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What Matters Most On Friday, December 14, 2012

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Avigdor Liberman quits government, says he wants to quickly clear his name

By Ron Friedman, ToI Staff and AP

Resignation comes 24 hours after attorney general said he will indict the foreign minister on breach of trust, fraud charges

Meretz chief petitions High Court to force Netanyahu to fire Liberman

By Yoel Goldman

Former ambassador implicated in Liberman affair says FM did nothing wrong

By Asher Zeiger and ToI Staff

Liberman says he won’t resign right away despite imminent indictment

An actor with the Western Wall Heritage Foundation speaking to the soldiers on their way to the Western Wall (photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/Times of Israel)

The IDF marches ‘in the footsteps of the Maccabees’

By Mitch Ginsburg

Givati Brigade soldiers are taken from their frontline posts outside Gaza and brought to Jerusalem for some Hanukkah-themed education

Protecting sex abusers in the Jewish community

The Weberman case reflects a pattern of allowing predators to keep assaulting victims

Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers following the funeral of Mohammed Suleima, in the West Bank city of Hebron, Thursday, December 13 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Thousands of Palestinians march on Hebron checkpoint

By Yoel Goldman

Protesters throw stones at Israeli targets at several West Bank hotspots; Hebron governor accuses Israel of trying to drag the Palestinians into a third intifada

A photojournalist takes a photo of riot policemen during clashes in east Jerusalem in February of 2011. (Illustrative photo: Ruben Salvadori/Flash 90)

From the web

Reuters claims Israeli soldiers attacked its photographers in Hebron

Soldiers punched cameramen and forced them to strip in the street, news organization says; army is investigating

New Fatah logo eliminates Israel

By Elhanan Miller

Mahmoud Abbas’s party issues icon redolent with anti-Israel symbolism

Arab League headquarters in Cairo (photo credit: Ijanderson977/Wikimedia Commons)

Palestinian Authority still waiting on emergency funds promised by Arab states

By Yoel Goldman

Arab League official says no date has been set for transfer of $100 million to Ramallah

Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency Herman Nackaerts waves as he arrives from Iran at Vienna's Schwechat airport, in Austria, on Friday (photo credit: AP/Ronald Zak)

UN nuclear watchdog reports progress on Iran talks

Official says IAEA expects to ‘start implementing’ an agreement in early 2013 but acknowledges that request to visit Parchin facility was denied

Former senator Chuck Hagel (left) shakes hands with Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta in May 2012. (photo credit: CC BY Glenn Fawcett, DoD, Flickr)

In move likely to raise pro-Israel hackles, Obama reportedly set to nominate Hagel as defense chief

By Ilan Ben Zion

President reportedly met to discuss position with ex-Republican congressman, who has been critical of Jerusalem

MK Rabbi Haim Amsalem, founder of the political Am Shalem movement, with which he is running in the upcoming Israeli elections, meets with Israelis in Tel Aviv as part of his campaign tour, December 12, 2012. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox Knesset candidate gives secular voters his spiel

By Stuart Winer and Yoel Goldman

Bar-hopping rabbi talks to Tel Aviv revelers about his ‘live and let live’ philosophy, except for when it comes to gay Israelis

Freshly fried ginger and beet latkes with celery cilantro salsa (photo credit: Dania Weiner)

Food for thought

Hold the schmaltz

By Phyllis Glazer

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A Hanukka menorah (Flash90)

Kindling the lights of diversity

By William Kolbrener and Elie Jesner

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks to party members in Tel Aviv on Thursday, December 13. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewHot water for Yisrael Beytenu’s head honcho

By Ilan Ben Zion

US President Barack Obama greets people as he stands next to a lit menorah during the Hanukkah reception in the Grand Foyer of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012, in Washington. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)

Obama celebrates Hanukkah at White House

By Stacy A. Anderson

An illustrative photo of a Patriot missile system (photo credit: CC-BY-SA Darkone/Wikimedia Commons)

US to send Patriot missiles, 400 troops to Turkey

Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich, October 2012. (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Channel 10 announces it will fire all employees this weekend

By Asher Zeiger

Sufganiyot, the dangerous Hanukkah treat (photo credit: Courtesy of Yissachar Ruas)

Chew-ish charityHanukkah binge on donuts, donations

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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