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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 20, 2017

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US President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd Annual UN General Assembly in New York on September 19, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / DON EMMERT)

General Assembly vote'We don't expect those we've helped to target us'

US says it’ll be ‘taking names’ of countries that oppose Jerusalem move at UN

By ToI Staff and AFP

Nikki Haley slams emergency meeting of 193-nation assembly ‘criticizing our choice,’ threatens repercussions for those ‘who vote against us’

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

Israeli diplomats gird for UN General Assembly vote on Jerusalem

By ToI Staff and AP

Saudi King Salman, right, receives Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas after he arrives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 20, 2017. (Al-Ekhbariya via AP)

Saudi King tells Abbas he supports East Jerusalem as Palestinian capital

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach during a visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, early 1990s. (Shlomo Carlebach Legacy Trust)

After #MeToo, some congregations weigh changing their tune on Shlomo Carlebach

By Melanie Lidman

The wave of sexual misconduct accusations toppling dozens of icons has reignited the conversation about the complicated legacy of the ‘singing rabbi’

MK David Bitan (Likud) attends a Knesset Finance Committee meeting on November 6, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Probed for corruption, Netanyahu’s coalition whip quits post

Likud MK David Bitan will stay in the Knesset, says he doesn’t want his investigation to ‘hamper the work of the coalition’

Netanyahu: If police recommend charges against me — so what?

By Raoul Wootliff

Police minister uneasy with Netanyahu speech knocking law enforcement

By Marissa Newman

Netanyahu heckled at Bible quiz over arms sales to rights abusers

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Likud MK and chairman of the Interior Affairs Committee, David Amsalem addresses the Knesset Plenum on November 27, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

PM: First task for new coalition whip will be passing Jewish state law

By Marissa Newman

Netanyahu says proposal will be ‘one of the most important laws to enter the history pages of the State of Israel’

7:13 pm

German man arrested for planning car-ramming attack for IS
6:42 pm

Bitan's attorney says he'll be grilled 3 times next week
6:13 pm

GOP tax bill clears Congress in triumph for Trump

Illustrative: A team of surgeons operating in the hospital (iStock)

In world first, Israeli undergoes surgery to regrow a bone

Patient Danny has fat cells removed, grown in lab and injected back into his leg, in groundbreaking procedure hailed by doctors as ‘science fiction’

Analysis

As far-right Austrian party attempts to shed Nazi past, a dilemma for Israel

Jerusalem conflicted over whether to side with Diaspora Jewish leaders, who are shunning FPOe, or engage in realpolitik to advance Israel’s interests

Newly sworn-in Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, left, and new Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, the FPOe’s chairman, talk during the swearing-in ceremony of the new Austrian government in Vienna on December 18, 2017. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of Austria's far-Freedom Party, speaks during the first session of the national assembly since elections, on November 9, 2017, in Vienna. (AFP Photo/APA/Georg Hochmuth)

Austrian far-right leader hopes to overturn Israeli ban

A protester stands with stickers depicting crossed out incoming vice-chancellor of the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) Christian Strache and incoming Austrian Chancellor of the conservative People's Party (OeVP) Sebastian Kurz during a protest near the presidential palace during the inauguration of the new Austrian government in Vienna, Austria, on December 18, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / JOE KLAMAR)

Rise of far-right raises fears Austria hasn’t learned from Nazi past

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Yehudah Kimani, left, has utilized Facebook to reach out to Jews around the world. The self-taught social media maven, pictured here on October 4, 2015, hopes to offer computer classes to Jewish and non-Jewish children in his rural Kenyan village. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Kenya Jewish leader with valid visa denied entry to Israel, deported

By Melanie Lidman

Yehudah Kimani was invited by Conservative yeshiva; Interior Ministry says he failed to disclose earlier visa request had been denied

Aryeh Ben David

Why I’m OK with my sons’ disobedience

I’d wanted to raise strong, independent kids who’d make their own decisions… to be religious in the same way that I am

Let us eat cake! How I cope at Teva

I am one of 1,750 employees who’ll be directly affected by the pharmaceutical giant’s layoffs

