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What Matters Most On Monday, December 24, 2012

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Illustrative: An undated photo of Islamic Jihad members in Gaza preparing to launch rockets toward Israel. (CC BY-SA Amir Farshad Ebrahimi, Flickr)

Human Rights Watch blasts Hamas for targeting Israeli civilians with rockets

By Stuart Winer

Scathing report by watchdog says indiscriminate fire on Israel is a war crime and calls on Gaza’s Islamist government to ‘stop unlawful attacks and punish those responsible’

Gaza terrorists fire rocket at Israel, but it falls short and lands inside Strip

By Asher Zeiger

2012 breaks record for incoming tourism

By Asher Zeiger

Operation Pillar of Defense caused $500 million in damages, Hamas claims

By Adiv Sterman

Rebel fighters rush to the scene of a Syrian airstrike on a bakery (at right) in Halfaya, where more than 60 people were reported killed on Sunday. (photo credit: image capture from YouTube video)

Over 60 killed in airstrike on Syrian bakery

By AP and ToI Staff

Attack comes as UN envoy meets with officials in Damascus to end violence

UN envoy calls situation ‘worrying’ after talks with Syria’s Assad

Rebels say Assad regime used chemical weapons in attack

By Stuart Winer

From the webRussians manning Syrian air defenses, complicating possible Western intervention

Frankincense comes home for Christmas

After a 1,500 year absence, the biblical plant has been resurrected in the Holy Land

Think Israel’s a police state? Try Iran

Critics of the Jewish state do nothing for humankind when they ignore real oppression elsewhere

Maikel Nabil speaking to reporters in Jerusalem, Sunday, December 23 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘Hero of Tahrir Square’ on trailblazing visit to Israel: Our fates are linked

By Raphael Ahren

Dissident Maikel Nabil — the first political prisoner of the post-Mubarak regime — says there can be no democracy in Egypt without peace with Israel. But he also has harsh criticism for what he calls Jerusalem’s ‘racist’ government

Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett (right) and Hatnua no. 2 Amir Peretz take part in a panel debate on the Israel-Palestinian conflict, on Sunday, Dec. 23 (photo credit: Dotan Gur/courtesy)

Splintered left rails hopelessly at confident right in debate that mirrors pre-election voting trends

By Matti Friedman

Panel on Israel’s Jewish and democratic future given impetus by furor over hardline leader’s comments on insubordination

(left to right) Opposition party leaders Zahava Gal-on (Meretz), Shaul Mofaz (Kadima), Shelly Yachimovich (Labor), Tzipi Livni (Hatnua) and Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) as depicted in a Likud-Beytenu YouTube clip entitled 'Theater of the Absurd' (photo credit: image capture from YouTube video)

Compared to the US, Israel’s election campaign looks informal, intimate and low-budget

Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Liberman summoned for questioning over breach of trust charge

By Asher Zeiger

Channel 2 reports that a committee member involved in the Belarus ambassador appointment gave evidence contradicting that of the former FM

Former Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, May, 2010. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

In first, former chief rabbi charged with fraud

By Stuart Winer

Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron is suspected of involvement in scam to provide civil servants with false papers entitling them to government bonuses

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)

White House may be backtracking on Hagel for defense chief post

By Joshua Davidovich

Washington magazine says Obama administration, spooked by opposition to former senator’s dovish positions, looking at other candidates

Corn, quinoa and amaranth in a hot bowl (photo credit: Anatoly Michaelo)

Food for thought

The South American secret to a super soup

By Phyllis Glazer

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Jerusalem's Golden Gate, which abuts the Temple Mount. (photo credit: Keren Freeman/Flash90)

Temple Mount authority reportedly carts off antiquities to the dump

By Ilan Ben Zion

Lakhdar Brahimi at the UN, November 2012 (photo credit: AP/Richard Drew)

Arabic media reviewAssad proves no bakery is safe

By Michael Bassin

Hebrew media reviewSeparation anxiety

By Ron Friedman

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