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What Matters Most On Friday, November 5, 2021

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Coalition members pose for a celebratory picture after passing the 2022 budget, November 5, 2021 (Idit Silman, via twitter)

Netanyahu's best hope of ousting the coalition is gone

Knesset passes 2022 budget, capping key win for Bennett-led coalition

Lawmakers approve legislation with vote of 59-56, further shoring up government’s stability, a day after approval of 2021 budget averted threat of early elections

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks to reporters at the Knesset on November 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition leaders fete approval of budgets, putting wind in their sails

Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks during a session of the Knesset in Jerusalem, October 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

AnalysisNetanyahu’s hopes for quick comeback dim as Bennett aces major budget test

By Tia Goldenberg

Pfizer says new pill cuts COVID hospitalizations, deaths by nearly 90%

By MATTHEW PERRONE

US drugmaker touts preliminary survey results indicating effectiveness of antiviral treatment, says it will seek approval from FDA, international regulators as soon as possible

After public hearing, Health Ministry to rule next week on vaccine for ages 5-11

WHO warns of another 500,000 deaths in Europe as COVID cases soar

By Michelle Fitzpatrick

UK authorizes first pill shown to treat COVID

By MATTHEW PERRONE and Maria Cheng

A member of the Women of the Wall clutches a Torah scroll, as she is surrounded by Israeli security forces holding back protesters at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Labor MK sits out progressive prayer service at Western Wall to calm tensions

Police scuffle with ultra-Orthodox protesters ahead of prayers and block women from bringing in Torah scroll, as most Knesset members choose to skip event

Members of the Women of the Wall prayer group hold prayers as thousands of ultra-Orthodox women protest against them at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on March 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu shares call to block progressive women’s prayer group at Western Wall

Centrifuge machines in the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, in an image released on November 5, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP, File)

Iran boasts of boosting its stockpile of 60% enriched uranium to 25 kg

By Agencies and ToI Staff

As nuclear talks set to resume, IAEA warns of limited access while Iranian atomic agency brags that only countries ‘with nuclear arms’ are able to enrich uranium at such levels

Members of the European Parliament visit a Hezbollah tunnel on Israel's northern border, on November 11, 2021 (Reouven Ben Haim/ELNET)

European lawmakers taken to Hezbollah tunnel on northern border

By Lazar Berman

Analysis

Haviv Rettig Gur

Budget in hand, Bennett’s once-brittle coalition proves it can take on Netanyahu

Overcoming painful compromises, the unlikely alliance behind the government manages to rebuke the country’s former leaders, and may be driving an opposition rethink

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (center) at the Knesset during voting on the state budget, on November 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Illustrative photo of a newborn baby (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel media review

It’s a budget! What the press says about the Bennett win that Netanyahu built

By Joshua Davidovich

The passage of the first fiscal plan in years is both feted and recognized for being something that would have been easily taken care of before, if not for a certain ex-PM

President Isaac Herzog speaks at a conference at the University of Haifa, on November 4, 2021. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Herzog: The word ‘traitor’ must be struck from political discourse

David Kichka, the Israeli culinary entrepreneur behind the new Israeli Cuisine Festival, opening November 11, 2021 around Israel (Courtesy David Kichka)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: This professional foodie says it’s time to celebrate Israeli cuisine

Culinary entrepreneur David Kichka, one of the founders of the Israeli Cuisine Festival opening next week, enthuses about Israel’s melting pot cuisine

Police officers clash with demonstrators during a protest over the death of Ahuvia Sandak last year, in Jerusalem, November 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Dozens riot in Jerusalem over death of settler teen in police chase last year

Palestinians pray during Friday prayers at a protest against the construction of disabled access being built at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, in the West Bank city of Hebron, on August 13, 2021. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

High Court rejects Palestinian bid to thwart Tomb of Patriarchs elevator

Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert and Dov Forman, authors of 'Lily's Promise.' (Courtesy)

Interview'I promised myself I'd tell the world'

Keeping a vow to tell her tale, Auschwitz survivor becomes TikTok sensation

By Robert Philpot

Lily Ebert, author of the new memoir ‘Lily’s Promise,’ and her great-grandson Dov Forman have gained millions of social media followers, and their posts have over 100 million views

In defense of antisemitism data

When you accuse the American Jewish Committee of intentionally misrepresenting its findings, you’d better be able to back up your claim without misquoting me

In praise of Isaac

After a visionary leader (and Abraham was one), you want a little normalcy and stability, not another radical new worldview (Toledot)

To the Seminary students who signed the letter slamming Israel

I sympathize with your reasons for being upset, but I believe Israel needs us for the American liberal values we can bring to the Zionist enterprise

Joshua Washington

Israel’s police trainings save lives

A message to those spreading the fictional narrative that police brutality in the United States exists because of collaboration between US and Israeli cops

Palestinian student Afaf al-Najar, speaks during an interview at the sea side beach restaurant in Gaza City, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Gaza woman’s plans to study abroad foiled by Hamas ‘guardian’ law

Afaf al-Najar was turned away from the Rafah crossing because her estranged father filed a petition to block her from traveling to Turkey to attend university

New Palestinian radio station seeks Israeli ears with its Hebrew broadcasts

By Hiba Aslan

At Vatican, PA’s Abbas discusses Israeli-Palestinian peace with pope

By AFP

Analysis

Republican Jewish Coalition’s upcoming confab aims to thread needle on Trump

Group says conference will see party pushing model for candidates that proved successful in recent Virginia governor race, where GOP candidate embraced Trump, but from a distance

