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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 25, 2013

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Aziz Salha waving his bloody hands after the lynch of 2 IDF reservists in Ramallah in 2000 (Screen capture, YouTube)

‘We were in a craze to see blood’

By Adiv Sterman

Court releases testimonies of Palestinians who were involved in the brutal Ramallah lynching of two IDF soldiers in 2000

Cop injured in apparent terror attack wakes up

Tense but quiet night in south after violence

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Shots fired from car at IDF patrol in West Bank

By Adiv Sterman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sends a Christmas message via video, December 2013. (screen capture: Youtube/IsraeliPM)

Netanyahu wishes Christian world a merry Christmas

By Stuart Winer

Prime minister speaks of shared history and desire to seize a common future of peace and prosperity

Pope’s Christmas wish: Israeli-Palestinian peace

By Frances D'Emilio

Abbas, Ashton join Xmas festivities in Bethlehem

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

Santa's Sabra helpersChristmas? There’s an Israeli app for that

7 Christmas movies to watch with your Dim Sum

Totally awesome scenes from the most lovable season’s flicks

Peter A. Pettit

A Christmas hymn for sovereign Israel

Christians and Jews can see glimmers of the promised blessings to come, but cannot yet bask in their full brilliance

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Why Christmas is dangerous

Adventures in Kwanzaa, rubbery turkey and being the only Jew in the office when the season rolls around

Top EU officials dealing with Israelis and Palestinians. From left to right: Hugues Mingarelli, Christian Berger, Catherine Ashton and Filippo Grandi (photo credit: European Union)

Why is this occupation different from all other occupations?

By Raphael Ahren

The EU insists that Turks in Cyprus and Moroccans in Western Sahara ‘cannot be compared’ to Israelis in the West Bank. Two legal scholars are fighting a losing battle to find out why

Freshly baked pita bread. (photo credit: Courtesy of Vered Maoz)

Kosher Israeli food in Jamaica may tip tourism

By Renee Ghert-Zand

An Israeli army paramedic stands with a bloodied hand after treating a civilian shot near the Israel-Gaza border, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israel blames terror surge on Palestinian incitement

By Stuart Winer

Netanyahu’s office calls on Mahmoud Abbas to condemn series of recent attacks, one of which killed a civilian

Hamas forces on the Gaza-Egypt border (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatab/Flash 90)

Analysis

When support for Hamas wanes, the cannons roar

By Avi Issacharoff

For the beleaguered rulers of Gaza, facilitating attacks on Israel offers easy distraction from economic woes. But can they control the flames?

President Shimon Peres, center, with Christian schoolchildren in Ramle, on December 22, 2013 (photo credit: Mark Neiman/GPO)

Christian Arabs top country’s matriculation charts

By Adiv Sterman

Students from the religious minority, which makes up only 2% of Israel’s population, most likely to graduate high school

Assi Azar, one of Israel's best-known television personalities (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bennett accepts gay TV star’s invite to come out… to dinner

In a bid to sway Jewish Home leader on gay rights, celebrity presenter Assi Azar asks him to double date with their partners

Main entrance to Auschwitz (CC BY-SA Tulio Bertorini)

70 MKs will visit Auschwitz next month

Unprecedented delegation to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day at site where nearly a million Jews were killed by Nazis

President Shimon Peres 'makes his move' in a demonstration of the Microsoft Xbox One system by Dr. Eyal Ofek (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Peres gets a peek at Microsoft’s ‘living room of tomorrow’

By David Shamah

Interactivity and immersion are the keys for an enriched experience at home and at school, MS officials tell the president

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Syrian refugees in Mafraq. (photo credit: Debra Kamin/Times of Israel)

Seeing skin in a Syrian refugee camp

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Andras Schiff (photo credit: Steve Bowbrick/Wikipedia Commons)

Pianist says ‘they’ll cut off my hands’ if he returns to Hungary

By JTA

MC Aryeh Bernstein at Jerusalem's first SermonSlam (photo credit: Stephen Epstein)

Bible bitsExodus gets the 5-minute treatment

By Jessica Steinberg

Fresh fruits (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Scurvy makes an unexpected comeback

By David Shamah

David Mamet (photo credit: David Shankbone/Wikimedia Commons/File)

Oy gevalt!David Mamet tackles 7 deadly sins

By JTA

Eviatar Corcos, left, wins "Rising Star" on Tuesday night (photo credit: screenshot)

A star is bornEviatar Corcos is Israel’s ‘Rising Star’

French comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala performing the quenelle in 2008 (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

French use Nazi-like salute with impunity

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) with Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (right) inaugurating Sderot's train station in December 2013. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon /GPO/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewMore terror, fewer answers

By Yossi Nachemi

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