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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 1, 2019

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Illustrative - A British Royal Air Force Quick Reaction Alert Typhoon fighter aircraft. (Courtesy - Royal Air Force)

Flight from Tel Aviv causes London panic as scrambled jets set off sonic boom

RAF planes sent to check US-bound retired El Al aircraft after it briefly goes unresponsive over British airspace; bang wakes many residents of capital at 4 a.m.

People walk near houses belong to Jewish settlers in the West bank city Hebron on November 12, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Defense minister green-lights new Jewish neighborhood in Hebron

By Michael Bachner

Naftali Bennett praised by right, slammed by left over move to double number of Jews living in flashpoint West Bank city

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 said willing to vacate PM post for Gantz in under 6 months

TV reports quote Likud leader blaming Blue and White’s Yair Lapid for impasse in coalition talks, pledging to leave PM’s office without fuss

9:17 pm

Netanyahu wishes 'Mazel tov' to son of Mumbai terror victims over bar mitzvah
8:49 pm

Police searching for armed robber in Jerusalem
8:19 pm

Amazon removes Christmas ornaments with images of Auschwitz

Dr. Neora Pick at the whiteboard in the Oak Tree Clinic during the morning staff huddle where collaborative interdisciplinary health care professionals discuss the patients they'll see that day and strategize on how best to treat them. (Courtesy)

World AIDS Day

Israeli doctor fights for patients at Canada’s only women’s holistic HIV clinic

By Robert Sarner

Usman Khan, suspect in a fatal terrorist stabbing spree in London, November 29, 2019. (West Midlands Police)

UK terror suspect plotted to kill 2 rabbis, target sites in Mumbai-style attack

By TOI staff and Agencies

Usman Khan, 28, was convicted in 2012 of grave terror charges, served less than half of his prison term before being released early

Islamic State says London Bridge terror attack carried out ‘in its name’

By TOI staff and Agencies

UK’s Johnson vows sentencing reforms after London stabber named

By AFP

First victim in London terror attack named; officials praise ‘hero’ bystanders

By TOI staff and Agencies

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett (R) meets with IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi on November 13, 2019. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Bennett orders IDF to conduct feasibility study on artificial Gaza island plan

PM gives go-ahead to establish teams to work on project, which aims to ease conditions in Strip while maintaining Israel’s security control

AnalysisSeeking calm but wary of the street, Hamas stuck in an uneasy tango with Israel

By Avi Issacharoff

Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, November 20, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Gantz pledges united front following weekend security incidents in north, south

Activists protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling on him to resign, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, on November 30, 2019. (Photo: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Thousands demand Netanyahu’s resignation at Tel Aviv protest

Estimated 5,000 demonstrators gather in Habima Square bearing signs reading ‘Strong democracy, strong Israel,’ days after premier’s supporters hold tense rally in city

Chairman of the Joint List of Arab parties, Ayman Odeh, speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on November 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Odeh: Netanyahu is a ‘dangerous psychopath’ targeting Arabs, left-wing Jews

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)

PM’s fresh push for leadership stalls as right-wing MKs delay pledging support

By Michael Bachner and Raoul Wootliff

Lawmakers refuse to sign commitment to Netanyahu until Yisrael Beytenu does; Blue and White also racing for 61 signatures; another Likud MK expresses doubts about Netanyahu

Former foreign minister and head of the Yisrael-Beytenu party Avigdor Liberman, February 2013 (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/POOL/ Flash90)

Sign of the times: 7 things to know for December 1

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and then-defense minister Avigdor Liberman in the Knesset, on October 24, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu-led bloc races to gather support for fresh bid at forming government

A religious Jewish soldier is embraced by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family member after a swearing-in ceremony for the IDF Nahal Haredi unit, at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem, May 26, 2012 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox enlistment in IDF plummeted in 2018 — report

By TOI staff and Agencies

In first drop in a decade, 2,440 Haredim were inducted into the armed forces in 2018, down from 3,070 the previous year

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The feeling Jews have of vulnerability, of ’not feeling white,’ is not a denial of others’ suffering, it’s a tool of solidarity

Love me some Amazon?

Ah, but when I go into a vintage clothing store or a local spice dealer, I reclaim the incalculable and priceless value of the social interaction

Yisroel Juskowitz

It’s Israel, stupid

The incongruous support of so many Orthodox Jews for this immodest, immoral man is shortsighted, and not only about the Jewish state

Abd-al-Hamid al-Ghabin

The road between Saudi Arabia and Israel passes through Al-Aqsa

The Arab-Israeli conflict was a delusion fed by tyrannical forces; today there is a dazzling historic opportunity to achieve peace

Preventing sexual exploitation in our schools and camps

5 clear guidelines to ensure that the only people talking about sexuality and sexual expression with our children have been trained to do so well

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Matthew (L) and Jeremy Bronfman with Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger at IKEA's opening in 2012. (Flash 90)

Courting ultra-Orthodox consumers, IKEA turns to kosher inspiration

By ‎Ira Tolchin Immergluck‎

Clockwise from top left: British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis (AP/Chris Jackson); An Amazon fulfillment center in Aurora, Colorado (AP Photo/David Zalubowski); Tiffany Haddish in her 2019 Netflix comedy special, ‘Black Mitzvah,’ (Courtesy Netflix); An illustrative image of neurons, or brain cells (whitehoune; iStock by Getty Images).

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Tzippi Rimel (R) with her husband Ephraim and three-week-old daughter Noam. (Courtesy)

Mother, 3-week-old daughter among 4 killed in deadly morning on the roads

A public bus operated on Shabbat drives through Tel Aviv, November 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Tel Aviv Shabbat bus program a hit with riders in its 2nd weekend

Custodian of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land, Francesco Patton, holds a wooden relic believed to be from Jesus' manger in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, November 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

After 1,400 years, relic thought to be from Jesus’ manger returns to Bethlehem

Illustrative photo of overweight people hiking at the Wingate institute in Israel. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Report finds obesity on the rise among Israelis, but smoking levels steady

A clay tablet dating back to the Neo-Assyrian Period, 7th century BC, that narrates the Babylonian Flood Story transliterated by George Smith. From the Library of Ashurbanipal II at Nineveh, northern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. March 16, 2016. (Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg)/Wikipedia CC-BY-SA-4.0)

Biblical trollingStudy: ‘Trickster’ Babylonian god used puns in ancient flood story

Israeli security forces outside the Palestinian refugee camp of Arroub, outside the West Bank Hebron, on October 28, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Troops kill Palestinian suspected of lobbing firebombs at cars in West Bank

Dutch police secure a shopping street after a stabbing incident in the center of The Hague, Netherlands, November 29, 2019. (AP Photo/ Phil Nijhuis)

Dutch police arrest Hague knife assault suspect

By Danny Kemp and Sara MAGNIETTE

Richard J. Evans at the Frankfurt Book Fair for the presentation of his book The Third Reich in 2016. Photo by Martin Lindner - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

From our partnerHistorian Sir Richard Evans persuaded to change his mind on backing Labour

By MATHILDE FROT

A car careening down Route 6 without brakes, in undated footage released by the Israel Police on December 1, 2019. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Up to speedDriver whose brakes failed at 140 kph manages to steer to safety

In this June 17, 2012, photo, a supporter of the National Democratic Party, NPD, attends a rally in Berlin (Matthias Balk/dpa via AP,file)

‘Migration kills’ campaign poster not racist, German judge rules

By TOI staff and Agencies

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