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What Matters Most On Friday, December 20, 2019

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks as former Vice President Joe Biden listens during a Democratic presidential primary debate Thursday, Dec. 19, 2019, in Los Angeles. (AP/Chris Carlson)

Sanders calls Netanyahu a ‘racist,’ Biden slams PM’s ‘outrageous’ behavior

By ToI Staff and Agencies

At 5th Democratic debate in LA, Vermont senator says US should ‘level the playing field’ and ‘also must be pro-Palestinian’; ex-Veep urges constant pressure for 2-state solution

AnalysisCongress spending bills show support for two-state solution, Israeli security

Democratic presidential candidate and former vice president Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in Nashua, New Hampshire, December 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Cheryl Senter)

Joe Biden accuses Trump of stoking anti-Semitism

By JTA

Jewish Home leader Rafi Peretz, right, with Itamar Ben Gvir, left, of the extremist Otzma Yehudit party, December 20, 2019. (Courtesy)

Jewish Home party, far-right Otzma Yehudit reunite ahead of third elections

By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

Parties ran together with National Union in April election; Ben Gvir, This will bring victory for right-wing bloc; Blue and White’s Yair Lapid calls partnership ‘a disgrace’

Shaked says she’s sticking with New Right as Bennett’s No. 2

Jabbing at Netanyahu from right, challenger Sa’ar rips Jerusalem-area ‘freeze’

By Jacob Magid and Alexander Fulbright

Likud court strikes down vote to cancel primaries for entire party Knesset list

Lee Elbaz, an Israeli woman convicted in August 2019 for binary options fraud, enters the Greenbelt, Maryland courthouse on July 25, 2019. Behind her is Larry Burton, an American man who testified during the trial that he lost $140,000 to the Israeli-run website BinaryBook.com (Photo credit: Times of Israel)

US jails Israeli binary options crook Lee Elbaz for 22 years; must repay $28m

By Eric Cortellessa and Simona Weinglass

Judge says CEO in $140m fraud targeted elderly, vulnerable victims; as she sobs, her lawyers claim she was ‘middle management,’ point finger at her bosses Yossi Herzog, Yakov Cohen

Spanish police in Barcelona, December 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu)

Spain extradites accused financial criminal to Israel

Illustrative: Passengers are seen at Domodedovo airport outside Moscow, Russia, April 18, 2010. (Misha Japaridze/AP)

Despite reported agreement, Israeli tourists said held again at Moscow airport

Travelers questioned for over two hours after arriving at Domodedovo airfield, most later allowed to continue their journey

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

Israeli-American backpacker loses appeal in Russian drug smuggling case

Israel media reviewA hero of I need more time: 6 things to know for December 20

By Joshua Davidovich

Former Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, center, and Deputy Prosecutor James Stewart, right, attend the first audience with the chief of Central African Republic's soccer federation Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, the Netherlands on January 25, 2019. (Koen Van Well/Pool photo via AP)

ICC announces ‘basis’ for war crimes probe; Israel says it has no jurisdiction

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Shortly before chief prosecutor’s announcement, Israel’s AG Mandelblit issues legal opinion saying court lacks jurisdiction in Palestinian territories and in relation to Israel

Islamic Jihad: We agreed with Hamas to respond to future ‘aggression’ together

Mortar shell fired from Gaza, drawing retaliatory Israeli strikes

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Cars torched, graffiti sprayed in West Bank Palestinian village

Salvage excavations at Tel Beit Shemesh, March 17, 2019. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Stone slab unearthed near Jerusalem suggests connection to Ark of the Covenant

Knesset Honor Guard members take part in a drill simulating an attack on the Israeli parliament, December 19, 2019 (YouTube screenshot, Ynet)

Knesset Guard drills for missile attack on parliament, rescue of wounded MKs

Making use of the election recess, members of the security force simulate emergency scenarios at Home Front Command training site

Illustrative: The UN Security Council holds a meeting on the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, November 20, 2019 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

US, Iranian envoys share rare private exchange after heated UN meeting

By ToI Staff and AP

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives to deliver remarks on human rights in Iran at the State Department in Washington, December 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

US denounces Iran rights abuses, imposes sanctions on judges

Ofer Carmon, Yael Lamfrom, Roi Frampshes-Givony, Shir Talor, Aviv Losh building a dome in the Carmel forest, August 2019. (Courtesy)

Graduate of elite IDF Unit 8200 breaks barriers with her free-love commune

By Nathan Jeffay

Clockwise from top left: Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Elizabeth Warren, Julián Castro, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, President Trump, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar, and Andrew Yang arevying to become president in 2020. (Getty Images; design by Grace Yagel/JTA)

US presidential race 2020

Where the top 2020 presidential candidates stand on Jewish issues

As the US presidential race heats up, along with domestic policy, American Jews consider candidates’ takes on Israel, anti-Semitism and more

US presidential race 2020Where does Cory Booker stand on issues that matter to Jewish voters in 2020?

By JTA

US presidential race 2020Where does Pete Buttigieg stand on issues that matter to Jewish voters in 2020?

By JTA

US presidential race 2020Where does Julián Castro stand on issues that matter to Jewish voters in 2020?

By JTA

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

US presidential race 2020

Where does President Trump stand on issues that matter to Jewish voters in 2020?

