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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 17, 2022

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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)

Smotrich, Netanyahu still at odds after charged Tuesday meet

Netanyahu agrees to Ben Gvir demand to legalize dozens of outposts, Homesh yeshiva

After politicians sit down for talks, Likud says deal reached to legalize West Bank outposts within 60 days of government being formed, amend Disengagement Law to legalize Homesh

Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir at a ceremony honoring late Jewish extremist leader Rabbi Meir Kahane in Jerusalem on November 10, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

School principal faces ministry probe for slamming Ben Gvir at Rabin memorial event

Otzma Yehudit party members Michael Ben Ari, center, Itamar Ben Gvir, right, and Baruch Marzel, left, at a press conference in response to the Supreme Court decision to disqualify Ben Ari from running in the April 2019 elections over his record of racist incitement, in Jerusalem on March 17, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultranationalists launching party to the right of Ben Gvir’s extremist Otzma Yehudit

Film reviewA sure bet for next year’s top Academy Award nominations

Jews will breathe a sigh of relief after seeing Weinstein scandal biopic ‘She Said’

By Jordan Hoffman

When the Oscar-favored film opens Nov. 18, Jewish theatergoers will kvell over the protagonists, a scrappy pair who represent the Tribe much more favorably than the villain does

File: US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides (L) and opposition chairman Benjamin Netanyahu meet in the Knesset on December 9, 2021. (US embassy in Israel)

Meeting Netanyahu, US envoy hints at opposition to naming Smotrich defense chief

Nides doesn’t mention far-right MK by name but urges PM-designate to consider appointment carefully; Religious Zionism responds by telling US to respect Israeli democracy

Supreme Court Chief Justice Ester Hayut with outgoing Supreme Court judge George Karra and Supreme court justices at a ceremony held for Karra, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Law professors urge incoming coalition to reject High Court override law

By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon

File: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the European Friends of Israel Policy Conference in the Chagall Hall in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, February 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Debbie Hill, Pool)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing Nov 17: Democracy isn’t dying, but the housing market may be

Protesters hold posters for slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh near the Augusta Victoria Hospital in East Jerusalem ahead of a visit by US President Joe Biden, July 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

White House tells Israel Justice Dept opened Abu Akleh probe without its knowledge

Administration seeks to soften blow of FBI investigation into Palestinian-American reporter’s killing, Israeli official says, speculating that ramifications will be minimal

A screenshot from a video of an IDF soldier cursing an activist from the left-wing Breaking the Silence group at a checkpoint in the West Bank City of Hebron, November 16, 2022. (Twitter screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

IDF soldier suspended for cursing left-wing activist in Hebron: ‘You’re a traitor’

Likud leader speaks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on November 17, 2022 (Likud)

In first phone call since 2013, Netanyahu, Erdogan pledge to build ‘new era’ in ties

By Lazar Berman

Leaders offer each other condolences over recent terror attacks; Israel’s presumptive incoming PM lauds Ankara’s mediation efforts between Moscow and Kyiv

Illustrative: Turkish police seen in Ankara, Turkey, June 29, 2021. (AP Photo/ Burhan Ozbilici)

Suspect linked to deadly Istanbul bombing detained in Syria

By AP

A Shahed-136 drone is seen in the sky seconds before it hit buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Officials: Drone that hit Israeli-owned tanker near Oman was launched from IRGC base

By Emanuel Fabian

Western and Israeli security sources say Shahed-136 ‘suicide drone’ was fired at Pacific Zircon from Iranian territory; Israeli source: ‘Iranians no longer hiding behind proxies’

Iranians protest the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police, in Tehran, October 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Middle East Images)

Iranian FM: Israel, Western agencies trying to foment civil war in country

By ToI Staff and AP

Rafael Grossi, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks to journalists after the IAEA's board of governors meeting at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria, on November 16, 2022. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

IAEA chief still hoping for Tehran visit after Iran casts doubt

By AFP

Jewish influencer Lizzy Savetsky in an interview in 2020. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Jewish influencer exits ‘Real Housewives of NY’ after ‘torrent of antisemitism’

By PHILISSA CRAMER

Elizabeth Savetsky, who boasts 221,000 followers on Instagram, says internet hate made her realize ‘this path was no longer right’ for her and her family

