Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin numerous times over the last few years, mostly to ensure absolute coordination on the Syrian front, which Russia entered in 2015. In addition to their meetings, both leaders speak often by phone. When Syrian soldiers shot down a Russian jet and Israel was blamed for the miscommunication, Netanyahu and Putin were able to iron out the situation and ease some of the ensuing tensions.
However, recently, an unusual Chinese media report has surfaced claiming that Russia has reportedly come into possession of an Israeli interceptor missile fired in July 2018, when Syrian forces launched two missiles during clashes with rebels near Israel’s border.

Israel, the United States and Brazil were the only three countries to vote against a U.N. General Assembly resolution on Thursday to condemn the U.S. embargo of Cuba for the 28th year.
The measure passed 187-3, with Ukraine and Colombia abstaining.
Last year, the tally was 189-2 with only Israel and the United States voting in opposition, with no abstentions.
UNGA resolutions are not legally binding nor enforceable.
The U.S. embargo on Cuba was enacted in 1960 after the revolution led by Fidel Castro. Two years later, it was extended to include virtually all exports.

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg enters the 2020 race.
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This week Germany marks the 81st anniversary of Kristallnacht, “The Night of Broken Glass.” The nationwide Nazi pogrom against that country’s Jewish community took place on Nov. 9-10, 1938, and is chiefly remembered for the destruction of so many Jewish-owned stores, buildings and synagogues—debris filling the streets with shards of glass from shattered windows and doors.

Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Motzei Shabbos responded to MK Avigdor Liberman, Yisrael Beytenu’s chairman, slamming him for preferring the Arab parties to his own brothers.
According to Smotrich, Liberman plans to join a government with the Joint Arab List.
“I understand that he’s going to sit in the same government as them, just so that he won’t have to sit with the religious sector,” Smotrich wrote.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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New Jersey Democrat Rep. Tom Malinowski weighs in on the latest in the impeachment inquiry.
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New police statistics show an increase in anti-Semitic hate crimes targeting Jewish riders on New York City subways, The City reported on Wednesday.
Since Oct. 20, the New York Police Department has logged 42 hate-crime complaints involving anti-Semitic acts in the subway—a 162 percent increase over similar incidents reported through that same date in 2018.
The incidents include a June 13 encounter at a station in Brooklyn in which a 26-year-old man allegedly yelled “Heil, Hitler!” and “All Jews must die!” at a 33-year-old man before grabbing the latter’s phone and flinging it at an incoming train, according to the Brooklyn district attorney’s office.

Republican Sen. Tom Cotton sounds off on the Biden family being protected in the Ukraine investigation.
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President Trump said Saturday he will “probably” release the transcript of another phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky next week as the House impeachment investigation enters a new, public phase.
Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews that he will likely release the transcript Tuesday of a conversation he had with Zelensky in April, three months before a second conversation the two leaders had that is now at the heart of the impeachment inquiry.
“They want to have a transcript of the other call, the second call, and I’m willing to provide that,” Trump said Saturday. “You’ll read the second call, and you’ll tell me if there’s anything wrong with it.”

Once a staunch pro-Israel Illinois congressman between 2011 and 2013, Joe Walsh launched this past summer a long-shot Republican primary challenge to U.S. President Donald Trump, whom many have deemed to be the most pro-Israel figure ever in the White House.

 
After losing re-election in 2012, Walsh, 57, hosted a radio show until he announced his candidacy.
He and his wife, Helene, have five children.
JNS talked with Walsh by phone on Nov. 1. The interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.