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What Matters Most On Friday, November 18, 2022

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US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides makes a condolence visit to the home of Tamir Avihai in the northern West Bank settlement of Kiryat Netafim, on November 17, 2022. (Roy Hadi)

US envoy ends settlement boycott to make condolence visit for terror victim

‘I came here to show my respect. I think it’s the right thing to do,’ Tom Nides tells victim’s family at northern West Bank home; embassy says visit doesn’t signal policy change

Israeli soldiers arrest a Palestinian teen carrying a knife near Hebron, Novemer 18, 2022. (Rescuers Without Borders)

Palestinian teen arrested with knife near Hebron; shots fired at Tulkarem checkpoint

By Emanuel Fabian

Members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group are seen during the funeral of Mateen Debaya, killed during an Israeli raid, in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank on October 14, 2022. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

In West Bank, undercover troops nab Islamic Jihad man accused of planning attacks

By Emanuel Fabian

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev speaks during a news conference at the Palace of Brigades in Tirana, Albania, Nov. 15, 2022 (AP Photo/Franc Zhurda)

Azerbaijan to open embassy in Israel, the first Muslim Shi’ite country to do so

Hailing move, PM Lapid touts the ‘depth of the relationship’ between the countries

Israel's Ambassador to the UAE with Mateo David and his new Israeli passport, November 17, 2022 (via Twitter).

Israel’s UAE embassy issues first-ever passport to baby born in Gulf country

By Michael Horovitz

Illustrative: President Isaac Herzog boards a plane as he sets off for Ukraine to participate in memorial ceremony marking the 80th anniversary since the babi Yar massacre. (Haim Zach / GPO)

President Herzog to make first-ever state visit to Bahrain next month

By Lazar Berman

A man stands by as what seems to be the former home, now turned museum, of Iran's first supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini being set on fire by protesters, in Khomein, Iran, on November 17, 2022. (Twitter/screenshot: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iranians seen setting fire to ancestral home of Islamic Republic founder Khomeini

In video footage, jubilant protesters march alongside the building as it’s engulfed by flames; hundreds protest against regime at boy’s funeral

Iranians mourn in front of the coffins during a funeral for people killed in a shooting attack, in the city of Izeh in Iran's Khuzestan province, on November 18, 2022. (ALIREZA MOHAMMADI/isna/AFP)

AnalysisExperts fear Iran’s ‘civil war’ warning may herald harsher crackdown on protesters

By David Vujanovic

Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 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)

UN nuclear watchdog issues condemnation of Iran for lack of cooperation

By AFP

Budweiser beer kiosks are pictured at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha on November 18, 2022, ahead of the Qatar 2022 World Cup football tournament (MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP)

Qatar bans sale of alcohol at World Cup stadiums, in U-turn two days before 1st game

By Graham Dunbar

In deal to secure competition, conservative Muslim emirate agreed to FIFA requirement on alcoholic drinks; beer sponsor Budweiser tweets ‘Well, this is awkward…’ before deleting

'Have a sense of honor'

Dermer, said to be top pick for FM, heard bashing Biden ‘weakness’ on Iran

The reported leading candidate to become Israel's next foreign minister made comments harshly critical of US President Joe Biden's administration and its policies toward Iran on a recent podcast, possibly complicating any efforts the incoming government might make to repair frayed ties between prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu... Continue Reading

Ron Dermer speaks to media at Trump Tower on November 17, 2016, in New York. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Religious Zionism party head MK Bezalel Smotrich as party chiefs pose for a group photograph during the swearing-in ceremony of the 25th Knesset, November 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)

Smotrich said to turn down Foreign Ministry, as Netanyahu gov’t talks still stalled

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)

Shas bill aims to amend law, legitimize Deri’s appointment as minister

Brennon Lemieux and Alexa Alfia right after meeting for the first time on season 3 of 'Love Is Blind.' (Patrick Wymore/Netflix)

Interview

First Jewish star of ‘Love is Blind’ says antisemitic threats only make her stronger

American-Israeli citizen Alexa Alfia found love and a husband after putting her identity at the forefront during her appearance on Netflix’s wildly popular reality dating show

