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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 6, 2012

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Chancellery in Berlin (AP/Wolfgang Rattayl)

‘We agreed that we disagree’ on settlement expansion, Merkel says after meeting with PM

By Ron Friedman and AP

In Germany, Netanyahu insists Israel will retain controversial E1 corridor ‘under any future peace deal’

Despite souring relations with Israel, Europe not about to boycott settlement goods, sources predict

By Raphael Ahren and Joshua Davidovich

From the webThe Palestinians want a state without peace, Netanyahu says

Palestinians to call on Security Council to stop settlement building

Lt. Col. Hassan, left, teaching a young tracker the ropes (Photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/ Times of Israel)

In the silent footsteps of the Israeli army’s sharp-eyed Bedouin trackers

By Mitch Ginsburg

They spend their waking hours on the front line, protecting sovereign Israel and West Bank settlements from terrorist infiltrators. And then some go home to unrecognized villages, slated for destruction

Yael Wissner-Levy

Netanyahu as shock jock for a very local audience

Bibi has antagonized global allies. His opponents will do well to seize the chance and show they can fill the vacuum

Rachael Risby-Raz

Now passing E1 – don’t blink

‘But we just left Jerusalem a few minutes ago,’ he uttered. ‘Four minutes exactly,’ I replied.

US soldiers train for chemical warfare (photo credit: Marv Lynchard/US Department of Defense/File)

US ‘huddling’ with Israel, other allies as Assad’s forces ‘load chemical weapons into bombs’

By Gabe Fisher and ToI Staff

Syrian troops reportedly began mixing components over the weekend; ‘remote’ danger of chemical weapons being fired into Israel, CNN contributor notes

An Egyptian woman holds a national flag as she listens to speakers, not pictured, in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Maya Alleruzzo)

Analysis

In Egypt, it’s Islamists versus the world

By Elhanan Miller

As a political standoff turns violent, President Mohammed Morsi finds himself increasingly isolated

US Congress (photo credit: CC BY-SA Dougtone, Flickr)

Amid reported White House pressure, bid to shut PLO’s Washington office fails in Senate

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Right-wing ZOA praises senators for trying to pass a series of hard-hitting punishments for Abbas’s UN ‘Palestine’ victory; left-wing J Street chalks up initiative’s failure to mass email campaign

Amir Peretz announces that he will be joining Tzipi Livni's Hatnua (The Movement) party on Thursday, December 6 (photo credit: Channel 10 screen capture)

Amir Peretz quits Labor Party, joins Tzipi Livni’s Hatnua

By Ron Friedman

Former defense minister to place third on list; Livni claims Labor rejected merger

Prime minister Ehud Olmert with Dalia Itzik in 2008 (Photo credit: Anna Kaplan/ Flash90)

Outgoing Kadima MK Itzik indicates that Olmert won’t be making a comeback

The mausoleum at the Majdanek concentration camp outside Lublin, Poland. Under the dome are the ashes of the victims of a November 1943 mass execution that completed the liquidation of the Jewish population of the Lublin district. (photo credit: CC BY-ND Kasia/Flickr)

Bleak picture

Out of the ashes, a ghoulish display

Swedish artist uses remains of Holocaust victims, taken from a concentration camp mausoleum, to create a macabre ‘painting’

An Israeli F16 readying for takeoff. (photo credit: Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

Several fighter jet engines said snatched from air base in suspected inside job

By Joshua Davidovich

Military police call incident ‘grave’; no signs of forced entry found

A bowl of super grain super cereal (photo credit: Anatoly Michaelo/Courtesy Korim Publishers)

Food for thought

Wonder food for a winter’s morning

By Phyllis Glazer

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Hebrew media reviewPoliticians on the move as election deadline approaches

By Ilan Ben Zion

An injured Egyptian anti-government protester waits for medical care during clashes between supporters of president Mohammed Morsi and their rivals in front of the president palace, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Nasser Nasser)

Arabic media reviewEgypt devolves into a ‘Molotov’ battlefield

By Michael Bassin

A Channel 4 documentary scheduled to air Wednesday comes at a particularly sensitive time for London's Haredi community. (Illustrative photo: Flash90)

London Haredim may recruit foreign rabbis to judge one of their own

By Miriam Shaviv

Orthodox women praying (illustrative photo: Mariam Alster/Flash90)

Women may gain right to lead Orthodox synagogue boards in Britain

By Miriam Shaviv

Ronen Chen's new homepage with his black-inked line (photo credit: Courtesy Ronen Chen)

Racks AmericanaRonen Chen puts fashion line online

By Jessica Steinberg

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