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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 12, 2019

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Benny Gantz walks during a session of the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 11, 2019.(Gali TIBBON / AFP)

Knesset dissolves, sets unprecedented third election in under a year

Israelis to head back to polls on March 2 in latest bid to solve political deadlock that has engulfed country; short-lived 22nd Knesset automatically disperses at midnight

Prime Minister Bejnamin Netanyahu meets with heads of right-wing and ultra-Orthodox parties in Jerusalem, October 23, 2019 (Likud)

Knesset’s dead, but right-wing clique to stick together, Shas head says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting of the right-wing partie's bloc at the Knesset on November 20, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu says he’ll drop all his ministerial posts except premier by year’s end

This composite photo shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Blue and White party chief, Benny Gantz, right, speaking separately at a media conference in Jerusalem, December 8, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Hadash Parush/Flash90)

Op-ed

Why Israel’s third elections might not be such a disaster, after all

Between them, our electorate, our system and our politicians have combined to force us to a third vote inside a year. Maybe this time, we’ll manage a decisive collective decision

Israel media reviewIf you don’t succeed, try again… and again: 6 things to know for December 12

As new elections agreed, parties get set for fresh campaigns with budget boost

Blue and White, Likud sling blame as Knesset barrels toward fresh elections

Illustration by Avi Katz

Necessary Stories

A prayer for Bibi

By Haim Watzman

Yisrael Beitenu's party head Avigdor Liberman delivers a statement to the press on December 11, 2019 in Jerusalem. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)

Liberman backs pardon for Netanyahu in exchange for exit from politics

Yisrael Beytenu chief does not explicitly state if he opposes immunity for the scandal-ridden prime minister, but says there’s ‘a sense of fatigue’ with him in the Knesset

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Likud MK David Bitan at a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on November 20, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu loyalist maneuvers to try to cancel Likud leadership primaries

By Raoul Wootliff

State Attorney Shai Nitzan attends a Justice conference in Tel Aviv on November 4, 2019. (Flash90)

Netanyahu lashes top prosecutor for rape reference in interview about him

If you want Federal dollars, you 'must reject anti-Semitism'

At Hanukkah party, Trump signs controversial executive order on anti-Semitism

By Eric Cortellessa

Seen by some as marking out Judaism as a race, move cuts funds for colleges that don’t tackle discrimination against Jewish students; critics warn it’ll chill free speech, backfire

US President Donald Trump shows the executive order he signed combatting anti-Semitism in the US during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, December 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US President Donald Trump signs an executive order combating anti-Semitism in the US during a Hanukkah reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, December 11, 2019. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Netanyahu thanks Trump for executive order ‘against discrimination of Jews’

Rick Wiles, a Florida pastor known for his anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, is the founder of TruNews. (Screenshot from Vimeo via JTA)

Website that called impeachment inquiry a ‘Jew coup’ covered AIPAC conference

Britain's Prime Minister and Conservative leader Boris Johnson gives a speech on stage after retaining his seat to be MP for Uxbridge and Ruislip South, on December 13, 2019 (Oli SCARFF/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Johnson crushes Corbyn in UK win, claims ‘powerful new mandate’ for Brexit

Conservatives trounce Labour in election centered on leaving the EU; Corbyn says he won’t lead Labour in another election after party’s worst performance since 1935

4:09 am

Boris Johnson claims 'powerful new mandate' for Brexit
3:48 am

UK Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson loses seat
3:33 am

Corbyn says he won't lead Labour into another election

JERSEY CITY, NJ - DECEMBER 11: Recovery and clean up crews work the scene in the aftermath of a mass shooting at the JC Kosher Supermarket on December 11, 2019 in Jersey City, New Jersey. Six people, including a Jersey City police officer and three civilians were killed in a deadly, hours-long gun battle between two armed suspects and police on Tuesday in a standoff and shootout in a Jewish market that appears to have been targeted, according to Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop. Rick Loomis/Getty Images/AFP

Answers sought as authorities shy from declaring Jersey City attack anti-Semitic

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Footage emerges of gunmen parking outside kosher supermarket, opening fire and making a beeline for the store; 3rd victim of attack identified as Miguel Jason Rodriguez

Fears of anti-Semitism hang over New Jersey attack probe

By AP and ToI Staff

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

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Who are the Black Hebrews, the group linked to Jersey City shooter?

