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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 20, 2019

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Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks at a faction meeting in the Knesset on November 20, 2019. (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)

Castigates ultra-Orthodox MKs as 'increasingly anti-Zionist'

Signaling 3rd elections, Liberman accuses Gantz and Netanyahu of thwarting unity

By Raoul Wootliff

Yisrael Beytenu leader claims he received ‘innumerable offers’ – including to be PM under rotation deal – but says ‘we will not sell our values for seats’

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

Blue and White officials: We’ll try for unity government ‘until the last moment’

By Raoul Wootliff

File: Haim Katz speaks at the Knesset on March 5, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PM seeks to nix primaries if 3rd election held, in bid to avoid defections

An Israeli M109 self-propelled howitzer is stationed near the border with Syria in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on November 19, 2019, after Israeli air defenses intercepted four rockets fired from neighboring Syria. (JALAA MAREY / AFP)

23 killed as Israeli strikes in Syria, 16 of them likely Iranian – war monitor

By Judah Ari Gross

Russia: Israeli airstrikes on Iranian targets in Syria a ‘wrong move’

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

‘You aren’t immune’: Defense minister threatens Iran leaders after Syria strikes

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

IDF girds for response after attacking dozens of Iranian, Assad targets in Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

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

Left, right, ultra-Orthodox unite in denouncing Liberman’s ‘anti-Semitic’ speech

By Michael Bachner

After Yisrael Beytenu leader called the ultra-Orthodox ‘anti-Zionists,’ Haredi MKs slam ‘horror show’ and liken it to Kishinev pogrom; others accuse him of leading to 3rd election

From left to right: Likud Minister Yariv Levin, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin and Likud Minister Ze'ev Elkin meet at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 19, 2019. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Rivlin rebukes Netanyahu for ‘ugly’ comments branding Arab lawmakers a ‘threat’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz at a memorial ceremony marking 24 years since the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in the Knesset on November 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Last-ditch unity meeting appears to fail, with PM and Gantz trading accusations

By Raoul Wootliff

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz at his party headquarters, in Tel Aviv, September 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Explainer

Assuming Gantz fails to form a government, what happens next?

If Blue and White chairman can’t build coalition by day’s end, all 120 MKs will have a chance to jockey for support of a majority in final effort to prevent a 3rd election

An Israeli M109 self-propelled howitzer is stationed near the border with Syria in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on November 19, 2019, after Israeli air defenses intercepted four rockets fired from neighboring Syria. (JALAA MAREY / AFP)

Israel media reviewStuck between Iran and a Liberman: 7 things to know for November 20

By Joshua Davidovich

(R-L) Joint List MK Mtanes Shihadeh, President Reuven Rivlin and Joint List MKs Ayman Odeh, Mansour Abbas and Ahmad Tibi during a meeting at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 20, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Rivlin meets party leaders as coalition chances fade

Liberal supporters react as they watch results roll in at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's election night headquarters on October 21, 2019, in Montreal, Canada. (Cole Burston/Getty Images/AFP)

In sudden switch, Canada backs pro-Palestine UN resolution

By Raphael Ahren

After decade of voting no, Ottawa now wants to reiterate commitment to two-state solution and ‘equal rights and self-determination of all peoples’; Israel ‘very disappointed’

Hungarian FM Péter Szijjártó and PM Benjamin Netanyahu open the Hungary's trade mission in central Jerusalem, March 19, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Budapest blocks joint EU statement condemning US shift on settlements

By Raphael Ahren

The Binnenhof, the seat of the Dutch government, in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2014 (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)

Dutch parliament passes motion against mandatory labeling of settlement products

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz at a memorial ceremony marking 24 years since the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in the Knesset on November 10, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu urges Gantz to resume coalition talks after conceding defeat

PM tells rival he will return to negotiating table before midnight deadline in last ditch effort to clinch unity government and prevent 3rd elections in under a year

6:58 pm

Netanyahu urges Gantz to resume coalition talks after conceding defeat
6:46 pm

Mandelblit to announce Netanyahu graft indictments tomorrow -- report
6:35 pm

Gantz: Netanyahu stymied coalition talks with 'insults, slander and childish videos'

Nasreen Haddad Haj-Yahya

Where were you when Netanyahu called us enemies of Israel?