As the US presidential race heats up, along with domestic policy American Jews consider candidates’ takes on Israel, anti-Semitism, and more

US presidential race 2020Where Michael Bloomberg stands on issues that matter to Jewish voters in 2020

By JTA

US presidential race 2020Where does Amy Klobuchar stand on issues that matter to Jewish voters in 2020?

By JTA

US presidential race 2020Where does Andrew Yang stand on issues that matter to Jewish voters in 2020?

By JTA

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Democrat-Massachusetts, speaks during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by CNN and The New York Times at Otterbein University, October 15, 2019, in Westerville, Ohio. (John Minchillo/AP)

US presidential race 2020

Where Elizabeth Warren stands on issues that matter to Jewish voters in 2020

As the US presidential race heats up, along with domestic policy American Jews consider candidates’ takes on Israel, anti-Semitism, and more

Democratic US presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent, speaks during a fundraiser for the Nevada Democratic Party, in Las Vegas, November 17, 2019. (John Locher/AP)

US presidential race 2020Where Bernie Sanders stands on issues that matter to Jewish voters in 2020

By JTA

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to the House Democratic Issues Conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, February 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

US presidential race 2020Where Joe Biden stands on issues that matter to Jewish voters in 2020

By JTA

The dagger held above Jerusalem’s heart

How can anyone who claims to love this holy city accept this violation of the sanctity and integrity of the protected landscape surrounding the Old City?

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Trump impeachment lost Democrats a Michigan voter

The US Congress should be doing its job of helping govern the country; instead it has spent months on something with a foregone conclusion

Jessica Levine Kupferberg

The day I discovered the talmudic cliffhanger

Until last month, I was pretty sure the 2,711 folios of Talmud were not for the likes of me

The cloak of many colors was reportedly made of snakeskin

Why did the sages see fit to connect Jacob’s show of favoritism to Joseph with the deceitful serpent from Eden?

Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbe, with wife Irma in 2008, has played the local version of Santa Claus for a decade and calls it a 'highlight of my life.' (Greetsia Tent/Getty Images/via JTA)

Dutch-Jewish movie star quits his beloved Santa gig amid racism controversy

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Noam (top middle) and Tzippi Rimel (middle), who is holding her daughter Noam in a family photo in November 2019. (Courtesy)

Deadly crash places grandparents in roles they weren’t supposed to replay

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (C) at the Capitol in Washington, December 18, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Impeachment trial plans in disarray as US Congress heads home

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Laurie Kellman and Zeke Miller

Democrats and Republicans ‘remain at an impasse’ over terms of Senate trial of President Trump, set to start in January

US President Donald Trump listens during a roundtable with governors on government regulations in the Cabinet Room of the White House, in Washington, December 16, 2019. (Evan Vucci/AP)

US evangelical magazine calls for removal of ‘grossly immoral’ Trump

By AFP

Democratic US presidential candidates from left, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and businessman Tom Steyer participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate December 19, 2019, in Los Angeles. (AP/Chris Carlson)

Democrats slam Trump, clash on money and experience in final presidential debate

By Michael R. Blood and Nicholas Riccardi

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A reconstruction of what an ancient Denisovan female head may have looked like according to researchers from the Hebrew University, presented during a press conference at the Hebrew university on September 19, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli reconstruction of ancient human face wins people’s pick of 2019 research

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, left, and Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman attend a conference discussing the 2020 health budget at the Health Ministry, on September 1, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel to inject NIS 500m into health system for new drug, medical treatments

By Stuart Winer

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) and Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn during the State Opening of Parliament at the Houses of Parliament in London on December 19, 2019. (HANNAH MCKAY/POOL/AFP)

UK PM Boris Johnson pledges to move forward with anti-BDS law

Illustrative: A man passes a Facebook screen at the Gamescom gathering in Cologne, Germany, August 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Facebook says investigating data exposure of 267 million users

By AFP

Security personnel search peoples' bags and clothes as they arrive for an interfaith service at Park East Synagogue in New York, Wednesday, October 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

New York State allocates $10 million to protect religious institutions

By JTA and ToI Staff

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin hosts 60 tweens and teenagers previously injured in terror attacks for a celebration of their bar and bat mitzvahs in Jerusalem on Thursday December 19, 2019.
(Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Rivlin hosts bar and bat mitzvah celebration for 60 child terror survivors

An ibex chats up a Tristram’s grackle at the Ein Gedi nature reserve .(Shmuel Bar-Am)

In 50-year record, 20 new nature reserves, national parks designated in 2019

Abatte Barihun will play as part of a trio for the final night of the Hullageb Festival, December 19-24, 2019 (Courtesy Nir Shaanani)

Out of AfricaHullageb Fest, celebrating Israeli-Ethiopian creativity, opens

By Jessica Steinberg

Potato latkes. (Flickr/Wikimedia commons/via JTA)

Burning questionsGot a query about latkes? There’s a hotline for that

By JTA

The WhatsApp messaging app is displayed on an iPhone on May 14, 2019, in San Anselmo, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Phones of Pakistani officials allegedly targeted by Israeli spyware

Stav Shaffir speaks during a press conference announcing the Democratic Camp in Tel Aviv on July 25, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Left-wing MK Shaffir says planning to run independently in elections

Newly-assigned Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab speaks to journalists after meeting with Lebanese President Michel Aoun at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, December 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese president taps Hezbollah-backed candidate as PM

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