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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 21, 2014

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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 seeks to douse flareup on Gaza border

After Israeli airstrikes, terror group denies involvement in Friday’s rocket fire, vows to crack down on perpetrators

Hamas to blame if hostilities escalate again, Netanyahu warns

Hamas threatens retaliation following Israeli airstrikes

Egypt to reopen Gaza crossing Sunday

By AFP

Tzipi Livni, December 1, 2014 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Livni: ‘The world listens to me,’ not to Netanyahu

By Marissa Newman

Hatnua leader says she asked Kerry to torpedo Palestinian UN statehood bid, not delay it until after elections

Uri Ariel, Tekumah MKs to remain in Jewish Home party

By Lazar Berman

Elections 2015Shas MK: Deri’s leadership is like the Islamic State

Netanyahu lends support to minimum wage hike

By Marissa Newman

People walk by a homeless man sleeping on the street, in the center of Jerusalem, on November 10, 2013. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Analysis

For Israeli politicians, poverty is someone else’s problem

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Now that 2 major reports have brought the economy back onto the agenda, will candidates finally address it seriously?

Heddy Breuer Abramowitz

Hanukkah: Doing it in public

Luminous snapshots from Jerusalem’s Nachlaot neighborhood

Shmuley Boteach

The coming boycott of Jewish businesses

The world’s anti-Semites are using Israel to camouflage their Jew-hatred

Rigoberto Vinas

A Cuban rabbi’s bittersweet ‘welcome home’

Joy over Alan Gross’s release is tempered by despair at the US move to prop up a repressive dictatorship

Nazareth's Christmas tree in the city's main plaza, Wednesday, December 17, 2014 (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Nazareth pulls out all the (jingle) bells and whistles for Christmas

By Jessica Steinberg

Childhood home of Jesus gets ready for an influx of tourists during the holiday season

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal, center, arrives at the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, December 24, 2013 (photo credit: Issam RImawi/Flash90)

Jerusalem’s Catholic patriarch: 2014 was best, worst of times

Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami delivers a Friday sermon in Tehran in April 2014. (MEMRI TV)

Iran has know-how to build nukes, senior cleric claims

By Tamar Pileggi

Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami says Tehran chooses not to develop atomic bomb for religious reasons

View of the Jewish settlement of Efrat in the West Bank (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

4-year-old boy lightly hurt in West Bank rock attack

By AP and ToI Staff

In separate incident, two Palestinians with knives detained near settlement

A Mississippi State University team found this bulla, or ancient clay seal, on a dig site in southern Israel last summer. It offers evidence of government activity in the 10th century B.C., a time when many scholars said a kingdom could not exist in the region. (Photo credit: University of Wisconsin/Nathaniel Greene)

Ancient clay seals may shed new light on King David

By Janet McConnaughey

Archeologist discovers tiny artifacts in southern Israel possibly linked to biblical-era governments

Members of the Lugansk Jewish community standing in front of their synagogue's Torah ark, Dec. 11, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

In Lugansk, an icy Ukraine winter tests a war-torn community

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Lehava head Benzi Gopstein is brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem on December 16, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police arrest 4 more Lehava anti-assimilation activists

Suspects accused of incitement to violence; 4 others summoned for questioning

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)

Retreating IS fighters call Kurds ‘dogs of Israel’

By Lazar Berman

Peshmerga forces break siege of Mt. Sinjar, push back jihadists in major offensive

Mr. Smile and the rest of the Ninja actors from Little Ninja Theater, playing 'Macbeth' (photo credit: Xina Nicosia)

The Bard writ small, with nunchucks

By Jessica Steinberg

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Former Iraqi National Security Adviser Mowaffak Al-Rubaei (screen capture: MEMRI)

Morbid mementoIraqi keeps noose that hanged Saddam

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative photo of an execution in Iran. (AFP/Arash Khamooshi/ISNA)

Jordan hangs 11 after lifting execution ban

By AFP

Illustrative photo of New York City police officers (AP/Mary Altaffer)

Two New York policemen ‘assassinated,’ says chief

By Jennie Matthew

‘Ida’ stars Agata Trzebuchowska, right. (photo credit: JTA)

Holocaust film ‘Ida’ makes Oscars shortlist

By JTA

Isaac Herzog as Iron Man, baby in an elephant costume (photo credit: Facebook)

Warrior or wimp?Isaac Herzog gets the meme treatment

US Secretary of State John Kerry talks with Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni (photo credit: AP/Mladen Antonov)

Hebrew media reviewThe election connection

By Joshua Davidovich

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