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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 10, 2016

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to CBS's 60 Minutes in an interview broadcast on December 11, 2016 (CBS screenshot)

Netanyahu: Trump feels ‘very warmly’ about Israel, Jews

In 60 Minutes interview, Israeli PM acknowledges relations with Obama have not always been smooth, though he insists it was never personal

PA delegation heading to US for talks on stalled peace process

3 Israelis take wrong turn in West Bank, rescued by PA police

Saudi journalist: Arab Israelis could help build Mideast ties

Firefighters work at the scene of a fire at the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce on Monday, September 12, 2016, in Fort Pierce, Florida (St. Lucie Sheriff's Office via AP)

AJC donates money to rebuild Florida mosque set ablaze by Jewish suspect

By AP and ToI Staff

Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, where Orlando gunman prayed, was attacked by Joseph Schreiber 3 months after worst shooting in modern US history

Corey Gil-Schuster travels Israel and the West Bank interviewing Israelis and Palestinians. The questions come from his global YouTube audience. (Iacopo Luzi/Times of Israel)

Three thousand interviews later, a Canadian-Israeli’s views on the conflict

Corey Gil-Shuster, creator of video series The Ask Project, traverses Israel and the West Bank seeking truth from the region’s everyday citizens

This combination of pictures shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, delivering a speech at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 8, 2016; and President-elect Donald Trump, right, at the DeltaPlex Arena, December 9, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (AFP)

Russia interfered in elections to help Trump win, CIA concludes

By ToI Staff and AFP

Agency indicates it’s ‘quite clear’ Moscow’s goal was to get him elected; president-elect mocks CIA as ‘same people that said Saddam Hussein had WMDs’

Report: Russia hacked RNC, but did not leak info

Exxon CEO emerges as favorite to lead US State Department

By AP and ToI Staff

Brexit lobbyist Farage wants to help Trump bring peace to Middle East

Steve Bannon at a meeting with advisers at Trump Tower, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Seinfeld writer appalled that Trump adviser Bannon makes money from show

Peter Mehlman says it’s ‘galling’ that a ‘raging anti-Semite’ should profit from a series ‘that’s associated with Jewish humor’

The Greek delegation of the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project baking challahs in Jerusalem in 2015. (Courtesy of Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project/via JTA)

‘Birthright for moms’ resonates with world’s small Jewish communities

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project has participants from Sydney to San Francisco — but the initiative really hits home in countries with lower income and high anti-Semitism

Ruth Ellen Gruber

That time John Glenn wrote me a letter in 1961

The late astronaut’s reply to a young girl’s letter: “I must say, when you dream you dream ‘way out.'”

Elliot B. Pasik

Day schools need to fingerprint staff

Laws protecting New York public school kids are not applied to private schools: It’s time for that to change

Young Jewish men seen building a structure in the Jewish settlement of Amona in the West Bank, on November 28, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Sources close to PM rule out Amona evacuation on Saturday night — TV

Denial follows claim by residents of West Bank outpost who have urged other Israelis to help block their removal

A mobile home in the outpost of Amona (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Facing evacuation, Amona settlers remain defiant

By Tia Goldenberg

A settler's house in the outpost of Esh Kodesh in the West Bank, on July 20, 2015. (Photo by Garrett Mills/Flash 90)

Norway expresses concern over Israeli outpost bill

By AP and ToI Staff

Oslo says Regulation Bill ‘cast doubts about Israel’s declared support for the two-state solution’

Syrian residents fleeing the violence, are seen standing in the back of a truck as they arrive at a checkpoint manned by pro-government forces, in the village of Aziza on the southwestern outskirts of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on December 9, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / George OURFALIAN)

Tens of thousands flee Syria’s Aleppo as Assad nears victory

By AP

Russia says Syrian troops have paused their offensive to allow civilians to evacuate, a claim contested by a local watchdog group

Fighters from the Kurdish-Arab alliance, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, prepare for an assault on the Islamic State (IS) bastion of Raqqa on December 10, 2016. (DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP)

A US-backed alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters announced "phase two" of its campaign for the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion of Raqa. / AFP PHOTO / DELIL SOULEIMAN

