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What Matters Most On Friday, December 25, 2015

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Izzy Ezagui, center, and fellow reserve soldiers in 2014 (Courtesy of Izzy Ezagui)

How a US-born amputee fought his way back into the Israeli army

Floridian Izzy Ezagui, gravely injured in Gaza in 2008, wasn’t going to let the loss of his left arm stop him from heading back to combat duty

Palestinian driver tries to crash into IDF troops, is killed

Attacker, a 40-year-old mother of four, is shot by soldiers in incident near Ramallah; Palestinian said killed in clash on Gaza border

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

30 wedding guests to be questioned over clip cheering Duma murders

New footage aired on Channel 2 shows Lehava leader Bentzi Gopstein, attorney for suspects Itamar Ben Gvir, were among guests

Dozens of rabbis support Shin Bet, condemn violence

Groom says ‘didn’t even see’ extremists’ behavior at wedding

IDF to investigate army-issued guns in ‘hate wedding’ video

Rabbi Daniel Stavsky speaks to soldiers from the Golani Brigade during a memorial event for the sons of Israeli educator Miriam Peretz, in Gush Etzion in the West Bank on July 8, 2013. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)

Rabbi from ‘hate wedding’ says Shin Bet, Arabs torched Dawabsha home

Prominent right-wing religious leader Daniel Stavsky says security agency torturing, sexually abusing Jewish terror suspects

The three 'babies' in Wendy Holden's 'Born Survivors' - Eva Clarke, Mark Olsky and Hana Berger Moran. (Courtesy)

The miracle babies of Mauthausen, 70 years later

By Jenni Frazer

In ‘Born Survivors,’ British author Wendy Holden tells the harrowing tale of three mothers who gave birth in the Nazi camps, and the children who, against all odds, survived

Are we encouraging divorce?

People don’t break up their marriages unless the trauma of leaving is outweighed by the misery of staying

Gideon D. Sylvester

A Jewish prayer on Christmas day

A WWII moment when enemies took a break from the slaughter is a reminder of humanity’s capacity for goodness

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

Iran: While we weren’t looking

Post-nuclear accord, the Islamic Republic has continued pursuing its anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and terrorist agenda

Law enforcement booking photo of Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem (Maricopa County Sheriff's Department via AP, File)

Arizona man allegedly planned to blow up Super Bowl stadium, mall

By AP

Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem charged with support of Islamic State group, planning attacks on civilians

Israeli security personnel at the scene where two Palestinians carried out a stabbing attack near the Old City’s Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem, December 23, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel slams CNN, CBS coverage of Jaffa Gate terror attack

Government Press Office lodges complaint with US media outlets for lumping together attackers, victims in fatal stabbing

Friends and family attend the funeral of 46-year old Ofer Ben Ari, Jerusalem December 24, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Mourners praise victim who took on terrorists unarmed

By Stuart Winer

Ofer Ben Ami laid to rest a day after he was accidentally shot by Border Police during a stabbing attack in Jerusalem

Ahmed Dawabsha in his room at Tel Hashomer Hospital in Ramat Gan, December 23, 2015 (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)

‘He’s improving, thank God,’ says grandfather of 5-year-old Duma survivor

By Simona Weinglass

5 months after firebombing, Ahmed Dawabsha moves to rehab ward, still doesn’t know his parents and brother are dead

Chairman of the Yesh Atid Party, MK Yair Lapid, seen during a faction meeting at the Knesset, Jerusalem, December 21, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Lapid: Jewish terror enjoys ‘political’ support

By Stuart Winer

Opposition MK calls on police and security services to broaden operations against violent extremists

Illustrative: Israeli security forces in Hebron on December 24, 2015. (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)

Breaking the Silence tour bus pelted with stones in Hebron

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

MDA says one woman lightly injured; Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem’s car hit by rocks in Bethlehem, but nobody hurt

New York's iconic Brooklyn Bridge (CC BY-Buggolo via Flickr.com)

