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What Matters Most On Friday, December 14, 2018

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Illustrative: Israeli soldiers guard the scene of a terrorist shooting attack near Givat Assaf, in the central West Bank, on December 13, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Palestinian seriously wounds soldier in West Bank attack before fleeing

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Army launches search for assailant near Beit El settlement, says serviceman taken to hospital with stab wounds, severe head injury

Fatah spokesman Osama Qawasma speaking to Palestine TV, the official PA television channel, on December 13, 2018. (Screenshot: Youtube)

Fatah tells Palestinians to reject calls for new armed uprising in West Bank

Road blocks in the West Bank following a terror attack where two Israeli soldiers were shot by Palestinian terrorists, and two more seriously injured, December 13, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/FLASH90)

Israel media reviewThe coming storm: 8 things to know for December 14

By Joshua Davidovich

Israeli soldiers carry out searches for terror suspects in the West Bank on December 14, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)

Analysis

Judah Ari Gross

As ‘attacks beget attacks’ in West Bank, army must break cycle of terror

Even as tensions calm slightly in Gaza, Hamas is ramping up attacks in the West Bank, and lone copycats also pose a threat

Israel continues manhunt, braces for violence as Hamas calls for ‘day of rage’

By ToI Staff and Agencies

After terror attacks, Netanyahu threatens Hamas, vows to approve settler homes

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Senior IDF commander signals a single Hamas cell behind both West Bank shootings

Right-wing Israelis attend a demonstration outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, December 13, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Crowd chants for Netanyahu to resign as 1,000 protest outside PM’s residence

Amid terror wave, some demonstrators burn pictures of PA head Abbas; settler leader tells crowd he doesn’t want PM to step down, but to ‘crush the terrorist authority’

Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich speaks during an Interior Affairs committee meeting at the Knesset, January 1, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In coalition ultimatum, hawkish faction demands more roadblocks for Palestinians

By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid

Education Minister Naftali Bennett attends a ceremony in the northern city of Safed, on December 11, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Bennett demands coalition back law to move terrorists’ families from their homes

Friends and relatives of Sgt. Yosef Cohen mourn during his funeral in Jerusalem on December 14, 2018, a day after he was killed in a West Bank terror shooting. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Thousands attend funerals of soldiers killed in West Bank attack

By Michael Bachner

Yosef Cohen eulogized by stepfather as a ‘great, holy, pure child’; Yovel Mor Yosef hailed for giving up basketball dreams to serve in religious combat unit

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)

Soldier wounded in West Bank terror shooting continues to fight for his life

A photo composite shows Sgt. Yosef Cohen, left, and Staff Sgt. Yovel Mor Yosef of the IDF's Kfir Brigade who were killed on December 13, 2018, in a terrorist shooting attack near the Givat Assaf settlement outpost in the central West Bank. (Israel Defense Forces)

Soldiers killed in West Bank terror attack named as Yovel Mor Yosef, Yosef Cohen

By Alexander Fulbright

View of the Givat Assaf outpost, located near the Jewish settlement of Beit El in the West Bank, June 05, 2012. (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/FLASH90)

AG green-lights legalization of 2,000 settler homes built on Palestinian land

After PM says he’ll regulate thousands of illegal Israeli homes built in ‘good faith,’ Avichai Mandeliblit signs off on legal tactic that allows approval

Chaim Silberstein speaks outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem at a right-wing rally protesting the government's response to recent terror attacks in the West Bank, on December 13, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)

Grandfather of baby who died after attack demands tough government response

Amichai (left) and Shira Ish-Ran, wounded in a December 9, 2018, terrorist attack outside Ofra in the West Bank, are seen at their wedding (Courtesy of the family)

Mother who lost her infant in terror attack vows to have ‘many more babies’

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

US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks at an event in Jerusalem on October 16, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

After deadly attacks, US envoy assails PA over terrorist stipends

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a speech at the the Paris Peace Forum at the Villette Conference Hall in Paris on November 11, 2018. (Yoan Valat/AFP)

Trudeau condemns West Bank terror attack after baby of Israeli-Canadian dies

Palestinian bus driver brutally assaulted by Israeli passengers at Modiin Illit settlement on December 13, 2018. (Courtesy)

Police probe assault on Palestinian bus driver in West Bank settlement

Nidal Fakih says two Israeli youths blocked road in Modiin Illit, boarded his bus and began beating him after identifying him as an Arab

A rock reportedly thrown by Israeli settlers is seen inside of a Palestinian car near the northern West Bank settlement of Yitzhar on December 13, 2018. (B'Tselem)

Dozens of settler youths riot at scene of West Bank terror shooting

By Jacob Magid and Adam Rasgon

Israeli security forces and forensic experts inspect the scene of a terror shooting outside the Givat Assaf settlement outpost, northeast of the West Bank city of Ramallah, on December 13, 2018. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

