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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 12, 2017

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Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky attends a meeting in the Knesset of the lobby for strengthening ties with the Jewish world, June 27, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jewish Agency chief: Reform criticism of Trump’s Jerusalem move was ‘terrible’

By ToI Staff and JTA

‘Everything that comes out of Trump is bad, from their perspective,’ Natan Sharansky says in radio interview chastising liberal US movement

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jew, belonging to the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta group protest against the State of Israel in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on August 4, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Head of Satmar Hasidic sect slams US recognition of Jerusalem

By JTA

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, left, following their joint news statement after their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, on Dec. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Putin says US Jerusalem move may ‘finish prospects’ for peace deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A Hanukkah menorah (Flash90)

Vancouver school apologizes to students for banning Hanukkah

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Sixth-grade girls Maya Sontz and Rebecca Weinberg spearhead — and win — fight for inclusivity in their Christmas-bedecked public school

Happy Hannu-quizHow will you do on Mayim Bialik’s Hanukkah test?

By Tracy Frydberg

Forgo the fillingMoroccan delicacy is Israel’s hottest Hanukkah treat

By Andrew Tobin

Archaeologists uncover bittersweet end of 1,800-year-old Tiberias menorah

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Illustrative: Palestinian ambulances in Gaza waiting at the Rafah border crossing on January 10, 2008. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash
90/File)

Two Islamic Jihad terrorists killed on ‘jihadi mission’ in Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross and Dov Lieber

Palestinian shot by soldiers wasn’t carrying a knife, IDF finds

After Iron Dome shoots down rocket fired at Ashkelon, IDF hits Gaza targets

Iranian leaders vow to back Hamas in fight against Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Analysis

In Netanyahu’s Eurotrip, fantasies clash with reality

Extolling US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, PM urges acceptance of facts — but then, improbably, predicts most of Europe will move its embassies to holy city

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) holds a joint press conference with the European Union's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini in Brussels, Belgium, October 11, 2017.(Avi Ohayon/GPO)

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as he arrives for their meeting at the European Council in Brussels on December 11, 2017. (AFP Photo/Pool/Eric Vidal)

EU upbraids Netanyahu for suggesting it will follow US lead on Jerusalem

By AFP

Palestinian youths set a portrait of US President Donald Trump on fire after his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, during a demonstration outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City on December 11, 2017. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)

White House says Trump not to blame for protests over Jerusalem

By Eric Cortellessa

Haredi r Jewish leader Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, seen in his home, in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Bnei Brak. January 22, 2015. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Obituary

Rabbi Steinman, venerated leader of Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox Jewry, dies at 104

By Marissa Newman

Fondly known as the ‘rosh yeshiva,’ the religious authority toed line between political pragmatism and fierce opposition to IDF service

Thousands of mourners attend the funeral of Rabbi Aharon Yehudah Leib Steinman in Bnei Brak, December 12, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Funeral for ultra-Orthodox spiritual leader draws hundreds of thousands

By ToI Staff and AFP

Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara, and Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely, take part in Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on December 12, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu says ‘no substitute’ for US role in peace process

By Tamar Pileggi

At Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony, PM says Trump declaration on Jerusalem makes this year’s holiday this year is ‘extra special’

7:15 pm

Former Teva CEO resigns from board citing personal reasons
7:09 pm

Trump to release national security strategy next week
6:57 pm

Senate unanimously passes bill to help Holocaust survivors

Illustrative: A Kuwaiti demonstrator burns a poster of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a demonstration in front of the National Assembly in Kuwait City on December 9, 2017, against US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. (AFP/Yasser Al-Zayyat)

Poll: Netanyahu beats Assad as least popular Middle East leader

By Joshua Davidovich

A man reads the newspaper at a cafe at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, on September 5, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Poll: 45% of Israelis believe country’s democracy in ‘serious danger’

By Marissa Newman

Palestinian protesters take cover from teargas fired by Israeli troops during clashes on the Israeli border with Gaza, Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Poll: 91% of Palestinians oppose Trump Jerusalem move

By AP

Education Minister and Jewish Home party chairman Naftali Bennett, speaks during a party faction meeting at the Knesset, January 15, 2017. Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Interview

Bennett: Hold Iran accountable for Hezbollah aggression

By Raphael Ahren and Avi Davidi

In interview to the Times of Israel’s Persian edition, minister urges Israel to shift focus from Islamic Republic’s proxies to ‘head of the octopus’

AnalysisCongress to miss sanctions deadline on Iran deal, what happens next?

Defense minister: Arab MKs are ‘war criminals,’ should ‘go back to Gaza’

By Marissa Newman

Hezbollah chief says Trump Jerusalem move ‘beginning of end’ for Israel

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Seven-year-old Hadas Goldberg-Keidar from Kibbutz Heftziba with the intact 2,200-year-old clay lamp next to porcupines' cave in the Beit She'an Valley. (Israel Antiquities Authority)

Needle-to-know basis

In porcupines’ den, mother and daughter discover 2,200-year-old Hasmonean lamp

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

The mermaids on the train to Tel Aviv

An American, a German, a Frenchwoman and a Czech were all riding Israel Railways

Charles E. Savenor

Life after the fall

Blinded by tears, my brother’s feet slipped and his body fell forward toward the open grave…

Should a rabbi take Communion?

Many of the most innovative efforts to redefine Jewish life and identity are not happening in synagogues

Michael Feldstein

Two journeys, one prayer

There’s more than one reason to pray — and more than one kind of destination

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Kayla Moore, the wife of US Senate candidate Roy Moore speaks at a campaign rally, Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, in Midland City, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Roy Moore’s wife fights anti-Semitic tag: ‘One of our attorneys is a Jew’

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative image of a man walking in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market in the evening, July 27, 2016. (Zack Wajsgras/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewOpen for business (except on Shabbat)

By Joshua Davidovich

The Defense Ministry building in Tel Aviv, August 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

IDF officers arrested over alleged massive defrauding of Defense Ministry

Yinon Reuveni, suspected of vandalizing the church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes in Tabgha, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, is seen at the Nazareth Magistrate's Court on July 29, 2015. (Photo by Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Galilee ‘Loaves’ church arsonist sentenced to 4 years

Police arrive after a synagogue was attacked in a failed arson attempt in Gothenburg, Sweden, on December 9, 2017. (ADAM IHSE/AFP)

After 2nd firebombing, Swedish anti-Semitism watchdog warns of wave of attacks

By JTA and ToI Staff

Palestinians wave the national flag during a demonstration in Gaza City on December 3, 2017, in support of the reconciliation talks between Hamas and Fatah. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

Palestinians miss major deadline for reconciliation bid

By AFP

Asylum seekers protesting at the Holot detention center in the southern Negev Desert of Israel, February 17, 2014. (Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images)

Ahead of mass deportations, Knesset extends restrictions on migrants

By Marissa Newman

Rachel Brosnahan stars as Miriam “Midge” Maisel, the titular character in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” (Amazon Studios via JTA)

Golden Globes 2018: ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ and all the other Jewish nominees

By Gabe Friedman

In a humorous moment during the centennial reenactment of General Allenby's proclamation, actor playing General Allenby announces he is "returning the key to Jerusalem" to the city's current mayor, Nir Barkat, December 11, 2017 (Ricky Rackman)

Reporter's Notebook

History repeats itself as Lord Allenby captures Jerusalem’s Old City, again

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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