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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 3, 2017

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Archaeologist Gabriel Barkay (right) talks with American university students from UCLA on the Temple Mount on January 1, 2017. (Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel)

Islamic guards try to boot guide for saying ‘Temple Mount’ on Temple Mount

By Ilan Ben Zion

Waqf officials haul Israeli archaeologist in front of Israeli police for not using term ‘Haram al-Sharif’ during historical tour of site; police advise him to refrain from saying ‘Temple Mount’ for rest of visit

Police investigators arrive at the entrance to the Prime Minister Residence in Jerusalem on January 2, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Police interrogate Netanyahu for 3 hours over graft suspicions

Police say PM questioned under caution, signaling he is a suspect, about gifts he allegedly accepted from businessmen; in first, AG confirms investigation

Under investigation, Netanyahu slams coverage of now-closed graft cases

By Raoul Wootliff

AG formally confirms Netanyahu is under investigation, details cases already closed

By Raoul Wootliff

Justice minister says bill granting PM immunity from prosecution possible

By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff

Engraving of a seven-branched menorah found in a cistern in the Judean lowlands in December 2016. (Saʽar Ganor, Israel Antiquities Authority)

Hanukkah hikers find rare 2nd Temple-era etchings of menorah and cross

By Ilan Ben Zion

While out exploring during the festival, spelunkers uncover ancient limestone carving of seven-branched menorah, a cross and other etchings dating to late Roman, Byzantine periods

Thousands attend the funeral of 19-year old Lian Zaher Nasser in her hometown of Tira on January 3, 2016. Nasser was one of 39 people killed in a terror attack at an Istanbul nightclub shooting on New Years Eve. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Thousands attend funeral of Israeli girl slain in Istanbul shooting

Mourners, including Arab-Israeli MKs and PA representatives, remember Lian Nasser as someone who loved life; women show solidarity after victims criticized for being at nightclub

Wanted Istanbul terrorist ‘fought for IS in Syria’

By Stuart Williams

As Turks try to ID Istanbul attacker, some see shift in IS strategy

By AP

Germany plans security overhaul after Berlin attack

By AFP

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)

PM fears resolution from Paris confab will be brought to Security Council

By Marissa Newman

Netanyahu to be questioned by police again on Friday in graft probe — report; police now said to suspect Haifa shootings may be terror

A copy of an annotated version of Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" prior to a press conference for its presentation in Munich, southern Germany, on January 8, 2016. ( AFP PHOTO / Christof STACHE)

A modern classic

Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ is German bestseller, again

By Deborah Cole

First reprint of Nazi leader’s anti-Semitic manifesto since WWII sells 85,000 copies in year, topping nonfiction list

Bernard Henri-Levy, shown wearing his trademark white collar shirt. (Ali Mahdavi/viaJTA)

Philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy revisits Jewish roots in new book

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Celebrity scholar and activist touches on early anti-Semitic experiences while presenting a secular view on what it means to be one of the ‘chosen people’

Could Israel lose the Dead Sea Scrolls?

UN Resolution 2334 hands Qumran to the Palestinians, raising the absurd specter of the PA appropriating Jewish history

Could the ‘Jewish State of Israel’ crack one of the conflict’s hardest nuts?

Op-Ed: The Arab world’s positive response to John Kerry’s demand the Palestinians adopt the ‘two states for two peoples’ formula is promising. With a little creativity, this most complex core issue could be solved

Renaud’s amazing song to slain Jews

LISTEN: The French pro-Palestinian anarchist who paid tribute to the victims of a 2015 terrorist attack in Paris

Beware: Fascist foreign policy ahead

The F-word applies to both Trump and Putin — the Baltics will pay the first price, Israel may also pay dearly

Police and rescue forces 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. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Autopsy shows Jerusalem mother strangled daughters before fire

Post-mortem indicates that woman killed her children before starting blaze and taking her own life; hundreds attend late-night funeral

