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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 24, 2013

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22-year-old Saleh Abu Latif, killed by a Gaza sniper Tuesday, December 24 (photo credit: screen shot/ Channel 2)

Israeli man killed by sniper fire on Gaza border

Defense Ministry worker was fixing fence after storm; Hamas braces for retaliation; Palestinian said wounded by IDF as additional troops deploy

IDF strikes Gaza in retaliation for deadly shooting attack

By Adiv Sterman and ToI Staff

Policeman stabbed near Jerusalem in apparent terror attack

Palestinian shot near Gaza border fence

Standing outside their Hebron home before leaving for Holon, (from left), Lubna Abu Danash holding her daughter Shuruk, Mahmoud Abu Danash holding Muath, and his older brothers. (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

From Hebron to Holon, a Palestinian child makes a short, vital journey

By Ilan Ben Zion

Four-year-old Muath was born with congenital heart disease. Now he’s about to undergo critical surgery at Wolfson Medical Center thanks to the Save A Child’s Heart philanthropy

Iran to its nuclear workers: Take a break, it’s Christmas

The head of Tehran’s nuclear program gets into the festive spirit

Leaving Pollard in jail is now officially absurd

It’s time for President Obama to pardon a man who has served 27 years for a crime the U.S. is committing all the time

‘Settlements’ are legal, legitimate, necessary

Nothing could be more legitimate than renewing the presence of Jews in their ancestral homeland

Yes, there are Palestinian partners for peace

A message to Moshe Bogie Ya’alon: Meet Ali Abu Awwad

Mahmoud Abbas at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in 2010. (photo credit: Najeh Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Israel to Abbas: No, Jesus was not a Palestinian

By Raphael Ahren

Foreign Ministry pans PA president’s ‘outrageous rewriting of Christian history,’ says he needs a hug from Santa

Sderot's train station, December 24, 2013. (photo credit: Transportation Ministry / via Facebook)

In first, Sderot train chugs into rocket-protected station

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Rail line extension to town near Gaza border expected to lead to ‘prosperity and development’ of Negev

Esther Pollard (left) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem on Monday, December 23, 2013. (photo credit: Benjamin Netanyahu/Facebook)

Israel redoubling bid for Pollard’s release, but US firm on refusal

TV reports says Netanyahu might push for jailed spy’s release as part of wider terms for progress with the Palestinians

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Illustrative picture of a US passport (photo credit: PD US Army, by BotMultichillT, Wikimedia Commons)

Israeli start-up wants to be your on-line notary public

By David Shamah

If we can send money in a verified manner over the Internet, why not a college diploma? Danny Klein, head of MyEasyDocs, has an answer to that question

Egyptians gather after a powerful explosion believed to be caused by a car bomb rocked a police headquarters in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, 110 kilometers (70 miles) north of Cairo on Tuesday, December 24. 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo)

Analysis

The Egyptian blame game

By Avi Issacharoff

It’s doubtful the Muslim Brotherhood was behind Tuesday’s bombing near Cairo, but that won’t stop the government from trying to pin it on the Islamists

A Druze resident of the Golan Heights looks out onto Syria in July 2012 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Analysis

Islamist rebels said to forcibly convert Syrian Druze

By Avi Issacharoff

Residents of 14 villages in isolated northern region reportedly ordered by al-Qaeda-linked group to publicly embrace Islam

An Israeli soldier stands in the City of David (Ir David) in East Jerusalem, next to the Arab neighborhood of Silwan (photo credit: Matanya Tausig/Flash90/File)

NBC says new show will avoid filming in East Jerusalem

By JTA

After PLO claims filming in Silwan would ‘legitimize annexation,’ network vows to pick locations ‘with respect for all parties’ for ‘Dig’

US Secretary of State John Kerry, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands for the media on the occasion of their meeting at Villa Taverna, the US Ambassador's residence in Rome, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Claudio Peri, Pool)

US plan said to include dismantling all Jordan Valley settlements

Security proposal rejected by Abbas meets most of Israel’s demands, according to Army Radio; Netanyahu reportedly calls it a ‘basis for negotiation’

Illustrative: A huge 2013 election campaign sign reading 'Bibi - Housing for the Wealthy. Shelly - Housing for Everybody' posted by the Israeli Labor Party underneath the Holyland complex in Jerusalem, a controversial luxury development that some estimate remains 40% to 60% empty during much of the year (photo credit: Flash90)

In fight against Jerusalem’s ‘ghost apartments,’ taxes may not do the trick

By Jessica Steinberg

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Ben Stiller ( Jiyang Chen/Wikimedia Commons)

Summer lovingBen Stiller’s Western Wall romance

By JTA

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (screen capture: YouTube/PressTVGlobalNews)

Supreme anti-SemiteIran ayatollah tops Jewish slur list

By Stuart Winer

Ascension Hall at Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio (photo credit: Austin Godber/Wikimedia Commons)

Kenyon and Indiana U. quit ASA over Israel boycott

By Yoel Goldman

Kanye West attends a show for the Alexander Wang collection during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York in September. (photo credit: AP/Dario Cantatore/Invision)

Yeezus walks backKanye rethinks Jewish ‘compliment’

By JTA

Police and rescue personnel at the scene of an explosion on a Bat Yam passenger bus on Sunday, December 22, 2013. photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewIt’s not an intifada. It’s the airing of grievances

By Lazar Berman

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