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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 15, 2018

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison declares West Jerusalem to be Israel's capital, Sydney, December 15, 2018. (Screen grab via ABC News)

Australia recognizes West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

By Agencies and ToI Staff

PM Scott Morrison says embassy won’t move from Tel Aviv until peace is achieved, but country will establish a defense and trade office in Jerusalem

Saeb Erekat speaking at the Haaretz and New Israel Fund conference at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York on December 13, 2015. (Amir Levy/Flash90)

Erekat slams Australian recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Settlers install a pair of caravans on the hilltop where the illegal Amona outpost once stood on December 13, 2018. (Bezalel Smotrich/Twitter)

Amid Palestinian terror, settlers set up 2 caravans at razed Amona outpost

Right-wing activists say they purchased 40 dunams of land on hilltop in central West Bank from Palestinian landowners; Defense Ministry says move wasn’t coordinated as required

US envoy says settler rock throwing ‘not legitimate response’ to terror attacks

Trump picks budget head Mulvaney to be acting chief of staff

By Jonathan Lemire, Jill Colvin and Catherine Lucey

Jared Kushner: The quiet man at the White House table

By Sebastian Smith

A man raises a Palestinian flag on the ruins of a house belonging to a Palestinian charged with killing an Israeli soldier in the West Bank refugee camp of al-Am'ari, after the Israeli military blew it up on December 15, 2018. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Op-ed

Avi Issacharoff

As one Palestinian family’s history shows, home demolitions won’t stop attacks

Israel’s government won’t speak with the much vilified PA head Abbas, but holds indirect talks with Hamas even as it carries out terrorism in West Bank

IDF demolishes the home of a Palestinian accused of killing an Israeli soldier, Ramallah, December 15, 2018 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF demolishes home of Palestinian charged with killing soldier

Khaled Mashaal speaks in Doha, Qatar, August 28, 2014. (AP/Osama Faisal/File)

Mashaal calls for guerrilla warfare to ‘liberate West Bank’ and ‘all Palestine’

Former Hamas chief says ‘resistance’ is ‘pinnacle of life’ and defines Palestinians: ‘I resist, therefore I am’

Palestinian shot after crossing permitted fishing zone near Gaza

EU court rejects Hamas appeal over terror listing

By Agencies and ToI Staff

10,000 Palestinians protest on Gaza border, 16 said wounded

Rabbi Eliyahu Merav speaks during funeral of his stepson Yosef Cohen on Demcember 14, 2018. Two soldiers, Yosef Cohen and Yuval Mor Yosef, were killed in a shooting terror attack at the entrance to the Israeli settlement of Givat Assaf, in the West Bank, the day before. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Analysis

A soldier’s death brings grief to Israeli army’s fervently religious battalion

Ultra-Orthodox soldiers, many who serve in the Netzah Yehuda battalion, often experience challenges of ostracism from their families and social pressure not to join the IDF

Israeli soldiers, medical officials and police inspect the scene of a terrorist shooting attack near Givat Assaf, in the central West Bank, on December 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Condition of woman seriously injured in West Bank shooting improves

Palestinian security forces beat a Hamas supporter as they try to disperse a rally marking the 31st anniversary of the founding of the terror group in Hebron on December 14, 2018. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

Abbas’s security forces use batons to ‘brutally beat’ Hamas protesters in Hebron

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Palestinian Authority forces also use stun grenades to suppress West Bank ‘Day of Rage’ protest marking 31st anniversary of founding of Gaza-based terrorist group

A Palestinian uses a slingshot to hurl stones amid smoke during clashes with Israeli troops in Ramallah on December 14, 2018. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Palestinian said killed by Israeli fire during West Bank protests

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is seen in Tel Aviv on November 26, 2017. (Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu says he’d ‘prefer’ if ‘all the Muslims leave’ Israel

PM’s son declares there will be no peace until one of the land’s two major religions departs, and he rather it wasn’t the Jews

Poet and playwright Roie Ravitzky, creator of Jerusalem's "Street Talk" art series, in front of a mural on Gaza street in Jerusalem. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

On Jerusalem’s streets, an ancient wanderer inspires a modern day ode to home

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

IDF Maj. Gen. (ret.) Israel Ziv speaks to the Kan public broadcaster in March 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

