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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 11, 2019

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Emergency responders work at a kosher supermarket, the site of a shooting in Jersey City, N.J., Wednesday, December 11, 2019. (AP/Seth Wenig)

Suspected Jersey City shooters named, said to have railed against Jews online

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Officials refuse to publicly elaborate on targeting of kosher market, but report identifies one gunman as former member of extremist Black Hebrew Israelites

Deadly attack on New Jersey Jews draws condolences, police protection

New Jersey kosher supermarket shooters ‘targeted the location,’ mayor says

By ToI Staff and Agencies

New Jersey kosher supermarket shooting rattles tight-knit Jewish community

By Josefin Dolsten and Gabe Friedman

Knesset members vote in favor of fast-tracking a bill to set elections for March 2, 2020, at the Knesset Arrangements Committee on December 12, 2019. (Knesset)

Lawmakers fast-track bill to dissolve Knesset at midnight, trigger new elections

Unprecedented third national vote within 11 months all but inevitable as bill setting next elections for March 2 expected to pass into law on Wednesday night

Gantz: Israel is going to 3rd elections because Netanyahu wants immunity

By Raoul Wootliff

Hours before election deadline, Liberman slams Netanyahu’s ‘slander’

Bill to disperse Knesset, set new elections for March 2, filed in Knesset

US President Donald Trump signs an executive order combatting anti-Semitism on college campuses at the White House Hanukkah party on December 11, 2019. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Live updates (closed)

Trump signs executive order combatting anti-Semitism on college campuses

Move at White House Hanukkah party broadens US government definition of anti-Semitism and instructs it to be used in enforcing laws against discrimination on college campuses

9:33 pm

WATCH: White House Hanukkah party kicks off
9:31 pm

Zohar says PM to show up to vote on bill to dissolve Knesset
9:05 pm

Netanyahu lashes out at state prosecutor for 'using rape victims' to justify prosecuting him

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaking with then-Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar in the Knesset, October 16, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90/File)

Sa’ar vs Netanyahu: Likud leadership primary set for December 26

By Raoul Wootliff

If national elections go ahead, ruling party will hold internal vote in just 15 days; challenger Sa’ar says he’ll run ‘a positive, clean, and issue-driven campaign’

Israel media reviewGetting ready for the title fight: 6 things to know for December 11

By Joshua Davidovich

Blue and White’s lead grows as Netanyahu blamed for descent into third elections

Poll: Gantz, Netanyahu neck-and-neck on suitability to be PM

In October 2018 these anti-Semitic fliers appeared on college campuses and at organizations in at least six states: California, Iowa, New York, Virginia, Massachusetts and Illinois. (StandWithUs/via JTA)

Jewish groups divided on Trump order targeting college anti-Semitism

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Legislation welcomed by some as a necessary measure, while others condemn it as anti-Semitic and a stifling of the freedom to criticize Israel

US President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable on school choice in the Cabinet Room of the White House, December 9, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump to sign order recognizing Jewish university students as a protected class

US President Donald Trump speaks at the Israeli-American Council's annual conference in Hollywood, Florida, December 7, 2019. (Noam Galai/via JTA)

As some Jewish groups slam Trump comments on Jews and money, others defend them

By Josefin Dolsten

Analysis

Mazal tov, it’s a village!

There’s a couple of nurses and a doctor and the shoppers, who are all collecting towels and coats for the woman going into labor in Aisle 10

Ahmad al Khaled

Trump’s raid for Syrian oil is not worth it

This infatuation with Syria’s resources was misguided to begin with, and paying for abandoned and destroyed facilities with the lives of US soldiers made it unforgivable

I’m an incidental Jew

All those measures that strengthen solidarity among Jews can alienate Jewish people like me, as being Jewish isn’t a core part of my identity

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Illustrative: Police officers stand on patrol at a Metro station outside the Louvre museum in Paris, February 3, 2017. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Israeli student in Paris says he was beaten unconscious for speaking Hebrew

Victim describes being assaulted on city’s metro after unidentified suspects heard him talking on phone; Jewish MP calls for investigation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on the phone with Yogev, an Israeli student who says he was attacked on the Paris Metro for speaking Hebrew, on December 10, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Netanyahu phones Israeli who was attacked on Paris Metro: This isn’t normal

A screen capture from video of a man, identified as Justin Pichizaca, threatening a rabbi at a Costco in Lawrence, Long Island. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Rabbi films as he’s accosted at Costco, told ‘Nazis will finish you off’

