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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 22, 2018

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US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis at a press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (unseen) at the latter's office in Jerusalem on April 21, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Departing Mattis said to cancel Israel trip, as Israel feels ‘betrayed’ on Syria

US Secretary of Defense James Mattis speaks during a change of command ceremony at the US Southern Command headquarters on November 26, 2018, in Doral, Florida. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Trump’s Syria pullout was last straw for Mattis; others may quit Pentagon

By Zeke Miller and Lolita C. Baldor

Part of US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' resignation letter to President Donald Trump is photographed in Washington, on December 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Treat allies with respect: Full text of James Mattis resignation letter to Trump

By AP

Analysis

A defense secretary leaves and a Republican argument on the Mideast blows open

James Mattis’s resignation goes to the heart of two key issues for Jewish political players: how best to contain Iran, and how robust a role the US should play in the region

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis speaks during the 2018 POW/MIA National Recognition Day Ceremony at the Pentagon in Washington, September 21, 2018. (Susan Walsh/AP)

AnalysisUS pullout strengthens Iran ‘land bridge’ to the Mediterranean

By Jean-Marc Mojon

PM said to have rejected Russian promise to boot Iran from Syria for US pullout

Iran says US troops’ presence in Syria is ‘a primary source of regional tension’

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

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launches drill near Strait of Hormuz

Paramilitary force answerable to Supreme Leader Khamenei begins annual combat helicopter and drone exercise day after US Navy carrier enters Persian Gulf

File: The USS Stennis on its way to the Persian Gulf in 2012. (Department of Defense/Randi R. Brown, US Navy)

Iranian ships fire rockets as US aircraft carrier enters Persian Gulf

By Jon Gambrell

President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, March 13, 2017. From left are Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, Small Business Administration Administrator Linda McMahon, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Vice President Mike Pence, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and Defense Secretary James Mattis. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

AnalysisAs advisers leave, Trump’s guardrails come off

By Julie Pace and Zeke Miller

(Photo illustration by Grace Yagel)

Let's kvell a little

The 50 best Jewish pop culture moments of 2018

By Emily Burack

Artist Yoel Tordgman, a French-born artist whose life in Safed infuses his work, like many others who live in the Galilean city (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

A quest for Safed’s charms finds modern delights infused with mysticism

By Jessica Steinberg

A migrant crosses the US-Mexico border fence before turning himself in to US Border Patrol in Tijuana, Mexico, on December 16, 2018. (Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP)

Analysis

Is the anti-boycott bill dead or alive? It could come down to Trump’s wall

Legislation’s chance of passing may be tied to factors that ostensibly have nothing to do with Israel, such as the budget for president’s Mexican border plans

The Capitol is seen at day's end as the Senate works on a House-passed bill that would pay for President Donald Trump's border wall and avert a partial government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, December 21, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

US government partially shuts down in fight over Trump’s Mexican border wall

By LISA MASCARO, Matthew Daly and Zeke Miller

President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for criminal justice reform legislation in the Oval Office of the White House, December 21, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump says he hopes government shutdown ‘will not last long’

By AFP

This currently boarded-up, abandoned building in Prizren will soon house Kosovo’s only synagogue and Jewish museum. (Larry Luxner/ Times of Israel)

Balkan Jews

With US help, Muslim-majority Kosovo plans its first synagogue and Jewish museum

By Larry Luxner

A wide swath of Jews marched in unison on Saturday, January 21 in the Women's March in Washington, DC. (Ron Sachs/National Council of Jewish Women)

Analysis

Josefin Dolsten

Anti-Semitism allegations are splitting the Women’s March

As many groups distance themselves from national leadership over co-chairs’ ties to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, some worry divide could undercut the movement

British Labour MP Chris Williamson. (Screenshot: YouTube)

UK Labour MP sorry for backing Israeli-born musician accused of anti-Semitism

A traveler checks his smartphone inside Orly airport, south of Paris March, 18, 2017. AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

Paris duty free store sorry for calling Tel Aviv airport ‘occupied Palestine’

By JTA

Joshua Hammerman

How a Jew should respond to ’Merry Christmas’

Here’s a one-word answer that is far better than saying ’I’m sorry, I don’t observe Christmas’

A Prayer for My Children — and for Sheikh Sayakh

The leader of the Israeli Bedouin village of Al-Araqib is going to jail on Tuesday for ’trespassing’ on his own land

Relatives of 16 year-old Palestinian Mohammed Jahjouh, who was said to have been shot and killed by Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, mourn as others carry his body into the family home during his funeral in Gaza City, December 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Thousands attend funerals of 4 Palestinians said killed in Gaza border riots

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ismail Haniyeh tells mourners that Hamas has ‘complained to mediators’ over the deaths, while vowing to continue the protests

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers inspect cars at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus on January 10, 2018. (Jaafar/Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Military Police probe troops’ killing of Palestinian in car that ran roadblock

In this photo from December 12, 2018, the statue 'Saul under the Influence of the Evil Spirit' is seen at the North Carolina Museum of Art, in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Karen Malinofski/North Carolina Museum of Art via AP)

The return of the king

Rare King Saul statue rescued from UK school, covered in glitter, nail polish

By MARTHA WAGGONER

Ahead of its display by North Carolina art museum, sculpture of Israel’s first monarch undergoes restoration after years of use as a mascot by pupils at English boarding school

More Headlines

The Kremlin in Moscow, September 29, 2017. (Ivan Sekretarev/AP)

Leaders of American Jewish groups targeted by Russian spies — report

Illustrative: In this photo from 1945 the main gate is pictured at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, near Linz, Austria. (AP Photo/Lynn Heinzerling, file)

German court says not enough evidence to try alleged Nazi camp guard

By Geir Moulson

An image of the sun's atmosphere from NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission, captured on Nov. 8, 2018. (NASA via Twitter)

Israelis in the sunIsraeli tech helped NASA capture first image from Sun’s atmosphere

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Police officers stand near equipment on the rooftop of a building at London Gatwick Airport, south of London, on December 21, 2018. (Ben Stansall/AFP)

Two arrested over London airport drone disruption

By Arman SOLDIN

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks after the screening of 'RBG,' a documentary about her, in Jerusalem, Thursday, July 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Caron Creighton)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has surgery to remove cancerous growths

Jeffrey Epstein (YouTube screenshot)

Disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein settles ‘sex slave’ lawsuit

By Cnaan Liphshiz

CEO of the Jewish Agency Amira Aharonovich (courtesy/Jewish Agency for Israel)

Jewish Agency names first woman CEO

By JTA

Senator Mike Lee, R-UT, in the Senate TV studio at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on December 13, 2018. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

Conservative senator says a lesbian nominee’s views are outside the mainstream

Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer is surrounded by media as he tries to collect signatures for his run for New York City Comptroller in New York, Monday, July 8, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Former prostitute says ex-governor Spitzer used to sneak her home in a suitcase

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Totko Teklak, gesturing, shows a visitor from Israel where his father hid her mother during the Holocaust in eastern Poland, June 2017. (Courtesy of Lea Hirsch)

Israeli whose uncle was killed by Poles honors her mother’s rescuer

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In this photo from August 8, 2018, a man exchanges Iranian rials for US dollars at an exchange shop in the Iranian capital Tehran. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)

Iran executes trader dubbed ‘Sultan of Bitumen’ in anti-corruption drive

By AFP

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy looks on during a forum against abstention in Paris, on May 5, 2017, two days ahead of the second round of the French presidential elections. (AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE LOPEZ)

TV series is rare Dutch celebration of Jewish culture

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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