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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 4, 2017

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Elor Azaria, an Israeli soldier who shot a Palestinian terrorist in Hebron, sits in the courtroom before the announcement of his verdict at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, January 4, 2017 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

IDF soldier who killed wounded stabber convicted of manslaughter

By Stuart Winer, Alexander Fulbright and Ilan Ben Zion

Judge Maya Heller skewers ‘unreliable’ defense of Elor Azaria, determines he shot Hebron attacker because ‘terrorists deserve to die’; family vows it will appeal

Labor MK Shelly Yachimovich. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Ex-Labor leader joins politicians from right in call for pardon for Hebron shooter

By Raoul Wootliff

Culture minister accuses IDF chief and former defense minister of abandoning Elor Azaria, convicted of killing disarmed Palestinian stabber

Hebron soldier’s family blasts son’s ‘disgraceful’ conviction

By Stuart Winer and AFP

Liberman: I don’t like the verdict, but we must respect it

Security beefed up around judges who convicted soldier

Elor Azaria, an Israeli soldier who shot a Palestinian terrorist in Hebron, sits in the courtroom before the announcement of his verdict at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, January 4, 2017 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Poll: 67% of Israelis support pardon for convicted IDF soldier

By Marissa Newman

Netanyahu also backs pardon for Elor Azaria in manslaughter case; sentencing set for January 15; father of slain Palestinian stabber ‘feels good’ about verdict

Police and rescue forces at the Jerusalem apartment building where a woman apparently killed her four children before taking her own life on January 1, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem murders shine light on postpartum depression sufferers

By Jessica Steinberg

Post-birth clinical anxiety may have triggered a mother to kill her four daughters and herself

Mother and child die in Acre in suspected murder-suicide

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) at the CPAC 2016 conference, March 5, 2016 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

US senators introduce bill to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, move embassy

By Eric Cortellessa

Republicans Cruz, Heller, Rubio want incoming Trump administration to honor 1995 law, and campaign commitments

Abbas doesn’t believe Trump will move US embassy to Jerusalem

AnalysisIn Congress, a new battle emerges: 2 states or not 2 states

State Department ‘not aware’ of efforts to move US embassy to Jerusalem

Maj. Hagai Ben Ari, who was critically wounded on July 21, 2014, during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, died Tuesday, January 3, 2017. (Courtesy)

Two years later, IDF officer succumbs to wounds from Gaza war

Maj. Hagai Ben Ari, father of 3 who was slated to command an elite Paratroopers company, passes away at 31 after 30 months in a coma

A 2017 Mossad ad seeking female agents: "We don't care what you've done, we care about who you are!" (Courtesy)

Wonder women

Mossad seeks female agents in new ad campaign

Israeli intelligence organization announces search for ‘strong women of exceptional character’ to join its ranks

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Syria and Orthodox indifference

The scandalous disregard of atrocities committed against hundreds of thousands of people is nothing short of narcissism

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Lessons from my dog

The family is adjusting to the new pup, which sure ain’t solving the world’s crises, but is a lot of fun

Eliezer Finkelman

A love letter to Jews who aren’t me

The challenge: Find something good to say about the Jewish movements he doesn’t agree with

Case closed on Kasztner? Not so fast

A new ‘definitive’ work indicting the Hungarian accused of Nazi-collaboration does not deliver on its claim

An abortion clinic (illustrative image: AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

15,000 illegal abortions performed in Israel each year, activists claim

By Marissa Newman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a conference of Israeli ambassadors to Europe at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, January 3, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Netanyahu: ‘Very important’ to thwart another UN resolution

By Raphael Ahren

PM warns of ‘more than a few’ indications that conclusions reached at upcoming Paris confab could be ratified at Turtle Bay

President Reuven Rivlin meets with Gérard Larcher, President of the Senate of France, at Rivlin's residence in Jerusalem, January 3, 2017. Mark Neyman/GPO)

Despite PM’s ban, French Senate president visits Israel 11 days after UN vote

By Raphael Ahren

As Gérard Larcher meets top officials, Jerusalem insists boycott of high-level visits from countries that backed anti-settlement resolution still in place

Sen. Charles (Chuck) Schumer (right) talks with a staff member after the weekly Democratic policy luncheon at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, August 4, 2015. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Almost 6% of Congress now Jewish — 28 Democrats and 2 Republicans

By Eric Cortellessa

The 115th Congress has largest share of Jews in any freshman class since data became available, analysis shows

US Speaker of theHouse of Representatives Paul Ryan (R), R-Wisconsin, arrives for the opening of the 115th US Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 3, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON)

Paul Ryan re-elected as US House Speaker

By AFP

The security barrier that separates East Jerusalem's Shuafat refugee camp, on the right, from the Jewish neighborhood of Pisgat Ze'ev. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Israel’s security experts redraw West Bank map for Trump era

By Andrew Tobin

Institute for National Security Studies urges growth only in settlement blocs, calls for developing parts of Area C for Palestinians

This file photo taken on November 21, 2016, shows Facebook logos pictured on the screens of a smartphone (R), and a laptop computer, in central London. (AFP)

Facebook incitement bill passes first reading

Legislation will give court authority to force social media giants to block content deemed to endanger security

Cartoon from official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 28, 2016. Israeli soldier: "He tried to carry out a stabbing operation." (PMW)

PA media shows Israelis killing Santa Claus

Cartoons echo Palestinian narrative that soldiers murder in cold blood and plant knives to justify their actions

Devon Terrell in 'Barry,' written by Adam Mansbach and Vikram Gandhi. (Netflix)

A Jew and an Indian make a film — about the African American experience

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Mellanox headquarters in Yokne'am (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel tech exits totaled $10 billion in 2016 – report

By Shoshanna Solomon

Illustrative. Pizza. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

No more Mr. Nice GuyPizza guy indicted for serving cops drug-laced pie

American actor Kal Penn speaking at a rally on the campus of University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. October 2010. (CC BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons)

‘Kumar’ donates MasterChef prize money to Palestinian refugee agency

Illustrative: Passengers boarding an Egged bus in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Workers union calls one-day bus strike in Jerusalem

By Stuart Winer

Screen capture from video showing the first test flight of the Cormorant, a UAV produced by Israeli company Urban Aeronautics that could be used to evacuate people from dangerous environments. (Screen capture: YouTube/UrbanAero)

Up and awayFlying ambulance drone heading for take off

By Stuart Winer

Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and their three children light menorahs during their family vacation in Hawaii, in this picture posted by Trump on December 26 2016. (Ivanka Trump/Twitter)

Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner select DC house near 2 Orthodox synagogues

By JTA

Former president Bill Clinton applauds as his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks in New York, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. Clinton conceded the presidency to Donald Trump in a phone call early Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Hillary, Bill Clinton to attend Trump inauguration

By Stuart Winer

Elor Azaria, an Israeli soldier who killed a wounded Palestinian stabber, seen during a court hearing at a military court in Jaffa, July 26, 2016. (Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewEverybody’s verdict

By Joshua Davidovich

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