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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 11, 2016

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Monday, Oct. 31, 2016 photo, Israeli Knesset member, Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party, spoke during an interview with The Associated Press, in his office at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Lapid: We need to build a high wall and get the Palestinians out of our sight

Citing recent opinion poll, centrist Yesh Atid leader says he is sole alternative to Netanyahu, slams PM’s political machinations

‘Israeli Trump’ calls for court to order probe of Netanyahu

Coalition chair ‘can’t understand fuss’ over his comments on Arabs

Coalition chair: I’d prefer if Arab Israelis didn’t vote

People walk on a street decorated with a Turkish flag near the Besiktas football club stadium the day after two explosions at the site killed 38, Istanbul, December 11, 2016. (AP/Emrah Gurel)

Turkey hunts for answers, buries dead after blasts kill 38

By DOMINIQUE SOGUEL

No claims of responsibility for explosions that also injured 155; officials, pointing at Kurdish militia, arrest 13

Cairo cathedral bomb blast kills at least 25

By Agencies and ToI Staff

17 injured in suicide bombings near market in Nigeria

By AP

As bombing death toll jumps to 38, Turkey blames Kurds

By ToI Staff and AP

This file photo taken on June 02, 2015, shows Exxon Mobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson addressing the World Gas Conference in Paris. (Eric Piermont/AFP)

Trump’s pick for State seen as a concrete outreach to Russia

By Jeff Horwitz

Rex Tillerson is an accomplished executive who has advocated for US engagement in Middle East and is considered close to Putin

Russia interfered in elections to help Trump win, CIA concludes

By ToI Staff and AFP

Republicans reject reports Russia helped Trump win election

By Paul Handley

Democratic senator: FBI kept mum on Russia hacks to help Trump

By AFP

Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on December 11, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu: Trump can help undo Iran deal, reach peace with Palestinians

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime minister tells “60 Minutes” he has “about five” ways to dismantle agreement, which he will discuss with US president-elect; Senate to probe if Russians meddled in US election; 10-year-old injured in fall while hiking dies of wounds

Joanna Slusky, a professor of molecular biosciences and computational biology at the University of Kansas, at work in her lab. (Sarah Mullinax/via JTA)

'I believe I have a responsibility to the world'

This Jewish woman’s research may save millions of lives

By Victor Wishna

Joanna Slusky might have the answer to increasingly antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs,’ which scientists say could cause more deaths than cancer by 2050

Extreme right politician Baruch Marzel at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, February 17, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Documentary shines gentle spotlight on extremist Baruch Marzel

By Jessica Steinberg

Noam Osband’s 22-minute film offers new views of his cousin, an ultra-nationalist Jewish activist

Richard Friedman

I failed when it came to fake news

Democracy can’t function when falsehood is promulgated as truth

Polish survivors can now reclaim property

World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO) matched names to Warsaw’s unclaimed addresses, so people can find their past

A-Sham: Not just a Haifa food festival

Relishing the human spirit with Palestinian chicken, Mediterranean goulash, mint lemonade, and the ‘bread of the dead’

Illustrative: An Iran Air Boeing 747 passenger plane sitting on the tarmac of the domestic Mehrabad airport in the Iranian capital Tehran, January 15, 2013. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)

In landmark deal, Iran to buy 80 Boeing planes worth $16.6b

Agreement, first with US aviation company since 1979, follows announcements of plan to purchase 100 aircraft from Airbus

Former CIA director retired Gen. David Petraeus arrives at Trump Tower for a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump, Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Petraeus: Iran nuclear pact has ‘significant downsides’

By AFP

Illustrative: An Israel Air Force F-16 takes off. (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Israeli raid targeted Hezbollah-bound chemical weapons — Syrian opposition spokesman

By Tamar Pileggi and Judah Ari Gross

Fahed al-Masri says jihadist, Iranian militants will continue to advance on northern border as long Assad remains in power

