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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 19, 2018

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement at the Knesset in Jerusalem, ahead of the UN Security Council discussion on Hezbollah's tunnels into Israel, on December 19, 2018. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Ahead of UN discussion, Netanyahu calls Hezbollah tunnel-digging ‘act of war’

By Raphael Ahren

PM says Lebanese army has been a ‘total failure,’ failing to confront Shiite terror group; urges Putin not to defend Hezbollah at Security Council

Netanyahu: Hezbollah shuttered Beirut missile sites after my UN speech

US registers ‘deep concerns’ over Hezbollah’s growing sway in Lebanon

UN Security Council to convene on Hezbollah attack tunnels, Israeli envoy says

An Israeli army officer looks at a destroyed Palestinian Islamic Jihad tunnel, leading from Gaza into Israel, near the southern Israeli kibbutz of Kissufim, January 2018. (Jack Guez/AFP/POOL)

IDF checking Sderot residents’ reports of digging sounds from ground

Army says it is looking into locals’ concerns over new tunnels from Gaza, but no evidence found so far

An Israeli flag is seen placed on Mount Bental in the Golan Heights on May 10, 2018.( AFP PHOTO / JALAA MAREY)

GOP senators pitch resolution to recognize Israeli sovereignty of Golan Heights

By Eric Cortellessa

A picture taken from the southern Lebanese village of Meiss al-Jabal on December 16, 2018, shows Israeli soldiers watching as United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) soldiers speak with Lebanese soldiers in front of a Hezbollah flag. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)

Israel media reviewBoring into Lebanon: 10 things to know for December 19

By Joshua Davidovich

US Senator Bernie Sanders responds to a question during a town hall meeting in Jackson, Mississippi, April 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Live updates (closed)

Sanders, Feinstein oppose anti-BDS bill, say it harms free speech

In letter to US Senate leaders, Democrats say legislation must not be included as part of spending bill

7:36 pm

Sanders, Feinstein seek to divorce anti-BDS legislation from spending bill
7:07 pm

Report: Palestinian to be jailed for 18 years over murder of British student
6:30 pm

Hamas-linked Al-Aqsa to go off air due to financial woes

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, second from left, waves with released Palestinian prisoners coming from Israeli jails during celebrations at Abbas's headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, October 30, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Think tank: Abbas allocates $330 million to pay terrorists, ‘martyrs,’ inmates

JCPA report details 2018 funds set aside in PA budget for recipients including Palestinians who have killed Israelis, and their families

UN announces cuts in food aid to Gaza, West Bank

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Poll shows Hamas leader would defeat Abbas to win Palestinian elections

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israel said to strongly protest Russian invite to Hamas leader

By ToI Staff and AP

A graduation ceremony for Israeli soldiers who completed the IAF Flight Course, at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev desert, December 27, 2017 ( Flash90)

Lt. ‘Yod’ to become first Ethiopian-Israeli air force pilot

By Judah Ari Gross

Airman to serve as fighter jet navigator upon completing grueling pilots course later this week

Illustrative: A cancer patient and a perfusion drip. (CIPhotos, iStock by Getty Images)

New drug may lead to cure for aggressive brain cancer, Israeli researchers say

By Shoshanna Solomon

10% of animals treated with SIXAC gained ‘extended life’ and the drug ‘actually cured them of the disease,’ Sheba Medical Center reports

Adam Thomas and Claudia Patatas, accused neo-Nazis living in the UK who named their baby after Hitler. (West Midlands Police via BBC)

UK court jails neo-Nazi couple who named child after Hitler

By AFP and ToI Staff

Adam Thomas and Claudia Patatas sentenced to 6.5 and 5 years in prison, respectively, for membership in group banned under anti-terror laws

Alice Walker at the “The Color Purple” Broadway opening night at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in New York City, December 10, 2015. (Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images/via JTA)

Alice Walker endorses bizarre anti-Semitic tract in NY Times interview

By JTA

In this February 13, 2018 photo, Chelsea FC chairman Bruce Buck speaks during the Qatar National Sports Day 2018 event at Stamford Bridge Stadium, in London. (AP Photo/Tim Ireland, File)

After racism cases, Chelsea chairman says ‘unpleasant’ minority shaming club

By AFP and ToI Staff

File - Then-US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley addresses the UNSC during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Ukraine at the United Nations in New York, November 26, 2018 (Don Emmert/AFP)

Haley: Trump peace plan more thoughtful, creative, specific than past efforts

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Upcoming initiative ‘takes advantage of new technology,’ embraces ‘previously unthinkable’ realities, says outgoing UN envoy

