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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 9, 2022

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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)

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In rare plea, Conservative Jewry tells Netanyahu: Don’t make Ben Gvir a minister

By Judah Ari Gross

Mercaz Olami, the Zionist umbrella arm of Conservative-Masorti Judaism, warns appointing far-right lawmaker to a cabinet post would threaten Israel-Diaspora ties

Members of Shas meet with President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, November 9, 2022 (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

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Herzog’s hot mic: President heard saying ‘entire world anxious’ about Ben Gvir

Meeting with Shas members, Israel’s head of state heard warning emerging government with far right will ‘have a problem with the Temple Mount, that’s a critical issue’

7:19 pm

US to give Lebanon $80.5 million in aid amid economic crisis
7:11 pm

Armed military drone crashes in southern Israel, sparking a fire
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Ben Gvir: I don't generalize against all Arabs, I'll explain my positions to world

Archaeology

Amanda Borschel-Dan

Ivory lice comb – a dating head-scratcher – may hold earliest Canaanite sentence

The first -- and only -- early Canaanite sentence was recently deciphered on a Middle Bronze Age ivory lice comb found during a 2016 excavation at Lachish in central Israel. According to epigrapher Dr. Daniel Vainstub, the inscription dates to circa 17th century BCE, which is about four centuries prior to the settlement of... Continue Reading

A 17th century BCE inscription in early Canaanite script from Lachish, incised on an ivory lice comb. (Daniel Vanstub)

A combination of two pictures shows the tunnel discovered underneath Egypt's ancient Taposiris Magna Temple near Alexandria, November 2022 (Egypt's Tourism and Antiquities Ministry)

Archeologists hope tunnel under Egyptian temple leads to long-lost tomb of Cleopatra

By Tobias Siegal

Stream hit Israeli drama ‘Unchained’ starring Aviv Alush

Watch Aviv Alush (The Beauty & the Baker) as Yosef, a rabbi-investigator helping women obtain a ‘gett’ while dealing with a crisis of faith in his own home.

Control of Congress hinges on handful of close races as Democrats hold off red wave

By Sara Burnett, Jill Colvin and Will Weissert

Despite expectations of Republican rout amid high inflation and flagging approval for Biden, Democrats show surprising strength, flipping Pennsylvania and fending off challenges

Lee County voters stand beside campaign signs as they wait in line to cast their ballots at Northeast Regional Library in Cape Coral, Fla, on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (AP/Rebecca Blackwell)

Jewish Democrats near Tampa fall short as Florida swerves right

An adjudication board reviews ballots at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Election Center on November 8, 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona. (John Moore/Getty Images/AFP)

Arizona ballot snafu drives Republican conspiracy theories

By ANITA SNOW and NATHAN ELLGREN

New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaks to supporters during her election night party, November 8, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Hochul triumphs over Jewish challenger Zeldin in close New York governor race

Democrat becomes first woman to win state gubernatorial race; Republican says close contest indicates New Yorkers ‘hitting their breaking point’

US Senator Chuck Schumer speaks to supporters after he won reelection during the election night party for New York Governor Kathy Hochul, November 8, 2022, in New York. (AP/Mary Altaffer)

New York’s Schumer keeps Senate seat, but majority role up for grabs

By Karen Matthews and Deepti Hajela

Incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet, Democrat-Colorado, speaks during an election watch party, in downtown Denver. November 8, 2022. (David Zalubowski/AP)

Michael Bennet and Jared Polis defend their seats as senator, governor in Colorado

Pennsylvania Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro, the state's attorney general, attends an election night event, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in Oaks, Pa. (AP/Matt Slocum)

Shabbat-touting Shapiro wins Pennsylvania governor race

By Andrew Lapin

Democrat who made his Jewish faith focus of campaign defeats Trump-backed Republican Mastriano, who was criticized for links to Christian nationalists, far-right sounding board Gab

Rep. Elaine Luria, representing the 2nd district in Virginia, speaks at an event on Oct. 30, 2022 in Suffolk, Virginia (AP Photo/Mike Caudill, File)

Elaine Luria, Jewish Democrat on Jan. 6 committee, loses Virginia House race

Jaymie Bellet, a Messianic Jew, serenades GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Nov. 7, 2022. (Twitter via JTA)

Controversial GOP candidate concludes campaign with ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ parody

Members of the MuJu & Co. pass under the infamous 'Work Will Make You Free' sign at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum in Poland on October 1, 2022. (Courtesy of Dan Meyrowitsch)

'It’s about finding friends among unusual suspects'

