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What Matters Most On Monday, December 29, 2014

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An Israeli soldier at a deployment area near the border with the Gaza Strip, on July 28, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The tale of 2014, told in 14 Times of Israel stories

By Joshua Davidovich

In a year of many lows and a few highs, Times of Israel writers brought you reports on everything from diplomatic gambits to doctors treating terrorists to light rail fears to a remote community of Jews in Uganda

Ryszard Kucharski's carved Lucky Jew miniatures on display in Warsaw (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

Real Jews are scarce in Warsaw, but ‘lucky Jew’ figurines are everywhere

By Ilan Ben Zion

Poles can’t get enough of the statuettes — little musicians, rabbis, merchants and bankers, with crooked noses and forked beards; some scholars fear they’re reinforcing the most dangerous of stereotypes

US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman on November 13, 2014. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm/Pool)

Kerry said to hint at sanctions if Palestinians push UN bid

By Marissa Newman

Abbas phones US secretary of state to inform him Ramallah submitting amended resolution Monday despite pressure to delay

Palestinian statehood vote likely pushed to 2015, FM says

By Elhanan Miller

Palestinians to submit revised statehood bid for UN vote

By Elhanan Miller, Marissa Newman and AP

Palestinian teen killed by IDF in West Bank after throwing rocks

By ToI Staff and AFP

Kira Radinsky, voted by MIT Technology Review one of 35 innovators under 35, is winner of the Technology Pioneer Award. Photo: Flash90

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Turning a lens on the murkier — and quirkier — corners of the White City

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A restored Nazi bunker in Bavaria, Germany, (photo credit: CC BY-SA David Holt, Flickr)

Nazis’ vast, secret WMD facility uncovered in Austria

Increased radiation levels measured near underground complex, reinforcing claims of nuclear experiments

Female graduates of the IAF's 163rd flight school course (photo credit: IDF Flickr/CC BY-NC)

38 female IAF pilots shatter the glass firmament

By Mitch Ginsburg

Twenty years after Miller vs Defense Ministry, a once-reluctant Israeli Air Force wants more women in the cockpit

Student rabbi Sara Eiser, visiting from rabbinical school in Cincinnati, Ohio, goes over her notes before a Shabbat service at the Synagogue of the Black Hills in Rapid City, S.D. South Dakota’s first Jewish congregation was established in Deadwood more than 150 years ago during the Gold Rush. Today, fewer than 400 people make up the Jewish community in this sparsely populated state of about 845,000 residents. (photo credit: AP Photo/Kristina Barker)

In South Dakota, Jews have to wait all year to ask a rabbi a question

By regina garcia cano

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz speaks with reserve soldiers at the Tze'elim training base on November 18, 2012. (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Office/Flash90)

Comptroller slams readiness of Israel’s reserves, home front

By Mitch Ginsburg

State Comptroller Yosef Shapira finds army reserves acutely under-trained, key civilian sites unprotected

Moshe Lion (L) with Avigdor Liberman during a tour near the Mount Scopus National Park in Jerusalem on October 14, 2013. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman ally Moshe Lion grilled in Beytenu graft case

By Lazar Berman

Police arrest senior party member, a former candidate for Jerusalem mayor, after another official turns state’s witness

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)

NIS 17 million funding plan approved for Arava oil cleanup

By Lazar Berman

Team to investigate activities of secretive Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Company

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in Jerusalem, September 2012. (Flash90)

Leaked video shows late Shas spiritual leader blasting Deri

By Tamar Pileggi

Shas lashes out at ex-head Eli Yishai after 2008 tape airs of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef calling current party head ‘wicked’

Police clash with Givat Amal residents on December 29, 2014 (photo credit: Amir Levi/Flash90)

Police clear out Tel Aviv neighborhood for second time

By Marissa Newman

Residents in Givat Amal barricade selves in home and threaten to self-immolate; Meretz MK calls evacuation ‘painful and violent’

Soldiers at the Israeli - Lebanese border in 2009. (Photo credit: Hamad Almakt / Flash 90)

Iranian troops pose for pics along Israel-Lebanon border

Twitter account associated with Iran’s army shows pictures of uniformed soldiers with Lebanese counterparts

Channel 10's announcement about its closure, blaming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (screen capture: Channel 10)

Cash-strapped Channel 10 says it will close down on Wednesday

By Lazar Berman

Israel’s second commercial TV station, which has aired exposés about PM, points finger at Netanyahu, saying he refuses to find a solution

Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, spiritual leader of the Black Hebrews, who died Saturday at 75 (screen capture: YouTube)

Black Hebrews leader dies at 75

By Melanie Lidman and AP

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One of the Sumatran tiger cubs that was born in the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo. (photo credit: Courtesy Jerusalem Biblical Zoo)

Tiger momRare Jerusalem zoo tigress eats her cubs

By Lazar Berman

Winston Churchill in Downing Street giving his famous 'V' sign, 1943. (photo credit: Imperial War Museums/public domain)

Churchill’s relatives feared he might convert to Islam

An illustrative photo of soldiers eating outside Gaza, July 20, 2014. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash 90)

Army to begin serving vegan food in mess halls

By Mitch Ginsburg

A man dressed as Santa Claus stands next to a billboard for the Hollywood biblical epic movie "Exodus: Gods and Kings" displayed in the Moroccan capital Rabat on December 26, 2014. photo credit: AFP/FADEL SENNA)

Egypt: ‘Exodus’ banned for ‘racist’ portrayal of Jews

By Sarah El Deeb

(L to R) Samsung Israel CEO Karyen Kai; South Korean ambassador to Israel Lee Gun-Tae; Or Wilhelm, a nine year old oncology patient at Schneider Children's Hospital; Professor Yosef Peres of Schneider Children's Hospital; and MK Miki Rosenthal (Photo credit: Aviv Hofi)

Tablets let bedridden kids ‘attend’ school

By David Shamah

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Jan Koum, one of the founder of the messaging service WhatsApp, in Stanford, California, March 6, 2014. (Photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/FLASH90)

Forget the singles bar – Israelis’ mates await online, says study

By David Shamah

Paris suburb honors jailed Palestinian leader

By JTA

Then-Jerusalem mayoral candidate Moshe Lion, at a press conference in Jerusalem. July 22, 2013. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewThe Lion’s share of corruption

By Ilan Ben Zion

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