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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 26, 2018

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A screenshot from video purporting to show a Syrian surface-to-air missile being fired near Damascus on December 25, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israel fires at missile from Syria; IDF jets said to pound Damascus arms depots

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Russia: ‘Provocative’ Israeli strikes in Syria endangered 2 civilian flights

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US official says top Hezbollah brass hit in alleged Israeli strikes in Syria

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Israel media reviewThe signal and the ploys: 7 things to know for December 26

By Joshua Davidovich

A screenshot from video on social media purporting to show a Syrian surface-to-air missile being fired near Damascus on December 25, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Live updates (closed)

Syria protests Israeli strike in messages to United Nations

Damascus says attacks wouldn’t have been launched if not for ‘unlimited’ support for Israel from Washington

7:30 pm

Trump: No plans to remove US troops from Iraq
7:19 pm

Former IDF general Gal Hirsch announces Knesset run
6:42 pm

Knesset passes final vote to dissolve itself

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd-R) tours the northern border on December 25, 2018 (Haim Tzach/GPO)

Touring north, Netanyahu says anti-tunnel operation ‘almost entirely behind us’

Comments come day after snap poll called, drawing criticism that Netanyahu previously used security situation in north to stave off early elections

Illustrative: Soldiers from the IDF Commando Brigade take part in a large-scale training exercise in November 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Backing Knesset committee, IDF comptroller says army in best shape in years

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 said likely to readmit Syria in 2019 amid Assad diplomatic flurry

By Michael Bachner

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets settler leaders in Jerusalem, December 26, 2018 (Haim Zach/GPO)

The left is recruiting the media to oust my government, PM tells settler leaders

Netanyahu warns West Bank council heads that if the left is victorious, all his hard work getting Washington to agree to recent settlement expansion will be ‘immediately reversed’

Yossi Dagan, the head of Shomron Regional Council, addresses the 14th annual B'Sheva Jerusalem Conference on February 12, 2017. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

3 settler leaders boycott PM meeting, saying ‘we’re being given the runaround’

A crane is used at the construction site in the West Bank settlement of Amichai on September 7, 2018. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Israel green-lights plans for 1,300 settlement homes, hundreds more pending

Labor chair Avi Gabbay, right, and Hatnua chair MK Tzipi Livni attend a Zionist Union faction meeting at the Knesset on July 24, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

5 Zionist Union lawmakers said to be considering split amid leadership tensions

By Raoul Wootliff

Some MKs reportedly mull joining Meretz, as Labor chief Gabbay and Hatnua leader Livni seem to spar over best way to defeat Netanyahu in upcoming elections

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz speaks to reporters outside the Peres Center for Peace in Jaffa on September 28, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-IDF chief Gantz said to have turned down offer to head Zionist Union

Yesh Atid's Yair Lapid, left, and former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, right. (Flash90)

Poll pits Lapid-Gantz alliance as only major Netanyahu challenge

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative: A woman places her vote in a ballot box for the Israeli general elections for the 19th parliament, January 22, 2013, in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu not hugely popular, but not threatened by divided opposition — polls

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Only one-third of Israelis want the PM to return to his post after the April ballot, but that’s still well ahead of any other candidate

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a conference organized by the Globes financial daily in Jerusalem on December 19, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu seeks more control over Likud list as party plans primary

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Jair Bolsonaro, then a presidential candidate with the Social Liberal Party, waves after voting in the presidential runoff election in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Silvia izquierdo)

Amid election stir, Netanyahu may cut short historic Brazil visit

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A general view of the assembly hall in the Knesset during a session on November 21, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset voting on dissolving parliament, paving the way for April 9 elections

By Raoul Wootliff

Lawmakers expected to pass law in all three readings on Wednesday, setting the stage for a three-month campaign leading up to the national poll

Illustrative: A prostitute on a street in south Tel Aviv on January 1, 2013. (Flash90)

Knesset committee clears anti-prostitution bill for final votes

Workers at Intel's Kiryat Gat plant (Courtesy)

Knesset committee approves $185.5 million grant to Intel

By JTA

American Veterans Archaeological Recovery co-founder Stephen Humphreys (right) at the Beth She'arim Excavation, August 2018. (courtesy)