Antisemitic graffiti in DC suburb seen as part of growing trend

By ASHRAF KHALIL

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

It’s time for an umbrella party

If Meretz, Labor and Yesh Atid join together, they’ll vie with Likud, and return Israel to the familiar healthy democracy that depends on two strong competing parties

Nature, nurture, and personal choice

Our lives are largely decided by our environments and our DNA, but the biblical Rebecca models how to rise above those factors and choose our own destinies (Chayei Sarah)

Analysis

‘Business, not peace’: Netanyahu win doesn’t change Jordanian views on Israel

On Monday, Jordan’s King Abdullah II phoned Likud chief Benjamin Netanyahu -- in all likelihood Israel's next prime minister -- to congratulate him on his election triumph. The very fact that the conversation happened at all is significant. This was not a pro forma chat between world leaders. While the often-fraught Jordan-Israel relationship is a... Continue Reading

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Jordan's King Abdullah II, during the former's surprise visit to Amman on January 16, 2014. (AP/Yousef Allan/Jordanian Royal Palace/File)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second from left, meets Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi, right, at the State Department on November 8, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US pushes Oman to follow Saudi Arabia in allowing Israeli flights to use airspace

Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu seen after coalition talks at a hotel in Jerusalem on November 16, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

PA calls on world to block Likud plan to formalize several illegal outposts

Ramallah says deal with far-right Otzma Yehudit is ‘sabotage’ to prospects of future peace based on the two-state principle

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riad al-Maliki (L) and Palestinian Ambassador to Germany Laith Arafeh visit the Holocaust memorial in Berlin on November 17, 2022. (Laith Arafeh/ Twitter)

Palestinian FM visits Berlin Holocaust memorial: ‘Most heinous crime in history’

Inside story

From Baltimore bat mitzvahs to pushing Israeli poetry, Pelosi’s Jewish ties ran deep

JTA — Five days after Nancy Pelosi made history in 2007 as the first woman elected to be speaker of the US House of Representatives, she held an event at her alma mater, the private Roman Catholic university, Trinity Washington. She asked a rabbi, the Reform movement’s David Saperstein, to headline the event because she saw the movement as taking... Continue Reading

United States House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, left, drinks a toast with Speaker of the Knesset, Dalia Itzik, during a ceremony at the Knesset on April 1, 2007. (Michal Fattal/Flash90)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, acknowledges applause from lawmakers after speaking on the House floor at the Capitol in Washington, November 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Nancy Pelosi to step down as Democrats’ House leader, plans to stay in Congress

By LISA MASCARO

Johnny Berchtold and Lily McInerny in 'Camp Siegfried.' (Photo by Emilio Madrid)

Theater review

An adorkable actor can’t save gimmicky ‘Camp Siegfried,’ set at Nazi retreat in NY

By Jordan Hoffman

While well-executed and boasting fabulous talent, the off-Broadway show based on a true place ultimately feels like not much more than a cleverly-written teenage love story

Countless glowing galaxies of all shapes and sizes speckling the black backdrop of space. Toward the center left, a red dot, a never-before-seen galaxy discovered by Webb.(NASA/ESA/CSA/Tommaso Treu - UCLA)

Webb telescope spies likely oldest galaxies ever found, upending cosmic timeline

Two super-bright galaxies from universe’s earliest years point to stars possibly being formed 100 million years before previously thought, though more data needed to verify claim

Front page of the October 19, 1944 issue of 'Lahayal,' the daily newspaper for Jewish soldiers in Europe published in Italy. Top headlines are about the progress of the Allies in Europe.(Courtesy of the National Library of Israel)

In Op-Eds, soldiers argued about politics in the Yishuv

Trove of publications by WWII Jewish soldiers from Palestine gets new home at NLI

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Newspapers, journals, and other periodicals produced by Jewish units from Palestine in British Army reveal rich intellectual and emotional lives of soldiers fighting in Europe

Rare Shakespeare manuscripts among documents donated to National Library of Israel

By Tobias Siegal

Infantrymen of the British Eighth Army advance through a gap in Nazi minefield in front of the Mareth Line in Tunisia on March 25, 1943. (AP Photo/British Official Photo)

