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What Matters Most On Saturday, November 13, 2021

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A house damaged by fire in the northern village of Gita, November 13, 2021 (Israel Police)

Wildfires burn across Israel amid hot, dry conditions; dozens of homes evacuated

Flames fanned by strong winds; girl, 14, moderately hurt by falling tree; 6 houses damaged in Gita with 75 families told to leave but later return; homes evacuated in Zeitan

This aerial view shows dust blanketing Netanya on November 13, 2021 (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Dust storms, dense haze cloud Israel’s skies as wildfires burn across country

Protestors wear masks during a small demonstration inside the venue of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Friday, Nov. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

In Glasgow, nations miss deal deadline as disputes linger over coal and cash

By Frank Jordans, ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and Seth Borenstein

Mordy and Natali Oknin were arrested in Turkey for photographing Erdogan's palace. (Facebook)

FM speaks to relatives, seeks consular visit of pair

Israeli couple in Turkey suspected of espionage, court extends remand by 20 days

Israel rejects spying claim as episode appears to be escalating into diplomatic incident, with judge defying expectations he’d deport pair who photographed Erdogan palace

Mordy and Natali Oknin, arrested in Turkey for photographing Erdogan's palace. (Courtesy)

Lawyer for Israeli couple detained for espionage in Turkey arrives in Istanbul

IDF Home Front Command soldiers train with US firefighters who worked at the Surfside condo collapse with them, Novemer 2021 (courtesy IDF)

'Only here in Israel could we close the circle'

After Surfside tragedy, US team visits Israel to develop joint rescue doctrine

By Lazar Berman

American firefighters spend five days training and learning with IDF team they met amid the rubble in Florida

US says could hold joint air drill with Israel, UAE, Bahrain amid Iran tensions

Top general notes possibility of aerial exercise in wake of recent Red Sea naval drill; says troops will remain in region despite increasing China, Russia concerns

In this photo released by the US Air Force, an Israeli Air Force F-15 Strike Eagle flies in formation with a US Air Force B-1B Lancer over Israel as part of a deterrence flight Saturday, October 30, 2021. (US Air Force/Senior Airman Jerreht Harris via AP)

Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi, from Argentina, addresses the media during a news conference regarding the agency's monitoring of Iran's nuclear energy program at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, on June 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner)

Lack of contact from Iran’s government ‘astonishing’: UN nuclear watchdog

By AFP and ToI Staff

This image, provided by Christie's, shows Vincent van Gogh's 1888 work 'Wheatstacks,' sold as part of sale of 'The Cox Collection: The Story of Impressionism,' in New York, November 11, 2021. The watercolor, seized by the Nazis during World War II, sold to an undisclosed buyer of $35.9 million (Christie's)

Van Gogh stolen from Rothschilds by Nazis sells for record price at auction

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Dutch master’s 1888 ‘Wheatstacks’ exceeds estimates to sell for $35.9 million, a record for a Van Gogh watercolor; collection of impressionist works fetches $332 million

Nationalist rally-goers burn a book representing a historic pact protecting the rights of Poland’s Jews in Kalisz, Poland, Nov. 11, 2021. (Screenshot from Karolina Pawliczak/Twitter)

‘Death to Jews’: Polish nationalists burn book on Jewish rights at rally

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Police say investigating incident that was part of a series of nationalist events to commemorate Poland’s independence

Dr. Samson Wamani (right) serving as mohel, performs a traditional Jewish circumcision. (Courtesy of Wamani)

'The community sorely needed advice on safety measures'

Where there is no doctor, Uganda’s 1st Jewish physician returns home to be one

By Bernard Dichek

Dr. Samson Wamani was head of the COVID-19 ward at a hospital in the capital Kampala before moving back to his hometown in the country’s east to help serve the area’s 2,500 Jews

Shabina Asad Qayyum

My journey following antisemitism allegations against me

After reinstatement as a UK Labour Party councillor, I resolve to be the strongest possible advocate for our Jewish communities that I can be

The new housing plan is a tiny bandage for a bleeding market

The coalition’s plan will not lower housing prices, promotes an infeasible office space conversion concept and egregiously ignores the role of local government

People walk in the streets in Eindhoven, on November 12, 2021 as new COVID-19 restrictions announced (ROB ENGELAAR / ANP / AFP)

Dutch government imposes partial lockdown as virus cases surge

Netherlands is first country in Western Europe to bring in strict regulation since new wave of infections began surging across parts of the continent

A woman walks past a mural depicting a white dove parachuting COVID-19 vaccine vials, posted near the Italian Health Ministry Headquarters in Rome, April 4, 2021. (AP/Gregorio Borgia, file)

Not out of the woods: COVID cases rise in Western Europe, despite vaccine rates

Rabbi Tamarah Benima (Malin G. Kundi/Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Dutch rabbi resigns from council after tying COVID measures to Nazism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Phil Sklar, co-founder and CEO of the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee. (Courtesy of the Bobblehead Museum)

