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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 7, 2016

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Ziad Abu Hadwan, left, Ammar Rajabe, ceneter, and Maher Qawasmeh. Three members of the Hamas terror cell broken up by Israeli security forces last month. (courtesy Shin Bet)

Israel busts Hamas cell that planned kidnappings, murders

By Judah Ari Gross

Security forces arrrest 3 Jerusalem residents, three from Hebron in ‘advanced stages’ of preparing terror attacks

Negev teacher jailed for preaching Islamic State ideology, planning to join IS

Uncle of Tel Aviv attack fugitive to be released

Suspected Tel Aviv gunman thought hiding in West Bank

Right-wing activists protest at Jerusalem's Hebrew University against the Israeli group Breaking the Silence on December 22, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Why does Europe fund left-wing Israeli groups?

By Raphael Ahren

Ayelet Shaked’s NGO bill seeks to curtail foreign entities intervening in Israel’s affairs; EU says it will damage country’s reputation as ‘an open and democratic society’

US State Department Spokesman John Kirby. (AP/Susan Walsh)

US rejects likening Israel’s NGO law to lobbying registry

By JTA

Scene of an attempted stabbing near the Etzion bloc junction in the West Bank on January 7, 2016. (Etzion Bloc Regional Council)

Live updates (closed)

Soldiers shoot attacker in attempted West Bank stabbing

By Adiv Sterman

Would-be stabber shot dead in incident in Beit Anun, near Hebron; no Israeli injuries reported

Volunteers attempt to recover Iraqi Jewish archival material from the flooded basement of the Mukhabarat, Saddam Hussein’s intelligence headquarters, 2003. (Harold Rhode, Courtesy of the US National Archives)

Who should keep Iraqi Jewry’s archives, saved from Saddam, now on tour in US?

By Rich Tenorio

The future of a unique collection, salvaged in a ‘Monuments Men-style’ rescue from a secret police HQ in Baghdad, 2003, is up for grabs

Egyptian forensic experts inspect a bullet-riddled window at the entrance of the Three Pyramids hotel in Cairo where Israeli tourists were shot at, January 7, 2016. (AFP Photo/ Khaled Desouki)

Israeli tourists targeted in Cairo attack; none hurt

By Agencies and ToI Staff

About a dozen assailants shoot fireworks, rubber bullets at Giza hotel, near Egypt’s iconic pyramids; two attackers caught

NewYear resolutions inspired by Alon

“If my life is taken in a terror attack, please don’t make me into a cause célèbre for your personal propaganda”

Andrew Silow-Carroll

‘Teach us to number our days’

A diary displaying the same day’s entries for 5 consecutive years helps keep away the ‘wolf of insignificance’

Give my friend parenting advice?

Today’s jam: Your friend’s teenager is heading for trouble — do you say something, or just shut up?

Netanyahu-Obama: What PBS missed

The Fontline documentary skipped at least 4 times when the US and Israeli heads of state cooperated

Dan bus driver Ruty Tehrani (courtesy)

Bus driver praised for ignoring calls to remove Arab man

Incident on TA’s Dan line comes in stark contrast to demand by Jewish Israeli passengers that led Aegean Airlines flight to remove Arabs

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

Aegean Airlines apologizes for removing Arabs from flight

By ToI Staff and AFP

Neil Gandler, 42, a Jewish tech entrepreneur who lived out of rental cars and was shot and killed in a Las Vegas parking lot December 29, 2015. (JTA)

Jewish entrepreneur murdered in Las Vegas parking lot

By JTA

Neil Gandler, 42, was proud of living out of rental cars, riding bicycles and campaigning for Israeli-Palestinian dialogue

Naftali Bennett on the Israel-Gaza border, on the second day of Operation Protective Edge, July 9, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

Naftali Bennett: We’re literally the border between Islamic State and the free world

By David Horovitz

Reporter Eitam Lachover was accidentally stabbed on the job while demonstrating a protective vest, January 6, 2016 (YouTube / Channel 1 screenshot)

Back Stabber

Reporter stabbed while demonstrating protective vest

By AP

In mishap, Eitam Lachover lightly injured as knife penetrates ‘stabbing-proof’ gear

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a Christmas lunch with members of the Christian Orthodox community in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, January 6, 2016. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Analysis

Mahmoud Abbas is here to stay, says Mahmoud Abbas

By Avi Issacharoff

But with public support at an all-time low, and challengers to his rule multiplying, the Palestinian leader may not survive if he can’t address his people’s problems