Omani Minister for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi center, visiting the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, February 15, 2018. (Ahmad GHARABLI/AFP)

Oman’s foreign minister in US to seek role in Mideast peace process – report

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the Future Investment Initiative conference, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on October 23, 2018. (AP/Amr Nabil)

Israeli-Saudi ties reportedly set back by fallout from Khashoggi killing

Illustrative: French police officers stand outside a Hyper Cacher supermarket adjacent to the Promo & Destock store, a French kosher grocery store in Creteil, south of Paris, that was destroyed in an arson attack on January 9, 2018. (AFP Photo/Alain Jocard)

Paris woman’s nose broken in alleged anti-Semitic assault

By Cnaan Liphshiz

20-year-old says two youths beat her, stole her phone and asked her: ‘Are you afraid, you Jewess?’

Financial Times names George Soros ‘person of the year’

Washington state Women’s March chapter shuts over anti-Semitism concerns

By ToI Staff and JTA

Rights groups call for Facebook board overhaul for ‘weaponizing anti-Semitism’

By Glenn Chapman

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler

Cautious optimism for the established media

Trust in Israeli media is on the rise, and that’s a valuable lifeline to those whose job it is to keep the public informed

Nancy Strichman

To the Arava Desert or bust

I think a tiyul should be a nice, long walk that ends with a cup of coffee, so how did I end up hiking a perilous, unmarked cliff-walk?

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the San Francisco Symphony performing Mahler's Symphony No. 5 on September 3, 2010, in Davies Symphony Hall. (Bill Swerbenski/ courtesy SFS)

San Francisco Symphony revives homage to Anne Frank, dedicates it to Pittsburgh

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pays his respects to Rona Ramon, at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation in Tel Aviv, December 19, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israelis pay respects to Rona Ramon, hailed by Netanyahu as ‘hero of the spirit’

By Melanie Lidman

Students inspired by Ramon Foundation projects pay tribute to a woman who encouraged them to ‘look farther afield to create a better society’

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File: A Palestinian inspects the family house of Omar Al-Abed after it was demolished by Israeli authorities in the West Bank village of Kobar, near Ramallah, Aug. 16, 2017. Al-Abed stabbed to death three Jewish residents of a nearby settlement in July 2017. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

MKs give initial okay to evicting terror suspects’ families from their homes

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative: A Palestinian youth in Jerusalem displays his produce during Ramadan, July 24, 2012. (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Minister said to freeze Palestinian produce imports, defying security warning

The band members of UK Pink Floyd Experience, which performed in Israel in January 2019, after originally canceling following intense pressure from BDS activist Roger Waters (Courtesy EGOEast Productions)

Us and themDefying Roger Waters, Pink Floyd tribute band reinstates Israel tour

By Jessica Steinberg

Jordanian King Abdullah and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meeting in Amman on December 18, 2018. (Credit: Wafa)

Hosting Abbas, Jordan king raps Israeli response to uptick in violence

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) visits Givat Assaf Junction with Beit El Local Council chairman Shai Alon where two IDF soldiers were killed in a terror attack, on December 18, 2018. (Beit El Local Council)

PM visits bus stop where soldiers were killed, pledges terrorists will be caught

Former Israel Police Maj. Gen. Menashe Arviv at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on December 19, 2018. (Flash90)

Former top police officer gets community service for failing to report bribe

President Reuven Rivlin, left, visits the family of soldier Yovel Mor Yosef, killed in a terror attack at the Givat Assad Junction in the West Bank, in Ashkelon, December 18, 2018 (Haim Zach/GPO)

Rivlin visits homes of soldiers slain in Givat Assaf, praises their dedication

This picture taken on September 11, 2018, shows a general view of a meeting of the Arab League foreign ministers at the organization's headquarters in the Egyptian capital Cairo. (AFP Photo/Mohamed El-Shahed)

Arab League urges Australia, Brazil to change stance on Jerusalem

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hadera Mayor Zvi Gendelman arrives for extension of his remand at the Magistrate's Court in Rishon Letzion, June 4, 2018 (Flash90)

Police say Hadera mayor should stand trial for corruption

The Dermophis donaldtrumpi (l) shown with Donald Trump's hair in a relase from the company that bought the rights to name the amphibian. (Envirobuild)

They dug deepBlind amphibian that buries head in sand named after Trump

Director Woody Allen poses for photographers during a photo call for the film Cafe Society, at the 69th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, May 11, 2016. (AP/Thibault Camus)

Former teen model says she had eight-year relationship with Woody Allen

Mellanox headquarters in Yokne'am (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Microsoft mulls acquisition of Israeli chipmaker Mellanox – report

By Shoshanna Solomon

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