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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 19, 2017

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Illustrative: US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley voting against a Security Council resolution on Jerusalem on December 18, 2017. (Eskinder Debebe/UN)

US won't 'be told, by any country, where we put our embassy'

US vetoes Security Council bid to reverse Jerusalem recognition

By Raphael Ahren and Agencies

Nikki Haley calls resolution on Trump’s declaration, backed by all 14 other members, an ‘insult’; Netanyahu thanks America, hails US envoy as a ‘Maccabi’

Full text of Nikki Haley’s 2 speeches at UN Security Council debate on Jerusalem

US veto of UN Jerusalem resolution ‘unacceptable,’ Palestinians fume

By AFP and ToI Staff

After UNSC vote, Russia offers to replace US as ‘honest’ Mideast mediator

By AP and ToI Staff

Analysis

Despite failing, UN Jerusalem bid paints Israel, US as alone against the world

If Trump’s move was meant to cement international legitimacy for Jerusalem’s status as Israel’s capital, the world body is proving there’s nothing of the kind

US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, left, and Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon at a UN Security Council meeting on December 18, 2017 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

UN Security Council members raise their hands as they vote on a draft resolution that would reject US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, on December 18, 2017, at UN Headquarters in New York. (AFP Photo/Kena Betancur)

Iran condemns ‘provocative’ US veto of UN Jerusalem resolution

By AFP

US President Donald Trump walks from Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, September 27, 2017, after traveling to Indiana to unveil his tax reform plan. (AFP/SAUL LOEB)

Swing stateTrump thanks Israeli mayor for naming park for him

US President Donald Trump speaks about his administration's new National Security Strategy at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC, on December 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Israel is not the cause of Middle East’s problems, US security strategy says

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Students protest at an anti-Israel demonstration at the University of California, Irvine. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/JTA)

Few US college students want to boycott Israel, study of 4 campuses finds

By Josefin Dolsten

US Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a joint press conference with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos at the Presidential guest house in Cartagena, Colombia on August 13, 2017. (AFP/ STR)

Pence’s trip to Israel postponed to mid-January for US tax vote

By Eric Cortellessa and AFP

Illustrative: German soldiers assigned to Surface Air and Missile Defense Wing 1 fire the Patriot weapons system at the NATO Missile Firing Installation, in Chania, Greece, November 8, 2017. (Sebastian Apel/US Department of Defense, via AP)

Saudis intercept Yemen rebel missile headed for Riyadh palace

By ABDULLAH SHIHRI and Aya Batrawy

Iran-backed Houthi rebels say they targeted royal residence of King Salman ahead of budget unveiling

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman meets with military officials and the heads of local governments about the situation in Gaza in the IDF's Gaza Division headquarters on December 19, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Defense minister says spate of Gazan rocket fire is over

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative photo (via iStock)

Community in crisis'We are taught not to air our dirty laundry'

Conservative Jewry has #MeToo moment as decades-old sexual abuse surfaces

By Cathryn J. Prince

After an internal investigation, the movement cuts ties with its longtime youth head. But a leading child advocate says it shouldn’t take one person’s courage to change a system

Conservative youth group cuts ties with ex-head accused of sexual misconduct

Wheelchair-bound Palestinian demonstrator Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh, waving a Palestinian flag during a protest along the Gaza-Israel border on December 15, 2017, as clashes with Israeli security forces against Washington's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital intensified. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

IDF: Soldiers didn’t intentionally kill double amputee in Gaza riot

By Judah Ari Gross

Army says it’s not sure how Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh, who reportedly lost his legs in a 2008 Israeli airstrike, was killed, but finds no ‘moral or professional failures’

This photo taken on May 19, 2017, shows handicapped Palestinian demonstrator Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh waving a Palestinian flag during clashes with Israeli soldiers following a protest against the blockade on Gaza, near the border fence east of Gaza City. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)

UN slams ‘shocking’ killing of double amputee Gazan protester

By AFP and Judah Ari Gross

A Palestinian attacker, hiding among journalists, before he stabbed a Border Police officer in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 15, 2017. (Israel Police)

Foreign press group rejects police claim attacker posed as reporter

Israeli security forces arrest Ahed Tamimi for hitting soldiers in the West Bank city of Nabi Saleh on December 19, 2017. (screen capture: Israel Defense Forces)

IDF arrests Palestinian girl filmed hitting troops in apparent provocation

Army says soldiers acted ‘professionally’ in not reacting to slaps from 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi during encounter in front of cameras

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman attends the weekly government meeting at the PM's office in Jerusalem, on December 3, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Lawmakers salute soldiers for resisting goading by Palestinian teen girls

By Tamar Pileggi

Illustrative: US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley voting against a Security Council resolution on Jerusalem on December 18, 2017. (Eskinder Debebe/UN)

Hebrew media reviewIf looks could kvell

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel is turning into a Mafia State

Widespread endemic corruption is destroying the values and solidarity upon which this country was established

My Reform colleagues were wrong on Jerusalem

The world’s superpower finally did the right thing — and we opposed it?

Do we still need Zionism?

The movement to fulfill the national aspirations and rights of the Jews has already achieved its aims

Michael M. Rosen

Broken glass, Trump’s proclamation, and Hanukkah

The smashed window of a kosher restaurant in Vienna conjures an all-too-familiar and enduring hatred

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Likud rally marking the Hanukkah holiday in Tel Aviv on December 19, 2017. (Flash90)

Live updates

‘So what,’ Netanyahu says of possible police recommendation for indictment

By Alexander Fulbright

At Likud rally, PM calls corruption investigations a ‘witch hunt,’ accuses media, left of trying to topple him

7:25 pm

Police officials: PM's speech on possible recommendation to indict 'very weird'
7:15 pm

Iran sanctions-busting case heads to a finish
7:06 pm

Netanyahu claims Tel Aviv anti-corruption demos backed by New Israel Fund

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets with Austria's then-foreign minister Sebastian Kurz in Jerusalem, on May 16, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Israel rejects meetings with far-rightists in new Austrian government

By AFP and ToI Staff

AnalysisBacking death penalty, Netanyahu loosens noose around coalition’s neck

By Marissa Newman

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks during the farewell ceremony for Supreme Court President Miriam Naor in Jerusalem on October 26, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Attorney general expected to oppose death penalty for terrorists

Illustrative image of a builder at a construction site (shih-wei, iStock by Getty Images)

Robot builders, smart cranes: Construction sector looks to break new ground

By Shoshanna Solomon

Police and firefighters converge on the scene of a fatal fire in the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Dec. 18, 2017 (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

NYC fire officials confirm lit menorah sparked fatal Hanukkah blaze

Anti-Semitic hate mail sent to synagogues in Toronto, Montreal, Hamilton and Edmonton on December 18, 2017. (B'nai Brith Canada)

Canadian synagogues targeted with ‘Jewry must perish’ hate mail

View of the Sea of Galilee (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Parched Sea of Galilee to be replenished with desalinated water

Miss Universe Iraq contestant Sarah Idan (YouTube screenshot)

Miss Iraq recounts ‘death threats’ and fears for family over selfie with Israeli

The cast of "The MeshugaNutcracker! The Chanukah Musical," including guest star Bruce Vilance (center), in 2016. A film version of the musical comedy will be screened on Dec. 19, 2017 (Courtesy: Guggenheim Entertainment)

One krazy night only

Hanukkah gets a kitschy ‘Nutcracker’ treatment for the holiday’s last night

By Matt Lebovic

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