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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 31, 2015

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View of the hotels in the southern Israeli city of Eilat. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Terror attack thwarted in tourist hotspot Eilat

By Adiv Sterman

Jerusalem residents Khalil Nimri and Ashraf Slaimeh allegedly planned to bomb a hotel in the resort town

Soldier injured in suspected West Bank car ramming attack

By Raoul Wootliff and Judah Ari Gross

Israel seizes armor plating being smuggled into Gaza

By Judah Ari Gross

Two Palestinian minors caught with knives in Jerusalem

Israeli students at Beit Ezekiel elementary school (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Outcry as government pulls book over ‘intermarriage’ fears

By Raoul Wootliff

Love story between an Israeli woman and an Arab man rejected from school curriculum for ‘threatening Jewish identity’

Hebrew University President Menachem Ben-Sasson (photo credit: Flash90)

Hebrew U. condemns professor’s ‘filthy neo-Nazi’ remark

Opposition leader Issac Herzog posing with a copy of Dorit Rabinyan's "Gader Haya" surrounded by students at the pre-army academy in Sderot, December 31, 2015. (Photo by Zionist Union)

Israel’s education ministry finds the enemy of our youth: love

By Mitch Ginsburg

On the decision to strike a novel featuring Arab-Jewish romance from the high school matriculation curriculum

A fire that broke out in a building near a massive New Year's Eve fireworks display in Dubai, December 31, 2015 (YouTube screen cap)

Live updates (now closed)

Fire breaks out near Dubai’s New Year’s fireworks display

By Adiv Sterman

American Muslim convert charged with attempt to launch terror plot in NY; Police release groom, 3 others arrested over ‘hate wedding’

Hundreds of Arab Israeli Christians hold banners in a rally against what they said was state discrimination in funding their schools at the foot of the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth on September 1, 2015 (AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI)

Israel okays $4 billion upgrade plan for Arab communities

By Stuart Winer

5-year scheme to focus on housing and improved education; Arab leader: We hope they mean it

Wilshire Boulevard Temple sanctuary before restoration. (Doug Santo)

Filmmaker chronicles synagogue restoration, ends up rebuilding own Jewish identity

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Aaron Wolf reconnects with his roots and family legacy while documenting massive undertaking at LA’s Wilshire Boulevard Temple

Moses, Pharoah and the courage to lead

Resistance to change makes genuine leadership a tension-filled — even dangerous — enterprise

Double the tax on Jerusalem’s ghost flats

A sharp tax hike for non-resident homeowners will help shape the capital into a vital and tolerant city

Painfully secret weapon

How a one-armed sharpshooter got his groove back

Prince Alwaleed’s hypocrisy

The Saudi royal who called out Donald Trump for race baiting needs to take a good long look in the mirror

US President Barack Obama (right) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, November 9, 2015. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Congress intel committee to probe US spying on Israel

By AP

Rep. Devin Nunes summons security chiefs to brief lawmakers after revelations that their conversations were caught up in sweep

In this Friday, Dec. 25, 2015 photo released by the US Navy, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman navigates the Gulf of Oman. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class J. M. Tolbert/ US Navy via AP)

US said to prepare new Iran sanctions for missile test

By AP and ToI Staff

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, left, speaks with Galil Division commander Amir Baram and head of the Northern Command Aviv Kochavi, during a visit to Israel's northern border on December 30, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF: Islamic State ally poses terror threat on northern border

By Judah Ari Gross

600-strong vicious IS affiliate takes over large parts of Syrian Golan Heights; army also preparing for Hezbollah reprisals

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)

Nasrallah said to rebuff warning against attacking Israel

Palestinian members of the marine unit of the Izz a-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, take part in an anti-Israel parade in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on July 13, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Analysis

Hamas says it plans to resume suicide attacks in Israel

By ToI Staff and Avi Issacharoff

Lebanese newspaper quotes terror group as claiming that ‘sleeper cells’ are in place, will target political and military figures

Hamas terrorist Abd al-Rahman al-Mubasar and captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit in an undated photograph published by Hamas on December 30, 2015. (YouTube/itonline2012)

Hamas airs video of captive Gilad Shalit, hours after releasing photo

By Raoul Wootliff and Stuart Winer

Footage shows abducted IDF soldier smiling with one of his guards during his 5 years as hostage in Gaza Strip

A teen suspect in the Duma terror case, who was released from custody when it was concluded he played no part in the incident, speaks to Channel 2 on December 31, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Released suspect in Duma case claims Shin Bet tortured him

‘I felt I was about to die,’ says teen; 2 suspects in fatal firebombing to be indicted soon; TV shows blurred footage of prime suspect

Soldiers stand guard in front of the central train station on November 22, 2015 in Brussels, as the Belgian capital remained on the highest security alert level over fears of a Paris-style attack. AFP PHOTO / Emmanuel Dunand)

Belgium charges 10th suspect over Paris attacks

By Marine LAOUCHEZ

New Year’s Eve celebrations in Brussels canceled as Belgium on high alert after alleged jihadist plot

2015 pop culture collage (JTA)

10 Jewish pop culture moments from 2015

By Gabe Friedman

Genadi Kaufman, who died on Wednesday, December 30, 2015, some three weeks after he was mortally wounded in a stabbing attack in Hebron. (Courtesy)

Terror victim laid to rest, after losing 3-week fight to survive

Genadi Kaufman was critically hurt in December 7 stabbing attack; agriculture minister, Knesset speaker attend Hebron funeral

Rabbi Yosef Mizrahi during a weekly lecture in New York. (Screenshot from YouTube)

NY rabbi: ‘Not even 1 million’ Jews killed in Holocaust

By Raoul Wootliff

Yosef Mizrachi claims high assimilation rates inflated estimates; ‘he doesn’t know what he’s talking about,’ historian says

Paneco, an Israeli website that will soon be launched in other countries, aims to compete with Duty Free shops by offering lower prices and free shipping. (courtesy Paneco.co.il)

Click here to get your liquor quicker, your hooch for cheap

By Melanie Lidman

More Headlines

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, attends a court hearing in Jerusalem, on May 10, 2015 (AFP/Gali Tibbon)

Sara Netanyahu to be grilled by police Thursday

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative: Doctors at Assaf Harofeh Hospital southeast of Tel Aviv on January 19, 2014. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Don’t insult a hospital worker. You could cause a death

By David Shamah

A couple holding an umbrella on a rainy day look out over the sea, at the Tel Aviv port. (December 18, 2015. (Esther Rubyan/FLASH90)

Israel bracing for winter storms as balmy weather set to end

By Raoul Wootliff

A Blindspot ad in Tel Aviv (Screenshot)

Israeli ‘anonymous flirting’ app raises ire at Knesset

By David Shamah

A marijuana plant. (photo credit: AP)

Hold your breathFirst kosher-certified pot hits market next month

By JTA

Israeli police at the scene where a stabbing attack took place in Damascus Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 10, 2015, (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police to get body cameras to increase transparency

Italian superstar Eros Ramazzotti will perform in Israel in April (Ricardo Pastor/CC BY 2.0)

Latin LoverItalian superstar to play Israel in April

By Jessica Steinberg

Scottish singer Donovan performing his hit song 'Hurdy Gurdy Man' in 1968. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Sunshine superman‘Mellow Yellow’ singer Donovan to play Jaffa in January

By Eliana Block

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