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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 12, 2018

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French police officers stand guard near the scene of a shooting in Strasbourg, eastern France, December 11, 2018. (Abdesslam MIRDASS/AFP)

Strasbourg gunman cried ‘Allahu Akbar’ during fatal attack, says prosecutor

French police officers near the scene of a shooting at a Christmas market on December 11, 2018, in Strasbourg, eastern France. (Abdesslam Mirdass/AFP)

Citing France attack, Trump demands funding for border wall

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Two members of the French police unit BRI (Research and Intervention Brigade - Brigades de recherche et d'intervention) walk on the Pont de l'Europe, crossing the border with Germany over the river Rhine in Strasbourg, December 12, 2018. (Frederick FLORIN/AFP)

5 detained in Christmas market attack in France

The interior courtyard of the Migdal Tzedek fortress, near Rosh Haayin, on December 11, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

After 30 years, once-crumbling Crusader fortress set to open again

By Melanie Lidman

Huge hilltop site near Rosh Haayin, first mentioned by Josephus, was largely built before 12th century; remains from First Temple Period were found under Crusader floor

Italian then-deputy premier Matteo Salvini, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, December 12, 2018. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Hosting Italy’s deputy PM, Netanyahu urges stronger action against Hezbollah

By Raphael Ahren

Salvini doubles down on dubbing Lebanese group ‘terrorists,’ despite having been criticized at home for use of the term

Far-right Italian minister slams EU for ‘unbalanced’ stance on Israel

By Raphael Ahren

US denied Israeli request to slap sanctions on Lebanon, official reportedly says

PM warns Hezbollah of ‘unimaginable blows’ if anti-tunnel operation attacked

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Yizhar Hess, Executive Director and CEO of the Conservative Judaism movement in Israel seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, August 31, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Conservative Movement leader gets death threats at Western Wall

Yizhar Hess files complaint with police after ultra-Orthodox men tell him he should be murdered for supporting Women of the Wall

Protesters march in support of migrants from Central America in San Diego, California (video screenshot)

Rabbi arrested at California interfaith border protest for migrants

By JTA

Amichai (left) and Shira Ish-Ran, wounded in a December 9, 2018, terrorist attack outside Ofra in the West Bank, are seen at their wedding (Courtesy of the family)

Condition of mother gunned down in terror attack improves, baby still critical

Hospital says Shira Ish-Ran no longer on respirator or sedated, communicating with those around her; injured husband doing well

Amichai (left) and Shira Ish-Ran, wounded in a December 9, 2018, terrorist attack outside Ofra in the West Bank, are seen at their wedding (Courtesy of the family)

Seriously wounded victim of Ofra terror attack reunited with husband

By JTA and ToI Staff

Rick Rosenthal is a professional, year-round Santa who also attends Congregation Young Israel of Toco Hills in Atlanta. (Courtesy of Rosenthal/ via JTA)

Hoy hoy hoy

This Santa Claus is an Orthodox Jew

Rick Rosenthal — a full-time, professional St. Nick — sees no contradiction between his beliefs and serving as a spiritual figure who provides comfort to young and old

Illustrative: A display in the Big Fashion Mall complex in Ashdod, Israel, includes a menorah and a Christmas tree. (Courtesy)

Ultra-Orthodox deputy mayor calls for removing Christmas tree from Ashdod mall

By ToI Staff and JTA

Sara Lee and Bimbo bread products are displayed together in a Chicago store in 2010. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

A lot of the bread in the US will no longer be kosher

An Israeli soldier walks during clashes with Palestinian protesters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 11, 2018. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

IDF forces raid family home of Palestinian suspect in Ofra attack — reports

By Tamar Pileggi

Mayor of Kobar village says Israeli troops operating in hometown of Salih Barghouti, arrested earlier in shootout north of Ramallah

8:33 pm

Police say missing kids from Beitar Illit found
8:28 pm

Russian envoy knocks UN policy on Iran
8:22 pm

Hundreds gather for funeral of infant born after mother shot in terror attack

An illustration of how an Alpha particle can cause irreparable breaks in the DNA of cancer cells; Alpha Tau Medical says it has developed a technology in which these alpha particles can live long enough to destroy the cells (Courtesy)

Anti-tumor DaRT could point the way to new arsenal in battle against cancer

By Federico Maccioni

Tel Aviv-based startup Alpha Tau Medical says its can destroy solid tumors by injecting them with radioactive material in a simple needle procedure

