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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 1, 2015

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Payam Feili in Tel Aviv on November 30, 2015. (Screenshot/Channel 10)

Exiled Iranian poet in Israel: This is the best place on Earth

Payam Feili, sporting a Star of David neck tattoo, arrives in Tel Aviv to launch Hebrew translation of his book, attend premier of play adaptation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during COP21, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris, France, on November 30, 2015. (AFP/Martin Bureau/Pool)

Netanyahu: Abbas handshake was ‘purely protocol, not a meeting’

By Raphael Ahren

PM says he does not hope for collapse of the PA, but stresses gesture at climate summit was no sign of rapprochement, Abbas ‘inciting’ terror

Netanyahu hails Israel’s ‘leading role’ in addressing climate change

By Tamar Pileggi

Israel devastating the Palestinian environment, Abbas tells climate summit

By Tamar Pileggi

In Paris, Netanyahu and Abbas shake hands for first time in 5 years

By ToI Staff and AFP

A member of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September, which killed 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team, during the 1972 Munich Olympics. (AP/Kurt Strumpf)

Live updates (closed)

More ‘dramatic developments’ reported in gagged Jewish terror case

Paris police tell Chabad not to light Hanukkah candles in public spaces; PA arrests Islamic Jihad cell planning attacks on IDF troops

Hikers near the Sea of Galilee, Israel's largest freshwater lake (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

How Israel became a water superpower

By Simona Weinglass

Seth M. Siegel, author of ‘Let There Be Water,’ hopes Israel’s world-class water practices create a ripple effect of peace

Want joie de vivre? It’s in Tel Aviv

When The Economist holds Tel Aviv up as a symbol of a city cowed by terror, the only answer is au contraire!

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Dazzled at a northern Israel nature reserve that’s a pitstop for some of the 500 million birds heading to Africa

Chairwoman of the Women of the Wall group Anat Hoffman, left, with Meretz MKs Tamar Zandberg, center, and Michal Rozin as they attend a candle lighting ceremony on the 3rd night of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, December 18, 2014. (Danielle Shitrit/FLASH90)

Women given green light to kindle Western Wall menorah

By Stuart Winer

Deputy Attorney General Dina Zilber tells rabbi of Jerusalem holy site to have women take part in official Hanukkah ceremony; Women of the Wall hail move

PA orders Hamas TV off the air in West Bank

Directive seen as part of an effort to crack down on incitement; Israel has closed 3 Hebron radio stations this month

IDF troops, police and paramedics at the scene of an attempted stabbing at the Gush Etzion Junction on December 1, 2015 (Magen David Adom)

Stabbing attempt thwarted in northern West Bank

By Judah Ari Gross and Raoul Wootliff

Palestinian woman shot dead as she tries to attack a man at Einav Junction; earlier, would-be stabber killed south of Jerusalem

IDF troops, police and paramedics at the scene of an attempted stabbing at the Gush Etzion Junction on December 1, 2015 (Magen David Adom)

Israeli lightly hurt in stabbing at Etzion Junction

By Judah Ari Gross and Raoul Wootliff

Yitzhak Gabai, a member of the extreme right-wing Lehava organization, at the District Court in Jerusalem on December 1, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Man who torched Arab-Jewish school sentenced to 3 years

By Raoul Wootliff

Yitzhak Gabai, who turned down plea deal taken by 2 others convicted in the Jerusalem attack, also gets jail time for social media incitement

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras in Jerusalem on November 25, 2015. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Greece to defy EU order on labeling settlement goods

By Raphael Ahren

Day after Greek PM visits Jerusalem, letter is dispatched to Netanyahu informing him of decision by Athens

Cnaan Liphshiz and Iris Tzur preparing for the bris of their son in Amsterdam, Nov. 19, 2015. (Courtesy)

First person

Why I hired a Belgian butcher to circumcise my son

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the COP 21 United Nations conference on climate change at Le Bourget, on the outskirts of Paris, France, on November 30, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

PM: Israel, Russia deepening coordination to avoid Syria ‘mishaps’

By Tamar Pileggi

In Paris meeting, Russian president says Hanukkah’s ‘story of light and dark’ should be applied to global affairs

The arrest warrant issued for 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, suspected of involvement in the November 13, 2015. terror attacks in Paris. 'Do not intervene yourself,' warns the message issued November 15, 2015.