From Auschwitz to Iftar: Danish Muslim-Jewish biker club revs up interfaith dialogue

By Melanie Lidman

Uniting over a common love of motorcycles, members of MuJu & Co. hit the road to fight bigotry, including guarding over a Jewish cemetery in Copenhagen every Kristallnacht

Holocaust survivors warn of antisemitism, hate speech on Kristallnacht anniversay

By Kirsten Grieshaber

German institute lashed for Tel Aviv ‘Shoah, Nakba’ event on date of Kristallnacht

By Lazar Berman

The transcendently humble neighborhood rabbi

An ultra-Orthodox rabbi in a mixed area of Jerusalem, Rabbi Zemel treated everyone with respect and good humor. He will be missed

Phyllis Greenberg Heideman

Kristallnacht in Dubai: Finding hope despite a rising tide of extremism

As more and more people know less and less about the Holocaust, new allies in the fight against hate and antisemitism are emerging in the lands of the Abraham Accords

Israel's Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg (right, with back to camera) sits two seats aways from Iraq's President Abdul Latif Rashid at a meeting of leaders of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East at the COP27 conference in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 8, 2022. (Israel's Environmental Protection Ministry)

Israel joins Mideast nations, including Iraq, Lebanon, to agree on climate action

By Sue Surkes and AP

Meeting chaired by Egyptian and Cypriot presidents is culmination of 3-year regional process; Lebanese PM’s office downplays significance of appearance alongside Israel

President Isaac Herzog,left, is seen briefly chatting amicably with Tunisia’s Prime Minister Najla Bouden, right, during the world leaders’ photograph at the COP27 in Egypt, November 7, 2022. (Twitter: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Herzog’s brief chat with Tunisia’s PM draws harsh criticism in Arab world

By Lazar Berman and Tobias Siegal

Moundir Zniber of Gaia Energy (left) and Talmon Marco of H2Pro shake hands on an agreement at the Israel Pavilion at the UN COP27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on November 8, 2022. (Courtesy, H2Pro)

Israeli startup to supply Moroccan renewable energy developer with hydrogen power

Defense Minister Benny Gantz at a memorial ceremony for fallen soldiers of the Yom Kippur War at Mount Herzl, October 6, 2022.(Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90, file)

Outgoing defense minister: I expect Netanyahu to be ‘levelheaded’ about Iran strike

By Emanuel Fabian

Benny Gantz warns that Israel needs to prepare a plan for targeting Tehran’s nuclear facilities, but must ‘consider issue very carefully before carrying it out’

Fighters from the Kataeb Hezbollah, or Hezbollah Brigades militia, inspect the destruction of their headquarters in the aftermath of a US airstrike in Qaim, Iraq, December 30, 2019. (AP Photo)

Airstrike on fuel convoy near Iraq-Syria border kills at least 10

By AP

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)

After Israel agreement, Lebanon seeks maritime border talks with Syria

By AFP

Incoming Likud MK Tally Gotliv seen during an interview with the Ynet news site, November 8, 2022. (Ynet)

Incoming Likud MK says she intends to ignore High Court rulings

Tally Gotliv, aiming for chair of Knesset judicial committee, claims court has no authority to strike down legislation, echoing claims by others in presumptive coalition

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at a ceremony held for outgoing Supreme Court judge George Karra, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

AG appears to criticize court override bill proposed by Netanyahu allies

By Michael Bachner

President Isaac Herzog hosts a ceremony at the president's house in Jerusalem, September 20, 2022. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

Herzog to begin formal consultations on who should form new coalition

By Stuart Winer

Analysis

Carrie Keller-Lynn

Dramatic rise of Smotrich and Ben Gvir fueled by voters willing to ‘hold their nose’

From March 2021 to November 2022, the far-right alliance of Religious Zionism-Otzma Yehudit managed to more than double its support, from just over 225,000 votes in March 2021 to more than 516,000 votes last week. Its dramatic rise, catapulting it from the ninth largest party last year to third largest this year, and projected ascension... Continue Reading

Otzma Yehudit chief MK Itamar Ben Gvir makes a campaign stop at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market, October 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Likud party chairman MK Benjamin Netanyahu seen after coalition talks at a hotel in Jerusalem on November 6, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov. 9: Netanyahu’s new term has looming legal conflict of interest

The Solomon Schechter Long Island in Williston Park, New York is grappling with an unfolding scandal being investigated by ToI (Courtesy SSLI Facebook page)

Inside story

Jewish school head to leave after exposé showed scandal-hit staffer secretly kept on

