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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 29, 2012

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Labor leader Shelly Yachimovich (left) and Hatnua head Tzipi Livni at a conference in November 2-12. (Photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)

Center-left parties consider working as a bloc against Netanyahu after elections

Livni says she’ll try to form a ‘front’ of like-minded parties; Labor and Yesh Atid contemplate joining with her to decide as one on whether to participate in a Likud-Beytenu coalition

Livni lashes out at Jewish Home for settlers’ clashes with IDF at West Bank outpost

By Michal Shmulovich

Five border police lightly injured in clashes with settlers at thwarted outpost evacuation

By Michal Shmulovich

From the webFar-right MKs to campaign in Israeli Arab villages

Israeli activists dramatize Sylva Zalmanson's imprisonment in the Soviet Union by protesting in a cage with a sign that reads, "Zalmanson, the people are with you." (Courtesy of Anat Kuznetzov-Zalmanson)

My mom and dad, the would-be Zionist plane hijackers

By Renee Ghert-Zand

An Israeli filmmaker hopes her next project will be a documentary about her parents, whose famous failure to steal a plane helped make Soviet Jewry a global cause

The moral imperative to not follow immoral or illegal orders

Orders to expel Jewish communities in the West Bank must be disobeyed

An honorable tradition: rabbis dissent on E1 settlement plans for the sake of Israel

The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference

The FBI considered Marilyn Monroe's marriage to Arthur Miller part of a political plot. (YouTube)

Jewish weddings

Monroe marriage a ‘cover-up’?

By Nathan Burstein

Newly released files reveal that the FBI suspected the star’s relationship with Arthur Miller was part of a conspiracy to aid American communists

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)

Analysis

How the Hagel nomination battle became a fight over the Israel lobby

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Many Democrats want a Democrat for defense secretary. Many Republicans are angered by Chuck Hagel’s political independence. And most senators disagree with his policy positions. Yet his supporters insistently frame opposition to Hagel’s nomination as the pernicious agitation of a hardline Israel lobby

Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby, second right, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr, third right, walk past an honor guard upon their arrival in Ramallah Saturday (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Arab League chief, Egyptian FM in Ramallah to talk money and peace with Abbas

By Michal Shmulovich

Visit seen as show of solidarity after upgraded Palestinian UN status; leaders examine PA’s fiscal crisis and possible renewal of the Arab Peace Initiative

Former interior minister Gideon Sa'ar (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90/File)

Israeli minister rejects UK’s rebuke for construction beyond the Green Line

By Ron Friedman

‘Our connection to Ariel is at least as strong as the UK’s connection to the Falkland Islands,’ says Gideon Sa’ar

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

UN peace envoy and Russian FM push for speedy, Syrian-led resolution to crisis

By Michal Shmulovich and AP

150 killed in fighting Friday; only choices are ‘hell or a political process,’ warns Brahimi while Lavrov calls opposition’s refusal to negotiate with Assad ‘a dead end’

In this image, taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke rises from buildings from heavy shelling in Homs, Syria on Thursday (photo credit: AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

After air force generals defect, Syrian rebels step up siege of airbase near Turkey

‘The fighting did not stop all night around Mannagh airport,’ says activist in Aleppo; some 40,000 estimated killed during 21-month conflict

Jewish women and children deported from Hungary, separated from the men, line up for selection on the platform at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz in 1944 (AP/Yad Vashem Photo Archives)

WWII-era papers show suspected Nazi living in US was guard at death camp

By David Rising, Matt Moore and Randy Herschaft

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mPrest CEO Natan Barak speaks about Iron Done at the Israeli Semiconductor Club, December 20 2012 (Photo credit: Shmuel Auster)

Secrets of the Iron Dome, revealed

By David Shamah

Israeli border police on patrol in Hebron earlier this year. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

IDF nabs Palestinian policeman in Hebron, after twice failing to arrest him

By Michal Shmulovich and Asher Zeiger

Emmanuel Scheffer, 1923-2012 (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Legendary soccer coach Emmanuel Scheffer dies

By Ron Friedman

Netanyahu adviser Ron Dermer slated as next ambassador to US

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks with members of the media in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 5, 2012. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Israel shrugs off Abbas threat to dismantle PA

By ToI Staff and AP

Hezbollah fighters take an oath during a parade to continue the path of resistance against Israel. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Egypt’s envoy to Lebanon: Cairo will work with Hezbollah, ‘a real political and military force’

By Michal Shmulovich

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