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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 24, 2015

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Screenshot from a video showing extremist Israeli Jewish wedding-goers celebrating the killing of the Dawabsha family. (screen capture: Channel 10)

Clip shows far-right wedding-goers celebrating Duma killings

Israeli youngsters, said to be friends of detainees in deadly firebombing, stab photo of 18-month-old victim; wave firebombs, rifles and knives at Jerusalem event

Police open probe into wedding video cheering Duma murders

PM blasts ‘shocking’ tape of wedding-goers feting Duma murders

Denying torture claims, Shin Bet decries ‘slander campaign’

By Judah Ari Gross

A far-right Israeli wedding-goer celebrates the murder of the Dawabsha family (screen capture: Channel 10)

Analysis

The dance of death

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Every society has its fringe groups, but the youths seen at a Jerusalem wedding celebrating murder have the potential to bring ruin down upon us all

Foreign report says American-Israeli teen held in Duma case

By ToI Staff and JTA

Knesset panel reprimands MK for calling to bulldoze Supreme Court

By Keren Preiskel

Bennett: Far-right protesters called me ‘traitor’

Illustrative photo of doctors on their way to an emergency room, on October 31, 2012. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Two more hospitalized with swine flu symptoms

By Adiv Sterman

Soldiers respond to fire at Qalandiya refugee camp, killing 1; Shin Bet says far-right activists aiming to disrupt investigation into Duma murders

An Israeli forensic policeman stands next to the body of a Palestinian assailant who was shot dead after he stabbed two Israeli security guards at the Barkan Industrial Zone next to the settlement of Ariel, December 24, 2015. (Phot by AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Two guards injured in stabbing at West Bank industrial zone

Attacker killed after knifing security personnel at entrance to factory area outside settlement of Ariel

Two Israelis die of wounds after Jerusalem terror attack

By Raoul Wootliff and Judah Ari Gross

Jerusalem attack victims remembered as ‘joyful,’ ‘hero’

One injured in car-ramming in third attack of day

The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s 'Di Goldene Kale' ('The Golden Bride'), a 1923 operetta that’s playing at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York. (Ben Moody/JTA)

How to have yourself a very Yiddishe Christmas in NY

By Suzanne Selengut

From klezmer classes to dance parties, ’tis the season to revel in Jewish culture

Don’t pine, Jerusalem has Xmas cypresses fir yew

By Jessica Steinberg

Nordic countries spar over claims to Santa’s origins

By MATTI HUUHTANEN

Christians arrive in Bethlehem to mark Christmas Eve

By Daniella Cheslow

Weddings, baby killing and the Dark Side

Beyond condemnation in an effort to analyze the rational and irrational fears that drive Jewish extremism

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

The cardinal in the synagogue

What spiritual message would be relevant to the throngs of secular Jewish Israelis expected to attend Christmas Eve church services?

A celibate Christmas

What does it mean to celebrate a divine birth, along with his fellow monks, in a place where no children are born?

A good Muslim Christmas story

Emir Abdelkader, an inspirational figure embraced by Muslims worldwide, belies today’s purely negative view of Islam

Illustrative photo of a vaccination. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

One woman dead, 10 hospitalized in swine flu outbreak

Three victims pregnant, two of them in serious condition as virus rears head; hospital reports 2-3 new cases daily

Illustrative photo of gambling in a casino (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Jerusalem man tries to sell his baby to settle gambling debt

After putting 3-month-old up for $100,000, man tells police he did not really intend to sell child but needed cash fast

Israeli security forces stand guard as volunteers evacuate the body of a Palestinian man who was shot dead after he rammed his car into a group of Israeli soldiers near a military post northeast of Jerusalem on December 24, 2015 (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Palestinian killed, Israeli soldier injured in Qalandiya skirmish

By Judah Ari Gross

Troops had entered the refugee camp in search of suspects in a shooting, the army says

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

What if the Hamas terror cell in Abu Dis had succeeded?

