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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 2, 2015

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A seal impression of King Hezekiah unearthed in the Ophel excavations at the foot of the southern wall of the Temple Mount, conducted by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology (ourtesy of Eilat Mazar; photo by Ouria Tadmor)

Seal bearing name of Judean king found in Jerusalem

By Ilan Ben Zion

Impression with ‘Hezekiah [son of] Ahaz, king of Judah,’ unearthed next to Temple Mount, is decorated with Egyptian motifs

The Arch of Titus in Rome, depicting the triumphal parade of Roman soldiers leading away newly enslaved Jews after the sacking of Jerusalem in 70 CE (CC via Wikipedia)

Suffering fuels terror? Look at the Jews

By Gheula Canarutto Nemni

A response to Pope Francis: We have endured the cruelest history of any people, yet never resorted to murder

An Israeli F-16. (Hagar Amibar/Israeli Air Force)

Analysis

Israel’s air superiority clouded by new Russian missiles in Syria

By Judah Ari Gross

Putin’s deployment of advanced S-400 system impacts a mainstay of Israel’s defense strategy, though coordination with Moscow mitigates the threat

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at 8th Galilee conference, held in the Northern Israeli city of Acre, December 1, 2015. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Netanyahu confirms Israel strikes Syria ‘from time to time’

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Oren Hazan and Yair Lapid at a Finance Committee meeting on November 18, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

New Iran nuke report, Likud MK in hot water and UK mulls anti-IS expansion

By Joshua Davidovich

IAEA assessment finds most work toward nuclear bomb stopped by 2003, likely paving way for lifting of sanctions to go ahead

In this Nov. 26, 2014 file photo, the brain-scanning MRI machine that was used at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

'Men are from Mars and women are from Venus?' Not really

Male vs. female brain? Not a valid distinction, Israeli study shows

By AP and ToI Staff

Individual brains only rarely have entirely ‘male’ or ‘female’ traits, Tel Aviv University team finds

The horse expert with no horse sense

When a 13-year-old Israeli emails you a research question, climb off your BDS soapbox and just answer her!

Jessica Levine Kupferberg

The bulletproof bat mitzvah

Neither terror attacks, nor a shattered windshield, nor guests canceling kept her family from dancing that night

Fixing our gray world

Another effect of terror: Us-vs-them social media smackdowns that kill chances for meaningful dialogue

This undated photograph released by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial shows World War II US Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds. (Courtesy of Yad Vashem via AP)

Israel honors GI who told the Nazis, ‘We are all Jews’

US Army Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds, who died in 1985, led over 1,000 POWs in refusing to deliver Jewish comrades to German captors

Hubert Z. (Archive of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum)

German court says Auschwitz SS medic, 94, fit to stand trial

By AP and ToI Staff

An aerial view of a house belonging to the family of a dead terrorist being demolished in Jerusalem's Shuafat refugee camp on Wednesday, December 2, 2015 (Israel Police)

Police demolish terrorist’s East Jerusalem home

By Judah Ari Gross

Ibrahim al-Akari killed two in a vehicular attack a year ago, was shot dead at the scene; troops arrest 28 suspects overnight

Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan and their daughter Max. (Mark Zuckerberg via Facebook)

New dad Zuckerberg vows to give away Facebook fortune

By AFP and JTA

In a letter to his newborn daughter, Facebook co-founder pledges to donate 99% of his estimated $45 billion

The 11 Israeli Munich Olympics victims.

PLO terrorists castrated Israeli hostage in 1972 Munich Olympic attack

By JTA

Widows of victims say weightlifter Yossef Romano was shot, dismembered and left to die in front of other hostages

A giant Christmas Tree being placed during Christmas preparations at Nativity Church Square in Bethlehem on November 30, 2015. (Flash90)

PA tells Bethlehem Christians to cool it on Christmas

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Amid ongoing wave of violence in Israel and West Bank, municipalities instructed not to light fireworks, keep decorations to minimum

Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders on November 26, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / BELGA PHOTO / LAURIE DIEFFEMBACQ)

Netanyahu cancels meet with Belgian FM ‘over settlement labeling’ — report

Brussels announces indefinite postponement of Didier Reynders’s upcoming visit to Israel and Palestinian territories

A doctor talks with Ahmed Dawabsha at Sheba Medical Center in Tel HaShomer Eric Cortellessa/Times of Israel)

Dawabsha family hoping for progress in arson case

Grandfather of sole survivor of Duma terror attack says he has not heard any official news of developments

Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon giving the opening remarks at an official UN event commemorating Jewish refugees from Arab lands, on December 1, 2015. (Shahar Azran)

Jewish refugees from Arab lands seek justice at United Nations

By Cathryn J. Prince

Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, May 27, 2014. (Flash90)

Ex-defense minister Ben-Eliezer indicted for corruption

Former Labor party leader, 79, faces charges of taking bribes, money laundering, breach of trust, fraud and tax offenses

Illustration. IDF recruits. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flickr)

Ending longstanding taboo, IDF pushes for HIV carriers to enlist

By Judah Ari Gross

Army medical officer says move, made possible with advances in medicine, will affect few but send important message

A soldier tries out the IDF's 'selfie' station at the main induction center. (Israel Defense Forces)

Shoot firstIDF finds a way for fresh recruits to take ‘selfies’

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative photo of an IDF exercise near the Gaza Border on November 19, 2014. (Amit Shechter/IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flickr)

Army launches surprise drill in southern Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

Planes, vehicles and troops will operate along Gaza Strip border and western Negev in general preparedness exercise

The Easystroll wheelchair allows disabled individuals to take their kids wherever they go (Courtesy)

Israel tech helps the deaf ‘hear’ and the blind ‘see’

By David Shamah

Israeli accelerator program A3i is leading the way in ‘ability’ technology, improving the lives of millions with disabilities

(L to R) LabSuit co-founders Helen Rabinovitz, Alex Domeshek and Ira Blekhman

Love story in research lab leads to new start-up idea

By David Shamah

When Alex Domeshek came up with a new lab management system for his wife and her colleagues, he planted the seed of a business

Frederic Josue (Courtesy)

Meet the French innovation scout who also wrote a film about terrorism

By Simona Weinglass

More Headlines

#GivingTuesdayTime to rethink philanthropy

By Felicia Herman and Joelle Asaro Berman

Statue of Liberty (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Elcobbola, Wikimedia Commons)

Bartholdi's beautyStatue of Liberty inspired by Arab woman

By AFP

A child and a horse at a West Bank outpost in 2009. Illustrative photo. (Gili Yaari / Flash 90)

BDS-backing Jewish horse expert stands by ‘fair’ snub of Israeli schoolgirl

By ToI Staff and Marissa Newman

Tamar Ariel during the December 27, 2012 IAF Flight School graduation ceremony, (Edi Israel/Flash90)

In her contrailsBrother of IAF airwoman killed in Nepal to get wings

West Side Judaica on Broadway in Manhattan (Google Street View)

Judaica store manager assaulted outside Manhattan shop

By JTA

Illustrative: A supporter of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party displays a placard showing crossed out Niqabs during a demonstration against the German government's asylum policy organized by the AfD party in Berlin on November 7, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL)

Poll: German far-rightists would win 10% if vote held today

Thom Yorke performing with Radiohead in Sydney, Australia, Nov. 12, 2012. (Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images/JTA)

Creep?Radiohead frontman compares YouTube to Nazis

By JTA

In this picture taken on Monday Oct. 26, 2015, Tomas Jelinek looks at a tombstone that was used as a doorstep to a hen house in efforts to restore a former Jewish cemetery in Prostejov, Czech Republic. (AP Photo/Petr Josek)

In small Czech village, lost Jewish graveyard unearthed

By Karel Janicek

A device concealed in an artificial rock in the southern Lebanese town of Bani Hayyan. According to the Lebanese Army, the device is an Israeli surveillance camera. (screen capture: Lebanese Armed Forces Facebook page)

Second Israeli spying device said uncovered in south Lebanon

Actress Reese Witherspoon attends the 2015 Baby2Baby Gala at 3LABS on November 14, 2015 in Culver City, California. (Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic via JTA)

What a doll‘Legally Blonde’ star to make film on Barbie’s maker

By JTA

Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver arriving at a courthouse in Manhattan, November 24, 2015. (Seth Wenig/AP)

Why Shelly Silver won’t be sharing a prison cell with Willie Rapfogel

By Uriel Heilman

Relatives of 18-month-old Palestinian toddler Ali Saad Dawabsha, who died after his house was set on fire, allegedly by Jewish settlers, mourn next to his body lying at a mosque during his funeral in the West Bank village of Duma on July 31, 2015. Hussein Dawabsha, the baby's grandfather is seen on the right. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)

Hebrew media reviewGlomaring the news

By Joshua Davidovich

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