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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 10, 2019

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Likud MK Gideon Sa'ar, at an event for supporters in Hod Hasharon, November 25, 2019. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

InterviewPM, his son, aides 'have been trying to harm me' for years

Finally standing up to Netanyahu, Gideon Sa’ar says he’s ready to be PM

By Raoul Wootliff and David Horovitz

Mounting the first serious challenge to the PM from within the Likud in 14 years, popular former minister says Israel needs to change course and unify, and he’s the man to do it

Likud Gideon Sa'ar, right, visits in the West Bank area known as E1 near Ma'ale Adumim, on December 10, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

In swipe at Netanyahu, rival Sa’ar says PM will again fail to form a government

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Gideon Sa'ar during a Likud party meeting at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu agrees to Likud leadership contest if election called

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz addresses members of his faction during a meeting in the Knesset on November 11, 2019 (Elad Malka)

Israel media review

‘They are what we thought they were’: 6 things to know for December 10

By Joshua Davidovich

There’s time left on the clock, but after the longest 11th hour ever, the parties have seemingly finally ceded the field and moved on to the blame game and readying for round 3

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman speaks at a faction meeting in the Knesset on December 2, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Liberman: We’ve been offered every cabinet role to join narrow coalition

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee discussion at the Knesset, December 9, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz urges Netanyahu to forgo immunity bid as sides bicker over unity efforts

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz gives a statement for media in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, November 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Live updates (closed)

‘We have less than 24 hours’: Gantz calls on Netanyahu to agree to unity demands

Blue and White leader says PM must give up on seeking parliamentary immunity in order to form unity government and prevent 3rd elections

7:09 pm

Heavy gunfire reported in Jersey City neighborhood
7:08 pm

Former Trump campaign manager Lewandowski in Israel to meet with Netanyahu -- report
6:20 pm

New poll shows Blue and White opening gap on Likud

Israeli activists and demonstrators hold placards as they take part in a protest against inaction on climate change in Tel Aviv on September 27, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

ToI investigates

In run-up to crucial 2020 UN climate conference, Israel speaks with two voices

With public pressure behind it, Environmental Protection Ministry strides toward solar energy. But Energy Ministry still issues permits for oil, gas, fracking, though it cuts coal

View of chimneys from a refinery in Haifa Bay. (Shay Levy/Flash90)

Plants owned by prominent family cost public health $340m in 2018 — report

Young activists from the 'Fridays For Future' climate protest Movement form a human chain at the COP25 Climate summit in Madrid, Spain, December 9, 2019. (Andrea Comas/AP)

Ministers arrive in Madrid to tackle hot issues at UN climate talks

By AP and ToI Staff

Sacha Baron Cohen arrives at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards, September 22, 2019, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/ Invision/AP)

Our man at the Globes

Sacha Baron Cohen lands Golden Globe nomination for Israeli spy role

By ToI Staff and JTA

Comedian starred as Eli Cohen in Netflix drama ‘The Spy’; thanks ‘visionary’ Israeli writer Gideon Raff; ‘Mrs Meisel,’ ‘Jojo Rabbit,’ ‘Kominsky Method’ also get nods

Natan Sharansky (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

‘Jewish hero’ Natan Sharansky wins Israel’s prestigious Genesis Prize

Director, screenwriter and producer Noah Baumbach, left, poses with actors Scarlett Johansson, center, and Adam Driver at the 'Marriage Story' premiere during the 57th New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on October 4, 2019, in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Tribe TVGolden Globes 2020: The Jewish nominees

By Gabe Friedman

Miriam Schacter

I matter, but I don’t count: Reflections on saying Kaddish

In some places I could pray out loud, in others I could whisper. And then there were the shuls where men told me God didn’t want my prayer

Ashley Rindsberg

Don’t say the J-word

With or without Jews, England has always been anti-Semitic. The surprise is that Corbyn’s non-apology still surprises us

Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar speaks during Jerusalem Day celebrations in Jerusalem, June 2, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)

Jerusalem chief rabbi visits Bahrain for interfaith event, meets king

‘The people of the Middle East want peace with Israel,’ Shlomo Amar says during trip, amid slowly warming ties between Jerusalem and Manama

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu points at a map of the Jordan Valley as he gives a statement, promising to extend Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea area, in Ramat Gan on September 10, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

AG’s office said to warn PM Jordan Valley annexation could lead to ICC probe

A Palestinian protester throws a tire during clashes with Israeli security forces in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, on December 9, 2019, amid a general strike over Israeli settlement activity. (HAZEM BADER / AFP)

Hebron Palestinians go on strike, clash with troops to protest settlement plan

A US V-22 Osprey takes part in a training exercise during the joint Israeli-US military Juniper Cobra air defense drill at the Tzeelim urban warfare training center in southern Israel on March 12, 2018. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Ex-IDF chief and former Pentagon head say US-Israel defense pact not needed

