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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 5, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot deliver statements to the press at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv, on December 4, 2018 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Hezbollah tunnels part of plan to capture ‘parts of Galilee’

By Raoul Wootliff and Judah Ari Gross

PM takes aim at Iran, says ‘Northern Shield’ will continue until ‘outcome is achieved,’ dispels claim it was initiated to distract from his legal woes

An alleged Hezbollah member walks through a tunnel dug into Israeli territory from southern Lebanon on December 4, 2018. (Screen capture: Israel Defense Forces)

IDF footage from attack tunnel shows alleged Hezbollah members still inside

By Judah Ari Gross

President Reuven Rivlin lights the third candle of Hanukkah with the IAF's 25th Wing at the Ramon Air Force base in southern Israel on December 4, 2018. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Rivlin: Hezbollah will cause Lebanon’s ‘downfall’

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

In this photo released by Hezbollah Central Military Media, Israeli military diggers work on the Lebanese-Israeli border next to a wall that was built by Israel facing the southern village of Kafr Kila, Lebanon on Dec. 4, 2018. (Hezbollah Military Media via AP)

Analysts: Tackling tunnels is first step before IDF takes on Hezbollah missiles

Explaining Northern Shield op, Netanyahu says ‘only a small piece of the big picture’ of Israeli efforts to counter the Lebanese terror group has been revealed thus far

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, center, visits soldiers searching for Hezbollah attack tunnels on Israeli-Lebanese border on December 4, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Russia backs Israel’s tunnel-busting op, calls for ‘restraint’

By Raphael Ahren

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, Transportation Minister Israel Katz, center, and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman in the Knesset, Jerusalem, May 30, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister says northern op proves Liberman resignation was ‘irresponsible’

By Michael Bachner

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Of course Hezbollah was tunneling under the border. Why wouldn’t it?

The Lebanese terror group is stronger than ever and, by drilling attack tunnels, has shown it’s still planning ground offensives against Israel — not ‘just’ massive rocket attacks

An Israeli military digger works on the border with Lebanon in the northern Israeli town of Metulla, December 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

An Israeli military digger works on the border with Lebanon in the northern Israeli town of Metulla, December 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel media reviewSubterranean Hezbollah blues: 7 things to know for December 5

By Joshua Davidovich

An Israeli armored personnel carrier and command post is transported toward the border with Lebanon on December 4, 2018. (JALAA MAREY / AFP)

Amid tunnel-busting effort, IDF brings in air defense, engineering reservists

By Judah Ari Gross

A member of the Dubai Synagogue holds a Torah scroll donated by New York businessman Eli Epstein, with an inscribed dedication to his friend, Dubai business leader Mohamed Alabbar. November 2018 (Photo: Israel Calera)

ExclusiveEating cholent in the Gulf

For the first time, Dubai’s Jewish community steps hesitantly out of the shadows

By Miriam Herschlag

The first new Jewish community to thrive in an Arab state in centuries consents, with limitations, to unprecedented media exposure

A 19th Century bronze 'kashkul' or alms bowl from Persia or Egypt, on display at the exhibit 'The Majlis -- Cultures in Dialogue' (The Majlis -- Cultures in Dialogue Facebook page)

Gulf artworks highlight region’s surprising historical culture mix

By Jean-Louis De La Vaissier

Richard Lakin (left) reads a book to his granddaughter, as his son Micah Avni looks on. January 2014. (Courtesy)

InterviewAirbnb's move is 'more dangerous than the killing of my dad'

The relegitimizer: A terror victim’s son partners with government to combat BDS

By David Horovitz

His father was killed on a bus in 2015. Now Micah Avni is leading the effort to battle Israel’s demonizers. He warns: If the world decides Israel doesn’t deserve to exist, it won’t

101 US Jewish and pro-Israel groups ask universities to oppose Israel boycotts

By JTA

Newly elected US lawmaker Rashida Tlaib to lead colleagues on West Bank trip

By JTA

Public security minister orders progress on ‘Facebook incitement bill’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks with Education Minister Naftali Bennett on November 13, 2017, in the Knesset. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu allegedly requested news site run negative article on rival’s wife

By Alexander Fulbright

Israeli TV says PM asked Bezeq owner Shaul Elovitch to have Walla publish piece on employment of Naftali Bennett’s spouse at non-Kosher restaurant

7:31 pm

'Shame on you,' Bennett says of PM's alleged request for negative article on wife
7:19 pm

Netanyahu allegedly requested news site run negative article on rival's wife
6:10 pm

Netanyahu speaks with UN chief about Hezbollah tunnels

Actor Rachel Brosnahan plays Miriam 'Midge' Maisel in 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,' now in its second season. (courtesy Amazon Prime)

Interview

The most marvelously Jewish show on television is back, and it’s just as funny

By Jordan Hoffman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset, November 19, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu calls domestic violence ‘terrorism,’ vows to step up punishment

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Ministerial committee resolves to pass law forcing abusers to wear tracking bracelets; PM says current systems ‘paralyzed,’ abusive men should be ‘punched in the face’

Thousands rally at Tel Aviv's Rabin Square as part of a nationwide strike protesting the violence against women, December 4, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

At Tel Aviv rally, 30,000 protest rising violence against women

By Naomi Lanzkron and ToI Staff

Yara Ayoub, 16, from the Galilee village of Jish. (Hadashot screen capture)

Police arrest fifth suspect in murder of Galilee teen

Ruth Tepler Roth

Mental illness is the world’s new ‘cancer’ — shhh!

