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What Matters Most On Monday, January 9, 2017

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A composite image of the four Israeli soldiers killed on January 8, 2017 in a truck-ramming terror attack in Jerusalem. From left, IDF Lieutenant Yael Yekutiel, IDF Cadet Shir Hajaj, IDF Cadet Shira Tzur, IDF Cadet Erez Orbach. (Handout photos IDF Spokesperson)

Families, friends mourn 4 soldiers killed in Jerusalem terror attack

Yael Yekutiel, 20, Shir Hajaj, 22, Shira Tzur, 20, Erez Orbach, 20, being laid to rest on Monday in funerals across country

Netanyahu says truck-ramming terrorist was IS supporter

Soldier killed in ramming attack, a US-Israeli citizen, laid to rest

Initial IDF probe says soldiers shot at terrorist, countering earlier report of hesitation

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

A relative shows a mobile phone photo of Fadi Qunbar, 28, outside his home in Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017. Qunbar was identified as the terrorist who drove a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers, killing four and wounding 16 (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Jerusalem terrorist reportedly angered by plan to move US Embassy

By Tamar Pileggi

Relatives say Fadi al-Qunbar expressed agitation after hearing sermon at local mosque criticizing president-elect’s campaign promise, which the PA ordered imams to focus on

Top PA imam: Moving US embassy to Jerusalem a ‘declaration of war’ on Islam

Jerusalem truck-rammer was previously arrested for buying stolen car

Abbas urges world leaders to prevent US Embassy move to Jerusalem

Friends and relatives of soldier Yael Yekutiel, who was killed a day earlier, mourn in front of her grave during her funeral at the Israeli Kiryat Shaul military cemetery in Tel Aviv, Israel on January 9, 2017. AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Live updates (closed)

Bomb threats reported at Jewish centers across US, London schools

By Judah Ari Gross

Families say no government officials were at burials of truck attack victims; Obama tells Israeli TV Netanyahu attacked him to deflect attention from settlement problem

Israeli security forces stand next to newly-installed concrete blocks in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber on December 9, 2017. (AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)

Israel ramps up security, says truck-ramming ‘new type of attack’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Netanyahu says driver decided to run over soldiers on spur of moment, orders barricades set up near bus stops; police deployed around East Jerusalem

Soldier wounded in ramming attack still fighting for her life

US, EU lead international condemnation of Jerusalem attack

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

UN Security Council condemns Jerusalem ramming attack

The scene where a truck rammed into a group of Israeli soldiers, killing at least four in a suspected vehicle-ramming attack, in the Armon Hanetziv neighborhood of Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

The tensions that fuel terror attacks haven’t gone away

By Avi Issacharoff

What motivates an employed father of four, without help and with no apparent affiliation to any terror group, to drive a truck murderously through a crowd of soldiers?

Security cabinet orders arrests, closure of Jerusalem terrorist’s village

Jerusalem terrorist’s sister says family ‘thankful’ for his ‘martyrdom’

By Dov Lieber and ToI Staff

Initial IDF probe says soldiers shot at terrorist, countering earlier report of hesitation

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, tour Ramat Hanadiv, a nature park in northern Israel, April 25, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahus said treated to gourmet meals, as new details into illicit gifts probe emerge

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Australian businessman James Packer reportedly paid for food worth thousands of shekels sent to PM’s private home in Caesarea, split costs of cigars, champagne with Arnon Milchan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara boarding a plane to New York for an official state visit to the US, September 20, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Newspaper editor ‘had no idea’ his publisher was cooking up deal with Netanyahu

By Raoul Wootliff

Kelly Watson from the Educators’ Institute for Human Rights sits in a classroom of Cambodian history teachers she is teaching the Holocaust to in October 2016. (courtesy Ouch Makara/Documentation Center of Cambodia Archives)

Through studying the Holocaust, Cambodians deal with own genocide

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

In a meeting of minds, a small town Indiana teacher and a Cambodian scholar documenting the Khmer Rogue atrocities create a workshop for comparative genocide education in Battambang

Stop pretending this was a truck attack

Face the facts: It was terrorism, Palestinians celebrated, Israel has been demonized, the problem is global

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

A time to be silent

You can post faster than you can write these days, but as terror victims are rushed to hospitals, just don’t

Sherwin Pomerantz

Honor the office, not the man

No matter how much you want to boycott Donald Trump, the office of the President transcends him

No more laughter

We are always surprised by terror because humankind can’t exist as if every moment is going to end with death

