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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 22, 2015

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Graffiti sprayed on the wall of a home in the West Bank town of Beitillu, December 22, 2015. The slogan reads 'Revenge greeting Prisoners of Zion.' (Israel Police)

Palestinian family targeted in suspected extremist attack

By Stuart Winer

2 smoke grenades thrown into home near Ramallah where a couple and their 9-month-old baby boy were sleeping; family unharmed

Bennett accuses Jewish extremists of using ‘murder’ to destroy state

By Stuart Winer

Head of extremist Jewish group calls Christians ‘blood-sucking vampires’

Rightist arrested at protest on behalf of Duma Jewish terror suspects

By Judah Ari Gross

A bronze statue of Roman Emperor Hadrian from Tel Shalem, in northern Israel, at an Israel Museum exhibit opening December 22, 2015. (Moti Tufeld)

Three surviving bronzes of Hadrian united in stunning Israel Museum exhibit

By Ilan Ben Zion

Unique collaboration with Louvre, British Museum also sees monumental Jerusalem inscription in emperor’s honor rejoined after 1,700 years

Uri Ariel (Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Uri Ariel wants to ‘close Jewish Division’ in Shin Bet

By Jonathan Beck

In Whatsapp exchange, Ariel and Jewish Home fellow MK Bezalel Smotrich go against views of party leader Bennett, who backed Shin Bet conduct

MP Meyer Habib speaks at the National Assembly in Paris, November 28, 2014. (screen capture)

French MP in ultimatum to Israel: Accept our diplomas or I’ll oppose aliyah

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu confidant Meyer Habib gives Israel three months to drastically change its rules or he will tell French Jews to stay put

Nir Barzilai hopes to start his first drug trial in a year (Courtesy)

'If you’re healthy at age 100, life is beautiful'

Want to live till 120? This professor works on drugs that could get you close

By Simona Weinglass

In what could be a medical revolution, Dr. Nir Barzilai and colleagues are working with the FDA to assess drugs that target aging, not just a particular disease

My campus is safe for everyone but me

Feeling very excluded after a fellow pro-Israel U of Michigan student was hit with an ethics investigation

Malynnda Littky-Porath

A streetwalker’s umbrella

Should she have walked up to the sex worker shivering in a Tel Aviv downpour?

The dark lesson of tolerating hate speech

20 years ago, as now, an Israeli leader was depicted as a Nazi — all of us know the price of staying silent

We were refugees once, too

On the historic wisdom contained in a message from a Jewish top Massachusetts judge to Moslem Americans

Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump, addresses supporters at a campaign rally, Monday, Dec. 21, 2015, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Trump says Clinton got ‘schlonged’ by Obama in 2008 race

By AP and ToI Staff

Republican front-runner uses Yiddish vulgarity to deride his Democratic rival

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition presidential forum in Washington, DC, on December 3, 2015. (AP/Susan Walsh)

GOP candidate Cruz seeks to shutter PLO’s Washington office

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Citing incitement, members of Congress sign letter asking Kerry to revoke waiver that allows quasi-embassy to operate

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, right, shakes hands with President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas before their meeting in Athens, December 21, 2015. (AP/Petros Giannakouris)

Greek parliament backs Palestine recognition

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli official blasts nonbinding move, says Abbas’s pursuit of unilateral acknowledgement ‘won’t get him anywhere’

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah discusses the death of terrorist Samir Kuntar, allegedly at the hands of Israel, in a televised speech from Beirut on December 21, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

Hezbollah leader: Israel killed Kuntar, we will avenge his death

By ToI Staff and AFP

Nasrallah says terrorist ‘only wanted to fight Israel,’ warns group will act ‘at the time and place of our choosing’

Palestinians chant slogans against Israel during a demonstration in support of late Lebanese militant Samir Kantar (portrait) in the West Bank city of Nablus on December 21, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/JAAFAR ASHTIYEH)

Kuntar killed by smart bombs fired from Israel, Syrian paper claims

By Judah Ari Gross

Iran's heavy-water nuclear facility is backdropped by mountains near the central city of Arak, Iran, on January 15, 2011. (AP/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan, File)