American film executives Jack Warner, left, and Louis Mayer right, together at a bar, 1940. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images via JTA)

ExplainerThe origins of Dave Chappelle’s antisemitic ‘Jews control Hollywood’ trope

By Andrew Lapin

School board members in McMinn County, Tennessee, objected to Art Spiegelman's 'Maus' because of its language and images. (Philissa Cramer/JTA)

Holocaust books, including ‘Maus,’ pulled from some Missouri schools over state law

By Andrew Lapin

A deadly house fire in the Jabaliya Camp in the northern Gaza Strip that killed more than 20 people on November 17, 2022. (Screen capture/ Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Live updates (closed)

At least 21 people, including 7 children, killed in Gaza house fire

Hospital officials say toll from blaze in Jabalia camp likely to rise; rescue workers say fire now extinguished and investigators probing cause

7:36 pm

Top Ukraine rabbi brings aid to newly liberated city of Kherson
7:30 pm

Israel reopens probe into deadly 1982 blast at military headquarters in Lebanon war
6:58 pm

At least 21 killed, including 7 children, in house fire in Gaza Strip

Owning Israel or belonging to it?

Just as Abraham’s time in the land was tenuous, the rabbis repeatedly remind the Jews that arrogance about their permanence in the land is risky (Chayei Sarah)

Running out of time

A message carried – literally – from Glasgow to Sharm el Sheik drove home the need for global cooperation to stem the rising tides of destruction

Religious Zionism party head MK Bezalel Smotrich exits a coalition negotiation meeting with Shas party head Aryeh Deri in Jerusalem on November 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Op-ed

The intolerant, unyielding would-be defense minister

Bezalel Smotrich’s insistence on a top ministerial position is no surprise; what should be shocking is Netanyahu’s readiness to even contemplate giving him such authority

Ra'am leader Mansour Abbas at a conference held by the Anti-Defamation League in Tel Aviv, November 16, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Ra’am open to cooperate with Netanyahu as cracks deepen in outgoing coalition

By Alexander Fulbright

Meretz party head Zehava Galon speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv, September 5, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Meretz leader Zehava Galon said set to resign over catastrophic loss

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

Mourners stand near the fresh grave of Motti Ashkenazi at the cemetery in Yavne, November 16, 2022. (Flash90)

Three fathers, three funerals: Ariel terror attack victims laid to rest

Funeral for Motti Ashkenazi held in Yavne, Michael Ladygin buried in Holon, a day after Tamir Avihai laid to rest in Kiryat Netafim

Israeli soldiers are seen operating in the West Bank, early November 17, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli troops come under fire in Nablus; 13 suspects arrested in overnight raids

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli forces seen during a raid in the village of Hares in the West Bank, following a terror attack outside Ariel, in the West Bank, on November 15, 2022. (Flash90)

Israel revokes entry permits from hundreds of relatives of Ariel terrorist

By Emanuel Fabian

Women pronounced fit for labor from the Tet Ghetto in Hungary standing on the platform after a selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. (Anonymous, possibly SS photographers E. Hoffmann & B. Walter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

HolocaustNazis may have given sex steroids to all female prisoners

Study suggests Nazis attempted to sterilize Jewish women in camps with food additive

By Renee Ghert-Zand

New research finds it likely wasn’t just trauma and starvation that caused 98% of women to stop menstruating upon arrival at Auschwitz, and many to later struggle with infertility

Russian immigrants attend an event marking the 25th anniversary of the major wave of aliya from the former Soviet Union to Israel, at the Jerusalem Convention Center, on December 24, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Data shows most recent immigrants from former Soviet Union aren’t considered Jewish

By Judah Ari Gross

Survey embraced as justification by opponents of Law of Return’s ‘grandchild clause’; critics allege bigotry

Police arrest a wanted Israeli fugitive, allegedly linked to the Abergil’s notorious crime syndicate, along with seven others at a house in Bryanston, South Africa, November 17, 2022. (South African Police Service)

Israel’s ‘most wanted man,’ a criminal ‘gang leader,’ nabbed in South Africa

By Tobias Siegal

Yaniv Ben Simon, Yitzhak Abergil’s right-hand man, arrested at home near Johannesburg in joint op with Interpol, local police, Israeli intel; arms, $40,000, 3 motorcycles seized

