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What Matters Most On Friday, December 7, 2018

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General view of the UN General Assembly on December 6, 2018. (UN/Loey Felipe)

Hamas hails result as 'slap' for Trump; PM praises backers

Resolution condemning Hamas fails at UN, despite majority, unprecedented support

By Raphael Ahren

US bid for first ever UNGA vote against terror group was doomed after states decided it would need a two-thirds majority; 87 countries voted in favor, 57 opposed it, 33 abstained

Palestinians applaud defeat of US-backed resolution condemning Hamas

Hamas workers collect salaries as Qatar injects more cash into Gaza

By AFP and ToI Staff

Before he quit, Liberman said to tell IDF top brass they sound like Peace Now

By Michael Bachner

Essay

25 years after release, ‘Schindler’s List’ returns as preeminent Holocaust film

The movie that taught the world about the genocide of 6 million Jews is back, just in time to educate — and entertain — a whole new generation

Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler in the 1993 movie 'Schindler's List' (Screen capture: Schindler's List)

Steven Spielberg speaks at a Holocaust remembrance ceremony at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, January 27, 2016. (YouTube screenshot)

Steven Spielberg warns genocide is as possible today as during Holocaust

By JTA

A man wearing a kipah looks on, as people take part in a demonstration called by the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France on July 31, 2014, in front of a Lyon synagogue. (AFP/Romain LaFabregue/File)

Israel cheers as EU Council declares fight on anti-Semitism

By JTA and ToI Staff

Andrew Pollack, father of Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting victim Meadow Pollack, shakes hands with US President Donald Trump during a Hanukkah reception in the White House in Washington, DC, December 6, 2018. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)

One year on, Trump cheered for embassy move at White House Hanukkah party

By AP and ToI Staff

Andrew Pollack, father of Parkland shooting victim Meadow Pollack, calls US president ‘greatest friend Jewish people have ever had’ as candle lit in daughter’s memory

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington, August 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump says he’ll nominate Heather Nauert to be next US ambassador to the UN

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, second right, and his wife Tammy, third right, join Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, front left, at Jerusalem’s Western Wall for a candle-lighting ceremony marking the fifth night of Hanukkah and one year since US President Donald Trump’s December 6, 2017 declaration on moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Jerusalem)

US envoy marks one-year anniversary of Jerusalem recognition at Western Wall

By Raphael Ahren

Indonesian UN peacekeepers stand in front a poster of Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, as they patrol the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Tuesday, December 4, 2018. (AP/Mohammed Zaatari)

Bahrain backs Israel for Hezbollah tunnel-busting operation

By Raphael Ahren and Adam Rasgon

Denouncing tunnels dug by ‘terrorist Hezbollah,’ Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa suggests Lebanon’s neighbors have the right to ‘eliminate the threat they face’

UN peacekeepers confirm existence of tunnel from Lebanon into Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF asks UN, Lebanon to destroy 2nd Hezbollah tunnel identified inside Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Claiming ‘hacking’ of network, Lebanon condemns IDF warnings to its civilians

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks out of a helicopter as he arrives in northern Israel, December 6, 2018 (Amit Shabi/Yedioth Ahronoth/POOL)

PM: Thanks to Israel, Hezbollah has dozens of precision missiles, not thousands

By Michael Bachner

Netanyahu hints at Mossad involvement in operations that have thwarted the transfer of weaponry to the Iran-backed terror group

Israel media reviewTunnels bore, missiles mean war: 8 things to know for December 7

By Joshua Davidovich

Man seen in IDF tunnel video identified as Hezbollah commander

By Michael Bachner

Hezbollah-funding Lebanese businessman pleads guilty to money laundering

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife, Sara, arrives for a meeting in Paris, France, June 6, 2018. (AP/Francois Mori)

Sara Netanyahu questioned by police over alleged fraud in hiring ex-aide

PM’s wife suspected of creating false impression to State Comptroller that Nir Hefetz, who later turned state witness, was paid for his work

Benjamin Netanyahu and Arnon Mozes (Composite image: Flash90)

Netanyahu said to claim newspaper publisher threatened to destroy his family

Then-Minister of Senior Citizens Gila Gamliel speaks during the weekly government conference at PM Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on December 30, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Social equality minister calls for next police chief to be a woman

By Michael Bachner

The birth of nationalism

Did the national pride that Joseph fostered ultimately lead to the Jews’ enslavement by the Egyptians?

