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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 29, 2015

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Former prime minister Ehud Olmert at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on December 29, 2015 (Gil Yohanan/POOL)

Olmert to go to jail for 18 months after Supreme Court cuts sentence

By Raoul Wootliff and Elie Leshem

Justices overturn one bribery conviction but uphold another for disgraced former prime minister, who was originally slated to serve 6 years for his part in the Holyland scandal

Defiant Olmert insists he never took bribes

By Stuart Winer

Olmert’s career: Four decades of highlights and lowlights

By AP

In Olmert case, a harsh sentence and a clear message

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Who is Dafni Gafni and why is she the most viral Israeli on Facebook?

By Simona Weinglass

The lovable troll has pranked everyone from Roger Waters to Turkey’s Erdogan to Israel’s right-wing Lehava organization

Illustrative photo of Israeli Border Police officers (AFP PHOTO/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Live updates (closed)

Border Patrol unit comes under fire in West Bank; none injured

By Marissa Newman

Suspects in ‘hate wedding’ video questioned over alleged incitement, possession of illegal weapons

File: Far-right Israeli wedding-goers celebrate the killings of the Dawabsha family, brandishing rifles and calling for revenge against Palestinians, December 2015. (screen capture: Channel 10)

Police arrest 2 revelers caught on ‘hate wedding’ video

By Judah Ari Gross and Raoul Wootliff

Suspects held over role in celebration of Duma killings; court orders release of one suspect detained in connection with attack

Naftali Bennett faces calls to fire ‘terrorist aide’

By Raoul Wootliff

Israeli youth held for planning to attack left-wing protesters

Hebrew U prof calls justice minister ‘filthy neo-Nazi’

Yehudit Jessica Singer

Life lessons from the childless

Two recent memoirs lay bare the pain of infertility and eke out meaning in dashed desires

Breaking the silence on ‘Breaking the Silence’

Throughout his extensive IDF service, he never received an illegal order and always avoided harming civilians

When a package suddenly arrives in the middle of the night needing a diaper change and temporary love

His fellow observant Jews are turning inward exactly when they most need to let in some new ideas

BBC radio hosts 13-minute Jewish conspiracy rant

By Keren Preiskel

‘Campaign Against Antisemitism’ demands broadcaster give caller’s phone number to police following racist diatribe

Likud MK Amir Ohana in the Knesset. (Knesset spokesman)

Haredi MKs stay away as first openly gay Likud MK sworn in

By Marissa Newman

In maiden speech, Amir Ohana voices identification with downtrodden in Israel; Netanyahu ‘proud’ to have him on board

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

PM urges early primaries to ready Likud for elections

By Raoul Wootliff and Sue Surkes

The IAEA Board of Governors meeting in Austria, December 15, 2015. (Dean Calma/IAEA)

Iran has shipped out most of its enriched uranium — Russia

In fulfilling obligation, Tehran moves closer to January’s expected implementation of nuclear deal with world powers

File: An Iranian worker at the Uranium Conversion Facility at Isfahan, 410 kilometers south of Tehran, January 2014. (AP /Vahid Salemi)

Kerry hails ‘significant progress’ in Iran deal implementation

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

In this Friday, Oct. 8, 2010, file photo, an Israeli woman of the Women of the Wall organization wears tefillin, a leather strapped box containing Torah scripture which is used for prayer, as she holds a Torah and prepares to pray at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem's old city. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill, File)

PM to oppose women’s Torah scrolls at Western Wall — report

By Raoul Wootliff and Sue Surkes

Netanyahu said to support ‘status quo’ at the Jerusalem site, despite previously promising to make it ‘a source for unity’

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi (screengrab: YouTube/BBC News)

Iraqi PM: 2016 will be year of final victory over IS

By Lee Gancman and AP

Al-Abadi visits Ramadi after its capture, says next target is Mosul

Illustrative photo of Birthright participants visiting Masada, summer 2012. (Taglit-Birthright/JTA)

