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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 28, 2019

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E. coli bacteria. (NIAID/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0)

In possible climate breakthrough, Israel scientists engineer bacteria to eat CO₂

Decade-long research at Weizmann Institute could pave way for low-emissions production of carbon for use in biofuels, food, and help remove excess global warming CO₂ from air

Illustrative photo of a cancer patient receiving chemotherapy treatment. (via Shutterstock)

Israeli researchers hope new chemotherapy method could reduce side effects

Illustrative image of lovers holding hands (LightFieldStudios; iStock by Getty Images)

Holding hands can help reduce a loved one’s pain, study shows

By Shoshanna Solomon

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

Live updates (closed)

Israel hails Bolivia’s government for renewing ties after more than a decade

By Michael Bachner

Foreign Minister Israel Katz says move will ‘contribute to Israel’s foreign relations,’ notes it wouldn’t have been possible under ‘hostile’ ousted leader Morales

7:30 pm

Trump says US has resumed talks with Afghan Taliban
7:25 pm

More than 30 dead Thursday in bloody Iraq crackdown
7:06 pm

Trump in Afghanistan for surprise Thanksgiving visit

Members of the Blue White political party Benny Gantz (L), Moshe Yaalon and Yair Lapid hold a press conference at the party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on April 10, 2019. (Flash90)

Ya’alon: Blue and White won’t join Likud-led coalition unless PM acquitted

Amid last-ditch coalition negotiations, senior party member says chairman Benny Gantz must serve first as premier in any power-sharing deal with Netanyahu’s party

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein gives a press statement in the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset speaker hosts Blue and White and Likud for last-ditch coalition talks

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Likud party rally in Tel Aviv, on November 17, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Business and tech figures call on Netanyahu to resign

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a speech in Ramat Gan on September 10, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90/File)

In depth

The State of Israel v. Benjamin Netanyahu: The specifics of the PM’s indictment

63-page charge sheet says premier was party to illicit deals and conflicts of interest, harmed public trust, and, in 3 cases against him, abused his office

Supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a rally in Tel Aviv, November 26, 2019. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Thanking supporters after rally, Netanyahu urges respect for police, courts

Parliament Speaker Yuli Edelstein meets with Jerusalem Affairs Minister Zeev Elkin and Tourism Minister Yariv Levin of the Likud party at the Knesset on November 27, 2019 (Flash 90)

Thanks for nothing: 7 things to know for November 28

By Joshua Davidovich

A former synagogue building in Breckenridge, Texas, burning down on November 24, 2019. (Courtesy: Breckenridge Fire Department)

Deep in the heart of Texas, a former synagogue in a town with no Jews burns down

Breckenridge loses last vestige of community that disappeared decades ago, built in 1920s so worshipers would not need to schlep to Fort Worth

IDF razes West Bank homes of suspects in killing of Dvir Sorek

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Military says four houses demolished in Beit Kahil, month after suspects indicted on terror charges in August murder of student; Bennett: Terrorists will pay heavy price

Israeli troops demolish the home of a Palestinian man suspected of murdering a yeshiva student in a terror attack this summer, in the southern West Bank village of Beit Kahil on November 28, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Mourners carry the body of Mohammed Aqal, a Palestinian assailant killed after carrying out a stabbing attack on a Border Police officer, during his funeral in the West Bank village of Beit Ula on December 16, 2017. (AFP Photo/ Hazem Bader)

AnalysisBid to hold all terrorists’ bodies captive may rest on shaky legal ground

By Judah Ari Gross

A bus in the town of Jaljulia that was daubed with hate crime graffiti on November 28, 2019. (Israel Police)

Dozens of vehicles vandalized in suspected hate crime in Arab Israeli town

Left to right: Sabrina Barell, Daniel Propper, Danny Laszlo, and Kathy Laszlo in photo for the Roots Nice Together 2019 Holiday Campaign. (Barbara Stoneham/courtesy of Roots)

Disabled Jewish friends don kippas in holiday ads for Canadian apparel company

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Ori Shpilman seen in a bomb shelter in Ashkelon on November 27, 2019. (screen capture: Facebook)

Viral video of kids crying after rocket scare underlines frustrations in south

Reut Shpilman, who filmed her children refusing to return home from bomb shelter after a false alarm, lashes Israeli leaders and says others don’t understand their suffering

Contraband purchased over the internet that was seized by Israel as it was en route to the Gaza Strip through the Erez Crossing on November 27, 2019. (Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories)

Israel seizes contraband online deliveries en route to Gaza, fearing terror use

By Judah Ari Gross

A Palestinian uses a slingshot to throw back a tear gas canister at Israeli forces during a riot along the border with Israel, east of Bureij in the central Gaza Strip, on October 18, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

For third week in a row, organizers cancel Friday’s Gaza border protests

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the media in the briefing room at the State Department, on November 26, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/ AFP)