2 months after ToI report on continued employment of man who ostensibly resigned in abuse scandal’s fallout, Schechter Long Island tells parents Scott Sokol has taken job elsewhere

An 1806 French print depicting Napoleon Bonaparte emancipating the Jews. (Public domain)

Exhibition'Emancipation was often two steps forward and one step back'

Opening on Election Day, NYC exhibit traces global history of Jews’ civil rights

By Cathryn J. Prince

‘How Jews Became Citizens’ at NYC’s Center for Jewish History gives access to a trove of ancient documents showing the ever-changing status of local Jewish communities

A picture of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, who is credited with saving thousands in the Holocaust, next to the square named in his honor, Kiryat Hayovel, Jerusalem, November 8, 2022 (Ash Obel/Times of Israel)

'I'd rather stand with God against man than man against God'

Jerusalem square named for Portuguese diplomat who saved 10,000 Jews in WWII

Aristides de Sousa Mendes defied his country’s dictator and provided visas to people in France fleeing Nazi persecution; mayor says plaza ‘now carries the name of a hero’

The site of the planned new US Embassy campus on Hebron Road in Jerusalem (Courtesy)

4 years after Trump decision, Jerusalem panel releases plan for permanent US embassy

A projection of the former synagogue is seen at its historical place in Dortmund, Germany, November 9, 2021, to mark the 83rd anniversary of the anti-Jewish Kristallnacht pogrom. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

'It has a pretty sound; the term isn't acceptable anymore'

In Germany, Kristallnacht goes by a different name. Here’s why

By Toby Axelrod

Many German speakers are rejecting the euphemism for the events of Nov. 8-9, 1938, which translates to ‘night of shattered glass,’ saying it omits that more than glass was broken

Chicago Jewish students protest after principal shrugs off Nazi Halloween costume

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Israeli troops operate in the West Bank city of Nablus, early November 9, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Palestinian teen killed as gunmen attack MKs’ pilgrimage to Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus

By Emanuel Fabian

Member of al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades apparently killed by homemade bomb exploding prematurely; military arrests 12 terror suspects in overnight West Bank raids

IDF soldiers are seen operating along the West Bank barrier, in an image published by the military on April 2, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces, file)

IDF: Shots fired at troops along northern West Bank barrier; no injuries

By Emanuel Fabian

Tahrir Abu Sariya, Maryam Arafat and Alaa Abu Dhraa, accused of planning a shooting attack against Israeli security forces in the West Bank on August 20, 2022. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Three Palestinian women with Islamic Jihad ties charged for planned shooting

By Emanuel Fabian

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Attorney Alan Dershowitz talks to the press outside federal court in New York, on Monday, December 2, 2019 (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Epstein accuser drops sexual abuse claims against Alan Dershowitz

By Larry Neumeister

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Georgetown University in Washington, October 17, 2019. (Nick Wass/AP)

Facebook parent company Meta to lay off 13% of employees in ‘most difficult change’

A sign advertises Yeezy shoes made by Adidas at Kickclusive, a sneaker resale store, in Paramus, New Jersey, October 25, 2022 (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Adidas lowers earnings outlook after ending Kanye West partnership over antisemitism

By AP

Gad Elmaleh is shown at the Angouleme French-Speaking Film Festival in Angouleme, France, Aug. 27, 2022. (Sylvain Lefevre/WireImage/Getty Images via JTA)

Jewish comedian who was a source of pride for French Jews converts to Catholicism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Former Qatari international soccer player and World Cup ambassador Khalid Salman speaks to a German journalist in Qatar, November 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Qatar’s World Cup ambassador calls homosexuality ‘damage in the mind’

By AFP

Illustrative: The Beersheba District Court in southern Israel, on December 1, 2019. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Teen gets 5 years for sexual assault of 10-year-old in her bed during burglary

A general view of Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv on November 10, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Man hospitalized after road rage assault on Tel Aviv highway sees condition improve

Israelis enjoy the last days of the summer holiday on an extremely hot day at Duga Beach, on the eastern shores of the Sea of Galilee on August 30, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

Health Ministry suspects parasite in Sea of Galilee causing eye infections

Britain's King Charles III reacts after an egg was thrown in his direction during a ceremony at Micklegate Bar in York, northern England on November 9, 2022 as part of a two-day tour of Yorkshire (James Glossop / POOL / AFP)

Man arrested for throwing eggs at UK’s King Charles

By AP

The 12 contestants on the debut season of Keshet's reality dating show 'The Group.' (Tal Givoni; Eran Levi)

You got messageIn Israel everything is via WhatsApp – even a reality TV dating show

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