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What Matters Most On Wednesday, November 28, 2012

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas leaves the podium after speaking during the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 27, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Seth Wenig)

In about-face, Israel says it won’t cancel Oslo if Palestinians pursue UN bid

By Raphael Ahren

If Abbas unilaterally seeks statehood status, Jerusalem will weigh other punitive measures, senior official says

Germany confirms it won’t support Palestinian statehood bid, UK to abstain

By Ilan Ben Zion

Future Palestinian state to try Israel at ICC for Arafat killing, official says

By Ilan Ben Zion

Foreign Ministry instructs envoys to return letters that use the term ‘Palestine’

By Aaron Kalman

Bible scholar Tzemah Yoreh questions the common telling of the binding of Isaac -- the version that inspired Caravaggio -- in which an angel stops Abraham moments before he sacrifices his son. (Photo credit: From http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/caravaggio/isaac.jpgg/via Wikipedia)

Book review

When Abraham murdered Isaac

By Haviv Rettig Gur

A young New York scholar believes he has unearthed the earliest version of the Bible, which features infanticide, a senseless massacre and only seven commandments 

Hamas’s anti-Jewish war began in 1930s Egypt

The objective is still the same: kill the Jews.

The new Likud minus Zeev Jabotinsky

Gone are the party’s traditional respect for minority rights and the rule of law

Tzipi Livni (photo credit: Ben David/Flash90)

Analysis

It’s the blocs, stupid

By Raphael Ahren

Such drama! Livni comes back, Barak leaves and the Likud lurches rightwards. But the devil isn’t in the details, and Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc still easily trumps the center-left

Former foreign minister Tzipi Livni announces her return to politics during a press conference in Tel Aviv on November 27, 2012. (photo credit: Flash90)

Poll shows center-left bloc suffering from Livni’s political comeback

By Stuart Winer

Shelly Yachimovich (left) with Tzipi Livni, November 14 (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Number of center-left parties harms chances of replacing Netanyahu, Labor head says

By Aaron Kalman

Shelly Yachimovich calls her party ‘the only alternative’, brands Tzipi Livni’s newly formed faction a ‘mistake’

Chaim Levin, left, and Michael Ferguson, right, with his partner Seth Anderson, listen to a news conference in New York on November 27, 2012, describing their claims against the JONAH organization that claims it can 'cure' gay men of their homosexuality. (Photo credit: Richard Drew/AP)

NY gays accuse Jewish therapy group of false promises

Jews Offering New Alternatives to Healing claimed it could ‘cure’ homosexuals of their ‘mental disorder’

The undated diagram that was given to the AP by officials of a country critical of Iran's atomic program allegedly calculating the explosive force of a nuclear weapon. The curve peaks at just above 50 kilotons at around 2 microseconds, reflecting the full force of the weapon being modeled. The Farsi writing at the bottom translates "changes in output and in energy released as a function of time through power pulse" (photo credit: AP)

Iranian scientists running simulations of large nuclear weapon

Diagram suggests Tehran’s planned bomb would be three times stronger than Hiroshima blast

Israeli police remove the remains of a rocket, fired by Palestinian terrorists from the Gaza Strip, that landed near buildings in the coastal city of Ashkelon, Nov, 2012. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Dangerous souvenirs

A race for the missing rockets

By Stuart Winer

Hundreds of unexploded missiles fired from Gaza now lie scattered across southern Israel

The most basic of shelters, the cement pipe (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

The safest room in the house

By Jessica Steinberg

Syrian citizens stand near a burning truck that was destroyed by two car bombs, at Jaramana neighborhood, in the suburb of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Nov. 28 (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Explosions rock Damascus, leaving at least 34 dead

Two cars blow up in neighborhood considered loyal to Bashar Assad

Illustrative photo of a kosher butcher sharpening his tools. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Polish court reportedly outlaws kosher slaughter

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Ruling, which also bans Muslim butchery, appears to contradict 1997 agreement between government and Jewish community

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How will they vote? European countries are expected to support a Palestinian bid at the U.N. later this week. In this photo, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in February 2012. (photo credit: Fadi Arouri/POOL/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewCan The Movement move votes?

By Yossi Nachemi

Egyptian protesters chant slogans at rally in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

Arabic media reviewEgyptian million-man rally brings back memories of Tahrir 2011

By Elhanan Miller

The eBay Israel Social Center (photo credit: Courtesy)

The start-up support group in Tel Aviv

By David Shamah

Highway 6, also known as Trans-Israel Highway and Cross-Israel Highway, and officially titled Yitzhak Rabin Highway, stretches 138 kilometers from the north to the south of Israel (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

One dead and 18 injured in series of accidents on major highway

Egyptian Body builder Moustafa Ismail poses during his daily workout at World Gym in Milford, Mass., on Friday, November 16, 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

'I yam what I yam'‘Egyptian Popeye’ breaks world record

By Rodrique Ngowi

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