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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 2, 2016

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Footage from the scene shows a suspected Arab Israeli gunman emerging form a nearby store and opening fire during a January 1, 2016 attack that killed two people at a Tel Aviv bar (screen capture: YouTube)

Father of Tel Aviv gunman: ‘Stop him before he kills again’

Massive police presence at home of Nashat Milhem, suspected attacker in Wadi Ara; local council slams shooting, calls it alien to village’s culture

Suspect in Tel Aviv shooting is Arab Israeli from Wadi Ara

A day on, a subdued Tel Aviv reels from deadly shooting

Father mourns ‘very special’ son killed in Tel Aviv shooting

Israeli security forces patrol the area of an attack by a gunman, who opened fire at a pub in central Tel Aviv killing two people and wounding seven others on January 1, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ)

Public urged to watch out for any suspicious individual

Security forces believe Dizengoff gunman is still in Tel Aviv area

City on high alert as manhunt continues for Arab Israeli who killed two in New Year’s Day shooting; computers seized from family home

Tel Aviv mayor: We will not give up our daily routine

Israelis say sense of security lost as near-daily attacks persist

Friday's Live Updates (closed)Police search into night for Israeli Arab gunmen who shot dead 2 in Tel Aviv

Amin Shaaban, a 42-year-old cab driver from Lod who was murdered in Tel Aviv on January 1, 2016 (Channel 2 news)

Cabbie killed in Tel Aviv named; gag order on murder remains

Body of Amin Shaaban, 42, was found in north part of the city about an hour after Arab gunman killed 2 on Dizengoff Street

Alon Bakal, one the victims of a January 1, 2016 shooting attack in Tel Aviv, seen outside the Simta bar on December 20, 2015 (Courtesy Facebook)

Victims of Tel Aviv shooting to be buried Sunday

Alon Bakal and Shimon Ruimi were killed in Friday’s shooting attack at a bar in Dizengoff street

Schmidt (Max Greenfield), center, Nick (Jake Johnson), left, and Jess (Zooey Deschanel) in a scene from “New Girl,” Feb. 3, 2015. (FOX via Getty Images / JTA)

7 strange Jewish jokes that prove ‘New Girl’ is the anti-‘Seinfeld’

By Gabe Friedman

Creators of Fox sitcom, which starts its fifth season on Tuesday, have plenty of Jewish influences on set to keep them honest

Helen Gottstein

The star of Exodus may have been a singular figure, but he certainly didn’t go it alone

Avi Issacharoff

Talk to the Palestinians, before it’s too late

Op-ed: Zionism used to be committed to the quest for peace. That goal is being obliterated

Israel wants you!

Anti-Semitism, safety fears and economics are boosting immigration: Where’s the ideological ‘aliya’?

Eavesdrops should be investigated

Alleged US spying on calls with Israeli officials raises concerns that American citizens’ rights are being violated

Kulanu party leader Moshe Kahlon and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after signing a coalition deal on April 29, 2015. (photo credit: courtesy of Likud party)

Netanyahu would lose majority if elections held today — poll

PM’s Likud would win just 25 Knesset seats in new vote, while Yesh Atid would leap from 11 to 18

Members of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis in the Egyptian Sinai read out sentences before they behead four men accused of spying for Israel, August 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)

Islamic State-linked group claims responsibility for Gaza rockets

Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis gloats it turned ‘night into day’ in ‘occupied Palestine’; IAF hit Hamas targets after 5 rockets fired Friday

Illustrative photo of an IAF F-16 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flash90)

IAF hits Hamas in Gaza, as Israel warns of fierce response to rockets

In this Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012 file photo, a Saudi anti-government protester carries a poster with the image of jailed Shiite cleric Sheik Nimr al-Nimr during the funeral of three Shiite Muslims allegedly killed by Saudi security forces in the eastern town of al-Awamiya, Saudi Arabia. (AP)

Fury in Iran and Iraq as Saudis execute top Shiite cleric

By AFP

Tehran warns Riyadh will ‘pay high price’ for killing Nimr al-Nimr, accused of role in al-Qaeda attacks; 46 others also put to death

US President Barack Obama with King Salman of Saudi Arabia in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on September 4, 2015. (AFP/Yuri Gripas)

State TV: Saudi Arabia has executed 47 criminals

By AP

File: IRGC Deputy Commander Hossein Salami in a February 9, 2015 interview. (YouTube screenshot of MEMRI video)

Iran: ‘We’ll make missiles for as long as US supports Israel’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Revolutionary Guards head hits back at US threat of sanctions over weapons tests, says regime has so many missiles it doesn’t know where to put them

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at an official ceremony in the Presidential Complex in Ankara, on December 24, 2015. (AFP/Adem Altan)

‘Turkey needs Israel,’ says Erdogan as he pushes reconciliation

By AFP

President tells local media that normalization between former allies will follow ‘mutual steps implemented with sincerity’

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greets members of parliament as he arrives for a swearing-in ceremony at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Turkey, June 23, 2015. (AFP/ADEM ALTAN)

Erdogan’s office denies advocating Hitler-style rule

By AP

Representatives of Turkish president say he cited Nazis as example to explain that bad rule can emerge in political systems

File: Palestinians gather in Hebron as PA security forces carry the bodies of two out of five Palestinians assailants released by Israel on October 30, 2015. (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)

Israel transfers 23 terrorists’ bodies to PA

By ToI Staff and AP

Most were Palestinian attackers from the Hebron area

Michael Zegen, center, works those biceps in a scene from “A View from the Bridge.” (Jan Versweyveld / JTA)

From HBO to Arthur Miller, what a ‘tough guy’ actor learned from his Jewish grandma

By Lonnie Firestone

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A rainbow is seen after heavy rain in the Judean Desert, on January 1, 2016. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Snow in north, flash floods in south as Israel hit by storms

Anne Frank, at age 12, at her school desk in Amsterdam, 1941

Anne Frank’s diary goes online despite rights dispute

By AFP

Illustration image: Orthodox Jews in front of a synagogue in Brooklyn. (Serge Attal/Flash 90)

Arrests made in attack on Jewish man in Brooklyn

By JTA

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

Suspect in New York attack plot is a ‘panhandler’

By AP

Guo Guangchang (screenshot)

Modern mysteries of the EastFar Eastern intrigue surrounds Fosun’s acquisition of Israeli insurance firm

By David Shamah

Yemeni fighters, opposing the Houthi rebels and supporting government forces loyal to President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, stand on a street in Aden's northern district of Dar Saad on April 12, 2015. (AFP/Saleh al-Obeidi)

Yemen pro-government fighters kill al-Qaeda leader in south

By Ahmed al-Haj

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