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What Matters Most On Friday, January 8, 2016

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

Tel Aviv gunman shot and killed in northern Israel

By Adiv Sterman and Judah Ari Gross

Nashat Milhem tracked down in Wadi Ara, opens fire on forces and is killed, a week after he killed 3 in Tel Aviv; five people arrested

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

Police deploy heavily in Tel Aviv exactly one week after shooting

By Adiv Sterman and Judah Ari Gross

Authorities stress there no specific indication of imminent terror threat in city, but checkpoints set up in region nonetheless

Ya’alon: Suspected Tel Aviv shooter may have been influenced by IS

By Adiv Sterman

Hoax photo of ‘Tel Aviv shooter’ fools social media

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

A copy of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' (dccarbone/CC-BY, via Flickr)

New ‘Mein Kampf’ publication ‘a slap in the face to Holocaust survivors’

By Miriam Dagan

As scholars mark first German edition since 1944, Jewish community leaders unconvinced by idea of teaching Hitler’s manifesto ‘as a vaccine against extremism’

The Shin Bet security service reveals photographs of a laboratory allegedly used by Hamas operatives to create explosive devices for use in suicide bombings and other terror attacks in the West Bank, December 23, 2015. (Courtesy)

East Jerusalem Hamas cell ‘planned to kill Netanyahu’

By Adiv Sterman and Judah Ari Gross

Hazem Ziad Amran Sandouqa, 22, and Fahdi Daoud Muhammad Abu Qaian, 19, indicted for aiding member of Gaza-based terrorist group

IS-linked group claims Cairo attack that targeted Israelis

By Agencies and ToI Staff

4 Palestinians attempt to stab soldiers in West Bank, are killed

Knife-carrying Palestinian teen nabbed at Jerusalem checkpoint

By Judah Ari Gross

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

The women bringing down Orthodoxy

She’s fed up with a blame game that she says targets women’s wish to pray or learn Torah or escape bad marriages

How not to help Palestinian children

A British parliamentary debate was rife with false claims of Israeli mistreatment of Palestinian minors

Spirits in a material world

The Israelites in Egypt show how a downtrodden soul must heal physically before it can achieve spiritually (Vaera)

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind of the Paris terror attacks on November 13, 2015, waves an Islamic State flag in this undated picture taken from a magazine published by IS. (screenshot)

Analysis

450 of 452 suicide attacks in 2015 were by Muslim extremists, study shows

By Avi Issacharoff

INSS think tank report shows global figure is down on 2014, but up on 2013; more women involved; Europe and Africa getting dragged in

Israeli security forces speak with Palestinians residents of Hebron in the West Bank on December 13, 2015. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

IDF, Shin Bet note decrease in violence in December

By Judah Ari Gross

The Hiriya Landfill Restoration Project, located southeast of Tel Aviv, Israel. Food waste dumped into landfill is doubly negative for the environment, because of the environmental costs of producing food. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

NGO: Israel chucks away more than a third of its food

By Melanie Lidman

Food waste costs the Israeli economy NIS 18 billion a year, says Leket Israel, and a minimal effort could make a huge difference

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a press briefing at the State Department in Washington, DC, January 7, 2016. US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a press briefing at the State Department in Washington, DC, January 7, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)

Kerry: Implementation of Iran nuclear deal ‘days away’

By Bradley Klapper

Secretary says Tehran on track to meet its requirements, and Washington getting ready to begin lifting nuclear-related sanctions

Joint (Arab) List MK Ahmad Tibi, left, speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a Knesset session, February 13, 2012. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Why Israel’s Arab citizens are the biggest proponents of gun control

By Simona Weinglass

A still from CCTV footage from inside Hyper Cacher store shows terrorist Amedy Coulibaly during the siege on January 9, 2015. The image was shown during a BBC documentary called Three Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks that aired January 6, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

‘I’ve come to die a martyr,’ Hyper Cacher terrorist told hostage

One year on, new images of Paris kosher supermarket siege emerge, and a survivor recalls the gunman’s chilling words

