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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 20, 2016

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Firefighters look at a toppled Christmas tree after a truck ran into a crowded Christmas market and killed several people in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Israeli man seriously hurt in Berlin attack, wife missing

By Raphael Ahren

Wounded man in hospital after Monday’s truck ramming in the German capital; officials trying to locate his wife

Netanyahu condemns Berlin attack, calls for united front against terror

By Stuart Winer and Raphael Ahren

Merkel confirms Berlin attack terrorism, likely committed by asylum seeker

German police raid asylum-seeker shelter after Berlin attack

By AP and ToI Staff

People walk between booths of the Christmas market in front of the city hall at the Marienplatz in Munich, southern Germany, on December 20, 2016, one day after a truck crashed into a Christmas market in Berlin. (AFP PHOTO / Christof STACHE)

Live updates (closed)

Islamic State claims deadly Berlin truck attack

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Prime Minister Netanyahu says a missing Israeli woman, whose husband was severly injured in the assault, may have been killed

Gunman Mevlut Mert Altintas gestures near to Andrei Karlov on ground, the Russian Ambassador to Turkey at a photo gallery in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Russian ambassador to Turkey assassinated by policeman

Andrey Karlov killed by gunman shouting ‘don’t forget Aleppo’ and ‘revenge’ at opening of Ankara art exhibition, amid increasing tensions over Syria

First personWitness to an assassination: AP photographer captures attack

By BURHAN OZBILICI

Netanyahu condemns ‘brutal’ killing of Russia’s Ankara envoy

Turkey: Envoy assassination won’t ‘cast shadow’ on Russia ties

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Saeb Erekat in Jerusalem, April 2012. Netanyahu aide Yitzhak Molcho is at left, and PA security chief Majed Faraj is at second left. (Amos Ben Gershom /GPO/Flash90)

PLO will revoke Israel recognition if US moves embassy, top official warns

Saeb Erekat also predicts public anger over transferring mission to Jerusalem would force closure of all US embassies in Arab world; says Palestinians finalizing anti-settlement resolution for UNSC

A Palestinian woman holds her baby in an UNRWA center in the Rafah refugee camp, in southern Gaza Strip on August 13, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

UN appeals for $547 million in aid for Palestinians

By AFP

David Friedman (left), the choice of President-elect Donald Trump to serve as ambassador to Israel, and German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt (Bradley C Bower/Bloomberg News, via Getty Images/JTA; Public domain)

On David Friedman, the ‘kapo’ smear, and Jewish honor

By Matt Lebovic

As Trump’s pick for ambassador has demonstrated, some 60 years after the Jewish ‘collaborator’ trials in Israel, the term still packs a venomous punch

Trump’s Israel envoy pick shakes up American Jewish status quo

Trump’s ambassador pick once teed him up for Israeli golf course

Trump officially wins Electoral College vote, presidency

By Stephen Ohlemacher

Photo credit: Denisfilm/Istock by Gettyimages

AnalysisMarch '19 update: Owner of Wealth Recovery firm admits fraud

How a former US secret agent recovered $2 million for binary options victims

By Simona Weinglass and David Horovitz

Haggai Carmon spent 20 years tracking money launderers for Department of Justice. He says binary options industry ‘layering’ reminds him of sophisticated espionage or terror group

Illustrative image of a Christmas tree (CC BY Johnny Lai, Flickr)

D'oh, D'oh, D'oh

Jerusalem rabbis instruct hotels to drop Christmas trees

Israel’s Chief Rabbinate says the city’s directive, which also takes aim at New Year’s parties, is a ‘private initiative’

Rabbi Seymour Rosenbloom officiating at the wedding of his stepdaughter and her fiance in 2014. (Courtesy of Stefanie Fox via JTA)

Conservative group ousts rabbi for performing intermarriages

‘We are a halachic movement,’ says Rabbinical Assembly chief, but Rabbi Seymour Rosenbloom warns policy is pushing away congregants

Uri Pilichowski

David Friedman and Albert Einstein

If the great physicist and Zionist could link Menachem Begin to Nazism, the ‘kapo’ epithet should be no big deal

Europe on a precipice — maybe

Do eerie parallels between the assassinations of Ambassador Karlov and Archduke Ferdinand mean war is on the horizon?

Obama should push for a 2-state solution

Forget Friedman; Trump would do much better with a Security Council endorsement towards Israeli-Palestinian peace

Defense Minister Avigdor Libermans speaks at Limmud FSU in Eilat, December 15, 2016 (Courtesy)

Reporter's notebook

Through the looking glass: FSU immigrants fret about ‘survival’ of US Jewry

By Marissa Newman

Joint (Arab) List member MK Basel Ghattas, center, arrives at the police Lahav 433 investigation unit in Lod, December 20, 2016. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

MK interrogated on suspicion he gave phones, intel to Palestinian prisoners

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Minister calls for Arab lawmaker Basel Ghattas and his entire Balad party to be ousted from Knesset, another MK warns he could abet an assassination in parliament