Members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, hold a banner bearing a portrait of one of their top scientists, Mohamed Zoari, who was killed in Tunisia on December 15, 2018, during a ceremony in his memory on December 18, 2016, in Gaza City. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams)

Tunisia arrests two Bosnians in 2016 killing of Hamas drone expert

Gaza-based terror group has blamed Israel’s Mossad for the assassination of Mohammed al-Zoari, one of its top scientists

A Palestinian demonstrator uses a slingshot to throw stones towards Israeli forces during a protest on November 16, 2018, on the eastern outskirts of Gaza City, near the border with Israel. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Gazan child succumbs to shrapnel wounds from IDF bullet, Hamas official says

Israeli soldiers are seen walking along a Tulkarem street moments before the shooting of a 22-year-old Palestinian on December 4, 2018 (B'Tselem video screenshot)

Rights group says new video shows no rioting before troops killed Palestinian

The new (literary) engagement with Israel

Is American Jewry estranged from Israel? Recent novels by Krauss, Safran Foer, and Englander prove just the opposite

If you’re happy and you know it, you must be a religious Zionist

It’s time for the most optimistic group in Israeli society to stop acting as if the courts are persecuting them

A picture shows the empty entrance and a sign on the door of Paraguay's closed embassy in Jerusalem on September 6, 2018. (AFP / THOMAS COEX)

Israel media review

If Israel builds it, will they come? 8 things to know for December 12

By Joshua Davidovich

A minister is planning a diplomatic quarter in Jerusalem, but it’s not clear who will populate it; and a poll and maps raise worries about peace prospects and Iran

Dr. Tzvika Tzuk, Israel Nature and Parks Authority's director of the department of archaeology, holds a tiny bronze bull. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

At Zippori pool where Judah Hanasi may have bathed, a rare tiny pagan bull found

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The first 'Oneg Shabbat' archive cache is recovered from the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, September 1946. (public domain)

Can we handle the uncomfortable truths unearthed in WWII’s Oneg Shabbat archive?

By Matt Lebovic

Jared Kushner speaks with Sean Hannity on Fox News, Dec. 10, 2018. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Analysis

3 takeaways from Jared Kushner’s interview with Fox news on Middle East peace

US president’s son-in-law and adviser sounded less hopeful than he may have intended about the prospect of a deal between Israel and the Palestinians

A Palestinian man walks past a graffiti depicting US President Donald Trump on the Israeli security barrier in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on August 4, 2017. (AFP/Musa Al Shaer)

Trump invokes ‘Israel’s wall’ in tense exchange over border security

By JTA and ToI Staff

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A woman scuffles with police trying to disperse demonstrators from the middle of the street during a rally against domestic violence inTel Aviv on December 12, 2018. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)

Women protest in major cities against violence; two arrested in Tel Aviv

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Illustrative photo of an Israel Police vehicle, August 4, 2017. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Woman slain in Acre amid national outrage over domestic violence

The word "revenge" spray-painted on the wall of a home in the northern Arab Israeli town of Yafia on October 26, 2018. (Israel Police)

Police arrest four Jewish teens for ‘price tag’ attack in northern Israel

A Palestinian woman walks next to posters showing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas with a text reading "eliminate the sponsers of murder" at the Hawara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus on December 11, 2018. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Far-right group plasters West Bank with posters urging Abbas’s assassination

Jeff Tweedy performing in Byron Bay, Australia, March 24, 2016. (Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images)

The whole loveWilco singer Jeff Tweedy tells the story of his conversion to Judaism

By JTA

An illustrative photo of people fishing legally at Achziv Beach in northern Israel, on July 3, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Anglers reeling as authorities try to keep illegal fishing at bay

By Melanie Lidman

Comedian Leah Forster (Facebook)

Rabbis force Brooklyn kosher eateries to blackball lesbian Jewish entertainer

By JTA

Evelyn Berezin, who brought first word processor to market, died at 93 (Screenshot/YouTube)

Evelyn Berezin, who brought first word processor to market, dies at 93

By JTA

Illustrative: Students on orientation at Purchase College, NY, in 2013 (CC BY-SA Kelly Campbell/Wikimedia Commons)

Nazi-themed posters hung at New York college campus

By JTA

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

Defense Ministry ombudsman says IDF ground forces unprepared for war

AnalysisWhy the arrest of a Chinese tech mogul matters for Iran — and Israel

Then-president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Joseph Kabila sits in a garden at his personal ranch on December 10, 2018 in Kinshasa. (John WESSELS / AFP)

Israeli firm said using US lobbyists to help Congo regime skirt new sanctions

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