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What Matters Most On Friday, December 15, 2017

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A Palestinian man, wearing a suspected suicide vest, is carried into an ambulance after he stabbed a soldier and was then shot in the West Bank town of al-Bireh on December 15, 2017. (Oren Ziv/AFP)

Palestinian with suicide bomb belt stabs border guard during protest, is shot

By Judah Ari Gross

Stabber’s apparent explosives don’t go off; soldier moderately wounded in attack near West Bank city of Ramallah; assailant dies of wounds

Border Police officers take aim at Palestinian rioters during clashes near the West Bank Qalandiya checkpoint, on the outskirts of Ramallah, on December 15, 2017. (Abbas Momani/AFP)

Clashes break out in West Bank and Gaza for second Friday in a row

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A Palestinian prepares to throw stones at IDF soldiers guarding the Halamish settlement. (Eric Cortellessa/Times of Israel)

Israeli injured in West Bank rock-throwing attack

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks as he holds a press conference following the Extraordinary Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Instanbul, Turkey, December 13, 2017, in Istanbul. (Yasin Akgul/AFP)

While US Jewish groups including J Street fume, Israel mum

Israel’s leaders atypically quiet after Abbas asserts their state is invalid

By Raphael Ahren and Dov Lieber

Evidently disinclined to rub salt into wounds after Trump recognized Jerusalem as capital, ministers largely disregard speech in which PA head intimated Jews falsify faith, history

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a press conference in Istanbul, December 13, 2017. (AFP/Yasin Akgul)

In rare rebuke, J Street joins AIPAC in panning Abbas over Jerusalem speech

By Eric Cortellessa and ToI Staff

Vice President Mike Pence speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 27, 2017, during the annual meeting of the National Federation of Independent Business on health care, jobs, and the economy. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Snubbed by Abbas, US vice president to skip Palestinians on upcoming trip

By Raphael Ahren

Palestinian school children on their way back from school in the West Bank village of Ouja, near Jericho, November 14, 2013. (Meital Cohen/FLASH90)

Sign of the times

Protesting Trump, Jericho shop denies entry to ‘dogs and Americans’

IDF official expresses ‘shock’ over sign, likens it to Nazi Germany; Palestinian owner says move a response to Jerusalem recognition

A Palestinian customer walks out of a shawarma restaurant with a poster of North Korean leader Jim Jong in Jebaliya refugee camp, Gaza Strip, December 14, 2017. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Arugula manGaza eatery offers discounts to N. Koreans, if they ever arrive

By AP

US President Donald Trump holds up a signed memorandum recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, as US Vice President looks on, at the White House, on December 6, 2017. (AFP Photo/Saul Loeb)

Trump’s Jerusalem steps will help the peace process, some experts say

Israeli troops prepare to destroy a Hamas attack tunnel that entered Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, on December 9, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF officer says there are likely more Gaza tunnels leading into Israel

Southern (Gaza) Brigade commander tells border town residents the latest round of violence is ‘like a snowball we’re trying to stop’

In fresh rebuke for Trump, EU says its Jerusalem stance is unchanged

By AFP and ToI Staff

Labor chief tells EU envoys he ‘deeply’ supports two-state solution

By Marissa Newman

High Court: Israel can’t keep holding terrorists’ bodies without a law

By Judah Ari Gross

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (left) lights a menorah at Israel's Embassy in Berlin on December 15, 2017, alongside Israel's Ambassador to Germany Jeremy Issacharoff (Courtesy Israeli Embassy, via Facebook)

German president: Immigrants must reject anti-Semitism, it’s ‘non-negotiable’

Frank-Walter Steinmeier says he was ‘horrified and ashamed’ to see ‘Israeli flags on fire at German squares’ during anti-Israel protests

Islamic Center of Jersey City Imam Aymen Elkasaby gives a sermon on November 24. (Screen capture/Memri)

NJ imam to be ‘retrained’ after hoping, in sermon, that all Jews die

Illustrative: Muslim asylum seekers wait for their registration after arriving at a center for refugees in Giessen, Germany, on December 2, 2015 (AFP/DPA/Boris Roessler)

