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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 9, 2016

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A still image from a video showing the inside purported Arara hideout of Tel Aviv gunman Nashat Milhem, a day after he was shot dead by security forces on January 8, 2016 (screen capture: Ynet)

Milhem family sets up mourning tent, refuses to speak to media

Neighbors point to house where gunman had been hiding, with its door still torn open and bullet casings scattered outside; inside was chaos

‘We knew Milhem was here, but no one wanted to be the whistle blower’

With Milhem dead, politicians talk frayed Arab-Jewish relations

‘I knew we’d get him,’ says father of victim after TA gunmen killed

Nashat Milhem (courtesy)

Analysis

Nashat Milhem: An aberration or the first of a new and terrible trend?

By David Horovitz

Analysis: For a wary Israel, with its fraught internal Jewish-Arab ties, establishing the precise motivation of the Tel Aviv gunman is vital

The body of Nashat Milhem, January 8, 2015 (Courtesy)

After week on run, Tel Aviv gunman killed in northern Israel

By Adiv Sterman, Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Nashat Milhem tracked down near home in Arara, opens fire on forces and is killed, 7 days after he killed 3 in Tel Aviv; five people arrested

Relative: We had no clue Tel Aviv gunman was hiding in village all week

PA snubs Tel Aviv gunman as intifada fatality — report

Hamas TV praises ‘martyr’ Milhem, sends reporter to his village

The body of Nashat Milhem, in a photograph released by Israeli security forces, January 8, 2016 (Channel 2)

Friday's live updates: Milhem shooting (closed)

Milhem’s relative: We would like to have known his motive

Tel Aviv shooter killed in gunfight in Arara; security forces had ‘wanted to take Milhem alive’; politicians praise operation; police probing whether Milhem was in IS sleeper cell; victim’s father: I knew we would get him

5 Jewish life trends to create in 2016

The roadmap for the year includes retooling ritual, sitting by the campfire and ‘volun-gigging’

William Hamilton

Needless to say? Necessary today

On the imperative to state the obvious: that to be a Jew is to strive to generate goodness in this world

Israel between Turkey, China, Egypt, Kurds

Erdogan has other reasons than the rise of Iran in the region to push for normalization of ties with Israel

The four victims of the Paris Hyper Cacher attack, from left to right: Yoav Hattab, Yohan Cohen, Francois-Michel Saada, Philippe Braham. (Courtesy)

One year on, France remembers victims of kosher store massacre

By AFP

Tributes also paid to a young policewoman killed by the gunman who went on to carry out the Hyper Cacher siege

In this frame from a Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016 video provided by the Philadelphia Police Department, Islamic State-inspired Edward Archer, 30, runs with a gun toward a police car driven by Officer Jesse Hartnett, 33, in Philadelphia. (Philadelphia Police Department via AP)

Philly gunman shoots cop ‘in Islam’s name’

By ERRIN HAINES WHACK

30-year-old Edward Archer pledged allegiance to IS after shooting police officer a dozen times at point blank

ILLUSTRATIVE: An Islamic State fighter holds his AK-47 machine gun as he stands guard on the bank of the Euphrates River in Raqqa, Syria. (Militant website via AP)

IS fighter executes own mother in public

Reports say 21-year-old committed matricide outside Raqqa post office after she asked him to flee jihadist group

Police forces operate in Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015. (AP/Francois Mori)

Security experts fear ‘European 9/11’ in the coming year

By Michel Moutot

Counterterrorism officials say IS learning from previous attacks, planning simultaneous, multi-country strikes in Europe

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)

Police kill attacker as 3 tourists stabbed at Egyptian resort

By AP and ToI Staff

Second assailant injured in second attack on foreigners in as many hours after IS affiliate claims shooting on Cairo hotel

Security personnel and investigators gather at the scene of a drive-by shooting on a security checkpoint that has killed several policemen near Saqqara, home to the 4,600-year-old Step Pyramid, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Ravy Shaker)

