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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 29, 2018

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Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at a conference in Jerusalem on September 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Attorney general given extra security as he weighs indicting PM — report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's private residence in Caesarea. (Video screenshot)

Man arrested outside Netanyahu’s home, threatening to ‘kill’ the PM

By Alexander Fulbright

Former IDF brigadier general Gal Hirsch is seen at a press conference in Tel Aviv to announce his entry to politics on December 26, 2018. (Flash90)

Investigators said set to recommend indicting ex-general gunning for Knesset

Illustrative: An explosion is seen from the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip after an airstrike by Israeli forces in response to dozens of rocket attacks by Palestinian terrorist groups from the coastal enclave on June 20, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)

IDF attacks Hamas position in response to rocket fire from Gaza

Projectile launched from Strip for first time in six weeks lands in open area in Israel, causing no damage or injuries

Illustrative: Flames from rockets fired by Palestinians are seen over Gaza Strip heading toward Israel, in the early morning of May 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Rocket launched from Gaza into Israel, for first time in six weeks

A Palestinian stands next to a rain puddle as he uses a slingshot to hurl an object during clashes with Israeli troops along the border, east of Gaza city, on December 28, 2018. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Palestinian said killed in Gaza border clashes

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Analysis

The top 11 Jewish stories of 2018

From horrific anti-Semitic violence to the US Embassy move, these are the news events of the last 12 months with perhaps the longest-lasting repercussions

Clockwise from top left: The front page of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Friday November 2, 2018 (Screenshot via JTA); Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner arrive for a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on September 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images via JTA); A poster featuring US billionaire George Soros in Szekesfehervar, Hungary. (Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images); Bob Bland, Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez and Tamika D. Mallory. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET via JTA)

(Photo illustration by Lior Zaltzman)

Some of the inspiring Jews we lost in 2018

By Gabe Friedman

A still image from surveillance video showing the brutal assault on an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man in Brooklyn, New York on October 14, 2018. (screen capture: CBS New York)

Hate crimes in New York, 2018: Jews targeted more than all other groups combined

By JTA

Former Israeli defense minister Moshe Ya'alon speaks in Haifa on December 29, 2018. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Ex-defense chief rules out sitting in Netanyahu-led government

By Alexander Fulbright

Moshe Ya’alon confirms he’s discussing electoral alliance with Benny Gantz; Zionist Union chief Gabbay: ‘We are in a fight for the future of the people of Israel’

Former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz speaks at the annual World Zionist Conference in Jerusalem, on November 2, 2017 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Private investigators reportedly sent to collect defamatory material on Gantz

Obituary

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Amos Oz, a ‘saintly intellectual’ who turned Israel’s national reality into art

He had two pens on his desk, he once said: ‘One pen to tell stories and another pen to tell the government to go to hell’

Amos Oz, shown here in 2015. (Jason Kempin/Getty Images, via JTA)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left center, is received by Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro at the military base Fort Copacabana, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 28, 2018. (Leo Correa/Pool Photo via AP)

Hailing ‘brotherhood,’ Brazil’s president-elect says he’ll visit Israel by March

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Bolsonaro accepts Netanyahu’s invitation, issued during their first meeting in Rio; no mention of possible Jerusalem embassy move

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) is welcomed by Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro at the Copacabana fort in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on December 28, 2018. (Leo Correa/Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu, Brazil’s next president hail alliance, but no mention of embassy move

By Marc BURLEIGH

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife Sara take part in a welcoming ceremony upon their arrival in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, on December 28, 2018. Third-to-left is Brazilian MP Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Netanyahu lands in Brazil, will push president-elect on Jerusalem embassy move

By Marc BURLEIGH

Many in Brazil have converted to Judaism under the supervision of Gilberto Venturas, an Orthodox rabbi, shown here with his wife, Jacqueline. (Courtesy of Sinagoga sem Froteiras/via JTA)

Sephardic converts give northern Brazil’s dwindling Jewish communities new life

By Cnaan Liphshiz

File: Tourists look out over Jerusalem's Old City, as seen from the rooftop of the Austrian hospice, on a foggy winter day, January 2, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel saw record-breaking 4 million tourists in 2018, says tourism ministry

Tourism Minister Yariv Levin hails ‘significant revolution in marketing Israel’ abroad

