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What Matters Most On Sunday, November 17, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters at a Likud party rally in Tel Aviv on November 17, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

As Gantz seeks coalition, Netanyahu says Arab MKs ‘want to destroy the country’

PM tells Likud rally that formation of a Blue and White-led minority government backed by the Joint List would be a ‘historic terror attack’ against Israel

7:33 pm

Liberman: Any 'narrow' government would be a 'distaster' for Israel
7:10 pm

Internet access reportedly restricted as fuel hike protests rock Iran
7:01 pm

Joint List chief: Netanyahu doesn't know how to lose, only to incite

President Reuven Rivlin (L) and Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz meet at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, November 16, 2019 (Mark Neiman/GPO)

PM tells Likud Gantz is going for ‘insane’ minority government backed by Arabs

By ToI Staff and Alexander Fulbright

Netanyahu warns of ’emergency,’ says such coalition would be ‘historically dangerous’; Gantz meets Rivlin, says he wants unity, adds that the ’emergency is hundreds of rockets’

Joint List says Netanyahu inciting death threats against party leaders

Israel media reviewThe Arabs are coming, the Arabs are coming! 6 things to know for November 17

Coalition jockeying comes down to wire as indictment, possible 3rd election loom

By Michael Bachner

Palestinian mourners carry out the bodies of Rasmi Abu Malhous and seven members of his family who were killed in overnight Israeli missile strikes that targeted their house, during their funeral at a mosque in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip,, November 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

IDF official admits post alleging strike targeted terrorist may be ‘imprecise’

Despite IDF admitting info false, its posts on strike that killed family stay up

By Judah Ari Gross

Prime minister denies promises were made to Islamic Jihad for ceasefire

Parents of soldier slain in Gaza slam PM: ‘Ceasefire is abandonment of captives’

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (second from right), Islamic Jihad leader Khaled al-Basch (second from left), and the father of Islamic Jihad terrorist Baha Abu al-Ata (right), pictured on November 16, 2019. (Screen grab)

Hamas, Islamic Jihad put on show of reconciliation after clash at mourning tent

Day after PIJ members accost previous delegation, furious that Hamas didn’t join fighting, rival terror group leaders meet and vow ‘unity in war against Israel’

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)

With Gaza ceasefire holding, school resumes in the south

Lights are turned on at a Beersheba nightclub Friday night, November 15, 2019, as rocket sirens go off in the city. Two rockets fired at the southern city were intercepted by Iron Dome (video screenshot)

Israel said to believe Hamas leadership did not okay rocket fire at Beersheba

Then-Mayor Nir Barkat visits the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya to inaugurate a new road. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Interview

Barkat: US may adopt West Bank plan for 250,000 Palestinian jobs, Bible tourism

At Netanyahu’s request, Likud MK showed Kushner his ‘win-win’ proposal for 12 industrial zones, network of Biblical sites aimed at Evangelicals; Greenblatt, Friedman ‘like it’

US President Donald Trump, left, welcomes visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House in Washington, March 25, 2019. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Trump said ‘frustrated’ with Netanyahu as deadlock delays peace plan

Remembering Rochie

This woman of untold grace helped so many heal faster from breast cancer, including me; now, I can do nothing but scream NOT FAIR that the illness has claimed her

Yossi Kuperwasser

The Democratic Party’s attitude to Israel: 3 lessons from Tlaib and Omar

US progressives lost sight of Israel’s core democratic values when those who take an extremist, anti-Semitic approach co-opted liberal messaging

Illustrative: Members of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the US, hold a swastika burning after a rally on April 21, 2018 in Draketown, Georgia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Operation Kristallnacht: Neo-Nazi accused of running US synagogue vandalism ring

Court documents say Richard Tobin, 18, of southern New Jersey, planned many more attacks, almost carried out stabbing rampage against black people at mall

A swastika drawn on a sewage cover in Nof Hagalil on November 16, 2019. (Israel Police)

Police open probe after swastika spray-painted on sewage cap in northern town

Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein speaks at a news conference at the Chabad of Poway synagogue, April 28, 2019, in Poway, California. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

Half a year after attack, Yisroel Goldstein retires as rabbi of Poway synagogue

By JTA

Since the deadly California shooting, the rabbi has been giving speeches around the world, spreading a message of positivity and hope

People mourn in front of a kebab grill in Halle, Germany, Thursday, October 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