By Judah Ari Gross

Lt. Gen. (res.) Gadi Eisenkot says Jewish state fully capable of defending itself without an American treaty, though one could be useful if Iran goes nuclear

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with visiting pro-Israel lawmakers from 25 countries in Jerusalem on December 9, 2019 (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu meets visiting pro-Israel lawmakers from 25 countries

Palestinian demonstrators hold pictures of US President Donald Trump and and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near the West Bank city of Nablus, November 29, 2019. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

EU to debate Mideast policy as 2-state solution hopes fade

By AP and ToI Staff

Scene from 'The Sorceress,' on stage through December 29, 2019, at New York's The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene. (courtesy)

Theater review

New NY staging of Yiddish operetta ‘The Sorceress’ is sure to charm

By Jordan Hoffman

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Ivanka Trump, US President Donald Trump's daughter and White House adviser, attends a meeting with Jujuy state Governor Gerardo Morales in Purmamarca, Argentina, September 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

Ivanka Trump knew ex-spy Chris Steele for nearly 10 years before Russia scandal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US president’s daughter met author of controversial dossier on her father in 2007, and exchanged emails for years after, ABC reports

Ivanka Trump, daughter and adviser to US President Donald Trump. walks toward Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, on November 20, 2019. (Kevin Wolf/AP)

Ivanka Trump, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, to take part in Qatar forum

By AFP

Jewish Labor Committee President Stuart Appelbaum, left, presenting Hillary Clinton with a poster portraying the Jewish immigrant experience in the US at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, December 9, 2019. (Josefin Dolsten via JTA)

Hillary Clinton urges Jewish labor activists to ‘repair world’ by ousting Trump

By Josefin Dolsten

The Earth, as the Apollo 11 mission traveled towards the moon, July 17, 1969. (NASA via AP/File)

Global conspiracy

Outcry after teens hear ‘flat earth’ presentation at Israeli school

Presentation at high school in center of the country described as ‘charlatanism’; Education Ministry says talk contravenes principles of science that should be taught

Britain's Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Boris Johnson, center, visits Grimsby fish market in Grimsby, northeast England, Monday Dec. 9, 2019, ahead of the general election on Dec. 12. (Ben Stansall/Pool via AP)

In viral moment, Johnson refuses to look at photo of boy, 4, on hospital floor

Labour slams Conservative leader, saying he ‘doesn’t care’ about plight of ordinary people; video of incident causes a storm, threatening to upend Thursday’s election

The burned-out wreck of a car which hit the back of a truck and burst into flames in a fatal traffic accident on Route 25, December 10, 2019. (Magen David Adom)

Stabbed man dies after his car crashes into truck and catches fire

By Stuart Winer

Police open investigation into fatal accident that leaves burned-out vehicle on Route 4

Hit-and-run driver gets 15 months for killing boy, 11

Two killed, two seriously injured as car flips into roadside ditch

Northern Command halts all exercises after tank flips during training

By Judah Ari Gross

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Malka Leifer at the Jerusalem District Court on February 14, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Doctors fail to rule on Malka Leifer’s mental fitness, missing deadline

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks in the Knesset on September 15, 2019, two days before elections. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Guard at Netanyahu home injured after gun accidentally goes off

Illustrative. An image of growth and growing a business. (Indysystem; iStock by Getty Images)

Founders shun quick sale and IPOs in bid to grow their startup, data shows

By Shoshanna Solomon

Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel, the first Arab to win Israel's version of 'Master Chef,' is featured in the documentary 'Breaking Bread,' one of the films being shown in the upcoming Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival. (Courtesy, Jerusalem Cinematheque)

Tribal viewsJews from Austria to Hollywood in Jewish Film Fest, this Hanukkah

By Jessica Steinberg

Rescuers try to free a man from a collapsed building, after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake in Thumane, western Albania, November 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Albania hails Israeli engineers helping rebuild after devastating quake

By AP and ToI Staff

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks before departing to attend a NATO leader's summit in London, in Ankara, Turkey, December 3, 2019. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)

Turkey’s Erdogan says Israel executing Palestinian girls, elderly

People walk in the rain in the northern Israeli city of Safed on December 9, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Roads flood as rainstorm wallops Israel

By ToI Staff and AP

A public bus operated on Shabbat drives through Tel Aviv, November 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Most Israelis support Shabbat buses, including Likud voters, ‘traditional’ Jews

The Moovit app in use in Washington (Courtesy)

Hitting half a billion users, Moovit’s mobility empire wraps up record year

By Ricky Ben-David

Almog Peretz (L) and niece Lian Dahan, survivors of the April 27 shooting at the Chabad synagogue in Poway, California. (Channel 13 screenshot)

Man injured in Poway shooting sues synagogue over lax security

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