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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 5, 2017

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President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, gestures as he gives a speech at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in Ankara, on December 5, 2017. (AFP Photo/Adem Altan)

Erdogan says Turkey could sever ties with Israel if Trump recognizes capital

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinians, Saudi Arabia, Arab League and European Union warn changing Jerusalem’s status could scuttle peace efforts

Israel hits back at Turkish leader over threat to sever ties

By ToI Staff, AFP and AP

US embassies said to gird for protests over Trump Jerusalem moves

By ToI Staff and JTA

Israel said bracing for Palestinian reaction to Trump’s Jerusalem decision

By Stuart Winer

Analysis

The president’s guide to recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

Changing the status of the entire city could derail Trump’s peace plan, while naming ‘West Jerusalem’ will disappoint Israelis; hence, he’ll likely remain ambiguous

Palestinian protesters shout slogans during a demonstration in front of the Dome of the Rock in the Al-Aqsa compound in the old city of Jerusalem, on August 14, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Trump missing embassy waiver deadline by a few days is no big deal, experts say

By Eric Cortellessa and Raphael Ahren

Jerusalem mayor, outside White House, pleads with Trump to move the embassy

PA official: US Jerusalem recognition would end Trump peace push

By AFP

Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer speaks at the Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington, DC, June 9, 2017. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images via JTA)

War with Iran’s proxies looming, Israel’s US envoy warns

Ron Dermer cautions that Tehran’s growing influence is likely to lead to military conflict, optimistic about regional peace deal

Israeli jets reported to strike Syrian military site near Damascus

By ToI Staff and AFP

Satellite shows aftermath of alleged Israeli strike on Iranian base in Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

Iranian hackers targeted Israelis for info on dissidents — report

By Stuart Winer

This file photo taken on May 21, 2017 shows US President Donald Trump (R) shaking hands with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, during a bilateral meeting at a hotel in the Saudi capital Riyadh. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Live updates (closed)

Saudi king warns ‘dangerous’ US Jerusalem embassy move would provoke Muslims

By Tamar Pileggi

Arab and Muslim leaders fiercely oppose Trump’s expected announcement recognizing of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and possible move of the US embassy to the holy city

7:33 pm

Saudi king warns 'dangerous' US Jerusalem embassy move will 'inflame' Muslim world
7:14 pm

Hamas leader: Embassy move 'crosses all red lines,' says 'all options on the table'
7:06 pm

Jordan calls emergency Arab League meeting over Trump's Jerusalem moves

Coalition chair’s wife named as suspect in bribery probe

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Hagit Bitan, whose husband David is under investigation, placed under house arrest after hours of questioning, not allowed to talk to him

Coalition whip Likud party MK David Bitan, center, arrives at the Knesset in Jerusalem, December 4, 2017. (Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and David Bitan sharing a toast at a Likud faction meeting on February 27, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewMarried to the mob-linked politician

By Joshua Davidovich

David Amsalem, chairman of the Internal Affairs Committee, leads a discussion about the 'Recommendations bill,' on December 3, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Police recommendation bill amended to exclude current investigations into PM

By Raoul Wootliff

Husam Jarushi, a reported mobster linked to suspected wrongdoing by Likud MK David Bitan, in court on December 4, 2017 (screen capture: Hadashot)

Meet the Jarushis, the crime family linked to Likud MK David Bitan

By Simona Weinglass

A member of the Ramle organization is at the center of an investigation into alleged bribes taken by the coalition whip

MK David Bitan in the Israeli parliament on December 5, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Bitan’s career is finished, he just doesn’t know it yet,’ official says

Return the birthright

A trip to Israel that ignores Palestinian suffering is not worth a free plane ticket

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

A daughter of Israel alone on Jaffa Road

A few shekels, the occasional meal — we need to do a lot more for those who need our help

Arnold M. Eisen

Partition in the Land of Israel, then and now

We need to draw clear political borders with the Palestinians and blur the boundaries dividing Israeli society

Seeing through the duct tape

A singer who took an extreme measure to avoid seeing women dance violated the spirit of Jewish law

Ultra-Orthodox singer Yonatan Razel covers his eyes with masking tape to avoid seeing women dancing at the foot of the stage on December 3, 2017. (Screen capture: Twitter video)

Blind spot

Ultra-Orthodox singer tapes eyes shut to avoid seeing women dancing

At Jerusalem concert for female-only crowd, American-born Yonatan Razel takes drastic action

Bryan Adams performs in Tel Aviv on December 4, 2017. (Orit Pnini)

Concert reviewWith youthful exuberance, singer Bryan Adams does it for Tel Aviv

By Marissa Newman

Cover and detail from the children's book 'P is for Palestine;' photos of Palestinian youth demonstrating against Israel, throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails. (Book pages screenshot from drbashi.com; photos of demonstrations from public domain)

C is for Controversy

‘P is for Palestine’ children’s picture book ignites controversy in New York

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Head of the Zionist Union Avi Gabbay (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Interview

Netanyahu rival Avi Gabbay vows to coddle US Jews if elected PM

Labor Party leader hopes to win support by offering a little to everyone rather than focus only on his party’s center-left base

Despite corruption crisis, Likud MKs loath to challenge Netanyahu’s leadership

New elections poll shows PM holding onto majority, but only just

Police to open corruption investigation into UN Ambassador Danon

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Violence breaks out during a Knesset meeting of the Committee of Labor, Welfare and Health, December 5, 2017. (Screen capture: Ynet)

Disabled activist stabs rival with a pen in Knesset brawl

A woman lights candles at a makeshift memorial next to the Bataclan concert hall on November 16, 2015, in Paris. (AFP/ BERTRAND GUAY)

Berlin art show shocks with jihadist ‘martyrs’ display

By AFP

Ron Yitzhak Kokia, an IDF soldier who was stabbed to death in a terror attack on November 30, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

Bedouin leaders disavow soldier’s killers, urge coexistence

By Stuart Winer

Israelis sit and pray together inside a street shelter, in anticipation of the Code Red siren alerting of incoming rockets, in the Southern Israeli town of Nitzan, on the fourth day of Operation Protective Edge, July 11, 2014 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Army says no rockets launched at Israel overnight, sirens were false alarm

By Judah Ari Gross

Cnoga's TensorTip device, also known as the CoG, allows an accurate and non-invasive monitoring of glucose levels in the blood (Courtesy)

OuchlessIsraeli device banishes finger-pricking for sugar levels in diabetes patients

By Shoshanna Solomon

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani poses during the inauguration of a newly built extension of the port of Chabahar, near the Pakistani border, on the Gulf of Oman, southeastern Iran, December 3, 2017. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Rouhani pans ‘detestable’ ties between some Islamic states and Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offers sympathy to Iranian wrestler Alireza Karimi-Mashiani who was forced to lose a bout to avoid competing against an Israeli opponent, in a video released December 4, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Netanyahu says Iran forcing its wrestlers to lose sums up Tehran’s hostility

Part of a December 1, 2017, Boston Globe cartoon showing Sheldon and Miriam Adelson

Boston Globe cartoon uses anti-Semitic images, Jewish leaders say

By JTA

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