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What Matters Most On Friday, December 7, 2012

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Ohad Shem Tov of the Pirate party wears a fake hook as he poses for a photograph outside the Israeli parliament, December 05, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

With 34 party slates set, Pirates, potheads and protesters will jostle for votes with the big boys

By Raphael Ahren

As the registration deadline passes, the establishment and the eccentric no-hopers get ready to battle for seats in the Knesset

Brothers, friends, workers, pensioners — a party for every affiliation

MK petitions to ban Arab party from upcoming elections

By Asher Zeiger and Sam Ser

Independence party opts not to run in upcoming elections

By Ilan Ben Zion

On the eve of Mikhail Gorbachev's first visit to the US in 1987, 250,000 activists marched on Washington DC to demand freedom for Soviet Jewry. (Courtesy of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry)

Soviet Jewry activists commemorate ‘a singular day in Jewish history’

Twenty-five years after chants of ‘Let my people go!’ rang out in Washington DC, organizers of the fight to free the USSR’s Jews recall a landmark triumph

Guy Pnini’s foul trash talk

Some taunting is OK: ‘son of a whore’ and ‘Nazi’ are way out of bounds

Confessions of a closet Hellenist

Celebrating Hanukkah as a harvest festival, and discarding narratives of religious intolerance

US President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland last month (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

If all else fails, US will hit Iran in 2013, say former top advisers to Obama and Bush

By Haviv Rettig Gur

At Washington Institute gala, Dennis Ross, Elliott Abrams and outgoing US ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey insist the president will strike next year if diplomacy doesn’t succeed

IAEA chief Yukiya Amano, center, meets with Iran's top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, right, and Iran's chief delegate to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, in Tehran last May (photo credit: AP/IRNA/Adel Pazzyar)

From the webUN nuclear chief: Alleged weapons testing site was probably sanitized by Iran

Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Mashaal, left, and Gaza's former Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh wave during a news conference in the Gaza Strip in 2012. (AP/Suhaib Salem, Pool)

Hamas political chief pays first visit to Gaza, vows next trip will be to Jerusalem

By Yoel Goldman and AP

Khaled Mashaal says he’ll do everything in his power to unite Fatah and Hamas; Israel says it has no control over who enters Strip from Egypt

In scenes reminiscent of the first intifada, masked Palestinians throw stones towards Israeli security forces in the Shuafat refugee camp on the outskirts of Jerusalem in September (photo credit: Suliman Khader/Flash90)

Palestinians injure 2 soldiers and border policeman in West Bank

By Yoel Goldman

Dozens of protesters hurl stones at Israeli security team; stone throwers also target Israeli vehicles on Route 60

Egyptian army tanks secure the perimeter of the presidential palace while protesters gather chanting anti president Mohammed Morsi slogans, in Cairo, Egypt, on Friday, December 7. (photo credit: AP/Nasser Nasser)

Protesters storm army barricades outside presidential palace in Cairo

By AP and ToI Staff

Thousands mass across the capital against Morsi as demonstrations reach size and intensity of those that brought down Mubarak

Israeli firemen wear gas masks as they take part in a drill simulating a chemical missile attack in the industrial zone of the southern Israeli city of Kiryat Malachi in 2009 (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Assad is already using chemical weapons, Syrian opposition claims

By Elhanan Miller

Sarin and mustard gas utilized in battle, says defecting officer; last week’s internet blackout was cover for transport of arms to Damascus, according to opposition

Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ali Larijani, in Damascus, Syria, October 2012. (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Assad may be preparing to take chemical weapons with him in a retreat from Damascus, Israeli expert says

By Mitch Ginsburg

Dictator’s own father said to have used hydrogen cyanide against Muslim Brotherhood activists when killing 20,000 in Hama in 1982

Rabbi Chaim Halpern (bottom right) of London is at the center of sexual misconduct allegations.

Senior London rabbis break ranks to demand colleague in sex case step down

By Miriam Shaviv

‘The grave allegations warrant the immediate withdrawal’ of Rabbi Chaim Halpern ‘from all rabbinic and counseling functions,’ letter says

Fresh Roladin sufganiyot at the ready (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

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Spin it, eat it, fry it: Top six ways to celebrate Hanukkah

By Jessica Steinberg

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A child in Ashkelon holds a homemade Menorah in front of the Iron Dome unit stationed in the city. The holiday of Hanukkah begins Saturday night (photo credit: Edi Israel/FLASH90)

Hebrew Media ReviewMaking their lists and changing them twice

By Yossi Nachemi

An Egyptian Army tank deploys outside the presidential palace in Cairo on Thursday, December 6, 2012, to control crowds of anti-government protesters (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar)

Obama tells Morsi that violence in Egypt is ‘unacceptable’

By Matthew Daly

Man guns down wife and her alleged lover in Beersheba

By Ilan Ben Zion and Yoel Goldman

Participants in the first annual Human Rights March in Tel Aviv in 2009 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Thousands of Israelis mark Human Rights Day 2012

By Yoel Goldman

Israeli and German ministers posing in Berlin Thursday. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

Left-wing academic banned from joining PM’s science symposium in Berlin

Science and Technology Minister Daniel Hershkowitz signs a scientific cooperation agreement with German Minister of Education and Research Annette Schavan in Berlin on Thursday, December 6 (photo credit: Ron Jacoby, courtesy Ministry of Science and Technology)

Pushing settlement kerfuffle aside, Israelis and Germans agree to cooperate on research

By Asher Zeiger

The “geko” device (Photo credit: Talia Alek)

The ‘heart’ of the Start-Up Nation

By David Shamah

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