Then-US President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting, on Saturday, April 6, 2019, in Las Vegas, NV. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy delivers a victory speech after defeating Republican Jack Ciattarelli to win re-election, on November 3, 2021, in Asbury Park, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

NJ governor, backed by spectrum of Jewish voters, narrowly wins reelection

Left, Kirk Douglas in New York in 1962. Right, Natalie Wood in Los Angeles in 1957. (AP Photo/DAB, File, AP, File)

In new memoir, Kirk Douglas accused of sexually assaulting Natalie Wood

By AP

Sister of actress recalls being told about alleged assault by Jewish actor in 1955; family feared public accusation would hurt starlet’s budding career, but rumors were prevalent

Holocaust survivor Bernard Krutz and his first cousin Esti Kisseloff meet for the first time on November 4, 2021, with the 1956 Yad Vashem testimony that helped prove their familial relationship. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Holocaust hidden child, who never knew his family, meets a cousin for first time

By Jessica Steinberg

Bernard Krutz never knew his name, age or parents, but in Israel on Thursday, he forged a link to his past through a cousin he discovered with DNA testing

Men row on standup paddle boards in the Red Sea waters near the Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company's oil terminal by Israel's southern port city of Eilat, on February 9, 2021. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Ministry blocks UAE pipeline deal over worries of leaks near Eilat

State-owned Europe Asia Pipeline Company reportedly plans to fight decision after Environmental Protection Ministry refuses permits needed to ramp-up use of Red Sea terminal

A woman protects her face from the cold as she walks by the "Green Line" with barbed wire and fences at the Greek controlled area by the UN buffer zone and in the divided capital Nicosia in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Monday 9, 2017. (AP/Petros Karadjias)

Israel to build surveillance system to track activity along Cyprus’s Green Line

By AFP

Sudanese rally to demand justice for those killed by security forces in protests, in central Khartoum on November 4, 2021. (AFP)

Sudan’s army chief speaks to Blinken and Guterres, agrees to release ministers

By AFP

Artist Guy Yanai, left, painted 15 out of 20 of the paintings for 'The Things of Life' from his studio in Marseilles, but he splits his time between there and Tel Aviv. (Courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery/ via JTA)

Exhibition

Born in Israel, trained in NY, living in France, artist Guy Yanai defies labels

By julia GERGELY

It’s ‘like putting a certain spice on a food and then it becomes the only thing you taste,’ explained Yanai, whose newest exhibition runs through Nov. 27 in NYC

The team from Israeli company Beamr holding the Emmy they won in 2021 for developing patented video compression tech used in the TV and video streaming industry. (Courtesy)

Israeli firm Beamr awarded Emmy for video compression tech

By Ricky Ben-David

Tel Aviv-based company nabs accolade in Technology & Engineering category for patented solution that reduces video size while preserving quality

Left to right: HoneyBook co-founders Dror Shimoni, Naama Alon and Oz Alon (Courtesy)

Business management software firm HoneyBook raises $250m, doubles valuation

By Ricky Ben-David

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Rabbi Yudi Steiner leads George Washington University students in song and dance as they mark the destruction of an imitation Torah in a frat house in Washington, DC, on November 1, 2021. (Ron Kampeas)

At GWU, damage to an imitation Torah triggers real mourning — and questions

More Headlines

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a conference in Tel Aviv, on June 29, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

In jab at Netanyahu, attorney general warns rule of law in Israel slipping away

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrives for the G20 Summit, on October 30, 2021, in Rome. (Alberto Pizzoli/AFP)

Turkey probes 30 Twitter users for suggesting Erdogan died

By AFP

Colombia's President Ivan Duque gestures after receiving the presidential sash during his inauguration ceremony at Bolivar Square in Bogota, on August 7, 2018. (AFP Photo/Raul Arboleda)

Colombian president to open innovation office in Jerusalem next week

By Lazar Berman

Shufersal CEO Itzhak Aberkohen speaks in a video statement released on November 5, 2021. (Screen capture)

Top grocery chain suspends site that offered cheaper goods to ultra-Orthodox

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers guard at the Israeli side of the Quneitra Crossing, on the Israeli-Syrian border in the Golan Heights on March 23, 2019. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

IDF arrests 2 suspects in Golan for entering Israeli territory from Syria

Garry Kasparov poses for a photograph during an interview at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on November 3, 2021. (Carlos Costa/AFP)

Chess legend Garry Kasparov warns humans a greater threat than AI

By Yassine KHIRI

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a joint press conference with his Hungarian counterpart, Viktor Orban, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on July 19, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Hungary admits buying Israeli-made NSO spyware allegedly used against opposition

By Justin Spike

Seth Lipsky. (Screenshot/YouTube)

New York Sun to be relaunched after purchase by former Algemeiner editor

Illustrative. A person in handcuffs. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

94-year-old playwright arrested for suspected murder of wife in Tel Aviv

In this undated photo released by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Saudi military personnel conduct military exercises dubbed Gulf Shield One in Saudi Arabia. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

US approves sale of advanced air-to-air missiles to Saudi Arabia

By AFP

South African author Damon Galgut poses with his book 'The Promise' on October 31, 2021. (Tolga Akmen / AFP)

Novel about South African Jewish mother picks up prestigious Booker Prize

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

A soldier from the Ethiopian National Defense Forces gestures after finishing training in the field of Dabat, 70 kilometers (43 miles) northeast of the city of Gondar, Ethiopia, on September 14, 2021. (Amanuel Sileshi/AFP)

Israel urges travelers to avoid Ethiopia as rebel forces near capital

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