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What Matters Most On Friday, December 9, 2016

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Jewish residents of the unauthorized Israeli outpost of Amona, in the West Bank, seen walking on the streets of the settlement on November 17, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

State set to request delay of Amona evacuation

Despite two-year notice given by court, PM says more time needed to prepare housing for residents set to be evacuated by Dec. 25

Religious youth group urges ‘struggle’ against Amona evacuation

Hundreds of soldiers, police train for Amona evacuation

UN blacklist of companies working in settlements advances

Kirk Douglas with wife Anne at Sunset Tower in West Hollywood, Calif., Feb. 24, 2013. (Mark Sullivan/WireImage/JTA)

Kirk Douglas at 100, still in love with soulmate Anne

By Frankie TAGGART

Iconic Jewish actor and philanthropist credits remarkable longevity to his ‘wonderful marriage’ of more than six decades

Iran's theme park City of Games for Revolutionary Children, located in Mashad (MEMRI)

At Iran amusement park, kids can fire plastic bullets at Netanyahu effigy

City of Games for Revolutionary Children teaches youngsters about Islamic Republic’s military history, psyche them up for battle

Beit Shemesh-based rock and hip-hop band Shtar (Yirmiyahu Vann)

Orthodox band’s family men defy stereotypes to rock out

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Combining hip-hop talent with a love of Torah, Ramat Beit Shemesh band Shtar shows things in Israel aren’t as black and white as its members’ clothing

Avi Liberman takes questions at the Jerusalem premiere of his movie 'Comedy Road' on October 20, 2016 (Times of Israel)

Trump this

Ready for Trump Temple in J’lem? Just kidding

‘Not a single Mexican has ever gotten over’ Israel’s Wall, jokes comedian, imagining the president-elect happily visiting the holy land

Gratitude vs. instant gratification

Conflicting values: Thanksgiving followed by Black Friday…CyberMonday…and the miracle of Hanukkah (with presents)

The birth of the world’s oldest hate

Jacob is the voice of hope, an eternal paradigm of the human capacity to survive the hatred of others

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

God and the fires

Can it be that divine wrath at human moral and religious failure manifests as natural disasters and catastrophes?

That infamous Israeli customer service

3 first-hand examples of consumer dissatisfaction — he blames senior management

Rescue personnel at the scene of an accident in Nahal Tze'elim in the Negev on December 9, 2016, in which a university lecturer died trying to save his son as he fell from a cliff. (Arad Rescue Team via Channel 10)

Man dies in plunge off cliff in Negev when trying to save son

Father named as university lecturer Omri Nir, who jumped after 10-year-old when he slipped during climb; child in serious condition

Illustrative: The Arrow 3 missile is launched from Palmachim air base in central Israel on December 10, 2015. (Defense Ministry)

Congress okays $600m. for Israel missile defense

By AP and ToI Staff

Defense Bill provisions include cooperation on research and development programs, procurement of Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow 3

First two F-35 jets en route to Israel

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Stealth aircraft to touch down at Nevatim Air Base for reception ceremony to be attended by US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter

The IDF's Ofrit base near the Hebrew University's Mount Scopus campus in Jerusalem. (John832/Wikimapia)

Shin Bet busts terror cell planning to shoot up IDF base in the capital

By Judah Ari Gross

Eight East Jerusalem residents began plotting attack while in prison for lesser offenses, security agency says

An Israeli military vehicle on standby near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on March 30, 2015 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

IDF arrests armed Gaza man who crossed into Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian carrying knife, grenade caught by troops who monitored him as he set out from northern Strip

Ultra-Orthodox teenagers take part in a selection trial into the IDF's paratroopers Brigade, December, 2016.(Eliezer Liani/Defense Ministry)

In a first, ultra-Orthodox teens complete trial for paratroopers brigade

Defense Ministry hails integration program that will see 45 youths drafted into the elite unit later this month

View of Lebanon as seen from the Israeli side of the border, November 10, 2016. (Doron Horowitz/FLASH90)

IDF map of Hezbollah positions revealed as fabrication

By Judah Ari Gross

Army forced to admit graphic touted as ‘declassified,’ shown to foreign diplomats as real intelligence, was an ‘illustration’

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (left) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving in Jerusalem on February 24, 2014. (Sebastian Scheiner/AFP)

