JERUSALEM (AP) — In the first sign of rebellion with Israel’s ruling right-wing Likud, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s top party rival called for a leadership primary should the country go into an unprecedented third election in less than a year, as is expected. Gideon Saar’s remarks came as Israel’s ceremonial president announced that for the […]

Israel launched a broad wave of precision airstrikes early on Wednesday morning, hitting dozens of Iranian and Syrian military targets, and sending a very strong message that Israel is rejecting Iran’s attempt to force new “rules of the game” against it.
Most of the Iranian military targets that were hit were situated within Syrian military bases, underlying the Iranian tactic of embedding and disguising its threatening presence within the Syrian Arab Army.
According to international media reports, 23 people, including 16 “foreigners”—an apparent reference to Iranian operatives—were killed in the strikes.

Just hours before Wednesday’s midnight deadline, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz returned the mandate to form a government to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. Like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before him, Gantz was unable to form a majority coalition during the 28 days allotted to him to do so.
Now, for the first time in the nation’s history, the mandate goes to the Knesset for a 21-day period during which any of the 120 Knesset members can attempt garner 61 signatures of support and then present themselves to the president as a candidate for prime minister.

An Israeli policeman is to be indicted for “manslaughter” over the killing of a young man of Ethiopian origin in June, an incident that sparked widespread protests, police said Tuesday.
Solomon Teka, 19, was killed by an unnamed off-duty policeman in Kiryat Haim, near the northern port city of Haifa on June 30.
Teka’s death sparked three days of nationwide protests that were often violent over longstanding grievances of Israeli-Ethiopians, who say they are discriminated against and targeted by police.
The policeman, who was placed under house arrest in the weeks following the killing, is accused of manslaughter, according to the findings of a police investigation.

The Democratic presidential candidates momentarily sidelined the impeachment inquiry on Wednesday night, when they met in Atlanta for the November MSNBC-Washington Post debate.
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Rav Aharon Katzenellenbogen of Brisk, author of Minchas Aharon (1854).
Rav Moshe Midner of Slonim-Baranowitz, a grandson of the Yesod Ha’avodah and a talmid of Rav Chaim Brisker Soloveitchik. He was mashgiach of Yeshivas Toras Chessed.
Rav Yehosef Rottenberg of Kosson (1912)
Today in History – 23 Cheshvan

· Stones of the Mizbeach defiled by the Greeks were removed from the Beis Hamikdash and a yom tov was established to mark the date, 164 BCE
· Edward I of England arrests 680 Jews for alleged counterfeiting and puts them on trial, 1278. The judges sentence 269 Jews to death by hanging, and Edward received 16,500 pounds sterling from the property of the executed Jews,

‘Fox News Sunday’ anchor Chris Wallace previews the impeachment hearing testimony from U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland.
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Nearly eight months have passed since Cook County, Illinois, prosecutors astonished the public (and several Chicago officials) by dropping their case against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, who had been charged with lying to police about a bigoted attack against him. But a related legal battle surges on.
This week, Smollett filed a counterclaim against the city of Chicago’s April lawsuit demanding he pay $130,000 to make up for the 1,836 hours of police overtime spent looking into the alleged hate crime. In that suit, the city stated its intention to also seek attorneys’ fees and a civil penalty of $1,000 for each of Smollett’s alleged lies. But the actor’s lawyers claimed the city “is not entitled” to any of this.

Michael Bloomberg — likely on the verge of announcing a White House bid — announced Wednesday that he will spend $15 million to $20 million on a voter registration drive in battleground states to help the Democrats defeat President Trump in the general election.
The billionaire and three-term former New York City mayor touted the investment a week after he revealed plans bankroll $100 million in ads targeting Trump in battleground states.
“Mike is taking the fight directly to Trump where it matters most — in general election battleground states,” said Bloomberg spokesman Jason Schechter. “He did it last week through a $100 million digital ad buy. He’s doing it this week at the ballot box.”