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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 18, 2019

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Live updates (closed)

As House debates Trump impeachment, he decries ‘assault on America’

‘Today we are here to defend democracy for the people,’ says Pelosi; Democrats approve debate rules, confirming strong support for move

7:15 pm

Man whose number found on NJ shooter was selling arms
7:05 pm

As House debates Trump impeachment, he decries 'ASSAULT ON AMERICA'
6:27 pm

In personal letter, Prince Charles thanks Rivlin for opportunity to visit

This photo from May 17, 2015, shows the Domodedovo Airport in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, file)

Dozens of Israelis detained at Moscow airport, with no reason given

Foreign Ministry says only one Israeli still held, expected to soon be released; Russian embassy notes some 20 Russian tourists denied entry to Israel every day

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

Netanyahu vows to return backpacker jailed by Russia

Lutfiya Zbad, 52, went missing in Paris on October 8, 2019. (Courtesy of Rasem Zbad)

Family protests as efforts to find Israeli mother missing in Paris sputter

US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, December 17, 2019. (Evan Vucci/AP)

Trump invokes Jerusalem, Golan in note slamming impeachment as ‘abuse of power’

In angry letter, US president lists Jerusalem embassy move, Golan recognition as accomplishments; tells Speaker Nancy Pelosi that impeachment is ‘illegal, partisan attempted coup’

Trump on brink of impeachment as US House readies historic vote

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK

Congress nixes Trump’s $175m peace plan fund, gives $150m aid to Palestinians

US denies report of 3-way deal between Israel, PA, Hamas in peace plan

By Eric Cortellessa

Prince Charles seen during the funeral late former president Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl, in Jerusalem, on September 30, 2016. (Emil Salman/Pool)

In first official visit, Prince Charles due in Jerusalem for Auschwitz memorial

By Raphael Ahren

Future king’s trip next month will be only the second time a member of UK royal family makes official trip to Israel; Prince of Wales also set to visit Palestinian territories

Labour lawmaker Chris Williamson, seen in 2018, was suspended by the party in February. (Jack Taylor/Getty Images via JTA)

Anti-Israel stalwarts blame Zionists and Jews for Corbyn’s defeat in UK election

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In this March 21, 2019 file photo, British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, right, and Keir Starmer, Labour Shadow Brexit secretary, leave EU headquarters prior to an EU summit in Brussels. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

UK Labour figures begin jostling to take over party from Corbyn

By AP

Illustrative: Screen capture from video of an Israeli doctor and a teacher, left, who survived a near fatal heart attack after two pupils kept her alive using CPR, December 17, 2019. (Courtesy Hadassah Hospital)

Pregnant teacher has heart attack, ‘dies’; students perform CPR, save her life

By Stuart Winer

Chen Danziger, 29, in her fifth month, collapses outside of her school in Beit Shemesh; two students keep her heart pumping until medics arrive

Likud MK Nir Barkat speaks at the opening of an ancient road at the City of David archaeological site in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, June 30, 2019. (Flash90)

Barkat asks US to sanction Turkey after report of Hamas assassination plot

Ex-Jerusalem mayor said to have been targeted demands international response similar to pressure on Iran, after UK newspaper says Ankara lets terrorists plan attacks from its soil

Turkey allowing Hamas to plot attacks on Israelis from its soil – report

Trump administration refuses to back Senate recognition of Armenian genocide

By ToI Staff and Agencies

In blow to Turkey, US Congress ends decades-old arms embargo on Cyprus

By AFP

Activists concerned by the threat of pollution from the Leviathan gas field gather at Dor Beach in northern Israel on December 13 (Shoham Efrati)

Activists score delay in gas rig test they say will release hazardous pollutants

By Nathan Jeffay and ToI Staff

Court to hold hearing on claims that trial will endanger health of coastal residents near rig for Leviathan field in Mediterranean Sea

The invasive common myna (Acridotheres tristis). (Ehud Fast)

3 non-native birds helping to spur significant decline in local species — study

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron, speaking at the Eli Hurvitz Conference on Economy and Society organized by the Israel Democracy Institute, December 17, 2019 (Michal Fattal)

Budget deficit could balloon if steps not taken, central bank chief warns

By Shoshanna Solomon

Friday night prayers at the Union for Reform Judaism Biennial Dec. 13, 2019. (Rob Dicker/Union for Reform Judaism/JTA)

Pushing the boundaries of tradition: Inside America’s biggest Shabbat service

Then-defense minister Avigdor Liberman and then-justice minister Ayelet Shaked arrive for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 17, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Exclusive

Courting Shaked, Yisrael Beytenu dangles offer to join right-wing bloc

By Shalom Yerushalmi and ToI Staff

Liberman offers New Right’s former justice minister No. 2 slot in his party to sweeten deal, in hopes of winning 3 more seats in March, but she spurns overture

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)

