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What Matters Most On Friday, November 22, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, on November 20, 2019 (left); Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit addresses the press in Jerusalem, on November 21, 2019. (Gali Tibon; Menahem Kahana/AFP)

'Decision made with heavy heart but with whole heart'

AG announces Netanyahu to stand trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust

By Raoul Wootliff

Mandelblit’s decision is legal bombshell, marks first time in Israel’s history that serving PM faces criminal charges; Netanyahu says he won’t quit, will keep leading Israel

Publisher and owner of the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper Arnon 'Noni' Mozes arrives for questioning at the Lahav 433 investigation unit in Lod, January 15, 2017. (Koko/Flash90)

Media magnates Mozes, Elovitch hit with bribery charges in Netanyahu cases

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu (L) and then-cabinet secretary Avichai Mandelblit at the weekly government conference, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 13, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Full text: AG’s announcement of decision to indict Prime Minister Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responds to the decision to indict him in corruption cases, November 21, 2019 (TV screenshot)

An impassioned Netanyahu rails at ‘attempted coup’ by police, prosecutors

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

After AG says PM to stand trial for bribery, fraud and breach of trust, premier rules out quitting: ‘I won’t let the lie win. I will continue to lead this country with devotion’

Gantz, Lapid pan Netanyahu over ‘insane’ speech: There is no coup

PM ‘cannot serve one more day’: Calls for resignation multiply over indictment

Justice minister, other allies rally around Netanyahu after charges announced

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

In this photo taken on February 14, 2018, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves the Muni World conference in Tel Aviv (Jack Guez/AFP)

After charges, Gantz demands Netanyahu quit his ministries, right pledges faith

Blue and White asks AG to require PM give up 4 ministerial portfolios; other rivals plan rallies, High Court appeals; more Likud ministers speak up for premier after staying silent

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

Report: State prosecutor believes charges prevent PM from forming new government

ExplainerPolitical stalemate could see Netanyahu’s formal indictment delayed by months

By Raphael Ahren

Op-ed

Asking us to side with him against the state, Netanyahu harms his beloved Israel

No matter how burning his sense of injustice, would that Netanyahu had taken a nobler course; instead he has plunged Israel deeper into a dreadful ordeal

In this November 20, 2019 photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during an extended faction meeting of his right-wing and ultra-Orthodox bloc members at the Knesset. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Likud activists said sharing names of prosecutors on WhatsApp

AnalysisIsrael’s longest serving prime minister under indictment

By Raoul Wootliff

The people vs. Benjamin Netanyahu: 9 things to know for November 22

By Tamar Pileggi

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Analysis

Church of England report admits Christian anti-Semitism helped lead to Holocaust

Work acknowledges ‘fertile seed-bed for murderous anti-Semitism in the modern era’; in afterword to 105-page document, chief rabbi slams evangelical attempts to convert Jews

Illustrative: Detail from an 18th-century painting depicting blood libel in St. Paul's Church in Sandomierz, Poland. (public domain, Wikimedia Commons)

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 US, Netanyahu indictment seen as cross-Atlantic version of Trump saga

By Eric Cortellessa

US president’s defenders and detractors, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren and pundit Mark Levin, note parallels between impeachment hearings and Israeli leader’s legal woes

US President Donald Trump makes his way to board Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on November 21, 2019. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

AnalysisMountain of impeachment evidence against Trump beyond dispute

Fiona Hill, the National Security Councils former senior director for Europe and Russia testifies before the House Intelligence Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill November 21, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Impeachment witness casts anti-Soros narrative as modern ‘Protocols’

Supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demonstrate outside PM Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on November 21, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)

Listen: People of the Pod

Oceans apart, American Jewry is as fragmented as Israel’s government

By Yaakov Schwartz

Episode #12: NYT writer Ronen Bergman on Netanyahu’s criminal indictment * Forward editor Jodi Rudoren wants US Jews to communicate * Veteran Israeli analyst talks coalition effort

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn holds up a copy of the party's manifesto, as he speaks during the launch of the Labour party election manifesto in Birmingham, northwest England, November 21, 2019. (Oli Scarff/AFP)

New UK Labour manifesto calls to ban arms sales to Israel

Corbyn’s party also promises to ‘immediately’ recognize a Palestinian state if it wins next month’s general elections

German Chancellor Angela Merkel lays a wreath during a ceremony at the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem on October 4, 2018 (Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL)

Germany’s Merkel to make first visit to Auschwitz as chancellor

By AP

A man holds a hat with the initials of Adolf Hitler prior to an auction in Grasbrunn, Germany on Wednesday, November 20, 2019. (Matthias Balk/dpa via AP)

Hitler’s top hat sells at auction in Munich for $55,000

By JTA

Democratic US presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg speaks at the Iowa Democratic Party's Hall of Fame Dinner, on June 9, 2019, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

