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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 5, 2016

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Israeli security forces look during a hunt for Nashat Milhem, the prime suspect in first of January fatal Tel Aviv shooting attack in Ramat Aviv neighborhood, Tel Aviv, on January 5, 2016. (Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Police chief signals Tel Aviv no longer threatened by gunman

By Raoul Wootliff and Judah Ari Gross

In vague statement, Roni Alsheich says ‘tension’ in city can be ‘dramatically reduced’; responds to complaints that police haven’t updated public on manhunt for Nashat Milhem

Tel Aviv shooter visited target pub before attack

Father of alleged TA gunman suspected of being accomplice

Ex-boss on Tel Aviv shooting suspect: ‘I loved the man’

A French soldier stands guard during the posing of a commemorative plaque on the Hyper Cacher Jewish supermarket in Paris on January 4, 2016, in memory of four people killed during a hostage taking in the shop on January 9, 2015. (AFP / THOMAS SAMSON)

Year after attack, France’s Jews learn to live under armed guard

By Benoît FAUCHET

Paris’s Hyper Cacher is back open for business, but for some Jews the soldiers patrolling their neighborhoods are a sign they’re a ‘preferred target’

France honors victims of Charlie Hebdo, kosher market attacks

By AP

Charlie Hebdo editor: No one questions when Jews are killed

By AP and ToI Staff

Accidental hero: The Muslim who saved Jews in Paris attack

By Pauline Froissart

Mohammed Milhem at the Haifa Magistrate's Court on Tuesday, January 5, 2016 (Channel 2 screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Lawyer: Father of alleged TA gunman spoke with son after shooting

By Adiv Sterman

IDF officer Yishai Rosales, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Netzach Yehuda unit, killed in training accident; Russia says IS likely used chemical weapons

Michael Ganoe, head of the 'Hershey's for Heroes' organization speaks to a group of IDF soldiers on their base on August 25, 2015. (Screen capture)

IDF allows anti-Islam activist to spread hate, chocolate to soldiers

By Judah Ari Gross

Beneath a cheery name, head of the ‘Hershey’s for Heroes’ organization disseminates messages against Muhammad, Allah, Dome of the Rock — sweetened with candy

Michelle Rojas-Tal

Striking a balance in the age of terror

Sending her children to school, despite the mornings when all she wants is to keep them held tight next to her

NGO law protects Israel from existential threats

The bill creates transparency regarding those funded by foreign governments that may not have Israel’s interests at heart

Syed Wajahat Ali

The Christ of Saudi Arabia? Maybe not

The execution of Nimr al-Nimr need not be seen as an act of Saudi hostility toward Iran

David Bernstein

Can you say ‘intersectionality’?

It’s the anti-Israel trend you’ve never heard of and it’s being taught at a campus near you

Nancy Spielberg (right) with former NBA commissioner David Stern and filmmaker Danny Menkin pose for one of her latest films, "On the Map," about the 1977 basketball playoff between Israel and Russia (Courtesy Nancy Spielberg)

Spielberg’s kid sister goes ‘Above and Beyond’ to make her filmmaking mark

By Jessica Steinberg

Dani Dayan participates in a panel discussion at the Israel Conference on Democracy in Tel Aviv, February 17, 2015. (Amir Levy/Flash90)

Exclusive

Alternative envoy would receive ‘fast-track approval,’ Brazil pledges

By Raphael Ahren

Brasilia vows to publicly reject ex-settler leader Dani Dayan if Jerusalem insists on his appointment; Dayan starts ambassador’s course

File: Israeli security forces at the scene of a stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion Junction, January 5, 2016. (Gershon Elinson)

Soldier injured in stabbing attack at West Bank junction

By Raoul Wootliff

Victim sustains injuries to face and arms during assault in Etzion Bloc south of Jerusalem; attacker shot and killed

Israeli police officers search for a gunman near the scene of a shooting attack in Tel Aviv, January 1, 2016. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Arabs complain of police abuse, discrimination in hunt for Tel Aviv shooter

One Tel Aviv resident says home ‘turned upside-down’ by cops searching for suspect in Friday’s fatal Dizengoff shooting

A view of Herzliya on December 12, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash 90)

Suspected East Jerusalem terrorist caught after Herzliya manhunt

Man told family he intended to carry out attack; case unrelated to ongoing hunt for shooter in Friday’s killings in Tel Aviv

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his way to the cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on January 3, 2016. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

Netanyahu denies placing conditions on aid package for Arabs

By Raoul Wootliff

But minister confirms he and colleague were asked to draw up list of demands for community to get billions of earmarked funds

File: A meeting of the Knesset Education Committee on December 22, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

6 MKs ousted from stormy ‘Breaking the Silence’ Knesset meet

Controversial group boycotts hearing to discuss Education Minister’s decision to ban it from high schools

