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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 17, 2019

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Jewish revelers dance down the street formerly named after Adolf Hitler in Freiburg im Breisgau in Germany as they welcome a Torah in December 2019 (Screencapture/YouTube)

In Germany, a Torah is inaugurated on former ‘Adolf Hitler Street’

Hundreds of Jews dance down the main street of Freiburg im Breisgau that was once named after the Nazi leader, as they welcome the sacred scroll

The grave of Reinhard Heydrich, powerful head of Hitler's Reich Security Office during World War II, in Berlin on December 16, 2019. (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)

Vandals in Berlin dig up grave of Reinhard Heydrich, who helped plan Holocaust

By AFP

From the blogs

Yossi Klein Halevi

Lessons in solidarity: How to defeat anti-Semitism

In fighting Corbyn, UK Jewry followed the Soviet Jewry movement’s playbook. Can American Jews learn from these examples?

A cartoon by Italian cartoonist Mario Improta depicting the European Union as Auschwitz and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as an escaped prisoner, December 14, 2019. (Mario Improta/Twitter)

Italian cartoon depicting EU as Nazi camp sparks outcry

By AP and ToI Staff

Auschwitz Memorial slams artist Mario Improta over image of Boris Johnson as Jewish prisoner escaping through ‘Arbeit macht frei’-like gate

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with thousands of students in Tehran, Iran, November 3, 2019. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran leader makes case for ‘brave and tireless’ French Holocaust denier

New immigrants from North America after disembarking from an El Al flight at Ben Gurion Airport, August 14, 2019. (Flash90)

Immigration to Israel surging, asylum seekers no longer arriving — state report

By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff

Central Bureau of Statistics says Israel on pace for 20% increase in immigration; over 3 million have moved to Israel since 1949, though many have left

Iraqi Jews arrive in Israel's Lod Airport on May 1, 1950. (GPO / BRAUNER TEDDY)

Jewish refugees left $150 billion in Middle Eastern countries, Israel estimates

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men work at a high tech start-up in an office in Tel Aviv, on March 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Most Israeli workers are unhappy with their work-life balance, survey finds

In this May 4, 2014, photo, an Etihad Airways plane prepares to land at the Abu Dhabi airport in the United Arab Emirates (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Brothers jailed in Australia for meat grinder plane bomb plot foiled by Israel

By AFP and ToI Staff

Khaled and Mahmoud Khayat sentenced to 40 and 36 years over Islamic State attempted bombing in 2017 of Etihad jet; IDF said it provided intelligence that led to arrests

Vienna, the capital city of Austria, on August 15, 2019. St. Stephens cathedral seen in backdrop. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Austrian authorities foil IS-inspired terror attack on Christmas market

By AFP

The family-owned Buy n Sell pawnshop searched by the FBI over the weekend is seen in Keyport, New Jersey, December 15, 2019. (Ed Murray/NJ Advance Media via AP)

Police raid suspect’s home, pawnshops linked to kosher market attacker

By David Porter and Joseph Frederick

Justice Minister Amir Ohana (L) with his candidate for interim state attorney Orly Ginsberg Ben-Ari, December 17, 2019. (Justice Ministry)

AG says minister cannot legally promote junior official to acting state attorney

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Move to name deputy Orly Ginsberg Ben-Ari as top prosecutor extremely unreasonable for transition government, Mandelblit argues, putting kibosh on posting

Justice Minister Amir Ohana (L) with his candidate for interim state attorney Orly Ginsberg Ben-Ari, December 17, 2019. (Justice Ministry)

Spurning AG’s candidate, justice minister names interim state prosecutor

By Raoul Wootliff

Civil Service Commissioner Daniel Hershkowitz attends a State Control Committee meeting at the Knesset, December 3, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90/File)

Civil service czar and justice minister clash over acting state attorney posting

Launching challenge to Netanyahu, Likud’s Sa’ar casts himself as savior of right

By Raoul Wootliff and Michael Bachner

10 days before leadership primary, dark horse candidate greets some 1,000 supporters, argues Netanyahu helming party will mean victory for the left

Likud party member Gideon Sa'ar launches his campaign for the upcoming primaries for the Likud chairman, ahead of the Knesset elections, in Or Yehuda, on December 16, 2019. (Courtesy)

Quoting Netanyahu, challenger Sa’ar demands cameras in primary polling stations

Former Likud lawmaker Begin: Netanyahu must resign

Israel media reviewNumber the Sa’ars: 9 things to know for December 17

By Joshua Davidovich

Mel Brooks on 'Mel Brooks Unwrapped': 'It is kind of a walk through my life, a memoir. Some of it is funny and some of it is moving and touching.' (HBO via JTA)

Interview

Mel Brooks gets serious in HBO special — but there’s plenty of shtick, too

By Curt Schleier

Illustrative: IDF troops conduct search operations around the Palestinian village of Beit Fajjar, near Bethlehem, in the West Bank, on August 8, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Live updates (closed)

Firebomb-wielding Palestinian shot by IDF on West Bank road

Army says suspect was targeting Israeli cars near Bethlehem; extent of his injuries unknown

