26.
--Percentage of Israelis who believe that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is suitable to be Prime Minister. Down from 36% three weeks ago.*

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You Must Be Kidding: 
Jewish-Arab City of Haifa Refuses to Add Arabic Signage to Stadium Facade
The municipality says it won't add a sign in Arabic to the facade of the Sammy Ofer Stadium because of an 'agreement with the donor.'

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News Summary:
The two main stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers were given very Israeli slants. A ’19-year-old was stabbed to death in the city of Arad in a suspected terror attack’ and a ‘shooting took place during a bar-mitzvah hike’ or ‘children almost lynched during hike’ read most of the headlines. The 19-year-old was a soldier and the search was on for his killer, who stole his weapon. On the bar-mitzvah hike, a settler [from the extremist settlement of Yitzhar, according to Maariv] shot dead a Palestinian farmer who was not involved in the incident that took place between settler hikers on the lands of the village of Qusra in the West Bank. The settlers’ version that was prominently played out was that they were being stoned by villagers and opened fire in self-defense. The Palestinian version, that a clash between villagers and settler youth broke out only after the settler shot dead dead the farmer, 47, was buried in the text, if reported on at all. Also buried in the article was the fact that the settlers’ trip was made without coordination with the army, which would have required a military escort, and that 'hilltop youth' [violent settler youth - OH] raided a nearby Palestinian village later in the day throwing rocks at villagers - the very act that the settlers accused the Palestinians of doing and for which one opened fire, killing the Palestinian farmer.

Also making headlines, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) launched a salvo of mortars at an Israeli military outpost near the Gaza Strip border and while the Israeli security establishment assessment was that this was in retaliation for the deaths of 12 Palestinians killed when Israel blew up a PIJ tunnel, PIJ said the rockets were a response to the “terror by settlers armed by the occupation government” and who “executed the farmer, Mahmoud Odeh, while he was toiling his land,” Maariv reported. Yedioth didn’t even bother to give PIJ’s statement for its salvo. The papers reported that the IDF responded by hitting “important targets” - of Hamas, which the IDF hold responsible for any aggression against Israel coming out of the Gaza Strip.

The investigations into alleged corruption by Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the laws being pushed to protect him were also prominent in today's Hebrew newspapers. Yedioth led with incriminating statements against Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu by the Jewish tycoons who provided him with ‘gifts,’ and shared an interview with former High Court chief justice Dorit Beinish, who expressed concern about the continued existence of Israel’s democracy and said that certain legislative initiatives [e.g. the ‘Recommendations Law’], “were meant to solve personal problems instead of reflecting the public interest.” Maariv noted that the ‘Recommendations Law,’ which Netanyahu-loyal Likud MKs are trying to quickly push through Knesset readings, has adversely affected Netanyahu and the Likud party: A poll found that only 26% of Israelis believe Netanyahu is suitable to be Prime Minister, compared to 36% on the 9th of November. Moreover, support for Likud dropped from 30 to 25 mandates with Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid and the Zionist Camp benefitting what Likud lost.

Also in the news, US President Donald Trump was expected to again delay the move of the US embassy to Jerusalem, but he was expected to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.