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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 16, 2017

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Official notes Israel would never sign deal without Wall

White House ‘cannot envision situation’ where Western Wall is not part of Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

Senior administration official also says Vice President Pence will visit holy site next week; in May, Trump was first serving president to go there

US President Donald Trump visits the Western Wall, May 22, 2017, in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US special envoy Jason Greenblatt (L) attends the launch of a project to improve access to wastewater treatment and water for Palestinian farmers, on October 15, 2017, in the West Bank city of Jericho. (AFP Photo/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

Amid Jerusalem fallout, Trump envoy heads to Israel to try to advance peace bid

By Eric Cortellessa

Jason Greenblatt will stay in the region until after visit of US Vice President Mike Pence; unclear if Abbas or any Palestinians will be prepared to meet with him

Erdogan: Muslim nations to seek UN ‘annulment’ of Trump’s Jerusalem move

Liberman: Abbas ‘still alive’ because of Israel-PA security coordination

By Alexander Fulbright

Amid uptick in rockets, Labor chief says Israel losing deterrence in Gaza

Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh at the Gaza border on December 15, 2017. (YouTube screenshot)

Funeral held in Gaza for wheelchair-bound man killed in clashes

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinians say Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh was regular feature at rallies along the border; his brother says he lost his legs in a 2008 Israeli airstrike

Security forces brace for renewed Palestinian protests amid Jerusalem tensions

4 Palestinians, including attacker who stabbed officer, killed in clashes

By ToI Staff and AFP

IDF: Gaza rocket fired at Israel falls short, strikes house in Strip

Leader of Austria's conservative People's Party Sebastian Kurz (R) and the Chairman of the Freedom Party Heinz-Christian Strache give a joint press conference in Wien, Austria, on December 15, 2017. (AFP Photo/APA/Roland Schlager)

Austrian conservatives, far-right announce coalition deal

By Simon Sturdee

People’s Party, which has Nazi roots and campaigned on an anti-immigrant platform, will reportedly get control of police and military

Chairman of the Jobbik party Gabor Vona. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/Peter Kohalmi)

Head of Hungary’s Jobbik renounces party’s anti-Semitic ways

By Pablo Gorondi

Founder and operator of The Daily Stormer website, Andrew Anglin. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

The bigot's bibleThe Daily Stormer’s Jew-hating style guide revealed

Barry and Honey Sherman (YouTube)

Canadian Jewish billionaire, wife found dead in ‘suspicious’ circumstances

Toronto police investigating deaths of Barry Sherman, founder of drug company Apotex, and wife Honey

Lian Najami speaking at an Israeli Independence Day student gala at Boston University, in Boston, Mass., April 6, 2017. (Nir Landau for Combined Jewish Philanthropies via JTA)

Israel’s first Arab Rhodes scholar loves her country and is trying to change it

By Andrew Tobin

Sonya Gropman, left, and Gabrielle Rossmer Gropman, authors of 'The German-Jewish Cookbook: Recipes & History of a Cuisine.' (Courtesy)

Culinary smarts

Mother-daughter duo bring back our favorite things with German-Jewish cookbook

By Rich Tenorio

Arik Melamed, the proprietor of Melamed Farms, one of the few organic chicken farms in Israel (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Raising organic fowl isn’t a task for the chickenhearted

By Jessica Steinberg

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James Packer at a news conference of the Studio City project in Macau, October 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Australian billionaire says he happily gave gifts to Netanyahu, at PM’s request

Rabbi Debra Cantor of Congregation B’nai Tikvoh-Sholom in Bloomfield, Connecticut, speaking at Trump Tower in Manhattan at the 'Not The White House Chanukah Party,' a protest organized by T’ruah, December 13, 2017. (JTA/Jake Ratner)

Candlelight vigilLiberal groups celebrate Hanukkah in Trump Tower — as a protest

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn walks along Westminster Bridge by the Houses of Parliament in central London on March 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

UK’s Corbyn heckled as ‘liar’ at Hanukkah event

Krakow (Public domain, Rj1979, Wikimedia Commons)

Krakow opens first kosher hotel since the Holocaust

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Jan Tollenaere during his interview with Canvas on the children of Nazi collaborators (Courtesy/Canvas VRT)

Dutch professor questions Holocaust on TV, calls Jews ‘parasites’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Ari Shavit at the UCLA Younes & Soraya Nazarian Center For Israel Studies 5th Annual Gala at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, California, on May 5, 2015. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images via JTA)

Fresh misconduct allegations cut short Ari Shavit comeback appearance

A passenger observes the runway from a window at Israel's Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, April 21, 2013. (Flash90)

General strike over Teva job cuts to halt flights at Ben Gurion Sunday morning

By AFP

Peter Jackson (Screen capture: YouTube)

‘Lord of the Rings’ director says Weinstein led smear campaign against accusers

By AFP

This file photo taken on November 27, 2017, shows Britain's Prince Harry standing with his fiancée US actress Meghan Markle as she shows off her engagement ring whilst they pose for a photograph in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace in London. (AFP Photo/Daniel Leal-Olivas)

Harvest WeddingPrince Harry, Meghan Markle to marry on Shavuot eve

By AP

Refugees, advocates and faith leaders rallying in front of the White House to call for refugee protections on World Refugee Day, June 20, 2017. (HIAS via JTA)

As Trump lets in fewer refugees, Jewish aid group forced to cut back

By JTA

Last hurrah for Jewish Żelechów?

How righteous gentiles from a Polish town that was once 65% Jewish saved my family from the Nazis

Joshua Hammerman

Right decision. Wrong decider

Was Trump’s US Embassy move impulsive, diversionary, or purely political?

Musicians Josh Goldberg, Rick Recht, Mikey Pauker, Doni Zasloff and Josh Warshawsky perform at the biennial convention of the Union for Reform Judaism, held December 6-10, 2017, in Boston. (Union for Reform Judaism/via JTA)

In tune with the times

The Reform movement is alive with the sound of music

By Penny Schwartz

Amar’e Stoudemire at SCOPE Miami in December 2017, where a painting he commissioned on the destruction of the Second Temple is exhibited. (SCOPE Art Show)

Amar’e Stoudemire gets into the paint at Miami exhibit with Second Temple canvas

By Patrice Worthy

Abbi Jacobson (left) and Ilana Glazer, the co-creators of 'Broad City.' (Courtesy)

Chicks who are lit

Get ready for more chaos, humor, and chutzpah as ‘Broad City’ preps a 5th season

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