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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 16, 2022

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In this handout photo, Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Religious Zionism chief Bezalel Smotrich (R), November 15, 2022. (Likud)

Likud denies it's in talks with Gantz, Lapid

Netanyahu said to tell Smotrich he won’t get defense job, because of US objections

By Tobias Siegal

Likud party cancels all planned meetings with Religious Zionism; Smotrich said ‘furious’ with prime-minister-designate and vowing not to relent on his demand for the position

Religious Zionist party head MK Bezalel Smotrich arriving at a faction meeting of the Religious Zionist party at the Knesset, November 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Far-right vows upped security under new gov’t; Liberman warns of ‘ayatollah regime’

By Jeremy Sharon and Carrie Keller-Lynn

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Shas chief Aryeh Deri at the swearing-in ceremony of the 25th Knesset, at the parliament building in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Report: Netanyahu plans radical legislative blitz to enable Deri to become minister

By Michael Bachner

Liberian-flagged oil tanker Pacific Zircon, operated by Singapore-based Eastern Pacific Shipping in Jebel Ali port, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on August 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Nabeel Hashmi)

Israeli billionaire’s oil tanker hit by bomb-carrying drone off Oman; Iran blamed

By AP and ToI Staff

Shipping firm ultimately owned by Idan Ofer says attack caused minor damage to Pacific Zircon, no injuries or spillage; Israeli official, US military accuse Iran, which is silent

Michael Kurilla, head of the United States Central Command (left), meets with IDF chief Aviv Kohavi at the Nevatim airbase in southern Israel, on November 15, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Hosting CENTCOM chief, Kohavi says Israel and US forming joint abilities versus Iran

By Emanuel Fabian

This undated photograph released by the Ukrainian military's Strategic Communications Directorate shows the wreckage of what Kyiv has described as an Iranian Shahed drone downed near Kupiansk, Ukraine. (Ukrainian military's Strategic Communications Directorate via AP)

Iran drones said to contain many Western-made parts, possibly Israeli lenses too

File: Then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and then-finance minister Yair Lapid in the Knesset on July 8, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Likud, Lapid and Gantz deny report that they’re in unity government talks

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

As coalition talks with far-right partners hit a bump, Likud says reports it is quietly negotiating with centrist rivals Yesh Atid and National Unity are ‘fake news’

Lawmakers at the swearing-in of the 25th Knesset, November 15, 2022. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset Spokesperson)

Listed below: The 120 MKsAs 25th Knesset sworn in, president urges MKs to end ‘addiction’ to toxic discourse

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister Yair Lapid, and party leaders at a swearing-in ceremony of the 25th Knesset, at the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022. (Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

ToI PodcastDaily Briefing Nov. 16: Mixed reactions for 25th Knesset; MDs use new tumor tech

Supporters of the liberal Labor party react as the results of the Israeli elections are announced, in Tel Aviv, November 1, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90/ via JTA)

From The Hartman Institute

What’s Next for Liberalism in Israel?

How do Jews who oppose the values of the coming governing Israeli coalition make themselves heard right now? Can Israel learn from Americans’ experience under Trump?

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Otzma Yehudit chief Itamar Ben Gvir arrive for the swearing-in ceremony for the new Knesset, November 15, 2022. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Live updates (closed)

Likud says Netanyahu agrees to range of legislative demands by Ben Gvir

After politicians sit down for coalition talks, party says deal reached to pass laws that would legalize many West Bank outposts within 60 days of government being formed

7:18 pm

White House 'confident' Iran behind attack on Israeli-owned oil tanker near Oman
7:01 pm

US envoy said to warn Netanyahu against giving Smotrich defense portfolio
6:39 pm

Likud says Netanyahu agrees to range of legislative demands by Ben Gvir

A sign for the Food and Drug Administration is seen in Silver Spring, Maryland, on December 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

'We can help to advance peace in the Middle East'

Ambitious plan sees Israel as heart of Middle East medical supply chain for US

By Lazar Berman

US faith-based group leads ‘near-shoring’ Abraham Accords push to open regional FDA office with bipartisan support in Washington, but health agencies yet to give public backing

Israeli-Georgian businessman Itzik Moshe (Nesi315 CC BY-SA 4.0)

Iran’s Quds Force tried to kill Israeli businessman in Georgia, Jerusalem says

By Lazar Berman

IRGC directed Pakistani terror cell to assassinate Israeli-Georgian businessman Itzik Moshe in Tbilisi, government sources say

