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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 19, 2020

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo deliver statements to the press at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on November 19, 2020 (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

‘It’s a cancer’: Pompeo says US will brand BDS ‘anti-Semitic,’ crack down on it

By Raphael Ahren

Speaking in Jerusalem, US secretary of state vows Washington to immediately take steps against anti-Israel boycott activists; Netanyahu hails move as ‘simply wonderful’

BDS outraged by ‘fraudulent,’ ‘McCarthyite’ US declaration it is anti-Semitic

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Israeli workers inspects barrels in a winery in the West Bank settlement of Psagot, February 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Republican senators urge Trump to label settlement goods as ‘Made in Israel’

Bahrain's Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani speaks during a press conference with the US Secretary of State and Prime Minister Netanyahu after their trilateral meeting in Jerusalem, November 18, 2020. (Menahem Kahana/Pool/Flash90)

If I forget thee? Bahrain claims its minister’s Jerusalem talks were in Tel Aviv

By Raphael Ahren

FM al-Zayani spent 12 hours in Israel’s capital on Wednesday without uttering its name; his ministry also omitted any mention of the city, falsely reporting on talks in Tel Aviv

From left to right: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

In Jerusalem, Bahrain FM urges Israelis and Palestinians to resume peace talks

By Raphael Ahren

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (L) and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (2nd L) during a visit to the Psagot Winery in the West Bank, on November 19, 2020. (State Department/Twitter)

Pompeo visits West Bank settlement, in first for a US secretary of state

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Top diplomat stops at Psagot Winery as he heads to the Golan Heights in what will also be an unprecedented tour; announces US to label exports from settlements as Israeli

Israeli winemaker Yaakov Berg holds a bottle of his red blend named after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Psagot Winery in the Sha'ar Binyamin industrial park near the Psagot settlement in the West Bank, north of Jerusalem on November 18, 2020. (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

For maker of West Bank ‘Pompeo’ wine, emphasizing product’s legitimacy is key

The Qalandiya checkpoint near the Atarot industrial zone, between East Jerusalem and the West Bank, seen on April 7, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to ask US for okay to advance East Jerusalem building plans

Then-US vice president Joe Biden waves as he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk to give statements to the press in Jerusalem, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Debbie Hill, Pool)

Op-Ed

Israel, its new allies are imploring Biden: Don’t repeat Obama’s mistake on Iran

The president-elect has said he will ‘rejoin’ the 2015 nuclear deal. He has also stressed his ‘steadfast support for Israel’s security’. That’s a contradiction

Saudi prince cautions Biden against returning to Iran nuclear deal

Bahraini FM urges Biden to talk to Mideast partners before reentering Iran deal

US hits Iran with new sanctions as Pompeo warns against easing pressure

By AP

Illustrative: A nurse prepares to inject a vaccine in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020 (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Live updates (closed)

Deputy health minister denies Israel will mandate coronavirus vaccine

Yoav Kisch says government has no plans to advance legislation forcing all Israelis to get vaccinated, following news reports on proposal

7:20 pm

Beirut begins clearing dangerous containers from port, months after deadly blast
6:56 pm

December vaccine rollout possible, BioNTech CEO says
6:38 pm

750 Jewish and Holocaust scholars protest new Yad Vashem head

Relatives of Palestinians held in Israeli jails hold their portraits during a protest to mark "Prisoners Day" in the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinians mull cutting payments to some terror convicts

By Aaron Boxerman

Move would come as part of broader strategy to resume ties with Israel and US, as President-elect Biden promises to take a more conciliatory stance toward Ramallah

A view of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Palestinians said to quietly return their ambassadors to UAE, Bahrain

Defense Minister Benny Gantz seen during a visit on the Israel-Lebanon border, northern Israel, on November 17, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Gantz welcomes renewed Palestinian security ties, calls for peace talks

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Tolstoy and the Jews: It’s complicated

The great Russian author acknowledged that he had ’met and known a great many good Jewish people.’ Does that make him an anti-Semite?

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

What’s worse than finding a mouse in your house at 4:30 a.m.?

