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What Matters Most On Friday, December 21, 2012

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Chuck Hagel arrives at Camp Ramadi, in central Iraq, for a short visit with US servicemen, July 22, 2008. (photo credit: courtesy United States Marine Corps)

Senior former officials — including ambassadors to Israel — support Hagel appointment

By Haviv Rettig Gur

A group of former top-ranking US diplomats insists few are ‘more qualified, more non-partisan, more courageous or better equipped to head the Department of Defense’

Director Anne Fletcher, right, works with Seth Rogen and Barbra Streisand on the set of "The Guilt Trip." (Courtesy of Paramount Pictures)

Kvelling and kvetching with Streisand and Rogen

By Jordan Hoffman

Anne Fletcher, director of the new mother-son road romp ‘The Guilt Trip,’ talks about Jewish-mom stereotypes, choreographing comedy and how to convince Streisand to do what you want

Rochelle Saidel

Time to talk about sexual violence during the Holocaust

Despite evidence that rape was widespread, the topic has so been left out of the Final Solution narrative

The making of a miracle: the chief rabbi and the imams

A journey to the promised land of Muslim-Jewish reconciliation

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

Jewish Home leader Bennett slammed for sanctioning insubordination in the IDF

If ordered to evacuate a settler from his home, ‘my conscience won’t allow me to do it,’ popular political newcomer says

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

Palestinians aim to change the rules, harness international community to isolate Israel

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

If Netanyahu is reelected, PA officials are set to advance war crimes charges and end security cooperation in the West Bank

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath during the funeral of former IDF chief of general staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak at the Kiryat Shaul Military Cemetery in Tel Aviv, December 20, 2012 (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Former IDF chief Lipkin-Shahak laid to rest amid outpouring of respect from politicians, top brass

By Adiv Sterman

‘He was a true hero,’ Netanyahu says of decorated general and minister who died Wednesday after a lengthy battle with cancer

Security expert Eugene Kaspersky (right) at Tel Aviv University (Photo credit: Courtesy)

New computer virus hitting Iran could be more potent than it looks

By David Shamah

‘Batchwiper’ seems to be a simple Trojan, says Israeli expert, but so was the malware that apparently prefaced Stuxnet

Irwin Cotler speaks in Stockholm (photo credit: Screenshot, courtesy)

Hold Iran accountable for incitement to genocide, Irwin Cotler urges

Canadian MP and former justice minister also calls to establish a Raoul Wallenberg International Centre for International Justice

Judy Shalom Nir-Mozes (Flash90)

Following Twitter-fueled furor, Israeli minister’s flamboyant wife severs ties with UNICEF

By Asher Zeiger

Judy Shalom Nir-Mozes steps down from honorary position in wake of campaign to boot her from UN body over ‘racist comments against Palestinian children’

Confused? So are we. (Santa Claus image via Shutterstock)

Jew-tide

Jewish tweeters debate Xmas laws

Ever wonder if mistletoe is ‘mevatel the issur of shomer negiya’? Read on!

The thriving and dead branches of a strawberry tree (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Top Five

Barking up the right trees

By Jessica Steinberg

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Peter Madoff. (photo credit: John Minchillo/AP)

Bernard Madoff’s brother gets 10-year sentence

By Colleen Long and Larry Neumeister

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

A woman protests against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad outside the United Nations building in New York, May 2009 (photo credit: CC BY david_shankbone, Flickr)

United Nations condemns Iran, Syria for human rights violations

By Edith M. Lederer

Disgraced former finance minister Abraham Hirschson (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Disgraced former finance minister granted parole, to be released from prison in January

By Adiv Sterman

UN peacekeepers monitor the Syrian side of the Golan Heights in July 2012 (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israeli ambassador urges UN to disarm ‘powder keg’ Hezbollah

By Adiv Sterman

Soldier attacked at roadblock, his weapon stolen

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

Hebrew media reviewThe end of the world — until tomorrow

By Ilan Ben Zion

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