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What Matters Most On Monday, December 18, 2017

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US President Donald Trump steps off Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington, December 17, 2017, after returning from Camp David in Maryland. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Arab states increasingly find common interests with Israel

Trump to present new doctrine that says Israel not the cause of Mideast problems

By AP and ToI Staff

‘America First’ national security strategy, to be unveiled Monday, reverses Obama-era warnings on climate change and de-emphasizes multinational deals that long dominated US policy

Abbas heading to Saudi Arabia to discuss Trump’s Jerusalem decision

Arabs said unhappy at India’s tepid response to Trump’s Jerusalem move

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Knesset speaker asks dozens of countries to recognize Jerusalem

US President Barack Obama speaks during a joint press conference with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the White House on August 2, 2016 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski)

To clinch Iran nuke deal, Obama said to have derailed campaign against Hezbollah

By Eric Cortellessa

According to a Politico report, previous administration obstructed a DEA effort to monitor and prosecute Iranian-backed terrorist group, even as it funneled cocaine into US

Top Iran official: ‘Weak and insignificant’ Saudis and Israelis pose no threat

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iranian accused of spying for Mossad confesses to espionage on state TV

By AP and AFP

Cartoon warsViral Saudi video clip shows kingdom conquering Tehran

Protesters try to break through police barricades during their protest against the new Austrian government near the presidential palace in Vienna, Austria, December 18, 2017. (JOE KLAMAR/AFP)

Demonstrations, heavy police presence for new right-wing Austrian government

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Thousands of protesters take to the streets in Vienna with signs reading ‘Nazis out’ ahead of inauguration ceremony that gave key ministries to anti-Muslim Freedom Party

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen (R) and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz sign the letter of appointment during the inauguration ceremony of the new Austrian government at the Hofburg in Vienna on December 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Vladimir Simicek)

Austria swears in Europe’s youngest leader amid protests against far right

By AP

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (L) and Vice Chancellor (FPOe) Heinz Christian Strache arrive for the swearing-in ceremony of the new government in Vienna on December 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Vladimir Simicek)

Austrian far right: History of a ‘pact with the devil’

By Philippe SCHWAB

US President Donald Trump speaks on his national security strategy at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, DC on December 18, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN)

Live updates (closed)

Unveiling security policy, Trump singles out Iran, North Korea as global threats

By Tamar Pileggi

American president says when he took office, threats against US included ‘rogue regimes,’ ‘radical Islamist terror groups’ and ‘terrorists’ in the Middle East

7:34 pm

Palestinian official calls US Jerusalem veto a 'provocation'
7:21 pm

Twitter suspends white nationalists under new rules
7:17 pm

Trump slams China, Russia in 'America First' security strategy

The Beit Shemesh women involved in the court case, pictured in the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on December 4, 2017. (Courtesy Nili Philipp)

Threatened with death curse, women fighting Beit Shemesh ‘modesty’ signs defiant

By Melanie Lidman

Workers of the Teva company protest against the company plan to lay off hundreds of employees, outside the TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries building in Jerusalem, December 14, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu adviser: Teva could leave Israel if gov’t interferes in its business

By Shoshanna Solomon

National Economic Council chief Avi Simhon says Israel mulling ways, including possible bailout, to help ailing drug-maker keep Jerusalem plant open; PM to meet Teva CEO on Tuesday

Workers of the Teva company protest against a plan to lay off hundreds of employees, outside the TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries building in Jerusalem, December 17, 2017. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Teva workers threaten to blow up Jerusalem factory in protest over layoffs

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Employees of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries protest against the company's plan to lay off 1,700 employees, in Kiryat Shmona, December 14, 2017. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewUnited behind Teva’s (soon to be former) workers

By Tamar Pileggi

Illustrative: A ball of fire is seen after an Israel airstrike on Rafah, southern Gaza, on July 1, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Said Khatib)

IDF strikes Hamas targets after Gaza rocket hits Israeli town

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Police officers locate a rocket that was fired from the Gaza Strip and struck southern Israel on December 17, 2017. (Israel Police)

Gaza rocket smashes into Israeli town near border, damaging home

By Judah Ari Gross

Zionist Union Chairman Avi Gabbay leads the faction meeting at the Knesset, on December 18, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Labor chief Gabbay says Netanyahu is ‘weak’ in fighting Hamas

By Marissa Newman

Left, David Bomberg's final self-portrait. At right, 'Portrait of David Bomberg Painting' by Henny Handler. (Courtesy Pallant House Gallery)

Starving artists

Exhibit lauds UK iconoclast artist who saw the light in Jerusalem

Shoshanna Solomon

The clink of a teaspoon against a teacup

A tribute to my father’s love, served in a milky and sweet cup of hot tea

Hilary Faverman

The unholy Doughnut War of Hanukkah 2017

I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t tasted them myself, but, yes, pareve triumphed over dairy

Grief and a cup of coffee with my son

I dreamed he was alive again, and then I understood what he was really trying to tell me

Prepping Israel’s pre-election toolbox

The rising volume in Knesset debates is just one indication that early elections are brewing

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Screen capture from video of a house fire in Brooklyn that killed four people, December 18, 2017. (YouTube)

Mother, three children die in Brooklyn house fire

By Stuart Winer

Barry and Honey Sherman (Screen capture: YouTube)

Toronto billionaire Barry Sherman and wife were strangled, autopsy finds

By JTA and AP

AnalysisTwo new symbols risk galvanizing protests over Trump’s Jerusalem decision

British embassy worker Rebecca Dykes, found dead by the side of a road in Beirut, Lebanon, December 16, 2017. (Family handout photo)

Lebanon detains suspect in killing of British embassy worker

By AP and ToI Staff

An Israeli settler assaults rabbi-activist Arik Ascherman who was accompanying a group of Palestinian farmers to their fields near Nablus on October 23, 2015. (Screen capture/ YouTube)

Community service for settler teen who attacked activist rabbi at knifepoint

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (center) walks before IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot (4th left) as they visit the site of a terror attack in the settlement of Halamish, July 22, 2017. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense via Flash90)

Liberman to advance bill setting death penalty for terrorists

By AFP

Painting and wood maintenance. A new report on health and the environment recommends research into in-house pollution. (gkrphoto via istockphoto/Getty Images)

What’s in your home may kill you: Ministry urges research into dust, pollution

Prof. Heinz Wolff at the Ealing Town Hall, 2010. (P.G. Champion, CC-BY-SA, via Wikipedia)

ObituaryProf. Heinz Wolff, Jewish refugee turned scientist and UK TV host, dies at 89

By Tracy Frydberg

King Abdullah II of Jordan, 4th from left, attends an event with Christian leaders from various churches at the Baptism Site Convention Center in Jordan, December 17, 2017. (AMEL PAIN/AFP)

Jerusalem church leaders in Jordan condemn ‘Judaization’ of city

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Suspected crime boss Michael Mor, seen in the Nazareth Magistrate court, on September 24, 2017. (Basel Awidat/FLASH90)

Israel's crime warsCrime bosses arrested on suspicion of killing state witnesses

An exhibit at the Jewish baseball museum at Milt's Extra Innings in Chicago. At left is deli worker Zahava Auerbach. (Ellen Braunstein/via JTA)

Deli of dreams

Next to Wrigley, Chicago’s newest kosher deli pitches cured meats and good deeds

By Ellen Braunstein

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