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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 3, 2022

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and opposition leader Yair Lapid (R) (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP; Jack Guez/AFP)

With 95% of votes counted, Meretz fails to cross threshold

As final votes tallied, Likud starts talks with allies, Lapid set to concede

By ToI Staff and Luke Tress

PM reportedly tells ministers to prepare for transition of power; Netanyahu tasks Levin with coalition negotiations; Shas leader Deri may become finance minister, report says

Illustrative: Isaac Herzog after being chosen as president with then prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 2, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Coalition timetableWhat happens next: Netanyahu expected to be tasked with forming government next week

Religious Zionism lawmakers celebrate at the far-right party's campaign headquarters after the release of exit polls, November 1, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

A Netanyahu-led government would see sharp drop in women in coalition

By Alexander Fulbright and Tal Schneider

Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks at the group's 2018 National Leadership Summit in Washington, DC. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images via JTA)

Live updates (closed)

Final results give Likud bloc 64 seats; ADL: Far right will hurt Israel globally

Organization expresses concern ‘over likely inclusion of extremists’ in the Netanyahu coalition

7:28 pm

Incoming rocket sirens sound in towns near the border with Gaza
7:24 pm

Bennett to resign in coming days, hopes new government 'will act responsibly'
7:06 pm

Report: Several nations warn Israel they'll limit work with far-right leaders

Op-ed

Netanyahu, Ben Gvir win marks the elevation of Jewish Israel above democratic Israel

This Editor’s Note was sent out earlier Wednesday in ToI’s weekly update email to members of the Times of Israel Community. To receive these Editor’s Notes as they’re released, join the ToI Community here. A year and a half after the most diverse coalition in Israeli history ousted him from office, the indomitable Benjamin Netanyahu is... Continue Reading

Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to supporters at the far-right party's campaign headquarters after the results of exit polls are announced, November 1, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to supporters as the exit polls of the Israeli elections are announced, at the party's campaign headquarters in Jerusalem, November 1, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 3: Ben Gvir’s newfound fame; IDF soldier’s 9 hours in Iran

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during a meeting of his Justice and Development party at the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara, on May 18, 2022. (Adem Altan/AFP)

Turkish president says Israeli election results won’t derail rapprochement

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A view of the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

After strong showing, Religious Zionism says High Court override bill a top priority

By Jeremy Sharon

Incoming MK Amichay Eliyahu says the party will ‘restore democracy’ that has been ‘seized by a small group of people’ in the judicial system

Far right MK Itamar Ben Gvir addresses students at the Blich High School in Ramat Gan, September 6, 2022 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Report: US officials say administration unlikely to work with Itamar Ben Gvir

Unnamed figures tell Axios far-right MK may be beyond the pale; former US ambassador warns of potential for ‘rocky’ Israel-US relations during next Netanyahu coalition

US State Department Spokesman Ned Price speaks to reporters during a news briefing at the State Department in Washington, March 1, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Pool via AP)

US hopes members of next Israeli government respect ‘open, democratic society’

By AFP and Jacob Magid

The British embassy in Tel Aviv on September 9, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

UK backs away from possible Jerusalem embassy move floated by ex-PM Truss

Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir arrives to speak to supporters as the results of the Israeli elections are announced, at the party's campaign headquarters in Jerusalem, November 1, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US Jewish groups sound alarm over rise of Ben Gvir, though many steer clear

American Jewish Committee, Reform Movement, J Street and others express deep concerns over likely far-right government, but other organizations avoid mentioning Otzma Yehudit head

Screen capture of CCTV footage purportedly showing Israeli settlers vandalizing cars in the Palestinian village of Beit Iska, northwest of Jerusalem, November 3, 2022. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Settlers accused of vandalism in Palestinian village near Jerusalem

Analysis

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Netanyahu is the projected winner, but it was Ben Gvir crowned on election night

With revelers in the electrically excited crowd proclaiming him “king” and straining for a glimpse of Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir, an attendee at the party's election night celebration might have been forgiven for thinking the far-right politician won Israel’s election Tuesday. And while Ben Gvir, who does not even lead his Religious... Continue Reading

Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to supporters at the far-right party's campaign headquarters after the results of exit polls are announced, November 1, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jewish Home leader Ayelet Shaled. left, speaks during a press conference in Ramat Gan, on October 25, and Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu, right. seen during a morning walk, November 2, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni; Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud MK: Shaked coordinated staying in race with us in order to hurt rival parties