Israeli-Georgian businessman Itzik Moshe (Nesi315 CC BY-SA 4.0)

Israeli targeted by Iran in Georgia not surprised: Some people don’t like what I do

By Lazar Berman and Tobias Siegal

Israeli security and medics at the scene of a terror attack, at the entrance to Ariel industrial zone, in the West Bank, on November 15, 2022. (Nasser Ishtayeh/ Flash90)

US expresses alarm over Israeli, Palestinian civilians killed in West Bank

State Department issues relatively rare statement offering condolences for those killed in past 48 hours, highlighting Ariel terror attack while urging sides to restore calm

Damage caused to a home in the settlement of Shaked following a shooting attack, November 16, 2022. (Samaria Regional Council)

Palestinian gunmen fire at settlement, causing damage to home

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli troops measure the home of Muhammed Souf, who killed three in a terror attack near Ariel, in the West Bank village of Hares, on November 16, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF prepares to raze home of terrorist who killed three Israelis near Ariel

By Emanuel Fabian

Former US resident Donald Trump announces he is running for president for the third time as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, November 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden: 'Trump failed America'

Trump announces 2024 White House run amid midterm setbacks, legal peril

By Gerard Martinez and Chris Lefkow

Former president tells supporters Biden will ‘not receive 4 more years,’ but poor election results have weakened his hand, setting stage for a bruising Republican nomination battle

Supporters wait for former President Donald Trump to arrive to announce he is running for president for the third time at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, Nov. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

‘Like Christmas’: Trump fans embrace 2024 candidacy announcement

By Gerard Martinez

Analysis

Donald Trump is running for president again. Here’s what American Jews need to know

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Donald Trump announced his third presidential campaign on Tuesday night, kicking off the 2024 presidential primary preseason and setting up a showdown over the future of the Republican Party. American Jews likely need no reminders about Trump: After all, he was president less than two years ago, and he didn’t exactly disappear... Continue Reading

Former US president Donald Trump announces he is running for president for the third time as he speaks at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, November 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Ivanka Trump waves to supporters during a campaign event in Des Moines, Iowa, on November 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Ivanka skips Trump’s 2024 announcement, says she’s done with politics

Florence Berkowitz-Siegelberg

Shpilkes at shul: A confession

I’d like to rein in my wandering thoughts and gain proficiency in the prayers that have inspired Jewish people for centuries, but I just don’t love the synagogue

I was a Miami Boys Choir soloist for 6 years. Now I make music in Israel

It took years of planning and dreaming and songwriting, but after I was married and settled in Israel, I released my own album. You may know my songs…

File: Ukraine's ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, gives a statement to the media in Tel Aviv, on March 11, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni‎‏/Flash90)

Ukraine’s envoy blasts Israeli ‘summons’ as ties deteriorate

By Lazar Berman

Amid rising tensions, Yevgen Korniychuk expresses anger over barriers for citizens trying to enter Israel, disappointment over recent UN vote

A police officer checks a vehicle outside a grain depot where, according to the Polish government, an explosion of a Russian-made missile killed two people, in Przewodow, eastern Poland, November 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

Biden says ‘unlikely’ missile that hit NATO ally Poland fired from Russian territory

US pledges support for investigation after Poland says ‘Russian-made’ projectile killed 2 near Ukraine’s border, raising fears Western alliance could be drawn into war

Flags of NATO members fly outside the NATO headquarters, November 16, 2022 in Brussels. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

NATO holds emergency talks after Russian-made missile kills 2 in Poland

Police officers work outside a grain depot where, according to the Polish government, an explosion of a Russian-made missile killed two people in Przewodow, Poland, Nov. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

Moscow says Kyiv responsible for Poland missile blast that killed 2

By AFP

Illustrative image: a man running (BartekSzewczyk via iStock by Getty Images)

Running reduces chance of some cancers by 72%, Israeli scientists find

By Nathan Jeffay

Peer-reviewed study from Tel Aviv University shows aerobic activity conditions organs to snatch sugar away from tumors, impairing their ability to grow and spread

Yellow tape marks bullet holes on a tree and a portrait and flowers create a makeshift memorial at the site where Palestinian-American Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed in the West Bank city of Jenin, on May 19, 2022. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

