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What Matters Most On Friday, December 12, 2014

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Israeli soldiers at the scene where a Palestinian man attacked a family of six with acid in Gush Etzion on December 12, 2014. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinian attacks family of 6, including young children, with acid

By Itamar Sharon

7th victim who was hitching a ride with family also lightly injured; attacker is West Banker who served time in Israeli jail

Labor leader Isaac Herzog and Hatnua leader Tzipi Livni announce the merger of their parties at a press conference in Tel Aviv on December 10, 2014. They said they would rotate the prime ministership if they win elections next March. (Photo credit: FLASH90)

Elections 2015

With Hatnua on board, Labor projected to be largest party

By Ilan Ben Zion

A day after center-left merger, poll finds 36% of public wants Netanyahu to govern, versus 33% who prefer Livni and Herzog

Elections 2015Netanyahu accuses media of ‘huge’ campaign against him

Sa’ar says he won’t challenge Netanyahu after all

Lapid, Liberman, Kahlon said to discuss alliance

The real question about Ziad Abu Ein

Why did security forces violate Israeli law by trying to prevent Palestinian access to their land?

8 nights – zero spoiled brats

‘Tis the season to give presents, but they don’t have to be extravagant, and they can even teach values

Phil Chernofsky

Torah Tidbits and Amalek’s spiritual heirs

The editor of the popular OU Israel newsletter rejects charges that his commentaries incite against Arabs

The Israeli Embassy in Athens (screen capture: YouTube)

Israel blames PA ‘incitement’ for Athens shooting

By ToI Staff and AP

Greek government condemns attack on Israeli Embassy in which no one was hurt, saying it hits ‘at the heart of democracy’

Illustrative photo of Athens (photo credit: CC BY-SA Titanas, Flickr)

Shots fired near Israeli Embassy in Athens

By AFP

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas stands by the coffin of senior Palestinian official Ziad Abu Ein during his funeral in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on December 11, 2014. (photo credit: STR/Flash90)

Analysis

Another round of violence? The PA decides this week

By Avi Issacharoff

Abbas will convene his advisers to discuss suspending security ties with Israel in the wake of official Ziad Abu Ein’s death

A still from footage released by the IDF showing a foiled attempt by Gazan terrorists to infiltrate the Zikim military base. (screen capture/Israel Defense Forces)

IDF review of Hamas infiltration leaked to Palestinian site

By Lazar Berman

Footage of Zikim attack reveals IDF code names, shows terrorist attaching explosives to tank

Leon Wieseltier, an intellectual and philosopher who was the literary editor of The New Republic for more than three decades, poses for a photograph in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

Who cares if the last bastion of pro-Israel American liberals crumbles?

Insiders blame billionaire owner Chris Hughes, 31, for demise of The New Republic, a journalistic institution that punched above its weight

Eli Yishai (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Elections 2015

Yishai said to receive top rabbi’s blessing to leave Shas

Former party head, now in dispute with successor Deri, weighs future as Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party faces split

Laura Bialis, Avi Vaknin and their daughter in Sderot (photo credit: Courtesy Laura Bialis)

Love and persistence amid the Kassams

By Jessica Steinberg

A photo of graffiti found spray painted on the wall of a Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem November 29, 2014, which reads 'Down with assimilation' (photo credit: Arik Abulof, Jerusalem Fire Department)

3 anti-assimilation activists cop to attack on Jewish-Arab school

Suspects’ attorneys say confessions were obtained under duress and will not be admissible in a trial

Protesters last Thursday outside the home of Rabbi Menachem Bombach, head of the Boys Hassidic Midrasha, which teaches both secular and religious subjects (Courtesy: Menachem Bombach)

Alternative yeshiva draws protests for teaching secular subjects

By Melanie Lidman

Protesters chant ‘traitor’ outside the house of Beitar Illit school’s director

UN envoy meets with top Hamas leader in Gaza

By AP and ToI Staff

Robert Serry urges Abbas-led unity government to take responsibility for Palestinian enclave, including crossings with Israel

Elohim (God the Father) (photo credit: Dina Goldstein)

