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What Matters Most On Monday, December 17, 2018

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Israeli, Lebanese troops argue after Israel places concertina wire near border between two countries on December 17, 2018. (Screen capture/Twitter)

With guns out, Israeli and Lebanese soldiers squabble at border

By Judah Ari Gross

In morning incident, Lebanon disputes Israel’s placement of concertina wire along Blue Line separating the two countries; UN troops on site keep peace

Russia reportedly tells Lebanon to keep border with Israel quiet

Two IDF soldiers injured in Golan Heights training accident

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Rivlin warns Hezbollah will lead to destruction of Lebanon

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Mosab Hassan Yousef addresses an American Friends of Magen David Adom event in Florida, December 2018. (Courtesy)

‘Just trying to save lives’: 5 surreal days in Florida with the ‘Son of Hamas’

By David Horovitz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with foreign diplomats, December 16, 2016 (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Netanyahu says Israeli agents ‘periodically visit’ Iran to monitor nuke program

PM tells diplomats: Intelligence operatives working to thwart Tehran’s nuclear ambitions ‘all over the world,’ and visit Islamic republic to ‘catch up’

Illustrative: Members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) march during the annual military parade, marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the devastating 1980-1988 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, in the capital Tehran, on September 22, 2018. (AFP/STR)

Iranian general fatally shoots himself in the head by accident

By AP

Inbal Zeev walks, on January 17, 2016, by her guest house advertised on Airbnb in the Nofei Prat settlement in the West Bank. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Live updates (closed)

Airbnb denies Israeli claims that it is reversing settlement ban

By Joshua Davidovich

Tourism website says it is developing tools needed to implement controversial policy, after Israeli government claims the firm had agreed to not move ahead with the decision

7:35 pm

Airbnb may have sent contradictory statements in Hebrew and English
7:28 pm

Rabbi takes credit for Airbnb 'reversal' denied by Airbnb
7:12 pm

Airbnb says reports it is not implementing settlement ban 'inaccurate'

Shin Bet head Nadav Argaman attends a Knesset Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on November 6, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Shin Bet chief said to warn cabinet that expulsion bill could harm security

Nadav Argaman reportedly tells ministers legislation allowing eviction of terrorists’ families may damage agency’s information-gathering, will raise tensions

Israel media reviewFight for the right (wing): 9 things to know for December 17

By Joshua Davidovich

Ministers back bill to expel terrorists’ families from their homes

By Raoul Wootliff

Bennett, 8 other ministers join protest against government response to terror

By Raoul Wootliff

Shira (left) and Amichai Ish-Ran, both injured on December 9, 2018 when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on Israelis near the settlement of Ofra, hold a press conference at the Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on December 16, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Mother who lost infant in attack: The blood of Israel pulses through my veins

Speaking from hospital wheelchairs in first press conference since Ofra Junction shooting, Shira and Amichai Ish-Ran say their baby managed to unite all of Israel

IDF finds gun used in deadly West Bank attack, but terrorist still at large

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel claims leaders of PA, Hamas ‘united’ in support for Palestinian terrorism

IDF partially demolishes West Bank home of Barkan terrorist

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz attends a farewell ceremony for outgoing Israeli chief of Police Roni Alsheich, in Beit Shemesh, on November 29, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Poll: Ex-IDF chief Gantz on the rise; union with Lapid could challenge Likud

By Raoul Wootliff

PM Netanyahu continues to hold significant lead over rivals in new survey, but a hypothetical new party running together with Yesh Atid could nip at his heels

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Israeli soldiers during his visit at the Northern Command base in Safed, December 11, 2018. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Most Israelis unhappy with PM’s performance as defense minister, survey finds

By Raoul Wootliff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with coalition head and Likud parliament member David Amsalem (R) and Minister of Communication Ayoub Kara at a Likud party faction meeting at the Knesset on May 7, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PM, coalition, fare poorly on support for transparency, study suggests

58-year-old Hamdan al-Arda of Araba, a village near Jenin (Screenshot: Twitter)

‘It’s impossible’: Relatives of Palestinian deny he attempted to run over troops

Hamdan al-Arda, 58, was shot dead when IDF said he attempted to ram his car into soldiers; ex-general says he does not fit the ‘usual’ profile of a Palestinian terrorist

Settlers move into outpost near Hebron, in wake of Palestinian attacks

Police arrest suspect in West Bank assault on Palestinian bus driver

Police yet to probe group that boasted of hanging posters calling to kill Abbas

Why is it always Nazis?

