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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 18, 2016

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Families sit outside a home in the Jewish settlement of Amona in the West Bank, December 17, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Amona residents take deal, avert forced evacuation

By Judah Ari Gross and Raoul Wootliff

Under revised agreement, state will provide immediate temporary housing on an adjacent plot for 24 of outpost’s 40 families instead of 12

With cry of ‘go to hell,’ minister chased out of Amona outpost

By Judah Ari Gross and Raoul Wootliff

Dozen soldiers abandon posts in protest over Amona evacuation

PM to Amona residents: Accept deal, ‘we’ve done the maximum’

By Raoul Wootliff

Former president Moshe Katsav walks out of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem in November 2011. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Ex-president Katsav wins early release after 5 years in prison

By Raoul Wootliff

Convicted rapist set to be freed, but discharge will be delayed a week at state prosecutor’s request

IDF general convicted of sex offenses in plea deal, won’t be jailed

Jerusalem rabbi indicted on dozens of rape counts

Jewish Home MK to step down as committee chair amid sexual harassment claims

By Raoul Wootliff

Arab Israeli parliament member MK Basel Ghattas of the Joint (Arab) List in the Knesset, February 12, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Liberman vows to strip Arab MKs’ citizenship amid phone smuggling probe

By Joshua Davidovich

MK Basel Ghattas says investigation into whether he gave prisoners cell phones is a political witch hunt; Dozens rally for Syria in Tel Aviv; Jerusalem asks Minsk not to deport blogger to Baku

Mohammed Al-Zoari (Channel 2 screenshot)

Analysis

Hamas blames Israel for killing its drone expert in Tunisia, vows revenge

By ToI Staff and Avi Issacharoff

The blood of Mohammed Al-Zoari, shot dead on Thursday, ‘will not be spilled in vain,’ terror group warns

Mohammed Al-Zoari, a Tunisian scientist with ties to Hamas killed near his home in the Tunisian city of Sfax on Thursday, December 15, 2016. (Screen capture Channel 10)

AnalysisWas Mossad responsible for killing a Tunisian aviation engineer?

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Activists sing and play music at a home in the illegal outpost of Amona in the West Bank, on December 17, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Reporter's notebook

The last dance at Amona

By Judah Ari Gross

With the clock ticking, hundreds gather in the wildcat outpost, slated for evacuation by next Sunday, to protest, comfort and celebrate

PM orders crackdown on illegal Arab construction

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Herzog to Amona residents: Zionism is not a land grab

By Tamar Pileggi

Hundreds head to Amona outpost to oppose evacuation

The big black box in the road on Shabbat

Shattering the peace of the Sabbath day to make sure that the suspicious object was nothing worse

How tribute to an ancient Slavic myth of a water nymph reveals a memorial to Poland’s dead Jews

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Why Xmas in Israel (but not LA) works

She’ll never have a Christmas tree, but welcomes some of Jesus’ ideas, lighting the dark of winter, and candy canes

Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher arriving at the Ministry of General Affairs, December 5, 2014. (Jaap Arriens/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)

Descendant of Holocaust survivors leads assault on Holland’s far right

By Cnaan Liphshiz

President-elect Donald Trump looks on during a rally at the DeltaPlex Arena, December 9, 2016, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

‘Unpresidented’ Trump tweet on China sets off deluge of mockery

By AFP

President-elect incurs online jabs for misspelled anger over Chinese seizure of US Navy drone

Men hose down wildfires in Haifa, Israel, November 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Three Palestinians arrested for suspected arson attacks

Suspects are accused of setting fires in West Bank for ‘nationalistic’ motives during a rash of wildfires last month

French President Francois Hollande (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pose for photographers at the Elysee Palace, Paris, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. (AP/Thibault Camus)

France confirms Paris peace summit delayed until January

French envoy to UN says ‘conditions not in place today to restart negotiations’ between Israel, Palestinians

Chaimie (Jamie Elman) and Laizer (Eli Batalion) of YidLife Crisis in 'Crisismukkah' episode. (YouTube screen shot)

Get ready for the 8 days of Chrismukkah

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Image of Adal Amar, head of the communist faction in the Arab-Jewish Hadash party. (Credit: YouTube)

Arab-Israeli party official denies backing Assad

Head of Hadash’s communist faction says his praise for ‘unification of Aleppo’ doesn’t mean he supports Syrian president

File photo of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani with UN nuclear chief Yukiya Amano during a meeting in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, September 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran discusses nuclear ships plan with IAEA chief

By AFP

Construction of boats, which would likely breach permitted uranium-enrichment level, seen as retaliation over renewed US sanctions

A Syrian man walks past a bulldozer removing rubble from a road as Syrian pro-government forces re-open a street in Aleppo's old city that was formerly barricaded, dividing the government-held and rebel-held areas, on December 17, 2016.
(Youssef Karwashan/AFP)

UN Security Council to vote Sunday on Aleppo observers

By Carole LANDRY

As thousands look to flee besieged areas of war-ravaged city, French proposal aims to ‘avoid another Srebrenica’ massacre after the fighting

Illustrative: A man waves both a Union flag and a European flag together on College Green outside the UK Parliament on June 28, 2016. (Justin Tallis/AFP)

From our partners

UK police probe minorities advocate over anti-Semitic slurs

Head of European body that represents ethnic groups – except for Jews – reported to police for anti-Semitic slurs

A stall selling oliebollen in Amsterdam in 2015. (Kate Hopkins/Flickr/via JTA)

How Hanukkah sufganiyot became a national treat in the Netherlands

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Advertisement from Israeli grassroots fundraising campaign “Just Beyond Our Border,” which aims to bring emergency supplies to the Syrians suffering from the civil war in their country. (Credit: courtesy)

Beyond bordersIsraelis raise $100k in two days to aid Syrian kids

In this November 1, 2016, photo, a voter is reflected in the glass frame of a poster while leaving a polling site in Atlanta, during early voting ahead of the Nov. 8 election day. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Jewish delegate to Electoral College labeled ‘anti-Semite’ by anti-Trump campaigners

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Holocaust survivor Yaacov Walden, 88, gives an interview at a retirement home in the Israeli Mediterranean coastal city of Haifa on November 29, 2016. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Israelis downplay concerns of anti-Semitism after Trump win

Avi Hasson, Economy Ministry Chief Scientist (Courtesy)

Chief scientist: To fuel Start-up Nation, more skilled workers needed

By Shoshanna Solomon

Gas rigs in the Tamar field, off the coast of Israel, in June 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

From the webLeviathan partners to begin drilling in Q1 2017

Dr. Henry Heimlich talks about his life in 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)

Henry Heimlich, life-saving maneuver creator, dies at 96

By AP

Text and images from 'A Poem for Peter,' a tribute to Ezra Jack Keats by Andrea Davis Pinkney. (Courtesy of Penguin Random House/via JTA)

Jewish author Ezra Jack Keats honored in new children’s book

By Penny Schwartz

Illustrative: People on the 'Flight of the Gibbon' zipline tour in Chaing Mai, Thailand. (screen capture: YouTube)

3 Israelis hurt in Thailand ziplining accident

Jewish youths prepare to resist the evacuation of Amona in the West Bank on December 15, 2016, after the residents voted against a peaceful evacuation. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThere will be noise

By Joshua Davidovich

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