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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 30, 2015

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US President Barack Obama (right) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, November 9, 2015. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

US spied on Netanyahu’s anti-Iran deal lobbying — report

Despite promising to curb eavesdropping on foreign leaders, White House had NSA listen in on conversations between Israeli leaders and US lawmakers, according to Wall Street Journal

Israel: We don’t spy on US, and expect US not to spy on us

Khamenei urges Muslims to resist US plot to destroy Islamic civilization

Iran test fires rockets near US warship, sparking concern

By AFP

Mohammed Rehman and Sana Ahmed Khan (AFP)

British couple convicted of plotting attack to mark bombing anniversary

By AFP

Husband and wife planned to detonate explosives in London Underground or shopping center in homage to 2005 subway attack, court finds

Turkey arrests 2 IS suspects, foils New Year’s bombing plot

By Fulya Ozerkan

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

By John-Thor Dahlburg

Netanyahu: Israel in ‘world war’ with Islamic extremists

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)

Two set to be indicted for Duma killings within 5 days

According to declaration submitted by state prosecutors, prime suspect to be charged with murder

Jewish Israeli said arrested for stabbing Arab employee

IDF rules settlers don’t own contentious Hebron home

Groom, three others arrested over ‘hate wedding’ video

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Dani Dayan, the former head of the Yesha settler's council, January 9, 2013. (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Analysis

We’ll always have Brasilia? How the Dani Dayan saga could best play out

By Raphael Ahren

Israel is currently mulling how to respond to Brazil’s rejection of its designated ambassador. There are many bad options, and one good one

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, during the COP21 UN Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris on November 30, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Analysis

Go figure: Israel’s standing in the world is both fantastic and awful

By Raphael Ahren

Seeking high-tech and counter-terrorism expertise, world wants ‘close relationship’ with Israel, PM gushes. No, critics reply, the world shuns us because of the stalled peace process. Both are right

AnalysisRamallah urges talks to stem unrest; Israel says not until attacks stop

By Avi Issacharoff

PM’s office: E1 settlement plan came from minister, not government

Israeli diplomat in disciplinary dock for quoting Nazi war criminal

Valleys and gates

Returning to the Old City for coffee with cardamom, pita, and prayer at the Wall, despite the shadow of terror

A hypocritical attack on the left

The NGO bill is crafted to ensnare Israel’s human rights org’s even as millions of foreign dollars flow to settlements

A. Mark Clarfield

The silence of the anthropologists

A US academic association based its decision to censure Israel on lies and distortions

Golda from Milwaukee

Praise for the ‘mildly dangerous spiritual’ landsman, who shaped the prime minister’s office with guts and decency

Ambulances arrive at the scene of a stabbing attack near the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron on December 7, 2015. (Magen David Adom)

3 weeks after attack, Israeli stabbed in Hebron dies

Genadi Kaufman, 40, was attacked outside the Tomb of the Patriarchs; is survived by two children

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on December 27, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Netanyahu: Israel will remain in Hebron ‘forever’

Ultra-orthodox men in Brooklyn, New York (illustrative photo: Serge Attal/Flash90)

Jewish teen beaten in second Brooklyn attack

By JTA

Yeshiva student punched in face while walking in Midwood section of New York bureau, less than day after man attacked in same neighborhood

The Beit Ekstein high school campus in Givatayim. (YouTube screenshot)

Israel to open its first college for autistic students

Undergraduate tracks at BE Academic College will also prepare those with learning disabilities for the workforce

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on December 21, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu backs both status quo and change for women at Western Wall

After opposing court ruling allowing women to pray with Torah, PM’s office backs down, looks for third way

Aerial photograph of the 2,700-year-old farmhouse found near Rosh Ha'ayin (Griffin Aerial Imaging)

2,700-year-old farmhouse unearthed outside Tel Aviv

By Ilan Ben Zion

Byzantine monastery with colorful mosaic, ancient silver coins also found nearby at site next to Rosh Ha’ayin

Fredzia Marmur, a Holocaust survivor, was one of 60 refugees identified by the filmmakers of ‘Every Face Has a Name,’ a 2015 documentary based on 1945 newsreel footage from the Swedish port Malmo (courtesy: Menemsha Films)

Nazi refugees ‘tagged’ in liberation documentary

By Matt Lebovic

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, right, speaks with opposition lawmaker Hanin Zoabi (Joint List) in the Knesset on December 2, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