Police and rescuers at the scene where a woman and four children were killed in a fire at an apartment in Jerusalem on January 1, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Mother, 4 daughters she allegedly killed, buried in Jerusalem

Man killed, conversion judge injured in Haifa shootings

Witnesses say shooter was a woman; rabbinical court claims 2 were victims of mistaken identity in gangland beef

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks at a conference at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya January 2, 2017. (Flash90)

IDF chief: Soldier on trial for killing stabber is not ‘everyone’s child’

Day before verdict for Hebron shooter Elor Azaria, Eisenkot says confusion surrounding soldier’s role harmful to society

Reinhold Robbe, former president of the German-Israeli Society (CC BY Freud, Wikipedia)

Pakistani man indicted for spying on German-Israeli group for Iran

By AP

Syed Mustufa H. allegedly received money to follow former head of society that promotes warm ties between Berlin and Jerusalem

A screenshot from footage of agricultural fields near Havat Ma'on in the West Bank, filmed by a drone operated by a Palestinian NGO. (Screenshot/Regavim)

Palestinian group said to film West Bank settlement with drone

Organization partly funded by EU accused by right-wing NGO of gathering footage in sensitive area surrounding Havat Ma’on near Hebron

View of a fire that broke out at an oil refinery complex in Haifa, northern Israel, December 25, 2016. (Meir Vaaknin/Flash90)

Criminal negligence suspected at Haifa oil refinery blaze

Preliminary report into last week’s fire leads to wide-scale investigation into variety of environmental violations

Loa'i Ghaithe carefully applies gold trim to a specialty item. (Brett Kline/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

From Hebron hovel to airport kiosk, on the trail of Holy Land ceramics

Hamas militants surround the body of a slain fighter at al-Omari Mosque in Gaza City on March 17, 2013. (Wissam Nassar/ Flash 90)

Hamas slams ‘barbaric’ Israel over decision not to return terrorists’ bodies

By ToI Staff and AFP

Terror group warns of consequences in retaliation for new effort to bring home remains of IDF soldiers, and two civilians believed held alive in Gaza

Syrian actor Jay Abdo poses in Hollywood, California, on December 22, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/VALERIE MACON)

Syrian star turned pizza boy dreams of Hollywood ending

By Frankie TAGGART

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The newly-built control room at the offices of the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation in Tel Aviv, August 29, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

MKs vote to further delay launch of new public broadcaster

By Raoul Wootliff

An Enigma machine on display at Bletchley Park in the UK. (CC BY SA Flickr/Tim Gage)

UK bank to secure credit cards using Nazi technology

A reportedly stolen SUV that crashed into the side of the Congregation Beth El Keser Israel Synagogue in New Haven, Connecticut on January 2, 2016. (screen capture: FOX 61)

Carjackers killed crashing stolen SUV into Connecticut synagogue

By AP

Chinese child eating a home baked UgaUga cake. Picture was uploaded by users on UgaUga's blog on WeChat (Courtesy)

Israel’s UgaUga helps Chinese bake cakes in rice cookers

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli teachers protest in front of the Ministry of Education in Tel Aviv on October 19, 2016, as they demand better pay and working conditions. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Court halts teachers’ strike, orders schools to open at 9 a.m.

The Amos-6, Israel's largest ever satellite, and the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on which it was perched go up in flames after the rocket exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral in Florida on September 1, 2016. (YouTube screen capture)

SpaceX finds cause of explosion that destroyed Israeli satellite

By JTA

Ariella Zeitlin, the energetic and surprising fiddler who is one of the latest contestants on 'The Voice Israel' (Courtesy Ariella Zeitlin Facebook page)

Fiddler on the tubeAmerican-Israeli violinist wows ‘The Voice Israel’

By Jessica Steinberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a Likud faction meeting on January 2, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewGrilled Netanyahu, medium-rare, and hold the details

By Ilan Ben Zion

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