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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 8, 2015

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the crowd at a Pearl Harbor Day Rally at the U.S.S. Yorktown December 7, 2015 in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. Sean Rayford/Getty Images/AFP)

Jewish groups decry Trump pitch to ban Muslim immigration

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

ADL rejects Republican frontrunner’s latest remarks as ‘deeply offensive’ and ‘antithetical to American values’

Trump doubles down on proposal to ban Muslims

By AP and ToI Staff

Trump demands ‘complete shutdown’ on Muslims entering US

White House pans Trump’s idea to ban Muslims from US

By AFP

French far-right leader and National Front Party, Marine Le Pen, addresses the media during a news conference, Monday, December 7, 2015, in Lille, northern France. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

As French Jews vote for Le Pen, a case of the enemy of my enemy?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

National Front’s tough stance on terrorism and the long memory of French Jews expelled from Arab lands make for a growing number of Jewish voters for a party once deemed taboo

France reels as Le Pen leads National Front into mainstream

By Elaine Ganley

Eagles of Death Metal appear with U2 in emotional Paris return

By Fiachra GIBBONS

Family of London stabber say they warned police before attack

By AFP

A doll wearing a keffiyah and holding a stone, part of a shipment of 4,000 such dolls heading to the Palestinian Authority which was intercepted by Haifa customs officials, December 8, 2015. (Haifa customs)

Israel seizes thousands of rock-thrower dolls headed for PA

By Stuart Winer

Deputy FM says masked figures impounded in Haifa were intended to educate Palestinian children in hatred and violence

The five men arrested by the Shin Bet under suspicion of having supported the Islamic State and planning to carry out terror attacks. (Shin Bet)

5 Arab Israelis arrested for IS support, planning terror attacks

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Nazareth family members purchased guns, trained for attacks in Israel, after becoming more religious, security service says

A picture taken on August 17, 2015 shows a general view of the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, west of the city of Mosul. (AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED)

Live updates (closed)

Iraq to NATO: Tell Turkey to pull troops from our territory

By Jonathan Beck

Ankara defends move, says Turkish soldiers landed near Mosul several days ago to prepare for battle against Islamic State

(jellyfish image via Shutterstock)

'The idea that we are growing in complexity is naive'

Israelis spy jellyfish drifting backward through evolutionary stew

By Simona Weinglass

Tel Aviv U. team makes rare find of ‘extreme’ regressive evolution, as multicelled organism sheds head and muscles to become a microscopic parasite that infects fish

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

The only parenting advice I’ll ever give

The one thing she insisted her children learn by heart

New Swedish foreign minister gaffe app

Great news for all those seeking an instant alert whenever Margot Wallstrom says something inane

David Nekrutman

Christianity is a gift to the nations

A new Orthodox rabbinic statement affirms Christianity as no accident, but rather the ‘willed divine outcome’

When donor dollars cross the Green Line

On a recent move to transparency in US Jewish funding to Israel — and why that funding shouldn’t go to settlements

Sweden's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven arrives for a summit on relations between the European Union and Turkey and on managing the migration crisis, on November 29, 2015 in Brussels. (Thierry Charlier/AFP)

Swedish PM: Stabbing attacks in Israel not terrorism

As ties with Stockholm crumble, Stefan Lofven claims knifings do not meet international standard for terror, later tries to clarify statement

Former president Jimmy Carter discusses his cancer diagnosis during a press conference at the Carter Center on August 20, 2015, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Jessica McGowan/Getty Images/AFP)

Israeli breakthrough helped cure Jimmy Carter’s cancer

By AP and Raoul Wootliff

Researched and tested at Tel Hashomer Sheba Medical Center, Keytruda fights tumors using the body’s natural immune system

Benjamin Netanyahu and Yossi Cohen look over documents in a photo posted on social media by Netanyahu on December 7, 2015, shortly after he named Cohen as the new Mossad chief. (PMO/Facebook)

Netanyahu names Yossi Cohen as next Mossad chief

By Raoul Wootliff

The current national security adviser, a former deputy head of the spy agency, will succeed Tamir Pardo next month

National Security Adviser Yossi Cohen at a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting, September 2, 2014 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90, File)