Stalin, the Khmer Rouge, the Hutus, Assad — with so many examples of extreme evil to choose from, make no mistake: this one is about Jews

What if liberals had a Trump of their own?

Imagine a president just as boorish — but one who could deliver gun control and favorable Supreme Court judges

To Gideon Levy: You are spreading lies about me

Look at how we ’settlers’ who have lost children to terror memorialize them, and rethink your claim of our so-called insatiable ’lust for revenge’

Every day the government delays the funding needed to combat violence against women endangers lives

Orit Tashuma, an Ethiopian-Israeli spoken word artist (Courtesy Tadela Art Photography)

The unheard Ethiopian voice is raised, in word and song

By Jessica Steinberg

Postmodern Jukebox vocalists, from left, Joey Cook, Brittnie Price, and MC Mario Jose at the show in Tel Aviv on December 16, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Concert review

Jazz coverband Postmodern Jukebox scats and taps into Tel Aviv at inaugural show

By Melanie Lidman

Students work on a specially crafted treatment mannequin at the $5 million medical simulation center that the European Union paid for at Nicolae Testemitanu Medical University. (Andrei Ichim/ Nicolae Testemitanu Medical University)

Nearly 1,600 Arab and Jewish Israeli med students flock to Moldova for school

Author Saul Bellow laughs during an interview in his office on April 17, 1997 at Boston University, where he teaches literature (AP Photo/Elise Amendola).

Interview

Why Saul Bellow didn’t want to be called a ‘Jewish-American’ writer

By Eric Cortellessa

More Headlines

Yair Netanyahu, son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Flash90)

Yair Netanyahu temporarily banned from Facebook after anti-Muslim posts

The neighborhood of Abu Tor, just south of Jerusalem's Old City, contains a hilltop that Christianity believes to be the Hill of Evil Counsel and one of the last remaining unspoiled ridges surrounding Jerusalem’s Old City. December 16 2009. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Developers withdraw plans for luxury homes on Jerusalem’s Hill of Evil Counsel

Senior Adviser to the President of the United States Jared Kushner, is pictured before being decorated with the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle by Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto in Buenos Aires, on November 30, 2018, in the sidelines of the G20 Leaders' Summit. (SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Erekat on final meeting with Kushner: He shouted, warned ‘Don’t threaten me’

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

A couple poses for a picture in front of the Grotto of the Nativity, the place where Jesus is said to have been born, inside the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on December 12, 2018. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Angelic restorationBethlehem church mosaics sparkle in time for Christmas

By Clothilde Mraffko

Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin speaks to the audience during the Republican Party's Lincoln Dinner on August 25, 2018, in Lexington, Kentucky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

Kentucky governor denies anti-Semitism in his attack on media’s Jewish donors

By JTA

Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, an IDF soldier who was killed in a stabbing attack in a West Bank supermarket on February 18, 2016. (Courtesy)

Palestinian who killed Israeli in West Bank supermarket gets 35 years in prison

By Jacob Magid and Michael Bachner

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein attends a committee meeting at the Knesset, July 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Knesset speaker: Australian recognition of only West Jerusalem is a setback

A view of the Jerusalem to Ben Gurion Airport electric train seen near Jerusalem, September 25, 2018. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Jerusalem fast train grinds to a halt due to new technical faults

By Stuart Winer and Sue Surkes

Yariv Bash, right, Yonatan Winetraub, middle, and Kfir Damari, the founders of SpaceIL, inserting a digital time capsule into the Beresheet spacecraft, December 17, 2018. (Yoav Weiss)

Israeli moon-bound craft to carry Holocaust survivor story, and best of humanity

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative image of the port of Eilat (Jorge Novominsky/Flash90)

Security officials said to determine Eilat assault by Jordanian was terrorism

Israeli security forces and firefighters gather near a bus set ablaze after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave, at the Israel-Gaza border near the kibbutz of Kfar Aza, on November 12, 2018. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Officers censured over Hamas missile attack on bus that injured soldier

By Judah Ari Gross

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)

Soldier critically hurt in Thursday shooting still fighting for his life

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