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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 9, 2018

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A Hezbollah fighter stands behind an empty rocket launcher, May 22, 2010. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah deputy chief: All of Israel is in range of our rockets

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Israel ‘deterred by the capabilities of the Islamic resistance,’ says Naim Qassem,as IDF exposes a third tunnel from Lebanon into Israel

Israeli troops search for a Hezbollah border-crossing attack tunnel from southern Lebanon, along the northern border, on December 8, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

In rain and mud, IDF exposes another tunnel from Lebanon into Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

A photo taken from the rebel-held town of Douma shows flames rising in the distance which are believed to be coming from Damascus International Airport following an explosion early in the morning of April 27, 2017.(AFP PHOTO / Sameer Al-Doumy)

Live updates (closed)

Syrian media denies air defenses fired on ‘hostile targets’ in Damascus

State-run network Sana walks back report of airstrike on capital; Defense analysts suspect defense batteries triggered by Israeli radar jamming

9:38 pm

Doctors deliver baby of woman critically injured in Ofra shooting
9:27 pm

Syrian state media denies strikes on Damascus airport
9:13 pm

IDF seals off al-Bireh as manhunt launched for Ofra shooters

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks as he holds a press conference with IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkott at the defense headquarters in Tel Aviv, on December 4, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

PM said seeking to formalize relations with Saudi Arabia before next election

TV report says Netanyahu, aided by Mossad chief and working with Washington, hopes to make ties public in the coming months

A Tunisian holds an anti-Israel posters reading "Palestine is Arab, No other choice than rifles", outside the Tunisian Tourism Ministry in Tunis, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018. (AP/Hassene Dridi)

Tunisians protest Israel outside office of Jewish minister

By AP

Participants enter meeting rooms at the Future Investment Initiative conference, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018. (AP/Amr Nabil)

Israel signed off on sale of phone spying tool to Saudi Arabia — report

By ToI Staff and AP

White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner during a meeting in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, DC on October 23, 2017. Right: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a meeting with Lebanon's Christian Maronite patriarch on November 14, 2017, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images; Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images)

Saudi prince said to use Israeli-Palestinian conflict to get Kushner’s support

By Michael Bachner

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives at the Future Investment Initiative FII conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh on October 24, 2018. (GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP)

Israel media reviewHouse of Saud and fog: 8 things to know for December 9

By Joshua Davidovich

President Reuven Rivlin (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a memorial service marking 23 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, on October 21, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Coalition backs bill to limit president’s power, block ‘coup’ against Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff

Kulanu, Jewish Home parties said to tell Likud they will support legislation if the ruling party agrees to call early elections

Public security minister launches fresh round of interviews for top cop position

Sharp rise recorded in online incitement against police amid PM’s probes

Netanyahu said seeking at least NIS 5 million to cover legal fees

By Raoul Wootliff

Lior Gross developed a nonbinary Hebrew system together with their professor Eyal Rivlin. (courtesy)

In an increasingly nonbinary world, is gendered Hebrew willing to adapt?

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Holocaust survivor Bracha Ghilai, 75, shows her tattooed arm at her house in Holon near Tel Aviv, January 23, 2005. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Bestselling ‘Tattooist of Auschwitz’ love story blurs facts, experts allege

Magazine published by memorial center at site of Nazi death camp points to several inaccuracies in novel; author defends book as recollection, not history

A person holds a sign during a protest gathering on the block of the Jewish Community Center in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, where the funeral for Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz, Tuesday Oct. 30, 2018. (AP/Gene J. Puskar)

In US, some Holocaust survivors fear having to hide Jewish identity again

By Thomas URBAIN

Interior of the Vienna State Opera, file (Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons)

Vienna premieres new opera on rise of far-right in Europe

By Simon Morgan

We are all identical! (No, we’re really not)

Jews are not going to agree on everything, but it is vital that we recognize what each ’branch’ of the Jewish ’menorah’ has to offer

Cleaning trash for peace in Israel’s heartland

In a unique initiative, Jewish settlers and Palestinians work together to tend the land they love

A screen capture of video from social media said to show the scene of the deadly shooting of Ahmed Salama in the central Arab Israel town of Jaljulia on December 7, 2018. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Palestinian killed in Israel after accusations of selling land to Jews — report

Ahmed Salama was said to have denied involvement in West Bank land sales to Israelis, a capital offense under Palestinian Authority law

For Palestinian children in Gaza, an education in conflict

By Agencies and ToI Staff

PA TV host: Man who stabbed 3 Israeli policemen ‘desired by virgins of Paradise’

In Gaza protests, IDF troops aim for the legs

By Agencies and ToI Staff

French Jews arriving at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, November 2, 2016. (JTA/IFCJ)

Diaspora minister seeks plan to boost French immigration

‘200,000 French Jews want to come here,’ Naftali Bennett tells cabinet, insists ‘assimilation crisis, apathy among Jews’ causing Israel-Diaspora rift

A protester holds a sign reading "Macron stop hiding" near the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris on December 8, 2018 during a "yellow vests" (gilets jaunes) demonstration protesting rising costs of living they blame on high taxes. (Thomas Samson/AFP)

All eyes on Macron after fresh ‘yellow vest’ protests hit Paris

By Katy Lee and Clare BYRNE

Two Danes sneak atop the Great Pyramid of Giza, hold nude shoot (YouTube screenshot)

Naked and unafraid

Egyptians incensed by Danes’ nude shoot atop Great Pyramid

Photographer Andreas Hvid says he did not mean to anger locals, but had dreamed of the act for many years

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 9, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Netanyahu raises red flag on anti-porn bill amid web privacy concerns

By Raoul Wootliff

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Aryeh Lahav. (Courtesy of the family)

Man, 80, killed in car crash near kibbutz he co-founded

Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich sits in his box on December 19, 2015, before the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Sunderland at Stamford Bridge stadium in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Report: UK to target Russian-Israeli billionaire Abramovich over Kremlin ties

By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff

Yehiel 'Hilik' Magnus (Screen capture: YouTube)

The rescuerMeet Hilik Magnus, Israel’s top search and rescue expert

By JTA

Karen Koslowitz (Screen capture: YouTube)

NY Jewish councilwoman receives hate letter mentioning Pittsburgh shooting

US President Donald Trump speaks at a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House, December 6, 2018. (Oliver Contreras/Pool/Getty Images via JTA)

Trump’s Hanukkah parties celebrate his decision to move the Israel embassy

US President Donald Trump listens to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, right, in the Oval Office of the White House on October 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump says chief of staff John Kelly to leave at year’s end

By Zeke Miller and Jill Colvin

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley speaks at a General Assembly debate, December 6, 2018 (screen shot UN web tv)

Haley: After UN vote on Hamas failed, Trump suggested fund cuts as retribution

Israels eyeSight Technologies helps avoid accidents by tracking driver drowsiness . (Courtesy)

Israeli AI tech to help avert accidents in China by tracking drivers’ drowsiness

By Shoshanna Solomon

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