Meet the founder of the world’s only bobblehead museum, and his Hanukkah bobbles

By jacob gurvis

Phil Sklar talks about how a unique collection turned into a one-of-a-kind museum, using bobbleheads for a good cause, and which famous Jews have their own bobbleheads

Interview

Susie Essman, TV’s most outrageous Jewish mother, talks ‘Curb,’ cancel culture

As Larry David’s long-running hit series enters its 11th season, the comic behind the foul-mouthed character Susie Green opens up about the show – which is not just ‘for the Jews’

Susie Essman with Larry David on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.'(John P. Johnson/HBO/ via JTA)

John Cleese performs during his show 'Last Time to See Me Before I Die' (Tobias Nokolai/Polfoto via AP)

John Cleese axes university appearance after historian banned for Hitler parody

By JTA and ToI Staff

Student group walks back blacklisting of Andrew Graham-Dixon after Monty Python comedian says he’s blacklisting himself in solidarity

Illustrative: Former Prime Minister's Office manager Nir Hefetz, (center) and Israeli media tycoon Shaul Elovitch (left back) and Eli Kamir (right back) seen at the courtroom for the extension of their remand in Case 4000, at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, February 26, 2018. (Flash90)

Case 4000

Ex-Netanyahu aide said set to testify to family’s involvement in media matters

Some details from Nir Hefetz’s prep-meeting with prosecution leaked to press, amid report he has received threats

The author's grandmother, Jenny Katz, in 1927, the year before she married Siegfried Bachenheimer. At right is the autograph book that she shared with friends and family as a 14-year-old girl in 1916. (Courtesy Steve North/ via JTA)

Reporter's notebook'This book is a rare gift'

Pre-Holocaust childhood autograph book delights researchers and romantics

A German-Jewish grandmother’s Poesiealbum is one of few that made it through WWII, and shows warm turn-of-the-century friendships between an Orthodox Jew and her Gentile neighbors

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Danny Fenster, right, with his brother Bryan at a friend's wedding in Krakow, Poland, September 2019. It was the last time they saw each other. (Courtesy of Bryan Fenster)

American Jewish journalist sentenced to 11 years in Myanmar prison

By Andrew Lapin

Left-wing activist Rabbi Arik Ascherman after an alleged attack by Israeli settlers near the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin on Friday, November 12, 2021 (credit: Shai Kendler)

Settlers assault Palestinians, Israeli activists in West Bank; several hurt

By Aaron Boxerman

The door to a Beersheba apartment where an 18-year-old woman was found dead, November 13, 2021. (Screen grab/Ynet)

Woman, 18, found dead in Beersheba; partner arrested on suspicion of murder

Scotland's striker Che Adams shoots the ball during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 qualification football match between Moldova and Scotland at Chisinau's Zimbru Stadium on November 12, 2021. (Bogdan TUDOR / AFP)

Israel officially out of 2022 World Cup as Scotland secures 2nd spot in group

FILE - Glen de Vries, right, takes a look as William Shatner, left, shows what rocket lift off did to his face during a media availability at the spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, Oct. 13, 2021 (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Man who went to space with William Shatner dies in plane crash

By AP

Illustrative -- An American Airlines aircraft approaches Philadelphia International Airport, Oct. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

New York-Tel Aviv flight makes emergency landing in Paris

Belarusian servicemen control the situation while migrants get humanitarian aid as they gather at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus, Nov. 12, 2021 (Ramil Nasibulin/BelTA pool photo via AP)

Polish police find body of young Syrian near Belarus border amid standoff

By Vanessa Gera

Former White House strategist Steve Bannon poses prior to an interview with The Associated Press, in Paris, May 27, 2019. Bannon, a longtime ally to former President Donald Trump, was indicted Friday, Nov. 12, 2021, on two counts of contempt of Congress after he defied a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Steve Bannon indicted on contempt charges for defying subpoena over Jan. 6 riots

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, MICHAEL BALSAMO and EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS

This July 24, 2018, photo provided by Justin Pritchard shows Isabel Marcus, a pioneering law professor whose advocacy for women’s rights spanned the globe, in Lake Placid, N.Y. Marcus died at 83 on Oct. 31, 2021, in Los Angeles after living with advanced Alzheimer's disease.(Elise Ruocco/Courtesy of Justin Pritchard via AP)

ObituaryIsabel Marcus, US law professor and leading women’s rights advocate, dies at 83

By AP

Cynthia Nixon (L), Sarah Jessica Parker (C) and and Kristin Davis (R) in a trailer for the Sex and the City reboot (Screen grab)

New chapter‘And Just Like That’ a ‘Sex and the City’ reboot trailer drops

By ToI Staff and AFP

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