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What Matters Most On Monday, December 3, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a Likud party event in Ramat Gan, marking the first night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, on December 2, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu: I didn't give anything, and I didn't get anything

‘What a Hanukkah gift’: Bitter PM slams police call to charge him with bribery

By Raoul Wootliff

Accusing cops of an ongoing witch-hunt, Netanyahu denies deal to help Bezeq boss Elovitch in return for favorable coverage from the businessman’s Walla news site

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves before lighting a stylized-candle during the start of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, in Ramat Gan in the suburbs of the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv on December 2, 2018. (Jack GUEZ / AFP)

Opposition excoriates PM for saying criminal probes were ‘skewed from the start’

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks at donuts traditionally eaten for Hanukkah in a video he released on December 2, 2018, to mark the start of the Jewish holiday. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Netanyahu uses Hannukah video to joke about corruption charges

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a State Control Committee meeting in the Knesset on December 3, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Attorney general hits back against ‘coup’ allegations by Netanyahu, backers

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Mandelblit ‘strongly protests’ attacks on legal system after bribery charge recommendation against PM, vows to handle case professionally, says ‘police aren’t persecuting anybody’

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a Knesset State Control Committee meeting on December 3, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In Knesset, defiant AG takes stand against hot-button coalition positions

By Raoul Wootliff

Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police as they protest the army draft in Jerusalem, November 28, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

High Court gives state another 6 weeks to pass ultra-Orthodox conscription law

Coalition whip: ‘Evil’ police chief tried to engineer ‘coup’ via Bezeq case

Likud party continues onslaught against law enforcement in wake of fresh indictment recommendations against Netanyahu

Coalition whip David Amsalem is interview by Hadashot news on December 3, 2018. (Screen capture/Hadashot news)

Israel media reviewThe media czar on Balfour: 7 things to know for December 3

By Joshua Davidovich

PM beefs up legal team amid latest police indictment recommendation

How the attempt to hide PM’s alleged graft apparently gave it away

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the 15th annual Brandenburg Gate Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony, December 2, 2018. (Toby Axelrod/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

80 years after Kristallnacht, German president lights massive Hanukkah menorah

At Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier tells Jewish community it is ‘a gift that we can reach out to join hands over the chasm of our history’

Light historyIn Holland, one of the world’s most expensive menorahs hides in plain sight

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Pittsburgh Synagogue holds Hannukah ceremony at mass shooting site

By Ramesh Santanam

In Hanukkah greeting, Trump pledges ‘love and support’ to Pittsburgh victims

By AFP and ToI Staff

Bronze pot with gold earring and coins inside, unearthed at Caesarea Maritima. (Yaniv Berman, courtesy of the Caesarea Development Corporation)

Hanukkah miracle

Trove of 11th century gold coins discovered in ancient Caesarea

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the UN in New York on September 26, 2018 (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Netanyahu in Brussels to discuss Iran, Hezbollah with Pompeo

Reportedly ‘urgent’ meeting comes amid heightened tensions with Tehran, and with Washington said to be gearing up to release its peace plan

In this photo provided November 5, 2018, by the Iranian Army, a Sayyad 2 missile is fired by the Talash air defense system during drills in an undisclosed location in Iran. (Iranian Army via AP)

Iran vows to continue with missile tests despite US accusations

Soldiers from the IDF Commando Brigade simulate fighting the Hezbollah terror group, in northern Israel, in November 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu to warn Lebanon via Pompeo: Rein in Hezbollah or we’ll act

A week after alleged Israeli strikes near Damascus, and citing unspecified actions by Lebanese terror group, PM said ready to tell US top diplomat Israel may take military action

7:36 pm

Mexico asylum seekers' IDs recall Holocaust tattoos on camp inmates
7:36 pm

Former defense chief Liberman says Israel handed Hamas a decisive victory
7:21 pm

Nationwide protests planned tomorrow to call attention to violence against women

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)

Riyadh checkmated

World chess contest moved from Saudi Arabia after two Israelis complain of ban

By Stuart Winer

Rapid and Blitz tournament relocated to Russia; governing federation says it will no longer hold events in countries that ‘deny entry to eligible players’

A wooden footbridge leads up from the Western Wall to the Mughrabi Gate of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, November 28, 2011. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90).

