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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 14, 2016

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Scene of the stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Old City on December 14, 2016. (Magen David Adom)

Cop stabbed in head with screwdriver, lightly hurt in Jerusalem attack

By Judah Ari Gross

East Jerusalem child with head wound says he was also struck by the assailant in the capital’s Old City; attacker shot dead

4 Palestinian minors arrested over gun making

Hamas says it now has ‘real army’ to fight Israel, is ‘leading’ missile-maker in Arab world

Eilat Counterterrorism Unit takes down cardboard terrorists, rescues ‘hostages’

By Judah Ari Gross

Bezalel Academy of Art students protest against what they see as curbs on freedom of speech, December 14, 2016. (Screen capture, Bezalel Academy facebook page)

Poster of naked Netanyahu prompts call to shutter art school

Sketch of PM with rope around genitals comes after Bezalel student is questioned over picture of Netanyahu and noose; students tape mouths in protest, plan brief strike Thursday, over free speech curbs

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

Student behind Netanyahu ‘rope’ poster questioned and released

By JTA and ToI Staff

PM Netanyahu and Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev in Astana, December 14, 2016 (Haim Zach/GPO)

PM asks Kazakhstan to back Israeli bid for Security Council seat

By Raphael Ahren

In first-ever prime-ministerial visit, Netanyahu thanks President Nazarbayev, saying his was the ‘first Muslim country to embrace Israel’

PM hails Azerbaijan cooperation as beacon of Jewish-Muslim coexistence

By Raphael Ahren

Paris peace summit delayed until January — report

Poll: 53% of Palestinians don’t want Trump role in peace process

Syrians leave a rebel-held area of Aleppo towards the government-held side on December 13, 2016 during an operation by Syrian government forces to retake the embattled city. (AFP PHOTO/KARAM AL-MASRI)

Live updates (closed)

Erdogan, Putin ‘agree Aleppo truce violations must end’

Israeli car comes under fire in West Bank, no injuries; Dahlan sentenced to 3 years for corruption in absentia; police say no incitement in student artwork of PM

Syrian residents fleeing the violence gather 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 8, 2016.
(AFP PHOTO / Youssef KARWASHAN)

AnalysisAnalysis

Assad and allies commit war crimes in Aleppo, while US stands idly by

By Avi Issacharoff

The Obama administration is watching as the Russian-Syrian-Iranian axis commits an unprecedented massacre, even by Mideast standards

Syrian army resumes Aleppo assault, evacuation delayed

By AFP

AnalysisAdvantage Assad: Aleppo’s capture is a key moment

By Zeina Karam and Dan Perry

As Aleppo falls, Trump faces test on posture toward Russia

By Josh Lederman and Bradley Klapper

Doctors at the Soroka Medical Center in Israel performed brain surgery in a live Facebook broadcast. (Courtesy of Soroka Spokesperson’s Office)

Open-minded

Israeli hospital airs live brain surgeries on Facebook

By JTA

In one procedure broadcast from Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba, woman in her 50s has benign tumor removed

Rex Tillerson speaks to the media after the Exxon annual shareholder's meeting at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, TX, on May 25, 2011. (JTA/Jason Janik/Bloomberg News)

Analysis

What Rex Tillerson, Trump’s pick as US secretary, could mean for the Jewish agenda

Oil companies, like Exxon of which he is CEO, have over the years clashed with the pro-Israel lobby and with Israeli interests, but some see that era as a thing of the past

PM says moving US embassy to Jerusalem would be ‘great’

By Raphael Ahren and Tamar Pileggi

Jerusalem mayor says Trump is serious about moving US embassy

By AUDREY HOROWITZ and ISAAC SCHARF

Trump taps Montana lawmaker Ryan Zinke as interior secretary

By Julie Pace and Ken Thomas

A group of American Conservative and Reform rabbis and members of the Women of the Wall carry Torah scrolls during a protest march against the government’s failure to deliver a new prayer space, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, November 2, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Jail women for shofar-blowing? That’s what Shas’s Western Wall bill says

By Marissa Newman

Mixed-gender prayer at Robinson’s Arch would lead to 6 months in jail or hefty fine; incendiary legislation is unlikely to pass, though Shas chief warns struggle against Reform is ‘uncompromising’

Aleppo

How so ‘never again,’ during yet another time of wanton civilian murder and bombardment, when the world does nothing?

