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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 24, 2017

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A man with a cardboard guillotine attends an anti-Netanyahu rally in Tel Aviv on December 23, 2017 (screen capture: 0404.co.il)

Likud fumes over ‘guillotine’ at Tel Aviv anti-corruption rally

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Labor chief also slams prop as ‘incitement’ against Netanyahu, dismisses Israel boycott signs spotted at protest

A man with a cardboard guillotine attends an anti-Netanyahu rally in Tel Aviv on December 23, 2017 (screen capture: 0404.co.il)

President raps guillotine sign at anti-corruption rally as ‘incitement’

By Alexander Fulbright and Raoul Wootliff

Israelis hold signs and shout slogans during a rally against corruption in government, at Zion Square in Jerusalem on December 23, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Right-wing anti-corruption rally in Jerusalem fizzles; thousands in Tel Aviv

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative: Chess players at a tournament in Jerusalem on February 25, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Saudi Arabia bars Israelis from chess tournament

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli association says it may sue World Chess Federation after seven Israeli players denied visas for competition in Riyadh later this week

Aviation Bridge officials pose for a photo with a Syrian infant being airlifted to Israel from Cyprus for emergency heart surgery on December 23, 2017. (Courtesy: Aviation Bridge)

2-day-old Syrian refugee baby airlifted to Israel for emergency heart surgery

Interior Minister Deri grants entry permits to father and child after Cyprus appeals to Israeli for assistance in treating the 2-day-old

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 24, 2017. (AFP Photo/AFP Photo and Pool/Amir Cohen)

Netanyahu: Abbas has shown Palestinians don’t want peace

Referring to Trump’s new National Security Strategy, PM says US has made clear the root of Middle East turmoil is not Israel

After investigation, Denmark to cut funding from some Palestinian NGOs

Hamas leader claims US may recognize Israel as a Jewish state

AnalysisAbbas breaks with US over Jerusalem — but for how long?

Head of the Shin Bet security service, Nadav Argaman, right, speaks at the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, which is led by Likud MK Avi Dichter, left, on December 24, 2017. (Screen capture)

Shin Bet chief: After Trump declaration, Palestinian unrest could last 6 months

By Judah Ari Gross

Nadav Argaman tells Knesset that following US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, West Bank and Gaza are ‘highly unstable,’ Hamas trying to carry out attacks

Ron Yitzhak Kokia, an IDF soldier who was stabbed to death in a terror attack on November 30, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

2 Bedouin Israelis indicted for Arad killing of IDF soldier

By Alexander Fulbright and Judah Ari Gross

A picture taken on December 10, 2017 shows a tear gas canister falling amid Palestinian protesters during clashes with Israeli forces near the Israel-Gaza border east of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP)

Gazan said to die of wounds weeks after clashing with IDF

Israelis take part in a demonstration titled the 'March of Shame,' as they protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and government corruption in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on December 23, 2017. (AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Hebrew media review

Let them eat hate

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel Hayom seizes on a guillotine cutout, while Haaretz somehow doesn’t notice it, highlighting the divides that opposition to corruption fails to bridge

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 17, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll: Most Israelis want Netanyahu to resign if police recommend indictment

Coalition chairman David Amsalem speaks at a Bar Association conference in Eilat on December 23, 2017. (Screen capture/Channel 10)

New coalition whip: A PM who is indicted on ‘real’ bribery charges must resign

Illustrative. A chess set. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Israeli chess players still ‘hope and believe’ they will play in Saudi Arabia

If rejected, Israeli federation plans its own championship ‘for the excellent players from around the world who support our participation in the tournament’

7:24 pm

Box of horse manure addressed to US treasury secretary
7:19 pm

‘Kosher’ and ‘hummus’ added to official Spanish language dictionary
7:09 pm

Egyptian president's backers say millions want him to run again

Ivanka Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump, her husband, senior adviser Jared Kushner, their two children Arabella Kushner and Joseph Kushner, Chief White House Strategist Steve Bannon, second from right, and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, right, walk to Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Bannon: Ivanka Trump, Kushner are ‘the railhead of all bad decisions’

By Stuart Winer

Revealing open hostilities with White House power couple, ex-adviser to US president says he called out Trump’s daughter for being the ‘queen of leaks’ during heated meeting

Everitt Aaron Jameson (Courtesy)

FBI: Ex-Marine who planned terror attack left letter slamming Trump on Jerusalem

By AFP and ToI Staff

Everitt Aaron Jameson, IS supporter who allegedly plotted San Francisco Christmas Day killings, wrote, ‘You’ve allowed Trump to give Al Quds to the Jews’

Israeli court releases three Turks after Jerusalem ‘incident’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hundreds of Muslims said to attack Coptic church in Egypt

By AP

2017 was a good year for Europe’s political extremists

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Danny Skinner, left, as Patrick Star and Ethan Slater as SpongeBob SquarePants perform in 'SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical.' (Joan Marcus/via JTA)

Dancing with the starfish

The happy-go-lucky 25-year-old Jewish guy who plays SpongeBob on Broadway

By Curt Schleier

Temple Beth Israel's director of congregational learning Lori Sagarin (fourth from left), Theodore Herzl School principal Tamara Davis (fifth from left) and others beneath Theodor Herzl portrait donated to school by Herzl collector David Matlow, Chicago, December 18, 2017. (Courtesy)

What's in a name

Jewish Chicagoans play Santa for students at school named for Zionist leader

By Renee Ghert-Zand

An illustrative photo of an ultra-Orthodox wedding. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Young ultra-Orthodox Jews increasingly delaying marriage — report

New figures point to rising number of single Haredim, particularly women, in their twenties

‘You shall not oppress a stranger’

Under Trump’s doctrine, if you cross the border into the US with your family, the government will take your children

The real saint on JDate

BTW, being Jewish is a real deal-breaker for me, so I hope you’re planning on converting

Stefan Shaul Lindmark

The woman in the 56th grave

A survivor who proved that we can change pure evil into an ability to love life

The USY dating scandal that isn’t

My Jewish youth group is too busy turning teens into leaders to play hookup games

Security forces evacuate Israeli settlers from the illegal Netiv Ha’avot outpost in the West Bank, November 29, 2017 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Analysis

Whose land is it anyway? The battle over a West Bank outpost offers some answers

Residents of Netiv Ha’avot, where 15 homes are slated for razing, argue that the land never belonged to anyone; a group of Palestinians from al-Khader petition to prove otherwise

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