Gunmen kill Egyptian police colonel, conscript

By AFP

Islamic State claims attack west of Cairo in which officials say a traffic police district commander and driver died

Ezra Nawi (Uri Zakhem/Wikipedia)

Left-wing Israeli says he helps kill Palestinians who sell land to Jews

By JTA

Netanyahu says TV documentary ‘unmasked radicals among us, whose hatred for settlements has pushed them over the edge’

Israeli soldiers at their base in the Jordan Valley (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

2 Palestinians try to stab soldiers in West Bank, are killed

No troops hurt in attack close to Jordan Valley settlement of Beka’ot; Israel hands over their bodies hours later

State Department Spokesman John Kirby speaks during the daily briefing at the State Department on January 6, 2015 in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO/MANDEL NGAN)

US condemns Israel’s plan to expand West Bank settlement bloc

By AP and ToI Staff

State Department says adding compound to Gush Etzion will ‘only make achieving a two-state solution more difficult’

Iranian men burn Israeli and American flags during a demonstration against the execution of prominent Shiite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi authorities, on January 3, 2016, outside the Saudi embassy in Tehran. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)

Saudi-Iran crisis is latest reality check for nuke deal backers

Critics say accord has emboldened Tehran, yet Obama administration prefers to pressure Iran through UN

Iranian protesters hold placards and shout slogans during a demonstration in Tehran on January 8, 2016, against the execution of prominent Shi'ite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr by Saudi authorities. (AFP PHOTO)

Anti-Saudi protests rage in Iran as row smoulders

By Siavosh GHAZI

Around 1,000 demonstrators shout ‘death to Al-Saud,’ ‘death to America,’ and ‘death to Israel’ as foreign minister accuses Riyadh of ‘sectarian hate-mongering’

Screen capture of an Iranian missile launch, October 10, 2015 (YouTube: PressTV News Videos)

Congress considers bills to penalize Iran for missile tests

By JTA

GOP puts bill before House to limit president’s ability to lift sanctions, which Democrats say threatens accord with Tehran

Rebecca Bloom, the creator and star of 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,' in a musical scene from the series. (Screenshot from YouTube/via JTA)

Why you should binge watch the very Jewy ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’

By Linda Buchwald

More Headlines

This file photo taken on December 7, 2015 shows a German edition of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" at the Berlin Central and Regional Library (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)

‘Mein Kampf’ sells out on first day in Germany

By JTA

Interior minister of North-Rhine-Westphalia Ralf Jaeger addresses a press conference to announce the suspension of Cologne's police chief on Januar 8, 2015 in Cologne, western Germany. (Monika Skolimowska/AFP/DPA)

Cologne police chief ousted for failing to stop mob assault

By Frank Zeller

A file photo taken on December 19, 2015 shows a man passing by the entrance to the Al-Ghazali theology institute of the Grand Mosque of Paris.
(AFP/PATRICK KOVARIK)

As country reels from attacks, France’s mosques open their doors

By AFP

The Nazi leader and one of his feline doppelgängers. (CC BY SA 3.0 Bundesarchiv Bild 102-10460)

Feline führers Researchers find why some cats look like Hitler

Thousands of Israelis get flu shots on December 25, 2015, following a new outbreak of swine flu in Israel. (Photo by FLASH90)

Duvet DaysFeeling ill may be due to ‘selfish gene,’ Israeli scientists say

A Palestinian child stands in front of a mural of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti at the Kalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem. (Kobi Gideon/Flash 90)

French auction house pulls portrait equating Barghouti, Mandela

By JTA

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

Fashion Faux PasH&M pulls tallit-like scarf from Israeli stores

By JTA

A marijuana plant. (photo credit: AP)

Kosher CannabisCanadian agency: Pot doesn’t need kosher certification

By JTA

NYC restaurateur claims synagogue threatened to pull his kashrut

By JTA

Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs (Meshulam/Wikipedia)

Dutch chief rabbi: Rabbinical pro-Christian statement ‘goes too far’

By JTA

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