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What Matters Most On Monday, December 4, 2017

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Likud MK and coalition chairman David Bitan on December 4, 2017, after police questioning as part of a corruption investigation. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Mobster arrested, Tel Aviv city official grilled in coalition whip graft case

MK David Bitan was reportedly NIS 16 million in debt, is suspected of repaying the money via illicit deals

Coalition chairman denies he may quit in wake of graft probe

Withdrawing police recommendation bill, Likud MK blames ‘violent leftists’

Hebrew media reviewGrilled Bitan with a side of toasted police bill

By Joshua Davidovich

Op-ed

If Netanyahu is so corrupt and dangerous, why don’t rivals unite to defeat him?

Lapid, Gabbay, Barak and Ya’alon all insist the PM must go, urgently, for Israel’s sake. Their refusal to put egos aside for the greater cause rather undermines their credibility

Composite photo (from left): Ehud Barak, Avi Gabbay, Benjamin Netanyahu, Yair Lapid, Moshe Ya'alon (All pictures: Flash90)

Illustrative image of bitcoins (Courtesy BitsofGold)

As binary options shuts down, some ex-operatives turn to cryptocurrency

By Simona Weinglass

As securities chief worries about new iteration of fraud, a speaker at a Tel Aviv meetup enthuses, ’It’s the Wild West. No one knows what’s going on. You can do whatever you want’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, left, meets with Saudi King Salman in Riyadh on November 7, 2017. (Thaer Ghanaim / Wafa)

Saudis move toward Netanyahu’s vision on the Palestinians — NY Times

By Alexander Fulbright

Account of Palestinian concern over proposal backed by Saudi crown prince comes out ahead of expected US policy change on Jerusalem

Kushner: Israeli-Palestinian peace needed for wider Middle East stability

By Eric Cortellessa

Arab League warns Trump against recognizing Jerusalem as Israeli capital

AnalysisWhat Flynn’s plea could mean for Kushner and Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discusses Israel's foreign policy at Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, in London, on November 3, 2017. (AFP Photo/Adrian Dennis)

Experts dismiss poll hailed by PM showing 30% of Iranians want Israel ties

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu claims survey commissioned by Foreign Ministry — which also says 48% of Iraqis and 30% of Saudis back relations — shows ‘gigantic change’; pollsters say it is flawed

Hundreds attend the funeral of 19-year old Israeli soldier Ron Kokia in the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery on December 3, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

2 Bedouin Israelis suspected of killing soldier in terror attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Shin Bet says alleged assailants acted out of ‘nationalistic motives’ in stabbing Sgt. Ron Kokia in Arad; victim’s stolen gun retrieved

Protesters carry a Palestinian injured in clashes with IDF soldiers at the entrance to the northern West Bank village of Qusra on December 4, 2017 (AFP Photo/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

Palestinian shot in clashes as settlers march outside Qusra

By Judah Ari Gross and Jacob Magid

Hundreds attend the funeral for 19-year-old soldier Ron Kokia in Tel Aviv's Kiryat Shaul military cemetery on December 3, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Soldier stabbed to death at Arad bus station laid to rest

Likud MK and coalition chairman David Bitan on December 4, 2017, after police questioning as part of a corruption investigation. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Police source says evidence against Bitan in corruption case ‘strong’

By Tamar Pileggi

Bribery and money laundering scheme involving coalition chairman is said to amount to tens of millions of shekels; source says investigation is ‘the end of his career’

7:14 pm

Iran memo demands US account for death of Iranian-American
7:09 pm

Danon denies wrongdoing after corruption investigation announced
6:59 pm

Despite corruption probes, new poll shows Netayahu would still win hypothetical election

Does moral rebuke belong in shul?

Even the regular liturgy can snap us out of complacency, but for how long?

Laurence Weinbaum

An anti-Semite, a conman and a useful idiot

An event in Poland honoring gentiles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust promoted a distorted historical narrative

Can you handle complexity?

Here’s how Israel, with its divergent views, might live up to the wisdom that its 70 years represent

What is Israel doing in Africa?

If Israelis would get to know the continent to their south, a lasting relationship could then be in the works

Illustrative: The Arrow 3 missile is launched from Palmachim air base in central Israel on December 10, 2015. (Defense Ministry)

Arrow 3 missile test called off over safety concerns

By Judah Ari Gross

System was supposed to shoot down simulated ballistic missile, but target ‘didn’t meet safety codes,’ Defense Ministry says

Illustrative. IDF soldiers train next to a tank at the Tzeelim army base in southern Israel on August 19, 2015. (Israel Defense Forces/Flickr)

Tank fires live shell during what should have been ‘dry’ exercise

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Soldiers of the IDF's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion study at the Peles Military Base, in the northern Jordan Valley. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

IDF again misses ultra-Orthodox draft goal, gets record female combat soldiers

By Judah Ari Gross

Melissa Ben-Ishay of Baked by Melissa. (Ashley Sears)

Fired from her job, she turned a bite-sized business into a cupcake conglomerate

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh addressing a ceremony to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the British forces withdrawal from Aden, November 29, 2007. (KHALED FAZAA/AFP)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim ex-president killed

By AFP

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)

AG closes sexual harassment probe against senior lawmaker for lack of evidence

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Saban Forum in Washington, DC, in a video message. December 3, 2017 (YouTube screenshot)

PM likens Iran to Nazi Germany in its ‘commitment to murder Jews’

By Raphael Ahren

Avi Issacharoff (left), the creator of 'Fauda,' speaks with Sarah Tuttle-Singer at a Times of Israel event on December 3, 2017 in Jerusalem (Beit Avi Chai)

Times of Israel Presents‘Fauda’ creator takes fans behind the scenes of hit drama

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative photo of a prostitute in Tel Aviv (Flash90)

Police bust Tel Aviv prostitution ring

The Wounded Table, 1940 by Frida Kahlo (Public domain)

Desperately seeking this Frida Kahlo painting. Last seen in Poland

By Anna Maria Jakubek

Hanoch Steimeker, owner of the Hodu Hakatan restaurant in Beersheba. (Courtesy Hashgacha Pratit)

Alternative kosher certification group says Rabbinate intimidating its customers

The front of the NIS 50 banknote featuring the late poet Saul Tchernichovsky. (Courtesy)

Black moneyRabbi forbids looking at NIS 50 bill featuring poet who married a Christian

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