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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 19, 2019

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US President Donald Trump speaks at the Israeli American Council National Summit in Hollywood, Florida, December 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

'Historically, political instability is bad for the Jews'

‘Jew coup’: The anti-Semitic conspiracy theories surrounding Trump’s impeachment

By Eric Cortellessa

Jewish leaders worry over a backlash, as anti-Semites spread notion that a cabal of Jews is trying to oust the US president

US President Donald Trump boards Air Force One for a campaign rally in Battle Creak, Mich., Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, in Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

US congressman: Trump treated worse than Jesus before crucifixion

By AFP

Russian President Vladimir Putin during his annual news conference in Moscow, Russia, December 19, 2019. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin: Trump’s impeachment far-fetched, Senate will acquit

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and Harriet Morris

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, speaks during a vote on the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, December 18, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

US President Donald Trump impeached by House on two charges

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK

He becomes only third American president to be formally charged and will now go to Republican-controlled Senate for trial where he is likely to be acquitted

Trump lashes out at Democrats’ ‘illegal… suicide march’ after impeachment vote

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Zeke Miller and Jill Colvin

AnalysisImpeachment forever changes Trump’s legacy

By Jonathan Lemire

After vote, Pelosi stokes Trump impeachment trial uncertainty

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and Laurie Kellman

Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov at the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv, November 2019. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

Israel, Russia hold ‘good’ meeting, but pall lingers over visitors, backpacker

By Joshua Davidovich

As Netanyahu vows to help, Russian ambassador says politicians and media may be hurting case of Naama Issachar by putting claims out in the open

7:34 pm

US says new evidence points to Iran as culprit of Saudi oil attack -- report
7:28 pm

Lebanese protest appointment of Hezbollah-backed PM
7:25 pm

Israel gives Russia 'free Naama' dossier -- report

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

Israel media review

Red yawn: 6 things to know for December 19

By Joshua Davidovich

The Russians are holding up Israelis, and the diplomatic spat is about as interesting as you would expect being stuck at an airport to be

US-Israeli backpacker Naama Issachar, center, sits inside a glass cage during appeal hearings in a courtroom in Moscow, Russia, December 19, 2019. (Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr./AP)

At appeal, US-Israeli jailed in Russia says didn’t know she signed confession

Image of a man caught on camera ransacking the Beverly Hills Nessah Synagogue, December 14, 2019. (Beverly Hills Police Department)

Suspect arrested, charged with hate crime for vandalism of Los Angeles synagogue

By ToI Staff and JTA

Police said to be investigating possible link to a string of anti-Semitic graffiti attacks in city that targeted vehicles and Jewish schools; suspect detained in Hawaii

American Jewish University in Bel Air, California. (Wikimedia/Cbl62 CC BY-SA 3.0)

3 schools in Los Angeles spray-painted with anti-Semitic graffiti

By JTA

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)

Man whose number was found on Jersey City gunman accused of selling arms

By David Porter

Photographs of finds from the Tel Hreiz settlement. (a-b) exposure of stone-built features in shallow water. (c) wooden posts dug into the seabed. (d) bifacial flint adze. (e) in situ stone bowl made of sandstone. (f) in situ basalt grounding stone (scale = 20cm); (g) burial 1. (h) suspected stone built cist grave - view from the east (scale = 20cm). (i) in situ antler of Mesopotamian fallow deer, Dama dama mesopotamica. (All photographs by E. Galili with the exception of Fig 3G by V. Eshed)

Archaeology

7,000-year-old seawall, built to block rising sea levels, found off Haifa coast

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The Bundestag votes in favor of a resolution calling on the German government to ban Hezbollah activities in Germany, December 19 (courtesy Bundestag.de)

German parliament passes measure urging government to outlaw Hezbollah activity

By Raphael Ahren

Bundestag passes nonbinding resolution with large majority; Israeli envoy to Berlin hails ‘important and significant’ resolution as ‘crucial step,’ calls on others to follow suit

Hezbollah-backed professor likely candidate for Lebanese premiership

By AP and ToI Staff

'Oy' of the beholderBeirut axes statue for resemblance to Star of David

Merkel defends German UN voting record on Israel after rap from Jewish group

By AP

German MP Benjamin Strasser in front of the historic Reichstag building in Berlin (Tanja Ruetz)

Interview

German lawmaker behind Hezbollah ban says move in ‘our own national interest’

By Raphael Ahren

The Nerivio device developed by Theranica Bioelectronics is worn on the upper arm to stimulate the body's neural pathway and fight migraine pain. (Courtesy)

Israeli migraine-busting device saluted as 2020 ‘game changer’

By Shoshanna Solomon

Netanya-based startup Theranica chosen in category of ‘electro-charged therapeutics’ by New York data firm CB Insights

A car exiting a parking lot; Arrive and Israel R&D team seek to find better parking solutions for users (Courtesy)

