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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 10, 2015

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

Trump cancels Israel trip, will meet PM ‘after I become president’

Netanyahu had come under fire for agreeing to meet Republican candidate, who wants to bar US entry to Muslims

PM rejects Trump’s comments on Muslims, but will still meet him

Middle East grows wary of Trump, despite investments

By Jon Gambrell and Adam Schreck

2/3 of likely Republican voters support Trump’s Muslim ban

Rescue services at the scene of a car-ramming attack near the Beit Aryeh settlement in the West Bank on December 10, 2015 (United Hatzalah)

4 soldiers hurt in apparent West Bank car-ramming attack

By Judah Ari Gross

Attacker flees scene near settlement of Beit Aryeh after hitting group of soldiers; abandoned car recovered

IDF said to raid homes in ongoing manhunt for shooters

By Raoul Wootliff

‘Stab! Stab! Stab!’ Palestinian girl brandishes knife in Facebook video

3 Palestinians arrested in Afula with large knives, no ID

By Raoul Wootliff

The scene of a car-ramming attack near the Beit Aryeh settlement in the West Bank on December 10, 2015 (Magen David Adom)

Live updates (closed)

IDF finds car involved in vehicular attack

By Adiv Sterman

One Israeli seriously hurt, three suffer light wounds, after being hit near settlement of Beit Aryeh; Trump says he canceled trip to protect Netanyahu

An early 12th century BCE Canaanite alphabet inscription found at Lachish in 2014. (courtesy of Yossi Garfinkel, Hebrew University)

At biblical site, researchers discover ABCs of how alphabet came to be

By Ilan Ben Zion

Oldest precursor to letter S found in nine-letter Canaanite text unearthed at Lachish, in central Israel; discovery ‘another piece in the puzzle’ of alphabet’s development, researcher says

US President Barack Obama talks with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin during a bilateral meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, December 9, 2015. (AFP Photo/Jim Watson)

Rivlin: Obama gloomy on Abbas’s future, restarting talks

By Raoul Wootliff

Israeli and US presidents discussed ending stalemate over peace deal in ‘open,’ ‘sincere’ meeting

Rivlin lights White House menorah with ‘prayer for liberty’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Obama to Rivlin: Peace may seem distant, but we have to try

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Obama urges respect amid furor over Trump stance on Muslims

By AFP

President Reuven Rivlin lights the menorah, joined by President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and Nechama Rivlin, during the first of two Hanukkah receptions the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Analysis

Rivlin’s one-hug solution, Bibi’s dog, and the ‘unelectable’ Donald Trump

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Political musings in a week where ‘dog bites man’ is emphatically a news story, and the unthinkable turns out to be eminently possible after all

To meet or not to meet? Netanyahu’s Trump conundrum

By Raphael Ahren

Donald Trump’s hateful Star Wars gambit

Everyone, especially Jews, must resist the mythic Clash-of-Civilizations narrative of anti-Muslim demagoguery

10 good things about Open Orthodoxy

The new approach has its problems, but first a look at its strengths: vibrancy, honesty, spirituality and more

Jerry Seinfeld’s Tel Aviv show contract

Newly discovered rider spells out the comic’s demands, including total ban on soup catchphrases

Adi Weitzhandler

A legal landmark for Israel-China trade

A recent Israeli court decision to enforce a Chinese court ruling paves the way for more cooperation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his dog Kaia at the PM's residence in Jerusalem in December, 2015. (Facebook)

Party-line canine

Netanyahu’s dog bites MK, deputy FM’s husband

Kaia, rescued by Netanyahus earlier this year, grew anxious as PM’s residence filled with Hanukkah candle-lighting attendees

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his dog Kaia at the PM's residence in Jerusalem in December, 2015. (Facebook)

Netanyahu also bitten by own dog earlier this year

Illustrative: An Egyptian military officer keeps watch at a post in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula, as seen from the Israel-Egypt border, in the village of Kerem Shalom in southern Israel, July 1, 2015. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli imprisoned as spy in Egypt freed after 15 years

By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren

Ouda Tarabin completes sentence, is returned to Israel; 2 Egyptians freed from Israeli prisons

