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What Matters Most On Friday, December 29, 2017

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and US President Donald Trump shake hands at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Report: US, Israel sign secret pact to tackle Iran nuclear and missile threat

‘Dramatic understandings’ were agreed at the White House on December 12, and deal signed by the two countries’ national security chiefs, Channel 10 says

A still from video footage of protestors in Iran's second-largest city demonstrating over rising prices and high unemployment. (Twitter screen capture)

Iran says 52 arrested in Thursday’s anti-government protests

By AFP

US President Donald Trump speaks alongside Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (L) during a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, DC, December 20, 2017. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

Tillerson omits Jerusalem from year-end foreign policy review

By AFP and ToI Staff

People take cover after rockets are launched at Israel from the Gaza Strip during a ceremony marking the birthday of fallen IDF soldier Oron Shaul, whose remains are being held by the Hamas terrorist group, on December 29, 2017. (Screen capture)

Gaza rocket barrage appears to target ceremony for captured soldier

By Judah Ari Gross

Video from scene shows family members of fallen sergeant Oron Shaul taking cover during concert marking his 24th birthday

A picture taken on September 17, 2017, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, along the border with Egypt, shows smoke billowing from Egypt's North Sinai. (AFP/SAID KHATIB)

IDF strikes Hamas targets after Gaza rocket hits Israeli community

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

The damage cause by a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip that landed at the entrance to a building in the Shaar Hanegev region, December 29, 2017. (Israel Police)

Iron Dome intercepts 2 rockets fired from Gaza as 3rd falls in Israeli territory

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

A Palestinian protestor kicks a burning tire during clashes with Israeli security forces in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on December 29, 2017, following the weekly Muslim Friday prayers. (AFP / Musa al Shaer)

Thousands of Palestinians clash with Israeli forces in Gaza, West Bank

Rioters hurl rocks, burn tires as they confront IDF troops in fourth week of demonstrations against US Jerusalem declaration; dozens reported injured

A young boy insults US President Donald Trump and threatens Israel during a Hamas rally in Gaza, December 2017. (Screen capture: MEMRI video)

At Hamas rally, Gazan kid threatens ‘idiot Trump’ and ‘son of a Jew Netanyahu’

File: US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman at a ceremony for new ambassadors at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on May 16, 2017. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Pool/Flash90)

US envoy blasts Palestinians’ ‘anti-Semitic’ reaction to Trump’s Jerusalem move

EU Ambassador to Israel Emanuele Giaufret in his Ramat Gan office in December 2017. (Ariel Zandberg)

Interview

New EU envoy vows to take seriously Israeli feelings that Brussels is hostile

By Raphael Ahren

Emanuele Giaufret on why he’s engaging with settlers and why Europe opposes recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital despite Jews’ undeniable, ‘very strong connection’ to the city

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon during a plenum session at the Knesset to approve changes in tax laws, May 10, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewIn search of settlement building, Lorde and a coalition hero

By Joshua Davidovich

Israel’s envoy to the UNESCO, Carmel Shama-Hacohen, attempts to deliver official papers announcing Israels withdrawal from the cultural organization, December 28, 2017. (Courtesy)

Despite deadline panic, ambassador says Israel still to leave UNESCO in 2018

US President Donald Trump (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a joint press conference in the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

With an eye to Trump and Netanyahu, Israeli university takes on ‘fake news’

By Raoul Wootliff

As politicians disseminate more and more misinformation while discrediting and bypassing the media, University of Haifa hopes to help students ‘analyze and understand reality’

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a press conference in Jerusalem on December 29, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Despite polls, probes, Netanyahu expects government to last until 2019

By Raoul Wootliff

Screen capture from video showing protesters in the Arab Israeli town of Ein Mahil protesting against the arrival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, December 28, 2017. (YouTube)

Arab Israelis protest Netanyahu’s visit to their town

The Cards Against Humanity 'Jew Pack' (Screen capture: YouTube)

Target pulls Jewish-themed Cards Against Humanity pack after complaint

‘Chosen People Pack’ and ‘Jew Pack,’ with jokes about the Holocaust and Jews liking money, still available via other online retailers

