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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 3, 2015

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Inside the Dawabsha home in Duma. A doll wrapped in a Palestinian flag rests in a stroller to honor Ali. (Eric Cortellessa/Times of Israel)

Israel arrests Jewish terror suspects in deadly firebombing

By Ilan Ben Zion and Judah Ari Gross

Gag order lifted on investigation into attack on Dawabsha family that left three dead, but identities and number of people arrested remain muzzled

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

Family photos lie in the remains of the Dawabsha home in the West Bank village of Duma, after it was firebombed by suspected Jewish extremists on July 31, 2015. The family's 18-month-old baby was killed in the attack and his father died of his injuries eight days later, on August 8, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

UN envoy calls on Israel to ‘swiftly’ catch Dawabsha killers

Benjamin Netanyahu, center, with Tzachi Hanegbi, right, and Zeev Elkin at a Likud faction meeting on October 19, 2015 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu: We could destroy Al-Aqsa, but we don’t want to

In leaked recording, PM heard saying smashing the mosque at contested holy site would contradict everything Israel stands for

Law enforcement officers investigate a suspicious bag, later found not to be a threat, on Victoria Avenue after a mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center on Wednesday, December 2, 2015 in San Bernardino, California. (AFP PHOTO / PATRICK T. FALLON)

Police identify married couple as California shooters, seek motive

By AFP and ToI Staff

Local Muslim man Syed Rizwan Farook, and Saudi-born wife Tashfeen Malik, killed in shootout with cops after gunning down at least 14 in LA suburb; terrorism not ruled out

California Muslims condemn ‘horrific’ mass shooting

By AFP

Police not ruling out terror as suspects in California shooting named

By AFP and ToI Staff

From the webSan Bernardino shooting suspect was ‘living American Dream’

By Jack Dolan, Paul Pringle and Stephen Ceasar

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) invites US Secretary of State John Kerry to a sitting area as he arrives for their bilateral meeting alongside the annual Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Ministerial Council meeting in Belgrade on December 3, 2015. (AFP/POOL/JONATHAN ERNST)

Live updates (closed)

Israeli car comes under fire in West Bank; no injuries

Driver keeps moving during attack north of Jerusalem, informs security forces; search turns up bullet casings in area

A worker rides a bicycle in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran, on October 26, 2010. (AP/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour, File)

UN: Iran worked on developing nuclear weapons

Netanyahu urges IAEA to deepen its investigation; US says report meets conditions of nuclear deal

Israel: IAEA report proves Iran nuke program had military dimension

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Iran: UN report resolves all questions on our nuclear research

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Senate resolution would allow state sanctions on Iran despite deal

By JTA

Idan Raichel, at the launch of his latest album and his first solo work (Courtesy Lior Keter)

Idan Raichel gets personal in his first solo album

By Jessica Steinberg

The world music keyboardist and vocalist sings about his kids and his life in ‘At the Edge of the Beginning,’ on sale Wednesday

How being called a heretic made me a Jew

At age 9 she set out on a spiritual quest that was at once the same as and at odds with her mother’s own journey

Donniel Hartman

The Israel-diaspora Hanukkah divide

Is the festival all about A victory for tolerance? The triumph of weak over mighty? It needs to be about both

Yosef I. Abramowitz

Israel losing its ‘green’ pioneer spirit

With just 2 percent of its power coming from renewables, it’s hard to toot the Israel’s environmental horn

Tova Warburg Sinensky

A yoetzet halacha responds

From the trenches, an educated perspective on Orthodox women being legal advisers for the family purity laws

Head of Republicans in Israel: Trump can’t be, won’t be president

Voters understand that to lead the United States you need to be more than a salesman, says Marc Zell; later, colleagues say Zell was ‘speaking in a personal capacity’

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump poses for a portrait after an interview with The Associated Press in Sterling, Virginia, December 2, 2015.

