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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 16, 2014

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Pakistani soldiers take position in an armoured vehicle near the site of an attack by Taliban gunmen on a school in Peshawar on December 16, 2014. (Photo credit: AFP/ A MAJEED)

Pakistan school attack ends, leaving over 100 children dead

By AFP

Taliban terrorists kill at least 130 people at army-run school in Peshawar

House of David inscription, part of the “Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age” exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (Photo credit: Meidad Suchowolski)

Ancient rock adds evidence of King David’s existence

By Menachem Wecker

Stone slab with earliest reference to House of David, on display at Met, said to be ‘one of the most important Biblical artifacts ever found’

French President Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November 2013. (photo credit: Edi Israel/PooL/Flash90)

European UN draft likely to reference Israel’s Jewish nature

By Raphael Ahren

Options include ‘Jewish homeland,’ ‘Jewish and democratic state’ or mere mention of 1947 partition plan

Liberman: Israel needs to adopt pragmatic approach

PA to consider revised European statehood bid

By Marissa Newman, Raphael Ahren and AFP

Netanyahu tells Kerry Israel opposed to French UN bid

By ToI Staff, AFP and AP

Seeking God in a Jewish education

To maintain relevance in an age of impermanence, learning must focus on matters of the soul

Erris Langer Klapper

Does it sound like I’m boycotting Christmas?!

Avoiding the competition between reindeer and dreidels is going to take a miracle

Julie Rosenzweig

For Hanukkah, give the kids a break

Israeli schools have cut back on days off in a misguided attempt to enable parents to work even more

An aerial photograph of the farm house near Rosh Ha'ayin, 2014. (photo credit: Skyview Company, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

Massive 2,800-year-old farmhouse found in central Israel

By Lazar Berman

Structure in modern Rosh Ha’ayin was used during Assyrian, Persian and Hellenistic periods

The Central Election Committee's control room in the Knesset during the last election, January 22, 2013 (photo credit: Isaac Harari/Flash90)

Analysis

Hurly-burly of early polling rarely holds water at ballot box

By Raphael Ahren

Surveys not only tell us nothing about the post-election political landscape, they also contain a ‘strongly manipulative element’

Eli Yishai speaks during a ceremony marking 30 days since the passing of the late religious spiritual leader of Israel's Sephardi Jewry, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, in Jerusalem on November 5, 2013. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Shas the latest victim of growing left-right divide

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Moshe Kahlon (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Kahlon said to refuse merger with Lapid

Head of new Kulanu party prefers to go it alone, despite Yesh Atid’s data that joint ticket would boost both sides

Bentzi Gopstein, head of Lehava, in Jerusalem's Old City, October 30, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police arrest head of anti-assimilation group Lehava

By Stuart Winer

Bentzi Gopshtain and nine others held on suspicion of incitement to violence and terror, day after members charged in bilingual school arson

People sign tributes at a makeshift memorial after shootings during a siege at the Lindt Cafe at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney Australia. Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. Tearful Australians laid mounds of flowers at the site where a gunman held hostages for 16 hours at a popular Sydney cafe. The siege ended early Tuesday with a barrage of gunfire that left two hostages and the Iranian-born gunman dead, and a nation that has long prided itself on its peace rocked to its core. (photo credit: AP Photo/Steve Christo)

Sydney siege victims lauded for courage, kindness

By Kristen Gelineau

Cafe manager Tori Johnson reportedly brought the hostage crisis to a head by grabbing the shotgun wielded by hostage-taker Man Haron Monis

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his wife Margie pay their respect to the victims of the siege in Martin Place in Sydney central business district, Australia. Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. (Photo credit: Steve Christo)

Australian PM: Sydney gunman was not on terror watch list

By AP

Amid national outpouring of grief, questions raised of how cafe attacker slipped through cracks

Hezbollah fighters salute during the funeral procession of Hassan al-Laqis, a senior commander of Hezbollah, who was gunned down at his hometown in Baalbek, Lebanon, on December 4, 2013, (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah claims to expose Mossad mega-spy in its ranks

By Elhanan Miller

Lebanese news agency reports businessman secretly working for Israel foiled plans to avenge death of Imad Mughniyeh

Illustrative photo of Israeli border police and soldiers clashing with Palestinians shooting fireworks at the Qalandiya checkpoint on July 24, 2014. (Issam Rimawi/FLASH90)

Palestinian killed in early morning clash with troops

By Joshua Davidovich

Special forces open fire after coming under attack during arrest operation in Qalandiya refugee camp, IDF says

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, chairwoman of Shurat HaDin, the Israel Law Center. (Courtesy: Shurat HaDin)

Interview

‘The best defense against Palestinian lawfare is offense’

By Elhanan Miller

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of Shurat HaDin is suing Abbas and Mashaal at the ICC, and will pursue others if need be

Gustavo Latis holds a framed portrait of Mortara (Rossella Tercatin/The Times of Israel)

Ahead of film, nephew recalls ‘uncle-priest’ at heart of 1858 scandal

By Rossella Tercatin

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Illustrative image of Germans carrying flags during rally in Dresden, December 15, 2014. (AP/Jens Meyer)

German far-right grows as 15,000 march in Dresden

By AFP and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and President Barack Obama embrace at a ceremony welcoming the US leader at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 20, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Poll: Most Israelis believe US-Israel ties in crisis

By JTA

An illustrative photo of three Saudi women (screen capture, YouTube)

Taking a penaltySaudi woman held for watching soccer

By Abdullah Al-Shihri and Aya Batrawy

Wigan owner Dave Whelan (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Dan Farrimond CC-BY)

Soccer boss accepts misconduct rap for Jewish money jab

By AFP

Peanut Butter & Jelly Sufganiyot: Israeli-style doughnuts with the classic American pairing. (Shannon Sarna/JTA)

Mimosa madness: Brunch menu jazzes up a ho-hum Hanukkah

By Shannon Sarna

Hungarian Jews on the Judenrampe (Jewish ramp) after disembarking from transport trains at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944 (The Auschwitz Album)

93-year-old former Auschwitz guard to be tried in Germany

By JTA

Vienna, the capital of Austria (photo credit: CC BY-SA 2.0, Yaisog Bonegnasher, Flickr)

Vienna Saudi school ordered closed over anti-Semitism charges

By AP

A female hostage stands by the front entrance of the Lindt cafe as she turns the lights off, December 15, 2014. AFP PHOTO/William WEST

Hebrew media reviewAbove-the-fold treatment for terror down under

By Yossi Nachemi

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