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What Matters Most On Friday, December 17, 2021

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Family and friends attend the funeral of Yehuda Dimentman, in Homesh, in the West Bank, on December 17, 2021. Dimentman was shot dead in a December 16 terror attack. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

‘This place is fully ours’: Hundreds at terror victim’s funeral in West Bank outpost

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Calls for revenge heard as Yehuda Dimentman laid to rest; IDF makes arrests in hunt for gunmen who killed him; investigators suspect two attackers ambushed car

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Jerusalem, on November 29, 2021; Security forces work at the scene of a shooting attack near Homesh in the West Bank, on December 16, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi; Hillel Meir/Flash90)

PM vows Israel will capture terrorists in deadly West Bank shooting

By Emanuel Fabian

Yehuda Dimentman. (Courtesy)

‘A huge loss’: Yehuda Dimentman, 25, named as victim of West Bank terror shooting

Father of one, yeshiva student gunned down outside West Bank settlement outpost; ‘He was a sweet person, welcoming to all,’ says friend injured in attack

Main image: First responders at the scene of a shooting attack near Homesh in the West Bank, on December 16, 2021. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90) Insert: Yehuda Dimentman, 25, who was killed in the attack. (Courtesy)

Israeli man killed, two injured in northern West Bank terror shooting

By Judah Ari Gross and Aaron Boxerman

Paramedics work at the scene of a shooting attack near Homesh in the West Bank, on December 16, 2021. (ZAKA)

Palestinian terror groups praise deadly West Bank attack

By Aaron Boxerman

(L-R) UAE Ambassador to the US speaks during an event in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, January 25, 2018, and his Israeli counterpart Ron Dermer speaks at conference in Detroit, June 4, 2018. (Jon Gambrell; Paul Sancya/AP Photo)

Revealed: What Netanyahu really thought of UAE envoy’s peace for no-annexation offer

When landmark op-ed appeared, Israeli envoy Dermer called Emirati counterpart irate at being kept out of loop, and warned that Jerusalem would have no choice but to annex, ToI told

Then-US president Donald Trump (right) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before Trump's departure to Rome at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, on May 23, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO via Flash90)

Ex-Trump aide says Netanyahu was ‘willing to fight Iran to the last US soldier’

In this photo released by Saudi Royal Palace, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, speaks during the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on December 14, 2021. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP)

AnalysisThe uncrowned king: Bin Salman increasingly taking the reins in Saudi Arabia

By Haitham el-Tabei

Tovah Feldshuh, in ‘Becoming Dr. Ruth,’ at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC, on December 8, 2021. (Courtesy/Carol Rosegg)

Tovah Feldshuh is very becoming in ‘Becoming Dr. Ruth’

By Jordan Hoffman

Through Jan. 2, a limited performance of the one-woman show based on the life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer is at NYC’s Museum of Jewish Heritage

Israeli security forces inspect the scene of a shooting attack near Homesh, in the West Bank, on December 16, 2021. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)

Israel media review

Making waves: What the press is saying about a terror spate and Omicron spite

By Joshua Davidovich

A deadly West Bank attack is linked to a series of assaults over the past month, with the media pushing plenty of ideas of what to do or who to blame

Analysis

Will Trump’s ‘F*ck Netanyahu’ moment hurt his standing among US conservatives?

Former president’s broadside could be debate fodder for Republican opponents in primaries, but some party insiders say his positive actions for Israel still take center stage

Then-US president Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, on July 7, 2020. (Alex Brandon/AP)

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks with reporters as he walks on Capitol Hill, October 7, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

For 4th time, Republican senator blocks passage of Iron Dome funding bill

Illustrative photo: Masked Jewish settlers, background, and Palestinians, foreground, hurl stones during clashes in the West Bank, Friday, May 3, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

De-emphasized under Trump, report shows Biden taking settler violence more seriously

State Department publishes new administration’s first Country Reports on Terrorism, with section on West Bank Israeli violence far more detailed than it was during Trump years

Wael Moqbel, a resident of the village of Qaryut allegedly attacked by extremist settlers on December 17, 2021 (Courtesy)

After deadly shooting, extremist settlers accused of assaulting Palestinians

A member of the Israeli security forces reacts after being injured during an altercation with Palestinian protesters during a demonstration in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, on December 17, 2021. (AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP)

Clashes in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah; cop hurt, 2 arrested

You can’t get out of this world alive

The living do far more than comfort themselves when they escort the dead to their final resting place, as Jacob and his sons reveal (Vayechi)

Yes, Mr. Yehoshua, two states

The novelist’s obit for a peace deal that splits the land is a defeatist and unnecessary concession to the right: The situation is not impossible – just difficult

After 70 years on the sidelines, AIPAC will now officially fundraise for politicians

US pro-Israel lobby says profound change is ‘an opportunity to significantly deepen and strengthen the involvement of the pro-Israel community in politics’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks on a video from Israel to the 2019 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference, at Washington Convention Center, in Washington, DC, on March 26, 2019. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)

A group of tourists in Israel led by tour guide Yoav Rotem. (Courtesy)

Inside storyTour guiding is 'a passion, a calling'

‘They are burying us’: Tourism sector workers fume at government offer to ‘retrain’

By Ricky Ben-David

Tour guides and operators say they feel abandoned, after 2 years of COVID-19, by a leadership pushing them to find other jobs

Tesla being charged by a homemade contraption to bring power from its owner's Ramat Gan home to public street parking, December 8, 2021. (Courtesy of Sharon B.)