Merkel’s party praised for labeling BDS anti-Semitic

Statement from Christian Democratic Union equates Israel boycott movement with pre-WWII moves against German’s Jews

Pearl Harbor survivor Aaron Chabin, 89, attends a ceremony commemorating the 71st anniversary of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 2012 in New York City (John Moore/Getty Images via JTA)

Jewish Pearl Harbor survivor recalls chaos, resilience on day of attack

Illustrative: An Islamic State terrorist waves the jihadist organization's flag (CC BY-SA Alatele fr, Flickr)

US official: Some 50,000 Islamic State terrorists killed since 2014

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Military official says number is ‘conservative estimate,’ notes group has shown ‘resilience’

A protest sign is held in the air at a protest against the appointment of former Breitbart News head Stephen Bannon to chief strategist for president-elect Donald Trump, near City Hall in Los Angeles, November 16, 2016. (AFP/DAVID MCNEW)

Jewish groups gather 1 million signatures to ‘drop Bannon‘

By JTA

Jewish and progressive groups deliver massive petition to Capital Hill opposing Trump’s chief strategist appointment

An illustrative photo of the Ramat Gan diamond center, where many binary options firms are located, June 23, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Facing threats and government inaction, Israeli activists take aim at binary options fraud

By Simona Weinglass

Lawyer for binary options victims sends letter to securities authority demanding immediate shutdown of industry, says he is prepared to petition High Court of Justice

John Glenn suiting up prior to a training session at the Johnson Space Center. (NASA via Getty Images via JTA)

The four eras of John Glenn

Usually unassuming and modest, the late senator was famously irascible on Israel and had a Holocaust survivor as his closest friend

In this May 14, 2015 file photo, former astronaut and senator John Glenn answers questions during an interview at the Ohio Statehouse. Glenn died Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, at the age of 95. (AP/Paul Vernon)

John Glenn, astronaut, fighter pilot, senator, dies aged 95

By Seth Borenstein

Allan Havey (left), Elayne Boosler and Avi Liberman in Tel Aviv ahead of the December 2016 Comedy for Koby tour (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Comics aren’t just funny, they’re nice, too

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Illustrative: Posters promoting the white supremacist group American Vanguard were found at Emerson College in Boston. (screen capture: Twitter)

White supremacist, neo-Nazi posters hung at Boston school

By JTA

The violent protest over blood donations in January 1996 (photo credit: Flash 90)

Ministry lifts ban on Ethiopian blood donations

Health Minister Yaakov Litzman arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, December 4, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Health levels in periphery lagging behind center: report

By Stuart Winer

State Treasurer Josh Mandel, a Republican candidate for the US Senate in Ohio, is shown during his service as a Marine in Iraq. (photo credit: Citizens for Josh Mandel/JTA)

Using Trump-style rhetoric, Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel mounts second Senate bid

By JTA

$Kobi Ifrach competing in the Junior Mr. Universe in Birmingham, England, Oct. 30, 2016. (Courtesy of Kobi Ifrach)$

Junior Mr. Universe credits Orthodox upbringing for success

By Andrew Tobin

Hapoel Beersheba's Maor Buzaglo scores against Southampton in a UEFA Europa League match on December 9, 2016. Beersheba drew 1-1. (screen capture: UEFA)

Beersheba draws Southampton 1-1, wins spot in UEFA bracket

Israel’s new ambassador to Turkey, Eitan Na'eh, hands his credentials to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday, December 5, 2016. (courtesy Turkish Presidency)

From our partnerNew envoy to Turkey on carrying Jerusalem’s hopes from London to Ankara

By Stephen Oryszczuk

In this April 23, 2015, file photo, Amy Schumer, the writer and star of the upcoming film 'Trainwreck,' waves to the audience during the Universal Pictures presentation at CinemaCon 2015 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Perfect fitAmy Schumer: I’m a ‘great choice’ to play Barbie

By Josefin Dolsten

Right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders (screen capture: YouTube)

Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders convicted of hate speech

Feathers of a 99 million year-old bird-like dinosaur encased in amber and discovered in northern Myanmar. (YouTube screenshot)

Early birdFeathered dinosaur tail in 99-million-year-old amber

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, left, and Andy Lassner (Twitter/JTA)

Alt-wrongGOP rabbi gets into one-sided feud with ‘Ellen’ producer

By JTA

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 ReviewTrading the hard news for awesome, shiny objects

By Raoul Wootliff

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