A new bill puts Haredi higher education at risk

The current cautious approach to gender segregation on campus is in jeopardy

Yitzchak Besser

We make our own miracles

The Maccabees sighed, rolled up their sleeves, and got to work as a community — which earned them God’s blessing

Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli forces near the Qalandiya checkpoint in the West Bank on December 20, 2017 as protests continue following the US president's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

Hundreds of Palestinians riot in fresh ‘day of rage’ over Jerusalem

Army says troops employed nonlethal riot dispersal methods at Qalandiya checkpoint clash; Red Crescent says one Palestinian was injured by live fire

Abbas sends envoys to China, Russia to seek replacement for US in peace process

Fighter pilotIn NY, pilot who announced ‘Jerusalem, Palestine’ disses Trump

AnalysisTrump strategy paper has good and less good news for Israel, but may not matter

By Eric Cortellessa

Palestinian Ahed Tamimi, 17, a well-known agitator against Israel, appears for a remand hearing at a military court at the Israeli-run Ofer prison in the West Bank village of Betunia on December 20, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Ahmad GHARABLI)

IDF arrests another Palestinian woman for hitting soldiers in video

By Judah Ari Gross

Nour Tamimi joins her cousin, Ahed, in custody for ‘assault and incitement’; Israeli troops clash with Palestinians while escorting worshipers to Nablus holy site

Murad Rajabi, 20-years-old from Silwan is escorted by prison guard into the courtroom at the District Court in Jerusalem on November 3, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

East Jerusalem man sentenced to 15 years for 2016 terror attack

A mural resembling the work of elusive artist Banksy, depicting US President Donald Trump wearing a Jewish skullcap, adorns Israel's West Bank security barrier in Bethlehem, August 4, 2017. (Nasser Nasser/AP)

As Christmas nears in Bethlehem, Trump’s Jerusalem shift looms large

By AP and ToI Staff

Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. speaking at The New York Times’ New Work Summit in Half Moon Bay, California, February 29, 2016. (Kimberly White/Getty Images for New York Times/via JTA)

The Sulzberger family: A complicated Jewish legacy at The New York Times

By Josefin Dolsten

More Headlines

Thousands mourn at the funeral of four members of the Azan family killed in a Booklyn housefire, Aliza Azan, 39, and three of her children Moshe, 11, Yitzchak, 7, and three-year-old Henrietta, in Holon on December 20, 2017. (FLASH90)

Mother, 3 children killed in NY Hanukkah house fire buried in Israel

By JTA and ToI Staff

Convicted former SS officer Oskar Groening listens to the verdict of his trial on July 15, 2015 at court in Lueneburg, northern Germany. Oskar Groening, 94, sat impassively as judge Franz Kompisch said "the defendant is found guilty of accessory to murder in 300,000 legally connected cases" of deported Jews who were sent to the gas chambers in 1944. (AFP PHOTO/TOBIAS SCHWARZ)

Citing his ‘right to life,’ ex-Auschwitz accountant fights jail sentence

By AFP

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit speaks at the Justice Conference of the Israeli Bar Association, in Tel Aviv, August 29, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Attorney General opposes Jewish Home party move to weaken High Court — report

Teva employees and their families demonstrate outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem over the company's plan to lay off some 1,700 employees, on December 19, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Teva rejects Netanyahu’s request to keep Jerusalem plants open

By Shoshanna Solomon

A photomicrograph of Bacillus anthracis bacteria, the cause of the anthrax disease (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services/Wikipedia Commons)

North Korea testing biological warheads for its missiles — report

By Stuart Winer

Ninth Circuit Appeals Court Judge Alex Kozinski looks on during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, DC on March 16, 2017. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

US federal judge Kozinski retires amid investigation of sexual harassment claims

By JTA

Illustrative photo: Ambulances outside the entrance to the emergency room at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital, December 3, 2014. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Six-week-old baby dies after being hit by falling table

Excavating the mosaic floor at a Byzantine-period church complex found in Ramat Beit Shemesh, 2017. (Assaf Peretz, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Hands-on education as Israeli teens excavate 1,500-year-old Byzantine church

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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