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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 26, 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)

‘IDF killed 2 terrorists, thwarted bombing on Gaza border’

Attack that killed Israeli worker Tuesday said to have been part of a more sophisticated plan to target an army patrol

Gazan in Israel on medical permit nabbed for planning attack

By Stuart Winer

None hurt after Kassam fired at Ashkelon area

By Ilan Ben Zion and ToI Staff

Liberman: Rearrest Palestinian who called for soldier kidnappings

By Marissa Newman

A housing construction site in an East Jerusalem neighborhood, October 27, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu to announce up to 2,000 new settlement homes

PM, defying US and EU pressure, to issue list of new building plans close to release of Palestinian prisoners next week

Report claims Netanyahu and Abbas held back-channel talks

By Stuart Winer

Palestinians fume at Netanyahu plan to announce new settlement units

Arafat died of natural causes, Russian experts say

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Michael Dickson

An open letter to St. James’s Church at Christmas

By displaying a replica of Israel’s security barrier, a London church disregards the innocent victims of Palestinian terror

Va’era: Bloggers on the Torah reading

…Aaron steps in for Moses, God shows off, plagues from blood to hail

The Igbo Jews who came to Providence

An American Jewish community connects, through the shared experience of Hebrew prayer, with visitors from Nigeria

Demonstrators hold signs calling for the release of Jonathan Pollard during a demonstration in 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

106 Israeli MKs appeal to Obama to release Pollard

By Marissa Newman

Days after information about US spying on Israel emerges, huge Knesset majority demands jailed spy’s freedom

Defeated Beit Shemesh mayoral candidate Eli Cohen is seen in the Jerusalem District Court on December 10, 2013. A three-judge panel heard the appeal of Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein and mayoral candidate Cohen to overturn the recent municipal election results due to allegations of widespread, coordinated and systematic fraud. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New elections called in religiously torn Beit Shemesh

With evidence of widespread fraud, court annuls ultra-Orthodox mayor’s victory; Shas vows to appeal decision

A Christian Arab soldier receiving a certificate of appreciation from Greek Orthodox priest Gabriel Naddaf during a 2013 event in Nazareth (photo credit: courtesy IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Despite threats, threefold rise in Christian IDF enlistment

By Mitch Ginsburg

Overall number of Arab Christians opting to serve in army remains small, but Galilee cleric aims to change that

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with then-Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman at a meeting in the Knesset, on November 25, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu, Liberman agree on electoral threshold hike

By Stuart Winer

Opposition MK says bill would force Arab parties out of Knesset

Members of the Tech Challenge group (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Diaspora youth arrive for top-drawer Tech Challenge

By David Shamah

A new program in Israel will provide a ‘Start-Up Nation’ immersion program for Jewish students and young professionals from the Diaspora

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File: On the outside looking in at home, the West Bank city of Ariel (photo: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Israeli actors sit out show at settlement theater

Three actors from the Cameri and Beit Lessin theater troups ask to be excused from production in West Bank town of Ariel

'Omar' director Hany Abu-Assad is nervously awaiting news of the Oscar nominees (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

In first, a Palestinian film awaits word from the Oscars

By Jessica Steinberg

Hany Abu-Assad, the director of ‘Omar,’ wants audiences to look past the politics when they come to see his movie

A supporter of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi raises his hands with a gesture of an open palm with four raised fingers that has became a symbol for the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque where hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters were killed by security forces in August, in Ramsis Square, Cairo, Egypt (photo credit: AP)

Egypt names Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group

By MAGGIE MICHAEL

Military-backed government outlaws Islamist party whose leader briefly ruled the country; makes all its activities illegal

A self-proclaimed 'one of a kind,' Harvey Pollack at 91, working courtside at a Philadelphia 76ers home game. (photo credit: Hillel Kuttler)

At 91, Harvey Pollack is still NBA’s leading scorer

By Hillel Kuttler

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While Israel does not appear on the official website of the 2013 World Youth Chess Championships in Dubai, the young Israeli competitors are listed as representing the World Chess Federation, FIDE. (screen capture, http://worldyouth2013.com/playerlist/country)

Political pawnsIsraelis play chess in Dubai on the sly

Yuli Edelstein speaking to the Knesset in November 2011

Knesset speaker: Christmas trees bring back bad memories

By Stuart Winer and Haviv Rettig Gur

Ex-nuclear spy Mordechai Vanunu attending a hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem in 2010. Vanunu has been petitioning for years against a warrant preventing him from leaving Israel. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Let me leave Israel, nuclear leaker Vanunu implores court

From the webWaze to stay in Israel and double number of local employees

Hebrew media reviewBetween construction material and a hard place

By Ilan Ben Zion

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