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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 17, 2014

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Alan Gross at Finlay military hospital during his prison sentence in Havana, Cuba, November 27, 2012. (AP/James L. Berenthal, File)

Cuba releases US prisoner Alan Gross, after 5 years

By AP

Jailed Jewish contractor set free on humanitarian grounds, heading home on a US government plane; three Cubans to be released in US

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on December 14, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Abbas Momani)

Analysis

Palestinians to press UN statehood bid Wednesday

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Despite US threat to veto, PA officials say draft resolution setting timetable for Israeli withdrawal to pre-67 lines going ahead

EU backs recognition of Palestinian state ‘in principle’

By AFP and ToI Staff

French-Palestinian UN bid said to drop Jewish state reference

By AFP and ToI Staff

Kerry: No one should interfere in Israeli election

By Bradley Klapper

Tourists photograph themselves in front of the Berlin 1936 Olympic Stadium, its twin towers and Olympic symbol still soaring high (photo credit: AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Analysis

In eternally stained Berlin, worrying about Israel

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: The Jews’ war of survival was not won when Hitler lost. It continues to this day, against enemies with more effective tools of mass murder at their disposal. And we’re easy to find now

Members of the al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's armed wing, display weapons during a parade marking the 27th anniversary of the Islamist movement’s creation on December 14, 2014 in Gaza City. (photo credit: AFP/MAHMUD HAMS)

Israel cries foul after EU strikes Hamas from terror list

By AFP and ToI Staff

Assets of group to remain frozen after ruling issued on technicality, but Netanyahu says Jerusalem ‘not satisfied’; Hamas praises move

Canada, Australia boycott ‘anti-Israel’ Geneva conference

By Lazar Berman

Netanyahu: PA war crime allegations ‘brazen gall’

Arafat gave us arms for Second Intifada attacks, Hamas official says

By Elhanan Miller

Sharon Anne Cohen

Tears won’t make an impression

For those Israelis unable to get desperately needed public financial help, there’s a retiree named Shuki

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

What do girls have to do with Hanukkah?

There was the one who stripped and the one who lopped off a head, and yes, they’re role models

One of the clay pots reconstructed from sherds found at the site near En Zippori at the Lower Galilee. (Courtesy Israel Antiquities Authority)

Olive oil traces dating back 8,000 years found in Israel

Clay sherds uncovered in Lower Galilee may mark oldest evidence for use of oil in entire Middle East

Lehava head Bentzi Gopstein at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem on December 18, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Will arrest of Lehava leader extinguish anti-assimilation activists’ fervor?

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, center, escorted by his bodyguards, waves to a crowd of hundreds of thousands of supporters in Beirut, Lebanon in September, 2012. (Illustrative photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Alleged Hezbollah Mossad spy ‘was Nasrallah bodyguard’

By Marissa Newman and Elhanan Miller

Kuwaiti report says Lebanese terror group has dismissed several officials since exposing the Israeli agent

Illustrative photo of a woman shopping for produce in a supermarket. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Israelis spending more than they earn, report shows

By Marissa Newman

Average Israeli family cannot ‘make ends meet’ because of drastic increase in housing, food prices over past decade

Students at Chachmei Lev Yeshiva pose with their teacher, Nechamia Steinberger, Jerusalem, November 26, 2014 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

New school struggles to serve ultra-Orthodox nonconformists

By Elhanan Miller

A police officer looks at flower tributes placed at a temporary memorial site close to the Lindt Cafe in the central business district of Sydney, Australia, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Rob Griffith)

Sydney gunman was taken off watch list, had weapons license

By AP and AFP

PM Abbott says probe will examine how Man Haron Monis got citizenship, other missteps

A self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars. (Photo credit: Wikimedia)

First hints of life may have been found on Mars

By AFP and ToI Staff

NASA rover sees spike in methane, a gas that on Earth comes mainly from living organisms, but scientists say more research is needed

A sermon given by Sheik Saleheoldine El Moussaoui of Azuqueca De Henares, near Madrid, posted online in August 2014, has since been removed. (Photo credit: MEMRI TV screenshot)

Spanish imam probed for asking Allah to destroy Jews

By JTA

Cleric will be investigated for incitement in sermon given during summer Gaza fighting

Isaac Herzog leading a Labor Party meeting in the Knesset, December 1, 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Will US Jewish groups pivot left if Herzog wins?

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Naftali Bennett in a new Jewish Home party campaign video (photo credit: YouTube)

Facial AiringBearded Bennett unapologetic

Illustrative photo of a plate of hummus (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

New SpreadIn US, hummus gets more love than salsa

By JTA

Anthony Goldstein and Harry Potter (photo credit: courtesy)

Wizard MotHarry Potter’s classmate is Jewish

By JTA

Seth Rogen and James Franco in 'The Interview' (photo credit: Youtube screenshot)

NYC premiere of Rogen film canceled as threats fly

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lights the first candle of Hanukkah, December 16, 2014. (Screenshot: YouTube/GPO)

PM lights 1st Hanukkah candle with IDF soldiers

A KaliPAK powers the lights and laptops in a tent out in the 'back country' (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Light one portable solar generator, to chase the dark away

By David Shamah

PM Benjamin Netanyahu (L) meets with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Rome on December 15, 2014 (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom / GPO / Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewPakistan or Palestine?

By Yossi Nachemi

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