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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 27, 2017

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Planned Western Wall train station to be named for Trump — minister

By ToI Staff and AP

Yisrael Katz approves extension of Tel Aviv-Jerusalem high speed line to Old City, reserving special honor for US president

US President Donald Trump (r) with Rabbi of the Western Wall Shmuel Rabinowitz (c) at the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem on May 22, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

US envoy said to ask State Department to stop calling West Bank ‘occupied’

Erdogan on Trump’s ‘unacceptable’ recognition: Jerusalem is ‘our red line’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Fatah’s Twitter compares Trump to Hitler, US to ISIS

Stalled by Christmas: Israel’s withdrawal from UNESCO runs into holiday obstacle

By Raphael Ahren

Cultural agency’s Paris headquarters closed until January 2, but Jerusalem’s envoy vows to formally give notice in time ‘even if I have to climb over the fence’

Japan’s FM said to invite Netanyahu, Abbas, Kushner to Tokyo peace summit

By Alexander Fulbright

Japan says it won’t follow US on Jerusalem embassy move

By ToI Staff and AFP

Hamas chief: US sees Jerusalem suburb as future Palestinian capital

Valentin Vladmir Mazlevski, a Belarusian-Israeli man charged with attempting to join Islamic State in Syria and Sinai, in a Nazareth District Court, on March 1, 2017. (Screen capture: Channel 10)

Former IDF soldier convicted of trying to join Islamic State

Father of 5, an immigrant from Belarus, claimed he just wanted to live within the Caliphate, court documents say

Omar al-Abed (center) is brought to the courtroom for his trial at the Ofer military court near the West Bank city of Ramallah on August 17, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Family fumes as prosecutor won’t seek death for convicted Halamish killer

FILE - Leah Goldin, mother of fallen IDF soldier Hadar Goldin, speaks at a State Control Committee hearing in the Knesset on April 19, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Palestinian reconciliation an opportunity for families of those held by Hamas

An Iranian Jewish youth group prays at the Rabeezadeh Synagogue in Shiraz in southern Iran, April 12, 2000. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Vandals said to attack synagogue in Iran, rip up Torah scrolls

Members of the Hadash Synagogue in Shiraz find ruined scriptures, prayer books thrown in toilets; police reportedly investigating

Illustrative: Police gather outside the Israeli embassy building in Athens on December 12, 2014. (AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)

Greek anarchists vandalize Israeli embassy in Athens

By JTA

Labor Party chairman Avi Gabbay, in his Knesset office on December 25, 2017 (Times of Israel staff)

Interview

Invoking Rabin, Labor’s Gabbay says he’s the decisive leader Israel needs as PM

By David Horovitz

Israeli security forces guard at the Qalandiya Checkpoint near Ramallah on July 26, 2016. (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Palestinian teen plotting terror attack stopped at crossing, police say

Female suspect planned to buy knife and stab cop in Jerusalem area, source says; Syria hits back at Erdogan for calling Assad a ‘terrorist’

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Palestinian teen caught planning stabbing attack -- police
6:38 pm

Joint List head puts Christmas tree in office
6:20 pm

Syria hits back at Erdogan for calling Assad a 'terrorist'

New Zealand singer Lorde appears in 2013 video for 'Royals.' (Screen capture: YouTube)

Lorde should have contributed to ‘spirit of hope and peace’ – ambassador

By David Sedley

Israel envoy to New Zealand says instead of canceling Tel Aviv gig, singer could have created ‘tolerance and friendship’ through her music

Lorde performs at Coachella Music & Arts Festival in Indio, California, on April 16, 2017. (Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Israeli promoter: ‘Naive’ to think Lorde could withstand boycott pressure

By Jessica Steinberg

Bronzell Fowler with his Trump dune buggy, Cross City, Florida. Voted Donald Trump. Shot February 3rd, 2017. (Naomi Harris)

On the road, Jewish photographer points lens at society’s unseen corners

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Participants attend the King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Championships, the first international chess competition held in Saudi Arabia, in the capital Riyadh on December 26, 2017. (AFP/STRINGER)

Saudi Arabia’s chess PR gambit mired by controversies

By Alison Tahmizian Meuse

Riyadh is hosting international tournament to polish up its image, but feuds with players from Israel, Iran and Qatar, as well as women’s rights issues, have sullied that plan

AnalysisSaudi ban on Israeli chess players underscores limits of Gulf relations

By Judah Ari Gross

Participants attend the King Salman World Rapid and Blitz Championships, the first international chess competition held in Saudi Arabia, in the capital Riyadh on December 26, 2017. (AFP/STRINGER)

ADL tells chess tourney organizers not to let Riyadh host anymore

By Eric Cortellessa

This year’s heartwarming moments include a girl who helped decorate a vandalized cemetery, a dog who saved two lives, and an unlikely friendship between a monkey and a chicken. (Lior Zaltzman/via JTA)

Good news

The 7 most heartwarming Jewish stories of 2017

By Josefin Dolsten

The Igbo of Nigeria stand with Israel

Yes, a whopping majority of UN member states voted against the US Embassy move, but that doesn’t make them right

Cooking in Israel: Bugs or features?

I can’t have a strawberry whenever I want, and that breeds a certain kind of spiritual humility

Treat Rubashkin like a brother

What he did was illegal and he was punished for it, but he did not steal, kill, or do anything to deserve 27 years

The wonderful thing about ‘Wonder’

Contrary to expectations, the film is not about inclusion — and that’s great

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A new shopping mall in central Tel Aviv, on June 29, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israeli cost of living among highest in developed world, report finds

Gal Gadot at the 92nd Street Y on October 1, 2017, in New York City. (Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images via JTA)

Feeling plucky?Gal Gadot Google’s 6th most searched person of 2017

MK Eitan Cabel (Zionist Union) at the Knesset, June 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition invokes Lamentations and Richard III amid police bill filibuster

Members of the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, take part in a rally in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 5, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

IDF warns Gaza tensions could erupt into new conflict — report

Israeli soldiers patrol the Israeli-Syrian border in the Golan Heights, file (Basel Awidat/ Flash90)

Syrian rebels near Israel border ordered to surrender by regime forces

Jackals sit on a road in the mountains surrounding Jerusalem, August 4, 2008. (Haim Shohat/Flash90)

Animal rabies incidents quadruple, raising fears of outbreak among humans

By Sue Surkes and Stuart Winer

El Al flight seen at the airstrip at the Ben Gurion International Airport. February 26, 2015. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Ben Gurion Airport to undergo $1.43 billion expansion

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Rabbi Chaim Druckman at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 8, 2012. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

PM lobbies right-wing rabbis for backing amid corruption probes

Israel President Reuven Rivlin speaks at a conference on the subject of Educational Challenges for the Democracy in Israel, on December 26, 2017. (FLASH90)

After praise, Rivlin walks back support for anti-corruption protests

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and coalition chairman David Amsalem converse during a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on December 25, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe collateral damage that comes with corruption and criticism

By Adiv Sterman

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