Or: How I defied (Israeli macho) expectations and kept the raw sewage out of my home — and brought the light in

Susannah Doyle as Johanna, Guy Pearce as Han Van Meegeren, Olivia Grant as Cootje Henning in 'The Last Vermeer.' (Courtesy TriStar Pictures)

Film review

Guy Pearce steals show as art forger who fooled Goering in ‘The Last Vermeer’

By Jordan Hoffman

Sadi Ben Shitrit, a member of the Crime Minister movement, during an antri-Netanyahu protest in Rosh Ha'ayin on November 19, 2020. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Protest leader slammed for likening Netanyahu to Hitler

Sadi Ben Shitrit stands behind statement Nazi leader behaved ‘exactly like’ PM; coalition whip urges probe, saying remark ‘punishable by incarceration’

Ephraim Grif speaks to Channel 12 on November 18, 2020. (Screen capture/Channel 12)

Right-wing activist sorry for wishing death on family members of fallen soldier

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touring the INS Tanin submarine, built by the German firm Thyssenkrupp, as it arrived in Israel on September 23, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Gantz mulls submarines affair inquiry, in move that could sink government

Maccabi Tel Aviv's Deni Avdija controls the ball during the Euro League basketball match between Olimpia Milan and Maccabi Fox Tel Aviv, in Milan, Italy, November 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

Washington Wizards take Israel’s Deni Avdija as 9th pick in NBA draft

By ToI Staff and Agencies

19-year-old forward is first top-10 NBA draft pick from Israel and will be third Israeli to play in league; Yam Madar, another Israeli, scooped up by Boston in the second round

Yam Madar plays in a game against Argentina in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, on April 2, 2018. (CC BY-SA Sven Mandel/Wikipedia)

Yam Madar selected by Boston Celtics, is 2nd Israeli picked in 2020 NBA draft

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Three anti-personnel mines that Israel says were planted inside Israeli-controlled territory along the border with Syria, which were uncovered on November 17, 2020. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF says Iran’s Quds Forces responsible for explosives placed on Syrian border

By Alexander Fulbright and Judah Ari Gross

Military points finger at secretive Unit 840 for placing mines uncovered Tuesday, also blames it for similar incident in August

Illustrative: Footage of Israeli strikes on Iranian and Syrian targets in southern Syria following an attempted explosive attack by Iranian-backed operatives against Israeli troops on the Golan Heights, November 18, 2020 (Israel Defense Forces)

In rare move, IDF releases images of predawn strikes on Iranian, Syrian targets

By Judah Ari Gross

An Iranian Revolutionary Guards warship named after slain Guard naval commander Abdollah Roudaki, sails into Iran's southern territorial waters in a photo released by the Guards, November 19, 2020. (Sepahnews via AP)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launches helicopter-carrying ship

By AP

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein speaks during a press conference about the coronavirus, in Airport City on September 17, 2020. (Flash90)

Health official denies report of potential law making COVID vaccine compulsory

Earlier TV report claimed Yuli Edelstein was mulling such an option; Edelstein asked judges for legal advice on ensuring national inoculation

Hotels along the beach in the resort city of Eilat, October 21, 2015. (Moshe Shai/ FLASH90)

Knesset okays opening of restaurants, zoos, strip-malls in ‘tourist islands’

A Palestinian man and his wife ride a donkey cart past street art showing doctors mask-clad due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on November 16, 2020. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

Gaza sees COVID cases surge, with nearly 1 in 4 tests returning positive

By Aaron Boxerman

Electoral workers count ballots cast by Israelis under home quarantine after returning from coronavirus infected zones, in the central town of Shoham on March 4, 2020. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

Inside story

Haviv Rettig Gur

In a tiny Israeli town, Likud sought a Trumpian ‘stolen election’ failsafe

Efforts to create mobile and mail-in voting for those in COVID quarantine for an upcoming local council race dredge up a distinctly American-style reaction

Illustrative: Protesters chant slogans during a demonstration organized by the Campaign Against Antisemitism against alleged prejudice in the Labour Party, amid a row over the party's handling of claims of anti-Semitism, outside the Labour Party headquarters, in London, Sunday April 8, 2018. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)

