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What Matters Most On Monday, January 2, 2017

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ZAKA rescue personnel carry the bodies of family members at the scene where a woman and four children were killed in a fire in what police suspect was a murder-suicide at an apartment in Jerusalem, January 1, 2017. (Moshe Mizrahi/ZAKA)

Friends, neighbors ‘in shock’ over deaths of 4 sisters, mother in suspected murder-suicide

Woman, 36, suspected of killing children, setting their room ablaze before taking her own life in Jerusalem apartment

Father of murdered Jerusalem girls agrees to ‘partial autopsy’

As suspected murder of daughters probed, few warning signs in mother uncovered

Jerusalem mother, 4 daughters die in suspected murder-suicide

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivering a statement to the press at the Prime Minsiter's Office in Jerusalem, December 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

As opposition laments graft probe, PM says: Don’t celebrate

By Raoul Wootliff

Hours before interrogation over suspicions he received gifts from businessmen, Netanyahu says case will be shown to be ‘hot air’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivering a statement to the press at the Prime Minsiter's Office in Jerusalem, December 28, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police set to interrogate Netanyahu on Monday evening

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister office in Jerusalem, January 1, 2017. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

Live updates (closed)

Mother, daughters in Jerusalem ‘murder-suicide’ to be buried tonight

By Ilan Ben Zion

Netanyahu denies wrongdoing: ‘Don’t celebrate yet’; El Al plane makes unexpected landing shortly after takeoff from London

Security footage shows what police believe is the terrorist in the Istanbul nightclub attack on January 1, 2017, changing into what looks to be a costume resembling Santa. (Screenshot)

Islamic State claims Istanbul nightclub attack

By ToI Staff and AFP

Turkish authorities say shooter is possibly connected to cell behind Istanbul airport bombing, may be from Central Asia

Israeli teen injured in Istanbul terror attack ‘very happy to be back’

Israel to bring back body of teen killed in Turkey terror attack

First arrests made in Istanbul nightclub shooting probe

By Agencies and ToI Staff

MK Karin Elharar, chair of the Knesset State Control Committee (right), Israeli Securities Authority chief Shmuel Hauser (third from right) and other participants in a session on tackling binary options fraud, January 2, 2017 (Luke Tress/ Times of Israel)

In first, Knesset committee debates how to stop Israel’s vast binary options fraud

By Raoul Wootliff and Simona Weinglass

Committee chair Karin Elharar convenes panel in response to Times of Israel reports on multi-billion dollar decade-long scam

Rachel Jackson holds her completed Megillat Esther. (Courtesy)

Female ‘sofrot’ inscribe themselves in history books

By Rich Tenorio

Women across the Jewish denominational spectrum are binding together to pen holy texts according to ancient tradition

A Knesset panel finally tackles binary options fraud

Op-ed: Prompted by The Times of Israel’s reporting, the State Control Committee on Monday began coming to grips with the vast, global, Israel-based scam. This is what I told the session

True Zionists oppose settlements

The recent UN resolution bolsters the vision of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state

More than 1/3 of Israelis favor annexing West Bank settlements, and they put the country’s very future at risk

UNSCR 2334 scuttles a Palestinian state

Taking the United Nations resolution to its logical conclusion reveals that only Israel has the right to the West Bank

The December 24, 2014 Gaza funeral of Tayseir Smeiry, a Hamas operative, who was killed by Israeli troops after gunmen from Gaza opened fire on an IDF force within Israel (photo credit: AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Bodies of Hamas terrorists won’t be returned, ministers decide

Security cabinet launches new efforts to bring home remains of IDF soldiers, and two civilians believed alive, held in Gaza Strip; family says measure is too little too late

Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman, Jerusalem 2009. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Former justice minister Yaakov Neeman dies at 77

Lawyer and politician who served under Netanyahu remembered as expert jurist who could find compromise, Torah scholar