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon at a meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 4, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Kulanu head says party will support controversial NGO bill

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Moshe Kahlon declares his faction is satisfied with legislation despite it not requiring private funding reports

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, in hat, leaves the Supreme Court in Jerusalem after appealing his sentence, November 16, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Supreme Court rejects kabbalist rabbi’s bribery appeal

Yoshiyahu Pinto to report to prison next month over case that rocked police, saw suicide of top anti-corruption cop

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly government conference in Jerusalem on January 3, 2016. (Photo by Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

Israel girding for possible Palestinian Authority collapse — report

By Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu, defense establishment said to tell top ministers to take proactive approach to bolster Ramallah and prevent dissolution of governing body

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas holds a press conference with United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon following a meeting at the Muqata presidential compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on October 21, 2015. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Palestinian Authority adrift after three months of unrest

By Sarah Benhaida

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Jerusalem Labor Court on October 29, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Sara Netanyahu questioned for second time over graft allegations

By Keren Preiskel

Police interrogate prime minister’s wife on suspicion of using, misreporting state funds to cover electrician costs at private residence

Tourists at Auschwitz photographing the 'Arbeit Macht Frei' gate, July 2015. (Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)

Over 1.7 million visit Auschwitz, breaking annual record

By JTA

Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in visitors at site of Nazi death camp, up from fewer than 500,000 in 2000

File: Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, right, shakes hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a reception ceremony at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, Iran, June 1, 2014 (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Kuwait recalls ambassador from Iran as Sunni-Shiite face-off escalates

By AP

Follows similar moves by Saudi allies Sudan and Bahrain, and downgrading of Iran ties by United Arab Emirates

Illustrative photo of a chemical weapons stockpile (photo credit: CC BY-jenspie3/Flickr)

UN watchdog finds traces of Syria sarin gas exposure

By AFP

Chemical weapons agency investigating 11 incidents; won’t say where, or who was responsible for use of banned munitions

File: Iranian protesters raise their fists in front of a portrait of prominent Shiite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr during a demonstration against his execution by Saudi authorities, on January 3, 2016, outside the Saudi embassy in Tehran. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)

Analysis

In the Iran-Saudi Arabia conflict, a clash of civilizations

By Avi Issacharoff

The cold war between the two regional powers is likely to heat up, reviving an age-old sectarian war between Sunni and Shiite Islam in which every country and group in the Middle East will have to choose a side

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New neck protection created for IDF soldiers serving in the West Bank. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF to deploy neck armor as answer to stabbing attacks

By Judah Ari Gross

A photo taken on January 4, 2016, at a printing house near Paris shows the cover of the latest edition of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, bearing a headline that translates as 'One year on: The assassin still at large,' in an edition to mark the first anniversary of the terror attack. (AFP/Martin Bureau)

Assassin — God — still at large, Charlie Hebdo says year after attack

By AFP

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Nashua, New Hampshire, December 28, 2015. (Darren McCollester/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump reiterates call for Muslim ban in first TV ad

By AFP

View of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus seen from Jerusalem's Old City, on June 10, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Novel university ranking system lists Hebrew U in top 50 worldwide

By David Shamah

The tail of a Metrojet plane that crashed in Hassana, Egypt carrying 224 people on Saturday, October 31, 2015. (Suliman el-Oteify/Egyptian Prime Minister's Office via AP)

Fly riskDeliberate acts cause more airline deaths than crashes

Filippo Grandi of Italy speaks during a press conference at the headquarters of the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, September 12, 2012. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, file)

Former UNRWA head takes helm of UN refugee agency

By AFP

Damage caused by a 6.7-magnitude earthquake in the northeastern Manipur state of India, which is home to the Bnei Menashe community. (Shavei Israel)

Indian quake rattles ‘lost tribe’ of Bnei Menashe Jews

By Stuart Winer

Illustrative photo of the Route 6 toll road, also known as the Trans-Israel Highway, March 30 2008. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Three killed in deadly day on Israel’s roads

The China-Israel business summit in Beijing, January 2016. (Courtesy)

Big deals expected at biggest-ever Israel investment event in China

By David Shamah

Dr. Jonathan Zizmor's eclectic dermatology advertisements (screen capture: YouTube)

A cut above Dr. Zizmor, NY subway icon, retires

By JTA

Franco-American art-dealer Guy Wildenstein (right), and his lawyers leave the Paris courthouse on January 4, 2016, after the first day in the trial of several members of the Wildenstein art-dealing dynasty on charges of tax fraud and money-laundering. (AFP/Alain Jocard)

French-US art dealer’s multi-million fraud trial opens in Paris

By AFP

Supporters of Zaki Bani Irsheid, a top leader of the Muslim Brotherhood opposition group, hold photos of him, outside the state security court in Amman, Jordan, February 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Jordan frees Muslim Brotherhood deputy leader

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