By Tobias Siegal

Likud supporters wave party and national flags on an overpass overlooking a highway in the coastal city of Tel Aviv, on October 23, 2022. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)

2022 election resultsElection results by locality show Yesh Atid cannibalizing allies, far-right surging

Dennis Ross and David Makovsky

A narrow government with Ben Gvir and Smotrich threatens US-Israel ties

Shared values are a cornerstone of the relationship – appointing senior ministers that incite against Arabs would be a gift to anti-Israel progressives

A house divided, yet we must stand

When we discover that we no longer share a narrative with the very people who share our history, we must deepen and expand our identity to protect our shared future

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh holds a briefing with foreign press at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, November 10, 2021. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Palestinian Authority PM: Israeli power swap is ‘difference between Pepsi and Coke’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Fatah official Jibril Rajoub says election result shows Israel has ‘fallen into the swamps of fascism,’ while PA President Abbas remains officially mum on outcome of vote

Israeli soldiers gesture to a vehicle at Tapuah Junction, next to a campaign poster for opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu near the West Bank town of Nablus, October 16, 2022. (Tsafrir Abayov/AP)

‘It’s all the same’: As Israel’s far-right surges in election, Palestinians shrug

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas(L), arrives to attend the closing ceremony of Arab summit in the Algerian capital Algiers, on November 2, 2022.(Fethi Belaid / AFP)

At Arab League summit, leaders vow ‘total support’ for Palestinian cause

By Ezzedine SAID

The scene of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Old City on November 3, 2022 (Zaka emergency service)

3 police officers wounded in Jerusalem stabbing; Palestinian attacker shot dead

By Emanuel Fabian

Officers in good to moderate condition after attack by 20-year-old in Old City; one cop was hurt by so-called friendly fire

Farouk Salameh (right) is seen with Wadee al-Houh (left) the former leader of the Nablus-based Lion's Den. Salameh was killed in an Israeli raid in Jenin on Novemer 3, 2022, and al-Houh was killed in an similar raid in Nablus on October 25, 2022. (Social media)

Two Palestinians – a teen and a terror activist – killed in Israeli raid in Jenin

By Emanuel Fabian

Troops carry out overnight raids in the West Bank, November 3, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian killed, 14 arrested in overnight West Bank raids; Nablus closure lifted

By Emanuel Fabian

Lebanese President Michel Aoun, right, receives from US Envoy for Energy Affairs Amos Hochstein, the US-brokered deal setting a maritime border between Lebanon and Israel, at the presidential palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, October 27, 2022. (Dalati Nohra via AP)

Lebanon claims it has US ‘guarantees’ to keep Netanyahu from ditching border deal

By AFP

If Netanyahu wants to withdraw from the deal, then ‘he will withdraw from an agreement with the US,’ and ‘will be facing the international community,’ Lebanese official says

A UNIFIL Navy vessel seen through barbed wires patrols in the Mediterranean Sea, next to a UN post along the border known as Ras Naqoura, where Lebanese and Israeli delegations met to finalize a maritime border agreement, off the southern town of Naqoura, Lebanon, October 27, 2022. (Mohammed Zaatari/AP)

AnalysisIsrael-Lebanon border deal is a landmark, but has limited benefits, experts say

By AP and ToI Staff

Shiraz International Airport, October 20, 2021. (Tahere Rokhbakhsh/Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, Wikipedia)

9 hours at an Iranian airport: IDF soldier endures unnerving flight diversion

By Emanuel Fabian

Iranians thought to have been unaware Israeli was on plane traveling from Uzbekistan to UAE; Mossad contacted her while on the ground, instructed her to conceal her identity

Illustrative: A pair of F-16 fighter jets streak past a Patriot Missile Defense Battery as the sun sets, at an airbase in Saudi Arabia, October 8, 1990. (John Gaps/AP)

Iran blames ‘Zionists’ for ‘baseless’ claim of imminent attack on Saudi Arabia

By AP and ToI Staff

Screen capture from video purportedly showing Iranian police beating and shooting a prone protester in Tehran, October 1, 2022. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran orders probe into ‘shocking’ video of police beating, shooting prone protester

By Stuart Williams

Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving looks for help against Indiana Pacers guard Buddy Hield during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Oct. 29, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray)

Nets’ Kyrie Irving ‘takes responsibility’ for promoting antisemitic film

By Brian Mahoney

In joint statement with ADL and Brooklyn team, basketball player says he is aware of negative impact toward Jews, will donate $500,000 to anti-hate groups

