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What Matters Most On Tuesday, November 19, 2019

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo makes a statement during a press conference at the US Department of State in Washington, DC, on November 18, 2019. (JIM WATSON/AFP)

In pivot, US says it no longer regards Israel’s West Bank settlements as illegal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Repudiating 1978 opinion that settlements are ‘inconsistent with international law,’ Secretary Pompeo tells press that previous designation ‘has not advanced the cause of peace’

Illustrative: A housing complex where Mike Huckabee, who is now the US Ambassador to Israel, laid bricks, in the West Bank settlement of Efrat on August 1, 2018. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel/File)

Settler leaders call for West Bank annexation after US shifts stance

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the Fourth National Forum for the Fourth Industrial Revolution during the forum's opening session in the West Bank city of Ramallah, September 9, 2019. (Nasser Nasser/AP)

Palestinians slam US for declaring settlements not illegal

Analysis

Pompeo’s settlements speech: Empty rhetoric or prelude to annexation?

Experts say new US policy less dramatic than it sounds as it simply reinstates Reagan-era ambiguity on settlements’ legal status. Others warn it prejudges final status of West Bank

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a news conference at the State Department in Washington, November 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a news conference at the State Department in Washington, November 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Full text of Pompeo’s statement on settlements

Palestinians protest against US President Donald Trump's so-called Deal of the Century, in the West Bank city of Hebron, February 22, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

US embassy in Jerusalem warns of Palestinian unrest over settlements decision

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman seen with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) in in the Knesset on March 11, 2014. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90 )

Op-ed

As Iran besieges Israel, our leaders’ infighting is unforgivably self-indulgent

We’ve had government paralysis for a year, sparked by a row over a meaningless law, while the PM seems more focused on words than deeds from our key ally

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo flips a coin to at the start of an NCAA college football game between the Army and Morgan State, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019 in West Point, N.Y. (AP/Julius Constantine Motal)

Israel media reviewGame changers from Syria to settlements: 9 things to know for November 19

By Joshua Davidovich

US President Donald Trump, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on May 23, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Eric Cortellessa

By saying settlements not illegal, Trump seen as throwing Netanyahu a lifeline

Former Mideast peace negotiator warns move meant to ‘dismantle the core elements’ of the attempt to achieve a two-state solution

Leading Democratic presidential candidates denounce US settlement decision

By ToI Staff and Agencies

EU denounces US decision on settlements, saying they remain an obstacle to peace

Russia, Turkey reject US reversal of settlements stance

By AFP and ToI Staff

(From L-R) Gush Etzion Regional Council chairman Shlomo Ne'eman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Yesha Council chairman David Elhayani in front of a Gush Etzion lookout point in the West Bank on November 19, 2019. (Haim Zach/GPO)

PM visits West Bank, says new US settlement policy will ‘stand for generations’

Netanyahu takes opportunity during celebratory meeting with settler leaders to chide them for not speaking out enough against Joint List-backed minority government

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

In phone call, Netanyahu thanks Trump for US policy shift on settlements

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US President Donald Trump holds up a signed proclamation recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, March 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Netanyahu and Gantz both fete US for changing tack on settlements

President Reuven Rivlin (C) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) at his official residence in Jerusalem on November 19, 2019. In the background is Likud coalition negotiator Ze'ev Elkin. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu, Gantz meeting in last ditch effort to form unity government

President rebukes PM for recent ‘ugly’ barbs against Joint List MKs while railing against possible Blue and White minority government

8:27 pm

Netanyahu, Gantz meeting as coalition deadline draws near
8:20 pm

Netanyahu says first step for a unity govt will be annexing Jordan Valley
7:16 pm

Police close streets in Rishon Lezion after suspected explosive found in restaurant

Israeli air defense system Iron Dome takes out rockets fired from Gaza near Sderot, Israel, May 4, 2019. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

4 rockets fired at Israel from Syria, shot down by Iron Dome, IDF says

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Dubious reports emerge shortly thereafter about explosions in Damascus; incident follows Israeli assessments that Iran intends to take more aggressive actions in the region

Then-foreign minister Israel Katz at a Likud election campaign stop in Jerusalem, September 16, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Foreign minister blames Iran for rocket fire from Syria

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Laura Ben-David

That time my bath bomb exploded

The store offered helpful salespeople, perfect gifts to bring back to Israel, and, as I soon discovered, a Zionist dilemma

Joshua Washington

What Zionism means to Ethiopian Israelis, even today

3 key ways you can be harshly critical of something and love it dearly at the same time — in conversation with Yaffa Tegegne

On this anniversary, I’ll bring the tequila

In the year since a stranger with a knife attacked me and my family at home, I’ve learned empathy for those who have suffered even worse

Blurred identities

It has become easier to masquerade as Mom than it is to discuss the Alzheimer’s that keeps her from paying her bills

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)

Netanyahu and Gantz to meet in last-gasp bid to form government

Blue and White leader will sit down with PM, 26 hours before deadline to assemble coalition, with no breakthrough in sight

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) at a meeting of the 55-member union of his Likud party and other right-wing and religious parties, in the Knesset, November 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Flanked by all his allies, Netanyahu again warns against Arab-backed coalition

