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What Matters Most On Friday, December 18, 2015

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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 seeking to orchestrate suicide bombings, PA says

By Avi Issacharoff

Interrogations of group’s operatives reveal new orders for better organized, deadlier terror attacks against Israelis

Security forces foil car-ramming attack at West Bank checkpoint

By Judah Ari Gross

AnalysisRising new Hamas leader is all too familiar to Israel

By Avi Issacharoff

AnalysisDemise of the Palestinian Authority is only a matter of time

By Avi Issacharoff

13-year-old Naor Shalev celebrates his bar mitzvah with family and friends at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, December 17, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem boy nearly killed in stabbing celebrates his bar mitzvah

Naor Shalev Ben-Ezra dances at the Western Wall with family, friends; surgeons saved his life after attack by teenage Palestinian cousins

Illustrative: UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis gives a speech as he attends a Holocaust Memorial Day Ceremony at Central Hall Westminster, on January 27, 2015. (AP/Chris Jackson)

British chief rabbi backs teaching Islam in Jewish schools

By JTA

Mirvis calls for stronger ties with UK Muslims, says Islam is ‘widely discussed but often poorly understood’

US county closes schools over backlash to Islam lesson

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Syria activists in hiding after brutal, ominous Islamic State killings

By DOMINIQUE SOGUEL and Desmond Butler

UN to adopt resolution to disrupt Islamic State funds

By Edith M. Lederer

Jocelyn Polisar

A disproportionate response to terror

How to answer the murders of Eitam and Naama Henkin, and all such attacks aimed at us daily in Israel and with growing frequency around the world

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Talking our way to a better world

When Right and Left call each other immoral and stupid, there is no means for real engagement

Curating the Jewish future

Moving beyond categories to tear down walls, tell important new stories, and open minds to new ways of thinking

The value of reframing

Joseph, the slave turned viceroy, models how a sense of your life’s purpose can redeem past trauma (Vayigash)

Dani Dayan participates in a panel discussion at the Israel Conference on Democracy in Tel Aviv, February 17, 2015. (Amir Levy/Flash90)

Exclusive

Brazil rejects Dani Dayan as ambassador, official says

By Raphael Ahren

Brasilia angry at choice of settler leader, and at Israel for announcing appointment without informing its Foreign Ministry

In this July 23, 2015 file photo, Ranking Member Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md. is seen during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill to review the Iran nuclear agreement. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

US poised to lift sanctions on Iran under nuclear deal

By Deb Riechmann

Senators say agreement off to ‘terrible start’ with Tehran’s sentencing of American reporter and its ballistic missile test

Hassan Khomeini casts his ballot in the 2013 Iranian elections. (CC BY-sayyed shahab-o-din vajedi via Wikimedia Commons)

Khomeini’s grandson said to get supreme leader’s nod for election run

By ToI Staff and AP

Hassan Khomeini plans to throw hat into ring in bid for council that selects Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s successor

Zehava Shaul, mother of Oron Shaul, during a press conference at her home in Poriya on December 13, 2015. Givati Brigade Staff Sergeant Oron Shaul died in battle in the Gaza Strip during Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014. The IDF defined him as 'a soldier killed in action whose burial site is unknown.' (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Mother of soldier Israel said killed in Gaza wants him listed as MIA

Zehava Shaul says as long as there’s any uncertainty about her son Oron’s fate, she won’t give up hope for his return

Niv Asraf (center), a 22-year-old from Beersheba, is seen at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on April 3, 2015, a morning after he was found in Kiryat Arba after being falsely reported as missing. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

State sues kidnapping hoaxers for NIS 625,000

French-Polish film director Roman Polanski attending a press conference at the Bonarowski Palace Hotel in Krakow, Poland, October 30, 2015. (Adam Nurkiewicz/Getty Images/via JTA)

11 Hollywood Jews open up about surviving Holocaust

By Gabe Friedman

Jewish Hungarian-born director László Nemes on the set of 'Son of Saul.' (courtesy)

Interview

In devastating ‘Son of Saul,’ Jewish director goes where few others dare

Interior Minister Silvan Shalom attends the Mediterranean Dialogues (MED), a three-day conference on security in the Mediterranean region, on December 11, 2015 in Rome. (AFP PHOTO/ALBERTO PIZZOLI)

7 women now accusing Shalom of sexual harassment; probe subsequently closed

By Stuart Winer

Police ‘gathering material’ but haven’t opened probe, as no alleged victim has filed formal complaint; Shalom’s wife posts, deletes threatening tweet

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks on at the US Chief of Missions Residence during a bilateral meeting December 1, 2015. (AFP Photo/Jim Watson)

Israel and Turkey on verge of dramatic revival of ties

By Raphael Ahren and Jonathan Beck

Secret meeting paves way for warming relations; also provides for Israel selling gas to Turkey and laying pipeline

File: Zionist Union leader MK Isaac Herzog speaking at the faction's convention in Tel Aviv, November 8, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Herzog: Revival of Israel-Turkey ties could have come sooner

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Former head of the IDF's Northern Command, Amiram Levin (Flash 90)

Ex-IDF general takes out ad to support Breaking the Silence

Amiram Levin backs NGO that publishes alleged abuses by soldiers, says army should encourage such groups to speak out

Hong Kong (Pixabay)

Israel and Hong Kong step up tech, R&D cooperation

By David Shamah

A new agreement enhances the growing relationship between Israel and the Far East, via China’s ‘western extension’

Yale University campus (CC BY-Poldavo/Flickr)

7 revealing facts about Jews at American colleges

By Gabe Friedman

University of Florida has largest Jewish population, and school in Canada with the most Jews has the motto ‘All things cohere in Christ’

Director Woody Allen poses for photographers during a photo call for the film 'Irrational Man,' at the 68th Cannes International Film Festival in southern France, Friday, May 15, 2015. (Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

Woody Allen bio spotlights cinematic nebbish’s life and loves

By JP O’ Malley

More Headlines

Thousands gather for prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on the night before Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, September 13, 2013. (Dror Garti/Flash90)

UN recognizes Yom Kippur as official holiday

Jewish-American filmmaker J.J. Abrams on the set of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' in May 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/Star Wars)

Birth of the ForceThe Jewish roots of ‘Star Wars’

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: Baking Passover matzah at the Streit's factory on Manhattan's Lower East Side in the early 20th century. (Courtesy of Streit's Matzos/JTA)

Streit’s matzah factory may become Manhattan condos

By JTA

Ben Carson speaks at a news conference, November 16, 2015. (AP/John Locher)

Ben Carson cancels Israel trip, citing ‘security concerns’

By JTA and ToI Staff

Then-economy minister Aryeh Deri in Jerusalem, October 25, 2015. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

Gov’t to vote on integrating more Haredim in civil service

The offices of Bezeq, the country's largest telecom group. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

From the webBezeq hit with massive NIS 8.5m antitrust fine

Participants in a Lahav Executive Education program at Tel Aviv University (Courtesy)

‘Israel Way’ works its magic on Chinese culture

By David Shamah

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 13, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu undergoes routine colonoscopy, has polyps removed

By Raphael Ahren

Dror Tamir offers one of Steak TzarTzar's edible grasshoppers to potential tasters. The company was one of the Israeli start-ups at FoodTech Nation, December 15, 2015 (Courtesy)

Super-sweet sugar and fruit fly protein powder: Israel’s next tech

By David Shamah

File: Israelis on board a flight to Turkey during the Passover holiday, April 12, 2009. (Shay Levy/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe old Turks are back

By Adiv Sterman

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