Eighty years later, the little known story of the Nazi occupation of Tunisia

By Sarah Abrevaya Stein

Between November 1942 to May 1943, the SS imprisoned 5,000 Jewish men in roughly 40 forced labor and detention camps on the front lines and in cities like Tunis

A scene from 'Rogue Heroes,' a TV series about the origin of Britain’s elite Special Air Service, which premiered November 13, 2022, on Epix. (Screenshot: YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

TV review

TV series ‘Rogue Heroes’ explores chaotic, desert-based Nazi-busting WWII unit

Britain’s elite Special Air Service was created by misfits who eschewed traditional military hierarchy and conducted daring attacks on Nazi convoys in North Africa

Actor, artist and singer Robert Clary poses for a portrait in his home studio on February 26, 2014, in Beverly Hills, California. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Robert Clary, survivor of Nazi camps and last of ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ stars, dies at 96

Christie's employees look towards a family portrait from 1992 by Lucian Freud, at their auction rooms in London, April 28, 2016. The painting was valued at 18 million UK pounds, 26.25 million US dollars. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth/File)

Freud's friends reunion

Lucian Freud centenary exhibit reunites artist with closest friends

An example from the Environmental Protection Ministry's climate risk map for the northern coastal city of Acre. (Environmental Protection Ministry)

Environment Ministry unveils details of climate risk map to help policymakers

Inspired by a US national risk index, an interactive portal getting a pilot next year will provide detailed information on different locations’ vulnerability to potential disasters

US special climate envoy John Kerry stands in the middle of leaders and officials who have committed to take their governments to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, at the US pavilion, COP27 climate conference, Sharm el;-Sheikh, Egypt. Outgoing Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg stands to his right in a green suit. Dekel Cohen from the Accountant General's Office is on the far left. (Environmental Protection Ministry)

Israel joins US-Canada plan for net zero carbon emissions in government by 2050

An aerial view of the northern city of Nahariya, March 2018. (Vicu9 via iStock by Getty Images)

Housing snapshot: Home sales and rentals across Israel

By Danielle Nagler

More Headlines

Palestinian firefighters extinguish flames in an apartment ravaged by fire in the Jabaliya camp in the northern Gaza strip, on November 17, 2022. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

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

By Jack Mukand and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A medical team performs surgery in a modern operating room. (gorodenkoff; iStock by Getty Images)

Patient demands $166,000 after surgeons operate on wrong leg

Illustrative: Construction in Rishon Lezion on August 8, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Construction worker dies after being hit by ceramic tiles in Rishon Lezion

Rescue workers search for survivors after an explosion at Israeli military headquarters in the Lebanese city of Tyre in 1982. (Wikimedia Commons/IDF Archive)

Israel reopens probe into deadly 1982 blast at army headquarters during Lebanon war

By Emanuel Fabian

Illustrative image: a pharmacist (JackF via iStock by Getty Images)

Escalating drug shortage poses danger to Israelis’ health, warns head pharmacist

By Nathan Jeffay

Director Quentin Tarantino poses on the red carpet for his Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony at the 16th edition of the Rome Film Fest in Rome, October 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Quentin unchainedTarantino to direct his first TV series, premiering in early 2023

Zvi Levran in a booking photo at Oakland County Jail on November 11, 2022. (Oakland County Sherriff's Office)

Michigan youth hockey doctor, mohel accused of widespread sexual assault

By AP

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

Man jailed for 15 years over rape of 82-year-old visually impaired woman

By Sara Serfaty

Israeli taekwondo fighter Dana Azran after winning the silver medal at the World Taekwondo Championships, on November 18, 2022 (Israeli Taekwondo Federation)

Israeli Dana Azran wins silver at World Taekwondo Championships

A receptionist works in the lobby of the building that houses the Twitter office in New York, Oct. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Twitter employees depart in growing numbers after Musk poses ‘hardcore’ ultimatum

By AFP

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman takes his seat ahead of a working lunch at the G20 Summit, November 15, 2022, in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. (Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP)

Biden administration says Saudi crown prince should be immune in Khashoggi killing

By Ellen Knickmeyer and Matthew Lee

A man watches a television showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul on November 18, 2022. (Anthony WALLACE / AFP)

North Korea said to fire intercontinental missile able to hit US mainland

By AFP

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