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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 23, 2014

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Dov Lipman of Yesh Atid votes at a Knesset Finance Committee meeting, September 2014 (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

What really goes on in the Knesset? Dov Lipman’s inside story

By David Horovitz

Urging the electorate to let the centrists ‘get back there’ and save the country, the first American-born MK in 30 years lifts the lid on his 20 eye-opening months in parliament

AnalysisWe had no idea what the money was for, says MK of huge sums pumped to settlements

By David Horovitz

Elections 2015Lapid to Western immigrants: We’re working on it

By Melanie Lidman

Rivlin: Assisting Holocaust survivors is our moral obligation

By Marissa Newman and ToI Staff

Mohammed Zoabi and Kay Wilson became friends while he stayed with her for over a month. (Photo credit: courtesy)

Jewish terror victim hid Arab Zionist teen during Gaza war

By Tamar Pileggi

Kay Wilson, survivor of 2010 attack, opened her home to Nazareth native Mohammad Zoabi, who later fled to US for his pro-Israel views

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Him, in Gaza: Are you OK?

Bridging the chasm, one friendly Facebook interaction at a time

Reesa Cohen Stone

The medic’s oath

Her son is sworn to treat, not only Israeli soldiers and civilians, but also any enemy soldiers and civilians

A very good question

The sad reason Palestinians continue their rejectionism is that accepting Israel’s existence is a deal-breaker

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

Regulator breaks up energy ‘cartel’ developing gas fields

By Lazar Berman

Antitrust Authority acts against Noble, Delek ‘monopoly’; move could hold up extraction for years; US-based firm to reconsider investment

Workers on the Israeli 'Tamar' gas processing rig, 24 km off the Israeli southern coast of Ashkelon. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Gas cartel breakup very positive for Israel, says expert

By David Shamah

Flames rise from a natural gas pipeline explosion in el-Arish, Egypt, July 2011 (photo credit: AP/File)

Natural gas pipeline in Sinai targeted by gunmen

By ToI Staff and AP

A passenger has his luggage checked by security personnel at Ben Gurion Airport. (AP/Ariel Schalit, File)

Leaked CIA manual explains how to slip Ben Gurion security

By Tamar Pileggi

WikiLeaks exposes manual for covert agents, suggesting American agencies engage in active spying on Israel

‘Misfortune Cookie’ poised to deal cyber-blow to millions, says Checkpoint

By David Shamah

As Israeli government offices around the world shore up their cyber-defenses, a top protection firm reveals a major hacking threat

A police officer guards the van that crashed into a French Christmas market in Nantes, western France, Monday, Dec. 22, 2014. (Photo credit: AP/Laetitia Notarianni)

Unease as France reels from bloody attacks

By Marianne Barriaux

Three successive car-rammings and knife assaults have left over 20 people injured

Illustrative photo of a man sleeping on a bench in the center of Jerusalem November 9, 2014. (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

A third of Israelis below poverty line, NGO report claims

Political row after aid group Latet survey finds that 2.5 million can’t make ends meet, far higher than official poverty figures

Russian Jews walk into a Kosher foods market in Moscow, Russia, on December 1, 2014. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Will economic woes burst bubble for Russia’s Jews?

By Cnaan Liphshiz

The Wheel of Conscience monument commemorates the doomed Holocaust-era voyage of the M.S. St. Louis. (photo credit: Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21)

Libeskind-designed Holocaust monument ‘collecting dust’ in Toronto

Canada’s only non-Jewish memorial to Nazi victims of the Holocaust once stood on pier in Halifax, but has sat broken in a warehouse since 2012

This file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014, shows a convoy of vehicles and fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq's Anbar Province. (photo credit: AP Photo/militant website)

Israel mulls revoking citizenship of Nazareth man who joined IS

Family threatens to turn to Supreme Court if passport of relative, currently hospitalized in Turkey, not returned

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah waves to citizens during his visit to Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, October 9, 2014. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

PA forms committee to take over Gaza crossings

By ToI Staff and AP

Move is part of effort to accelerate reconstruction of war-battered territory, so far hindered by Fatah-Hamas division

Visitors enter the Great Hall at the University of Sydney for the memorial service of Katrina Dawson in Sydney on December 23, 2014. (Peter Parks/AFP)

Australian PM: Another terror attack considered ‘likely’

By AFP

Abbott does not raise alert level but says security agencies see heightened ‘chatter’ in wake of Sydney cafe siege

Fatah terror chief Marwan Barghouti, serving five life terms for murder during the Second Intifada, appears in a Jerusalem court, January 25, 2012. (Flash90)

Jailed Palestinian leader blasts UN statehood bid

By ToI Staff and AFP

Fatah member Marwan Barghouti calls for comprehensive rewording of document, emphasis on Palestinian prisoners

A worker puts the finishing touches on a display of a Christmas tree, a crescent, and a menorah at the main traffic circle in front of the Bahai Gardens in Haifa for the Festival of Festivals, December 2014. (photo credit: Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

December in Haifa, when menorahs mingle with Christmas trees and crescents

By Melanie Lidman

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The BBC's Middle East Correspondent Quentin Sommerville in a fit of hysterics near a pile of burning narcotics. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Don't Inhale!BBC man in laughing fit as drugs burn

In this June 2012 photo courtesy of Stuart Steinberg, Max Steinberg, right, poses while on a trip to Israel with his siblings Paige Steinberg, left, and Jake Steinberg. (photo credit: AP Photo/Courtesy of Stuart Steinberg)

Sister of fallen lone soldier Max Steinberg living in Israel

By JTA

Children and IsraAid volunteers in the Philippines after Typhoon Hagupit wreaked havoc, on December 22, 2014. (photo credit: Courtesy IsraAid)

Israeli NGO sends team to typhoon-hit Phillippines

Illustrative photo of a Coca Cola factory in Bnei Brak, Israel, November 23, 2009. (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Coca Cola to open Gaza factory

A Bank Leumi in Jerusalem, November 16, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israeli bank to pay $400 million to US in tax evasion case

By AFP and ToI Staff

In this Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014, photo tourists walks and cars drive past the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, West Bank. (photo credit: AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Crawling toward BethlehemTraffic bedlam grips Jesus’s birthplace

By Tia Goldenberg

Illustrative photo of dreidels for sale at the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Spin doctorsTel Aviv sets world record for dreideling

By JTA

Workers on the Israeli 'Tamar' gas processing rig, 24 km off the Israeli southern coast of Ashkelon. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewA poor man’s government

By Marissa Newman

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