Anti-Semitism rampant among Muslim refugees in Germany — study

By JTA

Photos from the 2017 Jewish Voice for Labour conference, clockwise, from left: Ken McCluskey, general secretary of UNITE; Jenny Manson, chair of Jewish Voice for Labour introducing filmmaker Ken Loach; Leah Lavane speaking on behalf of her Hastings and Rye district. (Screenshots/YouTube)

Analysis

UK’s new Jewish Voice for Labour seeks to throw off the ‘shackles’ of Israel

By Robert Philpot

Workers of the Teva company protest against the company plan to lay off hundreds of employees, outside the TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries building in Jerusalem, December 14, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media review

Teva bought the pharm, and now it may have bought the farm

By Joshua Davidovich

The drug-maker is left for dead in the press, with pundit-coroners determining overpurchasing and poor management as the cause of death

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon attend the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on August 5, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90/Pool)

Netanyahu, Kahlon vow to limit Teva layoffs, prevent Jerusalem factory closure

By Shoshanna Solomon and ToI Staff

Kåre Schultz, CEO and president of Teva. (Courtesy)

In letter to Israeli PM, Teva CEO apologizes for drug-maker’s sorry state

By Shoshanna Solomon

Chaim Steinmetz

No free lunch for NYC’s Jewish and Muslim students

Mayor de Blasio will feed all school kids. Well, except for 33,800 students who eat halal and kosher

Was Joseph the first Jewish economist?

His dream interpretations reflect humanity’s capacity to cure poverty and pain (Miketz)

Yonason Goldson

The soldier with really good table manners

The IDF has trained my son to respond to the unexpected, and navigate his way through life’s obstacles

It’s OK God — we’ve got it covered

Hanukkah raises that important question of whether Judaism requires the Divine to thrive

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Lior Ashkenazi (foreground), stars as a grieving father in Samuel Maoz's award-winning film 'Foxtrot' (Courtesy 'Foxtrot')

Israeli film ‘Foxtrot’ shortlisted for foreign language Oscar

Molly Tolsky poses in her Hanukkah dress, Bryant Park, New York, 2017 (Marissa Roer)

Light my fireJournalist melts JSwipe with kitschy Hanukkah dress

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In this Aug. 2, 2017 photo, Dustin Hoffman arrives at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Grants Banquet in Beverly Hills, California. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Dustin Hoffman accused of sexually assaulting women on ‘Ishtar’ set

By AFP

Illustrative: US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley points to previously classified missile segments she says prove Iran violated UN Security Council Resolution 2231 by providing the Houthi rebels in Yemen with arms, during a press conference at Joint Base Anacostia in Washington, DC, on December 14, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jim Watson)

US presents ‘undeniable’ evidence Iran arming Yemen’s rebels with missiles

Neda Amin (Courtesy)

Israel said to question Iranian blogger after letting her in from Turkey

Kevin Durant #35 of the Golden State Warriors celebrates a second half basket with Omri Casspi #18 while playing the Detroit Pistons at Little Caesars Arena on December 8, 2017 in Detroit, Michigan. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images/AFP)

And threeAfter 8th win, Israel’s Casspi lights Hanukkah candles on court

By AP

Lahav Zaken lights the Hanukkah menorah (Hillary Zaken)

Festival of Rights

North Carolina boy stands up to corporate America for Hanukkah

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Lahav Zaken spearheads letter-writing campaign to persuade national chain store to restock Festival of Lights merchandise

SpinoffOh dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of… wire?

By Jessica Steinberg

Am Yisrael why?Forget the candles, bring the fun: 5 of the kookiest menorahs around

By Josefin Dolsten

US ambassador to Israel lights menorah at Western Wall

By JTA and ToI Staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the International Conference on Digital Diplomacy at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on December 7, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

PM shrugs off graft suspicions as ‘nothing’ after latest questioning

Investigators leave Netanyahu’s residence after 4.5 hours of grilling Friday over gifts from Hollywood mogul, Australian billionaire

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on December 13, 2017 (GPO)

Netanyahu finishes seventh round of police questioning in graft probe

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife, Sara Netanyahu, is seen at the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, on October 13, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Filing defense, Sara Netanyahu denounces ‘bizarre’ abuse lawsuit

By Raoul Wootliff

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