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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 3, 2014

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Police investigated the scene of a stabbing attack at a Rami Levy supermarket in Mishor Adumim on December 3, 2014. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Two stabbed in terror attack at West Bank supermarket

By Lazar Berman

Teen Palestinian assailant shot by off-duty member of PM’s security detail at Rami Levy store in Mishor Adumim east of Jerusalem; two others detained

Likud MK Miri Regev (C) speaks to Yesh Atid MK Yair Lapid (R) at the Knesset on December 3, 2014. (photo credit: Courtesy)

Knesset votes to dissolve; new elections called for March 17

Eighty-four MKs support measure, which also passes first reading; Livni lashes ‘hysterical’ Netanyahu; Arab party leaders say they’ll unite

AnalysisNew election will mute calls for concessions, temporarily

By Raphael Ahren

Accusing Lapid and Livni of attempted ‘putsch,’ Netanyahu fires them, calls elections

By Elie Leshem and Ilan Ben Zion

AnalysisIn call for elections, Netanyahu gets personal

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres toast the new government at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, March 18, 2013. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Netanyahu and a newly right-wing Israel

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: In the last elections, despite Arab Winter instability, the Israeli right contracted. Snap polls suggest it will grow dramatically in elections now set for March. Netanyahu might have no problem building a coalition, but would it be the government he wants and Israel needs?

Kerry: We hope Israel’s next government advances peace

By Itamar Sharon and AFP

The day there were no Israelis in Hogwarts

As everyone else called out their countries of origin, he looked into his bride’s eyes and kept his mouth shut

The possibility of dramatic change

One political figure could unseat Benjamin Netanyahu: His name is Moshe Kahlon

The two year itch

Eighteen whole months of government? Must be time for elections

Christian outrage

He tried — he really did — to keep quiet while seated at a dinner next to a replacement theology proponent

No, we don’t support a boycott of Israel

The Dutch Jewish group, A Different Voice, opposes Israel’s settlement policies, not its existence

The French National Assembly in Paris (photo credit: CC BY-SA Richard Ying, Tangui Morlier/Wikimedia Commons)

French parliament votes to recognize Palestinian state

By AFP and Raphael Ahren

Israel laments symbolic vote, which sees lawmakers urge government to recognize Palestine, with 339 in favor and 151 against

The European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium (photo credit: CC BY Francisco Antunes, Flickr)

Belgian government to support Palestine recognition

By JTA and ToI Staff

Then-Economy Minister Naftali Bennett (left) with then-finance Minister Yair Lapid in the Knesset, March 11, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Bennett, Netanyahu said to forge new alliance

Jewish Home leader says he regrets last year’s decision to join forces with Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid

Top of the US Capitol building, the seat of Congress, in Washington, DC (photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin/File)

Congress to pass landmark Israel partnership bill

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Bipartisan legislation, which has been a focus of AIPAC lobbying, will strengthen defense, energy cooperation

An image grab taken from a video released by the Islamic State (IS) and identified by private terrorism monitor SITE Intelligence Group on September 2, 2014 purportedly shows a masked militant holding a knife and gesturing as he speaks to the camera in a desert landscape before beheading 31-year-old US freelance writer Steven Sotloff. (AFP PHOTO/SITE Intelligence Group/HO)

Interview

‘Western jihadists follow their friends to Syria’

By Elhanan Miller

Counter-terrorism expert Peter Neumann says that legal prosecution cannot be the sole solution for returning European fighters

Rabbi Seth Farber, right, officiating at a wedding (photo - courtesy)

Vote against alternative Jewish weddings roils Diaspora

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A two-year sentence for those performing or participating in illegal ceremonies is upheld in a committee vote

Workers Union chairman Yair Frommer speaking to foreign diplomats outside the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on Monday, March 31, 2014. (photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Politicians, diplomats struggle to improve foreign service

By Raphael Ahren

At launch of new Knesset caucus, Foreign Ministry reveals that Iran invests much more in its international relations than does Israel

Avi Nissenkorn, chairman of the Histadrut Labor Federation, at a press conference in Jerusalem, October 7, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minimum wage hike agreed, averting strike

By Marissa Newman

Monthly salaries to rise by NIS 700 over next two years, but firing of Lapid means deal won’t apply to government employees

Saul Wordsworth, author of 'Alan Stoob: Nazi Hunter.' Hodder & Stoughton)

Bogus Nazi hunter Twitter account jump-starts UK comedy book

An AORA Tulip System (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Ethiopia adopts Israeli day/night solar power system

By David Shamah

Powered primarily by the sun, AORA’s Tulip energy system works 24/7 – even at night and when it’s cloudy

La'Zooz screenshot (Photo credit: Courtesy)

App lets you share rides, make money, change the world

By David Shamah

Ride-sharing isn’t just about getting from here to there, believes Matan Field of La’Zooz; it’s about ‘a new social paradigm’

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Marcus Weldon (Photo credit: Courtesy)

The Next Israeli Nobel?For its ninth Nobel, Bell Labs counts on Israeli tech

By David Shamah

The two drag queen emcees at Wigstock (photo credit: Rebecca Wojno/Times of Israel)

Trans communityDrag queens raise HIV awareness

By Rebecca Wojno

Rabbi Yosef Mendelevitch at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport, Nov. 30, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Back in the (former) USSR, refusenik encourages Jews to emigrate

By Cnaan Liphshiz

View of Paris suburb Créteil. (CC BY Christophe Pinard/Flickr)

French Jewish woman raped in possible anti-Semitic attack

By JTA

Toy WWII German soldiers from toy maker Cobi (screen capture: Cobi)

Don't mention the warSwedish store pulls ‘Nazi’ toy soldiers

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces he's fired Ministers Lapid and Livni and is calling new elections, in a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 2, 2014. (Photo credit: Emil Salman/POOL)

Hebrew media reviewTime to change the underwear

By Joshua Davidovich

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