Analysis

Eric Cortellessa

How Buttigieg’s Israel stance falls in between Biden and Sanders

South Bend mayor, now the Iowa front-runner, has expressed willingness to leverage aid for Israeli cooperation; but he’s also spoken out strongly against Hamas, rocket attacks

An IDF reservist at York University: Dialogue? Not a chance

In one of the skirmishes that evening, I was shoved sideways, and as my head was contorted down towards the ground, I saw a book

At 52, UN Resolution 242 needs a facelift

The ‘Land for Peace’ document bundles intractable issues with easily solved ones, harming both Israeli and Palestinian interests

Remembering my Sabta Dina z”l

When we quote those who are no longer with us, we must represent them accurately, or we hijack the conversation and diminish their greatness

Tammy Jacobowitz

The fullness of Sarah

Losing Sarah stops Abraham in his tracks and gives him permission to acknowledge his own loss, his abiding love for his wife (Chayei Sarah)

The Toshnad Heichel Torah Utfila synagogue in Ramapo, New York, near where a teacher was stabbed a day earlier, on November 21, 2019. (Ben Sales/JTA)

Stabbing near synagogue shatters sense of security for ultra-Orthodox in NY town

Day after teacher attacked in Ramapo, New York, members of large Jewish community say suburban tranquility has been broken, point to anti-Semitic atmosphere

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators at an event at York University in Toronto, Canada on November 20, 2019. (screen capture: YouTube/SWC)

Protesters violently disrupt pro-Israel event at Toronto’s York University

By JTA and ToI Staff

Women walk past a building damaged during recent protests, in Shahriar, Iran, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of the capital, Tehran, November 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s internet blackout the first to effectively isolate a whole nation

Shutdown of web by authorities during recent protests marks a milestone in efforts by authoritarian governments to censor online communications

After Iran protests, feared security force says ‘world war’ on nation failed

By AFP and ToI Staff

Pompeo asks for videos from Iran protests as internet begins to return

By AFP

After up to 200 killed, Iran’s Guards praise ‘timely’ action against protesters

By AFP

A Palestinian man uses a slingshot during weekly protests along the Gaza border near the city of Khan Younis on May 4, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Organizers of Gaza marches said discussing reducing their frequency

High Commission for the March of Return is considering limiting rallies to ‘once a month or during national occasions,’ source tells pro-Hezbollah Lebanese paper

Illustrative: Palestinian men inspect a car that was burnt in a suspected hate crime in the northern West Bank village of Beit Dajan on November 22, 2019. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Palestinian cars torched in suspected settler hate crime

Palestinians mourn over the bodies of Rasmi Abu Malhous and seven of his family members who were killed in an Israeli missile strike that targeted their house, in a mosque during their funeral in town of Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip, November 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Ninth member of family hit in Gaza strike dies of wounds

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An illustrative image of an embryo (Zffoto; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli scientists say smart and tall ‘designer babies’ out of reach… for now

By Shoshanna Solomon

Undated image of Shelby County Criminal Court Judge Jim Lammey. (Screen capture: WMC5)

Panel: Judge who shared ‘get the f**k over the Holocaust’ link not anti-Semitic

View of the Ashdod port (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Woman shot and killed after running checkpoint at Ashdod port

A large explosion is seen over the Damascus skyline in footage purportedly taken on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, November 20, 2019 (video screenshot)

AnalysisSyria strikes send clear warning message to Iran, but stick to familiar playbook

By Judah Ari Gross

New York CIty Councilman Ben Kallos dressed as Captain America at Yorkville Community School, Oct. 30, 2016. (Facebook)

Drawing a lineJewish NYC councilman asked to stop dressing as Captain America

By JTA

Satmar Rebbe Zalman Teitelbaum visits the northern Israeli city of Safed on November 21, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Satmar rebbe in Israel to donate to anti-Zionist institutions

By JTA

Illustrative: Demonstrators protesting outside the Spanish government delegation in Barcelona, October 20, 2015. (Albert Llop/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images via JTA)

Gathering in London, Arab intellectuals advocate stronger relations with Israel

Children play in a water fountain on a hot summer's day near the Tower of David in Jerusalem, July 30, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israelis should prepare for 50-degree Celsius summer days, climate expert says

Shipping containers at the Haifa port, November 14, 2011. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

OECD: Though ‘robust,’ Israel’s economic growth expected to slow in coming years

By Stuart Winer

Sacha Baron Cohen speaks at the Anti-Defamation League's Never Is Now conference in New York, November 21, 2019. (Jennifer Liseo/ADL)

Sacha Baron Cohen: Facebook would have let Hitler post Jewish ‘solution’ ads

By Josefin Dolsten

American student Otto Frederick Warmbier, center, arrives at a court for his trial in Pyongyang, capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on March 16, 2015. (Xinhua/ Lu Rui via Getty Images)

Parents of Otto Warmbier chase illicit North Korean assets worldwide

By KIM TONG-HYUNG

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