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What Matters Most On Monday, December 14, 2015

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A car that plowed into pedestrians at the entrance to Jerusalem on December 14, 2015. (Israel Police)

Baby among 14 injured in terror attack at entrance to Jerusalem

By Judah Ari Gross

East Jerusalem man rams his car into pedestrians, is shot dead; infant’s mother among those hurt; Jerusalem mayor: Be alert but maintain your routine, terror won’t win

Israeli jets strike Gaza after rocket attack

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Israel redeploys guards to protect Jerusalem buses, trains

At celebratory rally, Hamas demands release of prisoners before talks on soldiers

A car that plowed into pedestrians at the entrance to Jerusalem on December 14, 2015 (Israel Police)

Live updates (closed)

Israel tells UN attacks due to ‘incitement’

Obama: IS has lost 40% of its territory in Iraq; two-thirds of Palestinians support knife attacks, poll finds; US officials said to call Netanyahu ‘myopic, entitled’

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

President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the Haaretz and New Israel Fund conference in the Roosevelt Hotel, NYC, on December 13, 2015. (Amir Levy/Flash90)

In controversial appearance at Haaretz conference, Rivlin defends the IDF

Critics fume at president for attending event, and at organizers for accepting demand by PLO’s Saeb Erekat to remove Israeli flag from stage for his speech

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a town hall style campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa, December 11, 2015. (Steve Pope/Getty Images)

Podcast

TOI talks Donald, dogs, and the Rivlin-Obama love story

By Raoul Wootliff

The first episode of our weekly panel show, discussing the news and views that define our coverage

Richard M. Joel

In Paris: One dreamer, 2-thousand souls

In the wake of terror, a free concert offered a way to celebrate the power of humanity, goodness and community

Yes, there are moderate Muslims

They are a minority, they have suffered more than anyone and they are our best allies against radical Islam

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

2 hails for Christian-Jewish brotherhood

On a pair of groundbreaking new rabbinic statements that celebrate 50 years of change in the Catholic Church

Jerry Silverman

The chief rabbi insulted me personally

In bashing Naftali Bennett’s visit to a non-Orthodox Jewish school, Rabbi Lau undermined even his own Jewish values

Zehava Shaul, Mother of Oron Shaul, speaks during a press confErence at her home in Poria Illit, December 13, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Analysis

Family of KIA soldier to Hamas: If you claim he’s alive, prove it

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Oron Shaul’s family vows to ‘turn the country upside down’ to free him, if proof of life given; Gaza’s Islamist rulers promise info, if Israel frees terrorists

IDF soldiers Oron Shaul (left) and Hadar Goldin (right) (Flash90)

Hamas says it won’t talk with families of slain IDF soldiers

Cartoon by Bahaa Yassin accuses the West Bank and its security agencies of collaborating with Israel (Bahaa Yassin/courtesy/Palestinian Media Watch)

PA seeks arrest of Gaza cartoonist over drawing of ‘sex’ with Jews

Virulantly anti-Israel caricaturist Baha Yassin accused of insulting Palestinian women after depicting intercourse between Fatah leaders and Israel

Hagit Ofran, a Peace Now activist and granddaughter of the late Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz, protesting outside the Prime Minister's Residence. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Peace Now report accuses right-wing NGOs of lack of transparency

By Marissa Newman

As bill targets left-wing NGOs funded by foreign governments, group says 9 organizations did not report over NIS 600 million in donations, tax funds in past decade

Itamar Tubul, the head of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s personal status division, decides which American rabbis are qualified to vouch for the Jewishness of Israeli immigrants. (photo credit: JTA)

Which Diaspora rabbis does the Rabbinate trust? It depends on this guy

In response to calls for transparency, religious authorities reveal rulings on Jewish marriage are entirely at the discretion of mid-level bureaucrat

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the COP 21 United Nations conference on climate change, at Le Bourget, on the outskirts of Paris, France, on November 30, 2015. (AFP/Jacques Demarthon)