Pompeo to visit Morocco, push for normalized Israel ties

By AFP

Rabat a ‘critical partner’ for US in counterterrorism, promoting tolerance and bolstering Arab world ties with the Jewish state, State Department official says

Rivlin meets Jordanians, discusses developing Christian sites to ‘build bridges’

Germany to outlaw all of Hezbollah next week — report

By Raphael Ahren

Israeli envoy wishes Myanmar success in trial over alleged genocide

It’s not Facebook, Sacha, it’s humanity

Hitler and Stalin were horrifically successful without social media, or: where Mr. Baron Cohen went wrong

Abundance is a table overflowing with loved ones

How those long-distance collect calls from Dad that my mother actually answered shaped my Thanksgivings forever

President Reuven Rivlin meets with UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis in London, November 27, 2019. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Rivlin meets UK chief rabbi, lauds him for speaking out on Labour anti-Semitism

President praises Ephraim Mirvis for sounding alarm on British Jews’ fear of Jeremy Corbyn’s party, says his work ‘fills us all with pride’

Ex-Jewish Labour MP Ruth Smeeth. (UK Parliament)

Jewish candidate for UK Labour Party bombarded with anti-Semitic death threats

By JTA and ToI Staff

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Anti-government protesters set fires to close streets during ongoing protests in Baghdad, Iraq, November 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Ali Abdul Hassan)

Iraq demonstrators burn down Iranian consulate; protester killed, 35 injured

By AP

Iranian diplomatic staff escape unharmed through back door; 6 other protesters killed across country as death toll in anti-corruption rallies tops 350

Security forces and civilians gather near the burned Iranian consulate in Najaf, Iraq, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)

Iran demands Iraqi action over consulate attack; 13 killed in crackdown

Iranian protesters gather around a fire during a demonstration against an increase in gasoline prices in the capital Tehran, on November 16, 2019. (AFP/ File)

Iran arrests eight it says are ‘linked to CIA’ in protests

By AFP

Joe Pesci, left, and Robert De Niro star in Martin Scorsese's 'The Irishman.' (Netflix via JTA)

Are the Jewish mobsters referenced in ‘The Irishman’ real?

By Emily Burack

Though the events depicted in Scorsese’s organized crime epic are near impossible to verify, Jews certainly played a role in shaping mob history in the US

More Headlines

This January 21, 2019 photo, taken by a drone camera, shows researchers from the predator project at the Morris Kahn Marine Research Station established by the University of Haifa looking for sharks in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the northern Israeli city of Hadera.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Do not feedThe sharks have returned — to the warm waters off Hadera power station

The planned cable car to Jerusalem's Old City. (Screenshot/Emek Shaveh)

Archaeologists, architects petition High Court to stop Old City cable car plan

The Nof Zion neighborhood in East Jerusalem, October 25, 2017. (Mahmoud Illean/AP)

Work begins to triple size of Jewish enclave in East Jerusalem Arab neighborhood

This picture taken on November 28, 2019, shows a British teenager (R), who was then accused of falsely claiming she was gang raped by Israeli tourists, covering her face as she arrives for her trial at the Famagusta District Court in Paralimni in eastern Cyprus. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou / AFP)

Cyprus judge: UK teen not coerced to recant Israeli rape claim, trial to proceed

In this photo from April 26, 2019, disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein returns to the State Supreme Court in New York, after a break in a pre-trial hearing over sexual assault charges. (Johannes Eisele/AFP)

Judge upholds charges that could put Weinstein away for life

By AP

Illustrative: A member of historical military clubs wearing Nazi German uniform speaks prior to a World War II battle reconstruction during a military show 50 km (31 miles) north of Novgorod, Russia, Sunday, April 9, 2017. (AP/Dmitri Lovetsky)

German army sorry for ‘retro’ Nazi uniform post

By AFP

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, left, with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. (AP)

Abbas calls ex-Hamas head to check up on his health, PA media says

A screenshot of the UWORK website, which seeks to connect immigrants to jobs (Courtesy)

UWORK matches immigrants with jobs to help beat ‘new-country’ blues

By Shoshanna Solomon

Abigail Pogrebin (Lorin Klaris via JTA)

Bloomberg taps journalist to helm Jewish outreach for 2020 run

US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland testifies during the House Intelligence Committee hearing as part of the impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, November 20, 2019. (Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP)

Envoy key in Trump impeachment accused of sexual misconduct

By AFP

A handwritten and signed letter by Jewish-German physicist Albert Einstein, from June 1950, discussing his work on unified field theory, to be offered for auction by the Kedem Auction House, 2019. (Courtesy: Kedem Auction House)

Einstein letter on elusive theory of everything to go up for auction

By Stuart Winer

One of Shaul Cohen's iconic snow globes, designed with a humorous twist (Courtesy Shaul Cohen)

Tchotchkes for lifeDesigner finds whimsy in the quotidian: ‘If it’s funny, I make it’

By Jessica Steinberg

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