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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 20, 2015

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File: Samir Kuntar. (Mardetanha/Wikipedia)

Terror chief Samir Kuntar killed in reported Israeli strike in Syria

Hezbollah-affiliated terrorist, who murdered 4 Israelis in 1979, dead after reported IAF attack near Damascus, along with 8 fighters

AnalysisSamir Kuntar died as Iran’s mercenary, not Hezbollah’s

By Avi Issacharoff

Smadar Haran, whose family Kuntar killed, hails ‘justice’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Hamas condemns ‘heinous’ killing of Hezbollah terrorist

Jerry Seinfeld performing in Tel Aviv, December 19, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jerry Seinfeld leaps the language barrier to score in Israeli basketball arena

By David Horovitz

At first performance in Tel Aviv, comedian recalls the show, invokes the evil Newman, muses deliciously on the ridiculousness of the human condition

Bassam Kuntar (2nd left), brother of Samir Kuntar who was killed last night in a reported Israeli air-raid on his home in the Jaramana district on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, sits next to Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar (2nd right) as they receive condolences in the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut on December 20, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/ANWAR AMRO)

Live updates (closed)

Silvan Shalom quits; gunman fires on IDF troops, no injuries

By Joshua Davidovich

Weinstein instructs cops to investigate sexual harassment claims against Shalom; IDF hits Lebanon after rocket fire on north

Police officers stand over Mahmoud Faisal Bisharat, a Palestinian who entered Israel illegally and stabbed three people in Ra'anana on December 19, 2015. (Screen capture: Facebook)

‘With inexplicable strength,’ Ra’anana woman saves family from terrorist

Friend of Dikla Dvir, who pushed knife-wielding Palestinian from her home, describes harrowing living-room skirmish

Palestinian woman attempts to stab cop in Hebron, is shot

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Beersheba bus station terrorist buried in quiet nighttime ceremony

Three hurt in stabbing attack in central town of Ra’anana

The Jewish food code

The monks’ surprising menu in an old Polish monastery exposes a deep bond among Jews and Poles: chicken soup!

One rabbi’s story of change

Musings on people’s unintended shifting politics, in light of his own journey to the radical left and back again

Stalin, Trump…and Matisyahu?

If the human face of tragedy breeds compassion, the humanity of bigotry’s targets turns malice nonsensical

To the leaders of Open Orthodoxy

The new approach has great strengths, but don’t be so open-minded, as the saying goes, that your brains fall out

Lord Greville Janner speaks to al-Jazeera in 2007. (YouTube, al-Jazeera)

Ex-leader of UK Jewry Lord Greville Janner dies age 87

By AFP and ToI Staff

Former Labour MP, president of Board of Deputies of British Jews, was found unfit to stand trial on child sex abuse charges due to dementia

Brazilian lawmaker Carlos Marun. (YouTube/Juliano Vaka)

Brazilian MP compared prospective Israeli envoy to Nazi camp guard

By Stuart Winer

Carlos Marun said appointment of former settler leader Dani Dayan as ambassador to his country is an unacceptable ‘insult’

The burned-down home of the Dawabsha family in the Palestinian village of Duma, near Nablus, July 31, 2015 (Zacharia Sadeh/Rabbis for Human Rights)

Shin Bet announces ‘development’ in Duma investigation

Security agency plans to file indictments against suspects in deadly West Bank arson attack attributed to Jewish terrorists

One of the suspects arrested in connection with the Dawabsha murder, December 3, 2015. Under a court-issued gag order, the identities of the suspects cannot be revealed. (Screen capture)

High Court petition seeks legal counsel for final Duma suspect

Interior Minister Silvan Shalom on May 17, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

‘Minister’s employees were aware of daily sexual harassment’

Unnamed woman linked to Interior Ministry says Silvan Shalom and his wife paid off a driver to keep him quiet about ‘groping’; allegations not substantiated and probe later closed

Bernie Sanders, left, alongside Hillary Clinton at the Democratic presidential primary debate Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015, at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

US Democrats hit Trump, clash over jihadist fight in debate

By Jewel Samad and Michael Mathes

Clinton slams Republican frontrunner’s ‘discriminatory messages,’ rejects American ‘boots on the ground’ in Syria

Former US secretary of defense Chuck Hagel speaks at a press conference in Sydney on August 12, 2014. (AFP/POOL/Dan Himbrechts)

Hagel: White House had no Syria strategy, was unprepared for IS

Former defense secretary says Obama’s decision not to target Assad after regime used chemical weapons was a blow to US credibility

Left-wing demonstrators march in Tel Aviv in protest at right-wing 'incitement,' December 19, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

3,000 rally in Tel Aviv against right-wing ‘incitement’

Participants march from Likud headquarters to Rabin memorial, charging that government ministers are culpable in recent fiery rhetoric against the left

Then Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets with Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal in 2012. (Yasin Bulbul/AP)

Erdogan, Hamas leader Mashaal meet in Istanbul

Meeting at Yildiz Palace takes place just days after Israel announces series of measures to revive ties with Turkey

Judith Ivry, a bookbinder who specializes in old-world techniques, worked on the book for the Pope. (Kleinman Holocaust Education Center)

NY Orthodox center writes book for Pope on faith in the Holocaust

By Cathryn J. Prince

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Elisha Levy (right) surprises former student at Kisharon in London, December 15, 2015. (YouTube)

Season of joyLone soldier reunites with old friend in viral video

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly government conference, at Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 13, 2015. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to mull holding early Likud primaries

Shas leader Aryeh Deri (left), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) and Health Minister Yaakov Litzman at the weekly cabinet meeting in the Prime Minister's Office, Jerusalem, December 20, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cabinet to open civil service to ultra-Orthodox employees

By Stuart Winer

Ronald D. Liebowitz (Courtesy of Middlebury College/via JTA)

Brandeis’ new president: ‘We are going to pursue diversity’

By Uriel Heilman

Police officers stand over Mahmoud Faisal Bisharat, a Palestinian who entered Israel illegally and stabbed three people in Ra'anana on December 19, 2015. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Hebrew media reviewThe lioness, the minister and the wardrobe model

By Joshua Davidovich

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