Senior official denies last-minute pressure over Mossad nomination

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

A Russian-built, Kilo-class diesel submarine (Courtesy US DoD)

Russian sub with cruise missiles reported near Syria

Vessel off coast in eastern Mediterranean would mean a step up in the arming of Putin’s forces in region

The menorah in New York City's Carl Shurz Park was found vandalized on December 7, 2015.(Chabad.org)

Vandals topple menorah in New York City park

By JTA

Mayor de Blasio, rabbi of Manhattan’s Kehilath Jeshurun denounce ‘act of darkness’ on Festival of Lights

Muslim men pray at a mosque in Jersey City, New Jersey, on December 7, 2015. AFP PHOTO/JEWEL SAMAD)

Jittery Muslim Americans accuse Trump of inciting violence

By Jennie Matthew

Activists tell Republican frontrunner to cool inflammatory rhetoric after shopkeeper beaten, say he sounds like ‘leader of lynch mob’

The West Bank settlement of Alfei Menashe (Wikimedia Commons/Jonathan Schilling/CC BY-SA 3.0)

US nonprofits gave $220m to settlements over five years — report

By AP and Raoul Wootliff

Payments reportedly went to property purchases, home amenities and, in some cases, support to families of convicted Jewish terrorists

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defends the controversial gas deal in the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee on December 8, 2015 (Knesset spokesman)

PM to lawmakers: ‘Ideal’ gas deal doesn’t exist, don’t drive away investors

By Marissa Newman

Grilled by MKs, Netanyahu says controversial accord is ‘essential’ for national security, reveals rockets targeted power stations during war

Palestinian demonstrators run for cover from tear gas fired by Israeli security forces during clashes in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on October 2, 2015. (Musa al Shaer/AFP)

Palestinian killed during clash with IDF in Bethlehem

By Raoul Wootliff and Lee Gancman

Five arrested in dawn raid of refugee camp in West Bank city; local group announces day of mourning

Palestinians inspect the damage after Egyptian forces flooded smuggling tunnels dug beneath the Gaza-Egypt border, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 18, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90)

14 Gazans rescued after Egypt floods smuggling tunnel

Contact with the men had been lost after the tunnel collapse early Tuesday

Illustrative: Israeli security forces and a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance at the Tapuah junction near the West Bank city of Nablus, October 30, 2015. (Flash90)

Suspected stabber from October attack collared in Ramallah

By Stuart Winer

Israeli forces raid hotel to nab Bassel Mounir Mahmed Abu Ali, accused of trying to knife border guards at Tapuah Junction

The Teitelbaum family is welcomed to Israel by Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky in 2010. (Courtesy of Teitelbaum family)

Fleeing recession and violence, Brazilian Jews flock to Israel

By Marcus M. Gilban

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Illustrative photo of an Air France Airbus shortly after takeoff (Alf van Beem/Wikimedia Commons, File)

Air France to reopen Paris-Tehran route in April

By AFP

Member of Knesset Ksenia Svetlova lights a Hanukkah menorah at the Western Wall with Women of the Wall founding director Anat Hoffman (center), December 6, 2015. (Victoria Polak)

MK to host pluralist Hanukkah candle-lighting at Knesset

By JTA

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaking at a fundraising reception in Los Angeles, California, on October 14, 2015. (David McNew/Getty Images/via JTA)

Big BernTime readers choose Bernie Sanders as Person of the Year

By JTA

In this May 31, 2015, file photo, comedian Amy Schumer attends the 74th Annual Peabody Awards in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Cradle to dreidlAmy Schumer posts childhood Hanukkah video

By Renee Ghert-Zand

President Reuven Rivlin speaks a conference by Haaretz newspaper in Tel Aviv on November 12, 2015 (Tomer Appelbaum/Israel Conference of Peace)

Rivlin heads to Washington for first meeting with Obama

Education Minister Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Bennett ruffles feathers with new Jewish culture prize

Apartment and office buildings in Ashkelon, January 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Big data a big deal in commercial real estate, says CrediFi

By David Shamah

Members of the Kamatech accelerator at the New York event last December (Courtesy)

Haredi entrepreneurs wow investors in unique demo day

By David Shamah

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