Creators of ParkWhiz app expand Israel R&D, eye more easy-parking features

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative image of a patient at an optometrist (nd3000, iStock by Getty Images)

US contact lens firm to buy Israel’s optometrist-in-a-phone startup

By Shoshanna Solomon

The family of Rina Shnerb (pictured in the center) address reporters outside the Ofer military prison on December 18, 2019. (Screen capture/Arutz 7)

IDF prepares to raze home of terror leader in attack that killed Israeli teen

Family of Rina Shnerb, who was killed in August bombing attack, praises security forces for crackdown on PFLP terror operatives

Rocket fired from Gaza toward Israel; air force bombs Hamas arms factory

Abbas says no elections unless Palestinians in East Jerusalem can vote

UN: Israel has advanced 22,000 housing units since 2016 anti-settlement measure

By Edith M. Lederer

When will Labour be kosher again? When Luciana is back

If not for the rabid anti-Semitism unleashed under Corbyn, the noble former MP would be sitting in the UK parliament today

One nation, under God?

The uproar over defining Jewish identity highlights a chasm between Jews in and outside of Israel that urgently needs to be bridged

Chaim Silberstein

When terror became personal for me

My daughter survived an anti-Semitic terror attack last year. Here’s what I want the Jersey City survivors to know

Susannah Schild

This Hanukkah, take a hike. 10 of them. In Israel

Your guide to wonderful winter walks that will take you and your family out into nature during the holiday

Then-Defense Minister Naftali Bennett (L) speaks with IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi (R) and Brig. Gen. Avi Gil, head of Northern Command's 36th Division, in the Golan Heights on December 18, 2019. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Touring north, Bennett warns Iran ‘will sink in Syria’s sand dunes’

Defense minister says Israel ‘increasing the pressure’ on Tehran to prevent it from establishing a military presence in neighboring territory

Iran begins testing much faster centrifuges as nuclear deal further unravels

National security adviser talks Iran at White House with US counterpart

Iran leader urges deeper Muslim monetary links to fight US ‘hegemony’

Members and supporters of the nationalistic parties in Ukraine rally in front of the parliament in Kyiv on November 26, 2018. (Sergii Kharchenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images via JTA)

Ukraine restores diplomat who blamed Jews for WWII, posed with ‘Mein Kampf’ cake

By JTA and AFP

Jewish community furious after court ruling to reinstate ‘anti-Semitic’ emissary Vasyl Maruschynets; Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine says Jerusalem ‘confused’

Greek prosecutor urges acquittal of neo-Nazis in murder trial

By AFP

Cyprus adopts international anti-Semitism definition, earning praise from Israel

Jewish group to repair earthquake-struck home of Albanian Muslim who saved Jews

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Portrait of Geula Cohen, in her home in Jerusalem. May 24, 2011.( Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

ObituaryGeula Cohen, pre-state underground fighter, veteran right-wing MK, dies at 93

Professor Russell Ciochon holds a cast of a Homo erectus skull at his lab in Iowa City, 2019. (Tim Schoon/University of Iowa via AP)

Homo erectus may have been wiped out by climate change, scientists say

By Malcolm Ritter

Yosef Eshed (Screen capture: Facebook)

Back to school102-year-old Israeli man gets kindergarten enrollment letter

By JTA

View of the Leviathan gas field gas processing rig near the city of Caesarea, on January 31, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Canceling injunction, court allows contentious gas rig test to go forward

Police officers are seen outside a home in Ilut in northern Israel after a mother allegedly stabbed her infant son, December 18, 2019. (Israel Police)

Mother arrested in north after confessing to stabbing her infant son

Illustrative: American Airlines aircraft parked at their gates at Miami International Airport in Miami, April 24, 2019. (Wilfredo Lee/AP)

Mechanic pleads guilty to Miami jetliner sabotage, claims it was to get overtime

By Curt Anderson

An old car burns from bushfires in Balmoral, 150 kilometres southwest of Sydney on December 19, 2019. (PETER PARKS/AFP)

Australia declares emergency as temperature record broken for 2nd time in week

By Tristan Lavalette

An inscription on a wall in the Palestinian village of Al-Jib says 'Arabs? Expel or kill!' December 19, 2019 (Israel Police)

Cars vandalized in Palestinian village, graffiti urges ‘expel or kill’ Arabs

F-35 fighter jets fly over Israel in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)

F-35 jets let IAF ‘go wherever it needs to go,’ manufacturer says

By Judah Ari Gross

Yonatan Fadida, 29, the driver who allegedly killed two cyclists in a traffic accident arrives for a court hearing at the Petah Tikva Magistrate's Court, December 17, 2019. (Flash90)

Police: Driver who killed cyclists had lost license, hid drugs rather than help

Erica Tishman (Zubatkin via JTA)

Prominent architect and NY synagogue board member killed by falling brick

By JTA

Illustrative: A Hamas flag at the Temple Mount, in 2013 (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

US Justice Department seeks to revoke citizenship of Hamas supporter

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