By Raoul Wootliff

Photo composition (L to R): Blue and White chief Benny Gantz, Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Yonatan Sindel, Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu, Liberman hold ‘positive’ meeting as Gantz’s coalition deadline looms

Yair Lapid, left, and Benny Gantz in the Knesset on November 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Lapid: Netanyahu talking like adherent of Jewish Hebron terrorist who killed 29

After PM declares minority coalition backed by Arab MKs will be hailed in Tehran and Gaza, Blue and White leaders warn he’s ‘inciting violence’ against large section of public

Joint List chair MK Ayman Odeh speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset on November 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Top Arab MK accuses Netanyahu of trying to ‘spark a civil war’

By Michael Bachner

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and then-interior minister Gideon Sa'ar, left, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 25, 2012. (Miriam Alster/ Flash90/ File)

Likud rival Sa’ar meets Netanyahu a day after sparring with PM’s son online

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, during a press conference in Tehran, Iran, June 10, 2019. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

In call to Hamas head, Iran FM hails Gazan ‘victory’ in latest fight with Israel

After last week’s flareup between Israel and Islamic Jihad, Zarif assures Haniyeh that Tehran stands with Palestinians’ ‘valiant resistance’

UN says Iran amassing heavy water in fresh breach of nuclear deal

3 Iranian security forces said killed by protesters

By AFP

US cancels Iran nuclear cooperation waiver after Fordo restart

Argentina's Lionel Messi at the Bloomfield stadium in Tel Aviv, November 18, 2019. (Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

The Messi-ah finally arrives: Israel fetes Argentine soccer superstar

By Raphael Ahren

It wasn’t a great match, but after last year’s friendly was canceled and Gaza rockets threatened Monday’s game as well, the nation celebrated mere fact of Lionel Messi’s presence

An Argentina team fan holds up a placard depicting Lionel Messi and other players at the scene of Jesus Christ's Last Supper, before the start of the friendly football match between Argentina and Uruguay, at the Bloomfield stadium in Tel Aviv on November 18, 2019. (EMMANUEL DUNAND /AFP)

Excitement hits fever pitch as Argentina-Uruguay friendly kicks off in Tel Aviv

By Raphael Ahren, ToI Staff and Agencies

The late Israeli author of Iraqi descent, Yitzhak Bar Moshe. (courtesy, Idit Shemer)

An Iraqi Jewish story, written in Arabic, finds an unlikely champion in Abbas

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

As AnyVision probed, Israeli watchdog urges curbs on sales of surveillance tech

By Shoshanna Solomon

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German refugee passing the Russian barrier to move east from the American zone at Gros Topfer, the exchange point, on November 6, 1945. (AP Photo)

German archive uploads details of millions of Nazi victims

By AP and ToI Staff

The Lumenis device for hair removal (YouTube screenshot)

Hong Kong’s Baring to buy Israel-based Lumenis at over $1 billion valuation

By Shoshanna Solomon

Screen capture from a trailer for the Roman Polanski film 'J'Accuse' (An officer and a spy), released in 2019. (YouTube)

Polanski film tops French box office despite rape claim

By Fiachra GIBBONS

An Israeli woman holds a poster of Solomon Tekah, a young man of Ethiopian origin who was killed by an off-duty police officer, as members of the Israeli Ethiopian community block the main entrance to Jerusalem on July 2, 2019 to protest his killing. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Cop who killed Ethiopian-Israeli teen faces softened indictment

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Members of the Khabour Guards (MNK) Assyrian Syrian militia, affiliated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), walk in the ruins of the Assyrian Church of the Virgin Mary, which was previously destroyed by Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in the village of Tal Nasri south of the town of Tal Tamr in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on November 15, 2019. (Delil souleiman / AFP)

In northeast Syria, last Assyrians fear Turkish advance

By Delil Souleiman

University of Toronto (Nat/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 via JTA)

Toronto graduate student union apologizes for saying kosher food is ‘pro-Israel’

By JTA and ToI Staff

US Sen. Dianne Feinstein speaks at an election night event in San Francisco, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

California Democrats reject ‘highly flawed anti-Israel’ amendment to platform

By JTA

The TrueFeatures team filming in Caesarea National Park, with Joe Mullings, left, and Harel Gadot, Executive Chairman and President of XACT Robotics Ltd.; Nov. 5, 2019 (Paige Marogil)

Documentary delves into growing weight of Startup Nation on med-tech scene

Screen capture from video of then-member of the European Parliament Amjad Bashir during a speech when he said rabbis in Israel 'brainwash' visiting UK Jewish men to make them into extremists.

UK Tory candidate said rabbis turn Jews visiting Israel into ‘extremists’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Ofer Golan, Likud campaign manager and Netanyahu family spokesman, arrives at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on March 20, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court green-lights police searches of Netanyahu aides’ phones

Screen capture from video of radio show host Craig Silverman. (YouTube)

Denver radio station denies Jewish host fired over Trump criticism

By JTA

State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan speaks at a Justice Ministry conference in Tel Aviv, on November 4, 2019. (Flash90)

State prosecutor given 24-hour security as fateful decisions loom

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