NGO bill is latest shot in Israeli government volley against critics

Effort targeting groups with foreign government funding is one of a string of measures aimed at those who criticize leadership

Released Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit (second right), walks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second left), then-defense minister Ehud Barak (left), and ex-chief of staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz (right), at the Tel Nof air base in southern Israel, October 18, 2011. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry/Flash90)

Last of Shalit captors dies in Gaza tunnel collapse

Hamas releases names of 5 guards of IDF soldier during his 5-year captivity in Gaza; all are now said to be dead

A United Hatzalah worker in Nepal prepares to open a Pocket BVM for field use during the devastating earthquake there in earlier this year (Courtesy)

The Israeli-invented device that’s saving American lives in Afghanistan

By David Shamah

Pocket BVM mini-ventilator is being used as a first-line rescue device by armies, EMS services, and now El Al

Illustrative photo of Islamic State militants, with an IS fighter waving the group flag in Fallujah, Iraq, west of Baghdad, June 28, 2015. (Militant website of IS, via AP)

Israel concerned IS making inroads among Bedouins

Security services mark increased identification among Israelis in Negev with jihadists; fear terror attacks — report

The Ma'asiyahu Prison complex in Ramle, near Tel Aviv. (Courtesy/Israel Prisons Service)

Olmert to be consigned to ‘VIP’ prison wing, under 24-hour surveillance

In Ward 10 of Ma’asiyahu, disgraced former PM will have vetted cellmates, separate facilities, and bedsheets from home

Shai Nitzan. May 7, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State prosecutor: Olmert sentence sends warning to public officials

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative: The Israel Navy launches its new 'Barak 8' missile defense system on November 26, 2015. (screen capture: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

India successfully tests missile system developed with Israel

Delhi hails ‘significant milestone’ as Barak 8 surface-to-air defense system destroys targets

JTA’s Cnaan Liphshiz, right, gets set to accept a Fiddler on the Roof Award from Rabbi Boruch Gorin at the Kremlin, Dec. 8, 2015. (Courtesy of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia)

Reporter's notebook

How a Jewish reporter celebrated Hanukkah at the Kremlin

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

The fall of Adam and Eve as depicted in the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo. (Wikimedia commons)

Flaccid responseClaim Eve came from Adam’s penis dismissed as phallacy

Knesset members are inducted in a ceremony in Jerusalem on March 31, 2015 (photo credit: Knesset spokesperson)

Bridging the gabKnesset holds first spoken Arabic course for lawmakers

Built in 1990 across from the then-still-rundown Mamilla neighborhood, this enclosed community is Jerusalem's primary ghost town (Courtesy Wiki Commons)

Jerusalem doubles ‘ghost apartment’ taxes as housing costs soar

Members of Iraq's elite counter-terrorism service flash the "V" for victory sign on December 29, 2015 in the city of Ramadi after Iraqi forces recaptured it from the Islamic State jihadist group. AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)

AnalysisRetaking of Ramadi proves US-led strategy, but at high Iraqi cost

By Sinah Salaheddin and SUSANNAH GEORGE

Ehud Barak speaks at the opening of the 'Globes Business Conference', in Tel Aviv on December 08, 2014. (Flash90)

Ehud Barak won’t be investigated for revealing Iran strike tapes

Rails in the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, southern Poland, 2005. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

2 British teens indicted for Auschwitz-Birkenau theft

By JTA

File: Crowds gather in St. Peter's Square for the inauguration Mass for Pope Francis at the Vatican, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Michael Sohn)

Air Scare2 Israelis arrested for flying drones over Vatican

US Secretary of State John Kerry pets Kaia, the dog of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as Kerry and Netanyahu meet at the PM's official residence in Jerusalem, on November 24, 2015. (Photo by Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv)

Back in the dog houseNetanyahus reportedly asked state to pay dog bills

By JTA

An Irbid, Jordan, shopowner who painted an Israeli flag on the floor of his store. (Facebook screen capture)

Taking stepsJordan arrests man for desecrating Israeli flag

Sensors attached to tomato plants. (Courtesy)

Giants Sygenta, Mitsui find innovative ag-tech on the kibbutz

By David Shamah

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks to the press at the Supreme Court on December 29, 2015. The court reduced Olmert's sentence to 18 months, following a conviction on corruption charges in the Holyland affair. (Noam Moskowitz/Pool)

Hebrew media reviewA final decision, again

By Raoul Wootliff

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