Really, there’s only one flaw that should get in the way of ’making a match’ — that of poor character

My IDF daughter and her new opportunities

Fighting the pathology of chauvinism women face in Israel — from unequal pay to sexual harassment — must begin in the military

Andres Spokoiny

This you call a miracle?

Doesn’t Chanukah deserve an astounding, unusual celebration? Unless that banal tiny bit of light is exactly the point

Andrew Silow-Carroll

I’m dreaming of a Hanukkah song as good as ‘White Christmas’

Something melancholy about snow and lighting candles on a dark night might do the trick

Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer addresses a Hanukkah reception at the Washington D.C. residence of Poland’s Ambassador the US Piotr Wilczek, December 3, 2018 (screen shoot: facebook.com/ambdermer)

Despite outrage, envoy to US hails Israeli-Polish Holocaust complicity statement

By Raphael Ahren

At reception hosted by Polish colleague, Ron Dermer does not mention Shoah, but says controversial joint declaration allows both nations ‘to respect the past’

Evidence of Rohingya genocide is ‘compelling,’ US Holocaust Museum says

By JTA

Spanish museum, California family spar in court over disputed Nazi-looted art

3 large swastikas spray-painted in Brooklyn neighborhood

By JTA

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, left, confers with Benjamin Netanyahu, a member of the Israel delegation, prior to the start of the opening session of the Mideast peace conference on Oct. 30, 1991 in Madrid. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev opened the conference between Israel and front line Arab States. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin)

Analysis

Netanyahu hated George H.W. Bush’s peace plan. Now it’s his policy

His opposition to the US-led Madrid peace process as deputy foreign minister made him persona non grata at the State Department

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump pay their respects as US president George H. W. Bush lies in state in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC on December 3, 2018. -(Pablo Martinez Monsivais/POOL/AFP)

Netanyahu dispatches Kahlon to Bush funeral service in Washington

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US Vice President Mike Pence addresses the annual conference of the Israeli-American Council in Hollywood, Fla., Nov. 30, 2018 (Perry Bindelglass/Israeli-American Council via JTA)

When Israeli Americans meet, there’s politics, partying, and pride

This Hanukkah, you can taste and make doughnuts, known as sufganiyot in Hebrew (Courtesy Kfir Harabi)

Time to make — or eat — the doughnuts, and other Hanukkah treats

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

This June, 1954, file photo shows renowned physicist Albert Einstein in Princeton, N.J.(AP Photo, File)

Human weakness?Einstein’s disbelieving ‘God letter’ auctioned for almost $3 million

By ToI Staff and AFP

People help lift a menorah that was toppled in Cambridge, Massachusetts on December 3, 2018 (Screencapture/Twitter)

Hanukkah menorah in park is toppled near Harvard campus

By JTA

B’Tselem Executive Director Hagai El-Ad, left, next to Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour, at a session of the UN Security Council, October 18, 2018. (Courtesy UN WebTv)

Rights group B’Tselem, maligned in Israel, to receive French prize

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at an awards ceremony at the Shin Bet's headquarters in Tel Aviv honoring agents who excelled in intelligence operations in 2017 and 2018, on December 4, 2018. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Shin Bet thwarted 500 terror attacks in 2018, Netanyahu says

An illustrative image of diplomacy: a photo of national flags from around the world
(123ArtistImages; iStock by Getty Images)

Israel finds tech prowess a useful tool to burnish international image

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative: A memorial service for Israeli soldiers at the military cemetery in the Druze village of Isfiya in northern Israel. (Government Press Office)

Druze soldier suffering from PTSD after racist bullying, abuse on base

This Dec. 2, 2009 photo shows Lev Leviev at Tel Aviv's District Court (AP Photo/Ofer Vaknin)

Diamond smuggling scandal spotlights shadowy Israeli tycoon Lev Leviev

A United Arab Emirates passport (CC-BY SA Wikiemirati/Wikimedia Commons)

Border baronsUAE passport is world’s strongest for visa-free travel

Rep. Chris Smith holds an award he received at the 36th annual Bet El gala dinner in New York, Dec. 2, 2018. Joining Smith, from left, are Dr. Joseph Frager, Duvi Honig and Pete Hegseth, co-host of “Fox and Friends.” (Courtesy of American Friends of the Bet El Yeshiva Center)

At NY gala supporting Israeli settlements, plenty of love for Trump to go around

By Josefin Dolsten

File: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on election day in Venezuela, on May 20, 2018. (AFP Photo/Juan Barreto)

Venezuela welcomes former Israeli chief rabbi in ‘peace diplomacy’ bid

By Marcus M. Gilban

Prof. Tal Dvir of Tel Aviv University (Courtesy TAU)

Israeli scientists say they’ve created first fully personalized tissue implant

Illustrative: A child receives a vaccination shot (Shutterstock/JTA)

500 British kids get emergency vaccinations after measles spreads from Israel

By Michael Bachner

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