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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 25, 2014

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Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Campaign notebook: December 25

For Yisrael Beytenu, an investigation to end all investigations?

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Long immune to political fallout from corruption probes, Avigdor Liberman and his party may be facing a harsh new reality

Dozens remain detained in Yisrael Beytenu graft case

Two more MKs abandon Livni’s Hatnua party

By Stuart Winer

Poli-woodPre-election video stars zombie Livni

By Stuart Winer

The December 24, 2014 Gaza funeral of Tayseir Smeiry, a Hamas operative, who was killed by Israeli troops after gunmen from Gaza opened fire on an IDF force within Israel (photo credit: AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

AnalysisEven the Almighty had to change tack

Can Israeli deterrence succeed where God’s failed?

By Mitch Ginsburg

A flare up on the Gaza border shows that Israel’s enemies aren’t afraid to challenge it, calling into question a time-tested defense strategy

AnalysisIn Gaza, an unwanted escalation could be a slippery slope

By Avi Issacharoff

After flare-up, Gaza bolsters security presence along border

IDF will respond firmly to threats, Gantz vows after Gaza attack

Melanie Takefman

In Israel, I can celebrate Christmas

Singing the carols and watching the specials without that Jewish Diaspora guilt

The birth of forgiveness (Vayigash)

When Joseph meets the brothers who sold him into slavery, his response changes humanity

Recipes for disaster and red lentil soup

Israel’s security hinges on making sure that its talented young people have a reason to stay

Opening session of the 2014 United Synagogue Youth international convention in Atlanta, Sunday December 21, 2014. (Ethan Weg)

Jewish world erupts as USY gives interdating a kinder spin

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Acknowledging and welcoming the children of intermarriage is not the same thing as condoning it, say Conservative Jewish leaders

Illustrative: Israeli police during clashes with Palestinian protesters in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya on October 24, 2014. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Police to probe shooting of 5-year-old Palestinian

By Stuart Winer

Cops reverse claim that there was no riot activity in the area when Muhammad Jamal Ubeid was hit by a rubber bullet

Former ambassador to the US Michael Oren announces he's running for the Knesset with Kulanu party leader Moshe Kahlon, December 24, 2014. (Photo credit: Ben Kelmer/Flash90)

Ex-envoy to US Michael Oren joins new Kulanu party

American-born former ambassador, once considered a Netanyahu ally, officially teams up with Kahlon for March elections

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)

Israel balks at US request to praise new Cuba policy

Shut out of decision, America’s lone embargo supporter holds off on welcoming historic thaw with Havana

Yossi Jaeger, the Jewish farmer who grows some of Israel's Christmas trees (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

A Christmas tree grows in (the other) Bethlehem

By Jessica Steinberg

A former bus driver tends a forest of cypresses up north for Israel’s Christians

People gather to watch Christmas celebrations in Manger Square outside the Church of the Nativity as Christians gather for Christmas celebrations in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on December 24, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Thousands flock to Bethlehem for Christmas celebrations

By Daniel Estrin

Members of the Islamic State group with a captured pilot, center, wearing a white shirt in Raqqa, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group)

Jordanian pilot’s family pleads with Islamic State for mercy

Moaz al-Kasasbeh’s brother says captured anti-IS coalition soldier is a ‘pious man’ who always flew with a Quran

The Setai Miami Beach hotel (courtesy)

Jordache Jeans founders purchase $90m. Miami hotel

Brothers Joe, Avi and Ralph Nakash now concentrating on real estate acquisitions in the US and Israel

Illustrative photo: US-made F-4 Phantom fighter jets from the Iranian air force. (AFP Photo/Behrouz Mehri)

Iranian military begins massive drill in Persian Gulf

By ToI Staff and AP

Ground forces, navy and air force to participate in week-long exercise near Strait of Hormuz

Temple Mount activist Linda Olmert, December 10, 2014 (photo credit: Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel)

Secular activist crusades for religious access to the Temple Mount

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Players at the 1976 Christmas Day Classic football game in Dallas. (photo credit: Albert Goodman)

In Dallas, a storied Jewish ‘Christmas Day Classic’ turns 50

By Hillel Kuttler

Illustrative photo of a satellite dish (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

High-techIran touts ‘drug addict radar’

Hapoel Petah Tikva soccer team manager Ofer Tzabari at his hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on December 22, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash90)

Soccer manager indicted for sexually assaulting teens

Soldiers from the Givati Brigade training in 2012. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

IDF officer given the boot for alleged sexual harassment

A 'connected' plant using Agrolan wi-fi technology (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Agritech firm lets thirsty plants ‘order’ a drink via wifi

By David Shamah

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

Hebrew media reviewBeytenu on the take?

By Joshua Davidovich

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