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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 6, 2016

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File: Education Minister Naftali Bennett, leader of the Jewish Home party (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Analysis

Bennett: Authorities looking at ‘one or two rabbis’ who helped radicalize ‘hilltop youth’

By David Horovitz

Education minister says he’s launched programs to rehabilitate young Jewish extremists; insists Israel must control West Bank ‘forever’; rules out change to status quo on Temple Mount

Illustrative photo: Masked Jewish settlers, background, and Palestinians, foreground, hurl stones during clashes in the West Bank, Friday, May 3, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

2 Israeli teens indicted in savage beating of Palestinian man

Corporal Elad Yaakov Sela from the Bat Ayin settlement is brought to court in Tel Aviv on April 13, 2015. (Flash90)

Soldier who ‘spied’ for Jewish extremists gets 45 months

By Lee Gancman and Judah Ari Gross

Benjamin Netanyahu and Yossi Cohen look over documents in a photo posted on social media by Netanyahu on December 7, 2015, shortly after he named Cohen as the new Mossad chief. (PMO/Facebook)

AnalysisYossi Cohen is now effectively Israel's top diplomat

Our new spymaster and the demise of Israeli politics

By Haviv Rettig Gur

There is an irony at the heart of the Netanyahu premiership — a dramatic consolidation of political power driven by a collapse in Israelis’ faith in such power

Yossi Cohen takes the reins as new Mossad chief

US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk away after a news conference at the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, March 20, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

At Rabin funeral, Netanyahu lamented that PM died a ‘hero,’ US diplomat says

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Jerusalem denies claims by Martin Indyk aired in PBS film on the fraught ties between the Israeli leader and Obama’s White House

Netanyahu denies bemoaning Rabin’s death as a ‘hero’

By Raphael Ahren and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Jewish groups hail Obama’s executive action on gun control

By Eric Cortellessa

Teary Obama thrusts gun control debate into forefront of 2016 race

Jaudat Milhem (Channel 2 screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

Mother of TA fugitive says authorities threatened to demolish her home

By Adiv Sterman

Juadat Milhem, brother of suspected shooter, condemns attack, but adds that he and his father, who was also arrested, have nothing to do with incident

Terry Joffe Benaryeh

The day joy vanquished my terror

She ventured warily into the supermarket where her uncle was murdered and left with an unexpected smile

The collapse of American credibility

The White House embarrasses itself and scares the rest of the world when it reneges on its promises about Iran

Calev Michael Myers

Genocide in 2016? Time to take action

As ISIS slaughters Shiites, Yazidis and Christians in the Mideast, will the UN and NATO again fail to act?

Top 10 Israel heritage Wiki photos

Award-winning images of Old City architecture, bustling ports, wildlife and religious sites

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

Father of alleged TA gunman suspected of being accomplice

Court extends remand for Mohammed Milhem by 2 days, keeps several others in custody as manhunt for his son persists

Nashat Milhem, the Arab Israeli man who carried out the shooting attack in Tel Aviv on January 1, 2016. (Israel Police)

Police sweep northern Arab town in hunt for TA shooter

Nashat Milhem, the Arab Israeli man who carried out the shooting attack in Tel Aviv on January 1, 2016. (Israel Police)

Arab businessman offers $10K reward for Tel Aviv gunman

By JTA

People watch a news report on North Korea's purported first hydrogen bomb test at a railroad station in Seoul on January 6, 2016. (AFP Photo/Jung Yeon-Je)

S. Korea’s spy agency doubts Pyongyang H-bomb claims

Lawmaker Lee Cheol says the relatively small size of the seismic wave reported indicates N. Korea may not have tested hydrogen bomb

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. (YouTube/Al Jazeera America)

Iran: Saudi Arabia aligned with ‘Zionists’ on nuclear deal

By AFP

Foreign Minister Zarif demands kingdom stop confounding Tehran’s diplomacy

A picture taken on January 5, 2016 shows a memorial plaque bearing the names of the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack on January 7, 2015. (AFP / JOEL SAGET)

Je suis Charley

Hebdo plaque misspells Jewish cartoonist’s name

By AFP and ToI Staff

Widow of Georges Wolinski is ‘furious’ over mistake, ‘hard pressed to see the humor’

A French Jewish family arrives at Ben Gurion Airport, November 16, 2015. (Daniel Bar-On)

French Jews leaving in record numbers – but not for the reason you think

By Cnaan Liphshiz

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, poses with carolers during a reception for carol singers from all over Germany at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Mass sexual assaults in Cologne test German openness to refugees

By Deborah Cole

‘Lumping’ the New Year’s Eve attacks with the refugee issue ‘is nothing but exploitation,’ warns justice minister