To skirt terror, Birthright trades exotic markets for malls

By Judah Ari Gross

Heavy travel restrictions in Jerusalem disappoint participants, but the possibility of violence demands adaptation

18-year-old Ezra Schwartz from Massachusetts, killed during a terrorist attack at the Gush Etzion Junction, November 19, 2015. (Courtesy)

Ezra Schwartz’s family visits site where he was killed

By JTA

Belgian troops patrol at the Royal Galleries of Saint-Hubert in Brussels on November 22, 2015. (AFP/BELGA /Nicolas Maeterlinck)

Belgium arrests 2 for planning end-of-year terror attacks

By John-Thor Dahlburg

Plot was focused on ’emblematic’ targets in Brussels; military-type uniforms, propaganda from Islamic State, and computer material seized

Illustrative image of Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, New York. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

Jewish man beaten, robbed in Orthodox part of Brooklyn

By JTA

‘We don’t think this is a bias attack,’ says state assemblyman; Jewish lawmakers offer reward for information on perpetrators

Susan Marenoff-Zausner, President of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, speaks during the 70th Former Crew Member Reunion. (JP Teutonico)

In NY, space to spark curiosity aboard the ‘USS Intrepid’

By Cathryn J. Prince

An elderly man searches among the garbage near the food market in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva, June 24, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

6 (largely sad) numbers that describe Israel’s economy

With vast income gaps, low Arab and Haredi employment and widespread poverty, the startup nation is leaving many Israelis behind

Director of Israel's missile defense program Yair Ramati during a presentation, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/TAUVOD)

State suspects security breach by ousted missile defense chief

Yair Ramati, fired Sunday for holding classified documents at home, reportedly held intel on his phone, showed it to others

Education Minister Naftali Benne in Jerusalem on December 27, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Bennett urges Israeli annexation of West Bank

By Marissa Newman

‘The time has come to say Israel is ours,’ says education minister at Knesset caucus session celebrating new wine guide

A right-wing Jewish activist protests outside a court hearing in Petach Tikva, on the matter of the Jewish youth arrested for involvement in a July arson attack in the West Bank village of Duma, December 28, 2015. (Photo by Flash90)

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Jewish immigrants from France arrive in Tel Aviv, July 28, 2015. (Jewish Agency for Israel/Zed Films)

Minister eyes 50,000 immigrants per year as 2015 numbers soar

By Stuart Winer

Actress Sarah Silverman (Robyn Von Swank)

The cheek not turnedSarah Silverman says Jesus is ‘gender fluid’

Front of a fake US $100 bill bearing IS imagery and slogans found in the Galilee on December 29, 2015 (courtesy of the Israel Police)

Ben out, Baghdadi inFake US bills featuring face of IS boss found in Galilee

President Shimon Peres in a holiday message to the Iranian people, March 20, 2014 (photo credit: screenshot via YouTube)

Still kickingPeres says reports of his death greatly exaggerated

The “Rabbi for Trump” Facebook page. (Screenshot from Facebook)

Placing his bet‘Rabbi for Trump’ backs The Donald on Facebook

By Julie Wiener

A Palestinian farmer gathers tomatoes for export in Khan Yunis, the southern Gaza Strip, March 2, 2011 (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Playing ketchupIsrael returns tomatoes to Gaza, sparking rumors

Chief of Police Roni Alsheich, at the National Police Headquarters, Jerusalem, December 03, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Senior cop cleared of sexual harassment, will return to post

By Stuart Winer

Screenshots of MySizeID's SizeUp application (Courtesy)

Fashion a little less painful with sizing app, says MySizeID

By David Shamah

Professor Shlomo Magdassi (Flash 90)

After giant glass printers and printed lattés, Hebrew U seeks more 3D innovation

By David Shamah

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert seen at the Jerusalem District Court for a sentencing hearing a month after the court found him guilty of fraud and breach of trust, May 05, 2015. (Emil Salman/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewPending review

By Ilan Ben Zion

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