A view of the remains of Arch of Triumph, also called the Monumental Arch of Palmyra, that was destroyed by Islamic State (IS) group jihadists seen here on March 27, 2016. (AFP/Maher AL MOUNES)

Islamic State retakes Palmyra after Syria army withdrawal

By AFP

Despite pounding from Russian airstrikes, jihadists reported to have gained control of desert city

Police clashing with settlers and protesters at the Amona outpost in 2006. (Yossi Zamir, Flash90)

Resistance to Amona evacuation will be non-violent, leader says

By ToI Staff and AP

Demolition of illegal outpost won’t involve the kind of violence between settlers, security forces seen in 2006 eviction, Avichai Boaron asserts

US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) and Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat wave before a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah January 4, 2014. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

PA delegation heading to US for talks on stalled peace process

Palestinian mission said hoping to persuade Obama administration not to veto anti-settlement UNSC resolution

Former Shas MK Amnon Cohen appears before the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, on December 7, 2016. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)

Ex-Shas MK held on bribery suspicions freed to house arrest

By Raoul Wootliff and Tamar Pileggi

Amnon Cohen suspected of accepting money, sexual favors in exchange for advancing business mogul’s agenda in the Knesset

In this image taken from video people stand at the scene after the roof of The Reigners Bible Church International collapsed onto worshipers killing dozens in Uyo, southern Nigeria, December 10, 2016. (Channels TV via AP)

160 killed in collapsed Nigerian church, hospital says

By AP

Metal girders and roof crash down on worshipers; building was being hurriedly constructed for bishop’s ordination

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)

After father dies saving him, condition of boy who fell from cliff worsens

10-year-old critical, with head injuries, day after his fall on Negev hike

Two masked Ku Klux Klansmen stand on a muddy dirt road during an interview near Pelham, NC on Dec. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

White supremacists? Not exactly, KKK and other groups claim

Klansmen say Trump’s election proves whites are retaking US from minorities, but insist they are ‘separatists’ not racists

Customers at an Aroma Espresso Bar location in Toronto. (Brandon Gray)

The Israeli contender in Toronto’s coffee wars smells sweet success

By Robert Sarner

More Headlines

Yacob Yanai, an Israeli living in Berlin, volunteers with refugee children at the Spandau refugee shelter. November 13, 2016. (Courtesy)

Schmooze news‘Rent-a-Jew’ project introduces Germans to Jews

Former president Moshe Katsav walks out of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on November 10, 2011, after the court unanimously upheld the Tel Aviv District Court's rape conviction. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Parole board delays Katsav early release decision by a week

By ToI Staff and Stuart Winer

Likud MK Oren Hazan speaks in the Knesset, December 7, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Fools rush inPolice revoke MK Hazan’s driver’s license for speeding

A man removes cash from a Bank Leumi ATM machine in the Meah Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israeli banks to cut 5,100 workers in 2016-2020

By Shoshanna Solomon

Bob Dylan accepts the 2015 MusiCares Person of the Year award at a ceremony in Los Angeles, February 6, 2015. (Vince Bucci/Invision/AP)

'I'm not there'Nobel Foundation honors Bob Dylan without him

By AFP

An exterior view of the Google office in Mountain View, California. (Google office image via Shutterstock)

Israel dangles tax cuts to attract multinationals

By Shoshanna Solomon

People look at a display of looted art on a video screen as they attend the Provenance Research Training Program to the Nazi-looted art, in Magdeburg, central Germany, Thursday, June 14, 2012. (photo: AP /Jens Meyer)

Vienna Philharmonic to return Nazi-looted painting to Jewish family

By AP

President-elect Donald Trump throws a hat into the audience while speaking at a rally in a DOW Chemical Hanger at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump denies involvement in new season of ‘The Apprentice’

By ToI Staff and AP

Rescue personnel attend the scene of an accident in Nahal Tze'elim in the Negev on December 9, 2016, in which a university lecturer and son died falling from a cliff (Arad Rescue Team via Channel 10)

Hebrew media reviewTaking the plunge

By Ilan Ben Zion

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