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What Matters Most On Monday, January 4, 2016

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The suspected gunman in Friday's shooting attack in Tel Aviv (Courtesy)

Tel Aviv gunman fled scene, hailed cab, killed driver, police believe

Nashat Milhem still on run after Friday shootings; police says he’s armed, dangerous and could strike again

AnalysisIsrael seeks PA’s help in hunt for suspect in Tel Aviv shooting

By Avi Issacharoff and Sue Surkes

Schoolgirl finds fugitive Tel Aviv gunman’s cellphone

Father, sister of on-run Tel Aviv gunman questioned

Amiram Ben-Uliel, who was indicted on January 3, 2016, for murder in the killing of the Dawabsha family in Duma (courtesy).

When the shoe fit, Shin Bet knew it had found Duma killer

By Judah Ari Gross

Investigators say evidence from the scene helped to incriminate Amiram Ben-Uliel, who also knew details of the firebombing that hadn’t been publicized

Duma ‘revenge’ attack was not in our name, mother of murdered Israeli says

Palestinians plan to turn Dawabsha home into a museum

By Keren Preiskel

Video shows Jewish extremist reenacting deadly Duma firebombing

By Judah Ari Gross

Moses Breaking the Tables of the Law (1659) by Rembrandt. (Wikipedia)

Analysis

Thou shalt not murder. Remember?

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Those who assert a Jewish religious legitimacy for murder know nothing. With their wickedness, they shame the name of Judaism. This should not need saying. The Duma killings underline that it does

Fear and loathing in York University

Anti-Semitism at Canadian universities has reached a terrifying level — and no, the stakes aren’t small

Limmud UK: An island in time

Paradise for a literate crowd: 5 days packed with diverse points of view, and the family you didn’t know you had

Murder as a tool for redemption

The newly indicted suspected Jewish terrorists claim to be executors of vigilante justice; the truth is more outrageous

King Bibi’s dangerous electoral dynasty

States with long-serving leaders tend to unravel; Israel must set term limits before its democracy erodes further

Smoke billowing from buildings in the southern area of Wazzani river on the Lebanese-Israeli border, following Israeli artillery fire on January 4, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / ALI DIA)

Hezbollah bombs army vehicles on northern border, none hurt

By Judah Ari Gross

Terror cell named for Samir Kuntar takes responsibility, Israel shells Lebanon in response to attack at Shebaa Farms area near tense border

GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump talks to CBS's 'Face the Nation' on January 3, 2016. (screen capture: CBS)

Trump: I won’t rule out spying on Israel if elected president

By ToI Staff and AP

GOP candidate says Hillary Clinton ’caused tremendous death’ in Middle East, is ‘constantly playing the woman card’

Relatives and friends attend the funeral of 26-year-old Alon Bakal, shot dead on New Year's Day in Tel Aviv by a suspected Arab Israeli gunman, in Carmiel on January 3, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)

Tel Aviv shooting victim mourned as ‘fighter who fell on battlefield of hatred’

By Keren Preiskel

Thousands turn out as Shimon Ruimi and Alon Bakal are laid to rest; ‘your death has left us crushed,’ says Bakal’s father

A shared Facebook post, falsely claimed to be a photo of Arab Israelis celebrating the January 1, 2016, shooting attack at a Tel Aviv bar, which killed two and injured seven. The picture actually shows Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in southern Lebanon celebrating the January 2014 death of Ariel Sharon. (Facebook)

Viral image of Arab Israelis celebrating TA attack is a fake

Photo shared on Facebook is actually of rejoicing in Lebanon over Ariel Sharon’s death in 2014

Screenshot from a CNN report showing footage of Jürgen Todenhöfer with Islamic State fighters in Syria in 2014. (Screenshot/CNN)

‘The only country IS fears is Israel,’ says embedded journalist

Jurgen Todenhofer, who spent 10 days with jihadists, says they believe IDF is ‘too strong for them’