US sanctions ex-Israeli general for $150 million in arms sales to South Sudan

Treasury Department says IDF Maj. Gen. (ret.) Israel Ziv supported both government and opposition group, planned attacks by mercenaries to destabilize situation

In this October 24, 2018 photo released by the Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman addresses the Future Investment Initiative conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (Saudi Press Agency via AP, File)

Report: MBS mulling public Netanyahu meeting to counter Khashoggi fallout

Unnamed sources tell Middle East Eye website Saudi task force is considering ‘major stunt’ to help rehabilitate crown prince’s international image

On the Future of the Holocaust Novel

What happens when there are no survivors left and the Shoah is just, in the creative sense, another historical setting? (On ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ /Jewish Book Council)

Does my father love me? (Vayigash 5779)

Why didn’t Joseph try to contact his father from Egypt? He thought Jacob had washed his hands of him

US comedian Leah Forster. (Courtesy of Forster via JTA)

Analysis

Josefin Dolsten

A lesbian comedian did not want to become famous by tussling with rabbis

‘I never talked about my sexuality publicly,’ says Leah Forster, who has had two shows at kosher restaurants canceled after pressure from supervising rabbinical agencies

Comedian Leah Forster (Courtesy of Forster)

NY kosher agency says its note acknowledging targeting lesbian comic is forgery

By Josefin Dolsten

Visitors at the "Let There Be Laughter – Jewish Humor Around the World" exhibit at the Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot on August 13, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Tribal mischiefFrom ‘Borscht Belt’ to Borat, museum celebrates Jewish comedy

More Headlines

Roy Moore is interviewed by Sacha Baron-Cohen on 'Who is America.' (YouTube screenshot)

Moore legal troublesMoore: Baron Cohen’s fake ‘Yerushalayim TV’ voids deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks during a naturalization ceremony at the rotunda of the National Archives in Washington, DC, Dec. 14, 2018 (Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg swears in new immigrants, wows them with her story

Illustrative: A man pours a glass of red wine at the annual International Wine and Spirits Exhibition 'Vinitaly,' in Verona, northern Italy, on April 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Push in Austria to ‘de-Nazify’ popular local wine

By AFP

Illustrative: Construction workers build the frame of a World War II-era Quonset hut in front of the Jewish Community Center in Larnaca, Cyprus. (Larry Luxner/Times of Israel)

Cyprus bills Jewish community $6,000 for Hanukkah events’ security costs

By JTA

Michael Cohen, former lawyer to President Donald Trump, leaves his apartment building on New York's Park Avenue, Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. In the latest filings Friday, prosecutors will weigh in on whether Cohen deserves prison time and, if so, how much. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Big House DeliMichael Cohen could get matzah ball soup and rugelach in prison

By Gabe Friedman

Ukrainian WWII figure Stepan Bandera, the leader of the Ukrainian nationalist and independence movement who in the 1940s encouraged members to 'destroy' Jews. (Wikimedia)

Israeli ambassador ‘shocked’ at Ukraine’s honoring of Nazi collaborator

By JTA

FILE: Police officers in the streets of Jaffa, October 6, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

One dead, one moderately injured in Jaffa shooting

'Yellow vest' protests reach Israel with hundreds marching against the rising cost of living in central Tel Aviv on December 14, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

‘Yellow vest’ protests reach Israel as hundreds demonstrate in Tel Aviv

By Michael Bachner

French riot police take position in front of "yellow vest" protesters on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, on December 15, 2018. (Valery Hache/AFP)

Heavy police presence in Paris ahead of ‘yellow vest’ protests

By Raphael Satter

In this file photo taken on October 2, 2011, The Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol leads a discussion at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. (CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

Weekly Standard, anti-Trump conservative journal, shuts down

Conservative author Ann Coulter addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington on Saturday Feb. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Ann Coulter says Jews, like rest of Democratic base, ‘hate white men’

FILE - Spanish policemen walk in front of a Madrid court, on August 22, 2017, before the arrival of four men suspected of involvement in the terror cell that carried out twin attacks in Spain. (AFP Photo/Gabriel Bouys)

Spanish police arrest three behind anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi website

By AFP

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