A Hasidic man stands in front of JC Kosher Supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey, the site of a deadly anti-Semitic shooting, December 11, 2019. (Laura E. Adkins/JTA News)

Analysis

Ben Sales and LAURA E. ADKINS

Orthodox Jews tried to build a home in Jersey City, the shooting won’t end it

Kosher store opened by Leah Mindel Ferencz, who was killed in attack, and her husband, was a foundation stone of new community of Hasidic Jews escaping Brooklyn’s high prices

Orthodox Jewish men carry the casket with shooting victim Mindel Ferencz outside a Brooklyn synagogue, Wednesday, December 11, 2019, in New York. Ferencz was killed in a shooting attack on a kosher supermarket. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Thousands mourn at funerals of 2 Jewish victims of Jersey City shooting

By ToI Staff and AP

New York City police guard a Brooklyn synagogue prior to a funeral for Moshe Deutsch, December 11, 2019. Insert: Jersey City synagogue shooting victims Leah Mindel Ferencz, left, and Moshe Deutsch, right. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan/courtesy)

Jersey City rampage victims remembered as generous Satmar community members

By ToI Staff and Agencies

From the blogs

Michael Unterberg

The return of the Jewish Question

The identity of Jews in Western countries is the topic of widespread public debate, and it’s a conversation Jews should be having too

Ilyse Muser Shainbrown

Where should we go? The shootout in Jersey City

These times (again) that push Jews to seek a safe haven

Judaism is not a nationality

Trump’s executive order will lead only to US Jews feeling unsafe and strangers in a land we have called home since we came in 1654

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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson poses with his dog Dilyn as he leaves from a polling station in central London on December 12, 2019, as Britain holds a general election. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP)

Britain goes to polls in fateful election centered on Brexit, anti-Semitism

By Phil HAZLEWOOD

Vote will determine immediate future of UK’s troubled departure from EU; Boris Johnson leads Jeremy Corbyn in polls, but vote seen as volatile

Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn at a campaign event in Stainton Village, northeast England, December 11, 2019. (Oli Scarff/AFP)

Rabbi was duped into signing letter supporting Corbyn, ultra-Orthodox group says

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev create protocol for the use of cannabis to help sleep loss, pain in older adults (Deagreez; iStock by Getty Images)

Researchers set out roadmap for using cannabis to ease older patients’ ailments

By Shoshanna Solomon

When other medications fail to help seniors with chronic pain, sleep difficulties, reduced appetite, nausea and PTSD, Israeli scientists point to cannabis

Players during the first day of the Jerusalem Grand Prix in chess, December 11, 2019. (World Chess)

Jerusalem Grand Prix 2019

Elite world chess event begins in Israel, as organizers seek opening for more

By Michael Bachner

More Headlines

Naama Issachar has been detained in or near Moscow since April. (Naama Issachar/Instagram via JTA)

Russian court delays hearing for jailed Israeli-American so she can attend

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, right, and Austrian vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache, of the Freedom Party, at a special meeting of the Austrian National Assembly at the temporary parliamentary assembly hall at Vienna Castle on December 20, 2017. (AFP/ APA / ROLAND SCHLAGER)

Austrian parliament sets stage for overwhelming condemnation of BDS

By Raphael Ahren

Israeli security forces clash with Palestinian protesters in the West Bank city of Hebron on December 9, 2019. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Israel arrests several senior Hamas officials in West Bank raids

BDS activist protest against an Israeli-Palestinian delegation in Madrid, Spain (video screenshot)

BDS activists hurl insults at delegation of settlers and Palestinians in Madrid

A vandalized building in the Arab Israeli town of Manshiya Zabda, December 12, 2019. The graffiti says: 'Arabs are enemies, expel or kill' (Israel Police)

Police probe hate crime after cars, buildings vandalized in Arab Israeli town

Desalitech's reverse osmosis water purification technology (YouTube screenshot)

DuPont in deal to buy water purification firm Desalitech

By Shoshanna Solomon

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

Bat Yam won’t join Tel Aviv area in offering public buses on Shabbat

English soprano Sarah Brightman will perform for the first time in Israel on July 9, 2020 (Courtesy Sarah Brightman)

Time to say helloSoprano Sarah Brightman books first concert in Israel

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: Jewish Orthodox women study Talmud at Kibbutz of Migdal Oz religious study seminary on May 23, 2013. (FLASH90 / Gershon Elinson)

Talmud study is mostly a boys’ club. This Orthodox woman wants to change that

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo makes remarks to members of the media at the press briefing room of the State Department December 11, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

US hits Iran with new sanctions, but hopes for prisoner dialogue

Ursula Haverbeck arrives in the Tiergarten District Court in Berlin, Germany, October 16, 2017. (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)

German ‘Nazi grandma’ denied early prison release

Soldiers attend an oath-taking ceremony of the German army at the Defence Ministry in Berlin, Germany, July 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

After 100 years, Germany to reinstate military rabbis

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