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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 24, 2014

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An IDF soldier wounded in a cross-border attack outside Gaza is carried into Soroka Hospital in the southern city of Beersheba on December 24, 2014 (Flash90)

IDF soldier seriously injured in Gaza border incident

By Lazar Berman

Palestinians say Hamas surveillance commander killed in Israeli response to shooting attack on army patrol near Kissufim

File - In this picture released by the Syrian national news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets then-Hamas political chief Khaled Mashaal in Damascus, July 3, 2008 (AP)

Hamas chief rebuffs Assad accusation of siding with his opponents

By Elhanan Miller

Deputy Interior Minister Faina Kirshenbaum at a Knesset Finance Committee meeting, May 19, 2014 (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Deputy minister among 30 suspected of high-level corruption

By Stuart Winer

Faina Kirshenbaum, along with former minister and others, allegedly embezzled public funds, appointed cronies; scandal linked to her Yisrael Beytenu party, which decries ‘witch hunt’

I believe with an imperfect faith

The terrorists who stabbed her repeatedly and slaughtered her friend took everything from her except who she is

Fighting for Israel – not against it

On the call by pro-Israel luminaries of the left for personal sanctions against 4 Israeli right-wingers

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Please don’t be Black or Jewish

On that extra cringe we feel when ‘one of ours’ misbehaves

A picture released by the Islamic State purporting to show members of the group holding a captive Jordanian pilot. Wednesday, December 24, 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)

Islamic State downs Jordanian jet, captures pilot

By AFP

IS publishes photographs showing its fighters holding the captured coalition serviceman; Jordan confirms claims

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas after addressing the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York, September 26, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Timothy A. Clary)

Analysis

Abbas’s UN gambit: Capricious and possibly self-defeating

By Raphael Ahren

With resolution sure to be vetoed in current form, European diplomat calls it ‘a classic they-never-miss-an-opportunity-to-miss-an-opportunity situation’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas speaks during a press conference held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 23, 2014, in Algiers. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / FAROUK BATICHE)

Abbas: I’ll cut ties with Israel if UN move fails

By AFP

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man lights candles for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah in the poor, ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim, December 23, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Campaign notebook: December 24

Why is it so hard to know how many Israelis are poor?

By Haviv Rettig Gur

And some harsh lessons being learned in Shas about the steep political costs of schism

Rabbi Arik Ascherman, president of Rabbis for Human Rights, lights Hannukah candles on the ruins of a demolished home in the village of Dirat in the Southern West Bank, December 22, 2014 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

On a demolished Palestinian home, Hanukkah candles of protest

By Elhanan Miller

Rabbis for Human Rights petitions Supreme Court to grant Palestinians a say in planning their West Bank villages

Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman calls for regional peace, better ties with allies

By Lazar Berman

Yisrael Beytenu head pans rivals, says he sees himself as potential PM, criticizes government’s lack of initiative and its attacks on Obama administration

Cloverton vocalist Lance Stafford in the band's video for 'Hallelujah' (Photo credit: Youtube screen capture)

A holy or a broken ‘Hallelujah’?

By Hillel Kuttler

Gerardo Hernandez, right, member of "The Cuban Five," touches the belly of his pregnant wife Adriana Perez, during a concert in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, December 20, 2014 (Photo credit: Ramon Espinosa/AP)

How the deal to free Alan Gross was conceived

The road to restore Washington’s relations with Havana passed though the artificial insemination of a Cuban inmate’s wife

Alan Gross speaks during a press conference after being released by Cuba, December 17, 2014, Washington, DC. (photo credit: AFP/Saul Loeb)

$3.2 million to be paid to American freed by Cuba

By AFP

Illustrative photo of exploratory oil drilling near the village of Aderet near Beit Shemesh on Jan 6, 2010. (Photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Golan exploratory oil drilling to begin within the month

By Melanie Lidman

High Court throws out petition from environmentalists to stop project, which will drill 10 wells

Illustrative: A scan of a German, 19th century steel engraving of Jesus Christ (Public domain work of art)

Was Jesus born in a different Bethlehem?

By Jessica Steinberg

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At United Synagogue Youth’s 2014 convention, being held in Atlanta on December 21-25 , the board voted to relax the youth organization’s ban on interfaith dating. (photo credit: Courtesy/United Synagogue Youth)

Conservative youth movement lifts ban on board members dating non-Jews

By JTA

Antisémitox: first aid for anti-Semitism. (courtesy)

Humour noirFrench sell ‘cure’ for anti-Semitism

By Rebecca Benhamou

Yshai Oliel wins the Junior Orange Bowl games in Coral Gables, Florida, December 23, 2014 (Photo credit: Youtube screen capture)

Israeli wins teen tennis world championships

Gala Rachmilevitch and Michal Shaltiel, a local plus-size model, in some of the designs being sold at the upcoming Plus Size Fashion Weekend (Photo credit: Hadar Yahav)

All about that bassPlus-sizes get their own pop-up shop

By Jessica Steinberg

Chris Christie speaking in Clive, Iowa, on Saturday, October 25, 2014. (Photo credit: AP/The Des Moines Register, Bryon Houlgrave)

From Iran to Russia, Christie does his 2016 homework

Illustrative photo of a firefighter (Flash90)

Child killed, dad seriously hurt in Beit Shemesh fire

Robert Wolfe in 1988 (Photo credit: JTA/Courtesy of the National Archives)

ObituaryRemembering Robert Wolfe, guardian of Nazi-era archives

Workers on the Israeli Tamar gas processing rig, 24 kilometers off the southern coast of Ashkelon, October 11, 2013 (photo crdit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewCooking with gas

By Joshua Davidovich

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