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What Matters Most On Friday, March 23, 2012

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Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin plants an olive tree during a visit to the settlement of Migron. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90.

‘Israel won’t cooperate with UN probe of West Bank settlements’

By Ilan Ben Zion and Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu slams UN Human Rights Council as ‘hypocritical’ after the passage of 5 resolutions condemning Israel

The Chelm stories, usually seen as an expression of an authentic Jewish folk tradition, have more complicated origins. (photo credit: Illustration from F. Halperin's 'Khakhme Khelm,' Warsaw 1926.)

Story behind a story

The serious history of a comical town

By Matti Friedman

A scholar unravels the origins of Chelm

‘They’re killing Jewish children in Europe again’

Although Muslim extremists cite the Palestinian cause to justify their acts, the truth is that they pose a danger to all law-abiding citizens — not just Jews

If Russia and China remain steadfast and opposed, the 13 remaining members of the UN Security Council, the Arab League and the European Union should use their preponderant majority to end the Syrian regime’s killing fields

Toulouse terrorist Mohamed Merah (AP/France 2)

Toulouse killer was questioned by Israel police for having a knife

By ToI Staff and AP

French official confirms Mohamed Merah visited Israel in 2010

Illustrative photo of a broken mezuza (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Connecticut condo bans mezuzot — but not crosses

Reproduction of Adolf Hitler from Israel Nazi hunter Tovia Fridman archive (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Foul smelling ad

Hitler plugs shampoo in Turkey

By Asher Zeiger

Cosmetic company Biomed’s use of the Nazi leader in commercial causes stink

An illustrative photo of hikers overlooking the Dead Sea (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Hiker dies after 80 meter fall

Rescue services pronounce man dead after a complex rescue attempt in the Judean Desert

Model Esther Petrack posing on a tank (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson)

A model soldier

From catwalk to guard duty

By Hillary Zaken

Former contestant on ‘America’s Next Top Model’ is now an IDF recruit

In the kayak (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash 90)

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Break out of the routine with these Friday outings

By Jessica Steinberg

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And then there were two. Avi Dichter drops out of the Kadima primary (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/ Flash 90)

Hebrew Media ReviewFailure in France

By Yossi Nachemi

Pictures of Bashar Assad on sale in Damascus, March 22 (photo credit: AP/Muzaffar Salman)

Arabic media reviewFear and loathing in Toulouse and Damascus

By Elhanan Miller

Hundreds gather in Toulouse to pay their respects to the victims of Toulouse terrorist Mohamed Merah, March 23, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Thibault Camus)

Europe wakes up to danger of Islamist terror

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