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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 13, 2018

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Israeli soldiers, medical officials and police inspect the scene of a terrorist shooting attack near Givat Assaf, in the central West Bank, on December 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

IDF sends more troops to West Bank amid uptick in violence

2 soldiers killed in West Bank terror shooting; civilian, serviceman hurt

By Judah Ari Gross

Attackers flee, prompting manhunt; incident occurs near site of Sunday drive-by in which seven Israelis were hurt, including a pregnant woman whose baby later died

Hamas spokesman Abdelatif al-Qanou speaking to an Arabic television station on October 7, 2018. (Screenshot: Youtube)

Hamas spokesman praises ‘heroic’ West Bank terror attack

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) with Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel during a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 28, 2018. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

Threatening to bolt coalition, hawkish faction demands Palestinian road ban

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Israeli soldiers, medical officials and police inspect the scene of a terrorist shooting attack near the Givat Assaf settlement outpost in the central West Bank on December 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Some terrorists from Sunday’s Ofra attack may still be at large, officer says

By Judah Ari Gross

A poster published by Hamas claiming the December 9, 2108, Ofra terror attack and praising the 'martyr' Salih Barghouti, posted on Hamas's official Twitter account, December 12, 2108. (Twitter)

Hamas claims deadly Ofra terror attack after Israel kills suspected shooter

By Adam Rasgon and ToI Staff

An Israeli border guard stands during clashes with Palestinian protesters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 11, 2018. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

Israel arrests 4 suspects in Ofra terror attack; fifth is killed trying to flee

Shira, Amichai Ish-Ran, recovering from wounds, can't attend

Hundreds mourn as baby boy born after mother shot in terror attack is buried

Baby named as Amiad Yisrael; settler leader calls for Israel to ramp up settlement building following shooting at Ofra, says ‘we demand to see the blood of the terrorists’

Relatives of Amichai and Shira Ish-Ran attend the funeral of their baby, who was born prematurely after his mother was wounded in a terror attack outside the West Bank settlement of Ofra, at Mount of Olives ceremony in Jerusalem on December 12, 2018. (AFP)

The scene of a terrorist attack outside the West Bank settlement of Ofra, on December 9, 2018. (Magen David Adom)

Baby dies after emergency delivery following Ofra terror attack

The scene of a stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Old City on December 13, 2018. (Police Spokesperson)

Two border guards wounded in Old City stabbing attack

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Right-wing Israelis at a protest outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on December 13, 2018, hold signs depicting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the crosshairs of a rifle scope. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Thousands call on PM to resign in protest outside his home against terror spate

Speakers at settler demonstration unimpressed by measures Netanyahu said he’d be taking in response to violence, arguing they’re identical to what he’d promised 3 years prior

7:35 pm

EU Ambassador expresses concern over recent attacks in West Bank, East Jerusalem
7:05 pm

Key Ministerial Committee to vote on bill expelling terrorists' families to Gaza
6:48 pm

Prominent French MP inspects, condemns Hezbollah attack tunnel

In this undated photograph, Israeli troops search for the terrorist who committed a brutal shooting attack in the Barkan industrial park in the northern West Bank in which two Israelis were killed on October 7, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

After two-month manhunt, IDF finds and kills terrorist who killed two in Barkan

Ashraf Na’alowa, who was armed, dies in attempt to arrest him early Thursday; in October, he killed Kim Levengrond Yehezkel and Ziv Hajbi at West Bank factory where all 3 worked

In this undated photograph, Israeli troops search for the terrorists who committed a shooting attack on a bus stop outside the Ofra settlement in the West Bank, near Ramallah, in which seven Israelis were injured, including a pregnant woman, on December 9, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israel media reviewStopping terrorists, but not terror: 9 things to know for December 13

By Joshua Davidovich

Kim Levengrond Yehezkel, 29 (left), and Ziv Hajbi, 35, who were killed in a terror shooting in the Barkan Industrial Park in the West Bank, October 7, 2018 (screenshots: Facebook)

Families of Barkan victims describe ‘bittersweet’ morning after terrorist slain

By Michael Bachner

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 28, 2018. (Flash90)

Abbas’s office condemns recent violence, blames Israel for tense ‘climate’

PA leader’s office attributes flareup in the West Bank to Israeli raids on Palestinian cities, incitement against himself, and the stalled peace process

Palestinian recounts torture by PA for helping Israel to thwart terror attacks

US rebukes ‘unacceptable’ West Bank posters urging Abbas’s assassination

By Eric Cortellessa

Palestinians to protest to Security Council over ads calling for death of Abbas

A Jerusalem rabbi in Abu Dhabi

Some Arab religious and political authorities show signs of an increasingly positive view on engagement with Jewry