When the PM smeared Arab Knesset members, those ’allies’ who urged us to go and vote had a responsibility to protest. They didn’t

I’m proudly Jewish and when I travel, I get tattooed

How better to experience a new culture than to let it get under your skin

Richard L. Cravatts

In fact, the Israeli settlements were never illegal

The old effort to legitimize Palestinian claims to the land with a false historical account erases Jews’ right to their ancestral terroritory won in a modern defensive war

Another nail in the coffin of peace

This week’s US declaration on settlements is a victory for the swelling ranks of a movement many once believed would disappear

Illustrative: Marchers against Israel walk from the Carnegie Mellon University campus in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, July 26, 2006. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Jewish students say their voices are shut out of academia

As campus anti-Semitism morphs, bullied Jewish students counter-organize

By Cathryn J. Prince

A 42% drop in classic acts of bigotry at universities in 2018 is offset by a 70% rise in anti-Israel related harassment; a flurry of recent events highlight insidiousness of issue

Frat functions on hold as reports of racism shake Syracuse University

By CAROLYN THOMPSON

Israeli university heads call U of Toronto kosher scandal ‘theater of absurd’

White supremacist manifesto reportedly shared at Syracuse University

By AP

Iranian protesters gather around a burning motorcycle during a demonstration against an increase in gasoline prices in the central city of Isfahan, on November 16, 2019. (AFP)

Amnesty: At least 106 killed as Iran forces get ‘green light to crush’ protests

By AFP

Rights group warns real death toll could be closer to 200 with video showing snipers firing into crowds; UN urges Tehran to stop using live ammunition against demonstrators

Rouhani says ‘enemy conspiracy’ defeated in protest-hit Iran

By AFP

US believes Iran will seek new fighter jets, tanks as 2020 arms embargo lifts

By Lolita C. Baldor

UN confirms Iran stockpiling heavy water in latest breach of nuclear deal

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (center) visits the prime minister's holiday sukkah, during talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on October 18, 2019. At left is US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

US officials to Israeli TV: New settlement policy not green light for annexation

Administration figures add the move also should not be seen as support for ‘unrestrained building’; US ambassador to Israel said behind shift in American approach

Netanyahu vows unity government’s 1st move will be Jordan Valley annexation

By Michael Bachner

After US settlement shift, PM said backing push to quickly annex Jordan Valley

By Michael Bachner

UN dismisses US policy change, says Israeli settlements still illegal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (C) sits alongside European Council President Donald Tusk (L) and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl national cemetery during the funeral of former Israeli president Shimon Peres on September 30, 2016. (AFP/Pool/Abir Sultan)

Abbas says Netanyahu tried to prevent him attending Shimon Peres’s funeral

In interview with Israeli radio, PA president also assails US, says it has no ‘legal authority’ to deem settlements not illegal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plants an olive tree at the Netiv Ha'avot neighborhood in the Elazar settlement in the West Bank, on January 28, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Analysis

With softening of US settlement policy, is annexation train leaving the station?

With Israeli towns in West Bank no longer illegal in the eyes of superpower, it’s easier for the right to advance sovereignty plans and harder for the left to come out against them

US envoy Friedman let Gantz know beforehand of settlement policy change — report

In West Bank settlement, bottles uncorked to toast Trump’s policy change

By Michael Blum

Hezbollah calls US settlement policy shift ‘invalid and illegal’

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Jerusalem to host largest-ever event on anti-Semitism; Putin, Macron to attend

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on July 5, 2015. (Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

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Then National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, leaves after testifying before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 19, 2019. (Julio Cortez/AP)

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An exterior view of Adolf Hitler's birth house, in Braunau am Inn, Austria, September 27, 2012. (Kerstin Joensson/AP)

Adolf Hitler birth house in Austria to become police station

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Illustrative image of a person washing hands under a powerful jet of water from a fire hydrant (ChiccoDodiFC; iStock by Getty Images)

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Homes evacuated as forest fire threatens Jerusalem suburb

By Stuart Winer

An aerial view of solar panels near the southern resort city of Eilat. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

112 top scientists call on government to abort plan for gas-fired power stations

The Oregon Investment Council conducts its monthly meeting in Tigard, Oregon, October 30, 2019. Andrew Selsky/AP)

Oregon frets over state pension funds invested in Israeli spyware company

By AP and ToI Staff

Soldiers from the IDF Northern Command take part in a surprise exercise in northern Israel in November 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF completes surprise drill in north with thousands of reservists

By Judah Ari Gross

Omar Faruk Tekbilek and Brian Keane in Tel Aviv, November 19, 2019, ahead of the Oud Festival (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Ouda thunk itOud Festival musicians reunite on Jerusalem stage

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Illustrative: A bus of the Israeli Prison Service transporting prisoners, December 18, 2011. (Uri Lenz/FLASH90)

Prisoners were reportedly left on bus as guards took cover during rocket attack

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Palestinians gather near the border with Israel in Malaka east of Gaza City on March 30, 2019, on the first anniversary of Hamas-organized "March of Return" border protests. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

For second week, Gaza ‘March of Return’ border protests called off

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