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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 7, 2016

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks before a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 3, 2015 (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Analysis

In opposing Obama, Netanyahu played a risky hand, seems to have won

By Raphael Ahren

Six weeks before Inauguration Day, doomsday predictions about shattered relations and the outgoing president’s wrath striking Israel at the Security Council appear erroneous

Hollande invites Abbas, Netanyahu to parley in Paris

Obama: Diplomacy that produced Iran deal needed for Mideast peace

By ToI Staff and AFP

Obama calls defeat of terror by dropping more bombs a ‘false promise’

By KEVIN FREKING and Josh Lederman

IDF soldiers take part in a training exercise on October 26, 2010. (Michal Shvadron/IDF spokesperson/Flash90)

Why do Israeli men live so long? Army service, study says

By Tamar Pileggi

New research indicates mandatory draft indirectly responsible for higher-than-average life expectancy among men

Screen shot of footage of alleged Israeli missile strike on the Syrian Mazzeh airbase near Damascus on December 7, 2016. (Credit: Twitter)

Syria blames Israel for overnight attack on a military airbase

Official alleges surface-to-surface missiles lobbed from Golan Heights; Hezbollah accuses IAF in separate bombing near Damascus

Senior Russian officer killed in Aleppo

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli map reveals thousands of Hezbollah positions along border

Israeli jets said to strike Syrian army, Hezbollah sites

Syrian government troops patrol the newly captured al-Sakhour neighborhood in the eastern part of the northern city of Aleppo on December 7, 2016. (AFP /GEORGE OURFALIAN)

Live updates (closed)

Bill to legalize outposts on Palestinian land passes first reading

By Joshua Davidovich

Assad says Aleppo victory won’t end war, but will bring resolution closer; Netanyahu tells Paris he’ll meet Abbas if peace summit scotched; Likud renegade Begin calls outpost bill ‘not smart, responsible or stable’

Adam Krief with his wife, Lia (Facebook)

Jewish cancer patient finds bone marrow donor following worldwide search

By JTA

Efforts to save Adam Krief received worldwide attention, and support from celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, Mayim Bialik and Jason Biggs

Students run by a bomb shelter in an elementary school in the coastal city of Ashkelon (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Comptroller: Israel woefully unprepared for rocket onslaught

By Judah Ari Gross

In scathing report documenting government’s myriad failings for future war, Yosef Shapira says up to 50% of Israelis lack proper bomb shelter

Devorah Israeli, of Nitzan, with 8-year-old Idan and 6-month-old Ron in the sewage pipe bomb shelter next to her caravilla during Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Opposition lambasts government ‘neglect’ over home front report

US Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) at a meeting of the Democratic National Committee on Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, in Denver, Colorado. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

The aggressive, the accepting and the noncommittal: Where Jewish leaders stand on Ellison’s DNC bid

By Eric Cortellessa

As Democrats struggle with an electoral crisis and selecting a new party chair, prominent Jews have mixed feelings on the Minnesota congressman’s bid to revitalize a beleaguered party

Mattis said Israel can be a pain, but few in pro-Israel camp seem to care. Why?

Four liberal Jewish groups join call on Trump to nix national security adviser choice

By JTA

Online petition calls on Trump to move US Embassy to Jerusalem

By JTA

BDS failing to meet its academic goals

Collaboration between US and Israeli universities has risen by 45%, despite aggressive, costly campaigns against it

Stephen Hazan Arnoff

The still, small voice of Leonard Cohen

The prescience of the singer-songwriter’s 1992 lyrics describing the engine of survival, in the week of his shloshim

Antibiotics crisis! How you can help

‘Superbugs’ kill 700,000 people a year — without decisive steps, antimicrobial resistance will get far worse

Jimmy Carter is at it again

The former president’s blame of Israel is so unfounded that it would be laughable if it weren’t so disturbing

US State Department spokesman Mark Toner briefs the press on Thursday, June 9, 2015 (Youtube screenshot)

US calls Regulation Bill ‘profoundly damaging’