Russia to start building 2 nuclear reactors in Iran ‘next week’

By AFP and ToI Staff

Work to take place at existing Russian-built Bushehr power plant, Moscow state-run TV says

Illustrative image of Border Police officers on patrol at Damascus Gate outside the Old City of Jerusalem (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Cops arrest East Jerusalem girl caught with knife for second time

By Judah Ari Gross

15-year-old was detained two weeks ago, but released when she claimed the blade was for home use, police say

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat seen on top of the Tower of David Museum, on April 14, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat announces he’s joining Likud

In move seen as implicit threat to Netanyahu, municipal leader pledges to bring ‘new blood and new spirit’ to party

President Reuven Rivlin, center, greets a young girl celebrating her bat mitzvah at the President's Residence, Jerusalem, December 21, 2015. (Mark Neiman/GPO)

Rivlin hosts 58 child terror victims for bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs

By Stuart Winer

President tells boys and girls in day-long event at his official residence that ‘we pay a price for our being Jews’

President Reuven Rivlin and Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the head of the Union for Reform Judaism, attend a meeting of American Jewish religious leaders in New York, Dec. 11, 2015. (Courtesy of the Union for Reform Judaism)

How Israel’s president learned to love Reform Judaism, and vice versa

Former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Ex-Shin Bet chief, -top cop support Breaking the Silence

Ami Ayalon and Elik Ron join other former defense officials backing controversial NGO’s efforts to highlight alleged IDF abuses

Friends of Ezra Schwartz took a 'polar plunge' in Massachusetts on November 26, 2015, to raise funds in his memory (Facebook and YouTube)

From Boston to Beit Shemesh, slain Ezra Schwartz honored with service and sports

By Matt Lebovic

Histadrut labor federation leader Avi Nissenkorn (left) and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon (right) shake hands during talks on December 21, 2015, aimed at avoiding a general strike over public-sector wages. (screen capture: Channel 2)

General strike would cost NIS 600m per day, Kahlon warns

Row over public-sector pay raises goes down to the wire as all-out industrial action on Wednesday looms

Flanked by Israeli and Chinese officials, Professor Zvi Shiller and Zhang Jin (center left) sign a deal to open a new robotics R&D center in Israel (Courtesy)

Israel gets $20m to create robot workers for China

By David Shamah

Under new deal, Israeli researchers will develop and the Chinese will mass-produce mechanical waiters, cleaners, security guards, construction workers

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Mysterious golden object whose identity the Israel Antiquities Authority said it was trying to determine, as posted on December 22, 2015 (Facebook)

Solved: The riddle of the Antiquities Authority’s ‘mysterious’ gold object

A falafel sandwich ready to be eaten, part of the pantheon of Israeli food. (Orel Cohen/Flash90)

Food flightGrandma arrested for flinging falafel at her husband

A set table at Tel Aviv's Herbert Samuel restaurant, one of four Israeli restaurants included in La Liste's 1000 best restaurants of 2015 (Facebook)

Bon appetit! B'tayavon! 4 Israeli restaurants make France’s list of world’s top 1,000

Algerian troops on the march (Memri screenshot)

Algerian troops march singing ‘kill the Jews’

Preview of Jerry Seinfeld's Comedian in Cars Getting Coffee with President Barack Obama. (screen capture: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee)

President's cupObama, Seinfeld drink coffee on ‘Comedians in Cars’

By JTA

Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, speaks during a student conference for the Clinton Global Initiative University at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz, March 2, 2014. (AP/Matt York, File)

Chelsea Clinton, Jewish husband expecting second child

By JTA

Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, alongside advocate Yossi Cohen (right) in the Jerusalem Regional Labor Court, October 29, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sara Netanyahu seeks to avert probe of suspected violations

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah discusses the death of terrorist Samir Kuntar, allegedly at the hands of Israel, in a televised speech from Beirut on December 21, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

Hebrew media reviewThreatening news

By Raoul Wootliff

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