Former finance minister Yair Lapid (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when the last government was in power, in Jerusalem on July 3, 2013. (Flash90)

Netanyahu, Lapid butt heads over how to punish suspect MK

Young Jewish settlers react to the news that the residents of the illegal outpost of Amona had accepted a government proposal to peacefully evacuate the outpost and move to a nearby location on December 18, 2016 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lag in state bid to delay Amona evacuation is ‘problematic,’ court says

By Raoul Wootliff

Despite promise to residents, government has so far failed to present official petition, leaving judges little time to consider request

Mohammed Al-Zoari, a Tunisian scientist with ties to Hamas killed near his home in the Tunisian city of Sfax on Thursday, December 15, 2016. (Screen capture Channel 10)

Tunisia seeking Swiss, Belgian nationals in killing of Hamas drone expert

By AFP and ToI Staff

Parliament plans special session to discuss assassination of Hamas-affiliated Mohammed Al-Zoari, for which Gaza’s terror rulers blame Israel

Jordanian security forces are seen patroling on december 19, 2016 in Karak, a tourist destination, around 120 kilometres (70 miles) south of the capital Amman, following an attack a day earlier. (AFP PHOTO/KHALIL MAZRAAWI)

IS claims deadly attack at Jordan tourist spot

By AFP

Islamic State says ‘soldiers of the caliphate’ carried out murderous spree that killed 10 people, vows future assaults

Police secure the area in front of the Islamic center, in Zurich, December 19, 2016. A Zurich police official said a gunman injured several people in Switzerland's largest city. (Ennio Leanza/Keystone via AP)

Three said hurt in shooting near Muslim prayer hall in Zurich

By AFP and AP

Police converge on scene of attack; gunman at large

Russian-Ukrainian-Israeli blogger Alexander Lapshin, seen in a September 2014 video. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Azerbaijan to continue seeking extradition of Israeli blogger

Baku has ‘no intention’ of backing down from seeking return of Alexander Lapshin; Jerusalem said concerned diplomatic ties could be dinged

Richard Lakin (left) reads a book to his granddaughter, as his son Micah Avni looks on. January 2014. (Courtesy)

Son of terror victim goes to police after Nazareth honors father’s killer

Micah Avni asks for investigations into the city’s mayor and organizers over municipal event honoring Jerusalem man who shot up bus, killing three

Illustrative. A bus was hit by rocks in the Etzion Bloc in the West Bank on September 10, 2014. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90/File)

Bus comes under fire in West Bank, none hurt

Vehicle suffers light damage near settlement of Dolev, IDF searching area

Screenshot of a message sent to Sony Pictures employees by 'Guardians of Peace' hackers (YouTube)

Hackers to ramp up mayhem in 2017, Israel experts warn

By Shoshanna Solomon

Hackers will seek to undermine trust in data, use AI for more sophistication, Israel’s CyberArk says in report

The IDI has partnered with the Times of Israel to present an interactive quiz based on IDI's polling of Israeli public opinion. Take the quiz to see how your views compare to those of the average Israeli. (Courtesy)

Test yourself: How do your views compare to those of the average Israeli?

The Israel Democracy Institute carries out regular surveys in Israel, covering political, social and religious affairs. See how you stack up in this interactive quiz

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Rabbi Francine Green Roston, a member of Love Lives Here, a local anti-discrimination group, moved to Whitefish, Mont., with her family from New Jersey in 2014. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

Website targets Jews in white supremacist’s hometown

By JTA

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump, walks through the lobby of Trump Tower with his wife Ivanka on November 18, 2016 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner go shul shopping in DC

Guy Zinn played five major league seasons between 1911 and 1915, including a stint as a New York Highlander (later the Yankees). (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Root for the home teamA 1914 Jewish baseball card sparks a $125,000 fight

By Gabe Friedman

NBC segment on flu season featuring a picture of former UK Labour Party leader Ed Miliband. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Dolorous EdEx-UK Labour chief pops up as ‘sick man’ on American TV

Etzion Regional Council head Davidi Perl, October 6, 2014 (Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

Settler leader accused of sexual assault formally steps down

Sanitation workers prepare to empty a dumpster into a garbage truck in Jerusalem, file (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Local authorities threaten nationwide strike over budget cuts

Eggnog Donuts (Shannon Sarna/via JTA)

Noggin’ on heaven’s door: Holiday-themed donuts

By Shannon Sarna

Ori Sasson, left, at the Shalva dinner with the organization’s vice chairman, Avi Samuels, right. (Courtesy of Shalva via JTA)

Big heartIsraeli Olympian donates Rio jacket for disabled children

By JTA

Scene where a young woman's body was discovered near Migdal Junction in northern Israel, December 20, 2016 (MDA spokesperson)

Murder suspected as body found near Sea of Galilee

This picture taken on December 19, 2016 in Ankara shows guests leaving a gallery as a gunman holds a weapon, during an attack where Andrey Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Ankara, was shot. (AFP/ Hurryet/Hasim KILIC)

Hebrew media reviewNothing new under the gun

By Joshua Davidovich

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