Corbyn finally apologizes for anti-Semitism * PM, Gantz meet amid new unity reports * PM mocks 333 witnesses * Swastikas at DC’s Sixth & I * Rev ealed: 4th Soviet WWII spy

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Tuesday, December 3, 2019 [Pressed repeatedly, UK’s Corbyn says sorry for anti-Semitism row]( By [TOI staff]( [Asked during TV interview for apology to Jewish community over his handling of anti-Semitism in his party, leader says he has dealt with issue]( [Hugh Grant hits UK campaign trail with Luciana Berger, Jewish MP who quit Labour]( By [Cnaan Liphshiz]( [UK Labour Party omits Jews from campaign video promoting minority rights]( By [JTA and TOI staff]( Live updates [Unity deal emerging, would see Lapid tapped as foreign minister — report]( By [TOI staff]( [Ahead of Gantz-Netanyahu meeting, TV report says proposal would see Likud leader vacate premiership after 6 months; Gabi Ashkenazi would be appointed defense chief]( [2 Yisrael Beytenu MKs said pressing Liberman to join right-wing government]( By [TOI staff]( [Party leader says hard to decide whether fresh elections or narrow coalition is worse, understands why his lawmakers ‘rebelling’ against Blue and White’s conduct]( [Committee sets February 25 as earliest date for possible 3rd election]( By [TOI staff]( [Justice minister vows to tap interim state attorney, setting up clash with AG]( By [TOI staff]( [Netanyahu mocks long witness list in charge sheet, claims it shows he’s innocent]( By [TOI staff]( [‘When there’s a real case, you don’t need 333 witnesses,’ premier tweets, appearing to accuse Mandelblit — a Netanyahu appointee and associate — of political bias against him]( [Israel media review / Case 333: 6 things to know for December 3]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [Knesset legal adviser: Netanyahu indictment must wait until immunity decision]( By [Raoul Wootliff and Stuart Winer]( [Sara Netanyahu testifies for 3 hours in libel case, is heckled outside court]( By [TOI staff]( [Swastikas, anti-Semitic slurs carved in door of Washington’s Sixth & I synagogue]( By [JTA]( [‘It is no small irony that it was our doors, symbols of welcoming and inclusivity, onto which someone spewed hatred and bigotry,’ rabbis tells congregants in email]( [Linda Sarsour backs Bernie Sanders, but not his support for Israel]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [US 2020 elections / Jon Ossoff and Joe Lieberman’s son are vying for Georgia’s two 2020 Senate seats]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Gantz opposes mutual defense pact with US, warns it could ‘tie hands’ of IDF]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [Blue and White leader says treaty would break with decades of defense policy, questions whether Netanyahu can be trusted to formulate such a deal amid legal woes]( [Pompeo: Iran the common enemy in Mideast anti-government protests]( By [AFP and TOI staff]( [For first time, Iran acknowledges killing ‘rioters’ during fuel price protests]( By [Jon Gambrell]( [Trump slams Iran over ‘big numbers’ killed in protest crackdown]( By [AFP]( inside story [As Leviathan gas platform prepares to start production, not everyone is cheering]( By [Sue Surkes]( [While Texas-based Noble Energy invests heavily in charm offensive, coastal cities, environmental groups worry that rig so close to shore will damage quality of life]( [100 local government officials call for more renewable energy]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Report: Israel to get hotter, drier barring major reduction in greenhouse gases]( By [Stuart Winer and AP]( Top Ops [Adi Weitzhandler]( [Can Israel win the trade war?]( [Caught between the two world superpowers, Israel is wise to continue its cooperation with China]( [Yaakov Ophir and Hananel Rosenberg]( [Calm down everyone, social media is not killing our kids]( [The moral panic — triggered by flawed science — over the ‘dire’ effects of screen time won’t help address the actual challenges Web use raises for children]( [Geoff Winston]( [Life’s beauty outshines the shadow of evil]( [On an inspiring chance encounter with Moshe Holtzberg, who survived the Mumbai terror attack that killed his parents]( [Ann D. 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