The Haifa District Court building. (Avishag Shaar Yeshuv/Flash90)

23-year-old indicted for murdering his grandmother in 2018, fleeing to Moldova

Illustrative: Police seen at the mixed town of Abu Snan in northern Israel, November 15, 2014. (Flash90)

Woman found dead in her apartment in the north; son arrested

People gather around the official countdown clock showing remaining time until the kick-off of the World Cup in Doha, Qatar, November 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Israel warns fans going to World Cup in Qatar to ‘downplay your Israeli identity’

By Eleanor H. Reich

Foreign Ministry urges Israelis attending soccer tournament to keep a low profile, citing conservative Muslim country’s laws and expected large-scale presence of Iranian fans

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky talks to soldiers during a visit to Kherson, Ukraine, November 14, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Zelensky: Netanyahu to ‘consider’ supplying air defense systems to Ukraine — report

Ukrainian president tells media incoming PM said he would weigh the request and get back to him

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, November 16, 2022. (Michal Dyjuk/AP)

Poland, NATO say deadly missile hit near Polish village wasn’t a Russian attack

By VASILISA STEPANENKO

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, of Calif., talks the media, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022, after voting on top House Republican leadership positions, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., is at right. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Republicans win slim House majority, complicating their ambitious agenda

Threadbare majority will pose immediate challenges for GOP leaders as party engages in finger-pointing about what went wrong; Biden offers congratulations

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., joined from left by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., speaks to reporters following a closed-door policy meeting on the lame duck agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Landmark same-sex marriage legislation clears key Senate hurdle

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian youth call for Jordan River rehabilitation, as part of joint activities organized by the not-for-profit EcoPeace organization. (Courtesy, EcoPeace)

Israel and Jordan pen agreement to clean up Jordan River

Countries pledge to reduce pollution by treating wastewater, connecting towns to sewage infrastructure, rehabilitating ecology, and creating tourism sites and jobs

The former fishpond at Kfar Ruppin in northern Israel that is undergoing rewilding. (Omri salner, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)

Green sceneCompany tries to offset carbon footprint of Israeli COP27 delegates

More Headlines

A C-Dome interceptor missile is fired from an Israeli naval ship in October 2022. (Defense Ministry)

Israeli navy declares ship-mounted version of Iron Dome operational

By Emanuel Fabian

An illustrative view of a Bank Hapoalim branch in central Jerusalem on July 27, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Mortgage lending continues to fall as housing costs, interest rates rise

By Danielle Nagler

Screen capture from video of Larry David featuring in a commercial for cryptocurrency exchange FTX, in 2021. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Larry David, Tom Brady, other celebrities named in class-action lawsuit against FTX

Turkish "televangelist" Adnan Oktar on March 31, 2010. (CC-BY-SA-4.0,3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0 Harun Yahya International/Wikipedia)

Muslim TV preacher sentenced to 8,658 years in jail by Turkish court

By AFP and ToI Staff

Three men are detained for allegedly attempting to loot an archaeological site at Horbat Maaravim (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority's Robbery Prevention Unit)

3 arrested for attempt to loot archaeological site in south

People walk under Palestinian flags in Yarmouk camp in Damascus Syria that has seen heavy fighting during the civil war, Nov. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki, File)

Some Palestinians return to Syria’s war-battered Yarmouk camp

Illustrative. Optalgin. August 20, 2012. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

No link established between teen’s death and painkiller banned in US

This file photo dated June 11, 1952 shows Russian-born French painter Marc Chagall working in the Madoura studio in Vallauris. (MEUNIER / AFP)

Nazi-looted Chagall painting fetches $7.4 million at US auction

By AFP

Women walk in the al-Hol camp that houses some 60,000 refugees, including families and supporters of the Islamic State group, many of them foreign nationals, in Hasakeh province, Syria, May 1, 2021. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and local officials said Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022 that the beheaded bodies of two Egyptian girls were found Tuesday in a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children linked to the Islamic State group. (AP/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)

Beheaded bodies of 2 girls found in Syria camp housing Islamic State families

By Bassam Mroue

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

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