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott responds during a question and answer session after delivering a lecture at the Fullerton Hotel in Singapore on December 9, 2015 (Photo by AP Photo/Joseph Nair)

Australia’s Abbott: Western culture superior to Islam

By AP

The idea of killing in the name of God, says former PM, ‘is a recipe for catastrophe’

Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich in the Knesset on June 8, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jewish Home MK: Fatal Duma firebombing not a terror attack

By Marissa Newman

Bezalel Smotrich says Shin Bet ‘crossed all red lines’ in interrogating Jewish suspects; implies government’s actions push settlers to carry out attacks

People stand in front of a giant menorah in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on December 6, 2015. (Jorg Carstensen/DPA/AFP)

Syrian refugees join Hanukkah candle-lighting in Berlin

By JTA

Giant menorah in Brandenburg Square sends a message that ‘peace and tolerance are stronger than any dispute,’ says Chabad head in German capital

Rabbi Moshe Levin lights Hanukkah candles in Bahrain with French Imam Hassan Chalghoumi, on December 8 2015. (Screen capture YouTube)

Bahrain’s king holds Hanukkah candle-lighting

By JTA

Operators launch the Arrow 3 missile to test the system's ability to intercept ballistic missiles in space on December 10, 2015. (Screen capture)

Arrow 3 missile downs ballistic target in first successful test

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense Ministry calls launch and interception a ‘major milestone’ for advanced system, designed to stop missiles carrying nuclear or chemical weapons outside of atmosphere

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau. (Flash90)

Israel’s chief rabbi slams Bennett for US Conservative school visit

By JTA

‘To recognize a path that distances Jews from the path of the Jewish people, this is forbidden,’ David Lau rails

Peter Beinart, left, and Shmuley Boteach debate in Tel Aviv on December 6, 2015 (YouTube)

In Tel Aviv debate, Boteach and Beinart disagree on most everything

By Simona Weinglass

Ayman Odeh, leader of the Arab Joint List, at a Tel Aviv University rally marking the Nakba anniversary, May 20, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

In US tour, Ayman Odeh invokes spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.

While advising BDSers to focus on settlement products, the Arab List leader brings his message of shared history — and destiny — to America

Still image from a film from the Ephemeral Films Project. (Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)

Ephemeral films of Nazi era kept alive by digitalization

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

US singer Madonna performs during a concert at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris on December 9, 2015. (Francois Guillot/AFP)

Ray of lightWATCH: Madonna sings for Paris one month after attacks

By AFP

Ismo's official video clip for the song 'Eenmans' (YouTube screenshot)

Dutch court acquits Muslim rapper who insulted Jews, gays

By JTA

Illustrative: Protesters call for an end to discrimination against Israelis of Ethiopian descent at a protest in Tel Aviv on March 18, 2015 (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

One-third of Israeli suicides since 2000 involve immigrants

Illustrative: Saudi women visit the Saudi Travel and Tourism Investment Market fair in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on March 29, 2010. (AP/Hassan Ammar)

Saudi women face off against men for first time in elections

Members of the Texas synagogue Ahavath Sholom put finishing touches on a Lego menorah, Dec. 6, 2015. (Courtesy of Ahavath Sholom via JTA)

Great big miracleGiant Texas Lego menorah sets unofficial record

By Julie Wiener

Former financier Bernard Madoff exits Federal Court in Manhattan, New York on March 10, 2009. (AP Photo/David Karp)

Madoff trustee sues Israeli universities, hospitals for $95m

By JTA

A Spaceek reflector (Courtesy)

‘Waze of parking’ app guides drivers to a free space

By David Shamah

Footage from a video of two IDF soldiers on leave shooting at a camel while driving past it in late November 2015. The soldiers were arrested by Military Police on December 7, 2015. (Screenshot)

Two soldiers arrested for shooting camel

President Reuven Rivlin joins Barack Obama at a Hanukkah candle-lighting ceremony at the White House on December 9, 2015 (screen capture: YouTube)

Hebrew media reviewMr. Rivlin goes to Washington

By Ilan Ben Zion

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