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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 13, 2016

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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 choice for State has strong ties in the Gulf, not Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

As head of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson developed connections in oil-rich Mideast countries, stirring up geopolitical strife at times

Trump officially taps Tillerson to lead State Department

By Julie Pace and Catherine Lucey

Russian FM hails ‘pragmatism’ of incoming US secretary Tillerson

By AP

US Labor Secretary Tom Perez eyes Democratic leadership

By AP and ToI Staff

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani speaks at a news conference September 22, 2016 in New York. (AFP/Don Emmert)

Iran to build nuclear-powered ships after US ‘breaches’ atomic deal

By AFP

Rouhani slams Congress for expected renewal of sanctions, says Tehran will complain to international committee overseeing accord

A poster of assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin surrounded by images of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a hangman's Noose (screen capture: Twitter)

Art or incitement? Police open investigation into Netanyahu ‘rope’ poster

Image of PM with noose sparked widespread outrage, was selectively taken from a larger piece about incitement briefly placed on a wall at Bezalel Academy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) meets with Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev at Baku’s Zagulba Palace on December 13, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)

PM hails Azerbaijan cooperation as beacon of Jewish-Muslim coexistence

By Raphael Ahren

During Netanyahu’s historic visit to Baku, Azeri leader says his country has bought some $5b in weapons from Jewish state

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to reporters before departing for a two-day visit to Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, December 13, 2016. (Times of Israel/Raphael Ahren)

Embarking on rare visit to Muslim countries, Netanyahu vaunts Israel’s popularity

By Raphael Ahren and Stuart Winer

Syrian pro-government forces walking in the ancient Umayyad mosque in the old city of Aleppo on December 13, 2016, after they captured the area. ( AFP PHOTO / George OURFALIAN)

Live updates (closed)

Russia says fighting ended in Aleppo, Assad forces in control

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Deal reached to evacuate civilians, fighters from city; UN Security Council meets on reports of mass executions

The Jerusalem site formerly known as the Allenby Barracks, a planned location for a second campus of the US Embassy (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Jerusalem of Trump: Where the president-elect might put the US embassy

By Raphael Ahren

A little-known lease agreement from 1989 suggests a forsaken plot in busy Talpiot could be the spot — though the Palestinians claim it is ‘stolen property,’ and Trump may not even know about it

Trump’s team already exploring logistics of moving embassy to Jerusalem — report

By Tamar Pileggi

Moving embassy to Jerusalem a ‘big priority’ for Trump — top aide

By Tamar Pileggi

Barkat: Most Americans want embassy moved to Jerusalem

By Andrew Tobin

British Prime Minister Theresa May addresses a Conservative Friends of Israel lunch, December 12, 2016 (Courtesy CFI)

British PM hails ‘remarkable, tolerant’ Israel, slams anti-Semitism in Labour

In speech to Conservative Friends of Israel, Theresa May calls Balfour Declaration ‘one of the most important letters in history’

A British court on December 12, 2016 found Zakaria Boufassil and Mohammed Ali Ahmed guilty of handing over thousands of dollars to the Brussels, Paris attacks suspect Mohammed Abrini last year. (screen capture: YouTube)

UK pair linked to Brussels, Paris attacks jailed

By AFP

The brave pioneers of Amona

She reflects on her visit to the hilltop, the people she met, and her preferred alternative to settlement evacuation

Miriam Friedman

When the convicted molester is a local

She describes (and runs) a community program that helps protect known sex offenders from abusing again

Trump, apple pie and anti-Semitism

Jews who voted Republican forgot a history of virulent hatred stretching back long before Israel’s founding

Photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Syrian troops march through the streets of east Aleppo, Syria, December 12, 2016. (SANA via AP)

UN: Syria pro-regime forces executed 82 civilians in Aleppo

By AP and ToI Staff

Human rights office cites reports of government-backed units entering homes in rebel areas and slaughtering people ‘on the spot’

Interior Minister Aryeh Deri addresses the Israeli parliament during a question period in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, November 7, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Citing Holocaust, Deri calls for emergency UN debate on Syria

By Raoul Wootliff

This photograph released by the Gaza Strip Interior Ministry purports to show a gallows prepared for the execution of Hani Abu Aliyan, a 28-year-old convicted of killing two people, in the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, October 2, 2013. (AP/Gaza Interior Ministry)

Silence, concern surround Gaza woman’s death sentence

By Sakher Abou El Oun

Convicted of killing her husband, Nahla A. faces the first execution of a Palestinian woman in more than 20 years

Margot Wallstrom, Sweden's minister of foreign affairs, in her office in Stockholm, October 31, 2014 (AFP/Jonathan Nackstrand)