Blame Tamar, the killer-wife (or not)

The very mistakes our ancestors made when bowing to convention become the Torah’s way of teaching unconventional truths. (Miketz)

Aryeh Bernstein

Drunk on cheese

In historically unprecedented and dystopian ways, creating the modern version of Judith’s sedative entails brutal violence

Hilary Faverman

The Do-nuts and the Don’t-nuts of 2018

The best sufganiyot in Jerusalem? The ones to avoid? Here’s our annual tell-all shuk survey

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (C) visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on July 20, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Hungary’s prime minister says World Jewish Congress head has left-wing agenda

By JTA

Victor Orban accuses Ronald Lauder of applying a ‘clear left-wing and liberal bias’ for demanding he condemn an anti-Semitic image in a pro-government magazine

The House of Fates Holocaust museum and education center in Budapest. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)

Hungary Holocaust museum won’t open without agreement on narrative – PM’s office

An Israel Air Force F-16, December 31, 2015 (Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

US blocking Israeli sale of used F-16s to Croatia — report

Demonstrators protesting against Israel in New York City, June 2016. (Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Push for anti-BDS bill in Congress exposes rift among Jewish progressives

By Eric Cortellessa

Jewish Democratic group urges supporters to back bill making boycotting Israel illegal, but J Street objects on First Amendment grounds

Ohio State University student government rejects boycott of Israel

By JTA

Food bloggers and kosher food media personalities Melinda Strauss (left), Naomi Nachman, Beth Warren and Chani Apfelbaum (far right) (Courtesy Naomi Nachman)

For kosher Instagram stars, the food is just the appetizer

By Jessica Steinberg

Keeping it light

Gregory Gutterman Scruggs

Jewish-reggae band sparks it up with new Hanukkah album

Bassist David Gould and his Temple Rockers drop their latest Jew-maican fusion collection ‘Festival of Lights’ just in time for the holiday

Doughnuts on sale at the Roladin bakery in central Jerusalem, during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, December 12, 2017. (Flash90)

‘Miracle’ doughnuts emerge as Israel celebrates Hanukkah

By Michael Blum

More Headlines

File: Palestinian security forces in Hebron, November 14, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Palestinian-American in PA custody says she was tortured

By AP and ToI Staff

Former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz speaks at the annual World Zionist Conference, in Jerusalem on November 2, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Ex-IDF chief Benny Gantz said to establish new political party

By Michael Bachner

The flag-draped casket of former US President George H. W. Bush passes through Magnolia, Texas, on December 6, 2018, along the route from Spring to College Station, Texas. (AFP/David J. Phillip/Pool)

George H.W. Bush, 41st president of US, laid to rest after final salute

By AFP

Rescuers retrieve Israelis from their flooded homes in Ahiezer, central Israel, after heavy rains lash the country on December 7, 2018 (Israel Police)

80 people evacuated as flooding sweeps central Israel town

People walk on rain-soaked Jaffa Road in Jerusalem on December 6, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Amid stormy weather, worker killed as wall collapses on him

A picture released by the Shin Bet security agency on December 6, 2018, shows cellphones, a drone and cash that were allegedly tied to a failed attempt to smuggle phones into a security prison using a drone. (Shin Bet)

Shin Bet busts cell behind attempt to smuggle phones into prison with drone

Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi (R) receiving a Beitar Jerusalem fan club membership card from club owner Moshe Hogeg at an event in Barcelona, Spain, in December 2018. (Screenshot: Twitter)

Soccer superstar Messi becomes member of Israeli team’s fan club

By JTA

Illustrative: Police stand by near the finish line of the 118th Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, April 20, 2014. (AP/Matt Rourke)

Massachusetts police chief cancels Israel training trip

By AP

Dany Treyger at the time of his arrest in Bolivia. (SENAD via JTA)

Brazil arrests Israeli suspected of heading major drug smuggling ring

By JTA

Tourists listen to a tourguide on the lookout of the Mount of Olives overlooking the Old city of Jerusalem, on October 11, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israeli tourism figures racing toward annual record, says ministry

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Shmuel Flatto-Sharon at a rally in support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on August 9, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Shmuel Flatto-Sharon, MK who entered politics to escape prosecution, dies at 88

Jewish comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (r) disguises himself for new series, 'Who Is America?' in July 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

No jokeBaron Cohen up for Golden Globe for Israeli character on prank show

By Josefin Dolsten

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