Trump says peace depends on Israel, but ‘it’s OK’ if it won’t make a deal

By Julie Pace, Jill Colvin and Steve Peoples

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to guests following a town hall meeting in Newton, Iowa, on November 19, 2015. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump says he’s coming to Israel ‘very soon’ to meet Netanyahu

Ahead of meeting with Jewish Republicans, The Donald proclaims love for Israel

Israeli security forces seen at the scene where an Israeli soldier was severely wounded when she was stabbed by a Palestinian near the Adam junction, near the Hizme checkpoint north of Jerusalem. The stabber was shot and killed by security forces at the scene, the IDF said. October 21, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Two Israelis hurt in shooting north of Jerusalem

Terrorist, said to be PA intelligence officer, shot dead in attack at Hizme checkpoint; 47-year-old man moderately injured, soldier lightly hurt

Illustrative photo of a Palestinian woman walking amid the rubble of a house after Israeli security forces demolished the homes of two Palestinians behind attacks in the Palestinian neighborhood of Jabal Mukaber in East Jerusalem, on October 6, 2015. (AFP/THOMAS COEX)

Army demolishes home of Henkin terror cell leader

By Raoul Wootliff

IDF engineers raze Nablus apartment of Hamas man said to have masterminded killing of parents; low-level clashes break out

Raed Masalmeh, 36, at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on December 2, 2015. (Photo by Flash90)

Terrorist cries, expresses regret as he reenacts Tel Aviv murders

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Raed Khalil al-Mahmoud, a father of five from a town near Hebron, killed two Israeli men outside a prayer room two weeks ago

Russia begins delivering S-300 air defense system to Iran

By AP and Raoul Wootliff

Moscow arms adviser says advanced battery on the way to Tehran; worried Israel has long urged Putin to scrap deal

Illustrative photo of a Tornado GR4 (SAC Scott Ferguson/MOD via Wikimedia Commons)

UK begins striking in Syria, hours after parliament vote

By AP and AFP

RAF planes based in Cyprus conduct first raids against Islamic State targets, following lawmakers’ decisive backing for Cameron

An Islamic State video shows the execution of an alleged Russian spy (YouTube screen capture)

IS beheads alleged Russian spy in new video

By AFP

In grisly clip, detainee says he was recruited to gather information on terror group, is executed

New Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich receives his ranks from Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayahu and Internal Security Minister Gilad Erdan at his swearing in ceremony held at the Prime Minister's Office, December 3, 2015. (Photo by Israel Police)

PM calls for ‘serious reforms’ as new police chief finally sworn in

By Raoul Wootliff

After months of delays and scandals, former Shin Bet deputy head Roni Alsheich promises ‘a determined a plan’ to improve the force

A copy of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' (dccarbone/CC-BY, via Flickr)

‘Mein Kampf’ to hit German book stores next month

By AFP and ToI Staff

Hitler’s infamous manifesto will be available for first time since WWII when copyright expires on December 31

Josef Schuster, President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, attends a press conference following his election in Frankfurt am Main, central Germany, on November 30, 2014. (AFP/Daniel Roland)

German Jewish group OK with publishing ‘Mein Kampf’ again

By AFP

Likud Member of Knesset Oren Hazan during a Likud party meeting at the Knesset, June 15, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud concerned Hazan suspension will destabilize coalition

With only a 61-seat coalition in 120-member House, ruling party depends on every single vote to pass legislation

The exterior of the extensively renovated and restored W Tel Aviv-Jaffa (Courtesy of W Tel Aviv-Jaffa)

Hotels look to the past for a new take on luxury

By Jessica Steinberg

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Michael Hochberg talks with Krystyna Jakubowski while surrounded by reporters at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, December 2, 2015. (Photo by AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Emotional reunion for Holocaust survivor and Polish rescuer

By Verena Dobnik

The Exodus ship (photo credit: Wikimedia commons)

Auction of flag from the ship Exodus called off

By AFP

'The people demand social justice' was a catchphrase of the social protests that erupted around the country in the summer of 2011. (David Katz/The Israel Project)

A super app for the marketLooking for cheap chicken? App tells you where to find it

By David Shamah

The late Amy Winehouse is the subject of Asif Kapadia's emotional documentary "Amy." (Mark Okoh, Camera Press)

Behind the Music Amy Winehouse documentary named semifinalist for Oscar

By JTA

Gas rigs in the Tamar field, off the coast of Israel, in June 2014. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Egyptian company says it wants Israeli gas as soon as possible

US billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson (L) meets with Benjamin Netanyahu during a ceremony at the Congress Hall in Jerusalem, August 12, 2007. (Flash90)

Court: PM must provide details of conversations with Sheldon Adelson

The US Embassy in Tel Aviv (photo credit: Ori~/Wikimedia Commons/File)

Obama renews waiver delaying US embassy move to Jerusalem

Likud MK Oren Hazan laughing at a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem, October 26, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe descent of Hazan

By Adiv Sterman

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