First impressions

6 archaeology stories from 2018 that made me rethink my world

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Israeli soldiers near the attempted car-ramming attack against a group of Israeli soldiers and civilians near the entrance to Nablus, December 26, 2018. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

Palestinian attempts West Bank car-ramming attack outside Nablus

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Soldiers shoot, wound assailant at bus stop near military base; three Israelis suffer panic attacks, but nobody physically hurt

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas speaks to the press after meeting French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris on September 21, 2018. (AFP Photo/Ludovic Marin)

Abbas: Palestinians ready to enter peace process based on UN resolutions

President Reuven Rivlin, left, and his wife Nechama Rivlin greet police dog Rambo and officers who together tracked down the Barkan attack terrorist Ashraf Na'alowa, at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, December 25, 2018. (Courtesy/Tomer Reichman)

Every dog has his dayAfter anti-terror raid, injured (canine) Rambo visits Rivlin

By JTA and ToI Staff

Sharon Heinrich in Paris, across from the Eiffel Tower. (Eyal Yassky-Weiss)

Meet the Israeli woman who’s championing French pastry in Paris

By Robert Sarner

They have Messiah, we have ’I Have a Little Dreidel’

Jewish music seems to have become as dead as it once was infused American music with life

The ’best obtainable version of the truth’ is not ’fake news’

You can have the tabloid fictions about UFOs; I’ll take the news stories that prevent chaos and enable free societies to function

Elkana Bar Eitan

Should Israelis be able to vote absentee?

Jewish Agency chair Bougie Herzog says yes, but I have a few questions first

Shmuley Boteach

Heather Nauert has the right stuff

I also hesitated, but now I know that the former top news anchor and State Department spokesperson is far more than a charming talking head

Felicity Jones plays a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 'On the Basis of Sex.' (Jonathan Wenk/Focus Features/via JTA)

Felicity Jones on playing Ruth Bader Ginsburg before she was the ‘Notorious RBG’

By Curt Schleier

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Ayelet Ganot, left, and Roni Ashkenazi, participants in the Carmel 6000 national service program, work on an app intended to help autistic children cope with change. (Sam Sokol/JTA)

Program enlists young religious women to tackle social problems through tech

21 Savage performs at the Voodoo Music Experience in City Park on October 28, 2018, in New Orleans. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Offensive reboundRapper sorry for ‘Jewish money’ lyrics that snagged LeBron

By Alexander Fulbright

Israelis at a restaurant in downtown Jerusalem, on Saturday, November 01, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

At Deri’s request, J’lem city hall targeted restaurants open on Shabbat – report

Illustrative: A remote controlled drone with a camera attached to it on February 18, 2015. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israeli anti-drone company sees spike in interest after Gatwick airport scare

By AP

Actress Gal Gadot poses for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Ralph Breaks the Internet' in central London on November 25, 2018. (Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

Waiting for [more] GadotGal Gadot thanks cast, crew as new ‘Wonder Woman’ wraps

Disgraced actor Kevin Spacey in a video posted to YouTube on December 25, 2018 (YouTube screenshot)

Frank messageIn strange video that goes viral, Kevin Spacey tells viewers: ‘You want me back’

By ToI Staff and AP

Residents inspect a house damaged by a tsunami, in Carita, Indonesia, December 23, 2018 (AP Photo)

Jewish groups offer aid after hundreds killed in Indonesian tsunami

Illustrative: The scene of a drive-by shooting in the Arab Israeli town of Umm al-Fahm that left a 14-year-old boy wounded on December 26, 2018. The white car in the center was the target of the shooting, police said. (Hadashot TV screen capture)

14-year-old seriously hurt in Umm al-Fahm drive-by shooting

Video issued by Egyptian Fatwa Institute encourages Muslims to greet Christians for holidays (screenshot)

Drawing closerEgyptian cartoon urges Muslims to extend Christmas greetings

Sheikh Younus Kathrada delivers a sermon at the Muslim Youth of Victoria in British Columbia (YouTube screenshot)

Have a joyless holidayCanadian imam: Saying ‘Merry Christmas’ is worse than murder

The tube developed by Israel's E-Motion Medical delivers patterns of electrical stimulation to the esophagus, imitating swallowing motions (Courtesy)

Israeli startup develops device to jumpstart digestive system

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative photo of a vaccine for infants at an Israeli hospital. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

In first, top health official removes unvaccinated kids from kindergarten

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