Still image from a Hamas video released on January 3, 2016, apparently showing IDF soldier Gilad Shalit tending a barbecue during his captivity in Gaza. (screen capture)

Hamas releases new footage of Shalit, barbecuing in captivity

By Keren Preiskel

Video includes images of abducted soldier making coffee with his captors; family castigates ‘godless’ Hamas for skewed propaganda

Israeli army jeeps patrol along the northern Israeli border with Lebanon on July 14, 2014. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)

Anticipating Hezbollah action, Israel shells Lebanon border

IDF fires artillery for fourth successive day amid concerns terror group will take advantage of poor weather to ‘avenge’ death of Samir Kuntar

Border Police arrest a Palestinian man who was found with a knife at the Tapuah checkpoint in the northern West Bank on January 4, 2016. (Israel Police)

Security forces arrest 2 knife-carrying Palestinians

By Judah Ari Gross

In separate incidents, police and soldiers apprehend men with blades during inspections in Tapuah and nearby Hawara in the West Bank

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian gives a press conference at Bayan palace in Kuwait City, March 31, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/STR)

Iran: Saudi severing ties won’t distract from its ‘big mistake’

By AFP

Deputy FM says world won’t forget Riyadh’s execution of Shiite cleric, calling the decision a ‘strategic error’ and ‘rash’

Peggy Guggenheim (Courtesy: Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict)

Peggy Guggenheim: Portrait of a Jewish American Princess

Ran Baratz (screen capture: YouTube)

Two months on, PM’s controversial appointment for spokesman still pending

By Raphael Ahren

Ran Baratz, who called Obama ‘anti-Semitic,’ still hopes to head information directorate; post has been vacant since August

Screen capture from controversial Jewish right-wing wedding (YouTube)

Three more arrested in far-right ‘hate wedding’ case

Cops pick up another group of revelers, including a minor and the wedding singer, for incitement and illegally handling guns

Sarah and Gedaliya Mayer, the parents of alleged Jewish extremist Mordechai Mayer, talk to the media about their son's administrative detention, on August 5, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Jewish terror suspect freed from 5-month administrative detention

Mordechai Mayer, 18, suspected of torching Christian sites, is released without charges

Rosie the Riveter wouldn't say 'just' or 'sorry' in her emails. ('We Can Do It!' by J. Howard Miller)

Make a New Year’s resolution to communicate confidently

More Headlines

Illustration. IDF recruits. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flickr)

2015 saw fewest IDF soldiers’ deaths in a decade

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

Attorney general to probe Education Ministry’s book blackball

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

Rabbi apologizes for lowballing number of halachic Jews killed in Holocaust

By JTA

Illustrative photo of Amsterdam, Holland, December 19, 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Dutch Jewish family’s home vandalized in anti-Semitic attack

By JTA

Femen activists hold Charlie Hebdo frontpages during a Unity rally on January 11, 2015 in Paris in tribute to the 17 victims of a three-day killing spree by homegrown Islamists. (photo credit: AFP/LOIC VENANCE)

Charlie Hebdo marks anniversary of attack with gun-wielding God

By AFP

Lila Kagedan. (Courtesy of Yeshivat Maharat)

First Yeshivat Maharat female rabbi hired by Orthodox synagogue

By JTA

Illustrative image of rats (Pixabay)

High-tech rat patrol hunts down rodents in hours, instead of days

By David Shamah

Shlomo Gradman (Courtesy)

Israeli engineers will bounce back from Freescale lab closure, says expert

By David Shamah

Ellen Gerecht, executive director of the National Center to Encourage Judaism, at her office in Silver Spring, Maryland, Dec. 29, 2015. (Suzanne Pollak/Washington Jewish Week, via JTA)

Jewish foundation seeks to convert gentiles, saying ‘We all want Judaism to grow’

By Suzanne Pollak

Israeli Police stand guard outside the scene of a shooting on Dizengoff Street in central Tel Aviv, on January 02, 2016, a day after two people were killed and several injured. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewOne down, one to go

By Joshua Davidovich

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