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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 15, 2016

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Protesters gather atop a water tower in Amona on December 15, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/ Times of Israel)

Tense Amona girds for battle as evacuation fails to materialize — for now

By Judah Ari Gross

Braving the cold, hundreds of protesters stream to illegal outpost as rumors of impending operation spread, preparing fortifications for coming last stand

Amona settler leaders expect forced evacuation early next week

By Judah Ari Gross

Amona residents reject deal to leave homes peacefully in return for adjacent plot

By Raoul Wootliff

Amona residents say they rejected deal due to state’s ‘lack of commitment’

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

A man holds a Syrian flag bearing the portrait of President Bashar Assad as residents in a government-held area of Aleppo gather in the street during an evacuation of rebel fighters and their families on December 15, 2016. (AFP/George Ourfalian)

Live updates

Liberman says Assad is a ‘butcher’ who must go

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Defense minister condemns the killings in Syria, calls for Israel to block Iranian involvement in war-torn country

Illustrative computer virus. (istock)

AnalysisThe world catches up with 'Nitro Zeus'

Mutually assured cyber destruction?

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Experts say first the US, then some of the West’s enemies, have developed the capability to shut down entire countries at the flip of a switch

Yahoo suffers world’s biggest hack; 1 billion affected

By Michael Liedtke

Poster depicting Benjamin Netanyahu as Hitler with the word 'incitement' (Screen capture: Channel 2)

TA art school displays image of Netanyahu with Hitler mustache

Strikes, protests and another provocative poster, as students in Tel Aviv enter controversy over police probe of student at Jerusalem’s Bezalel who put up posters of Netanyahu with a noose

Then-Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) inspect an honor guard during their meeting in Astana on December 14, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/ILYAS OMAROV)

Netanyahu in Kazakhstan warns Iran: We’re a tiger, not a rabbit

By Raphael Ahren

PM asks his counterpart in Astana to convey message to Tehran not to underestimate Israel; ‘If Iran attacks Israel it will put itself at risk’

Obama allows Iran sanctions renewal, but doesn’t sign bill

By AFP

Iran’s Rouhani lauds Assad as Aleppo ceasefire crumbles

By AFP

Kenya drops charges, deports Iranians thought plotting attack on Israelis

By AP

A bus is seen in the embattled city of Aleppo during an evacuation operation of rebel fighters and their families from rebel-held areas on December 15, 2016.
/ AFP PHOTO / STRINGER

Thousands of rebels, families begin departing battered Aleppo

By Rim Haddad and Maya Gebeily

Delayed operation marks final stage in Assad’s recapture of Syrian city from opposition after month-long assault

Assad: Trump could be ‘natural ally’ against terrorists

By AP and ToI Staff

Aleppo ceasefire unravels, raising specter of bloody end

By Sarah El Deeb and DOMINIQUE SOGUEL

Russia says it foiled IS-linked attacks on Moscow

By AP

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the crowd during a campaign rally at the Indiana Farmers Coliseum on April 27, 2016, in Indianapolis, Indiana. (John Sommers II/Getty Images/AFP)

First person

Coffee with my farmer father’s Trump-voting buddies

By Sarah Friedman

I don’t have to journey to Michigan or Ohio’s Rust Belt to witness the American divide; it’s right here in Illinois, an hour’s drive from my home in Chicago

Writer who was subjected to anti-Semitic abuse fired for Trump incest tweet

Putin trumps Trump on Forbes most powerful list

By AFP

Report: Putin himself involved in US election hack

By AFP

Same-old, same-old, and now official

Transparency doesn’t cut it; the Rabbinate’s conversion committee needs an Anglo who knows the American Orthodox scene

The first for our first: Tzav Rishon

She ‘s an olah with mixed maternal emotions about her sons entering the IDF; her eldest is nonchalant about ‘the paperwork’

A fighting match among thieves

Israel is functionally hypocritical and colonial, when it comes to Amona and the fundamentally unlawful settlement enterprise

The one place I’m glad to see terrorism

The NY Times now applies the term correctly, and he hopes to see more of that — unless terrorist attacks stop, of course

Mika Almog, granddaughter of the late former Israeli president Shimon Peres, lights a menorah candle as Rabbi Rachel Isaacs says a blessing during a Hanukkah reception in The East Room at The White House on December 14, 2016 in Washington, DC, with Chemi Peres, and President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. (AFP/ ZACH GIBSON)

At final Hanukkah party, Obama extols religious freedom, ignores elephant in room

By Eric Cortellessa

Five weeks before Trump assumes power, president tells American Jews: ‘We look forward to working with you on the other side’

