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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 9, 2017

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Israeli police disperse Palestinian protesters on December 9, 2017, in East Jerusalem. as unrest simmers over US President Donald Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

W Bank riots less intense

Abbas to boycott Pence as protests over Jerusalem continue

By ToI Staff and Agencies

600 in violent protests in West Bank, hundreds demonstrate at funerals in Gaza and at fence, 6 arrested in Jerusalem; soldiers use tear gas to disperse rioters near Bethlehem

US Jerusalem Consulate in fresh warning to its citizens in wake of Trump speech

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Amid violent Palestinian protests over Jerusalem declaration, Trump urges calm

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hamas chief: ‘Blessed intifada’ will continue until ‘Jerusalem’s liberation’

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley delivers a speech during a United Nations Security Council meeting on December 8, 2017 in New York City (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

Defiant Haley chides fuming Security Council members: ‘Change is hard’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

At session on Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, US envoy says those who use violence show they don’t want peace; Palestinians demand move be rescinded

Egypt’s Coptic Pope rejects Pence meeting over Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Angry protesters across Muslim world lash out against Trump over Jerusalem

By AP and ToI Staff

Hamas urges Palestinians to confront soldiers, settlers

Palestinians look at the damage at a Hamas military facility early on December 9, 2017, in the aftermath of an Israeli air strike in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip. (AFP PHOTO / MAHMUD HAMS)

Israeli planes hit Hamas targets in Gaza in response to rockets

IDF warns further Gaza rockets will be met with ‘severe response’

Third rocket from Gaza explodes in residential Sderot

After urging intifada, Hamas blames Israel for any escalation as 2 killed

By ToI Staff and AFP

US President Donald Trump holds up a proclamation to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, on Dec. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump calls out Clinton, Bush and Obama on Jerusalem

By AFP and ToI Staff

President boasts on Twitter that unlike his predecessors, he fulfills his promises, and posts a video montage to prove his point

Dina Powell, US President Donald Trump's senior counselor for economic initiatives, listens during a meeting between the president and business leaders in the White House, April 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Deputy national security adviser Dina Powell to leave White House

By AP

A "State Department spokesman" holds up two bowls of hummus during a sketch poking fun at US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" aired on December 7, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Hummus capitalColbert show mocks Trump’s recognition of Israel’s capital

A Palestinian flag waves in front of the White House on December 8, 2017, in Washington, DC, at a protest against US President Donald Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. (AFP PHOTO / mari matsuri)

Muslims pray outside White House to protest Trump Jerusalem move

By AFP and ToI Staff

N. Korea condemns ‘mentally deranged dotard’ Trump over Jerusalem

By AFP

Erdogan seeks to lead Islamic response on Jerusalem

By Stuart Williams and ToI Staff

Russia says Trump’s Jerusalem declaration ‘defies common sense’

By AFP

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas prays before a meeting with the Palestine Liberation Organisations (PLO) executive committee at his office in the West Bank city of Ramallah on November 4, 2015. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Analysis

While Abbas seeks strategy to channel Jerusalem protests, Hamas aims to step in

PA chief says the ‘rage’ over Trump’s new policy will continue, and the Palestinians will ‘never back down.’ But does he have a plan to turn grievance into a recipe for statehood?

Palestinian chief negotiator and secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Saeb Erekat, during a press conference in the West Bank city of Jericho on February 15, 2017. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)

Erekat: No talks with US until Trump reverses Jerusalem recognition

File: Then-coordinator of government activities in the territories (COGAT) Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, left, and the Palestinian Authority’s Civil Affairs Minister Hussein al-Sheikh sign an agreement to revitalize the Israeli-Palestinian Joint Water Committee, January 15, 2017. (Courtesy COGAT)

IDF implores Palestinians to ignore extremist calls for violence

(From R-L) Yesha chairman Hananel Dorani, Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan, and Samaria Rabbi Elyakim Levanon pose for a photo on December 8, 2017, with children in the same cave where they were attacked last week during clashes with Palestinians from Qusra. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Settlers, with kids, return to spot of deadly clash to complete bar mitzvah hike

One father asks children to stand exactly where they were last week when blocked in a cave by Palestinians from Qusra village

Protesters in the Israeli Arab town of Umm al-Fahm, file (Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Hundreds demonstrate in Israeli Arab town against Jerusalem recognition

Shoes taken from victims at the Nazi-built death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, some of which are part of a global tour of artifacts from Auschwitz-Birkenau launched in December 2017 (Courtesy of Musealia)

Global tour of Auschwitz relics begins seven-year, 14-city journey

By Matt Lebovic

Daniel Day-Lewis as Reynolds Woodcock in 'The Phantom Thread.' (Screenshot)

Film review

Daniel Day-Lewis in ‘Phantom Thread’ is a cut above

By Jordan Hoffman

Left to right, Liad Shemesh, an Israeli tourist, outside the Great Synagogue of Tbilisi with his wife, Einat, Adi Amram and Ortal Panehla on August 20, 2015. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Reporter's Notebook

Tbilisi’s Jewish community keeps active with Israeli tourists, and Chabad meals

By Jessica Steinberg

Still on track for a two-state solution?

It IS possible, but the relevant parties would have to act like they want peace

Michael Feldstein

When travel makes you nervous

The Wayfarer’s Prayer goes beyond your physical safety on the journey

More Headlines

This photo taken on October 5, 2017 shows Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi giving a press conference in Paris. ( AFP PHOTO / POOL / ludovic MARIN)

Iraqi PM declares ‘end of war against IS’ in Iraq

By AFP

Sen. Al Franken looks over his papers during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands, on Capitol Hill November 14, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images via JTA)

Al Franken’s resignation pains his Jewish fans in Minnesota

In this May 21, 2017 photo, actor Dustin Hoffman poses for photographers during the photo call for the film "The Meyerowitz Stories" at the 70th international film festival, Cannes, southern France (Arthur Mola/Invision/AP)

Second actress accuses Dustin Hoffman of ‘horrific’ sexual assault

By AP and ToI Staff

Dani Dayan speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Jerusalem, on July 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel’s NY consul: Reform rejection of Trump’s Jerusalem move ‘frustrating’

By JTA

A class at the private Lycée Verdun in an upscale area of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. (Canal Verdun screenshot)

GeografailPrivate school in Lebanon says sorry for showing Israel on map

By AP

Mateusz Morawiecki, third from left, at the Warsaw Zoo holding a document honoring rescuers of Jews, Sept. 18, 2017. (Courtesy of From the Depths)

Poland appoints ex-banker with Jewish roots as prime minister

By JTA

Israeli special forces train in Cyprus as part of a binational exercise in early December 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

In mountains and cities of Cyprus, IDF special forces train for war

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli troops, aircraft travel to Mediterranean island nation for second time this year for exercise with local soldiers

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