Lapid on FBI probe of Abu Akleh death: No foreign body will interrogate our troops

PM rejects US investigation into reporter’s killing; Defense Minister Gantz also speaks out in opposition: ‘IDF investigations are deep and thorough’

Illustrative photo of a member of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces removing an Islamic State flag in the town of Tabqa in Syria. (AFP Photo/Delil Souleiman)

Israeli Arab teen indicted for affiliation with Islamic State, plans to make bombs

By Emanuel Fabian

NASA's new moon rocket lifts off from Launch Pad 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. This launch is the first flight test of the Artemis program. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

Launch comes after months of delays

New NASA moon rocket carrying Israeli experiment lifts off, 50 years after Apollo

By AP and ToI Staff

First mission in Artemis project carries mannequins — one of them nicknamed Zohar and wearing Israeli protective suit — ahead of planned manned mission expected as early as 2025

OurCrowd founder and CEO Jon Medved, left, signs an agreement to expand the company in the UAE with support from the Abu Dhabi Investment Office, November 2022. Acting director-general of ADIO, Abdulla Abdul Aziz AlShamsi, also signed the agreement. (Courtesy / OurCrowd)

Two Israeli companies join $545m innovation program in Abu Dhabi

By Ricky Ben-David

From Tal Kantor's Ophir-winning animated short, 'Letter to a Pig,' which will be screened at the Jerusalem Cinematheque's upcoming Anination Festival, November 16-19, 2022 (Courtesy Tal Kantor)

Animator’s award-winning debut mixes mediums for a Holocaust film about a savior pig

By Jessica Steinberg

Tal Kantor’s Ophir Prize-taking animated short ‘Letter to a Pig,’ which came from a dream she had in high school, will screen at Jerusalem’s upcoming AniNation Festival

'It's not like a swastika, but I wish it weren't here'

At a Jewish museum, a non-Jewish artist’s use of the Palestinian flag sparks debate

By Andrew Esensten

After seeing Tosha Stimage’s piece in the ‘Tikkun’ exhibit, visitors to the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco are asking questions, including whether it belongs there

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People walk through closed shops in Tehran's Grand Bazaar, Iran, November 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Shops in Iran, including Tehran’s central Grand Bazaar, close over protests

By Jon Gambrell

Yair Netanyahu, son of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arrives for a court hearing in Tel Aviv, April 24, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Supreme Court throws out Yair Netanyahu’s appeal against $80,000 libel verdict

Illustrative. Apartment buildings under construction in Beersheba's Ramot neighborhood, August 2018. (verbaska_studio via iStock by Getty Images)

Housing prices jump almost 20% in 2022, costs of consumer goods up 4.9%

By Ricky Ben-David

Mohammad Eslami, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), speaks at the 66th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria, September 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Theresa Wey)

Iran rejects Western IAEA motion censuring it for blocking nuclear probe

By AFP

Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington on March 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Musk gives Twitter staff ultimatum to decide on keeping their jobs

By AP

Illustrative: Kuwait hangs prisoners in 2009. (YouTube/screengran: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Kuwait sentences 7 inmates to death in rare mass execution

By Jon Gambrell

French Holocaust denier Vincent Reynouard. (Screenshot: YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Convicted French Holocaust denier arrested in Scotland after 2-year search

By AP

Illustrative: Hezbollah fighters hold flags as they attend the memorial of their slain leader Sheik Abbas al-Mousawi, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike in 1992, in Tefahta village, South Lebanon, February 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)

Hezbollah exploiting diplomatic loopholes to finance terror, investigation finds

A rabbi checks the quality of poultry meat in a kosher slaughterhouse in Csengele, Hungary on January 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)

Romania passes ‘landmark law’ guaranteeing right to kosher slaughter

By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ

Illustrative: An Israeli shops at the Ben & Jerry's ice cream factory in the Be'er Tuvia Industrial area on July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

Ben & Jerry’s board decries sales of brand in West Bank, East Jerusalem

By AP and ToI Staff

A visualization of the 'Negev Park,' Israel's planned new entertainment center near Beersheba. (Courtesy / Tourism Ministry)

Plans to build $15m amusement park, hotel complex in Negev move forward

By Danielle Nagler

Doja Cat performs at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., on April 24, 2022. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)

Tuned inFrom Doja Cat to Mel Brooks: This year’s Jewish Grammy nominees

By Gabe Friedman

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