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What Matters Most On Saturday, November 16, 2019

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Illustrative: Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, November 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

2 rockets fired at Beersheba in ceasefire breach; IDF hits Hamas targets in Gaza

Rockets intercepted by Iron Dome; in return to IDF policy, Hamas, which sat out last round of Israel-Islamic Jihad fighting, blamed for all terror coming from Strip

Chairman of the Labor-Gesher party Amir Peretz speaks at a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, October 28, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Peretz, Lapid say Hamas rocket fire shows failure of government’s Gaza policies

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)

Blamed for Beersheba rocket fire, Hamas says Israel ‘won’t choose timing’ of ops

File: Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar giving a press conference in 2008. (Wissam Nassar/Flash90)

Hamas leaders booted from mourning tent for Islamic Jihad chief killed by Israel

Mahmoud al-Zahar, Ahmed Bahar accosted by PIJ members furious that Hamas didn’t join fight; no protests on Gaza border Friday for only second time since March 2018

The Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's military wing, says Ahmed Abdel al-A'al was one its members and killed in fighting in Gaza (Hamas)

Hamas military wing says one of its fighters was killed in Gaza flareup

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

UN envoy urges swift IDF probe into deaths of family of 8 in Gaza strike

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The moment a rocket slammed into Route 4 near Gan Yavne on November 12, 2019 (Screen grab)

‘It was coming for me’: Drivers recall escape from rocket that blew up on road

Several motorists are brought together at scene of explosion that nearly killed them to recount experience, offer support to each other

Israelis inspect a crater left by a new Islamic Jihad rocket in southern Israel in November 2019 (Screencapture/Channel 12)

Islamic Jihad used new rocket with huge 300kg warhead during fighting

Illustrative: Police stand guard after a factory was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Sderot, southern Israel November 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

8-year-old who collapsed during Gaza rocket attack regains consciousness

A Palestinian woman attends a demonstration outside the outside UNRWA's Headquarters in Gaza City, August 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Defying Trump, UN renews mandate of Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA until 2023

Resolution passes 170-2, with only Israel and US opposing it; one of 8 measures concerning Israel passed by body, with no actions against any other country

Armenian master ceramicist David Ohannessian, whose work has become one of the defining characteristics of Jerusalem. (Wikimedia commons/CC-SA-3.0/Lantuszka)

Book review

In 1918, the art of an Armenian genocide survivor changed Jerusalem forever

By Matthew Kalman

President Reuven Rivlin (R) and Blue and White party chief Benny Gantz at the state memorial ceremony for former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, November 10, 2019. (Heidi Levine/Pool/AFP)

Gantz to meet Rivlin Saturday, calls for breakup of right-wing negotiating bloc

By Alexander Fulbright

Likud, New Right throw cold water on entreaty from Blue and White chief, who is struggling to form government before November 20 deadline

Argentina's forward Lionel Messi runs up to take a penalty during the friendly football match between Brazil and Argentina at the King Saud University stadium in the Saudi capital Riyadh on November 15, 2019. (Photo by Fayez Nureldine / AFP)

Messi and Argentina to play soccer game in Israel after Gaza fighting subsides

Illustration by Avi Katz

Necessary stories

How long, my Lord?

By Haim Watzman

Occupation Über Alles

Until American progressives accept that the occupation is not the central issue for Israelis, we’re going to have a hard time reunifying the Jewish people

Parshat Vayera: Quid pro quo

Knowing people with the right connections definitely helped back in Lincoln’s time, and still helps to this day

Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 15, 2019, during the second public impeachment hearing of US President Donald Trump's efforts to tie aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Amid cheers and a tweet, former ambassador to Ukraine has her impeachment moment

By Laurie Kellman

Marie Yovanovitch, testifying in Trump hearings, explains her gratitude for US, empathy for downtrodden people; recalls her mother ‘grew up stateless in Nazi Germany’

AnalysisThe Jewish players in the Trump impeachment hearings

Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch leaves after testifying to the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 15, 2019, during the second public impeachment hearing of US President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Takeaways from day 2 of public House impeachment hearings

By Eric Tucker, Jill Colvin and MARY CLARE JALONICK

Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Matt Lieberman, son of former senator Joe Lieberman, stands in front of his home in Georgia (Courtesy)

Interview

Eric Cortellessa

Can a Lieberman win in Georgia?

The former Veep nominee’s son Matt wants to help Democrats win back the Senate. But first he has to convince the party that he’s truly one of their own

From left, Rabbi Rachmiel Liberman, then Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo light candles on an 18-foot menorah to mark the arrival of Hanukkah during a ceremony at the Statehouse in Boston, December 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

5 Jewish things to know about new Democratic challenger Deval Patrick

By Josefin Dolsten

In this Feb. 26, 2019, file photo, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at a news conference at a gun control advocacy event in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Bloomberg launches $100m ad campaign targeting Trump

By AFP

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Illustrative: Iran's alleged atomic warehouse in Turquzabad, Tehran. (YouTube screenshot)

Ex-official at UN watchdog: Iran’s explanation for uranium at warehouse doubtful

Citing diplomats, Olie Heinonen says Tehran informed IAEA that particles found at site flagged by Israel were from old equipment but inspectors skeptical

One killed, several injured in Iranian gasoline protests — report

By AFP

5 protesters dead in Baghdad violence; car bomb explodes between key squares

By SAMYA KULLAB and Qassim Abdul-Zahra

14 killed by car bomb in Turkish-controlled town in Syria, says monitor

By AFP

A couple wades their way through water in Venice, Italy, Nov. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Photo Essay

Venice drowns as historic high tides flood the city

Italy declares state of emergency; iconic St Mark’s Square closed and then reopened as fresh sea surge hits Floating City

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A swastika painted on a Magen David Adom ambulance in Tel Aviv on November 15, 2019. (courtesy MDA)

Swastika painted on Magen David Adom ambulance in Tel Aviv

Illustrative: People worship at a Baptist church in, New York, April 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Almost 1 in 10 US Christians have heard their clergy speak negatively about Jews

Illustrative: Britain's Prince Andrew in London, June 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Britain’s Prince Andrew sorry for Epstein friendship, denies meeting sex accuser

By AFP

Portuguese actor Rodrigo Santos, center, portrays Artur Carlos de Barros Basto in the filming of "Sefarad" in 2018 in Porto, Portugal. (Courtesy/JTA)

Tiny Portuguese Jewish community makes a $1.2 million movie about its history

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In this Tuesday, February 11, 2014 photo, Israeli workers inspect barrels in a winery in the West Bank settlement of Psagot. (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

13 Israeli public figures call on EU to ban the import of settlement goods

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Illustrative: An Ethiopian Airlines' Boeing 787 Dreamliner prepares to take off from Addis Ababa airport in Ethiopia, April 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Elias Asmare)

Flying highEthiopian Airlines names new Dreamliner plane ‘Tel Aviv’

Aiden Bruce-Umbaugh (Lubbock County Detention Center)

Suspected neo-Nazi charged with gun crime in Texas

By AP

A Jewish cemetery in Haarlem, the Netherlands, March 8, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)

Dutch government gives $2.76 million for restoring Jewish cemeteries

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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