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What Matters Most On Friday, December 4, 2015

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San Bernardino shooting victim Nicholas Thalasinos and his wife Jennifer (Facebook)

Messianic Jewish victim of California attack had argued with shooter about Islam

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, one of 14 fatalities, had heated debate with co-worker Syed Rizwan Farook two weeks before San Bernardino rampage

Pious California killer showed no outward signs of violence

By Michael R. Blood, Amanda Lee Meyers and Eric Tucker

PM offers ‘deepest condolences’ to San Bernardino victims’ families

By ToI Staff and AFP

California shooter stopped going to mosque weeks ago, friend says

By Michael R. Blood and Eric Tucker

Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during the 2016 Republican Jewish Coalition Presidential Candidates Forum in Washington, DC, December 3, 2015 (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)

Trump courts Republican Jews with offensive stereotypes

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

WATCH: ‘You’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money,’ candidate tells a GOP Jewish group; calls them ‘negotiators’

ADL: Trump’s comments misinterpreted, not anti-Semitic

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Rubio takes on Trump in address to Republican Jews

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Ted Cruz says he fears California shooting may be Islamic terrorism

By Julie Bykowicz and Steve Peoples

Jill Soloway, writer and director of 'Transparent,' filming the second season of the show on set. (Courtesy of Amazon Studios/via JTA)

How ‘Transparent’ creator’s Jewish father inspired hit series

By Curt Schleier

Ahead of the Amazon show’s second season, Jill Soloway on what it means to contribute artistically to a civil rights movement

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with a delegation of young leaders from Germany, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, December 3, 2015
(Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu: Don’t worry, there will be peace ‘eventually’

By Raphael Ahren

In lengthy speech to visiting young German leaders, PM says that Arabs lived in Palestine 100 years ago, ‘but not many’

2 IDF soldiers lightly hurt in West Bank car-ramming attack

By Ilan Ben Zion and Judah Ari Gross

IDF soldier stabbed, attacker killed near West Bank settlement

Three Palestinians said hurt by IDF fire in Gaza Strip

By Judah Ari Gross and Ilan Ben Zion

MK Yair Lapid during a Yesh Atid party meeting at the Knesset, November 23, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

Lapid: Israel’s global standing has never been worse; I could change that

By Raphael Ahren

Self-styled shadow foreign minister worries about US military aid, slams EU envoy for Holocaust remark, and says Palestinians ‘should internalize’ IDF firepower

Carson, Trump, Gilmore, Kasich, Cruz and the Jews

5 takeaways from the candidates’ efforts to woo support at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s presidential forum

How to change the world

What if Reuben had really come to Joseph’s defense? The acts of even one person do have impact (Vayeshev)

Finding her place in Judaism despite the gendered language that inherently excludes her

Benjamin Zagzag

Staying in Paris

Three weeks after the attacks: The answer to terrorism is remaining and choosing to be ‘a better person tomorrow’

Illustrative: Girl with horse. (YouTube)

Legal complaint made against pro-BDS prof. who snubbed Israeli schoolgirl

By Renee Ghert-Zand

UK anti-Semitism monitor says police investigating Jewish academic Marsha Levine, as other experts offer help to student

File: Islamic State's Sinai commander Shadi al-Menei (Channel 2 screenshot)

Islamic State’s Sinai chief said in Gaza to coordinate with Hamas

Shadi al-Menei meets with terror chiefs in Strip to boost joint efforts to target Egypt and Israel, TV report says

File: Children are seen receiving military training in an Islamic State camp near Damascus, Syria, December 6, 2014. (SITE Intel Group)

In IS video, kids execute Syrians in message ‘to the Jews’

By AFP

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi (left) talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at COP21, the UN Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris, France, on November 30, 2015. (AFP/Martin Bureau/Pool)

At Paris summit, PM shook hands with Egypt, Jordan leaders

Israeli official says Netanyahu met el-Sissi face-to-face for first time at climate conference

Footage from Egyptian media of a Cairo nightclub in flames after a firebomb attack left at least 12 dead and six injured on Friday, December 4, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

16 dead in firebomb attack on Cairo nightclub

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

Death toll rises after former employee reportedly throws Molotov cocktail at disco in Egyptian capital

Illustrative: A security fence around a Jewish settlement in the West Bank (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

West Bank settlements are legal, Foreign Ministry asserts

Official document distributed to Israeli diplomats says Jewish communities beyond Green Line are ‘not colonization’

Education Minister Naftali Bennett arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, September 20, 2015. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

InterviewBennett: Annex major West Bank settlement bloc

By Uriel Heilman

Austrian Vice Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner (CC BY-SA, Franz Johann Morgenbesser, via Wikimedia Commons)

Austrian minister cancels Israel visit over East Jerusalem meet

By Ilan Ben Zion

Vice Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner nixes 4-day trip, science pacts, because Akunis insisted on hosting him in Sheikh Jarrah office

Activist Asaf Lev attends a gathering in Tel Aviv encouraging other Israelis to immigrate to Berlin, October 14, 2014. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Analysis

Defeatists? Demagogues? Voters! How would giving the vote to expats change Israeli politics?

By Marissa Newman

As Netanyahu moves to advance absentee balloting, experts note dearth of research on the political views of hundreds of thousands of Israelis who live abroad, and urge restrictions to limit their influence

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan speaks at the inauguration of Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich on December 3, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Erdan: Still not enough proof to charge suspected Jewish terrorists

By Ilan Ben Zion and Judah Ari Gross

Public security minister says investigators doing their utmost to bring perpetrators of Duma attack to justice

Pluristem workers process placenta for the company's cell-based therapy products (Courtesy)

Japan turns to Israeli tech to treat radiation disease

By David Shamah

Pluristem’s stem-cell technology may hold cure for victims affected by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster

Judy Batalion, the author of 'White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess in Between,' in her New York home. (courtesy)

A survival story from the daughter of a survivor

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

General view of the crowd gathered for the canonization mass of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II at St Peter's square at the Vatican on April 27, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Vincenzo Pinto)

Vending their angerWearing yellow stars, Jewish vendors rally in Rome

By JTA

(L to R) Ido Aharoni, Steven Schoenfeld, and Nasdaq Executive VP Salil Donde ring the open bell December 3, 2015 (Courtesy)

New exchange-traded fund opens up Start-Up Nation to investors

By David Shamah

A Boy Scout salutes the American flag at camp Maple Dell outside Payson, Utah, on July 31, 2015. (George Frey/Getty Images via JTA)

Boy Scouts of America seeks more Jewish troops

By Melissa Apter

With Backfeed, it's all for one and one for all (Courtesy)

Backfeed seeks to make the workplace – and the world – more fair

By David Shamah

Just some of the delectable options at Roladin, which offers donut-making workshops at its Kadima visitor's center over Hanukkah, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Festival of light offers activities for all

By Jessica Steinberg

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)

Hebrew media reviewGhosts of the past, ghosts of the present

By Adiv Sterman

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