US forces will be ‘on the front lines’ in push to take Raqqa

By AFP

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos receives the Nobel Peace Prize medal and diploma from Norwegian Nobel Committee member Berit Reiss-Andersen during the award ceremony in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2016. (AFP/NTB SCANPIX/Haakon Mosvold Larsen)

Accepting Peace Prize, Santos calls Colombia model for war-torn states like Syria

By AFP and AP

At Oslo ceremony, president dedicates Nobel to all Colombians, particularly 220,000 killed, 8 million displaced in conflict

US President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a 'get-out-the-vote' rally on December 9, 2016 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. (AFP/Don Emmert)

Post-election, Trump closes companies tied to Saudi Arabia

By Eileen Sullivan, CHAD DAY and Randall Chase

Four ventures set up last year in kingdom shut down as questions swirl over how president-elect will handle his businesses as commander-in-chief

President and COO of The Goldman Sachs Group Gary Cohn speaks onstage during Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit - Day 2 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on October 13, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc)

Trump to name Jewish Goldman Sachs exec to top economic post

By JTA

Gary Cohn, third official from bank tapped by president-elect, to head White House National Economic Council

US actor Kirk Douglas, center, gets a kiss from his son Michael Douglas, left, and Michael's wife Catherine Zeta-Jones during his 100th birthday party at the Beverly Hills Hotel on December 9. 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Family, friends and rabbi honor ‘extraordinary’ Kirk Douglas at 100

By Lindsey Bahr

At Beverly Hills celebration, son Michael praises actor’s accomplishments, while Steven Spielberg calls him ‘the only movie star I ever met’

Yoram Gutgeld with Italian PM Matteo Renzi (Courtesy)

Interview

Israeli with front seat to Italian upheaval sees no chance for ‘Italexit’

Yoram Gutgeld, Matteo Renzi’s top economic adviser, tells The Times of Israel it would be ‘crazy’ to leave the EU as populists seek power in Rome

Graziano Delrio. (CC BY, Wikimedia/Francesco Pierantoni)

Israel-trained doctor among frontrunners to succeed Renzi as Italy PM

Kosha Dillz performing onstage at the Satellite in Los Angeles. (Madison Margolin/Times of Israel)

Salty lyrics and all, this kosher rapper is the real dill

By Madison Margolin

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Likud MK Oren Hazan attends a meeting in the Knesset on June 20, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

MK Oren Hazan caught driving at almost twice the speed limit

Footage taken from the 'Mavi Marmara' security cameras showing activists preparing to attack IDF soldiers, May 2010. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Turkish court drops case against Israelis over Gaza flotilla raid

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Former German neo-Nazi Felix Benneckenstein now helps others leave far-right extremist organizations (screen capture: YouTube)

When neo-Nazis have doubts, there’s a number to call

By Frank Jordans

The aftermath of a car bombing at the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel in Mombasa, Kenya on November 28, 2002. Thirteen people were killed and another 80 were wounded in the attack. (screen capture: ABC)

US wants Israel to try Gitmo prisoner for 2002 Kenya bombing — report

Fighters from the Kurdish-Arab alliance, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, prepare for an assault on the Islamic State (IS) bastion of Raqqa on December 10, 2016. (DELIL SOULEIMAN / AFP)

A US-backed alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters announced "phase two" of its campaign for the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion of Raqa. / AFP PHOTO / DELIL SOULEIMAN

US forces will be ‘on the front lines’ in push to take Raqqa

By AFP

April 2015 photo released by the Lexington County (S.C.) Detention Center shows Dylann Roof, 21. (Lexington County Detention Center/via AP)

US jury sees Hitler-supporting church shooter’s calm confession

By Olivia Hampton

Anti-Semitic graffiti on a building near the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville. (Courtesy Michaela Brown via JTA)

Over 60 scholars say bill targeting campus anti-Semitism is ‘dangerous’

By JTA

French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve holds a press conference to announce that the state of emergency will be extended until July 2017 following a cabinet meeting at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris on December 10, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Thomas SAMSON)

France to extend national state of emergency until July

By AP

An illustrative photo of Dutch police cars. (CC BY-SA, Wouterjan Stikkel/Wikimedia)

DNA leads Dutch cops to arrest suspect in 1990 murder of Israeli woman

By JTA

Syqe Medical CEO Perry Davidson. (Channel 2 screenshot)

A joint effortAn Israeli’s quest to mainstream medical marijuana

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