By Avi Issacharoff

One or two of the suicide bombings the Islamists were planning could have plunged the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into yet another low

Former Hamas interior minister Fathi Hammad (YouTube screen capture)

AnalysisHamas renegade in Gaza behind West Bank terror cell, Palestinians say

By Avi Issacharoff and Judah Ari Gross

Hamas military leader Ahmed Jabari, who was assassinated in an Israeli Air Force strike in 2012 (YouTube screen capture)

Son of ex-senior Hamas commander dies in Gaza car crash

Russian immigrants in Ashdod celebrate Novy God with actors dressed as Grandfather Frost in 2015. (Drori Garti/Flash 90)

Young Russian-Israelis return to roots with motherland-style New Year’s

By Jessica Steinberg

Former national security adviser Maj. Gen. (ret.) Giora Eiland. (Flash90)

If Hezbollah attacks, go to war with Lebanon, ex-national security adviser urges

‘In addition to Hezbollah targets, we should also attack Lebanon’s army, airports, seaports and other strategic assets,’ argues former IDF operations chief Giora Eiland

Muhammad Omar Bader Hassan, left, and his cousin, Ahmad Talal Ahmad Saidah, were indicted by a Nazareth District Court for supporting and attempting to join the Islamic State, as well as planning to carry out terror attacks within Israel, December 24, 2015. (Shin Bet)

Israeli cousins indicted for planning terror attacks, supporting IS

By Judah Ari Gross

Pair from near Nazareth had planned on joining the terrorist group in Syria, but returned to Israel when they heard refugees’ stories, Shin Bet says

Illustrative: This photo taken on December 23, 2015 in the village of Pibrac, in the Haute-Garonne region, shows a French Vigipirate national security alert sign in front of a church before Christmas holiday celebrations. (Pascal Pavani/AFP)

French terror suspects arrested over fake baby bump

By AFP

No explosives found in secret compartment made to look like pregnant belly, but couple’s computer shows they consulted bomb-making sites

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks during the Munich Security Conference in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, October 17, 2015. (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iranian foreign minister says US visa law ‘breaches nuclear deal’

Zarif warns of consequences if administration implements program forcing people who visited Iran to get visas

US President Barack Obama speaks during a press conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, DC on December 18, 2015. (Photo by AFP/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds)

Obama administration tried to encourage Syrian coup — report

By Raoul Wootliff

Intelligence officials attempted to identify Syrian officers who could lead regime change against Assad in 2011, but effort failed, according to WSJ

This photo provided by Arlene Wagner and taken in October 2015 shows her son, Air Force Staff Sgt. Peter Taub, killed December 21, 2015 in a suicide attack in Afghanistan, at Bub and Pops, the sandwich shop Wagner and her other son Jonathan Taub run in downtown Washington, DC. (Arlene Wagner/AP)

US Jewish airman among 6 killed in Afghanistan suicide attack

By JTA

Staff Sgt. Peter Taub, 30, was preparing to return home to help run the family restaurant, his mother says

Rabies can be contracted from dogs, bats, rats, or other animals such as wolves. (Pixabay)

Israeli firm seeks to take a bite out of the rabies vaccine market

By David Shamah

After successful trials, Kamada hopes to sell its life-saving treatment worldwide, including the US, Australia

Israeli academics teaching abroad discuss job prospects in Israel at an event sponsored by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Courtesy)

Israeli job fair looks to reverse academic brain drain

By David Shamah

With over 21,000 Israeli teachers, researchers working overseas, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities wants to help them come home

More Headlines

Rabbi Alexander Boroda speaking at the opening of the Zhukovka JCC, December 6, 2015. (Courtesy of The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia/via JTA)

Even as Russian Jews emigrate, a ritzy JCC opens near Moscow

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Sofia Yassini, 8, poses for a photo outside a mosque in Richardson, Texas, Friday, Dec. 11, 2015. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

US soldiers tell fearful Muslim-American girl, ‘I will protect you’

By NOMAAN MERCHANT

Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun speaks to the media about responding to the 9/11 World Trade Center attack in New York. (YouTube screenshot)

Up shirt creek‘Stupid’ thief steals rabbi’s toxic Ground Zero garb

By JTA

In this Dec. 22, 2015, photo, a Rayani Air flight crew demonstrates a safety brief before departure at the Sultan Ismail Petra Airport in Kelantan, Malaysia. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)

On a wing and a prayerNew ‘sharia’ airline takes off in Malaysia

By AP

Barrels at an Israeli winery in the West Bank settlement of Psagot, February 11, 2014. (AP/ Dan Balilty/File)

After outcry, alternative wine guide to include settlement booze

By Keren Preiskel

Palestinian boys running by a painted house in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on December 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Painters bring new life to hard-hit areas in Gaza

By AP

A far-right Israeli wedding-goer celebrates the murder of the Dawabsha family (screen capture: Channel 10)

Hebrew media reviewRailing at the ‘Jewish KKK’ and reviling terrorism

By Ilan Ben Zion

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