The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

4 major Jewish groups to skip Hanukkah party at Trump hotel

By JTA

Frazier Glenn Miller yells at the jury after he was found guilty of one count of capital murder, three counts of attempted murder and assault and weapons charges for anti-Jewish shooting attacks in Overland, Kansas. (Allison Long/The Kansas City Star via AP, Pool)

Anti-Jewish violence in US less frequent but more intense, report finds

By Cathryn J. Prince

‘It’s not our imagination that these groups are more active now since the election,’ says author of study, which details attacks between 1969 and today

Illustrative. Bullet holes in the door of an Israeli car hit in a drive-by shooting near Hebron that killed at least one person on July 1, 2016 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Israeli car hit by gunfire outside Ramallah; woman driver, two kids, unharmed

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF searches for perpetrator after vehicle shot multiple times near Deir Abu Mash’al

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 22, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Jewel SAMAD)

Palestinians preparing new Security Council draft – report

Aim is to win UN approval for resolution condemning settlements before Obama leaves office

Ron Dermer speaks on Thursday, April 16, 2015, in Emancipation Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Defending anti-Muslim group, Israel’s envoy to US slams racism watchdog

Ron Dermer calls Southern Poverty Law Center – which tracks attacks on Jews, blacks and other minorities – ‘defamers and blacklisters’

Jewish Home MK Nissan Slomiansky during a vote on the so-called Regulation Bill to legitimize illegal West Bank outposts, December 7, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jewish Home’s Slomiansky named as MK accused of sexual harassment

By Raoul Wootliff

Party stalwart denies allegations, says his ‘well-known loving nature may have been misinterpreted’; activist who pointed the finger urges him to resign from parliament

Illustrative: Screenshot from an Islamic State video on Wednesday December 14, 2016, claiming a rocket attack on Israel two days earlier.

Analysis

IS in Sinai claims rocket attack on Israel that missed target

By Judah Ari Gross and Avi Issacharoff

Terror group in Egypt says it launched two grad projectiles at crossing two days ago, hitting Egyptian territory; claimed IDF had bombed its positions in response

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

Knesset panel to study attire as guards called off policing skirts

House speaker meets with MKs, sides agree enforcement of dress rules will be relaxed so long as Knesset workers act with ‘common sense’

A 9,500-year-old Neolithic plastered skull from the British Museum's collection. (courtesy: British Museum)

New exhibit gives 9,500-year-old Jericho man digital makeover

By Ilan Ben Zion

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)

Top general steps down after IDF computer stolen from home

By Judah Ari Gross

With a ‘heavy heart,’ army chief accepts head of the Manpower Directorate’s resignation; deputy willl take over temporarily

A man searches the trash in a garbage container in the center of Jerusalem. (illustrative photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90)

1 in 5 families below poverty line and getting poorer, state says

More than half of Arab Israelis still poor, but poverty down among children, elderly, ultra-Orthodox, according to National Insurance Institute report

IDC speed-dates students with startups (Courtesy: Adi Cohen Zedek)

In nod to Startup Nation, ivory towers foster entrepreneurs

By Shoshanna Solomon

More Headlines

The Chief Rabbis of Israel, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (L) and Rabbi David Lau (R) speaks during an event, on January 11, 2016. (Yaakov Coehn/Flash90)

Rabbinate forms conversion vetting panel, raising hackles anew

Rabbi Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz) in his Jerusalem office (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz recovering from stroke

By JTA

Right-wing activist arrested for online threats, reportedly against Bennett

Belgian soldiers stand at the Grand Place in Brussels on November 22, 2015. (AFP Photo/John Thys)

Europe can’t defend itself militarily, Israeli Foreign Ministry said to assess

Masked Palestinian terrorists from the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, a military wing of Hamas, commemorate the 29th anniversary of their group, in Gaza City, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Thousands rally in Gaza for anniversary of Hamas founding

Adolf Hitler's birth house in Braunau am Inn, Austria. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)

Austria lawmakers vote to seize Hitler birth house

By AFP

Rabbi Yehuda Kelemer (YouTube screenshot)

New York rabbi injured in hit-and-run in front of his synagogue

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump meeting at Trump Tower in New York, September 25, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

IDF concerned Trump administration may cut defense aid

By Judah Ari Gross

Maseru, the capital of Lesotho. An Israeli company was convicted for bribing a government official of the African country. (CC BY, OER Africa, Flickr)

In first, Israeli company convicted of bribing foreign official

Museum of Fine Arts (Kunstmuseum) in Bern, May 8, 2014. (AFP/FABRICE COFFRINI)

Court okays Swiss museum to inherit Nazi-era art hoard

By AFP

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

Hebrew media reviewFalling on the sword, awaiting a clash

By Ilan Ben Zion

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