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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 28, 2017

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Prevents cops from from stating if suspect should be charged

Police recommendations law passed after 2-day filibuster

By Marissa Newman

Controversial legislation to muzzle investigators won’t apply to current probes into Netanyahu, other MKs; Yesh Atid set to petition High Court

Coalition chairman David Amsalem seen during a marathon plenary session in the Knesset regarding the police recommendations bill, December 27, 2017 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Knesset Member Yair Lapid reacts during a marathon plenary session in the Knesset regarding the "Recommendations Bill" on December 27, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Opposition party, NGO petition High Court against ‘recommendations law’

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

Army Radio pundit suspended for anti-Rivlin diatribe

Screen capture from security camera footage of Yasin Abu al-Qar’a (blue shirt) stabbing Asher Elmaliach at the entrance to the Jerusalem Central Bus Station on December 10, 2017.

Indictment filed against terrorist who stabbed Jerusalem bus station guard

By Judah Ari Gross

Charges say assailant acted out of anger at Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital; victim, Asher Elmaliach, shows slight improvement, remains in intensive care

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers who accompanied worshipers to the tombs of Joshua Bin Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh in the Palestinian village of Kifl Haris, in the West Bank on May 3, 2016. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Palestinians clash with IDF troops securing holy site for Jewish worshipers

Palestinian residents of Burin stand next to a car whose windshield was shattered by Israeli settlers who attacked the village on December 28, 2017. (Courtesy: Yesh Din)

Settlers attack West Bank village after Palestinians stone Israeli cars

American Ambassador to Israel David Friedman attends a meeting of the lobby for Israel–United States relations at the Knesset, July 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

US ambassador: Palestinian reaction to Trump’s Jerusalem move ‘anti-Semitic’

By Raoul Wootliff

David Friedman says response was an ’emotional overreaction;’ US Jews now owe the president for his recognition of Israeli capital

12:06 pm

Ministers okay bill to put Litzman back in Health Ministry
7:26 pm

Democrat Jones officially declared winner over Roy Moore
7:12 pm

Turkey searches for suspect after blast near police station

Illustrative: An Iranian Jew prays in a synagogue in Shiraz, Iran. (Public domain/Creative commons)

A second synagogue reported vandalized in southern Iran

By ToI Staff and JTA

Vandals in Shiraz rip Torah scrolls, steal their silver ornaments, throw prayer books in the toilet, and soil prayer shawls and phylacteries

Iran votes to declare Jerusalem ‘everlasting capital of Palestine’

Anti-government protests break out in Iran over economic woes

By AFP

Iran’s Khamenei: If ‘smarter’ Reagan failed in hardline stance, Trump will too

Illustrative: IDF recruits at the IDF's Bakum induction base on their way to become soldiers. (Flash90)

Dozens of 12th-graders to defy draft over ‘oppression’ of Palestinians

In letter to PM, IDF chief, 63 teenagers urge all Israeli youth to refuse to serve in the military until occupation ends, due to ‘racist government policy’ in West Bank

American Ambassador to Israel David Friedman attends a meeting of the lobby for Israel–United States relations at the Knesset, July 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

US: Report ambassador urged ban on the term ‘occupation’ is misleading

By JTA and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Yesha Council leaders at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2017. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Government grants settlements NIS 40 million for security, first-aid

Chef Rachael Ray on stage at the Food Network & Cooking Channel New York City Wine & Food Festival on October 15, 2016. (Gustavo Caballero/Getty Images for NYCWFF, via JTA)

Rachael Ray cooks Israeli food, stirs up some controversy

A still from the 1969 movie 'Some of my Best Friends,' part of the 'Jewish Britain on Film' project. (Courtesy)

Now online: Never-before seen footage of 1900s Jewish Britain

By Jenni Frazer

A man begs for money near a window display in the center of Jerusalem. October 22, 2013. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hebrew media review

Follow the (lack of) money

By Joshua Davidovich

If your husband is a world leader and you need to shake down friends for jewelry, if you have to beg the government to pay to save your kids’ lives, you might be in Israel

Arnon Milchan (center) with Shimon Peres (left) and Benjamin Netanyahu, March 28, 2005. (Flash90/File)

Hollywood mogul claims Sara Netanyahu demanded pricey jewelry — report

A scan of the citizenship request of 20-year-old Szymel Perski, later the Israeli statesman Shimon Peres, in the British Mandate of Palestine, stamped October 1943. (Israel State Archives)

Archive of pre-state Jewish population offers glimpse of founding generation

Collaboration between MyHeritage and Israel’s State Archives puts 67,000 British Mandatory citizenship requests online

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with African leaders in Uganda on July 4, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu establishes fund to boost developing countries’ support — report

New program said set to distribute $50 million in aid among 50 countries in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia

A woman walks across Israel square in Guatemala City on December 27, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / Orlando ESTRADA)

Guatemala: No US pressure behind embassy move to Jerusalem

By AFP and ToI Staff

Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, former grand mufti of Jerusalem, who is under investigation for incitement. (AP/Joao Silva)

Former mufti of Jerusalem rails at plan for Trump train stop at Western Wall

By AP and ToI Staff

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Who needs rabbinic leadership?

Orthodox magazines stopped printing images of women and girls; it’s time for the rabbis to tell them they’re wrong

Yes, the 10th of Tevet is relevant today

The blockade of Jerusalem reminds us that only time tells whether the lasting impact of any event is good or bad

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

The fast day that makes me shiver

I’d found the 10th of Tevet unnecessary; then I realized the dread of the future it represents is universal

Dads are parents too!

Thanks New York, for making sure we fathers can change our babies’ diapers in restaurants, malls… even nightclubs

LeVar Burton in the 1977 television miniseries 'Roots,' and Meryl Streep in 1978's 'Holocaust' miniseries (ABC and NBC, respectively)

When slavery and the Holocaust visited American living rooms

By Matt Lebovic

More Headlines

Ronit Matalon, an award-winning novelist, who died December 28, 2017, of cancer at the age of 58 (YouTube screen shot)

ObituaryNovelist Ronit Matalon, a writer of dreamy, stormy fiction, dead at 58

By Jessica Steinberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Senator Bernie Sanders (Hadas Parush/Flash90; George Frey/Getty Images)

Top MOTsSanders, Netanyahu are the US’s most admired Jewish men — poll

By JTA

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 PHOTO / STRINGER)

Women’s world champion skips Saudi-hosted chess tourney over women’s rights

By ToI Staff and AFP

Former adviser to US President Donald Trump and executive chairman of Breitbart News, Steve Bannon, speaks at a campaign event for Republican candidate for the US Senate in Alabama Roy Moore on September 25, 2017 in Fairhope, Alabama. (Scott Olson/Getty Images via JTA)

Steve Bannon cuts off politician who tweeted anti-Semitic rhetoric

By JTA

Smoke and explosions from fighting between forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad and rebels, in the Quneitra area, seen from the Golan Heights, June 17, 2015. (AP/Ariel Schalit/ File)

Hezbollah, Syrian forces advance on rebels 7 miles from Israel

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

PM said looking at special task-force to nationalize KKL-JNF

Thousands mourning the deceased members of the Azan family at a funeral in Holon, Israel, December 20, 2017. (Flash90 via JTA)

Online campaign raises over $550,000 for Brooklyn Hanukkah fire survivors

By JTA

Children from Bet Elazraki Children´s Home and Neve Michael Children's Village at a Hapoel Ra'anana AFC soccer game against Hapoel Tel Aviv FC. (Courtesy, Sharing Seats Israel)

Chair-ityGot spare tickets? Give a seat to someone less fortunate

By Jessica Steinberg

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