Jessica Levine Kupferberg

In darkness and light, Amiad Yisrael

A baby who had to be torn from his mother’s womb lived just long enough for his parents to say hello, goodbye and I’m sorry

Israeli Nobel Prize winner Prof. Robert Yisrael Aumann (right) speaks with journalist Matthew Kalman at a Times of Israel Presents event produced in partnership with Beit Avi Chai in Jerusalem, December 12, 2018. (Dana Bar Siman Tov)

Times of Israel Presents

Israeli-Palestinian peace a matter of incentives, says Nobel laureate Aumann

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he speaks the Government Press Office's annual New Year's toast in Jerusalem on December 12, 2018. (Gali Tibbon/AFP)

PM justifies tacit support for Saudi Arabia despite ‘horrific’ Khashoggi murder

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu tells foreign journalists in Jerusalem that the slaying of the regime critic is balanced by the important role played by the kingdom in maintaining global stability

Iranian hackers go after nuclear workers, US officials and think tanks

By Raphael Satter

Netanyahu says Israel would hit Iran to ensure its own survival

By AFP

Israel says ‘understandings’ with Russia reached over Syria

OlehStay founders Noam Beltran, left, and Joseph Sokol, right (Courtesy).

After Airbnb settlement snub, an all-Israel rental site goes live

By Shoshanna Solomon

OlehStay welcomes ‘any listing, anywhere in Israel’ in response to global hospitality service’s decision to remove Israeli homes in the West Bank from its listings

Emmanuel mayor Ezra Gershi speaks in his office in December 11, 2011. (Screen capture/YouTube)

In plea deal to avoid prison, former settlement mayor admits to buying votes

Adina Halpern plates a leg of lamb in pomegranate sauce. (Hanoch Melamed Cohen)

God is in the details

Three friends elevate kosher food with a monthly pop-up like you’ve never seen

By Danielle Ziri

Dave Nicholls, seated, rides in the bobsled. (Courtesy of Nicholls via JTA)

Israel has a bobsled team, and it wants to compete in the Olympics

By Josefin Dolsten

More Headlines

Marc Lamont Hill speaks at the United Nations on November 28, 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Marc Lamont Hill keeps job after call to ‘free Palestine from river to sea’

By JTA

Thousands protest in support of the right of LGBT couples to adopt children at a demonstration in Tel Aviv on July 20, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Top court rules for gay parents in birth certificate fight

Demonstrators gather in front of a burning car during a protest of Yellow vests (Gilets jaunes) against rising oil prices and living costs, on December 1, 2018 in Paris. (Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)

France tax protests often feature anti-Semitic rhetoric

By Cnaan Liphshiz

A car in flames outside the Elad home of an Israel Prisons Service intelligence officer believed targeted by criminal organizations, November 2018. (Israel Prisons Service)

Bomb goes off outside prison officer’s home amid intimidation campaign

Communication Minister Ayoub Kara receives medical treatment outside the Knesset plenum after collapsing on December 12, 2018. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was in the plenum at the time, can be seen sitting down on the right of the photo. (Courtesy)

Minister collapses at Knesset after complaining of chest pains

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Haifa city council member Raja Za'atra of the Joint (Arab) List. (Screenshot: YouTube)

After protests, Haifa Arab leader cedes deputy mayor appointment

David Keyes, left, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on their way to the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, March 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, pool)

Netanyahu spokesman Keyes officially quits after sexual misconduct allegations

By Raphael Ahren

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks to the media in Canberra, October 17, 2018. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Australian PM quashes talk of imminently recognizing Jerusalem as capital

Michael Cohen, right, US President Donald Trump's former lawyer, arrives at federal court for his sentencing for dodging taxes, lying to Congress and violating campaign finance laws in New York , December 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Former Trump fixer Cohen jailed for 3 years over hush money, lying to Congress

By Larry Neumeister and Tom Hays

An unmanned Spike anti-tank missile system is seen atop the turret of a Namer armored personnel carrier. (Defense Ministry)

In first, Israel test-fires anti-tank missile from unmanned APC turret

Lev Tahor girls walking in Chatham, Ontario, in December 2013. (Screen Capture/YouTube)

Jewish religious cult Lev Tahor is suspected of kidnapping kids who broke away

By JTA and ToI Staff

Illustrative: An elderly man crosses the street in Tel Aviv, May 20, 2009. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

Cancer is Israel’s biggest killer, though death rate is among lowest in world

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