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What Matters Most On Monday, December 22, 2014

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Young students carry a large Cuban flag, as they attend a parade through the streets of Gibara, Cuba. January 20, 2014. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Analysis

After years of enmity, Jerusalem to follow US on Cuba détente

By Raphael Ahren

Israel for decades was the only state supporting US bid to uphold embargo. That’ll soon be history, but resumption of diplomatic ties still distant

The Carmel Fire raged across northern Israel during Hanukkah 2010, claiming 44 lives. Nineteen Palestinian firefighters joined the effort to stop the fire. (Courtesy/Firelines)

The Palestinians who ventured into the line of fire for Israel

By Melanie Lidman

A remarkable documentary tells the story of 19 firefighters from the West Bank who came to the rescue during 2010’s deadly Carmel blaze

Palestinian authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90/File)

Analysis

Palestinian FM: We won’t push off UN bid until Israelis vote

By Avi Issacharoff and Marissa Newman

Maliki says he rebuffed lobbying to delay statehood resolution beyond elections; Erekat says move will be ready ‘in few days’

Hamas and PA attacking Israel on two fronts, Netanyahu charges

Livni, Herzog vow to keep Western Wall under Israeli control

By Stuart Winer

India may change pro-Palestinian stance at UN

By Lazar Berman

A solution for Danny Cohen

If the BBC director is upset about anti-Jewish attitudes, he should change some of his editorial policies

Israel’s gender revolution

A new government plan reframes the gender gap as everyone’s problem — and mandates farreaching changes

Kiss my Pyongyang

Right about now, Iran is studying North Korea’s success in doing damage simply by making threats

Challenging Haredi education

A community risks disintegration unless it reverts back to a time when secular studies were valued

Danny Cohen, director of BBC Television (photo credit: Courtesy)

BBC chief: Anti-Semitism makes me question Jews’ future in UK

‘I’ve never felt so uncomfortable being a Jew in the UK as in the last 12 months,’ says Danny Cohen

A policewoman collects evidence on December 21, 2014 in Dijon on the site where a driver shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is great") ploughed into a crowd injuring 11 people, two seriously, a source close to the investigation said. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / ARNAUD FINISTRE)

French driver plows into crowds ‘for children of Palestine’

By AFP and ToI Staff

11 injured in series of attacks in Dijon; ‘mentally imbalanced’ motorist said to have shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ before ramming into groups of people

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein with some of the 224 Ukrainian Jewish refugees arrive in Israel on his organization's first "Fellowship Aliya" flight, December 22, 2014. (photo credit: International Fellowship of Christians and Jews)

Christian-funded group preaches Israel immigration gospel to Ukraine refugees

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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?

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

Analysis

A rocket and fury, signifying (almost) nothing

By Avi Issacharoff

The airstrike in response to Friday’s Gazan rocket can be chalked up to election-season bluster, as neither side wants to escalate, but it may not stay that way

Hamas operative Saleh al-Arouri, the Turkey-based head of Hamas operations in the West Bank (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Hamas official denies directing attacks from Turkey

By Elhanan Miller

Saleh al-Arouri says Israel tries to entrap West Bank Palestinians by sending agents claiming to work with him

MK Ahmad Tibi of the Ra'am Ta'al party (L) and Labor MK Eitan Cabel at the Knesset on December 3, 2014 (photo credit: Courtesy)

Campaign notebook: December 21

A Muslim in the Jewish Home, and a Jew among the pan-Arabs

By Haviv Rettig Gur

The election campaign is barely underway, but that hasn’t stopped the competing parties from playing the ethnic card

Brig. Gen. (ret.) Shalom Harari (photo credit: YouTube)

700 troops could have died retaking Gaza, ex-general says

By Abraham Rabinovich and ToI Staff

Former senior IDF official says Hamas wanted to draw soldiers into central Gaza’s maze of tunnels

Yesh Atid MKs Dov Lipman, Ruth Calderon, and Yair Lapid light the sixth candle of Hanukkah at an event for Anglo olim on Sunday, November 21, 2014. (photo credit: Courtesy/Deborah Danan)

In Tel Aviv, English-speakers angle for Knesset representation

By Melanie Lidman

Community has unique needs best served by someone connected to the issues, says US-born MK Dov Lipman of Yesh Atid

Antony Lishak gives an interactive presentation on his new book 'Stars' at Jerusalem's Hebrew University High School on December 10, 2014. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/The Times of Israel)

Interview

Tale of Jews in WWII Polish zoo aims to open minds

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Workers at Intel's Kiryat Gat plant (Courtesy)

Intel to spend $550 million in Israel through 2020

In a deal that Economy Ministry officials say benefits Israelis, the state will give the firm a large grant to be spent locally

Screenshot from Israel: Your Way, with viewers given a choice of for direction of the action (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Interlude video tech makes Dylan cool, and Israel too

By David Shamah

After turning a new generation on to the glories of ‘Like a Rolling Stone,’ Yoni Bloch’s platform is doing the same for the Holy Land

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In this March 3, 2005, file photo a workman quickly slides a dust mop over the floor at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va., near Washington. (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

WikiLeaks publishes CIA tips for traveling spies

By AFP

US pop singer Madonna performs during her 'Sticky and Sweet' tour in Tel Aviv, 2009. (photo credit: Amir Meiri/Flash90)

What the hack?Madonna: Song leaks are rape, terror

By Lazar Berman and AFP

File: Yehudah Glick and his wife at a press conference at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem on November 24, 2014 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Temple Mount activist eyeing spot in Knesset

By JTA

Syria: Israeli drone downed near border

Etan Harris debates in a recent role-play session for Fuel Fort Truth (courtesy)

As anti-Semitism heats up, so does Fuel For Truth

By Alan Zeitlin

Winegrower Alexandre Sartene harvests grapes in the vineyard of his Parnassah domain, which means prosperity in Hebrew, in the southern French village of Arpaillargues, September 22, 2014. (Photo credit: AFP/PASCAL GUYOT)

French kosher vintner leaps legal hurdles to fructify dream

Givati soldiers complete a training course, 2007. (Edi Israel/Flash 90)

Lone soldier indicted for selling weapons to would-be US terrorist

By Marissa Newman

A young paralyzed boy uses the Sesame Enable phone (Courtesy)

Crowdfunding cash to buy touch-free phones for the paralyzed

By David Shamah

Illustrative photo of a natural gas field in the Mediterranean Sea (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewIt’s the economy, Israel

By Yossi Nachemi

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