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														<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/son-of-israeli-woman-killed-in-berlin-terror-attack-lights-city-menorah/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2016/12/Germany-Christmas-Mar_Horo6-e1482893542741-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Or Elyakim, whose mother was killed in the attack on a Berlin Christmas market, attends the lighting ceremony of a large menorah at the Pariser Platz in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016, (AP/Markus Schreiber)" title="Or Elyakim, whose mother was killed in the attack on a Berlin Christmas market, attends the lighting ceremony of a large menorah at the Pariser Platz in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016, (AP/Markus Schreiber)" /></a>
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								Son of Israeli woman killed in Berlin attack lights city&#8217;s menorah							</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/son-of-israeli-woman-killed-in-berlin-terror-attack-lights-city-menorah/">Or Elyakim's mother, Dalia, died in the truck-ramming attack at a Christmas market; his father was injured and remains hospitalized</a>
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							By <a title="AP" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/ap/">AP</a> and <a title="TOI staff" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/times-of-israel-staff/">TOI staff</a>						</div>
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														<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/stray-bag-of-toys-prompts-scare-at-trump-tower/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2016/12/Trump-Tower-Suspiciou_Horo-e1482891159361-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="New York firefighters, police officers and others stand outside Trump Tower lobby in New York, Tuesday, Dec 27, 2016. Police hastily cleared the lobby of Trump Tower on Tuesday to investigate an unattended backpack, only to find that the bag contained children&#039;s toys. (AP/Craig Ruttle)" title="New York firefighters, police officers and others stand outside Trump Tower lobby in New York, Tuesday, Dec 27, 2016. Police hastily cleared the lobby of Trump Tower on Tuesday to investigate an unattended backpack, only to find that the bag contained children&#039;s toys. (AP/Craig Ruttle)" /></a>
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								Stray bag of toys prompts scare at Trump Tower							</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/stray-bag-of-toys-prompts-scare-at-trump-tower/">Unattended backpack leads to partial evacuation of residence, offices of president-elect, who is currently in Florida</a>
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							By <a title="Jennifer Peltz" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/jennifer-peltz/">Jennifer Peltz</a>						</div>
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								Shin Bet foiled over 400 significant terror attacks in 2016, service says							</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/shin-bet-foiled-over-400-significant-terror-attacks-in-2016-service-says/">Netanyahu presents Prime Minister's Prize to security agency for its most outstanding operations</a>
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							By <a title="Stuart Winer" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/stuart-winer/">Stuart Winer</a>						</div>
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								Israel said to skip General Assembly vote on Syria, on Netanyahu&#8217;s orders							</a>
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							By <a title="TOI staff" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/times-of-israel-staff/">TOI staff</a>						</div>
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								Senior Likud minister calls Kerry&#8217;s planned peace speech &#8216;pathetic&#8217;							</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/senior-likud-minister-calls-kerrys-planned-peace-speech-pathetic/">Gilad Erdan slams upcoming address, claims it will drive peace further away and will ensure the Palestinians' refusal to negotiate</a>
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							By <a title="Eric Cortellessa" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/eric-cortellessa/">Eric Cortellessa</a> and <a title="TOI staff" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/times-of-israel-staff/">TOI staff</a>						</div>
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								Romania&#8217;s president says he won&#8217;t name Muslim woman to be PM							</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/romanias-president-says-he-wont-name-muslim-woman-to-be-pm/">Klaus Iohannis gives no reason for his decision; speculation points to support by rejected Sevil Shhaideh's husband for Hezbollah, Syrian regime</a>
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								Pakistani officials chide defense minister for Israel nuclear threat							</a>
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							By <a title="TOI staff" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/times-of-israel-staff/">TOI staff</a>						</div>
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								Kerry to set out vision on Israeli-Palestinian peace in Wednesday speech							</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/kerry-to-lay-out-vision-on-israeli-palestinian-peace-wednesday/">As Jerusalem fumes over UN resolution and US role in it, secretary to deliver highly anticipated address; Washington expresses concerns Israel isolating itself</a>
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							By <a title="Eric Cortellessa" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/eric-cortellessa/">Eric Cortellessa</a>						</div>
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								Transcript claims to show US worked with Palestinians on UN resolution							</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/transcript-claims-to-show-us-worked-with-palestinians-on-un-resolution/">Report published in Egypt has Kerry and Rice advising senior Palestinians on strategy at UN and after Trump takes power </a>
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							By <a title="TOI staff" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/times-of-israel-staff/">TOI staff</a>						</div>
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														<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-chief-says-arab-armies-regimes-being-destroyed-for-israel/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2016/05/nasrallah-press-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah delivers a speech from Beirut, Lebanon on May 12, 2016. (Screen capture: Press TV)" title="Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah delivers a speech from Beirut, Lebanon on May 12, 2016. (Screen capture: Press TV)" /></a>
