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What Matters Most On Friday, December 8, 2017

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A Palestinian rioter uses a sling shot against Israeli security forces during clashes after in the West Bank city of Hebron on December 8, 2017. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

5,000 Palestinians hold violent protests across West Bank, Gaza over Jerusalem

By Judah Ari Gross, ToI Staff and Agencies

IDF braces for further clashes on Saturday, after 200 injured, most of them lightly, in riots against Trump’s recognition of Israel’s capital; two killed at Gaza fence

Abbas vows Palestinian rage will continue: ‘We’ll never back down’

France: US excluded itself from peace process

By AFP and ToI Staff

After Trump speech, Fatah official says Pence ‘unwanted in Palestine’

By Alexander Fulbright and Dov Lieber

The UN Security Council meets on December 8, 2017. (United Nations)

Live updates (closed)

US’s Haley at UNSC: Those who resort to violence show they don’t want peace

Israeli envoy Danon says Jerusalem recognition should be ‘reality check’ for Palestinians; 2 killed in Gaza, 250 injured in W. Bank protests; Iron Dome intercepts rocket from Strip

6:16 pm

Danon: US declaration should be 'reality check' for Palestinians
6:00 pm

Army tells communities near Gaza to expect more rockets
5:57 pm

Palestinian UN envoy calls on US to 'rescind' Jerusalem recognition

At White House Hanukkah party, Trump celebrates his Jerusalem decision

By Eric Cortellessa

‘Well, I know for a fact there are a lot of happy people in this room,’ he says to a crowd gathered in the East Room for annual soiree

Netanyahu likens Trump’s Jerusalem speech to Israel’s founding

By Alexander Fulbright and Raphael Ahren

9 out of 11 former US envoys to Israel oppose Trump’s Jerusalem declaration

Trump’s Jerusalem move reflects ‘best path for peace,’ says ambassador

Illustrative: Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri in a still image from a web posting by the terrorist organization's media arm, as-Sahab, on July 27, 2011. (AP)

Al-Qaeda urges attacks on US, Israel after Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Terror group issues call for jihad, telling followers US is modern-day ‘pharaoh’

Top Iranian cleric calls for Palestinian violence, vows to ‘level Tel Aviv’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Malaysians, Indonesians, Pakistanis protest Trump’s Jerusalem move

By AP and ToI Staff

Thousands march in Istanbul to protest Trump

By AFP and ToI Staff

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson participates in a press conference in Paris on December 8, 2017. (AFP Photo/Alain Jocard)

Tillerson: Jerusalem embassy move could take several years

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Hebrew media reviewAprès Jerusalem, le déluge of question marks

By Joshua Davidovich

14,000 housing units planned for Jerusalem, 6,000 of them over Green line

By Raoul Wootliff and Sue Surkes

IDF bombs Hamas positions in Gaza after rocket attacks

By Judah Ari Gross

Zionist Union head Avi Gabbay leads a faction meeting at the Knesset on November 27, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Labor head: ‘United’ Jerusalem ‘more important than peace’

By Alexander Fulbright

Avi Gabbay praises Trump’s recognition of Israel’s capital, says over 90% of Israelis ‘yearn’ for city’s unity

Netanyahu: Israel winning over Arab world with social media

By Raphael Ahren

Czech president wants to follow US on Jerusalem embassy move

A day later, no plans for ‘Jerusalem, Israel,’ on US passports

Palestinian protesters burn pictures of US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Gaza City, on December 7, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Abbas must decide how far to let the demonstrations go

With Palestinians of all factions taking to the streets in protest of Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem, the PA president holds the key

Hezbollah leader: Trump move ‘a second Balfour Declaration’

Trudeau says Canada’s embassy to remain in Tel Aviv

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jordanians rally against Trump recognition, chant ‘Jerusalem is Arab’

Umayyad coin (after the reform) with a seven-branched menorah model. Made of bronze. These coins were probably minted in Jerusalem around the 8th century CE. On one side of the coin is a seven-branched menorah with an inscription in Arabic: "There is no God but Allah." On the other side of the coin is an Arabic inscription, "Muhammad, the messenger of God," and above it is the symbol of the Muslim crescent. (Gift from the Abraham Sofer and Marianne Schweer Sofer Collection, Palo Alto, to American Friends of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel. © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Vladimir Nikhin)

Archaeologists expose Muslim-Jewish ‘dialogue’ in Jerusalem from 1,300 years ago

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The Jewish neighborhood of Ma'ale Hazeitim, at the heart of the Arab neighborhood of Ras al-Amoud, on the Mount of Olives, May 2011 (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

At East Jerusalem enclave, some Jews happier with Trump than with Netanyahu

Stephen M. Flatow

The Taylor Force Act has been gutted

The adjusted bill is worse than no bill at all, because Congress won’t see the need to revisit the issue of paying terrorists

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

The shin on my dreidel

My heart is in the east, where my daily actions contribute to the Jewish story that is greater than my own

Is Reform Judaism forgetting its Zionism?

So many reasons the Union for Reform Judaism should endorse Trump’s Jerusalem embassy move

The defeat of despair

Joseph’s endurance reminds us that the bad things in life may herald imminent good (Vayeshev)

More Headlines

Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) looks at his wife Franni Bryson, before walking to the Senate chamber to announce his resignation on December 7, 2017 on Capitol Hill. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Franken takes swipe at Trump as he quits US Senate

By Michael Mathes

Princeton University (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, Wdwdbot)

Anti-Semitic flyers posted on Princeton University campus

By JTA

British Prime Minister Theresa May (L) is welcomed by European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker at European Commission in Brussels on December 8, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / EMMANUEL DUNAND)

Britain and EU reach historic deal on Brexit divorce terms

This photo from Dec. 5, 2017, shows an unidentified man holding human remains which had been removed from an old Jewish cemetery and dumped in huge mounds in Siemiatycze, Poland. (Aleksander Schwarz/The Union of Jewish Communities in Poland via AP)

Human remains dug up, dumped, during work near Jewish cemetery in Poland

US President Donald Trump delivers a statement on Jerusalem from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC on December 6, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)

Trump to release medical records after slurring words in Jerusalem speech

Mary Torres of Falls Church, Virginia, left, holds a rolling pin up in support of cake artist Jack Phillips, while outside of the Supreme Court with her daughter Maria Torres, right, Tuesday, December 5, 2017, during arguments on the 'Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission' case in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Flour powerChicago Tribune cites Nazis in backing baker who refused cake to gays

By Eric Cortellessa

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