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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 15, 2015

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An aerial view of Modiin. (David Katz/The Israel Project)

Israeli and Palestinian hurt by hammer-wielding attacker in Modiin

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Police say assailant, a 39-year-old West Bank resident, had ‘nationalistic’ motive for attack at construction site

Cops nab Palestinian woman on way to carry out Jerusalem stabbing

Three Israelis hurt in West Bank rock-throwing attack

Poll: 2/3 of Palestinians back stabbing attacks, armed uprising

By AFP and ToI Staff

The body of a Palestinian terrorist lies in the road after he was shot dead by Israeli security personnel during a terror attack at the entrance to Jerusalem on December 14, 2015, that injured 14 people, including a baby. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hamas: Jerusalem car-ramming terrorist was a member

By Stuart Winer

Abed el-Muhsen Hassuna, who injured 14 in Monday attack, resided in Hebron but possessed an Israeli ID card; IDF makes West Bank arrests, finds weapons

PM orders barriers at bus stops across Jerusalem after attack

Doctors fight to save foot of baby hurt in terror attack

Netanyahu: Israel will overcome this ‘new kind of terror’

Islamic State fighters are seen marching through a desert in a December 2015 video that presents the jihadist group's version of the apocalypse (screen capture)

US army chief says efforts to counter jihadi propaganda failing

By AFP

Joint Chiefs chairman Joseph Dunford accuses West of overlooking Islamic State’s reach on social media

Obama says US military hitting Islamic State harder than ever

By Josh Lederman and ToI Staff

Paris attacks suspect held, men grilled over Kosher market shooting

By AFP

In US schools, on streets and TV, children feel Muslim backlash

By Michael R. Sisak

Still image from a video published by the right-wing NGO Im Tirtzu, December 15, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

Live updates (closed)

Activist attacked in Im Tirtzu video files complaint with police

By Adiv Sterman

Palestinian man suspected of assaulting 2 at construction sites in Modiin; security forces say woman caught with screwdriver in Jerusalem planned to stab Israelis

PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat speaks at the Haaretz and New Israel Fund conference in the Roosevelt Hotel, NYC, on December 13, 2015. (Photo by Amir Levy/Flash90)

Analysis

The curious incident of the flag at the Haaretz conference

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Did anyone suggest to Erekat that he might appear with both an Israeli and a Palestinian flag on stage beside him? What a graphic representation of coexistence that would have been

Father of Jewish suspect in Duma killings blasts ‘fuhrer’ Rivlin, ‘Arab’ Obama

By Tamar Pileggi

Prof. Eduardo Mitrani (Courtesy)

With artificial pancreas, diabetics can put the needles away

By David Shamah

A team led by a Hebrew University professor is ‘growing’ a pancreas in a petri dish to better regulate blood sugar in diabetic patients

Screenshot of Red Alert, the Israeli app that warns locals of incoming missile attacks. (Courtesy)

BIRD program to bring Israeli rescue tech to America

By David Shamah

Did Obama plant the seeds of Trump?

A fearful symmetry in the Republican candidate’s bid to ban Muslims and the President’s vehement defense of Islam

The high price of ignoring poverty

The solutions are well-known: employment, education and funding reform; Israel’s leaders need to just do it

My child, a drain on society?

A novel idea: Israel’s social services should conduct competent assessments for those with disabilities

A Hezbollah funeral for one of its fighters killed in Syria. (YouTube/Channel 4 News)

Analysis

A third of Hezbollah’s fighters said killed or injured in Syria

By Avi Issacharoff

With 1,300-1,500 dead, Iran-backed Lebanese militia, campaigning to defend embattled Assad regime, is no longer hiding its losses

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon at a press conference in Jerusalem, November 18, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ya’alon: Not enough evidence to try Duma firebombing suspects

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Defense minister says those responsible for ‘Jewish terrorism’ will be brought to justice, but state still lacking evidence

US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, October 22, 2015. (Carlo Allegri/Pool Photo via AP)

US officials: Netanyahu ‘myopic, untrustworthy, disrespectful of Obama’

Critique is quoted in New Yorker profile of John Kerry, in which secretary also claims Israeli PM balked at 2010 chance for deal with Assad

Jonathan Pollard, second from left, leaves federal court Monday, Dec. 14, 2015, in New York. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