Jewish student assaulted at Brooklyn college

By JTA

In likely hate crime, assailant tells kippa-clad man to ‘leave the school, you Jew’

Illustrative photo of El Al planes at Ben-Gurion Airport (Shay Levi/Flash90)

UK Muslim denied Disneyland trip was also barred from Israel

By JTA and ToI Staff

Officials say security issues behind decision to prohibit British family members from entering US

An artist's rendition of Solomon's First Temple (YouTube screen capture)

Egyptian paper claims Jewish Temple was never in Jerusalem

Article seeks to deny Jewish connection to ‘Al-Quds’, says Jews’ place of worship was actually a converted Egyptian building in the Galilee

Samir Kuntar salutes as he arrives to pay his respects at the grave of Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh, south of Beirut, Lebanon, on July 17, 2008. (AP/Darko Bandic, File)

Analysis

Chronicle of a death, and a response, foretold

By Avi Issacharoff

Notorious terrorist Samir Kuntar knew he was going to die; and Israel knows that Hezbollah’s reaction will not be long in coming

Samir Kuntar salutes as he arrives to pay his respects at the grave of Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh, south of Beirut, Lebanon, on July 17, 2008. (AP/Darko Bandic, File)

PA officials hail slain terrorist Kuntar as hero and symbol

Jewish Home parliament member Bezalel Smotrich addresses the Israeli parliament on November 16, 2015. Photo by Miriam Alsterl/Flash90

Controversial bill on settlement funding signed into law

Jewish Home party lauds regulation of WZO settlement division activities; opposition says law aims to fund illegal outposts

Pope Francis waves from the balcony of St Peter's basilica during the traditional 'Urbi et Orbi' Christmas message to the city and the world, on December 25, 2015 at St Peter's square in Vatican. (AFP PHOTO/VINCENZO PINTO)

Pope backs UN efforts to end conflicts in Syria, Libya

By AFP

In Christmas message, pontiff expresses hope peace plan can halt bloody civil war, remedy ‘extremely grave humanitarian situation’

Silent Partner in action (Courtesy)

Silent Partner makes sure everyone gets their zzz’s

By David Shamah

Every night, millions of people suffer as they listen to their snoring partners; they may now have a solution

The beit midrash study hall in the Hasidic village of New Square, New York. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

Silent night

How Hasidim pointedly don’t observe Christmas Eve

By Uriel Heilman

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Doing taxes (Pixabay)

Israeli tax burden not too onerous after all, report shows

By David Shamah

Palestinian security forces stand guard on the roof of the Church of the Nativity as Christians gather for Christmas celebrations in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on December 24, 2015. (AFP/Musa al-Shaer)

2 Palestinians arrested in West Bank for Christmas tree arson

By AP

The Knesset plenary during vote on the state budget for 2015-2016, November 18, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Fray of lightUkraine’s brawling parliament hopes to learn from Israel’s

By Cnaan Liphshiz

File: Morocco's Mohammed V, wearing white robes, walking with the country's Grand Vizier Si Mohammed El Mokri after he placed a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior at the Arc De Triomphe during a visit to Paris, France around July 4, 1930. (AP Photo)

Late Moroccan king honored for protecting his country’s Jews

By JTA

Israeli and Chinese officials at the signing ceremony for the opening of a new Israel Aerospace Industries technology center in Guangdong. (Courtesy)

China looks to Israel to get its civil aviation industry off the ground

By David Shamah

German Chancellor Angela Merkel attempts to comfort Reem Sawhil, a young Palestinian refugee facing deportation, during a televised debate on the country's asylum policies. (Screen capture)

Palestinian teen who Merkel made cry wins longer stay

By AP and ToI Staff

Outgoing head of the Lahav 433 police anti-corruption unit, Roni Rittman, arrives at the Police Investigation Department, Jerusalem, December, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

State drops sexual harassment probe against senior cop

Jewish retiree donates New Jersey land to church in need

By JTA

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

Hebrew media reviewKnives and rebellion at a West Bank wedding

By Adiv Sterman

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