Inside story

Grid locked: Many Tesla owners ‘home charge’ via living room windows

By Carrie Keller-Lynn

As battery-powered vehicle adoption rapidly accelerates, Israel’s new car owners embrace creative solutions to power up while waiting for the infrastructure to catch up

Bishop Glenn Plummer, the Pentacostal minister who moved to Israel during the pandemic, is interviewed by correspondent Lazar Berman for the December 17, 2021 episode of Times Will Tell (Courtesy Bishop Plummer)

Times Will Tell

Podcast: Pentacostal minister talks God, Christianity and his place in Israel

Christian Affairs correspondent Lazar Berman hosts Bishop Glenn Plummer, the Pentacostal bishop who moved to Israel during the pandemic

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gestures while speaking to the media during a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, November 26, 2021. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Ukraine’s envoy: We could recognize Jerusalem as capital in coming months

By Lazar Berman

Yevgen Korniychuk says move, which would include opening embassy branch, hinges on expanded defense ties with Israel

Egyptian politician Ayman Nour, a target of commercial military-grade Israeli spyware, speaks during a news conference organized by Muslim Brotherhood for former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, in Istanbul, on June 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, File)

Israeli involvement in hacker-for-hire industry highlighted in latest spyware find

In this file photo from August 11, 2019, an iPhone displays the apps for Facebook and Messenger in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Facebook targets 7 cyber firms, 4 of them Israeli, that use platform to spy

By Glenn Chapman and Joshua MELVIN

Children aged 5-11 receive a dose of COVID-19 vaccine, at Clalit vaccination center in Katzrin, Golan Heights, on December 16, 2021. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

45 new confirmed Omicron cases in Israel

Daily COVID cases hit two-month high, with over 800 people diagnosed Thursday

Virus reproduction rate rises to 1.07, signaling pandemic spreading, as Israel continues to grapple with challenge of Omicron variant

A giant Christmas tree is seen at outside the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on December 15, 2021. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Israel rejects Christians’ accusation of ‘racist’ bias in granting entry exemptions

By ToI Staff and AP

MK Meir Porush, right, in the Knesset, on July 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset guard tests positive for Omicron strain, sending MK, 20 staff to quarantine

Renay Mandel Corren's "bawdy, rowdy life lived large" became well known when the obituary her son wrote went viral. (Screenshot/Fayetteville Observer via JTA)

Laughing through tears

Son’s loving, irreverent obit for ‘plus-sized Jewish lady redneck’ goes viral

Andy Corren pulls no punches as he marks the passing of his mother, Renay, in Texas: ‘A bawdy, rowdy life lived large, broke and loud’

Solar panels. (lovelyday12, iStock at Getty Images)

At green energy confab, industry doubts Israel will reach renewable targets

Many of the more than 700 participants at Renewable Energy Conference in Eilat grumble over government’s slow pace, centralization and red tape

A hydrogen-fueled truck on the road. (audioundwerbung, at iStock by Getty Images)

Energy Ministry budgets NIS 100 million to advance hydrogen tech

'There's a mysterious connection between tarot and Torah'

This Jewish artist’s tarot card deck is inspired by Torah and ecology

Ava Sayaka Rosen’s TARO::TORA, created during a yearlong fellowship at the JCC East Bay, is simultaneously an art piece, a spiritual tool and a call to connect with nature

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A file photo shows offices of Purdue Pharma, maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin (Drew Angerer/ Getty Images North America/AFP)

US judge overturns Purdue Pharma opioid settlement

By AFP

Illustrative: A police vehicle at a crime scene in Netanya, October 14, 2018. (Flash90)

25-year-old man gunned down in front of his home in Taybeh

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan leads a group of UN ambassadors on a tour of Israel's northern border on December 16, 2021. (Shlomi Amsallem)

Israel’s UN envoy Erdan brings group of visiting ambassadors to Hezbollah tunnel

Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Bagheri Kani arrives at the Coburg Palais in Vienna for nuclear talks, on November 29, 2021. (Vladimir Simicek/AFP)

Iran says ‘good progress’ made in nuclear talks this week as sides take short break

By AFP

George Soros at the Joseph A. Schumpeter award ceremony in Vienna, Austria, June 21, 2019. (AP Photo/ Ronald Zak)

Fox News removes cartoon showing George Soros as a puppet master after ADL complains

The alleged Karaj centrifuge parts plant near Karaj, Iran, seen in a photo posted online by Google user Edward Majnoonian, in May 2019. (Screenshot/Google Maps)

Iran says UN can’t see images from cameras at nuclear site until sanctions end

By AFP

An autonomous vehicle powered by Mobileye's self-driving systems tec in Paris, December 2021. (Mobileye)

Mobileye rolls out trial for on-demand, autonomous car rides in Paris

By Ricky Ben-David

Henry Orenstein (second from left) at the launch of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament in 2004. (Stephen Lovekin/FilmMagic/Getty Images via JTA)

ObituaryTransformers toys inventor Henry Orenstein, a Holocaust survivor, dies aged 98

A March 26, 1986, photo showing an interior view of the Great Synagogue of Rome. (AP Photo/File)

Italy to probe claims government enabled 1982 terror attack on Rome synagogue

Then-Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem on June 14, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Successor to attorney general won’t be named in time for his retirement

By Yuval Yoaz and ToI Staff

Jeff Garlin attends HBO's 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Season 11 Premiere at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles, on October 19, 2021. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO/Getty Images via JTA)

‘The Goldbergs’ star Jeff Garlin won’t return to show amid misconduct allegations

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