IDF: Palestinian tries to ram car into soldiers, is killed, in 3rd attack of day

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: Participants on a Birthright Israel trip. (Courtesy)

Reports of Birthright’s decline have been greatly exaggerated, officials say

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Journalist Noah Klieger, contemporary witness and survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, stands in the court room of the trial against John Demjamjuk at the District Court in Munich, Germany Dec. 2, 2009 (AP Photo/Peter Kneffel,Pool)

Noah Klieger, Holocaust survivor and storied Israeli journalist, dies at 92

By JTA

Writer, who moved to Israel in 1948 and fought in the War of Independence, continued working until his death

Holocaust survivor, who told his story to thousands, killed by car in Oregon

By AP

American Federation of Teachers building defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti

NYU Jewish center closes temporarily over threatening social media posts

By JTA

Bracha Goldstein

Mourning my son with no name

The pain digs a hole and creates a space for all the complexities of broken hearts and loss

Adena Berkowitz

The three R’s worth emulating

The pivotal point when Joseph and his brothers move past rage and rivalry to remorse and reconciliation (Vayigash)

When worlds collide

Some see Judaism as strict, others as expansive — and the verbal battles between them are as heated as the confrontation between Judah and Joseph

Do you love your teacher?

Until qualified women repopulate a system inundated with men, male educators must guard against any intimation of impropriety

This combination of pictures created on April 11, 2018, shows Michael Cohen (L) and US President Donald Trump. (Mark Wilson and Nicholas Kamm/various sources/AFP)

Trump knew hush-money payments were wrong, says ex-lawyer Cohen

By AFP

‘I don’t think there is anybody that believes that,’ attorney says of US president’s claim he never told him to break the law

Trump’s search for a new chief of staff has reality TV feel

By Catherine Lucey and Jonathan Lemire

Trump said to be considering son-in-law Kushner for chief of staff role

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US Senate rebukes Trump, Saudi Arabia over journalist’s murder, Yemen war

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, LISA MASCARO and Matthew Lee

Heather Booth, executive director, Americans for Financial Reform, at podium, cheers during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 15, 2010, to discuss financial reform legislation. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Jewish backstory of the radical gang from Chicago’s Women’s Liberation Union

By Penny Schwartz

More Headlines

US comedian Leah Forster. (Courtesy of Forster via JTA)

Kosher certifying body admits it warned eatery against hosting lesbian comedian

By Josefin Dolsten

Israeli machinery operates next to a concrete wall separating Israel and Lebanon, in a photograph taken from the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila, near the border with Israel, on December 9, 2018. (Ali Dia/AFP)

US Embassy bars workers from parts of north amid search for Hezbollah tunnels

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz speaks to an Israeli Holocaust survivor from Austria in Jerusalem, June 10, 2018. (Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images/via JTA)

Vienna says still wants to give citizenship to descendants of Holocaust victims

By Raphael Ahren

Chelsea's Brazilian midfielder Willian (L) is congratulated by teammates Ross Barkley, Álvaro Morata and Davide Zappacosta (R) after scoring during a UEFA Europa League Group soccer match between MOL Vidi FC and Chelsea on December 13, 2018, in Budapest, Hungary. (Attila Kisbenedek/AFP)

Chelsea vows ‘strongest possible action’ after anti-Semitic chants by fans

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (c) leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 5, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Amid pressure, Netanyahu promises to appoint foreign minister within a month

By Raoul Wootliff

Newly elected leader of the Liberal Party, Scott Morrison addresses media at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Aug. 24, 2018 (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Australia may recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on Saturday — report

By AFP and ToI Staff

French police officers block the road near the site where Cherif Chekatt, the alleged gunman who had been on the run since allegedly killing three people at Strasbourg's popular Christmas market, was shot dead by police in the Neudorf neighborhood of Strasbourg on December 13, 2018. (Alain JOCARD/AFP)

Gunman who killed three in Strasbourg market shot dead by French police

By Marc Antoine BAUDOUX and Adam PLOWRIGHT

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest outside the army draft office in Jerusalem on December 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox protesters block traffic at Jerusalem anti-draft rally

Johann Rehbogen, a 94-year-old former SS enlisted man, who is accused of hundreds of counts of accessory to murder for alleged crimes committed while he served as a guard at the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp, waits for the beginning of the third day of his trial at the regional court in Muenster, Germany, November 13, 2018. (Guido Kirchner/pool photo via AP)

German court suspends trial of ex-Nazi death camp guard over health woes

By AFP

Natalie Portman arrives at Variety's Power of Women event on Oct. 12, 2018, at the Beverly Wilshire hotel in Beverly Hills, California (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Natalie Portman slams Israel’s nation-state law as ‘racist’

By Josefin Dolsten

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