A photo released by the IDF on December 27, 2018, shows fluids the army says it used to seal cross-border attack tunnels dug by Hezbollah coming out of a civilian building in the southern Lebanese village of Kafr Kila. (IDF Spokesperson)

UNIFIL confirms tunnel filled with cement by IDF crossed border, broke UN rules

Peacekeepers say passage dug from inside Lebanese concrete factory, which Israel says was a Hezbollah attack tunnel, violated resolution that ended 2006 war

US ‘fully supports’ Israeli efforts to counter Iran’s military activity in Syria

Trump advisor heads to Turkey, Israel after Syria pullout

By AFP

Russia to host Putin-Erdogan-Rouhani summit on Syria

By AFP

Operation Cast Lead — 10 Years On

Having just been through the emotional tornado of suicide survival, I did not have the wherewithal to remain in a war zone

Top 10 events impacting Muslim-Jewish relations in 2018

Together, the two communities are fighting Islamophobia and anti-Semitism and working to protect all faith members

Airbnb’s lies increase its legal vulnerability

It’s now clear the company is committed not only to violating the law, but also to lying to regulators and the public

All hail Moses, King of Ethiopia

The Book of Exodus introduces us to a savior from afar. Sound familiar? It should (Shemot)

The elegant courtyard pool of The Jaffa, one of Tel Aviv's new, meticulously restored hotels (Courtesy The Jaffa)

Meticulous restoration and luxury are de rigueur at these swanky Israeli hotels

By Jessica Steinberg

Author Moriel Rothman-Zecher. (YouTube screenshot)

Author interview

A conscientious objector to the IDF, this Israeli-American says he is a patriot

By Marshall Weiss

More Headlines

Education Minister Naftali Bennett, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin with Zvi Levy, recipient of an Israel Prize for lifetime achievement, at the International Conference Center (ICC) in Jerusalem on May 2, 2017. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Zvika Levy, Israel Prize-winning ‘father of lone soldiers,’ dies aged 70

An Apple iPhone5s screen with Siri application icons. (Wachiwit/iStock by Getty Images

Israeli voice actor sues Apple for illegitimate use in Hebrew version of Siri

Members of the Egyptian security forces stand guard at the scene of an attack on a tourist bus in Giza province south of the Egyptian capital Cairo, on December 28, 2018 (MOHAMED EL-SHAHED / AFP)

Egypt kills 40 ‘terrorists’ in crackdown after fatal Giza pyramids attack

By Bassem Aboualabass

Illustrative: A police vehicle in Brussels, Belgium, on April 8, 2016. (AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Belgian Jewish family says assailant shot gun at bedroom

By Cnaan Liphshiz

AnalysisHow Facebook monitors harmful content: 5 takeaways

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

This Monday Aug. 20, 2001, file photo shows French Holocaust survivors gathering at the site of the former Drancy detention camp, north of Paris, France. From Aug. 20, 1941 until the end of World War II, more than 70,000 Jewish men, women and children passed through Drancy on their way to Nazi extermination camps, particularly Auschwitz. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

1 in 5 non-Christians in France has never heard of the Holocaust, survey finds

By JTA

Illustrative: An armed escort of the British military mission in Albania in an undated photo. Most of them have been fighting since the Italians landed in 1939. (AP Photo)

London mosque to honor Muslims who rescued Jews in the Holocaust

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A robotic military vehicle built by Israeli-firm Roboteam. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israeli firm caught up in US-China rivalry over military robots

By Matt O'Brien

Hasidic pilgrims praying near the burial site of Rebbe Nahman of Bratslav in Uman, Ukraine, September 14, 2015. (Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images via JTA)

Rabbi’s death from flu in Ukraine has community in panic

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Lisa Marie Burns, 57, of Cary, North Carolina, was arrested on Friday December 28, 2018 for vandalizing the Shaarei Shalom synanogue in the city. Photo by Cary Police

North Carolina police arrest woman for vandalizing Messianic congregation

By Agencies and ToI Staff

This file photo taken on July 16, 2018 shows Elysee senior security officer Alexandre Benalla standing next to a bus and the plane transporting the France's national soccer team at the Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport on the outskirts of Paris. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP)

Macron ex-bodyguard goes to Israel, Africa with diplomatic passport, sparks row

By AFP

Leonard Cohen performing during the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival 2009 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, April 17, 2009. (Paul Butterfield/Getty Images via JTA)

Everybody knowsLeonard Cohen, Russian liturgical music among Prince Charles’ favorites

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