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What Matters Most On Friday, May 4, 2012

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Hagai Amir, right, is surrounded by ebullient family members and reporters as he leaves Ayalon Prison on Friday morning (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Dozens protest Hagai Amir’s release

By Yoel Goldman and Sam Ser

Released brother of Rabin assassin says ‘I’m proud of what I did’; MKs and activists speak out

Kuwaiti parliament (Flickr/Creative Commons/File)

Kuwaiti parliament approves death penalty for cursing prophet Muhammad

By Elhanan Miller

‘This is a victory for Islam,’ says one MP; first law of its kind in Arab world now needs leader’s approval

Back to two-party politics?

Unless a certain charismatic TV anchor defies precedent, the elections of 2012 – which nobody seems to want, but which are happening anyway – may mark a return to the traditional Likud vs. Labor race, albeit with Netanyahu firmly in the driving seat

Ignoring the Jewish ‘nakba’

Left-wing groups, eager to defend Arab property rights inside the green line, are curiously indifferent when it comes to Jews reclaiming their ancestral homes in East Jerusalem

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman pictured in the Knesset in 2011 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

News analysis

Nobody seems to want early elections, so why are we having them?

By Raphael Ahren

Israel's newest immigrant from South Africa: A one-and-a-half ton female rhinoceros (photo credit: Ramat Gan Safari/Flash90)

Hey, lady!

Rhino arrives in Israel with a mission

By Yoel Goldman

One-and-a-half ton female from South Africa will live at the Ramat Gan Safari

The grounds at Bazra's Cafe Tapuz (Courtesy Lainie Blum)

Top Five

Hidden corners around town

By Jessica Steinberg

.Soldiers carrying the body of a soldier who committed suicide at a stalactite cave near Beit Shemesh in March 2011 (Photo credit: Abir Sultan/ Flash 90)

Despite tragic setbacks, army is lowering suicide rate within its ranks

By Mitch Ginsburg

While Corporal Netta Brand was found dead Thursday, apparently by his own hand, the army has had much success reducing such cases

A scene from L'Absence (photo credit: Regine Koerner)

‘L’absence’ fills the contemporary Jewish music void

By Shoshana Liessmann

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Egyptian soldiers raise their batons at a protester during clashes outside the Ministry of Defense in Cairo, Egypt, Friday. (photo credit: AP)

Soldier, two protesters killed and 300 injured in fierce Cairo clashes

New York shul to kosher caterer: Pack your knives and go

Hagai Amir, accomplice and brother of Rabin assassin Yigal Amir, in court in 2002. He was released today after sixteen years in jail. (photo credit: Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewAll together for the elections?

By Yossi Nachemi

UN observer in Syria. Led by the nose? (photo credit: AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

Arabic media reviewSyrian fire spreads to Aleppo; Egypt struggles on two fronts

By Elhanan Miller

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