Israel, Lebanese troops face off at fence * 5 surreal days with ’Son of Hamas’ * PM: We still visit Iran to check its nuke bid * Gantz rising * PM’s son gets Facebook ban

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Monday, December 17, 2018 [With guns out, Israeli and Lebanese soldiers squabble at border]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [In morning incident, Lebanon disputes Israel’s placement of concertina wire along Blue Line separating the two countries; UN troops on site keep peace]( [Russia reportedly tells Lebanon to keep border with Israel quiet]( By [TOI staff]( [Two IDF soldiers wounded in Golan Heights training accident]( By [TOI staff]( [Rivlin warns Hezbollah will lead to destruction of Lebanon]( By [TOI staff and Judah Ari Gross]( [Just trying to save lives: 5 surreal days in Florida with the ‘Son of Hamas’]( By [David Horovitz]( [Netanyahu says Israeli agents ‘periodically visit’ Iran to monitor nuke program]( By [TOI staff]( [PM tells diplomats: Intelligence operatives working to thwart Tehran’s nuclear ambitions ‘all over the world,’ and visit Islamic republic to ‘catch up’]( [Iranian general fatally shoots himself in the head by accident]( By [AP]( Live updates [Law to deport relatives of terrorists won’t hold up, attorney general warns]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [Officially raising objection, Avichai Mandelblit says bill pushed by coalition may not be constitutional or in line with international law]( [Shin Bet chief said to warn cabinet that expulsion bill could harm security]( By [TOI staff]( [Nadav Argaman reportedly tells ministers legislation allowing eviction of terrorists’ families may damage agency’s information-gathering, will raise tensions]( [Israel media review / Fight for the right (wing): 9 things to know for December 17]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [Ministers back bill to expel terrorists’ families from their homes]( By [Raoul Wootliff]( [Bennett, 8 other ministers join protest against government response to terror]( By [Raoul Wootliff]( [Mother who lost infant in attack: The blood of Israel pulses through my veins]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Speaking from hospital wheelchairs in first press conference since Ofra Junction shooting, Shira and Amichai Ish-Ran say their baby managed to unite all of Israel]( [IDF finds gun used in deadly West Bank attack, but terrorist still at large]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Israel claims leaders of PA, Hamas ‘united’ in support for Palestinian terrorism]( By [TOI staff]( [IDF partially demolishes West Bank home of Barkan terrorist]( By [TOI staff]( [Poll: Ex-IDF chief Gantz on the rise; union with Lapid could challenge Likud]( By [Raoul Wootliff]( [PM Netanyahu continues to hold significant lead over rivals in new survey, but a hypothetical new party running together with Yesh Atid could nip at his heels]( [Most Israelis unhappy with PM’s performance as defense minister, survey finds]( By [Raoul Wootliff]( [PM, coalition, fare poorly on support for transparency, study suggests]( By [Sue Surkes]( [‘It’s impossible’: Relatives of Palestinian deny he attempted to run over troops]( By [Adam Rasgon]( [Hamdan al-Arda, 58, was shot dead when IDF said he attempted to ram his car into soldiers; ex-general says he does not fit the ‘usual’ profile of a Palestinian terrorist]( [Settlers move into outpost near Hebron, in wake of Palestinian attacks]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Police arrest suspect in West Bank assault on Palestinian bus driver]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Police yet to probe group that boasted of hanging posters calling to kill Abbas]( By [Jacob Magid]( Top Ops [Daniella Levy]( [Why is it always Nazis?]( [Stalin, the Khmer Rouge, the Hutus, Assad — with so many examples of extreme evil to choose from, make no mistake: this one is about Jews]( [Dan Perry]( [What if liberals had a Trump of their own?]( [Imagine a president just as boorish — but one who could deliver gun control and favorable Supreme Court judges]( [Sherri Mandell]( [To Gideon Levy: You are spreading lies about me]( [Look at how we ’settlers’ who have lost children to terror memorialize them, and rethink your claim of our so-called insatiable ’lust for revenge’]( [Naomi Chazan]( [25 too many]( [Every day the government delays the funding needed to combat violence against women endangers lives]( [The unheard Ethiopian voice is raised, in word and song]( By [Jessica Steinberg]( Concert review [Jazz coverband Postmodern Jukebox scats and taps into Tel Aviv at inaugural show]( By [Melanie Lidman]( [Nearly 1,600 Arab and Jewish Israeli med students flock to Moldova for school]( By [Hal Foster]( Interview [Why Saul Bellow didn’t want to be called a ‘Jewish-American’ writer]( By [Eric Cortellessa]( More Headlines [Yair Netanyahu temporarily banned from Facebook after anti-Muslim posts]( By [TOI staff]( [Developers withdraw plans for luxury homes on Jerusalem’s Hill of Evil Counsel]( By [Sue Surkes]( [Erekat on final meeting with Kushner: He shouted, warned ‘Don’t threaten me’]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [Angelic restoration / Bethlehem church mosaics sparkle in time for Christmas]( By [Clothilde Mraffko]( [Kentucky governor denies anti-Semitism in his attack on media’s Jewish donors]( By [JTA]( [Palestinian who killed Israeli in West Bank supermarket gets 35 years in prison]( By [Jacob Magid and Michael Bachner]( [Knesset speaker: Australian recognition of only West Jerusalem is a setback]( By [TOI staff]( [Jerusalem fast train grinds to a halt due to new technical faults]( By [Stuart Winer and Sue Surkes]( [Israeli moon-bound craft to carry Holocaust survivor story, and best of humanity]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Security officials said to determine Eilat assault by Jordanian was terrorism]( By [TOI staff]( [Officers censured over Hamas missile attack on bus that injured soldier]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Soldier critically hurt in Thursday shooting still fighting for his life]( By [TOI staff]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2018 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved