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What Matters Most On Thursday, November 26, 2015

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Investigators at the scene of a stabbing attack on the light rail in the northern Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Ze'ev, November 10, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinian boy, 11, who stabbed train guard in the head: ‘I wanted to die a martyr’

Youngest Palestinian assailant in current terror wave explains why he and his cousin attempted to kill a Jew on Jerusalem light rail two weeks ago

AnalysisPA security forces said to foil ‘over a hundred’ attacks

By Avi Issacharoff

Netanyahu said to rebuff IDF pitch to arm PA, release prisoners

IDF said to suggest giving more arms to PA among gestures to ease tensions

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Scene of a bus crash in the West Bank that left at least one dead and dozens injured on November 26, 2015. (Medabrim Communications/United Hatzalah)

Soldier dies, dozens hurt as bus flips on West Bank road

Victim named as Stav Partush, 19; her father, a volunteer fireman, had arrived on the scene to evacuate the wounded

The S-400 anti-aircraft missile system on display in Russia. (CC BY-SA Соколрус/Wikimedia)

Analysis

Russia deploys S-400 missile battery in Syria, state media says

By Judah Ari Gross

Placing of sophisticated system in Latakia would grant Russia aerial control over Syria, Lebanon and Cyprus, and stretch as far as Israel’s international airport

Britain should join Syria airstrikes, Cameron tells MPs

By Dario Thuburn

Paragliding jihadist leaves family in Israel fearing his fate

Hollande urges Germany to do more in war against IS

By Guy JACKSON and Marie Wolfrom

In a still image from security-camera footage of the scene, a young Palestinian girl (center) lashes out with a pair of scissors in an attack in Jerusalem on November 23, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Live updates (closed)

A bitter-sweet wedding, West Bank clashes and growing unity on IS

By Marissa Newman

Bereaved bride Sarah Techiya Litman is married in Jerusalem, two weeks after father and brother killed in terror attack

Richard Lakin (left) reads a book to his granddaughter, as his son Micah Avni looks on. January 2014. (Courtesy)

Fighting Facebook, terror victim’s son enlists Knesset in anti-incitement war

By Renee Ghert-Zand

After burying his father Richard Lakin, Micah Avni leads multi-faceted campaign against what he believes is the ‘facilitator and accelerator’ of jihadi terrorism

Attacker attempts to stab soldiers at West Bank checkpoint

Palestinian killed by IDF during clash, Ramallah says

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Israel to build high-tech fence to stem Hebron-based terror

What Obama did and didn’t say about Ezra Schwartz

Op-Ed: Jewish Americans are justifiably wounded by the distinctions Washington is making between Schwartz’s death and others

Farewell, IDF; it’s been an honor

He is finally at liberty to reveal the army’s little known strategy of helping Israel by helping the Palestinians

A prayer for the last Kaddish

A year after his father’s death, he composed an original liturgical formula to mark the end of a mourner’s journey

Dance. Argue. Pray. Repeat.

On the many ways Israelis keep it together under stress, including the camaraderie of being stressed together

A view of the shoreline and al-Bahr Mosque from Jaffa's old city (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

Right-wing lawmaker looks to silence Israeli mosques

Jewish Home’s Moti Yogev argues the right to peace and quiet trumps the freedom to broadcast the call to prayer over loudspeakers

Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. (YouTube screenshot)

Iran: Injured general oversaw daring rescue of downed Russian pilot

By ToI Staff and AFP

Tehran news agency says Revolutionary Guards’ Qassem Soleimani, wounded this week in Syria, was behind extraction of airman downed by Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey, on November 16, 2015. (Adem Altan/AFP)

Erdogan denies Russia charge he’s buying oil from Islamic State

By AFP

‘Shame on you,’ Turkish president says in response to Putin’s claim following downing of Russian warplane

UN nuclear chief Yukiya Amano on May 12, 2015 in Vienna, Austria. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

UN: No assurance Iran’s nuclear program is all peaceful

Nuclear watchdog chief Yukiya Amano says he cannot prove absence of undeclared material and activities

File: American rock group Eagles of Death Metal performing on stage at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, a few moments before men armed with assault rifles stormed into the venue killing 89 people, November 13, 2015. (AFP Photo/Marion Ruszniewski)

Eagles of Death Metal determined to finish terror-devastated Paris gig

By AFP

US rockers want to be first band to reopen Bataclan, site of the deadliest of the November 13 attacks

Saudi Arabia blacklists Hezbollah leaders, freezes assets

Riyadh says Lebanese group ‘spreading chaos’ in Middle East, vows to keep fighting regional rivals

A tourist visits El Ghriba, the oldest synagogue in Africa, on the Island of Djerba, southern Tunisia, October 29, 2015. (AP/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

PHOTO ESSAY: Ancient Jewish community endures on Tunisian isle

By Mosa'ab Elshamy

Argentine President-elect Mauricio Macri speaks to the press at the Olivos presidential residence in Buenos Aires, where he arrived to meet outgoing president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to define the transition, on November 24, 2015. (Juan Mabromata/AFP)

Netanyahu, Argentina’s president-elect agree to improve ties

By ToI Staff and JTA

Mauricio Macri, known for warm relations with Jewish community, has vowed to end deal with Tehran on AMIA terror probe

Former Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (left) and former Dir.-Gen. Ronen Flut are seen in front of a solar field outside the Knesset, on Sunday, March 29, 2015. (Courtesy Knesset)

Entering Knesset, environmental crusader warns Israel is lagging on clean energy

By Marissa Newman

US President Barack Obama, right, presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Barbra Streisand during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015 (AP Photo via JTA/Evan Vucci)

The rebbe who helped create food stamps, and other Jewish Medal of Freedom stories

This year’s White House event was one of the most Jewish iterations of the ceremony in memory

Brendan, left, and Neal Shusterman (Courtesy of Neal Shusterman)

Out of the depths

Jewish father’s book on mental illness wins award

By Beth Kissileff

Neal Shusterman says fictional piece ‘Challenger Deep’ is based on his experiences with his son Brendan

Pig's foot tied to the entrance of a synagogue in Arad, southern Israel, found by police on November 25, 2015. (Israel Police)

Treife synagogue row

Pig foot hung at Arad shul; ultra-Orthodox blame mayor

Hasidic community in southern town says ‘incitement’ behind vandalism at house of worship caught in bitter legal battle

Holocaust survivor Rita Berkowitz, 83 celebrates winning a Holocaust survivors beauty pageant in Haifa on November 24, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Octogenarian crowned Israel’s ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’

By JTA

83-year-old Romanian born Rita Berkowitz wins the one-of-a-kind charity beauty pageant

More Headlines

Controversial comic Dieudonne M'bala M'bala arriving at a Paris courthouse, March 12, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / LOIC VENANCE)

French comic Dieudonne jailed for two months for anti-Semitism

By AFP

Mourners at a funeral for a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide in Kfar Saba on November 25, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 2)

13-year-old commits suicide after missing school trip

Illustrative photo of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Williamsburg neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. (AP/Joe Kohen)

Rabbinical student attacked in Florida

By JTA

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the CNBC debate on October 28, 2015 (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump claims he can predict terror attacks

By ToI Staff and AFP

New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren. (Photo by: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times, Courtesy: Jodi Rudoren)

NYT Jerusalem bureau chief announces departure

Ancient coins confiscated from an antiquities dealer in northern Israel suspected of illegal sale of artifacts on November 24, 2015. (Israel Antiquities Authority)

Cops bust antiquities dealer with over 3,000 ancient coins

By Ilan Ben Zion

MK Yinon Magal seen at an anti-violence and anti-homophobia rally, attended by thousands, in Tel Aviv, August 1, 2015 (Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Police said set to question MK Magal over sexual harassment claims

By Raoul Wootliff

The solar field atop the buildings in the Knesset compound. (Courtesy)

BIRD investment boost lends wings to alternative energy programs

By David Shamah

The Dojo device (Courtesy)

Pebble-like device goes up against Internet of Things hackers

By David Shamah

Illustrative: A venemous redback spider female, found in suburban Sydney, NSW, Australia. Sydney police did not say what species of spider they found at local home on November 22, 2015 (Toby Hudson / Wikipedia)

Itsy bitsy scarePolice rush to prevent murder, find dead spider

Illustrative photo of an Israel policeman's uniform (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewGetting down to the brass tacks

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