Anti-Semitic incidents soared in France in 2014

By JTA

French policemen stand guard at Rue de la Goutte d'Or in the north of Paris on January 7, 2016, near the site where police shot a knife-wielding man dead as he was trying to enter a police station (Alain Jocard/AFP)

Paris attacker ‘vowed allegiance’ to Islamic State

By Pauline Talagrand and Marie Giffard

Allahu Akbar-shouting assailant with meat cleaver, who was shot dead while wearing fake explosives vest, did not heed calls to halt, police source says

Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh. (Kobi Gideon/ FLASH90)

Radical Israeli rabbis come under fire amid settler violence

By Tia Goldenberg

Recent attacks against Arabs have brought the teachings of extremists into the spotlight

Illustrative photo of a masked Jewish extremist swinging a slingshot outside the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar in 2013. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)

Six Yitzhar settlers jailed for attacks on security forces

By Sue Surkes and JTA

Ultra-Orthodox men protest in Jerusalem on January 7, 2016, after authorities ordered an autopsy on a four-month-old infant from the community (screen capture: Channel 2)

Ultra-Orthodox infant buried after court-ordered autopsy

Judges rule procedure necessary to check if baby died after shaking by carer, in spite of family objection and riots in Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh

Visitors viewing Max Beckmann's 'Portrait Quappi Beckmann,' from 1925, at the Hypo-Kunsthalle in Munich, Germany, April 10, 2014. (Joerg Koch/Getty Images/via JTA)

Why US lawmakers want Germany to revisit its museums’ walls

Iranian demonstrators hold anti-Saudi placards in a rally to protest the execution by Saudi Arabia last week of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, a prominent opposition Saudi Shiite cleric, in Tehran, Iran, January 4, 2016. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran holds mass protests against Saudi Arabia amid tensions

By Nasser Karimi

Demonstrators chant ‘Death to Al Saud’ referencing kingdom’s royal family, as anger over execution of Shiite cleric refuses to die down

Yuval Abramovitz, the man who loves nothing more than making lists, and now, earns a living from them (Courtesy Yuval Abramovitz)

Ticking off the tasks is the ticket to triumph

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

From "Jews & Arabs Kiss" video by Time Out Tel Aviv. (YouTube)

Kissing cousinsArabs and Jews protest ‘book ban’ with a kiss

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Jupiter and the Galilean moons (NASA)

Israel to squeeze measurement tech into JUICE Jupiter mission

By David Shamah

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers in the West Bank (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flash90)

Soldier kicked off commanders’ course for ‘Death to Arabs’ post

File: Members of the Jewish 'Shomrim' security patrol team are pictured in north London on August 27, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/Leon Neal)

Anti-Semites throw gas canisters at Orthodox Jews in London

Benny Koval. (screen grab: YouTube)

‘Anti-Israel’ tweets land NJ Jewish teen with Israel roots in hot water

By JTA

The Workey team (Omri Aharonov)

New social network matches job seekers and recruiters

By David Shamah

In this May 31, 2015, file photo, comedian Amy Schumer attends the 74th Annual Peabody Awards in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

Broad approval‘Inside Amy Schumer’ and ‘Broad City’ renewed

By Gabe Friedman

Sheldon Adelson, 2014 (Ethan Miller/Getty Images, via JTA)

Defender in chiefAdelson ‘offered Obama $1b for Iron Dome for Israel’

By Raoul Wootliff

TASE Chairman Yossi Beinart (Courtesy)

TASE-NASDAQ deal to help Israeli start-ups grow globally, stay locally

By David Shamah

Jean Michel Jarre during his visit to Israel, January 6, 2016 (Courtesy Jean Michel Jarre)

France tranceElectronic music master scouts sites for concert

By Jessica Steinberg

Iranian Princess Ashraf (YouTube screen capture)

Iranian princess, shah’s twin sister, dies at age 96

By AP

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

Hebrew Media ReviewThe terrorists who dug their own graves

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