The 'Swastika Trail' street sign hanging in Puslinch Township, Canada. (Screen capture/YouTube via JTA)

Canadian town votes to stick with ‘Swastika Trail’ name

By JTA

Omri Casspi of the Golden State Warriors goes up for a slam dunk against the Cleveland Cavaliers during an NBA basketball game on December 25, 2017 in Oakland, California. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images/AFP)

NBA apologizes after ‘occupied Palestine’ listed on official website

By Joshua Davidovich

Thousands people gather at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City to pray for rain, December 28, 2017. (FLASH90)

Thousands pray at Western Wall for rain to break drought

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Mass supplications organized by agriculture minister and led by chief rabbis, other religious leaders

The remains of blast tests on building materials in the army's Sayarim Base in the Arava desert in southern Israel on December 27, 2017. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

Deep in the desert, army blasts way to a stronger, lighter bomb shelter

By Judah Ari Gross

Lauren Corduck and her husband, Robb. (Maura Wayman Photography)

Women with ‘Jewish’ gene helped by fellow carriers to learn cancer prevention

Ari Shane Weitz

So our happiness is not worth a ‘mazal tov’?

I’m still figuring out my own Orthodoxy, but don’t use me as an excuse to shame my family or my shul

Lessons from Rubashkin

Had his sentence been commensurate to the crime, the Orthodox community would have accepted it

What it takes Joseph to forgive

When we do wrong, our inner voice urges us onward: to confess, express remorse, atone, make amends, and change (Vayechi)

The Mideast haven of Israel

I live in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, and it’s true: only the Jewish state treats us Christians well

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This photo taken on July 1, 2015 shows defendant and German former SS officer Oskar Groening, dubbed the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz", at court in Lueneburg, northern Germany, ahead of his trial. (2017. / AFP PHOTO / RONNY HARTMANN)

‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’, 96, loses appeal against jail

Screen capture from video of Imam Raed Saleh Al-Rousan giving a sermon in which he spoke of the Muslim duty to fight the Jews. (Twitter)

Houston imam walks back sermon calling on Muslims to kill Jews

By JTA

A composite picture of Columbus, Ohio, on a snowy day, left, and a market in Lagos, Nigeria. (AP /Kiichiro Sato and AP/Sunday Alamba)

US judge seeks to flush notorious neo-Nazi website founder out of hiding

By Michael Kunzelman

A woman reads a newspaper while floating in the Dead Sea, May 20, 2017. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

2017 breaks tourism record with 3.6 million visitors

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a snowball fight with his wife, Sara, and sons Avner and Yair at his residence in Jerusalem on January 10, 2013 (Avi Ohayon/GPO/FLASH90)

Netanyahus suspected of asking billionaire for coats — report

Family members embrace at Ben Gurion Airport as 72 new immigrants from Ethiopia arrive on June 6, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Last planned flight of Ethiopian immigrants to arrive amid funding scramble

By Melanie Lidman

Lebanon's Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil speaks during a press conference on August 18, 2014 in Baghdad, Iraq. (Ali Abbas-Pool/Getty Images via JTA)

Lebanon FM slammed for saying ‘We are not against Israel living in security’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Some of the 93 North American immigrants to Israel who arrived on a December 27, 2017, Nefesh B’Nefesh flight. (Courtesy)

Last of 3,633 North American immigrants for 2017 arrive in Israel

By JTA

Illustrative. Pizza. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Humble pie‘Yuck’: Woman fined NIS 18,000 for defaming pizzeria on Facebook

YES show 'Fauda' was the big winner at the recent Israeli TV awards (Courtesy 'Fauda')

Netflix and killIsraelis spooked by Arabic ads for TV show ‘Fauda’

Illustrative image of relatives and onlookers gathered outside a church after a bomb attack in the Nile Delta town of Tanta, Egypt, Sunday, April 9, 2017 (AP Photo/Ahmed Hatem)

Gunman kills 10 in attack on church near Cairo

By AFP

Danny Burstein starring as Tevye in the 2015 Broadway revival of 'Fiddler on the Roof.' (Joan Marcus)

America?Oy Vey! ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ coming to New York in Yiddish

By Josefin Dolsten

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