IDF chief: Next war will hit citizens hard * Analysis: Sa’ar will lose to PM, but a bubble has burst * Jews flock to Nazareth Xmas * Survivor di es after White House party

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Wednesday, December 25, 2019 [IDF chief warns Israelis: The next war will hit our home front extremely hard]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Kohavi vows Israel will block Iran’s military efforts ‘even at risk of war,’ laments Israel is alone in fight against Tehran, says army won’t hesitate to use full force if needed]( [Iran to hold joint, four-day navy drill with Russia and China]( By [Nasser Karimi]( [Iran limits mobile internet access ahead of expected protests]( By [Agencies and TOI staff]( [Iran warplane crashes near dormant volcano; pilot missing]( By [AFP]( Analysis [Sa’ar vs Netanyahu: A bubble has burst, but a political earthquake looks remote]( By [Raoul Wootliff]( [5 things to watch as the pretender takes on the veteran in Thursday’s Likud leadership content, the first serious challenge to the PM from within his party in 14 years]( [Day before leadership vote, Sa’ar slams ‘racist’ attacks by Netanyahu supporters]( By [Sam Sokol]( [Israel media review / Stump and dump: 6 things to know for December 25]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( [Breaking silence, top minister Erdan backs Netanyahu in Likud leadership race]( By [TOI staff]( Reporter's notebook [Nathan Jeffay]( [Israeli Jews flock to Jesus’s hometown Nazareth to catch a ‘European’ Christmas]( [For some Jews visiting the northern Arab-Israeli city, traveling abroad has whetted their appetites for the Christmas cookies and carols now easily found closer to home]( [Heavy hearts as Notre-Dame misses Christmas mass for first time since 1803]( By [Agencies]( [Gaza's Christmas gifts / Veiled women make Santa dolls in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip]( By [AFP]( Live updates [Bennett says ICC ‘encourages terror,’ is ‘breeding ground for anti-Semitism’]( By [Michael Bachner]( [Defense minister promises new IDF pilots Israel will protect them from international probes, vows to ‘fight terror as if there is no Hague’]( [Australia rejects ICC Palestine probe; Germany warns against politicization]( By [Raphael Ahren]( [After Canberra says court lacks jurisdiction, Israel’s FM Katz praises its ‘principled stance’; Berlin says it is confident pre-trial judges will ‘address issues of admissibility’]( [IDF defends intel for Gaza strike that killed 9 Palestinian civilians]( By [TOI staff]( [Bennett orders seizure of PA funds for families of Arab Israeli terror convicts]( By [TOI staff]( [Senior IDF officer tells Yitzhar residents: Soldiers are ‘scared’ to serve here]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Month-old baby apparently suffering from flu hospitalized in critical condition]( By [TOI staff]( [Medics rush unconscious boy to the hospital while working to keep him alive after parents take him to local Jerusalem clinic; 10 dead from flu in Israel this year]( [19-year-old dies from flu in Jerusalem, in 10th fatality of season]( By [TOI staff]( [Progressive Jewish intelligentsia vie for larger role at World Zionist Congress]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [Leading liberal lights like Peter Beinart and Jeremy Ben-Ami, running for first time, hope to use expanded representation in Zionist body to steer funding away from settlements]( [Holocaust survivor dies after dropped in transit to White House Hanukkah party]( By [Marcy Oster]( [Rosalee Glass, 102, businesswoman and actress who was warmly welcomed by and photographed with President Trump, was injured en route to event and passed away three days later]( [Trump holds chat with Alan Dershowitz during Mar-a-Lago Christmas eve dinner]( By [TOI staff and Agencies]( [Rebuked for ‘offensive’ remarks on Soros’s Jewishness, Giuliani doubles down]( By [TOI staff]( Top Ops [Sheldon Paul Stone]( [Time is brain]( [He was a stroke specialist, so he knew he was having a stroke, but the ambulance wasn’t going to get there in time]( [Yael Leibowitz]( [The Books of Maccabees: A tale of two stories]( [Imagine if Antiochus had written the story of Hanukkah… or if Judah Maccabee’s mother had. Every account reflects its author’s background, including the ones we have]( From the blogs [Tammy Gannot Rosenstreich]( [Israel’s appalling inaction on climate change]( [Governments worldwide are ignoring this dire threat. If Israeli leaders think they can too, they should step outdoors and look up]( [Winter storm blows in, bringing dust, pollution, and rain]( By [Stuart Winer]( [CRM]( [‘Christmas With Your Jewish Boyfriend’: A jazz album of holiday songs by Jews]( By [Gabe Friedman]( [After guitarist Peter Curtis prepared a medley of the popular tunes written by his coreligionists for a holiday concert, his interest was piqued, culminating in his new collection]( [Pilgrims, dignitaries flock to Bethlehem for Christmas celebrations]( By [Agencies]( [I made you out of bling / Guinness World Records certifies world’s most valuable dreidel]( By [Marcy Oster]( [Sleepy southern Israel town seeks new highs with cannabis incubator plan]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( [Israel to allocate some $43.2 million over five years to foster startups and entrepreneurs in medical cannabis in Yerucham, as part of push to boost tech in nation’s periphery]( [Technion fosters entrepreneurship within ivory towers as Startup Nation calls]( By [Shoshanna Solomon]( More Headlines [Man stabbed to death in Jerusalem; criminal motive probed]( By [TOI staff]( [Bennett seeks to break ultra-Orthodox grip on Religious Services Ministry]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Amended figures refute claim that 6 of 7 immigrants since 2012 aren’t Jewish]( By [Sam Sokol and TOI staff]( [Archaeologists discover Phoenician family tomb in ancient city of Achziv]( By [TOI staff]( [Man arrested for yelling anti-Semitic slurs, assaulting Orthodox Jew in New York]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [Supreme Court questions validity of police warrant to search PM aides’ phones]( By [Stuart Winer and TOI staff]( [UK supermarket sorry about ham products dumped in store’s kosher section]( By [Marcy Oster]( [Unattended Hanukkah candle caused fire at yeshiva near London]( [Iran’s top chess player wants to ‘change his nationality’ over Israel ban]( By [TOI staff]( [Putin accuses Poland of colluding with Hitler, anti-Semitism]( By [AFP]( [Egyptian gets 5 years for selling book about spy who tipped off Israel]( By [AFP]( [Weeks after deadly attack, Jersey City blacks and Jews unite for charity drive]( By [Ben Sales]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved