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What Matters Most On Monday, December 28, 2015

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A test of the David's Sling missile defense system (Defense Ministry)

Head of missile defense program fired over security breach

Yair Ramati committed ‘severe information security violations’ Defense Ministry says

Palestinian laborers working at a construction site in the West Bank settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, near Jerusalem, September 16, 2014. (AP/Dan Balilty)

Housing Ministry working on plans for 55,548 settlement homes — Peace Now

Projects worth $85m in the works, mostly initiated by Jewish Home’s Uri Ariel, according to data collated by anti-settlement group

Peace Now: Israel planning 8,372 homes in sensitive West Bank area

A Jacob sheep named Rachel, with what the Lewinskys call her 'happy face,' on their rental farm in Abbotsville, BC, Canada, in December 2015. (courtesy Gil Lewinsky/Mustard Seed Imaging)

Baa, baa, biblical sheep, have you an Israeli passport?

By Melanie Lidman

A couple’s quest to bring a breed of biblical sheep back to Israel butts heads with veterinary guidelines for importing livestock

President Reuven Rivlin sits with Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal and Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III at his residence in Jerusalem in honor of the upcoming New Year, on December 28, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Fired missile defense chief had top secret info on cell phone

By Ilan Ben Zion

Hebrew U. professor calls justice minister a neo-Nazi; police find pipe bombs, ammo in East Jerusalem falafel stand, home

Masked Fatah operatives practice military skills during a drill in Gaza, March 6, 2015. (photo credit: Facebook)

Fatah could return to armed attacks on Israelis, PA source warns

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority source says current wave of unorganized violence is hard to stop, youth disillusioned over prospects for a state

Israel hands over bodies of seven Palestinian terrorists

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

IDF arrests 4 wanted Hamas activists in West Bank raids

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Palestinian dies of wounds days after Gaza fence clash

By AFP and ToI Staff

As Modern Orthodox Israelis begin grassroots efforts pushing for the demonopolization of the rabbinate, change is in the air. (Falling dominoes image via Shutterstock)

Analysis

Will Orthodox Israelis’ revolt against the chief rabbinate spur a domino effect?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

An in-depth look at a year of shifting sands in the notorious historical status quo of religion and state in the Holy Land

San Diego U’s yellow badge of shame

A religious studies prof took cultural insensitivity to a whole new level in her protest against anti-Muslim rhetoric

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Jerusalem of feathers

Reveling in the sublime absurdity of a stray, flightless bird ambling through the streets of the capital

My week with Syrian refugees in Greece

Arriving in Athens was the first step to help those who fled war-torn areas, and it held unexpected challenges

A fancy Frenchman’s Jewish Jesus

Jacques Tissot discarded frivolity, toured the Holy Land, and brought radical realism to his paintings of the sacred

(Teenagers text messaging via Shutterstock)

If you use periods while texting, you may not be a jerk after all, just old

By Simona Weinglass

Lebanese Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah (right) speaking next to freed Lebanese prisoner Samir Kuntar (left) at a stadium in Beirut, July 16, 2008. (AFP/Mussa al-Husseini, file)

Analysis

Thought Hezbollah gave up on revenge for Kuntar? Think again

By Avi Issacharoff

After Nasrallah’s speech vowing to retaliate for death of arch-terrorist, group will be forced to respond, if only to keep edge over IS in anti-Israel rivalry

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)

Nasrallah: Revenge for Kuntar’s death will ‘inevitably come’

A right-wing Jewish activist protests outside a court hearing in Petah Tikva, December 28, 2015, on the matter of the Jewish youths arrested for involvement in an arson attack in the West Bank village of Duma, earlier this summer, in which three members of the Dawabshe family were killed. (Photo by Flash90)

4 Jewish suspects in Duma attack return to court for remand hearing

Draft indictment expected later this week, with Shin Bet set to offer evidence linking detainees to 10 other cases

Opening image on the In Between Wars exhibit website

Paris Jewish leader calls to block exhibit that ‘glorifies Palestinian terrorism’

By JTA

Doctors without Borders show omits Hamas attacks on civilians, features poster of a terrorist who died attacking Israelis

A man shows a newspaper article about Christmas Eve's clash in which two firefighters and a police officer were injured at the poor Jardins de l'Empereur housing estate, to journalists during a demonstration in Ajaccio, Corsica on December 27, 2015, after France banned demonstrations in part of the Corsican capital following two days of anti-Arab protests and sectarian tensions. (AFP/Yannick Graziani)

French Jews condemn attack on mosque on Corsica

By JTA

A Carl Gustav submachine gun found in the courtyard of a house in East Jerusalem, December 28, 2015. (Israel Police)

Bomb, bullets concealed in East Jerusalem falafel stand

By Stuart Winer

Police raids also find submachine gun and stun grenades hidden in yard of home

Illustrative. IDF soldiers measure the home of a terrorist in preparation for the building's demolition, on November 28, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

The unusual case of the still-standing home of a terrorist’s family

By Judah Ari Gross

Minister of Public Security, Gilad Erdan, May 18, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bill would raise fines on employing Palestinians illegally

By Keren Preiskel

Proposed government legislation would up fines to over NIS 450,000, raise maximum jail term to four years

Tel Aviv's Azrieli Center by night (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

End-of-year reports rank Israel high on tech, low on infrastructure

By David Shamah

Forbes Magazine and the World Economic Forum like Israel as a good place to do business

Col. David Zini speaks during a ceremony marking the creation of the new Commando Brigade in Ein Harod on December 27, 2015. (Yahav Trudler/IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF goes commando with formation of new elite brigade

By Judah Ari Gross

Military chief Gadi Eizenkot unifies specialized units like Egoz and Duvdevan in bid to increase efficiency

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a special plenary session held in honor of visiting Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (R) at the Knesset, Jerusalem, on December 23, 2015. (Flash90/Hadas Parush)

Russian rabbi slams Ukraine president for ‘using Jewish card’

By JTA

Poroshenko was lying when he told Israelis that Jews can’t go to synagogue in Russian-annexed Crimea, Rabbi Boruch Gorin charges

Ashfaque Chowdhury, head of the UK Association of Muslim Schools, at an AMS conference in 2012. (YouTube screenshot)

Head of British Muslim faith schools calls for teaching of Judaism

By JTA

Move follows UK chief rabbi’s urging of Islam education, and a new requirement that schools teach a second religion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alongside senior Likud party members after the announcement of the party primary results on November 26, 2012. (Flash90)

PM to press Likud central committee on early leadership vote

By Raoul Wootliff and Sue Surkes

Emergency meeting called after party court ruled motion must be debated before ballot; Netanyahu says move will strengthen coalition

A man walks in a section of the 68 miles of shelving of TV and radio recordings of the French National Audiovisual Institute (INA) at the INA's central archive conservation in Saint Remy L'Honore, December 16, 2015. (AFP/Patrick Kovarik)

France opens access to Nazi collaboration-era archives

By AFP

Police and legal documents from Vichy regime available to be ‘freely consulted’ by the civil service, citizens and researchers

This file photo taken on February 13, 1964 shows German general prosecutor Fritz Bauer (C) giving a press conference on the death of so-called Euthanasie Professor, German psychiatrist and Nazi Werner Heyde. (AFP/DPA/ROLAND WITSCHEL)

German cinema rediscovers Nazi hunter Fritz Bauer

By Coralie Febvre

More Headlines

Christ Pantocrator mosaic in Byzantine style, from the Cefalù Cathedral, Sicily (Andreas Wahra / Wikipedia)

Claiming ChristAustralian church retracts claim Jesus was a Palestinian

By JTA

'Caliph' Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi speaks to Muslims in a mosque in Mosul, Iraq. (YouTube screen capture)

Busy till doomsdayJoin IS? Twitter users would rather wash their hair

Maor Gamliel sings "Leave the closet" on the reality TV show "The Next Star for Eurovision 2016," December 25, 2015. (Screen Capture/Keshet/Channel 2)

Explicit song mocking gay sex draws fire for reality TV show

Illustrative: Newborn babies in a hospital ward (Flash 90)

Inspired by Gaza war, Eitan surges as Israeli baby name choice

By Keren Preiskel

An ostrich loose in the streets of Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood, December 27, 2015. (YouTube screen capture)

Great escapeOstrich sticks its neck out at passersby in Jerusalem

By Keren Preiskel

A Ga'ash Lighting Apollo streetlight (Courtesy)

Wifi, security, traffic and weather data are added boon of new streetlights

By David Shamah

Dr. Robert Spitzer, a psychiatrist who played a leading role in establishing agreed-upon standards to describe mental disorders and in eliminating homosexuality as a pathology. (Brian Chapman/Courtesy Spitzer family via AP, undated)

Leading Jewish American psychiatrist Robert Spitzer dies at 83

By AP and ToI Staff

A German edition of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' at the Berlin Central and Regional Library (Zentrale Landesbibliothek, ZLB), December 7, 2015. (AFP/Tobias Schwarz)

Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ returns to German shelves, sparking war of words

By Geir Moulson

Luba Cernenco, who died during a holiday in Chile, December 2015. (Facebook)

Young Israeli hiker dies on post-army trip to Chile

By Stuart Winer

Maccabi Tel Aviv head coach Slaviša Jokanović seen during the Champions League Group G soccer match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Chelsea at Sammy Ofer stadium in Haifa on November 24, 2015. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Maccabi Tel Aviv coach ditches team mid-season for UK’s Fulham

By Raoul Wootliff

File: Members of Israel's Maccabi team at Berlin's so-called 'Maifeld,' where the Nazis once held mass rallies, on July 28, 2015. (AFP Photo/Tobias Schwarz)

4,000 Jewish athletes in Chile for Pan American Maccabi Games

By JTA

This photo provided by Lucasfilm shows Peter Mayhew as Chewbacca and Harrison Ford as Han Solo in 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens.' (Film Frame/Lucasfilm via AP)

‘The Force Awakens’ becomes fastest movie to $1 billion

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