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What Matters Most On Monday, December 2, 2019

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(R-L)American billionaire Sheldon Adelson (R) and his wife Miriam, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara attend the Israeli Presidential Conference at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem May 13, 2008. (Anna Kaplan /FLASH90)

Adelsons, Milchan, Ellison, MKs among 333 witnesses in case against Netanyahu

AG releases huge list of prosecution witnesses, including who’s who of PM’s associates, rivals, security chiefs, and numerous names not widely known to be linked to investigation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, Israel, December 1, 2019. (Abir Sultan/Pool Photo via AP)

Netanyahu charges re-delivered to Knesset, starting clock on immunity request

By Raoul Wootliff

Man voting in the town of Beit Shemesh. (Nati Shohat/Flash 90)

Political uncertainty fuels rise in pessimism about future of democracy

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the media in the briefing room at the State Department, on November 26, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/ AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Pompeo: Iran the ‘common villain’ in Mideast protests

Lebanese, others in the region see Tehran regime ‘as a violent and a repressive force,’ top US diplomat says

7:33 pm

Trump administration quietly releases Lebanon military aid
7:30 pm

Trump campaign bars Bloomberg News, alleging 'bias'
7:18 pm

Putin signs bill targeting journalists and bloggers

The recently renovated Beit Leibling in Tel Aviv, which offered an opportunity to reexamine imports of German goods into Israel in the 1930s. (Courtesy, Yael Shemi)

Analysis

The Nazi secret lurking inside some of Tel Aviv’s most beautiful buildings

Discoveries made in Leibling House, a recently renovated cultural center, reveal the German foundations of much of Tel Aviv’s Bauhaus-inflected 1930s construction

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks before a map of the Jordan Valley, vowing to extend Israeli sovereignty there if reelected, during a speech in Ramat Gan on September 10, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Netanyahu wants to stay in office only to annex Jordan Valley, Likud claims

Latest offer from PM’s party would see him leave post to Gantz within six months; minister says it aims to take advantage of ‘rare opportunity’ of tacit US backing for annexation

Israel media reviewDown in the valley: 6 things to know for December 2

By Joshua Davidovich

Deri, Liberman trade online blows over stalled coalition talks

Scant progress in coalition talks, with nation said ‘hurtling towards elections’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) welcomes US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to his residence in Jerusalem on March 21, 2019. (Jim Young/Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu’s London trip to meet Pompeo said nixed after veto from UK officials

By ToI Staff and Agencies

UK reportedly says not enough notice given for PM’s visit on NATO sidelines; Merkel, Macron said not eager to meet him amid criticism on Iran moves

Trump and Netanyahu discuss ‘threat from Iran’ in second call in weeks

By ToI Staff and Agencies

During protests, Iran Guards said to massacre up to 100 people hiding in marsh

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iranian general: Our missiles are aimed at 21 US bases in the region

Analysis

Avi Issacharoff

Eyeing economic benefits, Hamas wants deal with Israel, IDF believes

Terror group’s leadership keen to see developments which will improve the situation in the Palestinian enclave — but its rival government in the West Bank is alarmed at the notion

Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh (center-left) and Yahya Sinwar (center-right) in Gaza City, June 26, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)

Palestinian protesters riot along the security fence east of Gaza City as smoke billows from fields across the fence caused by an incendiary device attached to a kite and flown across the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip, on May 15, 2019. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP)

Following 3-week hiatus, Gaza groups announce resumption of border marches

Illustrative: Soldiers from the IDF Home Front Command work in a command center used to oversee the country's alert system in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF hails new siren system as success after Gaza flareup, plans further upgrades

By Judah Ari Gross

Jewish workers work at Beit El winery in the Jewish settlement of Beit El in the West Bank, September 4, 2019. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)

Analysis

On labeling settlement goods, the European Union is far from united

ToI asks 10 member states how last month’s court decision will affect their policy. Some eagerly reaffirmed their existing labeling regime, some demurred, France refused to comment

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a YouTube video slamming European nations who joined the INSTEX barter mechanism meant to circumvent US sanctions on Iran, on December 1, 2019. (YouTube screen capture)

Netanyahu slams European ‘rush to appease Iran’ by sidestepping sanctions

By ToI Staff and AFP

Remains of a 3rd century CE mosaic from a synagogue found in the ancient town of Majdulia, in the Golan. (courtesy)

Archaeology

Rare 3rd century Golan synagogue mosaics show shift in Jewish life post-Temple

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Colorful decorations in Roman-era synagogue record transition from study hall to public ‘mini-Temple’ prayer hall

