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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 21, 2019

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Palestinian fighters from Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, attend a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the terror group, in Gaza City, December 14, 2017. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Hamas hails ICC for readying probe of alleged war crimes by Israel — and itself

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, on November 24, 2019. (Sebastian Scheiner/Pool/AFP)

Netanyahu: ICC decision to probe Israel ‘a dark day for truth and justice’

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the State Department in Washington, December 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Pompeo: US ‘firmly opposes’ ICC announcement on alleged Israeli war crimes

Mansour Saif al-Din Mourad, a member of the Jordanian House of Representatives, speaking to the Jordanian A One TV station on December 9. 2019. (Screenshot: MEMRI)

Jordanian MP brags about carrying out terror attack against El Al office in 1969

Mansour Saif al-Din Mourad, a member of Jordan’s House of Representatives, claims that he was inspired to perpetrate attack by ex-Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser

A new Christmas-themed artwork dubbed the "Scar of Bethlehem" by British street artist Banksy is displayed at his Walled-Off Hotel in Bethlehem in the West Bank on December 20, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Banksy unveils dark nativity scene at his Bethlehem hotel

By AFP and ToI Staff

A video installation shows the image of a man with the emoji of a blue hart reflected on an ancient Egyptian plaque engraved with Hieroglyphs, at the exhibition "Emoglyphs: Picture-Writing from Hieroglyphs to the Emoji" at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, on December 19, 2019. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

Israel Museum exhibit explores the emojis of ancient Egypt

By Claire Gounon

US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Kellogg Arena, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, in Battle Creek, Michigan. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump blasts Christian evangelical magazine that called for his removal

By ELANA SCHOR and Jill Colvin

Evangelical leaders rally to US president’s side after Christianity Today says he has a ‘blackened moral record,’ signaling his support with community remains sky-high

US President Donald Trump after signing the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, December 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump signs $1.4 trillion spending bill, avoiding shutdown

By AP

White House senior adviser Stephen Miller speaks to the media on October 11, 2019, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

25 Jewish House Democrats call on Trump to fire Stephen Miller

By Josefin Dolsten

Author Gabor Mate, and his book, 'Scattered Minds.' (Ebury Publishing UK)

Author interview

Addictions guru channels survival of the Holocaust into self-help empire

By JP O’ Malley

Orly Ginsberg Ben-Ari speaks to the press at the Central District Court in Lod on August 11, 2015. (Flash90)

Justice minister’s appointee for state attorney turns down job after backlash

After attorney general objects, High Court freezes selection of Orly Ginsberg Ben-Ari; she says she won’t allow harm to justice system ‘on my account’

AG demurs on whether Netanyahu can form coalition while facing charges

Gantz: In ‘normal world,’ minister would be fired for pact with Kahanists

Liberman calls for better ties with ‘loyal’ Arab Israelis, attacks Joint List

'My world came crashing down,' says one of the victims who found out that nude photos of her were posted on Telegram without her consent. (Illustration: iStock)

‘It feels like rape’: Hacked nude photos distributed as porn on messaging app

By Anabel Zamir

Lapo Elkann smiles to photographers as he arrives to attend a lunch in Milan, Italy, February 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Fiat heir recovering after serious car crash in Jerusalem

By AFP

Lapo Elkann says he doesn’t remember losing consciousness while returning from Western Wall; underwent several operations for injuries

Jewish cattle rancher Robert Lazar Miller on horseback with his grandson at the Denver Stockyards, 1932. (Beck Archives, Special Collections, University of Denver Libraries via JTA)

The nearly forgotten Jews who helped make the American West

Looking forward to Christmas

Will today’s leadership take the chance of becoming relevant to a new generation of families who have all but walked away?

Becoming too comfortable with poverty

Judaism teaches that we should constantly be surprised and inspired by the world around us — It is forbidden to become ’old’

Dennis Lloyd at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Club on Sunday, April 14, 2019, in Indio, California (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP)

Israeli musician Dennis Lloyd says global success caught him by surprise

Born in Ramat Gan as Nir Tibor, the singer says he hopes to break glass ceiling for other local artists, says he has no plans to move abroad: ‘It’s good here’

'Goodnight Bubbala' puts a Yiddish spin on 'Goodnight Moon,' the beloved bedtime classic. (Penguin Random House/via JTA)

Hanukkah 5780

Ready to cuddle? ‘Goodnight Bubbala’ and other Hanukkah-themed kids’ books are

By Penny Schwartz

Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Hassan Diab, right, shakes hands with outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri, left, in Beirut, Lebanon, December 20, 2019 (Dalati Nohra via AP)

Lebanon’s new Hezbollah-backed PM begins consultations over next Cabinet

Hassan Diab will have to steer Lebanon out of its worst economic crisis in decades, amid ongoing popular protests

Syria says three oil and gas facilities hit in possible drone attacks

Tens of thousands of civilians flee renewed Syria violence

By Layal Abou Rahal and Aref Watad

UN experts slam Iran over reported torture of detained protesters

By AFP

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Darryn Frost uses a narwhal tusk against terrorist Usman Khan during a deadly stabbing attack on London Bridge, November 29, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Mystery man who used narwhal tusk to subdue London Bridge terrorist identified

Navy midshipmen march ahead of an NCAA college football game between the Army and the Navy, December 14, 2019, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

US military academies say students didn’t make racist hand gestures on TV

By AFP

Protesters hold a poster comparing Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Nazi German leader Adolf Hitler at a demonstration against India's new citizenship law in Siliguri on December 18, 2019. (Diptendu Dutta/AFP)

Death toll in India citizenship law protests reaches 17

By AP

The Leviathan natural gas platform off the shore of Israel. (Albatross)

Cyprus rallies Israel, other neighbors to counter Turkey-Libya maritime deal

By AP

A woman throws a bottle into a recycling bin in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

High Court orders minister to explain why no deposit for large plastic bottles

Illustrative photo of people dancing at a nightclub. (Lucie March/Flash90)

Molotov cocktail hurled at Tel Aviv nightclub

President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Josef Schuster (center) attends the 'Gemeindetag 2019' meeting of Jewish organizations and members of Jewish communities from all over the country, where he and the German defense minister signed an agreement on the implementation of a Jewish military chaplaincy within the German armed forces Bundeswehr on December 20, 2019 in Berlin. (Photo by Gregor Fischer / dpa / AFP)

Germany signs accord to reintroduce military rabbis after more than a century

By AP

A US ultra-Orthodox man crosses the street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. (Gil Shefler via JTA)

Most New York yeshivas flunk city’s secular studies review

By JTA

The building that used to house the Langside Synagogue in Glasgow, Scotland, pictured in 2017. (Courtesy of Michael Mail/The Foundation for Jewish Heritage via JTA)

Scottish queer-friendly Jewish group wants to use abandoned Orthodox synagogue

By JTA

Illustrative image of prescription drugs. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Computer glitch causes thousands of patients to receive wrong medical dosage

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)

Switzerland resumes funding of UN’s Palestinian aid agency

By AFP and ToI Staff

A ruined synagogue in Chisinau, Moldova (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Holocaust ‘orphaned’ European synagogues, Council of Europe says

By JTA

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