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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 9, 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 in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, December 7, 2015. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images/AFP)

Netanyahu set to meet Trump, as MKs urge candidate be shunned

By Marissa Newman and Raphael Ahren

Sources say December 28 powwow was scheduled two weeks ago, before GOP front-runner’s call to ban Muslims from entering US; Arab-Israeli MK seeks to bar Trump from Israel

37 MKs sign petition urging Netanyahu to cancel Trump meeting

Jewish mayor ‘bars’ Trump from St. Petersburg

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Sharansky, Oren join condemnation of Trump’s comments on Muslims

By Raphael Ahren

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at the CNBC debate on October 28, 2015 (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Obama to Rivlin: Mideast peace is remote, but we have to try

By Ilan Ben Zion

IDF soldiers raid Tulkarem area in hunt for shooters; Netanyahu says will meet with all visiting US presidential candidates; Rouhani slams Trump

Yossi Cohen, former head of the national security council, leaves his home the morning after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Cohen will lead the Mossad on December 8, 2015. (Flash90)

Analysis

New Mossad chief facing challenge of Islamic State and empowered Iran

By Judah Ari Gross

Yossi Cohen will grapple with new threats and new limitations, but has widespread support at home

Yossi Cohen, Mossad chief, speaks at a committee meeting in the Knesset on December 2, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90/File)

Yossi Cohen has had Iran in his sights for over a year

By Judah Ari Gross

The Koom-Koom Theater troupe

An urban puppet troupe speaks everyone’s language

By Jessica Steinberg

The nonverbal Koom-koom Theater group finds an eager audience among Jerusalem’s Jewish and Palestinian schoolchildren

We must defeat BDS macro-aggression

The Academic Engagement Network is a new initiative to face down campus bullies bent on blaming Israel for every ill

The case for Woodrow Wilson

Princeton students protesting the racist US president’s campus presence are unfairly applying modern morality

Jerusalem thoughts on Hanukkah

Recent violence has fueled his longing for the restored and rebuilt Jerusalem of the ancient Jewish dream

Medics wheel a wounded Israeli soldier into the emergency room of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center after he and another man were stabbed in the West Bank city of Hebron, December 9, 2015. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

2 Israelis injured in Hebron stabbing; assailant killed

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Soldier moderately injured; son of former MK Orit Strock lightly hurt

Copenhagen Jewish community guard Dan Uzan, killed in a February 15, 2015 terrorist attack (screen capture: Channel 2)

Jewish Copenhagen terror victim named ‘Dane of the year’

Volunteer security guard Dan Uzan, 37, who was killed in February outside a synagogue, was an inspiration, Danish PM says

Israeli president Reuven Rivlin seen on the train from New York to Washington DC, on December 08, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Rivlin: Israel must do more to improve Palestinians’ lives

Ahead of meeting with Obama, president says East Jerusalemites ‘abandoned,’ trust-building measures ‘should have started yesterday’

President Reuven Rivlin, October 28, 2015. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

From the webRivlin: What Israel should do to lay the groundwork for peace

Illustrative photo of a woman begging in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

One third of Israel’s children live in poverty, report says

By Stuart Winer

National Insurance Institute statistics show there are 1.7 million people in the country who are considered poor

Screen capture of an Iranian missile launch, October 10, 2015 (YouTube: PressTV News Videos)

US fumes at Iran’s reported ballistic missile test

By AP and ToI Staff

UN ambassador says if reports are confirmed, America will bring issue to Security Council, seek appropriate action

An image from video released on December 7, 2015, appears to show Syrian rebels lining up Islamic State fighters in preparation for mass execution – only to spare them at the last minute and jail them instead. (screen capture: YouTube)

WATCH: Syria rebels fake execution of IS fighters, deliver lecture on peace

By Tamar Pileggi

Opposition forces hold guns to the heads of Islamic State captives, only to drop the weapons and tell them, ‘Muslims are not criminals’

An unlocated picture posted in 2014 on his facebook account shows Foued Mohamed Aggad, who has been identified as the third bomber involved in the attacks at Paris's Bataclan music hall, police sources said on December 9, 2015. AFP/OFF/HO)

Third bomber in attack on Bataclan music hall in Paris identified

Police source says Foued Mohamed Aggad of Strasbourg, France, had traveled to Syria in 2013

A building of the Arab Bank plc. (photo credit: You/Tube:NTDTV)

Arab Bank wins US appeal to block thousands of terror damages claims

By Stuart Winer

Court upholds ruling that rejects foreign lawsuits against Hamas-facilitating financial institution

Palestinian religious leaders pose in front of a Christmas tree featuring pictures of Palestinian martyrs on December 1, 2015 (YouTube/Al-Quds Educational Television)

Al-Quds University puts up martyr-themed Christmas tree

Images adorning fir at East Jerusalem school include those of Palestinians killed carrying out attacks against Israelis

Illustrative: 14-year old Palestinian teenager Moawiyah Alkam seen at the District Court in Jerusalem on November 19, 2015. He was charged with attempted murder for a stabbing attack on the light rail on November 10. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Israel has no idea what to do with pre-teen stabber’

By Tamar Pileggi

East Jerusalem 6th-grader Ali Alkam, who stabbed Jerusalem light-rail guard, transferred to closed detention center

Archaeologists discover the first lead object used in the Middle East in a cave south of Beersheba. (Boaz Langford and Micka Ullman)

6,000-year-old artifact from Negev may be world’s oldest smelted lead object

By Ilan Ben Zion

More Headlines

A poster asking for information about a string of arsons is displayed in the Forest Hills section of Queens in New York, Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. Over the past six weeks, an arsonist has torched six buildings in the same tight-knit section of eastern Queens, police say. Police aren't sure whether the victims are being targeted for their religion, their architectural taste, or for no reason at all. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Police, Jewish NYC neighborhood flummoxed by serial arsonist

By JAKE PEARSON

UTJ's Yaakov Litzman leaves a session of his United Torah Judaism party's Council of Torah Sages in Jerusalem on August 27, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Fearing changes to rabbinate, ultra-Orthodox oppose female Islamic judges

By Marissa Newman

Actress Abigail Breslin visiting SiriusXM Studios in New York City, Oct. 5, 2015. (JTA/Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

Time of her lifeAbigail Breslin to star in ‘Dirty Dancing’ TV musical

By JTA

An XSight debris detection system (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli tech to protect planes at Seattle’s airport

By David Shamah

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich controlling a hoard of spider bots with a wave of his hand, via Intel RealSense at the Intel Developer Forum, August 18, 2015 (Intel)

Intel tech, made in Israel, enables robots and drones to ‘see’

By David Shamah

Israeli forces on the northern border (Basal Awidat/Flash90)

From the webIsraeli commandos rescue wounded men from Syrian warzone

Jeb Bush wishes the American Jewish community a Happy Hanukkah in a video by the Republican Jewish Coalition. (Screenshot)

Festive CheersHappy Hanukkah from all but one of the GOP candidates

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Knesset committee meeting on the controversial natural gas deal, December 8, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewGas-fed grief and police beef

By Raoul Wootliff

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