Satellite images showing an alleged Iranian tunnel on a military base near the border crossing in Syria's Boukamal region, near the Iraqi border, on December 10, 2019. (ImageSat International)

In tacit threat, Israeli intel firm releases photo of suspected Iranian tunnel

By Judah Ari Gross

Satellite images show apparent underground storage passage on an alleged IRGC base in eastern Syria, near the Iraqi border

Iran’s banks were hacked, minister admits, but experts doubt his claimed culprit

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Iran says it foiled ‘massive’ cyberattack on infrastructure

By Nasser Karimi

French pair held in Iran on spying charges lose bid for bail

By AFP

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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson loads a crate into a milk delivery van during a visit to Greenside Farm Business Park, as he campaigns for votes on the last day of campaigning ahead of a General Election, in Leeds, England, December 11, 2019. (Stefan Rousseau/PA via AP)

UK political leaders chase undecided voters on eve of national election

By DANICA KIRKA

PM Boris Johnson and his rival, Labour leader Corbyn, out campaigning before dawn as both fret over a volatile electorate frustrated at Brexit impasse

UK’s Johnson pushes his Brexit message as election nears

By DANICA KIRKA and Jill Lawless

Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn: Redistribute UK wealth, tax the rich

By Gregory Katz

Rule-breaker Boris Johnson faces toughest test in UK election

By Jill Lawless

Illustrative. A chess set. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Jerusalem Grand Prix 2019

Elite chess event set to kick off in Israel, with organizers angry at government

By Michael Bachner

Part of World Championship cycle to begin Wednesday with 16 of world’s best players; ministry refuses funding to make event in Israel a long-term project, citing political impasse

Dina Kraft interviewing Sami Saadi, co-CEO of Tsofen, in Nazareth, November 2019, for the 15th episode of her Hadassah podcast, 'The Branch.' (Courtesy Mitchell Coopersmith)

A veteran reporter examines Jewish-Arab relationships in ‘The Branch’ podcast

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

From left, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters (California Democrat), House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel (New York Democrat), House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerrold Nadler (New York Democrat), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Chair Carolyn Maloney (New York Democrat), House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard Neal (Massachusetts Democrat) and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff (California Democrat) unveil articles of impeachment against US President Donald Trump at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Democrats unveil obstruction, abuse of power charges in Trump impeachment

A newly hung sign points to the US embassy in Jerusalem, inaugurated on May 14, 2018. (Ben Sales/JTA)

US embassy gets approval for Jerusalem building plans

Corey Lewandowski, the former campaign manager for US President Donald Trump, stands with David Bossie, as he arrives to testify to the House Judiciary Committee, September 17, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Former Trump campaign aides in Israel to meet Netanyahu — report

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote during local elections at a polling station in the West Bank city of Ramallah, October 20, 2012. (AP/Majdi Mohammed)

PA seeks Israel’s permission to let East Jerusalemites vote in its elections

One of phosphate plants. (Shay Levy/Flash90)

State recommends police probe Negev phosphate plant over pollution

Tammy Hepps, Kate Rothstein and her daughter, Simone Rothstein, 16, pray from a prayerbook a block away from the site of a mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/AFP)

Researchers measure the dollar value of ‘thoughts and prayers’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Michael Chabon at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, October 14, 2018. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Hammer Museum via JTA)

It's a bird, it's a planeMichael Chabon adapting superhero novel for TV

By JTA

Illustrative image of a robot, Artificial Intelligence (AI); (PhonlamaiPhoto; iStock by Getty Images)

All-in-one chips seen boosting computer power for artificial intelligence needs

By Shoshanna Solomon

In this photo from October 8, 2019, technicians walk at the three thematic districts at the under construction site of the Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Israel confirms participation in 2020 Expo world fair in Dubai

The Israel Start-up Nation (Israel Cycling Academy) professional team roster to compete in the 2020 Tour de France (Noa Arnon)

Israeli cyclists to race in Tour de France bearing Start-Up Nation banner

By Shoshanna Solomon

Liliana Segre, an 89-year-old Auschwitz survivor and senator-for-life, center, attends an anti-racism demonstration in Milan's Victor Emmanuel II arcade in northern Italy joined by mayors of some 600 Italian towns, December 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Thousands rally around threatened Holocaust survivor in Milan

By AP and ToI Staff

Former IDB Group chairman Nochi Dankner (center) seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on April 23, 2018, as he arrives for his appeal of his conviction for stock manipulation. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Pardon for jailed tycoon Nochi Dankner delayed by new police probe

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