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What Matters Most On Friday, December 27, 2019

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to deliver a statement at Airport City in Lod Israel, Friday, Dec. 27, 2019. Netanyahu shored up his base with a landslide Likud leadership victory announced early Friday. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Netanyahu quashes Likud leadership challenge from Sa’ar with over 72%

Conceding loss with only 27.5 percent of vote, Sa’ar says primary was vital for Likud’s democratic character, backs Netanyahu ahead of March 2 elections

Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz gives a statement for media in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, November 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Gantz: Party of Jabotinsky, Begin elected a leader with 3 criminal indictments

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks during a press conference at the Knesset on December 11, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud results show nothing has changed, Liberman grumbles

Analysis

Result was never in doubt, but Netanyahu gets huge boost from crushing Likud win

Big question is whether the prime minister’s landslide victory over party rival Gideon Sa’ar will bolster his national appeal ahead of March’s general elections

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a rally in Jerusalem on December 22, 2019, ahead of the December 26 Likud leadership primaries (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, November 5, 2019. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Israel media reviewAn extra trounce in his step: 6 things to know for December 27

By Joshua Davidovich

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement following his victory in the Likud party primaries, at Airport City, on December 27, 2019. (Flash90)

After Likud win, Netanyahu vows to ‘finalize borders,’ get US to back annexation

In speech after big victory over party rival, PM lays out six-point plan that also includes stopping Iran, normalizing ties with Arab countries

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a rally in his support in Jerusalem on December 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s political allies cheer his reelection as Likud leader

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a farewell ceremony for outgoing state prosecutor Shai Nitzan in Jerusalem, December 18, 2019. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

AG rebuffs court demand for opinion on whether Netanyahu can form government

In this June 7, 2009, file photo, Jerry Herman accepts his Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater from Angela Lansbury at the 63rd Annual Tony Awards in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, FILE)

Obituary

‘Mame,’ ‘Hello, Dolly!’ composer Jerry Herman dies at 88

By Mark Kennedy

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani share a light moment before the opening ceremony at the fourth Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) summit in Shanghai, China, May 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Aly Song, Pool)

‘New triangle of sea power’: Iran, China, Russia start unprecedented naval drill

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In this June 28, 2019, file photo, Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier Izumo (DDH-183) and destroyer JS Murasame (DD-101) participate in drills that included maritime navigation and emergency response exercises in Sulu Sea. (AP/Emily Wang)

Japan sending ship, planes to protect Middle East waterways

By AFP

An Iranian security officer directs media at the Bushehr nuclear power plant, with the reactor building seen in the background, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, August 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

5.1-magnitude earthquake strikes near Iran nuclear plant

By AFP

Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, December 18, 2012 (AP Photo/Robin van Lonkhuijsen, Pool)

Exclusive

Now maligned by Jerusalem, ICC prosecutor Bensouda was welcomed by Israel in ’98

By Raphael Ahren

Two decades before she accused Israel of war crimes, Fatou Bensouda attended a Foreign Ministry event on women’s leadership, visited President’s Residence and met senior officials

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a press conference prior to attending a EU foreign affairs council at the European Council in Brussels, January 22, 2018. (EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)

Exclusive

EU, including Germany’s Merkel, pressures Palestinians to hold elections

Palestinian official says German chancellor recently told Abbas she won four elections since he was last elected in 2005; some European diplomats question future financial aid

Rabbi Levi Banon greets Moroccan official Said Ahmidouch and his wife at a Hannukah celebration in Casablanca, Morocco, December 22, 2019. (Courtesy/Chabad.org)

In possible first, Moroccan officials attend Hanukkah ceremony in Casablanca

800 Jews mark holiday with local administrators in a ‘strong message of peace and tolerance’ for small Jewish community

Alexander Vetshteyn prays at the Jurmala synagogue, October 30, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

In Latvia, luxury synagogue opens in a beach resort for oligarchs

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Illustrative image of a blind person (Motortion; iStock by Getty Images)

Brain can mix natural and artificial vision to help treat blindness — study

By Shoshanna Solomon

Finding could pave the way to help restore vision in patients who suffer from one of the most common causes of blindness, Bar-Ilan and Stanford researchers say

The day the dietitian ate sufganiyot

More than the sum of their parts, these bundles of oil and sugar represent tradition and joy. In moderation

Hanukkah: The battle for our soul

If this holiday becomes just a Jewish Christmas, we will have lost the very message that the Festival of Lights is meant to convey

Adam S. Ferziger

8 candles: Hanukkah and anti-Semitism 2019

Armed security, handgun training for congregants, a polarized discourse, and an improbable act of Jewish solidarity in Jersey City

Joseph and the risks of power (Miketz, Covenant and Conversation 5780)

Did Pharaoh’s second-in-command pave the way for the oppressive enslavement of his people? (Miketz)

The Rintel Menorah on display at the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. (Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter/JCK via JTA)

In Amsterdam, the world’s priciest menorah gets a new life

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Rescue teams search for Omri Abu Ganab, 14, carried away by a flood near the northern Druze villages of Yarka, December 26, 2019. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Teen swept away by Galilee flash flood found dead

Body of Omri Abu-janb found south of Jatt, near where he went missing after falling off an ATV during torrent; 15-year-old is second fatality of record-setting storm

Rescue teams search for a teen boy who was caught in a flood near the northern village of Yarka, December 26, 2019. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Record-setting downpour drenches north as rescuers search for lost teen

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Illustrative: A nurse holds a newborn baby moments after it was delivered at the Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in Jerusalem, June 18, 2011. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Woman hospitalized in serious condition with flu after giving birth

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews seen walking on a street in New York City on January 1, 2014. (Nati Shohat/Flash 90/File)

ADL condemns string of anti-Semitic attacks in New York City

By JTA and ToI Staff

Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Joel Lion. (Wikimedia Commons/Dovernewyork )

Israel urges Ukraine to remove Nazi collaborators from its ‘List of Heroes’

Yizhar David (Courtesy Defense Ministry)

In first, PTSD sufferer gets Defense Ministry citation for rehabilitation work

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on July 11, 2018. (AFP/ Pool/Yuri Kadobnov)

As Likud votes for leader, Netanyahu calls Putin to ask for backpacker’s release

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

After delays, state gives go ahead for test of Leviathan gas rig

In this handout photo provided by the Emergency Situations Ministry of the Republic of Kazakhstan, police and rescuers work on the side of a plane crash near Almaty International Airport, outside Almaty, Kazakhstan, Friday, Dec. 27, 2019. ( Emergency Situations Ministry of the Republic of Kazakhstan photo via AP)

14 killed as passenger plane carrying 100 crashes in Kazakhstan

Rapper Kodak Black performs onstage during day 2 of Rolling Loud Festival at Banc of California Stadium on December 15, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Scott Dudelson/Getty Images via JTA)

Rapper Kodak Black donates $1,000 to Orthodox synagogue from prison

Milwaukee weatherman Scott Steele. (YouTube screenshot)

Jewish weatherman sues TV station for anti-Semitic discrimination

Illustrative: Vandalized headstones at the ancient Jewish cemetery of Námestovo, Slovakia, in December 2019. (Courtesy of ZCN via JTA)

Headstones found vandalized at second Jewish cemetery in Slovakia

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