7:01 pm

Palestinian throws firebomb at Israeli cars in West Bank, is shot
6:53 pm

Bloomberg won't disclose finances until after Iowa caucuses
6:13 pm

Israel allows shipment of rescue vehicles into Gaza

Habana's Goya Processor. (Courtesy: Habana)

In major deal, Intel buys Israeli chip maker Habana Labs for $2 billion

By ToI Staff and Shoshanna Solomon

Deal said to be US giant’s second-largest acquisition in Israel after Mobileye; Caesarea-based firm will continue to work from Jewish state

Check Point finds flaw in WhatsApp that could allow group-chat crash

By Shoshanna Solomon

Benny Gantz at the Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society organized by the Israel Democracy Institute, December 17, 2019 (Michal Fattal)

Israel has failed to bring economic boon to all parts of nation, Gantz says

By Shoshanna Solomon

A Russian ship at Syria's port of Tartus (YouTube screenshot)

Russia to modernize Syria port, build railway across Syria to Persian Gulf

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Major commercial projects could potentially make it easier for Tehran to increase its influence in Israel’s northeastern neighbor

Illustrative: Iranian protesters gather around a burning car during a demonstration against an increase of gasoline prices, in the capital Tehran, November 16, 2019. (AFP)

Iran sentences 3 labor activists to 5 years in prison

By AP

A private security worker takes pictures of a burned car that was set on fire by supporters of the Shiite Hezbollah and Amal Movement groups, in Beirut, Lebanon, December 17, 2019. (Hussein Malla/AP)

Hezbollah backers attack Beirut protesters as violence flares for third day

By AP

Tourists look at the view of the Dome of the Rock and the Temple Mount from the lookout of the Mount of Olives overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, on October 11, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Unconfirmed report: Trump plan sees 3-way peace deal between Israel, PLO, Hamas

Lebanese outlet claims deal would see Israel keep settlements, Palestinians get Jerusalem share, Saudis gain Temple Mount role, Egypt give land for Gaza

A Palestinian Hamas member stands guard in front of a poster of Qatar's Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, left, and former Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, during a press conference with Matthias Schmale, UNRWA's director in Gaza, and the Qatari envoy, Mohammed Al-Emadi, at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza, on February 19, 2018. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Hamas chief discusses Palestinian election drive with Qatari emir in Doha

Attorney Lea Tsemel in a trailer for the documentary "Advocate." (Screen capture/YouTube)

Israeli biopic about lawyer who represents Palestinians shortlisted for Oscars

Herzl’s images of Palestine and their link to Watergate

These historical photos, likely seen by the father of political Zionism, were rescued from obscurity by an anti-Vietnam-war bomb in 1970

Avinoam Bar-Yosef

WATCH: Micah Goodman on why US Jews must learn Hebrew

Goodman discusses his new book, which proposes that the path to a ’Judaism of inspiration’ goes through Hebrew culture

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Israeli security forces escort a group of religious Jews, as they visit the Temple Mount on Yom Kippur, September 19, 2018. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)

3 Jewish Israelis indicted for praying on Temple Mount

Haifa deputy Mayor Lazar Kaplan. (Screncapture/YouTube)

Calls for Haifa deputy mayor to quit for saying ultra-Orthodox ‘rape minors’

By Stuart Winer

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi speaks at an award ceremony at a military base north of Tel Aviv on December 16, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF head promises reckoning over misreported Haredi draft figures

By Judah Ari Gross

Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks to the press about his possible run for president, after touring the WH Bagshaw Company Factory in Nashua, New Hampshire, on January 29, 2019. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP/ File)

Bloomberg’s return to politics resurfaces old sexism complaints

Illustrative: Passengers walk past a departure board at Sheremetyevo international airport in Moscow, Russia, July 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Israeli businessmen deported from Moscow after airport detention

Residents of the Western Galilee call for a new desalination plant to be located in an existing industrial zone in coastal Acre, rather than on agricultural land. (Stop the Western Galilee Desalination Plant Campaign, Facebook)

Panel approves sixth desalination plant to sate Western Galilee

Anti-government protesters try to remove fences that divided between them and the riot police during a protest near the parliament square in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

In 3rd night of violence, Hezbollah supporters clash with security forces

By Bassam Mroue

Screen capture from video at the scene of a suspected murder in Bat Yam, December 16, 2019. (Channel 12 News)

Bat Yam man calls cops to confess to murdering brother

By Stuart Winer

Screen capture from video of the entrance to Indiana University. (YouTube)

Jewish students assaulted trying to enter Indiana University frat party

By JTA and ToI Staff

Barry and Honey Sherman pose for a photo in Toronto, Canada, October 15, 2017. (United Jewish Appeal Federation - Greater Toronto/ Canadian Press via AP)

Mystery lingers as private detectives end probe into Toronto couple’s deaths

By AP and ToI Staff

The scene after two cyclists were killed when they were hit by a car close to the Hadarim Junction in the center of the country, December 16, 2019 (Magen David Adom)

Driver remanded for killing cyclists, suspected of driving under the influence

The Bettens siblings and members of Belgian band K's Choice on stage at Hangar 11 in Tel Aviv on December 16, 2019 (Courtesy Alon Levin)

Audience of fans2 decades on, rock band K’s Choice still ‘humbled’ by Israeli love

By Natalie Lisbona

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