After Yom Kippur attack, owner gifts German kebab shop to employees

By AFP

Israel's national anthem is played after 17-year-old Alon Leviev took gold in the junior category at the Ju-jitsu World Championship in Abu Dhabi (Screen grab)

‘Hatikvah’ played in Abu Dhabi as Israeli takes gold in ju-jitsu tournament

Alon Leviev takes top spot on the podium and receives medal at UAE competition underneath Israeli flag; Arab nation reversed its ban on Israeli symbols last year

A man runs onto the field and hugs Poland's forward Robert Lewandowski on the pitch during the EURO 2020 group G qualifiers football match between Israel and Poland at the Teddy stadium in Jerusalem on November 16, 2019. He and a second invading fan were taken away by security guards. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Security guard runs into Polish player as pitch intruder mars Israel soccer game

An alleged 'spy van' owned by an Israeli ex-intelligence officer, as featured in a video by Forbes on September 4, 2019 (screenshot: YouTube)

Cyprus police say they seized Israeli ‘spy van,’ question owner

By AFP

Law enforcement opens probe after opposition communist party AKEL asked what government was doing about activities undertaken in vehicle, which was showcased in a Forbes video

A Palestinian man uses a biometric gate as he crosses into Israel at the Qalandiya crossing in Jerusalem, July 11, 2019. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

Microsoft hires ex-AG Holder to audit Israeli face-scanning firm

By AP and ToI Staff

Blue and White party chairmen Benny Gantz attends a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on October 28, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Prosecutors reviewing evidence of suspected misconduct by Gantz’s failed firm

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Visitors look at a Hoveizeh 8 cruise missile at a military show marking the 40th anniversary of Iran's Islamic Revolution in Tehran, Iran, February 3, 2019. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran says it will increase range of cruise missiles, add laser air defense

By Judah Ari Gross

Deputy defense minister states Tehran working on project to increase scope and precision of ammunition; says research for home-grown laser defense system has finished

Footage spotlights rare protests in major Iranian cities over gas prices

By AP

Pompeo says US stands with Iranian protesters

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Khamenei backs government gas price hikes as protests rock Iran

By Jon Gambrell

Social media has had considerable influence on the tattoo culture, expert says (Illustrative. Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Israelis increasingly getting tattoos that bind them to ancestors’ old countries

By Ira Tolchin Immergluck

Rabbi Jill Hausman converted the sanctuary of the Actors' Temple into a space that she rents out for off-Broadway performances. (Josefin Dolsten)

The Actors’ Temple: Inside the synagogue where Broadway’s biggest stars prayed

By Josefin Dolsten

More Headlines

US Air Force chief David Goldfein (L) and President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 14, 2019. (Haim Zach/GPO)

US Air Force chief in Israel: ‘We’ll always stand shoulder to shoulder with you’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Yair Golan at a ceremony for outstanding soldiers on Israel's 68th Independence Day celebrations, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, May 12, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

One-time Netanyahu pick for chief of staff Yair Golan now calls PM a ‘coward’

Jordan's King Abdullah II and Crown Prince Hussein pray at the Tzofar enclave after the return of the territory from Israel, November 16, 2019 (Courtesy)

Jordanian king, prince visit and pray at second enclave returned by Israel

A view of the Jerusalem to Ben Gurion Airport electric train seen near Jerusalem, September 25, 2018. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Jerusalem-Tel Aviv fast train that actually reaches Tel Aviv begins test runs

An illustration of an armored knight (MalevolentDust; iStock by Getty Images)

White-haired knights may come to rescue of a Startup Nation starving for workers

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative photo of a police patrol car in Jerusalem, September 20, 2017. (Times of Israel/Stuart Winer)

Palestinian suspected of stealing car shot dead during police chase

US President Donald Trump speaks at a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House, December 6, 2018. (Oliver Contreras/Pool/Getty Images via JTA)

Report: Trump directed pressure on Ukraine during White House Hanukkah party

Workers at B&H Photo and Electronics (YouTube/screen capture)

B&H Photo accused of cheating New York out of millions in sales taxes

Yisrael Beytenu party chairman MK Avigdor Liberman speaks at faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on November 11, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Liberman’s party said seeking to lower threshold for splitting Knesset factions

In this September 19, 2019, photo, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler speaks about US President Donald Trump's decision to revoke California's authority to set auto mileage standards stricter than those issued by federal regulators, at EPA headquarters in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Controversial Trump environmental protection chief to address Tel Aviv meet

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