and Liberman snipe at each other online, after PM offers a meeting

Elections czar: Leave me out if third round of voting held

A Greek F-16 fighter jet is seen during the "Blue Flag" multinational aerial exercise at the Ovda air force base, north of the Israeli city of Eilat, on November 11, 2019. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Gaza flare-up fails to ground five-nation air force drill in south

70 combat planes, including Israel’s F-35 stealth jets in their maiden international exercise, trained ‘with some adjustments’ for fighting, army says

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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks during a news conference after touring the Paulson Electric Company, December 4, 2018, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Bloomberg apologizes for being ‘disrespectful’ to women

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein presides over a Knesset plenum session, on June 12, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset speaker warns settlement labeling could ‘undermine’ EU-Israel ties

By Raphael Ahren

Shira and Amichai Ish-Ran, both injured on December 9, 2018 when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on Israelis near the settlement of Ofra, hold a press conference at the Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on December 16, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Families of Israeli terror victims suing Hamas for half a billion shekels

By Michael Bachner

Illustrative: A nurse takes care of an infant in a shelter at Barzilai Hospital as a warning siren sounds for possible incoming rockets in Asheklon on November 15, 2012. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Babes in ArmsAs rockets fell, doctors delivered 21 babies at Ashkelon hospital

Nazi artifacts discovered by police in 2017 are displayed during a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2, 2019. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)

Jewish leaders call on German auction house to nix Hitler memorabilia sale

By AFP

Croatian Auschwitz survivor Branko Lustig stands next to a poster of the film Schindler's List at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, July 22, 2015. (Nir Elias/Pool Photo via AP)

Croatian Holocaust survivor who produced ‘Schindler’s List’ dies at 87

By AFP

A kosher bakery in Sydney, Australia, breaks the Guinness world record for longest challah. (The Australian Jewish News/Facebook via JTA)

Breaking bread (records)Australian Jews bake world’s longest challah

By JTA

Iraq fans cheer during the FIFA World Cup 2022 and the 2023 AFC Asian Cup qualifying soccer match between Iraq and Iran in the Jordanian capital Amman on November 14, 2019. (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)

Iraqis celebrate soccer win against Iran as symbolic victory

By Mussa Hattar

Stephan Brandner at a committee meeting in the German Bundestag in Berlin, November 13, 2019. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)

Far-right German lawmaker ousted from committee for comments deemed anti-Semitic

Lebanese demonstrators clash with anti-riot police on the road leading to the Presidential Palace in Baabda, on the eastern outskirts of Beirut on November 13, 2019, nearly a month into an unprecedented anti-graft street movement. (Anwar Amro/AFP)

Lebanon protesters angered by reported new PM pick Safadi

By AFP

Harry Triguboff, in cap, and Australian Ambassador to Israel Chris Cannan with Bedouin women who benefit from the Switch Center. (SNAP Photography/via JTA)

Center opens to advance employment in Israel’s Bedouin community

Demonstrators hold banners reading "I accuse: Polanski Rapist" during a protest against French-Polish film director Roman Polanski outside the "Champo" cinema hall in Paris on November 12, 2019. (Christophe ARCHAMBAULT/AFP)

Polanski’s Dreyfus film a hit in France despite new rape allegations

By Fiachra GIBBONS

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