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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 28, 2019

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Lieutenant Tet speaks with Channel 12 news in an interview aired on December 27, 2019. (Screen capture: Channel 12)

Lone female grad of latest IAF pilot course says judging skin, gender won’t fly

Lieutenant Tav, the religious daughter of an immigrant from the Ivory Coast, says her looks ‘are not the story’ — what’s important is how well she does her job

Illustrative: New York City police officers watch as rabbis gather for a group photo at the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters,Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018, in New York. More than 5,000 of the orthodox Jewish leaders from around the world are taking part in the annual meeting. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

NYC sends more cops to Jewish areas to counter spate of anti-Semitic attacks

By Jennifer Peltz

‘Anti-Semitism is an attack on the values of our city — and we will confront it head-on,’ mayor says after series of assaults over Hanukkah

Lawyers fight death penalty for Pittsburgh synagogue shooter

By AP

Jewish woman assaulted in Brooklyn in front of her son

By JTA

Man enters Chabad world headquarters in Brooklyn and threatens to shoot it up

By LAURA E. ADKINS

Holocaust survivors join with attendees to dance the hora at the Dinner of Miracles in Toronto, December 15, 2019. (Liora Kogan)

Out of darkness: Holocaust survivors tell of personal Hanukkah miracle — life

By Robert Sarner

Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman at an election night event in Petah Tikva for his United Torah Judaism party, September 18, 2019. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Australian Jews slam pending appointment of Litzman as health minister

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

Head of country’s top pro-Israel group calls elevating the lawmaker to full minister an ‘insult’ to victims of accused sex offender he allegedly worked to shield from extradition

Benjamin Netanyahu, right, listens to Yaakov Litzman at the start of the the weekly cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, January 6, 2019. (Gali Tibbon/Pool via AP)

As Netanyahu forced to give up portfolios, Litzman tapped to be health minister

Malka Leifer, right, is brought to a courtroom in Jerusalem, on February 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

Drawn-out legal saga in sex crimes case rattles Israel-Australia ties

By Tia Goldenberg

Screenshot from Disney's "Elena of Avalor" Hannukah episode, "Festival of Lights." (Screenshot/Disney + via JTA)

First person

Disney’s ‘Elena of Avalor’ Hanukkah episode is a win for representation

By SARAH AROESTE

Analysis

Brutal murder of teen in Shfar’am a symptom of a diseased system, say residents

Reeling from revenge killing of 17-year-old Adel Khatib, northern Arab city’s leaders can’t shake the feeling that Israel sees the Arab sector’s plight but prefers to look away

A police car and other vehicles are seen at the site where a body with gunshot wounds was found in the central city of Ramat Hasharon, December 27, 2019. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Body found with gunshot wounds in pit near Ramat Hasharon cemetery

8 videos for 8 nights of Hanukkah 2019

Laugh, rejoice, dance, and learn your way through a new rap, original melodies, parodies and some classics, including Star Wars and James Corben

Ilana Fodiman-Silverman

’If we don’t kill her today, we will get her another day soon’

Tante Anna convinced me that miracles that seem to be unique, discrete events can resonate throughout our daily lives; no time brings that home more than Hanukkah

Palestinian rioters throw stones towards Israeli forces at the Israel-Gaza border, east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 27, 2019. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)

Low turnout in last planned Gaza border protest until March 2020

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Several Palestinians throw rocks and explosives at IDF troops, who respond with tear gas and rubber-coated bullets, but no live fire

Secret Hitler board game, as shown on Amazon.com

Jewish group urges Amazon to stop selling ‘Secret Hitler’ board game

In top-selling product, team of fascists tries to install Nazi dictator in power; Anti-Defamation Commission calls it ‘an insult to the memory’ of Holocaust victims

The Jewish Neighborhood Development Council has pushed through a number of urban renewal projects in West Rogers Park, such as turning an abandoned parking lot, left, into a park. (Courtesy of Howard Rieger/via JTA)

The rise, fall and rise again of a historically Jewish Chicago neighborhood

Josh Israel uploaded to Twitter photos of a lost Hanukkah card to track down its recipient. (Josh Israel/Twitter)

Almost lost it

NJ man enlists Twitter to get grandmother’s lost Hanukkah gift to her grandson

Josh Israel finds holiday card with brief inscription, cash outside sushi restaurant, launches successful social media appeal to find recipient

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

Pompeo accuses Iran of suppressing protest memorials

By AFP

US secretary of state slams Tehran for using ‘violence,’ censorship to prevent commemorations for demonstrators killed in government crackdown

US contractor killed in Iraq rocket attack, troops wounded

By Lolita C. Baldor

Iran-backed groups accuse Iraqi president of caving to US for rejecting PM pick

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra

France summons Iran’s ambassador over detained researchers

By AP

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A soldier stands guard near wreckage of vehicles in Mogadishu after a car bomb in Mogadishu, Somalia, December 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsame)

At least 90 killed by truck bomb in Somalia’s capital

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of heads of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan on October 11, 2019. (Alexey Druzhinin/Sputnik/AFP)

Poland censures Russian envoy over Hitler collusion accusation by Putin

By AFP

Illustrative: A worker looks at his mobile phone at Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on October 27, 2013. (Patrick Castillo/ Emarat Al Youm via AP, File)

UAE denies developing popular Middle East app as spy tool

By AFP

Ghislaine Maxwell at the WIE Symposium in New York City, on September 20, 2013. (Laura Cavanaugh/GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP)

FBI said to be investigating Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Blue and White party chairman Benny Gantz speaks during a faction meeting in Tel Aviv on December 12, 2019. (Flash90)

Likud slams ‘hypocrite’ Gantz for criticizing party decision to reelect PM

Former CIA operative Valerie Plame is interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, October 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

2 years after tweeting anti-Semitic screed, Valerie Plame now attends synagogue

Don Imus appears on his last "Imus in the Morning" program, on the Fox Business Network, in New York, May 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Radio host Don Imus, made and betrayed by his mouth, dead at 79

By David Bauder

In this video grab provided by RU-RTR Russian television via AP television on Thursday, March 1, 2018, a computer simulation shows the Avangard hypersonic vehicle maneuvering to bypass missile defenses en route to target. (RU-RTR Russian Television via AP)

Russia says it is first nation with operational new hypersonic nuclear weapons

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV

An illustrative image from October 31, 2014, shows Boko Haram jihadists. (Boko Haram, via AP, File)

Islamic State claims execution of 11 Christians in Nigeria

By AFP

Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders of the PVV party speaks to his supporters during a PVV demonstration against the policy of Prime Minister and his cabinet in Rotterdam, on January 20, 2018. (AFP/ANP/Robin Utrecht)

Geert Wilders calls for kicking out ICC prosecutor over Israel ‘bias’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Vampire Weekend, with Ezra Koenig on vocals, performs during a day party at the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas, March 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)

Facing the musicRevealed: The Jewish history behind Vampire Weekend’s ‘Harmony Hall’

By Gabe Friedman

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi speaks at the "G20 Investment Summit - German Business and the CwA Countries 2019" on the sidelines of a Compact with Africa (CwA) in Berlin, Germany on Nov. 19, 2019. (John MacDougall/Pool via AP)

Egyptian YouTube star held for videos criticizing president

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