Chief Paris terror suspect thought to have fled to Syria

By Raoul Wootliff

French intelligence sources think Salah Abdeslam evaded international manhunt, escaped Europe

An image from a video purportedly showing a joint US-Kurdish raid on an Islamic State prison in the town of Hawija, Iraq on October 22, 2015. (screen shot: YouTube)

US troops reportedly fighting IS on the ground in Iraq

By Stuart Winer

UK’s Guardian cites video from Kurdish peshmerga fighters showing American special forces in action against terror group

The Dead Sea (Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Israel, Jordan unveil $800m joint plan for ‘Red-Dead’ canal

As well as rejuvenating the rapidly diminishing Dead Sea, the canal will bring drinking water to both countries

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the COP 21 United Nations conference on climate change, at Le Bourget, on the outskirts of Paris, France, on November 30, 2015. (AFP/Jacques Demarthon)

Erdogan says he can ‘fix’ tense Israel ties

Security detail clears away reporters before Turkish president can elaborate

Officials of Oramed and HLST at the signing, November 30, 2015. (L to R): Prof. Avram Hershko, Oramed Scientific Advisory Board; Nadav Kidron, Oramed CEO; Bin Zhou, Sinopharm Vice General President; Xiaoming Gao, HTIT Chairman (Maoz Vaystooch)

Oramed inks huge $50m deal with Chinese pharma firm

By David Shamah

The Israeli firm’s oral medication technology will be used to help treat the large and growing numbers of diabetics in China

A soldier in the army's cyber defense course on June 10, 2013 (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF appoints first head for unified cyber warfare corps

New unit aims to unify Israel’s online protection in the face of global attacks via the internet

The Western Wall in Jerusalem by Iris Cohenian, one of many prints sold by Israel Framed (Courtesy)

A positive snapshot of Israel, one frame at a time

More Headlines

#GivingTuesdayTime to rethink philanthropy

By Felicia Herman and Joelle Asaro Berman

Protesters urging a boycott against Israel in Melbourne, file photo (CC-BY SA Takver/Wikimedia Commons)

Citing boycott, Jewish academic refuses to help Israeli child

Illustrative image of El Al planes at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv. (Serge Attal/Flash90/File)

El Al orders pilots not to wear uniforms when out and about in Europe

A still from an ad by the Be'emunah company for a housing project in Kiryat Gat (screen capture: Facebook)

Israeli real estate firm slammed for racist online ad

Leader of the Joint Arab list Ayman Odeh leads the weekly Joint Arab list meeting at the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem, October 12, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Joint List chief one of magazine’s top 100 ‘global thinkers’

Elizabeth II, September 8, 2015 (British Monarchy Facebook Page)

Oh, CanadaIsraeli math prof differentiates in citizenship oath

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Actor Sean Penn in black t-shirt helping Tevel b'Tzedek volunteers following the earthquake in Haiti, 2010 (photo courtesy Tevel b'Tzedek)

Penn, a tellerSean Penn lauds Israeli aid agency as Haiti ‘mentor’

By Jessica Steinberg

Sherzad Omar Mamsani, the Jewish representative at the Kurdish regional ministry, looks at photographs displayed during a ceremony marking the deportation of Jews from Iraq seven decades ago, in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, November 30, 2015. (AFP/SAFIN HAMED)

Jewish Kurds hold groundbreaking Iraq commemoration

By AFP

Billionaire philanthropist George Soros (photo credit: CC-BY-Harald Dettenborn, Wikimedia Commons)

Moscow bans George Soros funds as ‘threat’ to security

By Stuart Winer

Marcus Klingberg (Wikipedia)

Notorious spy Marcus Klingberg dies at 97

MK Yinon Magal of the Jewish Home party seen during a party meeting at the Knesset, October 19, 2015. (Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewGagged and hounded

By Ilan Ben Zion

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