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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 17, 2015

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The INS Rahav, a Dolphin class made by German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp, sets off from the German port of Kiel toward Haifa, December 17, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Israel’s newest submarine leaves Germany, bound for Haifa

By Judah Ari Gross

The nuclear-capable INS Rahav will join the Navy’s four other Dolphin-class submarines in Israel next month

Iran: We will continue developing missiles

Jordanian air force pilots pay ‘working visit’ to Israel

Rouhani expects Iran sanctions to be lifted by next month

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, in Cannes in 2011. (Shutterstock)

Bar Refaeli probed for tax fraud, must get permission to leave the country

Gag order lifted on case of supermodel, who was questioned for 12 hours Wednesday; authorities allege she falsely claimed not to live in Israel, failed to report ‘tens of millions of shekels’ in benefits

Turkish and Israeli flags (via Shutterstock)

Live updates (closed)

Israel and Turkey outline plan to renormalize diplomatic ties

By Adiv Sterman

Netanyahu passes controversial gas deal, says move is ‘essential’ for Israel’s security; 7 women claim interior minister sexually harassed them

Co-authors of 'The Ambassador': former diplomat Yehuda Avner and writer Matt Rees in Avner's Jerusalem apartment. (courtesy)

Could a pre-Holocaust Israel have thwarted Hitler?

By Jenni Frazer

‘The Ambassador,’ co-authored by late diplomat Yehuda Avner and writer Matt Rees, asks whether Europe’s Jews could have been saved by an Israeli envoy to Nazi Germany

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, on December 16, 2015.(Haim Zach/GPO)

PM, opposition chief spar over Breaking the Silence, anti-Rivlin comments

By Marissa Newman

Netanyahu to Herzog: Condemn the NGO; Herzog to Netanyahu: Condemn the ‘terrible and awful incitement’ against president; Lapid condemns them both

B’Tselem: Israel used ‘excessive’ force against Palestinian attackers

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Righty Im Tirtzu faces backlash over ‘foreign agent’ clip

By Raoul Wootliff

Over 200 South African scholars pledge to boycott Israel

By JTA

Melanie Takefman

Human rights organizations ARE Zionism

It is not the salary, but national loyalty that drives the social activists protecting Israel’s most vulnerable

Israeli lives matter

Ongoing terror can desensitize you to loss; a new Facebook page combats that, remembering each precious life

Changing the interfaith narrative

Middle East rhetoric can blind people to the real story: when humanity works in harmony, bigotry cannot stand

Stories of the Neighborhood

It was a no-food event, but those hungry for connection came to hear 3 locals share their colorful life stories

An illustrative photo of a Kuwait Airways plane taking off from Berlin-Tegel Airport in Germany in September 2014. (screen capture: YouTube)

Rather than carry Israelis, Kuwait Airways drops NYC-London route

By JTA

US officials say refusing to transport Israelis violates US law, airline notes doing so risks violating Kuwaiti law

A soldier stands guard outside a synagogue in Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris, France, January 13, 2015. (AP/Christophe Ena)

Paris synagogue daubed with poisonous substance

By JTA

14 members of Jewish committee mildly injured in suspected anti-Semitic attack

File: Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah delivers a speech shown on a screen during a rally in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatiyeh, May 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

US Congress votes to punish banks financing Hezbollah

By AFP and ToI Staff

House of Representatives unanimously approves bill to crack down on financial institutions knowingly doing business with Shiite group

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s 'Di Goldene Kale' ('The Golden Bride'), a 1923 operetta that’s playing at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. (Ben Moody/JTA)

In today’s refugee crisis, rediscovered Yiddish opera has fresh relevance

By Curt Schleier

Even with its ‘typically implausible’ plot, 1923’s ‘The Golden Bride’ is a tale of fresh starts and the belief in the American dream

Illustrative: Israeli Border Police officers during clashes with Palestinian protesters at the Hawara checkpoint on October 11, 2015. (Flash90)

West Bank stabbing attempt thwarted by soldiers — IDF

Attacker shot, killed by troops in Hawara, outside Nablus, as he tried to knife soldiers, army says

A building site in the Gilo neighborhood in Jerusalem (Uri Lenz / Flash90)