Ma'aleh video therapy bereaved fathers group. Back row (left to right): Asher Lemann (facilitator), David Cohen, Chanan Ariel, Ofir Shaer, Yosef Baruch Kalangel, Nachum Lemkus. Front row (left to right): Keren Hakak (facilitator), Menachem Assaraf, Shalom Sarel. (Courtesy of Ma'aleh)

Bereaved Israeli parents cope with loss by getting behind the camera

By Renee Ghert-Zand

File: Palestinian peace negotiator Saeb Erekat speaks at a press conference after an emergency meeting at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, on August 11, 2014. (AP/Amr Nabil)

Erekat slams US House for condemning UN anti-settlements resolution

By Eric Cortellessa

Palestinian negotiator says Congress should ‘adhere to established US policy’ on ‘illegitimacy of Israel’s settlement enterprise’

Screen shot from Hamas's official news site on January 8th, 2017. (Credit: Screen shot)

Facebook closes over 100 Hamas-linked accounts, angering terror group

Move follows online campaign celebrating infamous bomb maker; Hamas asks supporters to find alternate social media site

Illustrative: Troops near the West Bank town of Qalqilya on January 8, 2017. (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

5 Hamas members arrested in raids across West Bank

Move comes day after terror group praises deadly Jerusalem truck-ramming; six more suspects arrested for low-level attacks

Illustrative: Egyptians gather at the scene following a bombing that struck a main police station in the capital of the northern Sinai province in el-Arish, Egypt, April 12, 2015. (Muhamed Sabry/AP)

Bomb-laden garbage truck attack in Sinai kills 10

By ASHRAF SWEILLAM

Soldiers come under fire after stolen vehicle rams into checkpoint in northern city of el-Arish; officials fear death toll may rise

Iranian former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani at a press conference in Tehran, December 21, 2015. (AFP Photo/Atta Kenare)

Iran’s ex-president Rafsanjani dies

By AFP and ToI Staff

Rafsanjani, 82, who led his country from 1989 to 1997, once spoke of a single Islamic bomb having the capacity to wipe out Israel

Mourners gather around the coffin of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani during a mourning ceremony at the Jamaran mosque in Tehran, on January 9, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / ATTA KENARE)

Mourning Rafsanjani, Iran frets over moderate movement’s future

By AFP and AP

Groups of soldiers receiving psycho-social support following a terror attack on January 8, 2017, on the Haas Promenade in Jerusalem, where a truck rammed into a group of soldiers on a tour. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

In mass terror attacks, psychologists on the heels of EMTs

By Melanie Lidman

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a press conference in Rome, October 6, 2016. (AFP/Alberto Pizzoli)

Former UN chief ‘very concerned’ Iran violating arms embargo — report

At end of his term, Ban Ki-moon said Tehran’s supply of weapons to Hezbollah could defy resolution guiding 2015 nuclear agreement

The 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York, Saturday, September 24, 2016. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Former US envoy: Defunding UN would put China in control

By Eric Cortellessa

Pawel Sawicki guiding journalists through the so-called central sauna of Auschwitz-Birkenau, December 1, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

The Auschwitz museum has a Twitter account, and this ex-journalist runs it

By Cnaan Liphshiz

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of an Emirates plane. (CC BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons)

Mothereffin' life imitates mothereffin' artSnake on a plane grounds Emirates flight

By AFP

Meryl Streep poses in the press room during the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 8, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. (Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images/AFP)

Screen legend Streep takes on Trump at Golden Globes

By Frankie TAGGART

Cannabis plant. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Philip Morris investment in Syqe was 2nd-largest 2016 cannabis deal – report

By Shoshanna Solomon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laughs during a conference at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 21, 2016. (AFP/FABRICE COFFRINI)

Netanyahu cancels plans to attend Davos, reason unclear

Illustrative. A rocket is fired at Israel from Gaza on August 9, 2014. (AP/Dusan Vranic)

IDF: Rocket alert siren on Gaza border was false alarm

By Judah Ari Gross

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

During Trump transition, foreign policy matters reportedly relayed through Jared Kushner

By JTA

Richard Spencer, the self-styled leader of the so-called alt-right movement, speaks at Texas A&M University on December 6, 2016. (Screenshot)

Rally in solidarity with Jewish community held in Whitefish, Montana

By JTA

Israeli soldiers react at the scene where a truck rammed in a group of Israeli soldiers, killing four in Jerusalem on January 8, 2017. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewAfter attack, pundits exorcise ‘Azaria effect,’ demonize each other

By Joshua Davidovich

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