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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 25, 2012

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Israel will build in Jerusalem no matter the criticism, vows senior minister

By Raphael Ahren

If Israel’s international critics learned more about Jewish history in the city, at least their condemnations would not ‘come out of ignorance,’ Uzi Landau says

Panel approves new Gilo homes, pushes ahead with East Jerusalem building plans

Barak orders IDF general to approve Ariel academic institute as a university

By Aaron Kalman and ToI Staff

Livni castigates Netanyahu for abandoning two-state solution

By Ilan Ben Zion

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal, center, holds a Baby Jesus statue in Saint Catherine's Church at the end of the Christmas Midnight Mass, and leads the procession to the Grotto, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, at the nearby Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem on Tuesday, December 25, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Abed Al Hashlamoun, Pool)

Worshipers rejoice in Jesus’s Bethlehem birthplace

By Dalia Nammari

Pilgrims line up inside the fourth-century Church of the Nativity complex to celebrate Christmas

In Christmas address, pope urges resumption of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations

On Christmas Eve, Jerusalem’s Latin Patriarch celebrates the ‘birth’ of Palestine

Political issues dominate Christmas in Bethlehem

By Dalia Nammari

Perverting Christmas with bad will toward Israel

With European funding, this season’s message from Palestinian NGOs is that the Jews murdered Jesus

The right to refuse

The synchronized attacks on Naftali Bennett underlie a fundamental flaw in Israeli political discourse — the delegitimization of civil disobedience and conscientious objection

The results of a draft resolution on Palestinian status are posted in the United Nations headquarters, November 29, 2012 (AP/Kathy Willens)

After upgrading status, UN officially switches from ‘Palestine’ to ‘State of Palestine’

By Raphael Ahren

The body now refers to Mahmoud Abbas as ‘head of state’; Israeli officials insist name change has no practical applications outside UN headquarters

Michele Flournoy, right, with secretary of Defense Leon Panetta at her farewell gathering in January 2012. (photo credit: Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo/ Department of Defense)

As Hagel’s star withers, will a blunt-talking policy wonk drop her kids to take the Pentagon?

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Michele Flournoy has been touted by conservatives, Israel supporters, women’s rights activists and Democrats for the US defense secretary post. But does she even want the job?

A Syrian man carries an elderly woman after a government airstrike hit the Hama suburb of Halfaya, Syria, on Sunday December 23, 2012. (photo credit: Shaam News Network via AP video)

Syrian rebels claim recent alleged chemical attack not the first

By Asher Zeiger and Stuart Winer

Opposition forces say government has used mysterious and deadly toxic gas 18 times in recent battles

Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak, 150 miles southwest of Tehran (photo credit: AP/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan)

Iran media report new cyber-attack by Stuxnet worm

Computer experts were able to stop the virus, local civil defense chief says

John Kerry during a visit to Jerusalem in May 2012 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

American pro-Israel groups warm up to Kerry as top diplomat

Organizations, leaders and congregations like idea of man with Jewish roots as secretary of state

Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Poll shows Jewish Home gaining strength at Netanyahu’s expense

By Asher Zeiger and ToI Staff

Naftali Bennett’s statement about refusing IDF orders to evacuate settlers angered the PM, but seemingly not voters

Jewish immigrants from czarist Russia believed that embracing soccer would protect them from British anti-Semitism. (William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

How soccer turned Russian Jews into Brits

By JP O’ Malley

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Massachusetts synagogue seized by IRS

Gondoliers cast members Daniel Forst (Giuseppe) and Rafi Apfel (Marco) embrace their brides, Maya Cohen (Tessa) and Aviella Trapido (photo credit: Brian Negin)

Operatic high-jinksDrunken gondoliers battle on stage

By Jessica Steinberg

(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)

Hebrew media reviewPolitical theater at its finest

By Ilan Ben Zion

Jack Klugman at the 62nd annual Tony Awards in New York on June 15, 2008. (photo credit: Peter Kramer/AP)

Actor Jack Klugman dies in Los Angeles

By Anthony McCartney

Bnei Menashe immigrants arrive at Ben Gurion Airport from India in 2006. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Indian Jews from ‘lost tribe’ land in Israel

By Lauren E. Bohn

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