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a Christmas lunch with members of the Christian Orthodox community in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, January 6, 2016. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Abbas: PA not on verge of collapse, can only be succeeded by statehood

French police officers on patrol at the Boulevard de Barbes in the north of Paris on January 7, 2016, after police shot a man dead as he was trying to enter a police station in the Rue de la Goutte d'Or. (LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP)

Knifeman with fake suicide belt shot dead by police in Paris

By Lori Hinnant and Elaine Ganley

Assailant cries out ‘Allahu akbar’ in presumed terror attack at police station

Simta bar on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv puts on a memorial to the two victims of a New year's Day shooting attack there, as it reopens on January 6, 2016 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Site of deadly Tel Aviv shooting reopens, solemnly

Mourners, neighbors and Tel Aviv’s mayor pay tribute to victims Alon Bakal, Shimon Ruimi at the Simta bar

Basem Al-Agha, Palestinian ambassador to Saudi Arabia, meets Saudi deputy prime minister Muqrin bin Abdulaziz on February 10, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube)

Palestinian Authority sides with Saudis in Iran spat

After execution of leading Shiite cleric, Sunni Arab states line up behind Riyadh against long-time rival Tehran

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) with outgoing Mossad director Tamir Pardo (right) and incoming director Yossi Cohen, at a ceremony for the newly appointed Mossad head, in Tel Aviv, on January 6, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

New Mossad chief: Iran deal ‘significantly increases’ threat to Israel

By Tamar Pileggi

Still, Yossi Cohen is confident spy agency able to counter Tehran, warns of spread of fanatical Islamist extremism

Yesh Atid MK Karin Elharar at a Knesset State Control Committee meeting on June 3, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Profile

MK Karine Elharar: Knesset’s becoming more like ‘Big Brother’

By Marissa Newman

Israeli soldiers carry the carry the coffin of Cpt. Yishai Rosales, at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, on January 7, 2016. Rosales died at a training exercise on an army base in southern Israel on Tuesday. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

1,000 pay respects to IDF officer, an immigrant from Mexico, killed in accident

Mourners heed family’s call to attend Mount Herzl funeral of Cpt. Yishai Rosales, most of whose relatives live abroad

Marc Gafni (Shawn Jones)

Controversial ex-rabbi Gafni and an alleged victim square off

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom paramedic holding a newborn baby born to a surrogate mother in Nepal, on April 28 2015. (Courtesy Magen David Adom)

Israeli gay couple discovers surrogate baby is not their child

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings gives a keynote address, January 6, 2016 at the CES 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. (AFP PHOTO/ROBYN BECK)

And... chillNetflix comes to Israel, 129 other countries

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ehud Olmert dines in Tel Aviv, January 2016 )Channel 10 screenshot)

Cheerful Olmert dines out in Tel Aviv: Nothing is over until it’s over

An H&M scarf with a striking resemblance to a Jewish prayer shawl. (screen capture: Twitter)

Fringe groupH&M markets tallit look-alike scarf

By JTA

An aerial view of the fortress found in Nahariya. (Guy Fittousi, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Remains of 3,400-year-old fortress found in Nahariya

Elderly Israeli Druze men attend the celebrations of Nabi Shuayb at the tomb of the Prophet Jethro, near the site of the destroyed village of Hittin. (Gili Yaari /FLASH 90)

Israel okays plans to build first new Druze town since ’48

By JTA and ToI Staff

Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins, right, is greeted by supporter Donna Demir after a news conference Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Chicago college moves to fire Christian hijab-wearing professor

By SOPHIA TAREEN

Illustrative. A man looks at dairy products while shopping at a Rami Levy supermarket. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Study shows how processed food lets toxins ‘leak’ into your gut

By David Shamah

Illustrative: A portion of a sample page from 'Yiddish Zoo.' (Courtesy of Czulent/JTA)

Klezmer kidsA zoo of Yiddish tales and rhymes set free

By Penny Schwartz

A Donald Trump campaign poster on a Florida building owned by a Jewish woman was defaced to make the front-running GOP candidate look like Adolf Hitler on January 4, 2016. (screen capture: News4Jax)

Vandals deface Trump poster on Jewish-owned Florida building

By JTA

Illustrative photo of a Mercedes (CC BY, M93, Wikipedia)

Israeli Emmy-winning cable tech takes to the road

By David Shamah

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)

Hebrew media reviewThe manhunt goes on

By Ilan Ben Zion

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