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What Matters Most On Friday, December 19, 2014

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A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip lands in an open area in the Eshkol region, December 19, 2014. (photo credit: Israel Police)

Gaza Palestinians fire rocket at Eshkol region

No casualties or damage in third attack since summer’s conflict; local official says clock ‘ticking down to the next war’

A tunnel found in the northern Gaza Strip by the Israel Defense Forces, August 3, 2014. (IDF spokesperson/Flash90)

‘Cement for rebuilding Gaza diverted to terror tunnels’

Iranian singer Parham Haghighi performs the role of Sabbatai Tzvi in 'Seekers of Light,' an opera written by Boston-based Israeli composer Matti Kovler. Seven scenes from the libretto were premiered at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston on Wed. night (photo credit: Jared Wickerham/The Times of Israel)

‘Hanukkah miracle’ at Boston museum’s joint Israeli-Iranian show

By Matt Lebovic

Musicians from ‘enemy’ countries perform in Hebrew and Persian in ‘Seekers of Light,’ an opera based on infamous Sabbatai Tzvi

The Hanukkah guide to Israeli doughnuts

The country’s most insanely irresistible sufganyot — a feast for the eyes

Women learn Torah too

State funding is crafted to ensure that only the male religious studies frameworks get public backing

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and former minister of Immigration and Absorption Sofa Landver pose with a family from France, who immigrated to Israel in July 2014. (photo credit: David Salem)

French immigration to Israel dwarfs North American figures

By JTA

6,655 Jews arrived from France in 2014, compared with only 3,225 from North America; rise of anti-Semitism cited as key factor in uptick

Sarah Silverman, December 18, 2014. (photo credit: Nir Shaanani)

Sarah Silverman shines at Jerusalem Jewish Film Festival

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Controversial Jewish comedian in Israel to accept achievement award and celebrate nephew’s bar mitzvah

Sarah Silverman (second from right) joins Women of the Wall's Anat Hoffman, sisters Susan Silverman and Laura Silverman, and niece Ashira Abramowitz for Hanukkah candle lighting at the Western Wall, December 18, 2014. ( Daniel Shitrit)

Despite confiscations, Women of the Wall light Hanukkah candles

By JTA

The United Nations Security Council meeting on September 19, 2014. photo credit: US State Department)

US says it will not support Palestinian UN bid

By AFP and JTA

State Department spokesperson indicates Washington likely to veto text calling for Israeli withdrawal to 1967 lines by end of 2017

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the foreign media at a press conference in Jerusalem, on December 17, 2014. (photo credit: Emil Salman/Flash90, Pool)

Analysis

PM’s harsh reaction to EU initiatives may come back to haunt him

By Raphael Ahren

Invoking the Holocaust in critiquing Europe’s latest actions, Netanyahu might score some points locally, but he’s not making friends overseas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference held in Jerusalem, December 17, 2014. (Emil Salman/POOL/FLASH90)

Ramallah’s UN moves will lead to Hamas takeover, PM warns

By ToI Staff and Elhanan Miller

An Israeli emergency rescue team examines the remains of a bus bombed in Bulgaria in July, 2012, allegedly by Hezbollah. (Dano Monkotovic/Flash90/JTA)

Burgas attack said to have put Hezbollah on Mossad spy’s trail

Group first began searching for an agent in its ranks after Bulgaria accused it of responsibility for bombing, report says

Ehud Olmert and Shula Zaken, September 2011. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Olmert offered aide $10,000 a month to serve jail time

Former prime minister heard trying to bribe Shula Zaken to take the blame for corruption case in newly released recordings

Gas rigs in the Tamar field, off the coast of Israel, in June 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Natural gas to cost Israelis double world average, report says

By David Shamah

The discovery off Israel’s shores will do nothing to lower the price of electricity — but rather increase it, according to an energy expert

The unique palace entry complex discovered at Herodian Hilltop Palace by Hebrew University archaeologists. (Photo credit: The Herodium Expedition at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Entryway to Herod’s hilltop palace uncovered near Jerusalem

By Tamar Pileggi

Excavations at Herodium in Judean Desert also turn up secret tunnels used by Jewish rebels during the Bar Kochba Revolt 2,000 years ago

Thousands of asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan protest the Israeli government's neglect to review asylum requests, and the state's detention policies, at a demonstration held at Rabin Square, central Tel Aviv, on January 5, 2013. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

High Court strikes down new rules for African migrants

Justice orders authorities temporarily cease transfer of asylum seekers to detention facility after groups call amendment ‘unconstitutional’

Naftali Bennett addresses the Saban Forum, December 6, 2014. (YouTube screenshot)

No unity deal with Likud, pledges Jewish Home memo

By Lazar Berman

Leaked document calls Avigdor Liberman a leftist, instructs MKs to go on offensive against him ahead of elections

Pretty potty mouthed Jessi Klein appears on Comedy Central. (courtesy: Comedy Central, CC.com)

How a nice Jewish girl became comedy’s ‘dirty nerdy’

By Stephie Grob Plante

More Headlines

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, December 07, 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Swing voteRemixed PM belts out ‘Chandelier’

By Stuart Winer

Jews decorate a Christmas tree in Buzzfeed video. (YouTube screenshot)

FooltideAre Jews clueless about Christmas?

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Rabbi Harold Schulweis helped found several organizations, including Jewish World Watch. (photo credit: Courtesy Valley Beth Shalom)

ObituaryRabbi Harold Schulweis, thinker and activist, dies at 89

Illustrative photo of an interfaith wedding ceremony (photo credit: Rebecca Wilson/Creative Commons/JTA)

Prominent Conservative rabbi considers breaking intermarriage ban

By Uriel Heilman

A screenshot of Woobi in action (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Game ad tech turns brands into players’ ‘pals’

By David Shamah

Infantry soldiers of the Givati brigade train in the Negev desert in 2011 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

IDF harassment probe focuses on what commanders knew

The Internal Revenue Service building in Washington DC (photo credit: CC BY-SA Joshua Doubek, Wikimedia Commons)

From the web‘Accidental Americans’ face big tax bills

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on December 8, 2014 (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/POOL)

Hebrew media reviewTime is money

By Marissa Newman

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