A poster for a British theater's version of Romeo and Juliet depicting Romeo as a Nazi and Juliet as a Jew, October 2022. (Icarus Theatre Collective via Twitter)

Amid criticism, London theater group drops planned Nazi-Jewish ‘Romeo and Juliet’

By Jackie Hajdenberg

Israel's Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor (2nd-R) and Berlin's Deputy Mayor Bettina Jarasch (L) present Anne-Marget Schmid (2ndL) and Gundela Suter, descendants and grand-daughters of four German 'Righteous Among the Nations', with medals from Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial during a posthumous ceremony in their honor at the City Hall of Berlin, on November 2, 2022. (Jens Schlueter/AFP)

In Berlin, 2 married couples who saved Jews from Nazis given honor by Yad Vashem

By Deborah Cole

Illustrative image: Long COVID patient Rohit Patel at a London long COVID Clinic on May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Israeli long COVID study: 1 in 3 people fail to regain regular health months later

By Nathan Jeffay

Spotlighting the ‘immense and evolving’ impact of COVID on human health, large study by health fund points to prevalence of symptoms including memory disturbances and muscle pain

Rabbi Mordechai Bald and his wife, Sara, have distributed thousands of boxes of supplies to Jewish refugees from around Ukraine in Lviv – boxes of empty products that they have given out lie around outside the synagogue. (Jacob Judah/ JTA)

'For the moment, they are here to stay'

Refugees grow some Ukrainian cities’ dwindling Jewish communities, possibly for good

As Russia’s bombardment of the south and east shows no signs of relenting, western border towns are being revived by an influx of newcomers, some of whom are putting down roots

Russia’s Ukraine invasion has ‘fueled’ online antisemitism, EU report finds

By AFP and ToI Staff

US says it’s growing ‘increasingly concerned’ over Russia’s nuclear threats

By AFP

Yoram Gill, founder and chairman of Shoresh/Source sandals, welcomes Energy Ministry Karine Elharrar and dignitaries at the production plant in Tirat Carmel in northern Israel, September 22, 2022. (Liron Cohen Aviv, for Shoresh/Source)

Walking on sunshine: Shoresh sandals factory converts to 100% solar energy

Company says it created its own mini-grid with solar panels everywhere and switched its fleet to all-electric, as other firms also eye ways to go net zero on carbon emissions

Screen capture from video of Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano, acting in the anti-abortion movie 'Operation Resist.' (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

GOP nominee had role in Holocaust film that likened abortion, gun control to Nazism

Doug Mastriano, running for Pennsylvania governor, portrayed American spy in ‘Operation Resist,’ blasted by scholars — and by its Jewish star — for Holocaust distortions

A screenshot from Summer Lee's campaign video. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)

AIPAC affiliate spends over $1 million to oppose progressive candidate

More Headlines

Screen capture from video showing former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, center-right waving, a moment before shots were fired at his vehicle, injuring him the leg, November 3, 2022. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Pakistan’s ex-PM Imran Khan wounded in gun attack, shooter arrested

By AP

The cast of 'Cinema Sabaya,' the big winner in Israel's Ophir Awards on September 18, 2022. (Courtesy: Cinema Sabaya)

Both sides of the cameraOscar hopeful ‘Cinema Sabaya’ picked up for US, Canada release

By Jessica Steinberg

Maccabi Haifa's American goalkeeper Josh Cohen (C) concedes the third goal during the UEFA Champions League group H football match between Israel's Maccabi Haifa and Portugal's Benfica at the Sammy Ofer stadium in the city of Haifa on November 2, 2022. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

SoccerHaifa spanked by Benfica 6-1 in front of home crowd, ending Champions League run

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrarive. A view of the Givat Olga neighborhood in Hadera, on June 22, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel

By Danielle Nagler

Supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro protest his defeat in the presidential runoff election, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

Supporters of Brazil’s Bolsonaro call on military to keep far-right leader in power

By DIANE JEANTET and Mauricio SAVARESE

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian speaks in Moscow, Russia, August 31, 2022. (Maxim Shemetov/Pool Photo via AP)

Iranian team to meet UN watchdog in Vienna in bid to solve nuclear dispute

By AFP and ToI Staff

File: Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi. (Screenshot/Youtube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Activists angry at ‘forced confession’ of Iran rapper jailed for criticizing regime

By AFP

A TV screen showing a news program reporting about North Korea's missile launch with file footage is seen at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, November 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

North Korea keeps up missile barrage by launching ICBM, setting off alarms

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and Mari Yamaguchi

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