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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 13, 2012

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Israel's Foreign Mnister Avigdor Liberman attends a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament on May 30, 2011. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Liberman to be indicted for breach of trust, fraud, but avoids prosecution on major charges

PM congratulates foreign minister on main allegations of money laundering in shell companies case being dropped; lawyers studying indictment

A Border Police officer who shot and killed a Palestinian youth in Hebron on Wednesday, December 12, 2012. A gun brandished by the youth was later found to have been a fake. (photo credit: Courtesy Israel Police)

Border police officer who shot Palestinian teenager is wanted on Facebook for ‘murder’

By Aaron Kalman

Officer recounts sequence of events that ended in the killing of a youth who held a counterfeit gun to a soldier’s head in Hebron

Israeli soldiers fire teargas canisters at Palestinian protesters in the West Bank city of Hebron on Thursday after the funeral of a teen who was shot dead by an Israeli soldier the night prior. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

As tempers flare in the wake of youth’s killing, Palestinians clash with soldiers in Hebron

By Aaron Kalman

Michael Melchior

Pursuing justice from outside the political arena

For now, Meimad has shifted its theater of operations to civil society

Syria on verge of massacre

As Iran and Russia help pave the way for Assad to commit full-scale genocide, the world must intervene

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Abbas condemns Hamas head’s statements; Likud doesn’t buy it

By Aaron Kalman

Hatnua chair Livni congratulates PA president for taking stand against calls for Israel’s destruction; she’s ‘burying her head in the sand,’ PM’s party says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sets out his 'red line' for Iran on a cartoon bomb drawing during a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, September 27, 2012. (Photo credit: Avi Ohayun, GPO)

Ambassador to US says Israel’s Iran fears were misinterpreted as taking sides in election

Michael Oren: Israel ‘went to great lengths’ not to interfere in US presidential race

US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe Victoria Nuland (photo credit: US Department of State)

US denies holding backchannel talks with Hamas

By Ron Friedman

State Department urges Israel to reconsider withholding PA tax revenues; Ashton reportedly ‘shocked’ by Liberman statement comparing Europe’s stance on Mashaal speech to Holocaust era inaction

A volley of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system near the city of Beersheba, November 15 (photo credit: Uri Lenzl/Flash90)

Congress seeks to increase US funding of anti-missile cooperation with Israel

In wake of Pillar of Defense success, Iron Dome spending may balloon from $210 million to $680 million

Illustrative photo of an Israeli hospital (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hospi-pals

Israeli, Gaza cancer patients are besties

The Daily Beast reports that Tal Zilker of Ashdod and Qsuy Imran of Khan Younis forged a friendship in a Tel Aviv hospital

Tourists in the Jordanian city of Petra (illustrative photo credit: Audrey Attia/Flash90)

Jordan warns Israelis not to visit wearing ‘Jew clothes’

By Ilan Ben Zion

Tourism ministry in Amman wary of unfriendly reactions to Jewish dress or rituals in public places

Professor Yitzchak Ben-Yisrael (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

For better or worse, cybersecurity a growth industry for Israel

By David Shamah

No one is happy about the greatly increased need for cyberdefense. But some Israeli start-ups may keep hacks at bay

Guy Pnini taunts his opponent Sunday night (photo credit: screen capture, Mako/Channel 2)

Basketball player sentenced to community service for calling opponent ‘Nazi’

By Aaron Kalman

Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Guy Pnini also fined NIS 10,000, handed four-game suspension

The US Supreme Court is expected to rule in June on two cases that will have major consequences in the American fight over equal rights for gays. (Oyez Project via JTA)

Impending US Supreme Court rulings highlight Jewish divide over same-sex marriage

Communal and advocacy groups will file or sign amicus briefs supporting and opposing equality for gays

The restored synagogue in Jicin, Czech Republic, will serve as one of 10 sites in a planned network of new Jewish museums. (Ruth Ellen Gruber/JTA)

Czech Jewish museum will literally be ‘scattered around the country’

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

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The IDF position where the Palestinian was shot Wednesday night. (photo credit: Oren Nachshon/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewHeros and zeros

By Joshua Davidovich

Supporters of President Mohammed Morsi with the Egyptian national flag painted on their hands, flash victory signs as one holds a copy of Egypt's draft constitution, right, during a demonstration, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Hassan Ammar)

Arabic media reviewEgyptian opposition takes on Morsi; says ‘Yes’ to referendum, ‘No’ to constitution

By Michael Bassin

Quiz winner Raphael Meyuhas, center, with Benjamin Netanyahu, right and Gideon Sa'ar after winning the prize. (photo credit: Muki Schwartz)

Solomonic wisdomIsraeli takes Bible quiz trophy

By Adiv Sterman

Barack Obama and his wife Michelle at a Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremony in the White House in 2010. (photo credit: Pete Souza/White House via Flickr)

Hanukkah miracleSandy-slammed menorah off to WH

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers training (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

IDF reserve units switching to Israeli-made Tavor rifle

By Aaron Kalman

Playing with fireGazan kids clowning with Kassams

By Adiv Sterman

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