Soldier stabbed as terror wave goes on * Protesters urge PM to quit * 2,000 settler homes okayed * Palestinian bus driver attacked * Birthright numbers dip, don’t crash

[Visit timesofisrael.com for 24/7 updates]( The Daily Edition Friday, December 14, 2018 [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 tells Palestinians to reject calls for new armed uprising in West Bank]( By [Adam Rasgon]( [Israel media review / The coming storm: 8 things to know for December 14]( By [Joshua Davidovich]( 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]( By [TOI staff]( [Crowd chants for Netanyahu to resign as 1,000 protest outside PM’s residence]( By [TOI staff]( [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’]( [In coalition ultimatum, hawkish faction demands more roadblocks for Palestinians]( By [Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid]( [Bennett demands coalition back law to move terrorists’ families from their homes]( By [TOI staff]( [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]( [Soldier wounded in West Bank terror shooting continues to fight for his life]( By [TOI staff]( [Soldiers killed in West Bank terror attack named as Yovel Mor Yosef, Yosef Cohen]( By [Alexander Fulbright]( [AG green-lights legalization of 2,000 settler homes built on Palestinian land]( By [Jacob Magid]( [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]( [Grandfather of baby who died after attack demands tough government response]( By [TOI staff]( [Mother who lost her infant in terror attack vows to have ‘many more babies’]( By [Michael Bachner]( [Abbas’s office condemns recent violence, blames Israel for tense ‘climate’]( By [Adam Rasgon]( [PA leader’s office attributes flareup in the West Bank to Israeli raids on Palestinian cities, incitement against himself, and the stalled peace process]( [After deadly attacks, US envoy assails PA over terrorist stipends]( By [TOI staff]( [Trudeau condemns West Bank terror attack after baby of Israeli-Canadian dies]( By [TOI staff]( [Police probe assault on Palestinian bus driver in West Bank settlement]( By [Jacob Magid]( [Nidal Fakih says two Israeli youths blocked road in Modiin Illit, boarded his bus and began beating him after identifying him as an Arab]( [Dozens of settler youths riot at scene of West Bank terror shooting]( By [Jacob Magid and Adam Rasgon]( [IDF: Palestinian tries to ram car into soldiers, is killed, in 3rd attack of day]( By [Judah Ari Gross]( [Reports of Birthright’s decline have been greatly exaggerated, officials say]( By [Amanda Borschel-Dan]( [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]( By [Ron Kampeas]( [NYU Jewish center closes temporarily over threatening social media posts]( By [JTA]( Top Ops [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)]( [David Sedley]( [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]( [Dovid M. 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