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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 14, 2019

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Police officers stand near the scene of a gun fight at a kosher supermarket and next door yeshiva in Jersey City, New Jersey, December 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

'The doorway to the yeshiva was 3 feet away'

Jersey City mayor: Gunmen wanted to target next door yeshiva with 50 kids inside

By ToI Staff and AP

If police hadn’t managed to trap shooters in kosher store where 3 killed, result would have been ‘much worse,’ says Steven Fulop; attack viewed as domestic terrorism

David Lax, a survivor the Jersey City kosher supermarket shooting, speaks with NBC news in an interview broadcast on December 12, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

Jersey City shooting survivor says attackers looked well-trained, ‘came to kill’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Jersey City, New Jersey Mayor Steven Fulop speaks during a press conference at the scene of the JC Kosher Supermarket shooting, December 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Why Jersey City’s Jewish mayor was quick to call shooting an anti-Semitic attack

By Josefin Dolsten

Douglas Miguel Rodriguez (Courtesy)

Jersey City market employee was killed after helping save wounded Jewish victim

By JTA

Report says Douglas Miguel Rodriquez held open back door of kosher shop after shooting began, enabling customer hurt in attack to escape

Det. Joseph Seals was slain by gunmen who went on to attack a Jersey City kosher market on Dec. 10, 2019. (Jersey City Police Officers Benevolent Association via JTA)

Orthodox community raises $50,000 for family of slain Jersey City detective

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures after pulling a pint with newly elected Conservative party MP for Sedgefield, Paul Howell, at Sedgefield Cricket Club in County Durham, north east England on December 14, 2019, following his Conservative party's general election victory. (Photo by Lindsey Parnaby / POOL / AFP)

Johnson takes victory lap in traditional Labour areas that powered crushing win

By Mike Corder and Jill Lawless

In northern England, PM promises to repay voters’ trust, as Corbyn feels further heat from inside his party over drubbing at the polls

US President Donald Trump meets with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the United Nations General Assembly, September 24, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump sees incumbent Johnson’s UK win as ‘harbinger of what’s to come’ in US

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson waves after addressing the media outside 10 Downing Street in London, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. Johnson's Conservative Party won a thumping majority of seats in Britain's Parliament.(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

After massive election win, Johnson urges UK to ‘let the healing begin’

By Jill Lawless, DANICA KIRKA and Mike Corder

British opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks during the declaration of his seat in the 2019 general election in Islington, London, Friday, Dec. 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Corbyn to quit early next year as UK Labour smashed in election

By Gregory Katz and ToI Staff

After resisting calls to step down, Corbyn now says he will go after vote held for new party chief; Labour hampered by stance on Brexit and widespread accusations of anti-Semitism

Baroness Jenny Tonge (screen capture: YouTube)

From our partnerUK baroness: Chief rabbi ‘must be dancing in the street’ after Labour defeat

Illustration: One of El Al's Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, August 23, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

El Al plane grounded after striking electric pole in Las Vegas

Flight cancelled as Dreamliner’s wing damaged, apparently when airport employee towing the aircraft refuses to wait for someone to direct him

Pynchas Brener, December 9, 2019 (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Interview

At 88, Venezuela’s would-be ambassador to Israel can’t wait to get to work

By Raphael Ahren

State Attorney Shai Nitzan speaks at the Makor Rishon Conference at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem, December 8, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

In farewell interview, top prosecutor derides Netanyahu’s claim he’s been framed

Shai Nitzan says it was not his decision alone to charge PM, denies political bias, dismisses calls from PM’s backers for him to be investigated: ‘What crime did I commit?’

Anti-Semitic Polish ex-priest Jacek Międlar. (YouTube screen capture)

Polish far-right leader arrested for inciting anti-Semitism

By AP

Authorities plan to charge Jacek Miedlar over manifesto accusing Jews of betraying the country when it regained independence in 1918

Heinz-Christian Strache, Austria's former vice-chancellor and disgraced former leader of the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe), gives a statement to the press in Vienna on October 1, 2019. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

Austrian far-right boots scandal-plagued ex-leader

By AFP

Mordechai Chertoff, an American who lived in pre-state Palestine from 1947-1950, where he wrote for the Palestine Post and served in the Haganah (Courtesy Daniel Chertoff)

Rediscovered: A father’s lost letters from Israel’s foundational years

By Jessica Steinberg

Love. Labour. Lost.

The party was the political home for the vast majority of Great Britain’s Jews. How did it become so unlivable?

My Christmas wish is a gluten-free knish

A multicultural holiday love story about the most important common denominator: food

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Adam Sandler, center, star of the film 'Uncut Gems,' with co-directors Benny Safdie, left, and his brother Josh at the St. Regis Hotel during the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, September 9, 2019. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Adam Sandler dishes on plunging into the Safdies’ frenetic new film ‘Uncut Gems’

Laith Abu Zeyad (Amir Ben-David)

Interview

The thin line between ‘activist’ and ‘ticking time bomb’ for an Amnesty employee

By Amir Ben-David

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Illustrative: An Israel Police car, February 27, 2017. (Moti Karelitz/Flash90)

Shots fired at house of Arab mayor in Galilee

A Palestinian worker checks a truck carrying United Nations Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) aid supplies that arrived through the Kerem Shalom crossing from Israel to the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, on May 12, 2019. (Said Khatib/AFP)

UN formally approves extension of Palestinian refugee agency’s mandate

Illustrative: Palestinians clash with Israeli troops during along the border with Israel, east of Bureij in the central Gaza Strip, on December 6, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)

Gazans clash with IDF troops along border as Hamas marks 32 years since founding

President Donald Trump is greeted by Pastor Robert Jeffress at the Celebrate Freedom Rally at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, July 1, 2017. (Olivier Douliery/Pool/ Getty Images via JTA)

At White House Hanukkah party, Trump hails pastor who preaches Jews go to hell

Member of the committee work during a House Judiciary Committee markup of the articles of impeachment against US President Donald Trump, December 13, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)

House panel approves Trump charges, setting up impeachment vote

By AFP

In this Oct. 25, 2019 file photo, supporters of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah hold his pictures and waves Hezbollah flags in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Lebanon’s Hezbollah insists on a wide coalition to solve ‘dire’ situation

By AP

A man holds a sign in the street as Lev Parnas arrives at court in New York, Monday, Dec. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Prosecutors seek jail for Giuliani ally over $1 million transfer from Russia

By ToI Staff and AP

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have found that fruit bats are able to translate, to some extent, echo-acoustic information into 3D shapes (Courtesy)

Environment Ministry extends protected status to hundreds of animals, plants

New York City police department detectives use a flashlight to look for evidence in Morningside Park, December 12, 2019, in the Upper West Side of Manhattan. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

13-year-old boy arrested over killing of Barnard College freshman

By Michael R. Sisak

David Stern, former NBA commissioner, speaks at the Hashtag Sports Conference in New York, June 26, 2017. (Adam Hunger/AP Images for Hashtag Sports)

Former NBA commissioner David Stern has emergency brain surgery

By Marc Brodsky

Midge takes her act on the road in Season 3 of 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.' (Courtesy)

And so fourth‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ renewed for 4th season

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, speaks at the group's biennial in Chicago about combating racism, Dec. 12, 2019. (Courtesy of the Union for Reform Judaism via JTA)

Reform Jewish movement votes to support reparations for African-Americans

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