UN General Assembly approves 6 anti-Israel resolutions

By JTA and ToI Staff

Marc Lamont Hill speaks at the United Nations on November 28, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Marc Lamont Hill apologizes for urging ‘free Palestine from river to sea’

By JTA

When Hanukkah paranoia is small potatoes

Did the New York Times diss latkes when it recently took down french fries?

Natan Sharansky

George H. W. Bush always saw us as real people

The late president and his wife Barbara repeatedly helped Soviet Jews — they knew us and they cared

Jason Fredric Gilbert

Gluten-free sufganiyot

I know I wouldn’t last a day in prison. I’m too pretty for the slammer. I’m too ugly for the outside though

David Breakstone

It was the question mark that threw me

Who’d have believed that the Promised Land of America’s Jews could feel so unpromising

Don’t let elections get you down

Bibi doesn’t have to be a shoo-in; if likeminded parties close ranks and — horrors! — work together, he doesn’t stand a chance

Facing east: What Asia means to the Israeli energy market

Israel’s growing natural gas stores create an unprecedented opportunity to penetrate the vast markets of the East

Illustrative: A gallows is prepared for an execution in Gaza in 2013. (AP/ Gaza Interior Ministry/ File)

Hamas court sentences 6 to death for ‘collaborating’ with Israel

One of the condemned is an Israeli resident sentenced in absentia; 5 others are residents of Gaza

Hamas: Israeli special forces posed as medical workers to get into Gaza for raid

By Judah Ari Gross

In ‘challenge’ to Netanyahu, Erekat says Abbas willing to meet PM anywhere

High Court okays home demolition of Palestinian charged with killing IDF soldier

Quebec-based Saudi activist Omar Abdulaziz. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Saudi dissident sues Israeli spyware firm over Khashoggi killing

Omar Abdulaziz says NSO Group helped Saudi government hack his phone and uncover his conversations with the slain journalist

Illustrative image of a spy. (cyano66; iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli spooks seek startups to boost tech skills in search for better security

By Shoshanna Solomon

Interns taking part in the Palestinian Internship Progam (PIP) founded in 2014 by Israeli-American investor and entrepreneur Yadin Kaufmann (Courtesy)

As Israel faces tech workers squeeze, Palestinians offer skilled talent pool

By Dan Savery Raz

Nadia Batool Bokhari, a Pakistani journalist forced to seek refuge in the United States because of her job. (Courtesy)

A nation of immigrants

Female Muslim journalist persecuted in Pakistan reboots life in the US with HIAS

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California speaks at the 2017 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference, March 28, 2017, at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Pelosi emphasizes pro-Israel cred of leaders she plans to name in House

Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a Capitol news conference regarding the separation of immigrant children, July 10, 2018. (Alex Edelman/Getty Images via JTA)

Bernie Sanders eyes ‘bigger’ 2020 US presidential bid despite some warning signs

By Steve Peoples

A man rides an electric bicycle in Tel Aviv on July 5, 2016. (Flickr/Ted Eytan/CC BY-SA)

New driver’s license instituted for electric bicycles

Emmy Award-winning actor Jeremy Piven tries stand-up, and will bring it to Israel on January 12 and 13, 2019 (Courtesy PR)

With no entourageJeremy Piven to play for laughs in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem stand-up

By Jessica Steinberg

Former Irish footballer Ronnie Whelan (C) holds up a slip of paper after drawing France from the pot flanked by UEFA deputy secretary general Giorgio Marchetti (L) and former Portuguese footballer Nuno Gomes (R) during the UEFA Euro 2020 football competition qualifying draw in Dublin on December 2, 2018. (Photo by Paul FAITH / AFP)

Israel to face manager Herzog’s home team Austria in Euro 2020 soccer qualifier

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Omar Zumot, who studied winemaking in France, samples a wine inside the Saint George winery in Zahab, an eastern suburb of Amman, Jordan, on November 5, 2018. (Laure van Ruymbeke/AFP)

From Bible to revival: Meet Jordan’s desert winemakers

Housing Minister Yoav Gallant speaks at the Jerusalem Post Diplomatic Conference, held at Waldorf Astoria hotel in Jerusalem, November 21, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Kulanu minister Gallant seen planning to defect to Likud

By Stuart Winer

Red dye in the water of a fountain at Paris Square in Jerusalem, December 3, 2018. (Gender Counter-Terrorism Unit)

Activists turn fountains blood-red in protest of violence against women

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