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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 7, 2019

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US President Donald Trump (left) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)

Omar, Tlaib oppose resolution for not going far enough

In rebuke to Trump and Netanyahu, US House passes resolution supporting 2 states

By Eric Cortellessa

Measure that condemns any West Bank annexation passes mostly on partisan lines and comes after two leaders discussed prospects of extending Israeli sovereignty over Jordan Valley

In this photo provided by the Moroccan News Agency (MAP), Morocco's King Mohammed VI, center, accompanied by his son Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, left, and brother Prince Moulay Rashid addresses the Nation in a speech aired on TV, at the Royal Palace in Tetouan, Morocco, on Monday July 29, 2019. (Moroccan Royal Palace via AP)

TV: Netanyahu wanted to join Pompeo on Morocco visit, but king refused

By ToI Staff and AFP

Likud minister Ze'ev Elkin (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Septmber 12, 2019. (Shamil Zhumatov/Pool Photo via AP)

Netanyahu, Putin speak ahead of visit by Rusian leader to Israel next month

This photo taken from video provided by WEAR-TV shows emergency responders near the Naval Air Base Station in Pensacola, Fla., Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. (WEAR-TV via AP)

Saudi gunman reportedly called US a ‘nation of evil,’ decried support of Israel

Florida state troopers block traffic over the Bayou Grande Bridge leading to the Pensacola Naval Air Station following a shooting on December 6, 2019, in Pensacola, Florida. (Josh Brasted/Getty Images/AFP)

Saudi Arabia distances itself from gunman who killed 3 at US military base

In this Jan. 29, 2016 file photo shows the entrance to the Naval Air Base Station in Pensacola, Fla. (AP Photo/Melissa Nelson, File)

Saudi air force officer kills 3 at Florida naval base, officials probing terror

Labor MK Omer Barlev attends an election campaign event in Tel Aviv, on January 23, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Labor MK says he’s working to get support for Knesset speaker to form government

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Omer Barlev declares tasking Yuli Edelstein with assembling coalition is ‘maybe the only possibility’ to avoid 3rd elections: ‘Everything is on his head’

Netanyahu said expected to request immunity by end of the month

New poll shows Gantz, Sa’ar gaining ground on PM in public popularity

Former Supreme Court president Barak: Israeli democracy is ‘on a slippery slope’

Austin Smith, owner of Wealth Recovery International that claimed to recover money for victims of binary options. (Facebook screenshot)

US jails binary options fraudster, who then claimed to help victims, for a year

By Simona Weinglass

As former Israeli immigrant Austin Smith prepares to serve his term, ex-legal counsel for Wealth Recovery International says she’s helping US authorities track down clients’ money

Illustrative: An Israeli F-16 jet is pictured above the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, near the Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2019. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Fighter jets scrambled three times following suspicious activity in Gaza

Israeli aircraft don’t detect anything unusual in the coastal enclave; IDF troops nab 2 Palestinians who entered Israel from Strip

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi meets with the mayors of Gaza-adjacent towns on December 6, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Gaza protests resume, but IDF chief sees rare ‘opportunity’ to reach ceasefire

By Judah Ari Gross

US Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft at a luncheon with US President Donald Trump and members of the UN Security Council at the White House, December 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

New US envoy to UN says she’ll defend Israel, cares about Palestinian refugees

By AP and ToI Staff

Trails left behind by the launch of a rocket from a base in central Israel as part of a test on December 6, 2019. (Courtesy)

Tehran accuses Israel of testing ‘a nuke-missile, aimed at Iran’

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Israel’s Defense Ministry had earlier confirmed rocket propulsion test, gave no details; accusation comes days after Iran slammed for working on nuclear-capable missiles

15 killed in Baghdad as unidentified assailants open fire on demonstrators

By SAMYA KULLAB and MURTADA FARAJ

Iran releases Chinese-American scholar in exchange for US-held scientist

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

US slaps sanctions on 3 Iran-linked Iraqi militia heads over protest abuses

By AFP

Harvey Weinstein, center, leaves court following a bail hearing, December 6, 2019 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Weinstein violated bail by tinkering with ankle monitor, prosecutor charges

By RYAN TARINELLI, Michael R. Sisak and Tom Hays

Disgraced movie mogul, who is awaiting trial on rape and assault charges, accused of dodging release conditions for hours at a time

I’ve changed my mind on Talmud study for women

The existence of a thriving, daily Talmud study led by and for women lays bare the erroneous ruling by the rabbis of yesteryear

Why is Laban the villain of the haggadah?

A novel translation of ’my father was a wandering Aramean’ helps explain why Laban really was worse than Pharoah

Left to right: Prof. Noah Feldman, Prof. Pamela S. Karlan, Prof. Michael Gerhardt and Prof. Jonathan Turley take the oath during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the impeachment of US President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, December 4, 2019. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)

Analysis

Three of the Trump impeachment witness lawyers were Jewish, and it matters

The legal scholars’ identity gives rise to vaguely, and sometimes explicitly, anti-Semitic chatter from right-wing figures once on the fringe but now increasingly in the mainstream

ExplainerHow Britain’s pivotal upcoming election affects Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Askari or Trawniki guards peer into a doorway past the bodies of Jews killed during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. (Courtesy of US Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Author interview

Renee Ghert-Zand

How historians led a campaign to hunt down, deport Nazi killers living in the US

‘Citizen 865’ details the capture of Trawniki Men — Soviet POWs and Ukrainian civilians trained by the SS who helped murder 1.7 million Jews, and some of whom then came to America

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Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melcer, the chairman of the Central Elections Committee, presents the official results of the elections for the 22nd Knesset to President Reuven Rivlin (unseen), at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, September 25, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Elections czar says there was no foreign interference in September elections

Young musicians from Polyphony Nazareth, the conservatory from the northern Arab city that has changed the way Arab Israelis are exposed to classical music (Courtesy Polyphony Nazareth)

With Jewish and Arab musicians, Nazareth conservatory puts on first festival

By Jessica Steinberg

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper talks to reporters at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, October 22, 2019, where he saw a Patriot missile battery that the US sent to Saudi to help protect the kingdom against the Iranian threat. (AP Photo/Lolita Baldor)

Pentagon chief: No current need for significant troop deployment to Middle East

By Robert Burns

Illustrative: Jewish residents of Monsey, Rockland County, New York state, April 5, 2019. (Johannes Eisele/AFP)

New York accuses upstate town of ‘systematic effort’ to bar Hasidic Jews

By JTA

Former chairman of IDB Group Nochi Dankner seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on April 23, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Justice minister said to OK pardon request for jailed tycoon Nochi Dankner

Emily Mulner (Facebook photo)

Russia to release 4-year-old Israeli girl detained for overstaying her visa

View of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya from Mount Scopus, December 15, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel briefly detains 4 Palestinian Authority TV journalists in Jerusalem

By AFP and ToI Staff

Slavoj Zizek speaks at The London School of Economics, April 20, 2016. (Ray Tang/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images via JTA)

UK daily revises op-ed that said settlements are ‘the trouble with Jews today’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox protesters block a road in Bnei Brak to oppose light rail construction work taking place on Shabbat, September 21, 2018. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators block roads to protest Tel Aviv Shabbat bus service

Members of the international Mauthausen committee arrive for a ceremony to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria, Sunday, May 10, 2015. . (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Poland wants to buy site of WWII Nazi death camp in Austria

By AP

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