Israel to boycott Swedish FM on her visit to region

Margot Wallstrom’s attempts to meet leaders officially blocked by scheduling conflicts, but sources say her positions have made her an unwelcome guest

Jewish Home chair Naftali Bennett leads a party faction meeting at the Knesset, December 12, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett touts new deal to keep Amona residents ‘on the mountain’

By Raoul Wootliff

With no state petition to delay evacuation presented yet, Jewish Home chair says he thinks residents will agree to plan reached with PM, attorney general

Israeli security forces guard at the Qalandiya Checkpoint near Ramallah on July 26, 2016. (Flash90)

Car-ramming foiled at West Bank checkpoint, police say

No injuries as woman in possession of knife emerges from vehicle, is subdued

An F-35 fighter jet lands in the Nevatim air base in southern Israel on December 12, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

With fog delay, F-35 ceremony turns farcical — but it could’ve been worse

By Judah Ari Gross

Event for Israel’s new fighter jet starts 6 hours late with greatly depleted audience; though, unlike a botched 1976 ceremony for the F-15, it probably won’t bring down the government

An F-35 fighter jet, after landing in the Nevatim Air Force Base in southern Israel on December 12, 2016 (IDF)

In anticlimax, Israel’s vaunted F-35 jets land 6 hours late

By Tamar Pileggi and Judah Ari Gross

Northwestern University students celebrating after the student Senate passed a divestment resolution against Israel, February 2015. (Courtesy of Nathan Richards/The Daily Northwestern)

As BDS resolutions stall, pro-Palestinian students shift tactics

Despite growing campus activism, US universities are resisting motions to divest from Israel or companies doing business in the West Bank

Medical workers aid injured people at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion in Boston on April 15, 2013 (AP/Charles Krupa)

In Israel, Massachusetts police look for help tackling terror

By Judah Ari Gross

MK Oren Hazan attends at a State Control Committee meeting on the subject of force-feeding prisoners who are on hunger strikes, at the Knesset on June 22, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Likud’s bad boy MK Oren Hazan facing assault charges

By Raoul Wootliff

Lawmaker denies he attacked Ariel mayor in 2014, says case ‘built on foundation of lies and political rivalry’

Jacob Steinberg at the Paramaribo Holocaust memorial. (Courtesy)

70 years after the Holocaust, a Surinamese memorial for Caribbean victims

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Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Man dies of hypothermia in Haifa as storm hits Israel

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative: A security guard at the entrance to the Knesset in Jerusalem. November 4, 2009. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

2nd aide this week denied entry to Knesset over ‘short’ dress

Ivanka Trump exits Trump Tower in New York City, November 17, 2016. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Alleged Ivanka Trump stalker arrested in NY

By JTA and ToI Staff

A glass replica of the seal as it appears on the tower. (Faina Milstein, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

Ottoman sultan’s John Hancock gets facelift in Jaffa

By Ilan Ben Zion

Smoke rises after an airstrike in the Sinai city of Rafah as seen from Gaza on July 1, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib /Flash90)

Incoming rocket alert blares along Sinai border

By Judah Ari Gross

Yaakov Shimon seen during a court hearing in Jerusalem on May 03, 2012 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Top Israeli mobster arrested in Argentina, awaits extradition

Young Israelis gathered at the Rose Garden in front of the Knesset, to smoke weed, on the international '4:20' marijuana smoking day, in a demonstration to legalize the drug, in Jerusalem, on April 20, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

No arrest for the wickedTop anti-drug body recommends pot decriminalization

Israeli actress Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman (Zack Snyder/Warner Bros)

Goodbye, golden lassoWonder Woman dropped as UN envoy

By ToI Staff and AP

Top left, clockwise: Rachel Bloom, Jeffrey Tambor, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jonah Hill (Bloom, Tambor photos: Christopher Polk/Getty Images for The Critics’ Choice Awards/JTA; Louis-Dreyfus photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images/JTA; Hill photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images/JTA)

Luck be their ladyGolden Globes 2017: Meet the Jewish nominees

By Josefin Dolsten

Beloved Israeli singer Ahuva Ozeri, here with her favorite instrument, the Bulbul tarang, died Tuesday, December 13, 2016 (Courtesy Ilan Besor)

Pioneering Mizrahi singer Ahuva Ozeri dies at 68

By Jessica Steinberg

Empty chairs are seen during a ceremony to receive the delivery of two F-35 fighter jets on December 12, 2016, at the Israeli Nevatim Air force base. AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Hebrew media reviewThe war of fog

By Joshua Davidovich

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