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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 16, 2018

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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)

IDF finds fourth Hezbollah attack tunnel dug into Israel from Lebanon

By Judah Ari Gross

Army says passage has been boobytrapped to ensure it can’t be used by terror group, informs local authorities of its location but refuses to publicly specify

Analysis

How Israel’s calls for countries to move their embassies has boomeranged

Had Netanyahu known that besides recognizing West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Australia would back Palestinian demands, he probably would have said, ‘No thanks, mate’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes the hand of a student during a visit the Moriah War Memorial College in Sydney, February 23, 2017. (Dean Lewins/Pool via AP)

Israel said ‘disappointed’ by Australia’s recognition of West Jerusalem only

Bahrain defends Australia’s recognition of West Jerusalem as Israeli capital

Attorney general announces new settlement legalization process

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

In this Nov. 18, 2018, file photo, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during the APEC 2018 meetings in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. (AP/Aaron Favila)

Australia stands by Jerusalem decision after backlash

By AFP

Malaysia calls recognition of West Jerusalem as capital a ‘humiliation,’ but PM Scott Morrison cites Indonesia merely ‘noting’ move as proof of ‘measured’ international response

Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit attends the Arab Foreign Minister's meeting in Cairo on July 27, 2017. (AFP Photo/Khaled Desouki)

Arab League chief: Australia must approve East Jerusalem as Palestinian capital

A Palestinian wears a flag with Koranic inscriptions as he rides his bicycle in front of burning tires near the Hawara checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Nablus on December 14, 2018. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP)

Israel media reviewOne cell, one state, no solution: 6 things to know for December 16

By Joshua Davidovich

Analysis

Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli test-tube steak smells real, feels real… and may even be kosher

Startup Aleph Farms Ltd. reproduces cells, creating first lab-made steak; it will take a few years until it makes its way to our plates

An illustration of the steak prototype produced in an Aleph Farms Ltd. lab out of cow cells (Courtesy)

Students speak with prospective employers at IDC job fair in April 2017 (Courtesy Ofer Amram)

15,000 tech worker shortfall pushing firms to seek talent offshore

By Shoshanna Solomon

The NoTraffic team (Courtesy)

Israeli startup NoTraffic raises $3.2m for congestion management system

By AP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 16, 2018. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)

Live updates (Closed)

Netanyahu says ‘normalization’ with Arab world won’t wait for Palestinians

By Michael Bachner

Prime minister tells Israeli envoys that ties are opening up despite lack of progress in reaching peace deal

12:12 pm

Railways CEO to step down over Jerusalem line disruptions -- reports
7:37 pm

Fifth victim of Strasbourg attack dies
7:30 pm

Netanyahu: I won't wait for the Palestinians to make peace with Arab world

An Israeli car hit by a rock during an attack near Eli in the West Bank, December 16, 2018 (Courtesy Rescuers Without Borders)

Israeli woman hurt when her car is stoned north of Ramallah

24-year-old taken to Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem with wounds to her face caused by flying glass after attack on Route 60, north of Eli

Palestinian assailant who seriously wounded soldier turns himself in

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Hamas displays apparent truck-mounted rockets at parade to mark its founding

Report: IDF undercover troops arrest relative of Ofra shooter

Illustrative. Religious Jewish soldiers attend a swearing-in ceremony on May 26, 2012. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Ultra-Orthodox battalion soldiers suspended after clashing with border guards

By Judah Ari Gross

2 servicemen from Netzah Yehuda scrap with cops while trying to free their friends, who were arrested for throwing rocks at Palestinian homes

IDF again says it’s sealing apartment of terrorist who killed Ari Fuld

By Judah Ari Gross

Condition of soldier wounded in Beit El attack improves from serious to moderate

Hundreds at TA rally demand tougher action against terrorists and their families

It’s still hard to be a Jewish kid at Christmas

After Hanukkah, how much can you do when you’re bombarded by Christmas songs, imagery, ads, and Netflix options?

Want to help fight sexual assault? Come shop

More victims than ever before are seeking help from the Tel Aviv Sexual Assault Crisis Center, we need your help

Private First Class Zachary Zeff is one of the only Jewish Marines. (Courtesy Rebecca Zeff)

Hard corps

New Jewish Marine was never prouder than standing before Jerusalem’s US embassy

By Cathryn J. Prince

In this November 6, 2008 photo, Rashida Tlaib, a Democrat, is photographed outside the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, Michigan. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)

It's a wrap

Rashida Tlaib to be sworn in to US Congress in Palestinian gown

By Stuart Winer and JTA

Democratic representative, whose parents are from a West Bank village, gives ‘sneak peek’ of traditional hand-woven garb she’ll don at Washington ceremony next month

Exceptionally preserved 4,400-year-old tomb uncovered in Egypt

By Agencies and ToI Staff

‘One-of-a-kind’ site containing colorful scenes of official named Wahtye and his family discovered at pyramid complex south of Cairo, with more finds expected

More Headlines

Chelsea English Premier League soccer fans from the "headhunters," an extremist fan group known for hooliganism, in Budapest on December 13, 2018, holding a banner with a depiction of the SS-Totenkopf, a skull and bones graphic used by the Nazis. (Twitter screen capture)

Chelsea fans hoist banner with Nazi insignia in Budapest

By ToI Staff and AFP

Dave Franco at the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, January 21, 2018. Franco plays a Jewish landlord in 'If Beale Street Could Talk.' (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images/via JTA)

One of the strongest scenes in ‘Beale Street’ features a kippah-clad Dave Franco

By Stephen Silver

Police at the scene of a shooting in Lod, outside police's national fraud unit (Hadashot TV news screenshot)

Three people killed in two shootings in central city of Lod

Abdelkrim Chekatt speaking to France 2 television in an interview that aired December 15, 2018. (screen capture: France 2)

Father of Strasbourg shooter says son supported Islamic State

By AP

Illustrative image of a road accident near Tel Arad, September 18 2011. (Dudu Greenspan/FLASh90)

Woman dies, 4 hurt as car tumbles into roadside ditch

By Stuart Winer

Israeli judoka Baruch Shmailov (far left), after receiving the silver medal at the Masters tournament in Guangzhou, China, December 15, 2018 (Israel Judo Association)

Israeli judoka wins silver medal at Masters tournament in China

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses Muslim parliamentarians during a meeting on Jerusalem in Istanbul, December 14, 2018 (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

Erdogan again likens Israel to Nazi Germany, says it commits ‘cultural genocide’

By Raphael Ahren

Sarah Rose Summers of the United States competes in the swimsuit competition during the 2018 Miss Universe pageant in Bangkok on December 13, 2018. (Lillian SUWANRUMPHA/AFP)

Not prettyMiss USA sorry for mocking Miss Universe contenders’ English

Commuters at the newly built Yitzhak Navon train station in Jerusalem, September 25, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Jerusalem fast train briefly reduces services due to faulty locomotive

By Stuart Winer and Sue Surkes

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

IDF rushes to complete measles vaccinations after soldier contracts virus

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