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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 27, 2014

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Palestinians activists march with a large Palestinian flag from Al Manara Square to the tomb of former Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, in central Ramallah, West Bank, October 28, 2014. The 66-meter long Palestinian flag, symbolizing 66 years since Israel's establishment, and signed by about 25,000 people, has entered the Guinness Book of Records. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Analysis

An unstoppable avalanche toward Palestinian statehood?

By Raphael Ahren

The Palestinians can’t have a state and still claim they’re under occupation, says one Israeli scholar. The international community seems to disagree

Erekat: UN vote on Palestinian statehood by Monday

By ToI Staff and AFP

2 Palestinians held for firebomb attack that injured Israeli girl

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Hamas says it will uphold ceasefire if Israel does

Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's UK Independence Party (UKIP), laughs as he arrives to hear results of the south east region European Parliamentary election vote at the Guildhall in Southampton, England, Sunday, May 25, 2014. (Photo credit: AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

How to silence UKIP’s Nigel Farage

By Jenni Frazer

For someone outspokenly on record against anti-Semitism, the head of the UK’s far-right party has some pretty strange bedfellows in the European Parliament

A wish list for how the country should “invent its future” and grow while maintaining quality of life

How not to design an electoral system

Why fractious Israel needs a winner-take-all system

Yesh Atid chief Yair Lapid on December 12, 2014 (Photo credit: Flash90)

Elections 2015

Lapid: Netanyahu has done his best to ruin US ties

By Itamar Sharon and Lazar Berman

Former finance minister says Israel displayed ‘diplomatic cowardice’ after Gaza war in the summer

Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Mashaal, June 23, 2014 (photo credit: YouTube image)

Hamas said concerned by Egypt-Qatar thaw

According to Arab press, Khaled Mashaal fears Doha may shun him to appease Sissi; Hamas claims no change in ties

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal speaks to a congress of Turkey's ruling AKP party on Saturday, December 27, 2014. (Photo credit: Screenshot/YouTube)

Mashaal in Turkey: We hope to liberate Palestine with you

By Ricky Ben-David

In address to ruling party AKP supporters, Hamas leader praises Erdogan, Davutoglu; crowd shouts ‘down with Israel’

CCTV footage shows a Palestinian man attacking two Border Policemen in Jerusalem's Old City on December 26, 2014. (photo credit: screenshot)

Police identify man who stabbed 2 officers in Jerusalem

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

An arrest has not yet been made; both officers lightly hurt, taken to hospital for treatment

Israeli basketball coach Zvi Sherf (Photo credit: Channel 2 News)

How basketball officials exposed the Yisrael Beytenu scandal

By Itamar Sharon

Police probe into Faina Kirshenbaum and others began after Shaul Eisenberg, Zvi Sherf investigated a suspicious donation

Jewish Russian banker Slava Rabinovich in Kiev. (Courtesy of SP Advisors)

Russia’s economy could collapse in months, says financial forecaster

By Anya Zhuravel Segal

Jewish social media personality Slava Rabinovich’s apocalyptic visions of a crumbling federation may be quickly realized

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a town hall meeting in Ames, Iowa earlier this year. (Photo credit: Charlie Neibergall/AP)

Sanders to decide on presidential run by March

By AP and ToI Staff

Socialist son of Holocaust survivor who spent time on kibbutz may run in 2016 elections as Democratic candidate

Jewish graves in Karachi, Pakistan (photo credit: courtesy)

Pakistan’s only Jew seeks to preserve historic cemetery

Fishel Benkhald, the country’s sole self-declared Jew, campaigns to protect century-old graveyard in Karachi

Elderly Russian immigrants play chess at their Makkabi Leipzig Jewish sports club. (Thomas Fritz/The Times of Israel)

Sports clubs help Russians in Germany be Jewish for the first time

By Thomas Fritz

The 3 Saxony Maccabi centers assist members to embrace a Jewish community they couldn’t acknowledge in the atheist Soviet Union

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve addressing a rally against anti-Semitism in the Paris suburb of Creteil on December 7, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/THOMAS SAMSON)

French police arrest 4th suspect in Paris rape, robbery

By JTA and AFP

Man believed to have been involved in anti-Semitic attack on Jewish family earlier this month

Inside the Jerusalem Child Protection Center (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Child Protection Centers seek to minimize trauma for abused children

By Aviva Bar-Am

Until a decade ago, young victims were handled by the police; today, a network of facilities provide emotional, legal and moral support

Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the Turkish Parliament in Ankara on June 24, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Adem Altan)

Turkey has ‘world’s freest press,’ Erdogan claims

By AFP

Despite jailed journalists, president says media liberal enough to tolerate ‘insults, slanders, defamation, racism’ banned elsewhere

Smoke and flames billow following an explosion in the Syrian town of Kobani, October 22, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/STRINGER)

From the web

Under siege by Islamic State – a photo essay

Vice news documents Kurdish fighters’ daily lives in the Syrian city of Kobani, which has been resisting IS for months

Economy Minister and Jewish Home party Naftali Bennett. (Photo credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash 90)

French Jewish students slammed for alleged Bennett snub

By JTA

Jewish Home leader claims he was barred from meeting group; website says union believes MK is ‘extremist’

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Illustrative photo of a crime scene (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

A mother's touchMom said to stab son at Shabbat dinner

Ridley Scott directing Christian Bale on the set of 'Exodus: Gods and Kings.' (20th Century Fox)

In DenialFollowing Morocco, Egypt bans ‘Exodus’

By JTA

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)

Swedish protesters denounce mosque arson attack

By AFP

Syrian air raids on IS-held towns kill dozens

By AP

Illustrative photo of a rally in North Korea (Shutterstock)

From the webNorth Korea blames US for Internet outages

A New York-bound Delta Air Lines Flight 469 at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv (AP/Michael Simon)

Flight delayed as haredi men refuse to sit next to woman

A Palestinian protester wearing a Santa Claus costume holds a tear gas canister during a protest against Israel's security barrier outside the West Bank village of Bil'in, near Ramallah, Friday, December 26, 2014 (photo credit: STR/Flash90)

Naughty, not niceNo Xmas spirit at West Bank protests

A relative of a victim from the Asian tsunami holds back her tears as she lays a white rose on the beach during a commemoration and religious ceremony for German, Austrian and Swiss victims of the Asian tsunami, in Khao Lak, Thailand, Friday, Dec. 26, 2014. (Photo credit: AP/Wong Maye-E)

Asia marks 10 years since Indian Ocean tsunami

By AP

'Community service should be about grabbing some friends and going out to volunteer somewhere,' says Edan Evenhaim. (Courtesy of Edan Evenhaim/JTA)

Jewish teen’s website a hi-tech spin on community service

By Suzanne Kurtz Sloan

Freshly fried falafel ( Rachael Cerrotti/Flash 90)

JapanoshFirst kosher eatery to open in Tokyo

By JTA

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