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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 19, 2012

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Amnon Lipkin-Shahak in 2011 (photo credit: Meir Partush/Flash90)

Former IDF chief Amnon Lipkin-Shahak dies in Jerusalem, aged 68

By Mitch Ginsburg and Elie Leshem

Politicians mourn passing of ‘rare amalgam of military and diplomatic courage,’ praise his contribution to Israel’s security and efforts to advance peace

Illustrative photo of Iranian worshippers listening to a sermon during Friday prayers in July 2012. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

AnalysisOP-ED

2013: The year of Iran

By David Horovitz

Will the US president truly resort to force if all else fails to thwart Tehran’s nuclear program? Perhaps more important, does Israel’s PM think he will?

Meir Javedanfar

Iran sheds no tears over Palestinians deaths in Syria

Why won’t Tehran provide weapons to Palestinians in Syria who are under attack from Assad’s forces?

Estonia’s acute case of Baltic Holocaust Amnesia

What is Israel’s protocol for hosting the prime minister of a country where Waffen-SS fighters are heroes?

Edmon J. Rodman

If the world ends on Friday – what about my challah?

People, this Mayan end game is going to mess with Shabbat!

Sen. Chuck Hagel at the Forum on the Law of the Sea Convention in Washington, D.C., on May 9, 2012. (photo credit: Glenn Fawcett/Department of Defense)

Opposition to Hagel appointment unites pro-Israel advocates, women’s groups, Republicans

By Haviv Rettig Gur

In this Nov. 5, 2012, photo, President Barack Obama makes a call to thank a volunteer as he visits a call center in a campaign office in the German Village section of Columbus, Ohio (photo credit: AP)

Senators urge Obama to reiterate willingness to use force against Iran

By Haviv Rettig Gur

57 legislators from both parties sign letter pressing president ‘to demonstrate that a credible and capable multilateral coalition exists that would support a military strike’

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (photo credit: AP/Bebeto Matthews/File)

Defiant Iran vows to continue enrichment, dismisses sanctions as insignificant

By Ilan Ben Zion

Naftali Bennett in Jerusalem (photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Poll shows nationalist Jewish Home could be third largest party in Knesset

By Greg Tepper and Raphael Ahren

Channel 2 survey finds secular, traditional and under-40s among Naftali Bennett’s supporters; party could get 12 seats

Former interior minister Gideon Sa'ar (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90/File)

Amid flurry of international condemnation, top minister lashes Livni, Lapid for opposing Jerusalem construction

Some Zionist parties serving up ‘Palestinian propaganda,’ Gideon Sa’ar charges; Hatnua head rejects assertions, says Likud silencing dissent

Hanin Zoabi (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Controversial Arab MK faces disqualification as Central Elections Committee convenes

By Stuart Winer

Hanin Zoabi and her Balad party support armed struggle against Israel, petitioners argue; ultra-Orthodox parties challenged for fielding female-less slates; any ban could be overturned by Supreme Court

Police and rescue personnel at the scene of the Wednesday, November 21 bus bombing in Tel Aviv (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Arab teenager ‘blew up Tel Aviv bus, then went back to work’

By Stuart Winer

Muhammad Mafarji planted device that injured 27 last month because he wanted to fight on behalf of Gaza, prosecution says

British-born Beth Alexander lost her battle for custody of her twin sons, Samuel and Benjamin. (TOI archive)

Nasty Jewish divorce spirals into an international incident

By Miriam Shaviv

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A Ramat Shlomo construction site, Tuesday, December 18 (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe gifts that keep on giving

By Ron Friedman

Iraq's President Jalal Talabani in 2007 (photo credit: AP/Hadi Mizban)

Arabic media reviewIraqi president suffers a stroke and Egyptian protesters return to the streets

By Elhanan Miller

Odessa-born actress Mila Kunis was aided by HIAS as a new immigrant in the US. (via Shutterstock)

Oh no they yidn'tUkraine okays ‘zhyd’ slur for Jews

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enjoying falafel in Acre, December 2012. (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)

Prime gastronome Netanyahu likes it hot

Jacob Ostreicher, an Orthodox investor from Brooklyn, has been freed from prison in Bolivia but will remain under house arrest after paying $14,000 as bail. (AP/File)

Haredi American released from Bolivian prison

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