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What Matters Most On Friday, December 26, 2014

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A car hit by a Molotov cocktail goes up in flames on December 25, 2014. The driver suffered minor injuries and his 11-year-old daughter suffered serious burns on most of her body. (photo credit: Judea and Samaria Fire Department)

Slight improvement overnight for girl hurt in West Bank firebombing

By Lazar Berman

11-year-old Ayala Shapira still in serious condition after vehicle hit by Molotov cocktail outside Ma’ale Shomron settlement

Israeli girl, 11, seriously hurt in West Bank firebombing

Two Border Policemen stabbed in Jerusalem’s Old City

By Lazar Berman

IDF shoots Palestinian crossing Gaza border fence

By Lazar Berman

First lady Michelle Obama stands with chef Sam Kass, recently resigned White House senior policy adviser for nutrition policy, at the White House in Washington, DC, June 12, 2104. (photo credit: AP/Charles Dharapak, File)

Obama personal chef to hang up apron after 6 years

By AP

Sam Kass, a Jewish Chicagoan, was also senior adviser for nutrition policy and executive director of first lady’s anti-obesity campaign

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

You say ‘intermarriage’ like it’s always a bad thing

Are you sure mixed marriage means the end of the Jewish line? Don’t be

Surviving the 2004 tsunami. And gratitude

The question ten years ago and now: Where do you go when you’re out at sea and giant waves are coming in?

Patrons waiting in line to see 'The Interview' at the Valley Art theater in Tempe, Arizona, December 25, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Alina Hartounian)

Americans flock to ‘The Interview’

By Hillel Italie

Thanks to threats from hackers that nearly derailed its release by Sony, the movie has become an event this holiday season

Christian Bale as a militant Moses in Ridley Scott's 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' (photo credit: Courtesy 20th Century Fox)

Don't let my people go!

Morocco bans Ridley Scott’s ‘Exodus’

By AFP

Theater managers told they will be shut down if they screen biblical epic

Amona, the largest outpost in the West Bank, which was established in 1997. (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90, File)

Supreme Court orders removal of Amona outpost

Court grants state two years to complete removal of largest illegal outpost, says difficulty of evacuation does not justify land grab

An Iron Dome missile-defense system. (photo credit: Flash90)

Israel deploys Iron Dome batteries near southern towns

Following cross-border fire, missile defenses stationed near Beersheba, Netivot; IDF spokesperson declines comment

Yehuda Malka on left, Dan Rabinowitz on right. Founders of ModernistKosher.com and hosts of a kosher supper club in the DC suburbs. (Ben Zehavi/The Times of Israel)

On Christmas, General Tso demoted by kosher supper clubs

A lizard covered in oil on December 16, 2014, three weeks after the huge oil spill in the Arava desert of southern Israel (photo credit: Roy Talbi/Israeli Environmental Protection Ministry)

Southern oil spill clean-up to cost country NIS 17 million

Environmental group bashes plan to be approved by cabinet Sunday, slams pipeline operators’ ‘shadowy backstage handiwork’

Illustrative photo of Jews in Paris (photo credit: CC BY-SA mariosp/Flickr)

For third time this week, shots fired at Paris Jewish target

By Lazar Berman

Bullet holes discovered at entrance to publishing house, days after restaurant, synagogue attacked

Pope Francis, center, delivers his "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and to the world) blessing from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, December 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope wishes for Christmas hope and peace in Israel, Mideast

By AP

Pontiff references Israeli-Palestinian conflict in somber address from Vatican

Supporters of Tunisian party Nida Tunis (Tunisia Calls) celebrate their victory in parliamentary elections in Tunis, October 28, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Hassene Dridi)

Analysis

Tunisia’s elections represent yet another Muslim Brotherhood defeat

By Avi Issacharoff

Arab voters, wary of radical Islam, reject Obama’s ideas about the Islamist movement and the region’s future; IS might suffer too

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (L) and Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu give a press conference in Ankara on December 25, 2014. (AFP/ Adem Altan)

Iraq, Turkey pledge to join hands to fight IS jihadists

By AFP

Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog (L), with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November 2013. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Elections 2015

Likud and Labor-Hatnua neck and neck in new poll

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

In wake of graft scandal, Liberman down one mandate; former general Yom-Tov Samia set to join Labor

Joni Ernst's 'Squeal' commercial (screen capture: YouTube)

Analysis

From pork to ‘centrifying,’ how to woo the Israeli electorate

By David Horovitz

More Headlines

Wooof CEO Yael Broitman, with her own dog (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Social networking goes to the dogs with Israeli app

By David Shamah

MK Hanin Zoabi depicted with terrorists in a video uploaded by Likud MK Danny Danon on December 24, 2014. (screen capture: Facebook)

MK Zoabi goes to cops over Danon video

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Former Leo Baeck Temple rabbi Leonard Beerman speaking in a 2009 interview. (screen capture: YouTube)

Los Angeles rabbi known for pacifism dies

By JTA

US President Barack Obama addresses troops at the US Marine Corps base in Kaneohe, Hawaii, as First Lady Michelle Obama looks on, December 25, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

On Christmas, Obama marks end of Afghan combat

By Josh Lederman

Smoke rises from the interior of a destroyed cellar mosque as firefighters walk in front of the building after an arson attack on December 25, 2014 in Eskilstuna, central Sweden. An arsonist set fire to the mosque in central Sweden on Thursday injuring five, police said, as the country faces a deep political crisis caused by the rise of the extreme right. (AFP/ TT News Agency /Pontus Stenberg)

Arson attack on Swedish mosque injures five

By AFP

One of the posters entered in the ISU poster contest. (photo credit: Courtesy)

Wanted: Poster design for top space program

By David Shamah

Illustrative photo of yellow peppers being processed. (photo credit: Rachael Cerrotti/Flash90)

Ruble rout wreaks havoc with Israeli produce exports

By David Shamah

A car destroyed after it was hit by a Molotov cocktail on December 25, 2014 in the West Bank. Ayala Shapira, 11, was seriously injured, while her father, Avner, sustained light injuries. (photo credit: Judea and Samaria Fire Department)

Hebrew media reviewLethal fire and a political smokescreen

By Marissa Newman

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