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What Matters Most On Saturday, July 7, 2012

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Muslim activists hold pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli placards at a rally in Jakarta, Indonesia, in June 2010, days after the Mavi Marmara flotilla incident. (photo credit: AP/Achmad Ibrahim)

Indonesia to informally upgrade its relations with Israel via ambassador-ranked diplomat in Ramallah

By Kayla J Adams

Israel and Indonesia already maintain quiet trade, tourism and security contacts; new envoy’s appointment will smooth contacts with world’s most populous Muslim nation, source tells Times of Israel

A heated debate on Jordan TV between an MP (right) and an activist (left) deteriorated into a brawl in which a gun was drawn. (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Jordanian MP pulls a gun on his critic during live TV debate

By Kayla J Adams

After trading insults with activist, parliamentarian first throws a shoe and then points a gun at adversary. Host tries to break up brawl. No shots fired

Tens of thousands of people hold a mass rally in Tel Aviv last month, urging the government to enact universal draft legislation (photo credit: Tali Mayer/Flash90)

Likud MKs adopt recommendations of defunct committee on drafting the ultra-Orthodox

By Ron Friedman and Yoel Goldman

Netanyahu says new law will bring about ‘historic change’; differences still exist on Israeli Arab service

Iran’s military chief: We have a plan for Hormuz closure, but will only use it if threatened

By Yoel Goldman

‘Military commanders must have plans for any situation,’ says Major General Seyed Hassan Firouzabadi

Syrian forces fire on villages in northern Lebanon

By AP and ToI Staff

Three civilians killed and 10 injured in cross-border shelling

Yasser Arafat in 2002 (photo credit: AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

From the web

‘Collaborator confesses to poisoning Arafat’

IMEMC: Lebanese-based Al-Mayadeen video purports to show Palestinian admit Israel recruited him to spike leader’s food

A Haredi and a secular Jew praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

Playlist Judaism

A community struggling to meet the needs of Jewish identity surveys ‘others’

A view of Efrat, a settlement near Jerusalem (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Israel says it won’t cooperate with new UN panel probing settlements

By AP and ToI Staff

Human Rights Council appoints three women panelists; Israel says it won’t let them into the country

Yigal Amir, appearing in court in 2004. (Yoram Rubin/Flash90/File)

Prison Service releases Rabin assassin from solitary confinement

By Yoel Goldman and Stuart Winer

Yigal Amir was separated from general prison population for 17 years; new conditions allow for more visitors and interaction with inmates

Biking on the beach (photo credit: Flash 90)

Day tripping

Tooling around town on a Tel-O-Fun bike

By Jessica Steinberg

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Letter documents Hitler’s protection of former Jewish commander

By Frank Jordans

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with PA President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in 2010. Their last face-to-face meeting was in 2011. (photo credit: Fadi Arouri/Flash90)

Clinton-Abbas hold ‘productive talks’ but no word on meeting with Netanyahu

By Michal Shmulovich

A rally last year against drafting ultra-Orthodox men into the army (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

AnalysisControversy over draft law breeds culture war

This photo from 1974 shows then Syrian president Hafez Assad (right) and war minister, and father of Manaf Tlas, Gen. Mustafa Tlas (center) taking part in ceremonies in Damascus honoring the Syrian dead on the first anniversary of the the 1973 Yom Kippur War with Israel. (photo credit: AP photo/File)

Analysis General’s defection to France signals crumbling support for Assad from Syria’s elite

12-year-old girl dies after night swim at Tel Aviv beach

By Ilan Ben Zion and Yoel Goldman

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius behind her, in Paris in July. (AP/Brendan Smialowski)

China rejects Clinton’s criticism over Syria

The Tower Bridge in London, decorated with the five Olympic rings in preparation for the 2012 Summer Games, June 2012. (photo credit: Iain Farrell via CC/JTA)

Opening ceremony at Olympics won’t include moment of silence for Munich victims

By Joshua Davidovich and Raphael Ahren

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