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What Matters Most On Friday, December 21, 2018

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The Israel Defense Forces blows up a tunnel reaching into Israel under the border from Lebanon, December 20, 2018 (IDF Spokesperson)

Video shows military blowing up Hezbollah cross-border tunnel

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Israeli troops operate next to the entrance point to attack tunnel from southern Lebanon into an apple orchard south of the town of Metulla in northern Israel that Israel says was dug by the Hezbollah terror group on December 19, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

On the rainy Lebanese border, IDF fights tunnels and drums up support

By Judah Ari Gross

Israeli troops operate next to the entrance point to a tunnel dug into an apple field south of the Israeli town of Metulla from Lebanon on December 19, 2018. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

IDF starts sealing Hezbollah attack tunnels, says process will ‘take time’

By Judah Ari Gross

A drone that was grounded using Rafael's 'Drone Dome' system. (Screen capture: YouTube)

UK army said to use Israeli-made system to end drone chaos at London airport

By ToI Staff and Agencies

After hours of futile efforts, UK daily says Rafael’s ‘Drone Dome’ was brought in to ground UAV that caused tens of thousands of passengers at Gatwick to miss their flights

Passengers wait at the North Terminal at London Gatwick Airport, south of London, on December 20, 2018 after all flights were grounded due to drones flying over the airfield. (Glyn KIRK / AFP)

London’s Gatwick Airport resumes flights after drone chaos

By Gregory Katz

An aerial view of the Stuttgart airport. (CC BY-SA 3.0 Wikimedia commons)

German police step up security at airports in southwest amid terror scare

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In this photo from April 28, 2017, US forces, accompanied by Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) fighters, drive their armored vehicles near the northern Syrian village of Darbasiyah, on the border with Turkey. (Delil Souleiman/AFP)

Pentagon scrambles to plan Syria exit amid outrage over retreat

By Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor

Officials say airstrikes may continue if other coalition partners stay, as lawmakers seek to reverse decision over concerns about abandoning Kurdish allies

Netanyahu talks with Trump about US Syria pullout, ‘Iranian aggression’

Israel media reviewLooking for new friends: 8 things to know for December 21

By Joshua Davidovich

Trump move to pull US troops from Syria opens way to turmoil

By Zeina Karam and Sarah El Deeb

US President Donald Trump smiles as Defense Secretary James Mattis (C) looks on during a meeting with senior military leaders at the White House on October 5, 2017.(AFP Photo/Mandel Ngan)

Jim Mattis: The ‘Mad Dog’ who for two years concealed his true thoughts on Trump

By AFP

Outgoing defense secretary’s resignation letter spelled out the obvious: The president’s world view was irreconcilable with his own

Trump decided on Syria pullout during phone call with Erdogan, ignored advisers

By Matthew Lee and SUSANNAH GEORGE

US defense chief Mattis stepping down after surprise Syria pullout

By AP

US announces ‘significant’ troop pullout from Afghanistan

By AFP

In this file photo taken on February 3, 2015, Yazidis search for missing relatives in the remains of people killed by Islamic State jihadists near the Iraqi village of Sinuni. (Safin Hamed/AFP)

Dozens of bodies found in Islamic State mass grave in Iraq

By AFP

In latest ghoulish discovery, authorities discover bodies of civilians, believed abducted and executed by jihadist group, at the bottom of a well in Kirkuk

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

Jordanian man indicted for attempted murder, terrorism in Eilat assault

2 Israelis were seriously injured by hammer-wielding Taher Halef, who had allegedly been seeking to carry out such an attack since 2008

Security forces find bullets at scene of suspected West Bank shooting attack

IDF shoots dead Palestinian, injures another as car runs West Bank roadblock

3 Israelis injured in terror attacks released from hospitals, others recovering

SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum (l) and PepsiCo’s CEO Ramon Laguarta at the SodaStream factory in Israel’s Negev Desert next to the city of Rahat on August 20, 2018. (Eliran Avital)

Israeli fizzy-water maker SodaStream to set up plant in Gaza, CEO says

By Shoshanna Solomon

Daniel Birnbaum tells business conference that creating jobs in the Palestinian enclave can pave the way to peace

Hamas-affiliated channel stays on air despite saying broadcasts would end

Author and cognitive neuroscientist Julia Mossbridge. (Courtesy)

Interview

Neuroscientist says her belief in precognition is more than just a hunch

By Jen Maidenberg

Nesanel Yoel Safran

Explaining Jews to my non-Jewish boss

Was he anti-Semitic or just ignorant? ’You’re all smart and resourceful, but why so liberal, when the conservatives are better for business?’