Deities and the daily grind explored in ‘Gods of Suburbia’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Crime scene tape is wrapped around a pole in front of Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic headquarters, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, in New York. A knife-wielding man stabbed an Israeli student there before being fatally shot by police after he refused to drop the knife. The student, Levi Rosenblatt, is in stable condition. (photo credit: AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Stabbed Israeli student improving as mother arrives in NY

By JTA

Reizy Rosenblatt says it’s a ‘miracle’ that her son Levi survived attack at Chabad headquarters

Flags outside the UN's Palais de Nations in Geneva. (photo credit: CC BY kevingessner, Flickr)

Israel pans Switzerland for calling Palestine summit

Geneva meeting not expected to yield binding decisions; Jerusalem says move calls into question Swiss neutrality

Yeshiva University, New York. (Wikimedia Commons)

Moody’s: Med school handover fail deepens YU financial woes

By JTA

Credit rating firm warns Yeshiva University’s Albert Einstein medical school amid operating deficits of over $100 million

CIA Director John Brennan. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

CIA chief defends agency, but admits ‘abhorrent’ abuses

Speaking from Langley headquarters, John Brennan blasts Senate report, admits officials were unprepared

A graphic describing the nexus of digital technology and health applications. (Courtesy VLX Ventures)

From Jerusalem shall come forth digital health tech

By David Shamah

The capital of Israel has the potential to become the international capital of personalized smart-device medical technology

IAEA inspectors at Iran's nuclear power plant in Natanz on January 20, 2014. (IRNA/AFP/Kazem Ghane)

UN nuke watchdog dismisses Iran’s visit proposal

By AFP

Group says ‘possible military dimensions’ to Tehran’s nuclear program must be addressed in any deal with world powers

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Kirk Douglas, right, with son Michael and grandson Dylan at Dylan's bar mitzvah, May 2014. (Infinity Kornfeld Studios/JTA)

From the HeartacusAt 98, Kirk Douglas the poet emerges

Dario app screenshot (Photo credit: Courtesy)

An Israeli app for diabetics goes global

By David Shamah

'Gett: The Trial of Viviane Ansalem' makes its debut at the Cannes Film Festival in France in May 2014. (courtesy: Films Distribution)

Israeli film nominated for Golden Globe

One of the Sumatran tiger cubs that was born in the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo. (photo credit: Courtesy Jerusalem Biblical Zoo)

Roaring successJ’lem zoo welcomes rare tiger cubs

By Lazar Berman and Stuart Winer

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition, Saturday, March 29, 2014, in Las Vegas (photo credit: AP/Julie Jacobson)

FirestormUS governor haunted by Hanukkah typo

Electron micrograph of an Ebola virus virion (photo credit: CDC microbiologist Cynthia Goldsmith/Wikimedia)

Israel donates $10 million to UN Ebola fund

By Itamar Sharon

Alan Gross and his wife, Judy, at the Western Wall in spring, 2005. (photo credit: Courtesy of Jewish Community Relations Council of Washington)

US ‘in conversations’ to free Alan Gross, Obama says

By JTA

The Bank of Israel in Jerusalem (Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons, Ester Inbar)

From the webShekel hedges unwind amid biggest drop since ’98

Israel's then-president Shimon Peres (L) seen with Labor MK Binyamin Ben-Eliezer at the opening session of the Knesset on February 05, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Veteran parliamentarian Ben-Eliezer leaves politics

By Stuart Winer

Israeli politicians depicted as Nazis. (photo credit: Facebook screen capture)

Israeli expat in US suspected of depicting politicians as Nazis

UK Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude with young participants in a computer coding contest at the D5 Forum in London, December 9, 2014 (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israel becomes charter member of elite ‘digital government’ club

By David Shamah

Labor leader Isaac Herzog and Hatnua leader Tzipi Livni announce the merger of their parties at a press conference in Tel Aviv on December 10, 2014. They said they would rotate the prime ministership if they win elections next March. (Photo credit: FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewWisdom or wussdom?

By Marissa Newman

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