An emotional President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks about the youngest victims of the Sandy Hook shootings, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, where he spoke about steps his administration is taking to reduce gun violence (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Jewish groups hail Obama’s executive action on gun control

By Eric Cortellessa

As president bypasses Congress to tighten gun safety regulations, major Jewish organizations express support

Cpt. Yishai Rosales, who was killed during an IDF training exercise on Tuesday, January 5, 2016 (screen capture)

IDF officer killed as shell explodes during exercise

By Judah Ari Gross

Another soldier wounded; army cancels all drills in the ground forces pending an initial investigation of the accident

Yifat Ben-Ari (L), whose husband was killed by errant police, fire embraces the policewomen who accidentally shot him while responding to a stabbing attack (Israel Police)

Widow embraces cops who accidentally killed her husband

Yifat Ben-Ari not angry at policewomen, who were targeting terrorists at Jaffa Gate; they are ‘like her daughters,’ she says

File: An Aegean Airlines flight arrives at London's Heathrow Airport (Public domain/Wikipedia/Adrian Pingstone)

Jewish Israeli passengers force Arabs off Athens-Tel Aviv flight

By Sue Surkes and AFP

Aegean Airlines plane held up until 2 Israeli Arabs disembark, as fellow passengers accuse them of being terrorists

Zionist Union MK Zionist Tzipi Livni during a party meeting at the Knesset, December 21, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Livni demands urgent meeting to address fear of PA collapse

By Stuart Winer

Opposition lawmaker says PM has backed himself into a political corner and is not implementing security recommendations

Former Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan speaks with then-Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (second from the right) and Northern Command head Aviv Kochavi (right) during a visit to Israel's northern border following a Hezbollah attack the day before, on January 5, 2016. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Ya’alon tours site of Hezbollah attacks in north

By Lee Gancman and Judah Ari Gross

Defense minister says Israel prepared to respond to any further attempts to retaliate for assassination of Samir Kuntar

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (left), with Efrat Mayor Oded Ravivi (right) in the Etzion Bloc settlement on September 30, 2015 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Ya’alon said to approve construction of new settlement

Plot of land south of Etzion Bloc includes former church compound purchased in secret by Christian activists

The building of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in Jerusalem (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

State kosher certification costs Israeli economy $770M a year

By JTA

Treasury report finds rabbinate’s practices ‘raise the cost of living, as any exclusive provider in the production process would’

Bistro owner Itai Shapira said business is dismal at his restaurant on Dizengoff, and he's not surprised (Eliana Block/Times of Israel)

Bars on terrorized TA drag lift spirits with happy hour

By Eliana Block

More Headlines

A picture taken on December 28, 2015 shows a murmuration of starlings performing their traditional dance before landing to sleep near the southern city of Rahat, in the northern Negev desert. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Photo essayStarlings form dark cloud over Negev

Nate Silver speaking at the ABC Leadership Breakfast panel in New York City, Sept. 28, 2015. (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for AWXII/via JTA)

Nate Silver: Trump more likely nominee than Sanders

By JTA

A still image from a scene of 'The Day the Clown Cried,' a film never released by its maker, comedian Jerry Lewis. (Screen capture YouTube)

No laughing matterBBC releases docu on Jerry Lewis’ Holocaust film

By JTA

Hadassah University Hospital in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem (Courtesy)

Report: Hadassah covered up its failing finances

A wild hyena seen in Tanzania, Africa. April 10, 2014. (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

Ahead of the packJenin residents fend off hyenas

Sheldon Adelson attends the Republican Jewish Coalition spring leadership meeting at The Venetian Las Vegas on March 29, 2014 (Photo credit: Ethan Miller/Getty Images/AFP)

Adelson ‘never’ tells Israel Hayom staff what to write

Knesset House Committee Chairman David Bitan speaks at a committee meeting October 26, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Lobbyist transparency bill passes into law

The Boba Fett character from the “Star Wars” movie franchise. (YouTube screenshot)

Jewish actor who voiced ‘Star Wars’ character Boba Fett dies

By JTA

Illustrative photo of a board showing stock fluctuations at the Tel Aviv stock exchange (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Government gives small, medium businesses a billion shekel boost

By David Shamah

Dr. Robert Berger, who discredited Nazi medical experiments, died January 5, 2016 at age 86. (JTA)

Dr. Robert Berger, who discredited Nazi medical experiments, dies at 86

By JTA

From the webIsraeli mobile carrier Partner severs ties with Orange

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

Hebrew media reviewArrests, but prime suspect still on the run

By Ilan Ben Zion

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