Dr. Ayia Ihsan Abd al-Hay, an Israeli woman who was in the Istanbul nightclub where 39 people were killed on January 1, 2017 (Channel 2 screenshot)

Attacker yelled ‘Allahu akbar’ as he fired, says Israeli survivor of Turkey terror

Dr. Ayia Ihsan Abd al-Hay ‘devastated’ by death of Lian Zaher Nasser, who worked for her as dental assistant

Arab Joint List member Basel Ghattas, left, is brought to court for a remand hearing after his arrest on December 22, 2016 on suspicion of smuggling cellphones to Palestinian prisoners, at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, December 23, 2016. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)

Arab MK banned from Knesset activity over smuggling phones to prisoners

Joint List’s Basel Ghattas, facing criminal investigation into contraband passed to Palestinian terrorists, restricted solely to casting votes until July

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi delivering a speech during an electoral meeting in Tunis, Tunisia, Saturday, November 15, 2014 (AP/Aimen Zine)

Tunisian president fingers Israel in Hamas engineer’s killing

Beji Caid Essebsi says ‘foreign hands carried out the assassination’ and ‘there is a suspicion’ the Jewish state was involved

"My favorite months in the Oval Office are late fall to early winter when occasionally the afternoon light will be at just the right angle to create some interesting backlight if the president is working at the Resolute Desk," Oct. 14, 2016. (Official White House photo/Pete Souza)

Photo essay

Obama’s final year in office, in pictures

At the close of eight tumultuous years, the US president’s official photographer issues his last annual photographic retrospective

This image made from a video posted on September 18, 2013, shows a student wearing a gas mask and protective suit during a classroom session on how to respond to a chemical weapons attack in Aleppo, Syria (photo credit: AP)

UK minister warns IS plotting chemical attack in Europe

Following reports it used mustard gas in Iraq and Syria, terror group believed to have ‘aspirations’ to carry out a ‘mass-casualty’ strike

Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbott (left) meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2014. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash 90)

Former Australian PM: Cut off aid to Palestinians

Tony Abbott: Canberra should consider moving embassy to Jerusalem, support the ‘region’s only liberal, pluralist democracy’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister office in Jerusalem on January 1, 2017. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

Netanyahu said to warn of more anti-Israel UN activity

Security Council may push additional measure in days between Paris peace conference and end of Obama’s term, PM reportedly tells cabinet

Estee Ackerman holding certificates representing the five medals she won in this month’s US Open in table tennis. (Courtesy of Estee Ackerman/via JTA)

This 15-year-old Orthodox girl is a ping-pong champion

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Behalf's co-founder Benjy Feinberg (Courtesy: Yossi Dahan)

Israel’s Behalf uses algorithms to vet for credit

By Shoshanna Solomon

A falafel sandwich ready to be eaten, part of the pantheon of Israeli food. (Orel Cohen/Flash90)

Virginia Tech, Strauss seek Israeli firms for food R&D

By Shoshanna Solomon

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull dances in Sydney's Central Synagogue with Rabbi Levi Wolff, 30 December, 2016 (Screen capture: YouTube)

Malcolm in the middleImpromptu invite leads Australian PM to dance the hora

By JTA

Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and CEO of Facebook, speaks at the CEO summit during the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Lima, Peru, November 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

It's complicatedFacebook CEO Zuckerberg: ‘Religion is important’

By JTA

Illustrative: ultra-Orthodox men walking along the street in the Stamford Hill area of London, Jan. 17, 2015. (Rob Stothard/Getty Images via JTA)

Haredi man says daughter shunned by community due to non-observant mother

By JTA

Dancers perform in the official Israeli Independence Day Ceremony on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on April 22, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Cabinet okays private donations for 70th Independence Day bash

Police and rescue forces at the scene where a woman and four children were killed at an apartment in Jerusalem in what police suspect was a murder-suicide, January 01, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewAfter the unthinkable, papers wrestle with the unanswerable

By Joshua Davidovich

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