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What Matters Most On Friday, January 1, 2016

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Medics give emergency treatment to a victim following an attack by an unidentified gunman in central Tel Aviv that killed two people and wounded seven others on January 1, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ)

Arab Israeli gunman kills 2 in Tel Aviv shooting attack

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Hours after attack on Dizengoff Street, massive search for killer goes on; father, a police volunteer, called cops after seeing his face on TV

Paramedics on the scene of a shooting in central Tel Aviv on January 1, 2016. (Magen David Adom)

‘Gunman stood in the doorway, smiling, and opened fire’

Eyewitnesses at scene of shooting in Tel Aviv recount encounter with gunman and how customers, staff sought refuge in the kitchen

"Dear God, May the lessons be learned. May the victims know healing. May the nightmares end." (Shutterstock)

A voice for Gafni’s victims, from his ex

Laying bare her painful 2-decade chronicle: ‘We have all failed…. We were blinded by the lime-lit glitz of his wit’

New York police officers stand guard amid airborne confetti during New Year's Eve celebrations at Times Square on January 1, 2016 in New York City. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images/AFP)

Welcoming in the new year amid terror fears

By AFP

In Paris, Moscow, Jakarta, Madrid, New York, Sydney and elsewhere, events were canceled or reduced, terror suspects arrested as a jittery world inaugurated 2016

German police lift alert of imminent attack in Munich

By AFP

Defiant Parisians throng Champs-Elysees to bid adieu to 2015

By Thibauld MALTERRE and Joris FIORITI

Huge fire engulfs Dubai hotel, site of New Year celebrations

By AFP

What does an illegal order look like?

Breaking the Silence allows soldiers who acted in the heat of the military moment to reflect on what they did

Turning curses into blessings

Starting with the slavery in Egypt, Jews have used each historical tragedy to create themselves anew (Shemot)

People gather for the New Year's Eve celebrations on December 31, 2015 in New York City. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images/AFP)

FBI foils NY New Year’s Eve terror attack by IS supporter

By ToI Staff and AP

Muslim convert Emanuel Luchtman arrested for plotting attack on Rochester bar; reportedly swore allegiance to jihadist group

File: Author Dorit Rabinyan (screen capture: YouTube)

Education Ministry: Jewish-Arab love story can be studied in advanced classes

Officials make slight backtrack on ban on Dorit Rabinyan novel, though regular curriculum will still not include book

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

White House said to delay new Iran sanctions

By AFP and Sue Surkes

Despite Tehran’s prohibited testing of ballistic missiles, DC fears new punishments would disrupt nuclear accord

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani leaves after a press conference in his office in Tehran on December 16, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)

Iran hits back at US sanctions threat, steps up missile production

By Sue Surkes and Agencies

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox women working in the Malam Group IT company in the Haredi settlement of Beitar Illit. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

As ultra-Orthodox women bring home the bacon, don’t say the F-word

By Melanie Lidman

A sharp rise in Haredi women’s employment rates is one development challenging limitations on women‘s roles within the family. Just don’t call it feminism

Illustrative: Palestinians throw stones at Israeli security forces during clashes in the Palestinian town of al-Bireh on the outskirts of Ramallah on November 20, 2015. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)

Palestinian dies of wounds from West Bank clashes

By AFP

Shadi Ghabish, 38, was wounded in December 8 confrontation with IDF troops near Ramallah, PA officials say

Israelis in the snow on Mount Hermon during a winter storm sweeping through the country, December 31, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Snow, rain pour in to Israel at start of stormy weekend

Jerusalem takes steps ahead of expected freeze; police issue flash flood warning; power lines downed in Haifa

Pioneers build a new settlement in 1949. (Courtesy KKL-JNF/Avraham Malovsky)

Photo essay

Even Herzl had a blue box: JNF celebrates 115 years

By Melanie Lidman

Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael – Jewish National Fund was founded in 1901, after a scolding from Theodor Herzl

Nate Fish, director of the Israel Association of Baseball, demonstrating pitching to Israeli kids. (Margo Sugarman/IAB)

For ex-baseball players, Israel pitched as next career step

By Hillel Kuttler

Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein at the Ministry of Justice in Jerusalem, May 17, 2015. (Dudi Vaknin/Pool)

A-G ‘authorized torture’ of Jewish terror suspects — report

Sources tell Haaretz detainees in Duma killings were subjected to severe techniques after probe hit dead-end; PM was only notified after the fact

Duma terror suspect interviewed by Channel 2 (Channel 2 screenshot)

From the webDuma suspect’s wife: We want halachic state, but don’t burn people

Screenshot from a video showing extremist Israeli Jewish wedding-goers celebrating the killing of the Dawabsha family. (screen capture: Channel 10)

Father of ‘hate wedding’ bride blames Shin Bet conspiracy

By ToI Staff and Sue Surkes

Lenny Goldberg alleges ‘bad taste’ footage of revelers was orchestrated by security agents; says he doesn’t care about Duma victims

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)

Soldier whose rifle was brandished at ‘hate wedding’ gets 21 days in jail

IDF opens investigation into soldiers who participated in Jewish extremist event where revelers celebrated killing of a Palestinian toddler

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)

In Israel, Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ an enduring taboo

Emotional aversion runs deep in Jewish state for Nazi leader’s rambling 720-page book, about to be re-published in many countries

Jeff Morgan keeps an eye on the grapes for his kosher wines at the Covenant Winery in Berkeley, California (Steve Goldfinger)

Wine of the ‘Covenant’ finally found — in California

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Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on September 7, 2015. (AP/Charlie Neibergall, File)

New Clinton emails reveal critiques from Israel-bashing son of adviser

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Out of the runningIranian international marathon is men only

US President Obama with Jerry Seinfeld in an episode of 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.' (screenshot: 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee')

Laughing in The BeastObama brings the Jewish banter on Seinfeld’s web series

By Gabe Friedman

Yuval Delshad, right, gives Navid Negahban, left, direction on the set of the award-winning "Baba Joon." (Yoray Liberman)

Laugh and cryAs 2015 ends, screen year’s top sabra flicks

By Eliana Block

Actress Ania Bukstein (Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Winter is coming... to IsraelIsraeli actors set to star in Game of Thrones

By Keren Preiskel

A model momBar Refaeli announces pregnancy

A Samsung Smart TV (Photo credit: Courtesy)

How Israeli tech got into one-third of the world’s smart TVs

By David Shamah

Former President Shimon Peres works on his Facebook page with Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, looking on (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Al-Aqsa beats out Western Wall in Facebook end-of-year stats

By David Shamah

A member of Iraq's elite counter-terrorism service flashes the 'V' for victory sign on December 29, 2015 in the city of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq's Anbar province, about 110 kilometers west of Baghdad, after Iraqi forces recaptured it from the Islamic State jihadist group. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

UN says 980 killed in Iraq violence in December

By AP

Hacker attack downs BBC website for hours

By AFP

Jack Lew with President Barack Obama in the White House ( AP/Susan Walsh, File)

US Treasury secretary named in suit over tax-free donations to Israel

By JTA

A view of the Nile River. (CC-BY plusgood, Flickr.com)

14 drown in Egypt Nile boat accident

By AFP

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