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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 5, 2017

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Supporters of Sgt. Elor Azaria hold his photo and shout slogans outside the Israeli military court in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, January 4, 2017. The Hebrew sign reads "Free Elor." (AP/Oded Balilty)

Netanyahu backs pardon for soldier convicted of killing wounded stabber

By Raoul Wootliff

‘This is a hard and painful day,’ PM says, joining other senior lawmakers calling for Elor Azaria to be let off after manslaughter conviction

Breaking ranks, minister and Likud MK oppose pardon for convicted soldier

By Marissa Newman

Rivlin says he’ll weigh pardon request from Hebron shooter, not politicians

By Raoul Wootliff

Liberman: Ministers should keep quiet about Azaria pardon

By Stuart Winer

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

Analysis

Elor Azaria and Israel’s moral core

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: The subtext of the court’s verdict was that we must not, and will not, allow ourselves to be dragged down to the amoral depths of those who seek to wipe us out

Two Israelis arrested for calling for attacks on Azaria judges

67% of Israelis want pardon for IDF soldier convicted of manslaughter

Security beefed up around judges who convicted soldier

Israeli border police officers stand next to a poster of Sgt. Elor Azaria, during a demonstration by hardline nationalists who support him, outside the Israeli military court in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, January 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Analysis

Elor Azaria’s trial is over, but the tribulations have only just begun

By Judah Ari Gross

With sentencing, appeals and possible clemency for the Hebron shooter waiting in the wings, Israel’s legal system faces an ongoing test

Ex-defense minister: Politicians ‘cynically exploiting’ Hebron shooter verdict

By Raoul Wootliff

Man who filmed Hebron shooting says soldier’s backers still threatening him

After manslaughter conviction, PA calls Hebron shooter trial ‘farce’

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)

Live updates (closed)

France rebuffs rumors of secret UN move after Paris summit

By Joshua Davidovich

Top lawmaker, wrapping up Israel trip, says nobody planning resolution; TV report claims Hollywood producer Milchan treated Netanyahu to pricey cigars, as prime minister interrogated for second time

Forensic examiners investigate the scene where a man was murdered after unknown gunmen opened fire, killing one person, in Haifa January 3, 2017. (Meir Vaknin/Flash90)

Victim of suspected terror attack in Haifa laid to rest

Guy Kafri had no enemies, was killed because he was a Jew, brother-in-law says, as manhunt for suspect intensifies

Haifa shootings were likely terror attack, police assess

Beersheba man nabbed for attacking security guard, stealing gun

By Judah Ari Gross

Arab man stabbed in Ashdod in suspected racist attack

By Judah Ari Gross

BMW, Intel, Mobileye announce cooperation for driverless car, July 2016 (Courtesy)

BMW, Intel, Mobileye pledge self-driving fleet by end 2017

By Shoshanna Solomon

The future is right around the corner, as partners join forces to convert recent significant advancements into fully autonomous driving

Participants in an anti-hate rally at a Brooklyn park named for the late Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch after it was defaced with swastikas, Nov. 20, 2016. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Campaign rhetoric, post-election hate crimes draw Jewish historians into fray

Since Election Day, scholars and curators of Jewish history have consistently issued one message: Watch out

Jewish Museum poster defaced with swastikas in New York subway

By JTA

Judith Grumbach

Deep inside, your soul is screeching

That’s what her post-partum depression felt like and she wishes she’d known what it was sooner

Donniel Hartman

No pardon for Elor, our Rebellious Son

It would be sinful to revoke punishment for a soldier convicted of breaking our moral code

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Gil’s upstairs working on his app

Her son and his friends had a little idea that got really, really big

Menachem Creditor

Is there a blessing for Donald Trump?

Rabbi Marvin Hier should not deliver the inaugural prayer for a president who embraced the language of xenophobia

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

Netanyahu questioned a second time in graft investigation

Prime minister has admitted receiving gifts, but claims they were not valuable enough to constitute bribes

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., center, flanked by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., walk through the halls of Congress on Thursday, June 27, 2013 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Bipartisan group of senators call for repealing UN resolution on Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

Sens. Schumer, Cardin and Rubio co-sponsor measure demanding US ensure no action is taken at Paris peace summit; GOP rep. moves to eliminate two-state support

Haim Saban at a media summit in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 8, 2009. (AP/Nati Harnik)

Haim Saban ‘deeply disturbed’ by US abstention on UN resolution

By Alexander Fulbright

MK Basel Ghattas arrives at the Israel Police's Lahav 433 special investigation unit in Lod, December 20, 2016, for questioning. (Roy Alima/Flash90)

Indictment prepared against MK Ghattas for smuggling phones to Palestinian prisoners

By Raoul Wootliff and Stuart Winer

Attorney general gives go-ahead for charges against Joint (Arab) List lawmaker for bringing illicit cellphones and coded messages to convicted terrorists

Palestinian fishermen arrive back from fishing in the port of Gaza City on August 5, 2014, after a 72-hour truce agreed by Israel and Hamas went into effect. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Gaza fisherman lost at sea after collision with IDF ship

By Judah Ari Gross

Search underway as navy vessel sinks one Palestinian ship while trying to detain another; army to ‘review’ incident

50,000 mirrors, known as heliostats,encircle the solar tower in the Negev desert, near Ashelim, southern Israel, December 22, 2016. (AP/Oded Balilty)

Israel harnessing sunshine with world’s tallest solar tower

By ISAAC SCHARF and Alon Bernstein

Ashalim project in the Negev desert aims to boost renewable energy supplies by providing enough power for 130,000 households

US Secretary of State John Kerry meeting with foreign ministers from members states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Manama, Bahrain, on April 7, 2016. (Public domain, US Department of State, Wikimedia Commons)

Hope, and fear, as US Gulf allies look to Trump

Oil-rich states optimistic president-elect will adopt a more hawkish stance on Iran, but prefer he not rip up nuclear deal

The new Changhong H2 smartphone uses the SCiO technology of Israeli startup Consumer Physics to scan freshness of straberries (Courtesy)

Phone uses Israeli tech to scan insides of food for calories, other data

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israel’s Consumer Physics Inc. to launch, with Chinese and US partners, the Changhong H2 with ‘material sensor’

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President Shimon Peres with the winners of 2013 Wolf Prizes (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Stargazers, cancer researcher among ‘pre-Nobel’ winners

By Shoshanna Solomon

Ali Bouali in 'That is Money' (YouTube screenshot)

Just wordplay?Dutch rapper: ‘Jews like money’ song is a compliment

By JTA

Vincent Peillon in 2013. (Wikimedia Commons)

French candidate under fire for Holocaust comparison

By JTA

Emmer wheat kernels (Courtesy)

Syngenta to expand use of NRGene crops’ software

By Shoshanna Solomon

IDF soldier Elor Azaria, the Israeli soldier who shot a disarmed Palestinian terrorist in Hebron in March, at a court hearing at a military court in Jaffa, September 11, 2016. (Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewAzaria: Manslaughter, they wrote

By Ilan Ben Zion

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