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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 22, 2012

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US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, with then foreign minister and Kadima party leader Tzipi Livni, stand next to the remains of rockets fired from Gaza, at a police station in Sderot, in Feb. 2009. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

The Jewish roots and Middle East views of Obama’s pick for top diplomat

By ToI Staff and JTA

Two of John Kerry’s grandparents were Jewish and his brother Cameron converted to the faith; he is a frequent visitor to Israel who opposes settlements and insists the president will stop Iran

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Kerry, a decorated Vietnam War veteran and former Democratic presidential candidate, a familiar face on the world stage

By Donna Cassata

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands in front of the Old City walls in Jerusalem, Wednesday, December 19 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash 90)

Netanyahu, attacking right-wing rival, says no place in his government for those who would refuse IDF orders

By Ron Friedman

PM takes aim at rising Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett, who has indicated he would disobey army command to evacuate settlements

Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett. In the background is the controversial strip of land known as E1, between Jerusalem and the settlement of Ma'aleh Adumim. (photo credit: Flash90)

Politicians of every stripe lambaste right-wing party leader’s apparent approval of insubordination

By Ilan Ben Zion

Michael Lozman initiated the creation of a memorial in Grozovo, Belarus, to Jews massacred during the Holocaust. (Courtesy of Michael Lozman)

New York orthodontist restores Jewish history, one grave at a time

By Matt Lebovic

Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, right, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Vladivostok, Russia, in September, 2012 (Jim Watson/AP)

US, Russia reportedly agree to removal of Assad from power

By Ilan Ben Zion

Opposition sources claim Moscow backs diplomatically arranged regime change in Syria; no official confirmation

The Senate side of the United States Capitol building in Washington, DC (Wikimedia Commons/File)

US Senate approves $211 million for Iron Dome in new $633 billion defense bill

Legislation tightens sanctions on Iran, provides 1,000 Marines for embassy security and authorizes nearly $480 million for US-Israeli missile defense

South Africa's flag (photo credit: CC BY SA Privatemusings/Wikipedia)

South Africa’s ruling party endorses boycott of Israel

African National Congress says it’s ‘unapologetic in its view that the Palestinians are the victims and the oppressed’

Egyptians line up outside a polling station as they wait their turn to cast their votes in the second round of a referendum on a disputed constitution drafted by Islamist supporters of President Mohammed Morsi in Fayoum, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Cairo on Saturday, December 22. (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

Islamist charter reported to get wide backing as final round of Egyptian voting closes

Official says 71 percent of voters approve constitution in second leg

A photo of Adam Lanza who killed 20 first graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School,, 6 school employees and his mother and himself on December 14, 2012 (YouTube screenshot)

Details about the Connecticut school killer emerge

Adam Lanza, a mysterious figure who rarely spoke to anyone, seemed to spend most of his time alone in his basement, where his mom kept a collection of guns

The church's interior (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Monks in Zion

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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Ultra Orthodox men walk the streets of Jerusalem in the rain on Friday, December 21 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel experiencing wettest winter in years

By Ron Friedman

Tourists take a stroll on the Tel Aviv promenade (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash90)

US travel advisory says Israel, West Bank have gotten safer

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)

From the webTop House Democrat: Hagel has an ‘endemic hostility towards Israel’

Israeli entry fails to make 2012 Oscar cut

Former Iranian minister of defense Ahmad Vahidi (AP)

Patriot missile batteries harm Turkey’s security, Iranian minister says

By Ilan Ben Zion and AP

New book offers overview of 42 European Jewish communities

Syrians, who fled their homes with their families, gather around a fire to warm themselves at a makeshift vegetables store in a camp for the displaced in the village of Atmeh, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. (Photo credit: AP/Muhammed Muheisen)

Arabic media reviewSyria’s Palestinians must be allowed back to ‘Palestine’

By Michael Bassin

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