By AFP and ToI Staff

State Department hopes outpost legalization bill, which has received preliminary approval, ‘does not become law’

View of the Amona outpost in the West Bank, on November 28, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Revised outpost legalization bill cleared for Knesset vote

View of the Amona outpost in the West Bank, on November 28, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Ahead of evacuation, new legal troubles set to derail Amona plan

Temporary relocation of illegally built outpost to three nearby plots likely canceled over new legal appeals

An undated file photograph of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and late Cuban Pesident Fidel Castro, made available by the Palestinian Authority in Gaza City of the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Palestinian Authority)

Ramallah to name street after Fidel Castro

By JTA

PA announces ‘gesture of gratitude’ to late Cuban leader for his support over the years

View of the a mosque in the Old City of Acre, in Northern Israel on October 24, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Vote on mosque-muffling bill delayed for third time

By Marissa Newman

Sponsor says he has to revise proposal before it can be brought to vote; others say postponement due to interfaith efforts

The Indigo Index's top 25 countries - click to enlarge. (courtesy)

Israel ranks only 36th out of 152 nations in new innovation index

By Shoshanna Solomon

Shining in economic diversity and digital economy, the ‘startup nation’ trails in stability and freedom in Indigo Index

Richard Spencer, a white supremacist who runs a Washington think tank, the National Policy Institute. (Screenshot from YouTube via JTA)

Thousands protest white nationalist’s speech at Texas university

By ToI Staff and AP

Police restore order on campus after scuffles break out during Richard Spencer’s appearance at Texas A&M

Elysha Netsarh visiting the US from Madagascar to speak about the Jewish community there. (Josefin Dolsten/JTA)

In Madagascar, ‘world’s newest Jewish community’ seeks roots

By Josefin Dolsten

German Chancellor Angela Merkel smiles after addressing delegates during her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party's congress in Essen, western Germany, on December 6, 2016. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)

Facing reelection, Merkel calls for Muslim veil ban

German leader launches campaign by defying anti-immigration populists, but talks tough on integration

Shlomo Pinto at a hearing at a Haifa court on October 14, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Israeli convicted of stabbing a Jew he mistook for an Arab

Shlomo Pinto found guilty of attempted murder in intended revenge attack over wave of Palestinian knifings

Rabbi Yosef Elizur (c) speaks with his lawyer in the Rishon Lezion court. August 2010 (Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

AG to seek indictment for rabbi accused of incitement

New investigation to be opened against ‘Torat Hamelech’ author said to praise hate crimes and permit killing gentiles

One of the installations at The Midrasha, a new, one-month exhibit that opened Thursday, December 1, at the Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

When the art school becomes the subject of its own art

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

The entrance to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work makes you free'). (Joel Saget/AFP)

Holocaust survivors rush to beat deadline on Poland claims

Illustrative: The Hapoel Tel Aviv Football Club (photo credit: Margalit Slovin/Flash90)

Hapoel Tel Aviv soccer club heading for bankruptcy

Vials of fat used in the Bonus BioGroup bone-construction process. (photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli company performs first transplant of lab-grown bones

This billboard ad for “The Man in the High Castle” is irking some. (Screenshot from Twitter)

‘Man in the High Castle’ billboard shows Statue of Liberty giving Nazi salute

By JTA

Otto's self driving truck carries a shipment of Budweiser 120 miles with no driver in the seat. (YouTube screenshot)

Retaking wheel of self-driving cars ‘especially risky’ — study

By Shoshanna Solomon

Bernard Marcus (ROBERT HUFFSTUTTER / Wikipedia)

Hillel receives record $38m gift to hire, train staff

By JTA

In this 2012 photo, a police officer stands near the scene where a large lighting rig collapsed and killed Lt. Hila Betzaleli. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

2 get jail terms for fatal 2012 accident at Mount Herzl

A golden statue of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is toppled in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on December 6, 2016, hours after it was placed overnight by artist Itay Zalait, without permission from the Tel Aviv municipality. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe plotz thickens

By Joshua Davidovich

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