Unusual guests at my Shabbat table

In my house, ex-Hasidim connect to their roots, without the pressures of the ultra-Orthodoxy they reject

The elaborate funeral Joseph gave his father may shed light on the mysterious talmudic claim that Jacob never died

The future of the past

When Joseph’s brothers repent of the wrong they did him, they model how people can change themselves, with a new moral vision for mankind

Interview

How a fringe anti-racism play has upset London’s streets and exploded Twitter

After being called out as a Jew when he blundered into a pro-Palestinian protest, playwright Stephen Laughton’s attempts to define his own tumultuous identity in ‘One Jewish Boy’

Arsenal investigating fans for anti-Semitism during game against Tottenham

Jewish Labour MP Ivan Lewis quits over party’s anti-Semitism record

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Belgian soccer fans sing chant about burning Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A participant joins in a 'Fiddler' reading at the Royal Theater in West Los Angeles, part of the Laemmle chain. (Courtesy of Laemmle.com/via JTA)

A new Jewish Christmas tradition: Watching ‘Fiddler’ at your local movie theater

Bernard Madoff leaves Federal Court Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009 in New York. (AP/Frank Franklin II)

10 years after Madoff ripped off the Jewish world, a sort of happy ending

People pay their respects Thursday, November 1, 2018, at a makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life Synagogue to the 11 people killed October 27, 2018 while worshiping in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

The Pittsburgh massacre caught US Jews off guard. Can the community catch up?

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A police officer secures the crime scene where a person died and an other has been injured by gunshots in the historic center in Vienna, Austria, on December 21, 2018. (Georg Hochmuth/APA/AFP)

One killed, one wounded in Vienna shooting

By AFP

The scene of a fatal accident on Route 232, near the southern city of Sderot on December 21, 2018. (Fire and Rescue Services)

Father and son killed in head-on crash with minibus outside Sderot

Israel Police’s Human Resources Department head Deputy Commissioner Gila Gaziel at the Knesset on February 5, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Police HR chief under investigation for rigging public tenders

Members of an Orthodox Jewish community put a label from the 'International Rescue Committee for Jewish Families of the Lev Tahor Settlement' on the window of a bus in Guatemala city on September 25, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / JOHAN ORDONEZ)

Five leaders of ultra-Orthodox Lev Tahor sect arrested in Mexico

Ronaldo (left) of Brazil celebrates scoring the equalizing goal against Turkey with team mate Ronaldinho during the World Cup Group in Ulsan, South Korea on June 3, 2002. (Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)

Peace pitchBrazil soccer legends Ronaldo and Ronaldinho coming to Israel

By Marcus M. Gilban

In this April 23, 2009 file photo, Alice Walker stands in front of a picture of herself from 1974 as she tours her archives at Emory University, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Amis)

Novelist Alice Walker defends anti-Semitic bedside reading

By JTA

A Spanish gymnast performing in a striped outfit based on uniforms worn by prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp. (Royal Gymnastics Federation of Spain/Facebook via JTA)

Flip flop?Spanish rhythmic gymnasts twirl in Auschwitz outfits

By JTA

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu poses for a picture with his Albanian counterpart, Edi Rama, ahead of a meeting in Jerusalem in 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu canceled Albania visit due to possible plot to target him – reports

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A group of tourists and pilgrims visit the Church of the Nativity, the place where Jesus is said to have been born, in the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem, on December 12, 2018. (THOMAS COEX / AFP)

Mass challengeAt Jesus’s birthplace, an app is born… to ease crowds

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at a July 2015 cabinet meeting, when Mandelblit was serving as cabinet secretary. (Emil Salman/Pool)

Netanyahu’s lawyers call on AG to denounce leaks from corruption probes

By Michael Bachner

A bullet that hit a home in Nitzana and was apparently fired from Egypt, December 20, 2018. (Courtesy)

Bullets fired from Egypt hit home in Israeli youth village

By Michael Bachner

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the press at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 19, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Iran scoffs at Netanyahu’s claim Israeli agents operate in its country

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

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