Analysis

Stephen Oryszczuk

A thorn by any other name: UK Jewish groups may be rebranding ‘anti-Semitism’

In wake of a damning report on the British Labour party’s ‘anti-Semitism’ problems, term is nearly absent from organizations’ reactions — but ‘anti-Jewish racism’ abounds

Jeremy Corbyn, left, sits waiting to speak next to Keir Starmer during their election campaign event on Brexit in Harlow, England, November 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

UK Labour tears itself apart, again, over ex-leader Corbyn and anti-Semitism

By Jitendra Joshi

File: In this Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020, file photo, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks during a news conference in Atlanta. Raffensperger is under attack from President Donald Trump and other fellow Republicans in the aftermath of the heated election season. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Interview

Georgia secretary: ‘I wanted to get off call’ as Graham pushed to toss ballots

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger tells ToI he assumed South Carolina senator had been calling about Senate run-offs, but instead was ‘dipping toes into presidential race’

Officials sort ballots during an audit at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, on November 14, 2020. (Brynn Anderson/AP)

Georgia to release report on election hand tally, expected to confirm Biden win

By AP and ToI Staff

Darren Beattie speaks at the At the Wall Symposium on July 28, 2019. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Trump taps ex-aide who attended white nationalist meet to track Holocaust sites

By JTA and ToI Staff

More Headlines

The closing event at Chabad's annual conference of worldwide emissaries was filmed in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and streamed around the globe. (Bentzi Sasson/Chabad.org via JTA)

Nixed by virus, annual gathering of Chabad rabbis becomes never-ending Zoom meet

Illustrative: US President Donald Trump with, first lady Melania Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, from left, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump and their children Arabella Kushner and Joseph Kushner, applaud during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House on December 11, 2019, in Washington. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump throwing in-person White House Hanukkah party despite COVID concerns

File: Israeli security forces gather at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on June 2, 2019, after clashes broke out between police and Muslim worshipers following the entry of Jews to the site for Jerusalem Day. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Arab Israeli indicted for planning stabbing attack at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount

Illustrative: An ultra-Orthodox man stops to read an announcement at a closed synagogue in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, in New York, April 7, 2020. (Mark Lennihan/AP)

US ultra-Orthodox group asks Supreme Court to block COVID limits on synagogues

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on June 28, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

IMF urges Israel government to promptly pass 2021 budget

By Shoshanna Solomon

Waving flag of Israel and Japan (alexis84; iStock by Getty Imaging)

Japan’s ORIX to invest $60 million in OurCrowd funds, startups

By Shoshanna Solomon

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman in a scene from 'Wonder Woman 1984.' (Clay Enos/Warner Bros Pictures via AP)

Wondering whenGal Gadot’s ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ finally announces opening date

By Lindsey Bahr

Stephan Balliet, who is accused of shooting dead two people after an attempt to storm a synagogue in Halle, is seen during his trial on November 18, 2020, at the district court in Magdeburg, Germany. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP)

German prosecutors seek life sentence for Halle synagogue shooter

By AFP

The first female Palestinian taxi driver in the Gaza Strip, Nayla Abu Jubbah, sits at her vehicle as she works in Gaza City on November 17, 2020. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Wheel womanPalestinian mother of 5 becomes Gaza’s 1st female taxi driver

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: US Air Force F-35A Lightning II’s at Al Dhafra Air Base, United Arab Emirates, on November 16, 2019. (Joshua Williams/US Department of Defense)

Three US senators seek to stop sale of advanced jets to UAE

By AFP and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of working from home, video conferencing and a laptop (asiandelight; iStock by Getty Images)

Work from home raises productivity but may be blighting startup culture – survey

By Shoshanna Solomon

A swastika carved into a headstone at the Jewish cemetery of Haren, Germany in November 2020. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Haren/Eli Nahum/Monitoring Antisemitism Worldwide via JTA)

Swastikas carved into Jewish headstones, memorials daubed with paint in Germany

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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