Israel lukewarm to Erdogan overture: ‘Ball is in Turkey’s court’

After Turkish president taks of normalization, Jerusalem notes Israel has apologized for 2010 naval raid, while Ankara continues to insist on ending Gaza blockade

Marine Le Pen, leader of the French far-right Front National (FN) party, waves to supporters during her campaign rally for the upcoming regional elections in the Nord pas de Calais-Picardie, on November 30, 2015 in Lille, northern France, ahead of the December 6 and December 13 French regional elections. (AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE HUGUEN)

Marine Le Pen — fiery but pragmatic, defiant in defeat

By Eric RANDOLPH

Despite heavy losses in Sunday’s election, the French far-right successfully moves into the mainstream

Soldiers of the Givati brigade prepare for a late night mission in the West Bank city of Nablus on October 7, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson/FLASH90)

Analysis

Ex-IDF soldier who joined Islamic State was in a combat unit

By Avi Issacharoff

25-year-old Muslim Israeli was estranged from family, completed full military service in the Givati Brigade

Pedro Opeka and Henri Cohen Solal (Simona Weinglass/The Times of Israel)

Israeli psychoanalyst and Argentine priest unite to help at-risk kids

By Simona Weinglass

File: Debris of the A321 Russian airliner lie on the ground a day after the plane crashed in Wadi al-Zolomat, a mountainous area in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, on November 1, 2015 (Khaled Desouki/AFP)

Egypt: Still no proof terrorists downed Russian plane

By AFP

Head of probe says no evidence found of ‘illicit meddling or a terrorist action’ in crash that killed all 224 on board

Israeli and Chinese Science Ministers Ofir Akunis and Wan Gang sign a joint research agreement in Beijing on Monday, December 14, 2015. (Science Technology and Space Ministry)

China and Israel sign multi-million dollar research deal

Joint scientific research to focus on areas ranging from nanotechnology to aging populations

The Comverse building in Ramat Hahayal, Tel Aviv (Courtesy Levenstein Properties)

China’s new Tel Aviv digs reflect Israel’s move east, says expert

By David Shamah

In this Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015 photo, a veterinarian holds a horse as he is anesthetized before a surgery at the University's Koret School of Veterinary Medicine in Rishon Lezion, Israel. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Photo essay

At Israel’s main equine hospital, wild patients call for creative solutions

By Oded Balilty

More Headlines

A menorah in Istanbul on December 13, 2015 (YouTube screenshot)

Holiday miracle?In first, Turkish Jews light public menorah

Pig carcasses strewn on a Rishon Lezion city street on December 14, 2015. (Rishon Lezion Municipality spokesperson)

Porcine pile-upSwine carcasses strewn on Rishon Lezion street

IDF Soldiers interrupt Palestinian Authority TV reporter in the West Bank town of Abud (YouTube screen capture)

WATCH: IDF soldiers disrupt Palestinian news report

An Ecoppia robot cleaning-crew system (Courtesy)

Israeli robot-cleaning system promises brighter future for solar power

By David Shamah

A scene from 'Son of Saul' (YouTube screen capture)

In the infernoHolocaust film ‘Son of Saul’ up for Golden Globe

By JTA

In this Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2010 file photo, Itzhak Perlman plays the violin during the National Menorah lighting in celebration of Hanukkah near the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Violinist Itzhak Perlman wins ‘Jewish Nobel’

By Josef Federman

Sergio Bergman, a rabbi who in December 2015 was sworn in as Argentina's Environment Minister. (YouTube/JewishNewsOne)

Rabbi sworn in as Argentine cabinet minister

By JTA

The Academic Building at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. (Wikipedia/Stu Seeger-Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

Texas A&M to open $6 million research center in Israel

By David Warren

Palestinian top Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh makes a speech to his supporters during a rally to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the Hamas militant group, at the main road in Jebaliya in the northern Gaza Strip, December 12, 2014 (AP/Adel Hana)

Hebrew media reviewMaking news, generating fury

By Raoul Wootliff

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