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								Hezbollah chief says Arab armies, regimes being destroyed for Israel							</a>
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							By <a title="Stuart Winer" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/stuart-winer/">Stuart Winer</a> and <a title="Alexander Fulbright" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/alexander-fulbright/">Alexander Fulbright</a>						</div>
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								Defiant Israeli culture minister: &#8216;Obama is history, we have Trump&#8217;							</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/defiant-israeli-culture-minister-obama-is-history-we-have-trump/">Miri Regev tells ceremony no country has as solid a link to its land as Israel, including those that supported the UN Security Council's anti-settlement resolution</a>
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							By <a title="Stuart Winer" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/stuart-winer/">Stuart Winer</a>						</div>
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														<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/seething-over-un-vote-israel-says-it-wont-be-obamas-punching-bag/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2015/09/Obama-Netanyahu-e1441421529153-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="US President Barack Obama speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum on March 22, 2013, in Jerusalem, Israel. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images/JTA)" title="US President Barack Obama speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum on March 22, 2013, in Jerusalem, Israel. (Uriel Sinai/Getty Images/JTA)" /></a>
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								Seething over UN vote, Israel says it won&#8217;t be Obama&#8217;s &#8216;punching bag&#8217;							</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/seething-over-un-vote-israel-says-it-wont-be-obamas-punching-bag/">Netanyahu spokesman refuses to divulge 'ironclad' information from Arab sources that Washington actively helped craft last week's UN resolution</a>
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							By <a title="Josef Federman" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/josef-federman/">Josef Federman</a>						</div>
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														<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-taps-jewish-aide-stephen-miller-to-write-inaugural-address/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2016/12/GettyImages-534529552-e1481680582913-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Stephen Miller speaking at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Anaheim, California, May 25, 2016. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)" title="Stephen Miller speaking at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Anaheim, California, May 25, 2016. (Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)" /></a>
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								Trump taps Jewish aide Stephen Miller to write inaugural address							</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-taps-jewish-aide-stephen-miller-to-write-inaugural-address/">Incoming senior White House adviser was Trump's chief campaign speechwriter, reportedly crafted his infamous 'global interests' speech </a>
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							By <a title="Eric Cortellessa" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/eric-cortellessa/">Eric Cortellessa</a>						</div>
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														<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/first-female-afghan-air-force-pilot-requests-us-asylum/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2016/12/000_JF5UZ-e1482844903688-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="This file photograph taken on April 26, 2015, shows Afghanistan&#039;s first female pilot Niloofar Rahmani as she poses at an airfield in Kabul. (AFP Photo/Shah Marai)" title="This file photograph taken on April 26, 2015, shows Afghanistan&#039;s first female pilot Niloofar Rahmani as she poses at an airfield in Kabul. (AFP Photo/Shah Marai)" /></a>
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													<div class="date">December 27, 2016, 5:46 pm</div>
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								First female Afghan air force pilot requests US asylum							</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/first-female-afghan-air-force-pilot-requests-us-asylum/">Citing Taliban threats, Niloofar Rahmani says it is unsafe for her to return to Afghanistan after finishing flight course</a>
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														<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/shin-bet-foils-plan-by-arab-israelis-to-attack-soldiers/"><img width="400" height="250" src="https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2015/11/F151128MUA05-1-400x250.jpg" class="attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image" alt="Thousands of supporters of the Islamic Movement in Israel, and its Northern Branch leader, Sheikh Raed Salah, demonstrated against Israel&#039;s decision to outlaw the Northern Branch, on November 28, 2015, in Umm al-Fahm, northern Israel. (Muammar Awad/Flash90)" title="Thousands of supporters of the Islamic Movement in Israel, and its Northern Branch leader, Sheikh Raed Salah, demonstrated against Israel&#039;s decision to outlaw the Northern Branch, on November 28, 2015, in Umm al-Fahm, northern Israel. (Muammar Awad/Flash90)" /></a>
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													<div class="date">December 27, 2016, 5:34 pm</div>
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								Shin Bet foils plan by Arab Israelis to attack soldiers							</a>
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								<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/shin-bet-foils-plan-by-arab-israelis-to-attack-soldiers/">Plotters reportedly wanted revenge for Israel outlawing the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement</a>
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							By <a title="TOI staff" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/writers/times-of-israel-staff/">TOI staff</a>						</div>
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