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What Matters Most On Sunday, January 8, 2017

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Israeli security forces and emergency personnel gather at the site of a vehicle-ramming attack in Jerusalem on January 8, 2017. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)

4 killed as terrorist plows truck into troops in Jerusalem

By Judah Ari Gross

16 injured in ramming attack at Armon Hanatziv promenade; attacker, an East Jerusalem man, shot to death

Father of terrorist reportedly arrested as Hamas hails ‘heroic’ attack

Deputy FM: Terror attack is Palestinian response to Paris peace conference

Foreign officials express horror, condemn Jerusalem terror attack

By Raphael Ahren

Eitan Rond speaking to reporters from Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem on January 8, 2017. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Soldiers hesitated before opening fire on truck driver, guide says

Man who shot at terrorist says lives might have been saved if troops had reacted sooner, references Elor Azaria; IDF: Several soldiers opened fire

President Reuven Rivlin speaks during an event hosting Israeli ambassadors to European countries, at the President's residence in Jerusalem, January 1, 2017. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Live updates (Closed)

4 killed in J’lem terror attack; Rivlin: Terror won’t break us

By Raoul Wootliff and Judah Ari Gross

Head of state vows Israel will ‘continue to stand tall and fight against terrorism’; Police reportedly think ramming was ‘lone wolf’ attack

Publisher and owner of the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper Noni Mozes seen in Tel Aviv on March 26, 2014. (Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Newspaper publisher said to be at center of Netanyahu probe

By Raoul Wootliff

PM reportedly promised Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes he would work to reduce the impact of rival newspaper Israel Hayom in return for more favorable coverage

Netanyahu can stay in power even if criminally charged, lawmaker says

Kahlon denies exploring possible coalition without Netanyahu

Ya’alon: Time for Israel to have a PM who doesn’t need investigating

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Berlin, October 22, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

‘Netanyahu asked Kerry 3 times to help his benefactor Arnon Milchan with US visa’

TV report says PM intervened with secretary after his Hollywood producer friend lost his 10-year residency permit; opposition MKs slam PM’s ‘corruption’

Ziv Shilon (R) who was wounded in an attack on the Gaza border in 2012, attends an anti-incitement demonstration at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on January 7, 2017 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Thousands rally against incitement and hate in Tel Aviv

Organizer Ziv Shilon, an IDF officer wounded in Gaza, says it pains him to see Israeli society ‘ripping itself to shreds’

Activist for Elor Azaria storms stage at Tel Aviv anti-hate rally

Police arrest 7 at impromptu Jerusalem rally for Hebron shooter

Police arrest man for inciting against IDF chief

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Molly Livingstone

I saw the bodies under the truck

EYEWITNESS: The route where she walks daily became a site of carnage, and the casualty numbers continue to grow

The girl who cried wolf

If you’re upset by the vulgar ways she writes about domestic violence, be more upset by the vulgarity of the abuse

Return of the poor man’s Harvard

Andrew Cuomo grants hope to low-income families and immigrants with the promise of free CUNY/SUNY tuition

US Secretary of State John Kerry lays out his vision for peace between Israel and the Palestinians December 28, 2016, in the Dean Acheson Auditorium at the Department of State in Washington, DC.
(AFP/Paul J. Richards)

Kerry warns Trump: Moving US embassy would cause regional ‘explosion’

Outgoing US secretary of state says relocation would also hurt Israel’s relations with Egypt and Jordan; PA instructs mosques to preach against move

Protesters urging a boycott against Israel in Melbourne, file photo (CC-BY SA Takver/Wikimedia Commons)

Top American academic group rejects BDS bid

At Philadelphia convention, Modern Language Association also votes to refrain from future boycott measures

Israel's Ambassador to the UK Mark Regev, interviewed by the BBC on May 1, 2016 (BBC screenshot)

Israel sorry for embassy employee plot to ‘bring down’ UK lawmakers

Ambassador Mark Regev tells British Deputy FM Alan Duncan that comments made about him and other MPs are ‘unacceptable’; London says ‘matter closed’

British police officers stand guard outside the Israeli Embassy in London during a protest against Israeli policy, on June 1, 2010. (AP/Matt Dunham)

Worker at Israel’s London embassy filmed plotting to discredit UK politicians

Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Deputy defense minister to propose soldier immunity bill

By Tamar Pileggi

Eli Ben Dahan says granting security forces legal protection will allow troops to carry out duties without fear of criminal prosecution

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

Iran plotted assassination of pro-Israel official in Germany — report

By Tamar Pileggi

Pakistani man indicted for espionage after tailing head of group that promotes warm ties between Berlin and Jerusalem on behalf of Tehran intelligence agency

Jewish men pray early in the morning in the unauthoized outpost of Amona in the West Bank, on December 18, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PMO official: Amona residents ‘need to bow down before Netanyahu’

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

PM’s chief of staff scolds outpost’s residents for complaining about government not implementing December agreement

Surviving Herero after an escape through the arid desert of Omaheke in German Southwest Africa (modern day Namibia), circa 1907 (Ullstein Bilderdienst, Berlin)

Germany may pay out for Namibia genocide

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Seen as precursor to Nazi Holocaust, Berlin’s recognition of systematic slaughter of tens of thousands of Herero tribespeople could obligate reparations

“Online conversion” can help make Judaism more accessible to those in remote locations, but everyone isn’t on board. (Lior Zaltzman/JTA)

‘Online conversion’ helps many fulfill a dream — but controversy dogs the process

By Josefin Dolsten

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In this undated photo obtained Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, a man believed to be the Islamic State gunman who killed dozens at an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Eve films himself as he wanders near Istanbul's Taksim square. (DHA-Depo Photos via AP)

Istanbul nightclub attacker said identified as Uzbek jihadist

By AFP

Jared Kushner, son-in-law of of President-elect Donald Trump walks from Trump Tower, in New York, November 14, 2016. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Trump son-in-law Kushner eyes business exit ahead of White House role

By Jonathan Lemire and Julie Pace

The scene of a fire at a hotel in the northern city of Safed that injured 16 people, two of them seriously, January 8, 2016. (Israel Fire and Rescue Services)

16 injured, 2 seriously, in Safed hotel fire

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

Jerusalem fears Israeli blogger near being extradited to Azerbaijan

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Elbit's RWCS on a Guarani Vehicle of the Brazilian army (Courtesy)

Israel’s Elbit gets Brazil contract for $100 million

By Shoshanna Solomon

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, July 13, 2016 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Hebrew media reviewNetanyahu and Azaria on the ropes

By Ilan Ben Zion

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