Aaron's Tomb near Petra, Jordan. (CC BY-SA Joneikifi, Wikipedia)

Aaron’s tomb in Jordan to reopen to Israelis; ‘religious’ ceremony led to ban

After Rivlin’s talks with Jordanian prince, president informs FM about progress at pilgrimage site, which was barred to Israelis after August incident

A picture taken from the Israeli side of the border shows Jordanian soldiers raising the national flag ahead of a ceremony at the Jordan Valley site of Naharayim, November 10, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

Jordan says Israeli who ‘illegally’ crossed into kingdom will be tried

We’ve seen other democracies fade away too

Take a charismatic, populist leader, add a polarized society, and favor some special interest groups to see the rule of law fail and democracy decline

Passion, ignorance, and teaching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Among my students who ’care deeply’ about the ’Israeli occupation, only 25% placed the Palestinian Territories (correctly) south of Lebanon

Zaki Shalom and Jacob Aaron Collier

First-strike nation

Targeted killings in Gaza and Syria enhanced deterrence against Hamas and PIJ, but the strategy of preemption may be less useful against Hezbollah and Iran

Are NY yeshiva students getting a decent education?

The claim that ’everything is in Torah’ doesn’t mean that Talmud study provides the skills and information necessary for a productive life in today’s America

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Yosel Tiefenbrun works at his bespoke tailoring house in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (Courtesy of Tiefenbrun)

Interview

Hip NY rabbi stitches together Hasidic lifestyle with bespoke tailoring business

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative: Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets escort a transport plane, above eastern Romania, Friday, April 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Pilot of plane from Israel in UK scare describes ‘heart attack’ as jets neared

Captain details how his flight briefly lost radio contact over Britain and his surprise to see two RAF Typhoons outside his window; sonic boom caused panic in London

Ashwaq Haji Hamid was 14 years old when she became one of thousands of Yazidi women forced into sexual slavery by members of Islamic State. (Screengrab)

Former Yazidi sex slave faints while confronting her IS rapist on Iraqi TV

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ashwaq Haji Hamid was 14 when the terror group seized her hometown, killing the males and abducting the girls

Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi speaks during a funeral ceremony in Baghdad, on October 23, 2019. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP)

Iraq’s PM Adel Abdel Mahdi, consensus leader, brought down by street fury

By AFP

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In possible breakthrough, molecule destroys pancreatic cancer cells in mice

By Shoshanna Solomon

Police officers patrol the scene in central London, December 1, 2019, after an attack on London Bridge on Friday. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Terror checks intensify in London after deadly attack by freed jihadist

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet with Moshe Holtzberg and his nanny Sandra Samuel in Kfar Chabad, Israel on July 5, 2017. (Atef Safadi/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

Moshe Holtzberg, son of Mumbai attack victims, celebrates bar mitzvah

By JTA

President Donald Trump listens as Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks during an event about the environment in the East Room of the White House, Monday, July 8, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

AnalysisBelief in Trump as chosen by God part of growing evangelical power movement

By Brad Christerson and Richard Flory

The Leviathan natural gas platform off the shore of Israel. (Albatross)

Leviathan field to start producing natural gas in 2-3 weeks, operator says

By Shoshanna Solomon

A Christmas ornament featuring Auschwitz is for sale on Amazon. (Amazon/via JTA)

Amazon removes Christmas ornaments with images of Auschwitz from its website

Eliezer Berland covers himself with his talit (prayer shawl) at the Magistrate Court in Jerusalem, as he is put on trial for sexual assault charges, on November 17, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Followers of sex convict rabbi Berland held on graft suspicions

In this November 8, 2002, photo, actress Shelley Morrison arrives at the NBC's television series "Will & Grace," 100th episode celebration at the Falcon restaurant in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Jewish actress Shelley Morrison, Rosario on ‘Will & Grace,’ dies at 83

By ANDREW DALTON

McGill University. (Wikimedia Commons)

Jewish student gov’t member at McGill U told to cancel Israel trip or resign

By David Lazarus

People watch fireworks during a show to mark Israel's 71st Independence Day in Jerusalem on May 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Two IS supporters planned Independence Day terror attacks in Jerusalem

Holiday shoppers leaves Walmart's Black Friday event in Bentonville, Arkansas, on November 24, 2016. (Gunnar Rathbun/AP Images for Walmart)

Speculation Walmart coming to Israel causes local supermarket shares to dip

A parade float at the Aalst Carnaval in Belgium featuring caricatures of Orthodox Jews atop money bags, March 3, 2019. (Courtesy of FJO, via JTA)

Belgian carnival drops UNESCO status over anti-Semitic float

By AFP

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