Likud denies Sa’ar allies’ claim membership rolls purged before leadership vote

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at an event opening the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency in Jerusalem, December 15, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Responding to Sa’ar petition, Netanyahu backs cameras in Likud polling stations

Likud MK Amir Ohana attends a Knesset debate on December 28, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel media review

Judging Amir: 7 things to know for December 18

By Joshua Davidovich

Justice Minister Ohana may, like his boss the PM, want to investigate the investigators, but now he’s being prosecuted (metaphorically) for picking the wrong prosecutor

High Court freezes controversial interim state attorney appointment

Group petitions High Court against pick for interim state attorney

Digging in heels, justice minister dismisses AG rejection of state attorney pick

Joshua Z. Rokach

The executive order on anti-Semitism is illegal

Notwithstanding Jared Kushner’s convoluted defense, the president had no authority to issue the order. It requires an Act of Congress

’My husband died for love’

At the memorial service, a woman approached us and asked, ’May we make you a cup of coffee?’ That was when I began to cry

Jason Dov Greenblatt

Thanking the unsung heroes who keep US synagogues safe

It is clear that these volunteers protect us at some risk to themselves — yet instead of quitting, they now wear bulletproof vests

The future ain’t what it used to be

It’s no surprise that hundreds of those in the UK Jewish community who left the Labour Party to protest Corbyn are already back

Brazilian lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro at the Foreign Relations Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, in Brasilia, Brazil, August 14, 2019 (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Interview

Brazil’s other Bolsonaro sees future embassy move as start of pro-Israel shift

By Raphael Ahren

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Volunteer "memory watcher" Lionel Godmet patrols in the Jewish cemetery in Jungholtz, eastern France, on December 10, 2019. (SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP)

Analysis

Beatrice ROMAN-AMAT

‘Guardians of memory’ keep watch over France’s Jewish cemeteries after attacks

After spate of vandalism shocked the nation, civic-minded non-Jewish volunteers take to patrolling cemeteries, call to ‘Leave the dead in peace!’

In this photo from December 16, 2019, dozens of damaged tombstones lay at the Jewish cemetery in Namestovo, Slovakia. (AP Photo/Karol Kurtulik)

Dozens of Jewish graves vandalized in Slovakia

By AP

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Illustrative image of robots working with carton boxes on a conveyor belt (PhonlamaiPhoto; iStock by Getty Images)

Short-staffed at factory? Japanese-Israeli venture offers robots for hire

By Shoshanna Solomon

A section of the high speed Jerusalem-Tel Aviv train line on the outskirts of Jerusalem, on September 25, 2018. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Officials finally inaugurate Jerusalem-Tel Aviv fast train to ‘connect country’

Illustrative. Handcuffs in a courthouse. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

9 teens suspected of alleged gang rape of 14-year-old girl

Illustrative: Lebanese anti-government protesters burn tires to block a road in al-Mina town in the northern port city of Tripoli on December 10, 2019, following the collapse of a house overnight in the area that killed two siblings. (Fathi AL-MASRI / AFP)

Lebanese biker mob attacks Sunni cleric’s office, torches city’s Christmas tree

By AP

In this December 11, 2019, photo released by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities, archaeology workers clean a small pink granite statue of Ramses II, near the ancient pyramids of Giza, Egypt. (Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities via AP)

Rare statues of Pharaoh Ramses II, mini sphinx unveiled by Egypt

By Isabel Debre

A woman, identified by the New York Police Department as Zarinah Ali, rants against Jews at a subway station in New York on December 12, 2019. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israeli student says she was victim of anti-Semitic attack on NY subway

Israeli security forces arrest suspected PFLP members as part of a broad crackdown on the terror group in the West Bank, in an undated photograph released on December 17, 2019. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel arrests 50 PFLP members in crackdown following deadly August bombing

By Judah Ari Gross

A picture taken on December 17, 2019, shows the arrival in Rafah of 24 vehicles, donated by Qatar, after crossing into the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Israel allows Qatari donation of 20 emergency vehicles into Gaza

A picture taken on September 25, 2018 shows a scene from the southern Jordanian desert of Wadi Rum. (Photo by THOMAS COEX / AFP)

Jordan’s Wadi Rum a favorite backdrop for Hollywood Jedi and genies

Illustrative. An IDF soldier from the C4I Corps types on a computer. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF holds surprise cyber defense drill simulating critical systems shutdown

By Judah Ari Gross

Pallbearers transport the casket of Jersey City Police Detective Joseph Seals in to St. Aeden's church for the funeral services in Jersey City, New Jersey, December 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Thousands honor Jersey City cop killed by kosher market assailants

By AP and ToI Staff

Responders at the scene of a shooting that left multiple people dead at a kosher market, December 11, 2019, in Jersey City, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)

Jersey City shooter called Jews ‘Nazis,’ showed hatred of police in online posts

By Josefin Dolsten

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