Court orders explanation of parole conditions for freed spy Pollard

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Judge says monitoring of computer use may be unnecessary, though US claims recently released convict still holds sensitive intel

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the Red Cross offices in the West Bank on December 14, 2015 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Abbas: ‘Justified popular unrest’ triggered by despair of young Palestinians

Appearing to legitimize ongoing terror wave, PA leader blames ‘invasion’ of Al-Aqsa, poor prospects for peace, settlement construction

Hamas's Khaled Mashaal speaks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 10, 2015. (MEMRI screenshot)

Hamas political leader: Stabbers are ‘the most exalted, noblest of people’

By Stuart Winer

Khaled Mashaal says Palestinians have given up on the idea of peace, must embrace jihad instead

Illustrative photo of a Palestinian woman walking amid the rubble of a house after Israeli security forces demolished the homes of two Palestinians behind attacks in the Palestinian neighborhood of Jabal Mukaber in East Jerusalem, on October 6, 2015. (AFP/THOMAS COEX)

IDF gears up to raze homes of 2 Palestinian teen attackers

By Raoul Wootliff

Houses of two 16-year-olds inspected by engineering troops; NGO says 64 houses mapped out in recent weeks

IDF soldiers interrupt the live broadcast of Palestinian journalist Sara Al-Azra, December 14, 2015. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Soldiers punished for disrupting Palestinian TV report

By Judah Ari Gross and Raoul Wootliff

IDF officers cancel weekend leave of three troops involved, confining them to base for two weeks

A Yemeni tribesman from the Popular Resistance Committees, supporting forces loyal to Yemen's Saudi-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, fires a machine gun in the area of Sirwa, east of the capital Sanaa on December 14, 2015. AFP/ABDULLAH AL-QADRY)

Saudis announce Muslim military coalition to fight terror

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Riyadh says it will lead 34-nation alliance, including Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and others, in ‘closing ranks and uniting efforts,’ though few other details available

A man using the mikvah at Mayyim Hayyim, a community ritual bath in the Boston suburbs. (Courtesy of Mayyim Hayyim/via JTA)

Do you know the mikvah men?

By Uriel Heilman

Ambassador Isaac Bachman (courtesy Israeli embassy Stockholm)

Israel’s envoy to Sweden calls for better protection of Jewish sites

By Raphael Ahren

Anti-Semitic hate crimes on the rise, but Ambassador Isaac Bachman hails Stockholm for being ‘attentive’ to community’s needs

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

PM defiant as MKs bite back over controversial gas deal

Netanyahu vows to push through agreement, says political agenda caused economics panel to reject monopoly-busting clause

View from offices within the Azrieli towers of Tel Aviv in 2010. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

As business ties boom, Aussie entrepreneurs to get Tel Aviv ‘landing pad’

By Simona Weinglass

More Headlines

File: British singer and musician Sir Elton John performs in a venue near Tel Aviv, on June 17, 2010. (Flash90)

Still standingElton John to perform in Tel Aviv on May 26

Jewish dancers take the stage at the 2013 Festival Carmel in Brazil, one of the largest annual Israeli folk dance events held outside Israel. (screen capture: YouTube)

It takes 2,000 to tangoThousands of Jewish dancers meet in Brazil

By JTA

Taylor Swift (YouTube screen capture)

Feminist FuryWriter slammed for Taylor Swift ‘Nazi Barbie’ jibe

By JTA

Matzah ball soup (CC BY-ND Eden Hensley Silverstein/Flickr)

Taking stockNew cookbook ladles out ‘Soup for Syria’

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative photo of Chabad activities (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hasid charged with hate crime for beating cross-dresser

By JTA

Illustrative photo of an Israel Police car in Jerusalem, June 2012 (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Former Netanyahu senior aide grilled on ‘range of offenses’

By Raphael Ahren

A Union flag draped coffin bearing the body of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is carried on a gun carriage drawn by the King's Troop Royal Artillery during her ceremonial funeral procession in London, on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool)

Elected leaders find grave faster than others, study shows

By AP and ToI Staff

Israeli security personnel at the scene of a terror attack at the entrance to Jerusalem, December 14, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewBabes in terrorland

By Joshua Davidovich

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