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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 20, 2014

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Fighters from the Islamic State group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, June 23, 2014. (photo credit: AP/File)

IS said to execute 100 foreign fighters who wanted to quit

By AFP

Activist says he verified the killings in the Syrian city of Raqqa; dozens of Britons fighting with jihadist group want to return home

Palestinian members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, at a rally to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the Islamist movement’s creation, at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, on December 12, 2014. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Hamas threatens retaliation following Israeli airstrikes

Terror group warns of ‘dangerous escalation’ after IAF jets hit Gaza targets, including cement factory, in response to rocket fire

Israeli aircraft strike Gaza targets after rocket attack

PA: Arab states have yet to transfer funds pledged for Gaza

Hamdallah urges Hamas to transfer Gaza authority to PA

Cosenza, Italy's Via Arabia decorated with menoras for the holidays. (Mario Tosti)

Italian town’s Arab Street decked with menorahs for Xmas

By Rossella Tercatin

Legend has it the Second Temple’s golden menorah was lost by Visigoth invaders in Cosenza in 410 CE

We are breaking up with you. For good

It’s not us, Europe, it’s you

When never again isn’t just a slogan

He took what seems to be the most prudent action he could take for his personal protection: He got a gun

Gerald M. Steinberg

The EU’s Hamas fiasco exposes broken system

The ‘technical glitch’ that took Hamas off a list of terror groups was more rule than exception

Ben Carson visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, December 18, 2014. (AP/Dan Balilty)

Awed by Israel, 2016 Republican hopeful Ben Carson pledges support

By Josef Federman

US would ‘have Israel’s back’ if he was president, says early conservative favorite, knocking Obama and calling Netanyahu ‘a great leader’

Barcelona FC players Lionel Messi (left) and Neymar da Silva Juntos, pictured at a Spanish friendly match (photo credit: AP/Manu Fernandez)

Barcelona soccer team ‘set to cut ties with terror-financing Qatar’

Israeli TV report says club has received $200 million from gulf state in recent years, but won’t extend sponsorship deal

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)

Kerry said to warn UN vote on Palestine would strengthen Israeli right

Peres, Livni told US secretary such a move before March elections would benefit Netanyahu, Bennett, according to Foreign Policy

Israeli envoy to the UN Ron Prosor addressing the UN Security Council, November 11, 2014. (Courtesy of the Israeli Mission to the UN)

Israel slams UN request it pay Lebanon for oil spill

By AP and ToI Staff

Non-binding resolution awards Beirut $850 million for ‘environmental disaster’ caused during 2006 war sparked by Hezbollah

British actor Michael Caine is shown with Mandy Rice-Davies at the discotheque she ran in Tel Aviv, Nov. 1968. (photo credit: AP Photo)

Mandy Rice-Davies, key figure in 1963 British sex scandal, dies aged 70

By AP

Former model and showgirl, who later converted to Judaism and married an Israeli man, lost a ‘battle with cancer’

Screenshot of the 32-foot menorah set up in Martin Place in Sydney, Australia, December 2014. (Photo credit: Chabad.org/screen capture)

Menorah honoring terror victims erected in Sydney

By JTA

Chabad sets up 32-foot menorah following deadly siege of Australian cafe

People stand outside the Little Havana restaurant Versailles, as they absorb the news that Alan Gross was released from a Cuban prison and that US President Barack Obama wants to change the United States Cuba policy, Dec. 17, 2014 in Miami. (photo credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

For Cuban Jews, US rapprochement with Castro a cause for concern

By Uriel Heilman

Older generation of emigres object to warming ties between Washington, Havana, but younger Cuban Jews in US eager to visit

Yukiya Amano of Japan, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna, Austria, June 2, 2014 (AP/Ronald Zak)

IAEA: Iran honoring nuclear deal with P5+1

By AFP and ToI Staff

In confidential report, UN watchdog says Tehran meeting commitments, not enriching uranium above 5% concentration

This undated file image posted on a militant website on January 4, 2014, which is consistent with other AP reporting, shows Shakir Waheib, a senior member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), now called the Islamic State group, left, next to a burning police vehicle in Iraq's Anbar Province. (Photo credit: AP via militant website, File)

Killing top IS leaders not enough to cripple group, say experts

By AFP and ToI Staff

Iraqi PM says there can be no lasting victory against extremists without undertaking internal reforms

Ancient Capernaum, on the shores of Lake Kinneret (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

A Galilee Christmas tour, in the footsteps of Jesus

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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Troops with their Hannukah care packages. (Photo credit: Ava Hamburger/courtesy )

Military miracleHanukkah love in US armed forces

By Raffi Wineburg

Workers remove the poster for "The Interview" from a billboard in Hollywood, California, December 18, 2014 a day after Sony announced it had no choice but to cancel the movie's Christmas release and pull it from theaters due to a credible threat. (Photo credit: AFP/ VERONIQUE DUPON)

Cyber attack could cost Sony half a billion dollars

By Veronique DUPONT

Gaith al-Omari, fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and former director of the American Task Force on Palestine, speaking at Georgetown University in Washington, DC in 2013. (screen shot: YouTube)

DC think tank hires ex-Palestinian negotiator

By JTA

The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house is seen on the University of Virginia campus on December 6, 2014 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Jay Paul/Getty Images/ via JTA)

Jewish groups take point on combating campus assault

Anti-Arab graffiti found at Eilat sports center on December 19, 2014. (Photo credit: Israel Police)

Anti-Arab graffiti found in Eilat sports center

Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, an Israeli citizen found guilty of illegally selling kidneys. (screen capture: YouTube)

Israeli kidney broker released from US prison

By AP

A screen grab of a pile of suitcases belonging to people interred in Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration camp. The suitcases are featured in an exhibit at the Auschwitz Birkenau Museum in Poland.

Auschwitz suitcases get high-tech storage

By AP

Tampa-area Jewish agency head dead in murder-suicide

By JTA

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