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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 26, 2017

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) meets with Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez in Jerusalem, on October 29, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Israel says 10 more countries in talks about moving embassies to Jerusalem

Illustrative: An Israeli flag hangs on the wall of the Jewish Community Center in Havana, Cuba, where two men are speaking on August 1, 2004. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

Israel, Cuba sought to reestablish diplomatic ties — report

Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki. (AFP/Miguel Medina)

Guatemala on ‘wrong side of history’ on Jerusalem, Palestinian FM says

Analysis

Why a small Central American nation became a trailblazer on Jerusalem

Guatemala played a key role in the Jewish state’s creation and has enjoyed Israeli security assistance ever since. It doesn’t hurt that its leader is deeply religious

Guatemala's new ambassador to Israel, Dr. Juan Garcia Granados leaving the President's Residence in Jerusalem after presenting his credentials, July 1955 (Moshe Pridan/GPO)

Netanyahu: ‘God bless’ Guatemala for Jerusalem move

By Marissa Newman

Guatemala says it’s begun working on moving embassy to Jerusalem

By AFP and ToI Staff

Days after vote on Jerusalem, US says it negotiated $285m cut in UN budget

By AP

Israeli actress Gal Gadot, star of 'Wonder Woman' (Clay Enos/DC Comics, via JTA)

Year in review

Good for the views: This year’s top movies chosen for the Chosen People

By Jordan Hoffman

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (L) and Hamas's leader in the Gaza Strip Yahya Sinwar wave during a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Islamist terror movement, in Gaza City, on December 14, 2017. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Iran pledging all its might to Hamas for Jerusalem battle, terror group says

‘All of our of capabilities and potential are at your disposal,’ Gaza leader Sinwar says General Qassem Soleimani told him

Mahmoud al-Zahar speaks at a Hamas rally in Gaza on December 14, 2015. (YouTube screenshot)

Hamas will ‘shut down’ US embassy in Israel, co-founder of terror group warns

New US ambassador to Israel David Friedman prays at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on May 15, 2017. (AFP Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Live updates

US envoy said to ask State Department to stop using the word ‘occupied’

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Ambassador David Friedman wants a change in phrasing in official documents on Israel and the West Bank, but meets resistance from Washington

7:15 pm

Court halts school strike set for Wednesday
7:12 pm

US envoy said to ask State Department to stop using the word 'occupied'
7:04 pm

Firefighters battle blaze at retirement home in northern Israel

Anti-BDS cartoon by Israel's foreign ministry depicts Jewish state a futuristic city with flying cars and the Arab world as a stubborn man on mule. (Arabic Facebook of Israel's foreign ministry)

Ass-backward

Foreign Ministry cartoon depicts Arab world as a man on a mule

Slammed as ‘racist,’ caricature sought to convince readers to exit the ‘Middle Ages’ and cooperate with ultramodern Israel

Likud MK Oren Hazan boards a bus carrying family members of Gazans being held in Israeli military prison, December 25, 2017. (Screen capture: Israel Hayom)

Likud MK Oren Hazan gets extra security after Hamas threats

Chess players in action on the second day of the European Individual Chess Championship in Jerusalem, February 25, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli chess players seek compensation for Saudi tourney snub

By AFP and ToI Staff

Aryeh Ben David, founder of the Jerusalem-based Ayeka: The Center for Soulful Education, leading a training session. (Courtesy: Ayeka)

Faced with fusty texts, teachers learn to breathe new life into Jewish studies

By Cathryn J. Prince

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Reb Shlomo was a flawed religious genius

In ‘God’s-eye view,’ Carlebach’s sexual wrongs won’t negate his great spiritual capacity and majestic vision of Judaism

James Oppenheim

Funny, silly, outrageous Naomi

She’s defying the odds for pancreatic cancer, but it will take gene-targeted therapy to give her a real chance

The perils of residential towers

Consider Ir Yamim, a high-rise complex on the Mediterranean that essentially ignores the precious sea views

Water comes out of the faucet

Irrigation as a stop-gap measure makes us forget how we used to turn to God to bring the rain

An ultra orthodox Jewish man studies Torah, as he shops for vegetables at a supermarket in Gush Etzion, on July 27, 2017. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)

Hebrew media review

Saturday’s all right for fighting (but not shopping)

By Joshua Davidovich

Papers report that with a law shutting mini-markets looming, cities are rebelling, though it’s not clear they can stop the ultra-Orthodox effort

Mellanox CEO Eyal Waldman, wakesurfing on the Sea of Galilee, September 2017 (Courtesy).

A day in the (tech) life

When a startup gets big, the environment gets rougher, says Mellanox CEO

By Shoshanna Solomon

Drowsy Knesset kicks off 45-hour police bill filibuster

By Marissa Newman

Opposition lawmakers take turns before near-empty plenum in bid to delay vote on controversial legislation; Amsalem hits back at Lapid

MK David Amsalem during a 4 a.m. debate on his police bill (Screen capture: Knesset Channel)

Construction of a bridge going over Emek HaArazim outside Jerusalem, for the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv fast train, seen on December 20, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Knesset okays requiring Jewish tradition as factor in Shabbat work permits

MK David Bitan, center, arrives at a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset on December 25, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Bitan associate said set to confess to transferring bribes to MK

More Headlines

Still from filmmaker Larry Weinstein's 'Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas.' (Courtesy)

Oy to the worldCall Adam Sandler: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was Jewish, too

By Tracy Frydberg

Yisrael Campbell has turned his life journey into a standup act (Courtesy Yisrael Campbell)

Goes to showFor Irish Catholic-turned-ultra-Orthodox comic, the journey is the joke

By Jessica Steinberg

Alumni and participants of Founders & Coders Nazareth branch attend gathering at UK Ambassador David Quarrey's residence, Dec. 20, 2017 (Courtesy)

UK’s Israel embassy seeks to export Arab-Jewish coders program

By Shoshanna Solomon

Breaking the Silence spokesman Dean Issacharoff speaks in a November 17, 2017 video statement. (Screen capture/Facebook)

State reopens investigation of Breaking the Silence spokesman

Maj. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot (R) with then Defense Minister Ehud Barak, in June 2010 (Ministry of Defense/Flash 90)

IDF chief comes under fire for meeting with Ehud Barak

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative. Enjoying a bowl of tortilla chips. (Hugh Stonelan via Stock/Getty Images)

Food packages to carry red labels for excess sugar, salt and saturated fats

Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid speaks at a meeting in the Knesset on December 25, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid says he would never negotiate over Jerusalem, even if it means no peace

By Raphael Ahren

Israeli security forces demolish an illegally built home in the West Bank outpost of Yishuv Hada'at on December 25, 2017. (Screen capture/You Tube)

4 Israelis arrested in clashes with police over demolition of outpost home

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende in Jerusalem, on January 12, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Norway said set to cut funding for pro-BDS Palestinian NGOs

Radical Islamists in Egypt dream of turning the most populous Arab country into a religious state. The headband reads: 'No God but God and Mohammed is his messenger.' (AP/Amr Nabil)

Egypt hangs 15 over attacks on security forces in Sinai Peninsula

By AFP

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