Jerusalem okays almost 900 new homes over Green Line

Committee approves plan for 891 apartments in Gilo neighborhood, which was delayed so as not to coincide with Netanyahu visit to US

Former International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo (photo credit: AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Interview

Ex-ICC prosecutor praises, but doesn’t endorse, Israeli report on settlements’ legality

By Raphael Ahren

‘You have great lawyers in Israel. You have to present your side of the argument,’ Luis Moreno Ocampo says during visit to Jerusalem

Holocaust survivor Robbie Waisman (left) with Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada head Justice Murray Sinclair. (Courtesy)

Holocaust survivor helps Canada’s kidnapped aboriginals heal

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Octogenarian Robbie Waisman active in national effort to address 150 years of murder and abuse faced by First Nations children

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders looks over the crowd during a speech at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., Monday, Sept. 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

At mosque, Bernie Sanders slams Trump, recalls Holocaust

By JTA

‘We must never forget’ where racism leads, Democratic hopeful tells panel of Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders

Russian President Vladimir Putin (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool via AP)

Putin calls Trump an ‘outstanding, talented’ man

By AFP

Russian president welcomes leading US Republican candidate’s remarks on improving relations, avoids domestic issues

Interior Minister Silvan Shalom, October 6, 2015. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

2nd ex-employee levels sexual harassment charges at minister; probe later closed

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

G. tells police that Interior Minister Shalom repeatedly tried to touch her, invited her to his hotel room while he was naked

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) leads the weekly government conference, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 13, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu signs natural gas deal, passing major hurdle

By Raoul Wootliff and Melanie Lidman

But critics vow to take fight to court, signaling year-long battle over deal with conglomerate to extract gas from offshore fields will continue

Israeli and Chinese officials at the cornerstone laying ceremony for the Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology in China, December 16, 2015 (Courtesy)

Technion lays cornerstone for China campus

By David Shamah

Joint venture between Israeli institute and Shantou University to advance research, innovation in engineering

Druze horsewoman and trainer Rajaa Kheir battles to saddle a stray horse on September 17, 2015, at her ranch in the Druze town of Majdal Shams, in the southern foothills of Mount Hermon, north of the Golan Heights. (AFP/JALAA MAREY)

Lone Druze woman takes the reins to tame horses on the Golan

By Majeda El Batsh

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A screen shot showing imperial troops massed in a Nazi-like rally in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." (screen capture: YouTube)

In new ‘Star Wars,’ echoes of famous films, including Nazi propaganda

Adam Sandler singing "The Chanukah Song." (YouTube screenshot)

Unhappy GilmoreSandler rips Waters, BDS in f*ck-filled Israel defense

By JTA

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks during the Sunshine Summit conference being held at the Rosen Shingle Creek on November 13, 2015, Orlando, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Inconceivable‘Princess Bride’ fan Cruz doesn’t get film, actor charges

Illustrative photos of newspapers at the Las Vegas Review-Journal in Las Vegas on March 31, 2006. (AP/Jae C. Hong, File)

Adelson named as secret buyer of major Vegas newspaper

By Agencies and ToI Staff

The gold mask of King Tutankhamun on display in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, December 16, 2015. (AP/Nariman El-Mofty)

Fixer upperKing Tut’s mask back on display after beard glued on

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld attends the American Friends Of Magen David Adom's Red Star Ball at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on October 22, 2015 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for MDA)

Carb NaziNo babka for Seinfeld in Tel Aviv

By Jessica Steinberg

German prosecutors to investigate a man with a tattoo of what appears to be the Auschwitz death camp on his back in a public swimming pool in Oranienburg, eastern Germany on December 1, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

Far-right politician charged in Germany for Auschwitz tattoo

By AP

Brokers at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Tel Aviv ’boutique’ stock exchange looks for new recruits

By David Shamah

Interior Minister Silvan Shalom attends the Mediterranean Dialogues (MED), a three-day conference on security in the Mediterranean region, on December 11, 2015 in Rome. (AFP PHOTO/ALBERTO PIZZOLI)

Hebrew media reviewModel behavior

By Ilan Ben Zion

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