The web melts down over ‘Rent a Jew’

Even those who love their project to bring Jewish speakers to schools hate its name — but they shouldn’t

Let them eat donuts

Health Minister Yaakov Litzman’s war on the Hanukkah treat will do exactly nothing to fight obesity

Knesset staffers protest against the dress code in the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, December 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MK strips in solidarity with miniskirt-clad Knesset aides

By Raoul Wootliff

Joining protest of female employees against dress code, Manuel Trajtenberg tries to enter the parliament in his undershirt

Right wing activists protest in Jerusalem against the planned evacuation of Amona on December 13, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Vowing Amona won’t fall, activists rage against the seemingly inevitable

By Joshua Davidovich

Calling High Court ‘criminal’ and dismissing any negotiations, settler leaders and outpost’s backers rally in Jerusalem against impending demolition

Maj. Gen. Hagai Topolanski, head of the IDF Manpower Directorate, speaks at an Israeli Democracy Institute conference marking 30 years since navigator Ron Arad went missing over Lebanon, on November 29, 2016. (Courtesy Israeli Democracy Institute)

Computer with classified info stolen from IDF general’s home

By Judah Ari Gross

Head of the army’s Manpower Directorate to be questioned after army laptop is taken from his house

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

Israel’s vaunted F-35 jets take first tour of its skies

By Tamar Pileggi and Judah Ari Gross

After landing six hours late on Monday, putting a damper on celebrations, two planes soar over Jewish state for an hour on Tuesday

Yair Shahak and Yaelle Frohlich says they'd be happy if either of them would win. (David Khabinsky/Yeshiva University)

Married couple to go head-to-head in international Bible contest

By Cathryn J. Prince

Illustrative. Children run toward a bomb shelter in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Malachi during a November 2012 military operation in Gaza, known as Pillar of Defense. (Yuval Haker/Israel Defense Forces)

MKs say government ‘abandoned’ citizens by failing to address missile threat

By Judah Ari Gross

In committee meeting on damning comptroller report, opposition lawmakers decry coalition’s unwillingness to protect Israelis

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touring the INS Tanin submarine, built by the German firm Thyssenkrupp, as it arrived in Israel on September 23, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Opposition MK demands criminal investigation into Netanyahu submarine affair

Zionist Union lawmaker Erel Margalit threatens to turn to High Court to force attorney general’s hand

Abdul Rashid Abdullah of the National American Muslim Association on Scouting speaking at a Muslim-Jewish gathering in Washington, D.C., while Rabbi David Shneyer of Kehila Chadasha looks on, Dec. 11, 2016. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

In Trump era, imams and rabbis struggle to counter anti-Muslim hostility

Tales of harassment and threats against Muslims abound at interfaith summit in DC, and president-elect is the elephant in the room

Sara Aaronsohn, one of the founders of the pre-British Mandate Palestine espionage ring NILI. (Public domain)

With spy Sarah Aaronsohn’s suicide, Israeli history was rewritten, claims author

By JP O’ Malley

More Headlines

Pupils of North Cheshire Primary listen to a teacher during a class on December 7, 2006, Stockport, England. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images via JTA)

Pew: Jews are world’s most educated religious group

By JTA

Maxine Fassberg (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Intel’s Israel chief announces retirement

Illustrative. A Hebrew-English keyboard. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Just my typeIsrael tries to take the sting out of typing in Hebrew

By Stuart Winer

Fania Blakay, left, embracing her cousin Henia Moskowitz after they were united at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, Dec. 13, 2016. (Courtesy of Yad Vashem).

First cousins who thought entire family died in Holocaust united in Israel

By JTA

Bestselling author Scott Turow addressing students at Bar Ilan University’s Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing on December 12, 2016. (Yoni Reif)

Interview On first visit in 48 years, author Scott Turow grapples with Israel ‘enigma’

King Felipe VI of Spain (R) shakes hands with CER President Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt at the Royal Palace El Pardo near Madrid, Spain on December 13, 2016. (World Jewish Congress)

Rabbis honor Spanish king for efforts to restore Jewish life

Illustrative photo of police officers at Liberty Bell Park in Jerusalem, July 24, 2013 (Zuzana Janku/Flash90)

Man found dead in Kiryat Bialik park

People walk in the rain on Jaffa street in downtown Jerusalem on December 1, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Heavy downpour hits Israel overnight

Syrians leave a rebel-held area of Aleppo towards the government-held side on December 13, 2016 during an operation by Syrian government forces to retake the embattled city. ( AFP PHOTO / KARAM AL-MASRI)

Hebrew media reviewEyes on Aleppo, papers point flaccid pens at world

By Joshua Davidovich

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