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Shin Bet: Prime suspects confessed, re-enacted fatal West Bank firebombing   2 suspected Jewish extremists indicted for Duma killings   Amiram Ben-Uliel, 21, accused of murder; second suspect, a minor, charged as an accessory; 5 other Jewish terror suspects indicted for anti-Arab attacks   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF

‘Stood up by accomplice, Ben-Uliel torched Duma home alone’   By JUDAH ARI GROSS     Parents, wife of Duma murder suspect insist he’s innocent   By STUART WINER

LIVE UPDATES Latest: Image of the knife used in Jerusalem terror attempt   Attacker flees after bungled stabbing attempt in Jerusalem     Man very lightly hurt on Barazani Street in capital’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood; would-be stabber heads for Arab neighborhood of Sur Baher   By JONATHAN BECK

TA schoolchildren stay home as manhunt for shooter goes into day three   50% of pupils in city’s north kept out of school by worried parents after terror attack that killed 2 Israelis   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF

Police swarm north Tel Aviv as hunt for shooter goes into second night   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF     At scene of attack, TA residents vow to remain undaunted by terror   By MELANIE LIDMAN     Brother of alleged Tel Aviv killer held as accomplice to murder   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF

PM doubles down on criticism of Israeli Arabs after TA attack   Tel Aviv mayor says Netanyahu’s warnings about ‘wild incitement’ in the Arab community were compensation for his failure   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF

Netanyahu: We’ll root out lawlessness, incitement among Israeli Arabs   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF     ‘Gun used in Tel Aviv attack was previously confiscated by police’   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF     Officials ‘increasingly believe’ TA shooter also killed cabbie   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF

Tel Aviv shooting may have been Israel’s first taste of Paris-style jihadism   ANALYSIS Nashat Milhem, a 29-year-old Israeli, doesn’t quite fit the profile of a Palestinian terrorist. Is Israel becoming vulnerable to a new kind of homegrown terror?   By AVI ISSACHAROFF

Tel Aviv shooting suspect identified as Nashat Milhem   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF   Condition of 2 critically injured in TA attack improves   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF   Victims of Tel Aviv shooting to be buried Sunday   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF

(Never) leaving Jerusalem   RACHEL MITCHELL There’s a complex, chaotic, aromatic mesmerizing city that doesn’t show up in the news, and she fell in love with it       The Chief Rabbinate will disappear   DAVID GOLINKIN A rabbinate that rests on coercion is doomed because belief and practice can not be forced on modern Jews       A boost for Jewish-Arab equality   SHELDON KIRSHNER The plan to invest $4 billion in Arab communities may assuage the frustrations that turn some to violence       Palestinians dismiss rumors of Abbas ill health   PA president’s spokesman rejects ‘baseless’ social media claims that he had a stroke     Three toddlers killed in Rahat blaze   Children aged 1 to 4 pronounced dead a short while after being rushed to hospital with critical injuries       Cabinet secretary Mandelblit approved as new attorney general   Ministers okay former IDF legal chief as nation’s new top law enforcer; economist Avi Simhon appointed state economic adviser       France quarrels over revoking citizenship of terrorists   Polls suggest large majority of public in favor of controversial measure submitted by President Hollande after Paris attacks       Tarantino: Confederate flag was ‘American Swastika’   FROM THE WEBDiscussing his new film ‘The Hateful Eight,’ cult film director talks race relations with the Telegraph     HEBREW MEDIA REVIEW   SUN, JAN 3, 2:56 PM     To hunt a killer in a cosmopolitan city   Papers focus on the search for the suspect in a deadly shooting in Tel Aviv, and ruminate on the relationship between Arab Israelis and the Jewish state       Sign up for our Start-Up Daily newsletter!   Get the Start-Up Daily newsletter, free by email, for selected top stories from our 24/7 Israeli high-tech coverage

Female soldier wounded in Hebron sniper attack   Army launches manhunt for shooter from Abu Sneineh neighborhood, near the Tomb of the Patriarchs holy site   By JUDAH ARI GROSS     Related article: Man lightly hurt in apparent shooting on Jerusalem ‘tunnel road’     Islamic State-linked group claims responsibility for Gaza rockets   Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis gloats it turned ‘night into day’ in ‘occupied Palestine’; IAF hit Hamas targets after 5 rockets fired Friday   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF       New Egyptian ambassador arrives in Tel Aviv, the first since 2012   PM says Hazem Khairat’s posting will help Israel ‘further strengthen relations with important and central Arab country’   By RAPHAEL AHREN     Related article: Up to 60 IS militants said killed in Sinai airstrikes     Tehran mob attacks Saudi embassy after execution of Shiite cleric   Saudi consulate in Iran’s second largest city also torched after Riyadh kills anti-government protester   By AFP     Related article: Iran, Saudi step up war of words over executed Shiite cleric     Al-Qaeda affiliate uses Trump in recruitment video   Al-Shabab propaganda clip features GOP presidential hopeful’s remarks about banning Muslims from entering United States   By AFP     Related article: Trump plays down al-Qaeda recruitment clip appearance     Abbas rival Dahlan calls Palestinian leader a ‘failure’   Exiled former Fatah strongman says PA president should have halted security cooperation with Israel, slams Hamas and armed struggle   By TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF         Vatican’s first official accord with Palestine takes effect   Announced in June, agreement covers Church’s operations in Palestinian territories, recognizes sovereignty there   By AFP