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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 13, 2015

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File: Security forces attend the scene of an attempted stabbing by a Palestinian teen in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba on December 13, 2015 (screen capture)

Palestinian teen shot trying to stab Israeli in West Bank

Attacker, a 16-year-old girl, evacuated to Jerusalem hospital in moderate condition after incident in Kiryat Arba

Suspect in Tel Aviv terror attack indicted for murder

Jewish rock-throwers who injured Jewish toddler released

Palestinian protester shot by cop gets NIS 155,000 in damages

By Tamar Pileggi

Marine Le Pen, French far-right National Front (FN) president, and candidate in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Picardie region for the second round of the regional elections, visits a farm as part of her electoral campaign in Quesmy, on December 10, 2015 AFP/DENIS CHARLET)

Live updates (closed)

Despite election defeat, Le Pen vows: ‘Nothing can stop us now’

By Adiv Sterman

Rocket falls in open space near southern city of Sderot, no injuries reported; army will install Iron Dome on warships to protect gas rigs

IDF troops operating in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge, August 2014. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Defense experts back IDF’s 2014 Gaza campaign, claim critics are invoking wrong set of laws

By Judah Ari Gross

Report by international High Level Military Group blasts UN commission, says Israel set a standard no other army could match

UK briefly detained IDF reservist over ‘war crimes’ complaint

CEO Lance Forman examines a salmon fillet at Forman and Sons headquarters. (courtesy)

Take the London Cure with East End smoked salmon family firm

By Jenni Frazer

Lance Forman’s kosher foodie business is about to receive the same cultural recognition as that given to Champagne

Can I stay friends with a racist?

Three rabbis weigh in on what to do when a friend crosses the line: None advise just letting it go

8 reasons to feel inspired

A Hanukkah gift: Some choice points of light for Israel, the Jewish world and beyond

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

How Jewish law must transcend itself

50 years have mellowed the religious fervor that led to snubbing his non-Jewish brother in the name of Halakhah

Hilary Faverman

This year’s sufganiyot survey

Announcing the winners: best overall, prettiest, best dough, best jelly filling, and…sabich?

A Saudi woman casts her ballot in a polling station in the coastal city of Jeddah, on December 12, 2015. (AFP)

In historic win, Saudi woman elected to city council seat

By AFP

Salma bint Hizab al-Oteibi beats seven men, two women in local election in first vote open to female voters, candidates

Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, second from right, with his family after taking the Canadian citizenship oath, Toronto, Canada, December 10, 2015. (Courtesy)

After 6 years in Canada, Gazan doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish gains citizenship

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Gunmen from the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, stand guard during a parade marking the ruling Islamist terror movement's 28th birthday on December 11, 2015, in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Said Khatib/AFP)

Analysis

Hamas rocked by dispute over links with Islamic State, and a host of other frictions

By Avi Issacharoff

Gaza’s terrorist rulers are short of funds, worried by Israeli intelligence successes, torn over how to interact with Iran and the PA

PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat delivers a speech during the Mediterranean Dialogues (MED), a three-day conference on security in the Mediterranean region, on December 11, 2015 in Rome. (AFP PHOTO/ALBERTO PIZZOLI)

Top PLO official ties Israel’s actions to rise of Islamic State

By AFP and ToI Staff

Cards welcoming Syrian refugees created by students at Paul Penna Downtown Jewish Day School in Toronto, December 2015. (Courtesy)

Toronto Jewish day school sponsors Syrian refugees

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Motivated by social justice, students and families open hearts and wallets to resettle family of four

The Russian navy destroyer Smetlivy. (CC BY-ASA Участник:Водник, Wikimedia)

Russian destroyer fires shots at Turkish fishing boat

By AFP

Warship Smetlivy at anchor in the Aegean Sea uses small arms to warn off seiner that strayed too close

Then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon visits the family of IDF Golani Brigade soldier St.-Sgt. Oron Shaul in the northern village of Poria on August 10, 2014 (Photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense/Flash90)

Hamas sends letter to parents purportedly from KIA soldier

By Tamar Pileggi

‘I fear you have forgotten me,’ reads appeal penned by terror group seeking to negotiate an exchange for Oron Shaul

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with Ouda Tarabin, an Israeli citizen jailed for 15 years in Egypt on charges of spying, who was released from prison on December 10, 2015. (Haim Zach/GPO, File)

Israel said to give Egypt share of trade income for freed prisoner

Jerusalem hands Cairo 2% of qualifying industrial zone’s earnings — worth millions — as part of deal for Ouda Tarabin’s release

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the weekly cabinet meeting on December 13, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Israel to do its part in ‘important’ climate deal

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Agreement reached this weekend would actually entail increasing Israel’s greenhouse gas output by 2030, due to population growth

File: French Foreign Affairs Minister and President-designate of COP21 Laurent Fabius (L) waves the official gavel of the UN climate conference, as President Francois Hollande looks on, after adoption of a historic global warming pact in Bourget, north of Paris, on December 12, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/FRANCOIS GUILLOT)

World agrees to adopt Paris accord on global warming

After four years of negotiations, 195 nations commit to reduce greenhouse gasses, keep global temperatures from rising

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

Poverty report downplays number of poor in Israel, says charity

‘Latet’ says true number of people who should be classified as poor is 2.6 milion, not the 1.7 million in official study

Head of the Jewish Agency, Natan Sharansky (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Sharansky slams Arab MK’s refusal to enter Jewish Agency building

Chairman derides bid for ‘cheap political gain’ by Joint List head Odeh, who skipped talks with US Jewish leaders over location of offices

FILE - In this July 26, 2010 file photo, Akira Kitade holds a photo album that belonged to a former colleague of his at the Japan Tourist Bureau, Tatsuo Osako, during an interview in Tokyo. The page displayed holds seven photos given to Osako by people whom Osako helped escape from Europe in the early days of World War II. (Shizuo Kambayashi/AP)

Web sleuths identify Jews helped to flee Nazis by Japanese clerk

By CHRIS CAROLA

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Qatar Airways aborted takeoff (YouTube screenshot)

GroundedWATCH: Qatari flight aborts JFK takeoff at high speed

Up to bat in Baseball for All, an Israeli coexistence program (Courtesy Association of Baseball in Israel)

The baseball game that bats for coexistence

By Jessica Steinberg

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

In the Dog House Vet wants Netanyahu family dog to be let out of quarantine

French far-right Front National (FN) president Marine Le Pen during a campaign rally in Paris, December 10, 2015 (AFP/Patrick Kovarik)

All eyes on Le Pen as France’s second regional elections begin

By AFP

Economics professor Dr. Avi Simhon on June 16, 2010. (Flash90)

Netanyahu taps Hebrew U. professor as economic czar

Israel's Gal Mekel (center) takes a shot during the Group A qualifying basketball match between Poland and Israel at the EuroBasket 2015 in Montpellier, France, on September 9, 2015. (AFP/Sylvain Thomas)

Israel to co-host 2017 EuroBasket championship

A still image from "United Pianos," sponsored by the Israeli mission to the UN. (Screen capture YouTube)

Ebony, ivory, harmonyWATCH: Israeli mission to UN seeks peace through music

A painting by English graffiti artist Banksy is seen at the entrance of the Calais refugee camp in France, Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)

As American as AppleAt camp, Banksy imagines Steve Jobs as refugee

By AP

St. Peter's Basilica in Rome features in a new apocalyptic video produced by Islamic State. (screen capture)

WATCH: Islamic State presents its version of the apocalypse

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