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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 26, 2015

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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)

Almost 100 alleged far-right extremists jailed, restricted or questioned, supporters say

As security chiefs warn of danger posed by Jewish terror underground, backers publish names of ‘arrestees of Zion’ on Facebook, solicits donations

Ex-Shin Bet chief: Far-right threat today is ‘worse than before Rabin’s murder’

Lapid names 2 rabbis who he says inspire far-right radicals

Meretz chief: Probe rabbis who back right-wing extremism

Israeli security forces keep position during clashes with Palestinian protesters at the Hawara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, on October 11, 2015. (Flash90)

Soldier lightly hurt in West Bank car-ramming

Attacker shot at scene of attack at Hawara checkpoint near Nablus, dies later of his wounds

A priest leads Christmas mass at a church in the government-controlled side of Aleppo, Syria, on December 25, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/GEORGE OURFALIAN)

Mideast Christians face ‘apocalypse’ at hands of Islamic State, top UK cleric says

By AFP and AP

‘Elimination’ looms, warns archbishop of Canterbury; Pope denounces ‘monstrous evil’ inflicted upon Syria and Libya

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal attends Christmas celebrations in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Christmas Eve, December 24, 2015. (FLASH90)

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem greeted in Bethlehem by hail of stones

Buying vegetables in Mahane Yehuda

Brimming with enticing scents and sights, the marketplace’s real treasure is its diverse weave of people

Daniel S. Mariaschin

Israel-Gulf ties entering a second act?

Plans for an Israel office in Abu Dhabi show some in the Arab world believe relations with Israel can serve their interest

Lighting a Havdalah candle for my family

The brief ceremony to mark the end of Sabbath provides a 5-sense lesson in Jewish continuity

A Russian air defense missile system Antey 2500, or S-300 VM, is on display at the opening of the MAKS Air Show in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, August 27, 2013. (AP/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russia reportedly to begin delivery of S-300 to Iran in coming weeks

First shipment to be delivered by February; Iranian technicians to undergo 4-month training course at Russian base

People take pictures outside the devastated Muslim prayer hall in Ajaccio, on December 25, 2015. (Pierre-Antoine Fournil/AFP)

Protesters ransack Muslim prayer hall in Corsica

By ToI Staff and AFP

PM decries ‘unacceptable desecration’ of holy place after hall set on fire on French island, copies of Koran burned

Radi poses for a photo with his son and wife, whose names are omitted for security reasons, while waiting in an airport in Amman, Jordan, to board a plane to Canada where they will be resettled, December 20, 2015. (AP/Sam McNeil)

US rabbis envy Canadian counterparts’ chance to welcome refugees

By Renee Ghert-Zand

While Canadian clergy help sponsor newly arriving Syrians, frustrated American rabbis focus on advocacy and education

Jerusalem's light rail as it passes outside Notre Dama (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

Jerusalem’s Notre Dame guesthouse — catering to your soul

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Illustrative photo of swastika graffiti (Flash90)

Swastikas found spray-painted in Golan Heights town

Nazi symbol discovered on wall in Katzrin; in separate case, ‘Death to Arabs’ graffiti daubed in Safed

A Hezbollah fighter surveys the horizon, illustrative photo (YouTube screen capture/CNN)

Hezbollah reportedly pressed to avoid attacking Israel

According to Kuwaiti paper, foreign officials have warned terror group that retaliation for Kuntar killing could prompt crushing Israeli response

In this picture provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, two men on their wheelchairs wait to receive food supplies at a damaged street in the besieged Yarmouk refugee camp, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Thursday, April 24, 2014. (AP)

Rebel chief’s death halts plan to evacuate Damascus jihadists

By AFP

Killing of Zahran Alloush freezes efforts to move 4,000 besieged militants, civilians as part of deal with regime

Palestinian fishermen sit in their boat off the shores of the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, as an Israeli police boat is seen in the distance, March 26, 2014. (AFP/Said Khatib)

Ankara said to demand unrestricted access to Gaza

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Turkish paper says key demand in reconciliation talks with Israel is free passage to deliver aid to Palestinian territory

Illustrative: Laura Frangiosa, owner of The Avenue Delicatessen in suburban Philadelphia, holding her signature Jewish wedding soup. (Neal Santos/via JTA)

Abundance of Jewish fusion eateries rocks foodies’ worlds

By Lucy Cohen Blatter

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (Alexei Druzhinin/RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Moscow muskNew Russian fragrance inspired by Putin goes on sale

Illustrative photo of ultra-orthodox Jewish men in a protest in Jerusalem December 22, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Draft law renews debate on IDF service for ultra-Orthodox

Illustrative photo of windsurfers participating in an international competition in Tel Aviv on June 14, 2009 (photo credit: Boaz Oppenheim/Flash90)

Israeli windsurfers denied visas to go to Malaysia

By AP

Illustrative photo of demonstrators chanting pro-Islamic State slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, Iraq, June 16, 2014. (AP, File)

American ‘young lioness’ sought to raise cash to join IS

By AP

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Teen girl stabbed in Kiryat Malachi

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, and President Pranab Mukherjee seen surrounded by members of staff in New Delhi, July 28, 2015. (AFP/PRAKASH SINGH)

India’s Modi makes surprise visit to archrival Pakistan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, takes Vezir Cakras by hand while speaking on his mobile phone inside his car stationed over the Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Friday, Dec. 25, 2015. Erdogan’s office says the Turkish president has talked Cakras out of jumping off a bridge to commit suicide. (Yasin Bulbul/Presidential Press Service Pool via AP Photo)

Recep Therapist ErdoganTurkish president ‘talks man out of suicide’

By Suzan Fraser

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