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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 20, 2012

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Naftali Bennett casts his vote in his successful campaign to lead the Jewish Home party, in November (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Analysis

Netanyahu battered by the Jewish Home-builder

By David Horovitz

A month before the elections, with the international community slamming him for settlement construction, the PM is losing support to a right-wing party led by a millionaire former aide who claims he builds far too little

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in Jerusalem on October 24, 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

EU joins chorus against Jerusalem building plans, reiterating threat to ‘act accordingly’

By Raphael Ahren

Catherine Ashton says she ‘strongly opposes’ move, hours after UN Security Council members take turns berating Jerusalem over construction approval

Security Council’s 4 EU members rebuke Israel for settlement activities

By Ron Friedman and Adiv Sterman

Security Council members step up pressure on Israel over settlements

By AP and ToI Staff

Britain, France push to renew Israeli-Palestinian negotiations

By Aaron Kalman

Bonna Devora Haberman

Israeli Judaism – under arrest

There is no ‘Rabbi of the Western Wall’ and there is not one ‘local custom’ at the Kotel

How dare you tell Israel to take a chance on peace

As long as it is their sons, not ours, who are on the front lines, only Israelis have the right to advise their government

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, a former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, died on Wednesday at age 68 (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)

The unflappable commander: Amnon Lipkin-Shahak’s battle in Beirut

By Mitch Ginsburg

Under fire in the Lebanese capital in 1973, with one man dead and another dying, the IDF chief who passed away on Wednesday nonetheless completed his mission — and won the second of ‘the medals they give you when something’s gone wrong’

Illustrative: Former IDF chiefs of staff (from left) Benny Gantz, Dan Halutz, Ehud Barak, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak and Shaul Mofaz in Tel Aviv, October 2011 (Meir Partush/Flash90)

IDF chief Gantz, in farewell note to Lipkin-Shahak, hails his predecessor’s ‘sobering sanity’

By Aaron Kalman and ToI Staff

"These kids are looking to us for their emotional cues,” says the principal at one Jewish school. “We can’t show any fear or let them know how upset we are." (Photo credit: CC BY/Knittymarie via Flickr.com)

After Newtown massacre, US Jewish schools reconsider security

By Chavie Lieber

Administrators and teachers struggle over how to address the shooting with students

Veteran US diplomat Dennis Ross (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Former US Mideast envoy says Iran showdown to take place in coming year

By Raphael Ahren

Dennis Ross also calls on Israel to only build in major settlement blocs to restore faith in a two-state solution

Chuck Hagel, at podium, speaking at a conference in May. (photo credit: Glenn Fawcett/Department of Defense)

Opposition to Hagel nomination grows, but supporters rally around likely defense chief pick

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Washington Post claims Obama’s choice for Pentagon is ‘well to the left’ of the president, while defenders argue he is pro-Israel ‘but knows the grim costs of going to war without a plan’

President Barack Obama (Pete Souza/White House via JTA)

Obama won’t focus on Israel in second term, experts predict

Fiscal challenges, Iran’s nuclear program and a changed approach to peace talks mean dramatic developments are unlikely

UN peacekeepers monitor the Syrian side of the Israeli-Syrian border from an army post at Mount Bental in the Golan Heights last July (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

No prospect of an end to Syrian civil war, UN chief says

Destruction of country likely outcome if violence doesn’t cease, UN political chief Jeffrey Feltman warns

Ilana Cohen, chairwoman of the National Association of Nurses, with hundreds of nurses from all over Israel during a protest in Jerusalem, December 17, 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Nurses sign deal with Finance Ministry to end strike

By Ilan Ben Zion

Government agrees to increase salaries by 13% over 4.5 years

Like it or not, next chief rabbi plans to speak for all of UK Jewry

By Miriam Shaviv

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11-year old Jerusalem resident Morty Oppenheim intends to make history by inviting none other than Bruce Springsteen to Israel. (illustrative photo: courtesy)

Bring the Boss to Israel!

By James Oppenheim

In vogueShoot the messengers

By Jessica Steinberg

MK Michael Ben Ari presents his party's election campaign slogan 'Because without duties there are no rights' (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Election committee rejects call to ban ultra-right party

By Aaron Kalman

The El Ghriba Synagogue in Tunisia (photo credit:upyernoz via CC/JTA)

Tunisian imam sued for call to ‘sterilize the wombs of Jewish women’

By Michael Bassin

Lipkin-Shahak as a young captain in the 1960s (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Office)

Hebrew media reviewLipkin-Shahak remembered and construction dismembered

By Ilan Ben Zion

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