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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 30, 2012

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Hanin Zoabi (center) and Jamal Zahalka (left) at the High Court of Justice (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

High Court overturns decision barring Arab MK Zoabi from running for Knesset

By Aaron Kalman

Balad legislator says decision to allow candidacy won’t erase bitter enmity between her and other lawmakers; Likud MK Akunis expresses chagrin over verdict

MK Michael Ben-Ari yells at MK Hanin Zoabi 'Go to Syria' as she leaves the hall at the Supreme Court on Thursday (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Right-wing politicians slam court for allowing controversial MK to run for Knesset

By Aaron Kalman

Zahava Aregito Zagaya (right) speaks with Mekdes in Gorgora Buchara, her mother's village. Mekdes said he remembered Zahava's mother and grandparents and showed her here her grandfather was buried. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/ToI)

Back on the wings of eagles

By Michal Shmulovich

Israeli teens journey to Ethiopia to walk in their parents’ footsteps

Israel’s Election – the view from America

How can voters keep choosing leaders who offer no vision for a peaceful future?

Shmuley Boteach

Worn out ‘shidduch’ system seeks fresh ways to make a match

With matchmakers in short supply for the booming orthodox world, it’s time to mix it up – a little bit

Yisrael Beytenu Chairman Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Liberman indicted on sharpened charges of fraud and breach of trust

Revised indictment includes allegations of moral turpitude; former deputy Danny Ayalon named as key witness

President Shimon Peres speaks to ambassadors and heads of Israeli organizations around the world, at the president's residence in Jerusalem Sunday. (Photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/FLASH90)

Peres takes swipe at undiplomatic Liberman, urges talks with Abbas

Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Arab League chief says Palestinians to embark on new statehood bid at UN Security Council

By ToI Staff and AP

Nabil Elaraby says two decades of talks with Israel have been ‘a waste of time’

Hatnua head Tzipi Livni (photo credit: Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

Livni reportedly to quit politics — again — should Knesset bid prove disappointing

Hatnua denies report that former FM has no intention of being a ‘simple MK’; Lapid: She ‘clearly won’t be sticking around’

Security forces evacuate West Bank outpost where settlers, soldiers clashed on Friday

Politicians trade barbs in wake of scuffle at Oz Zion that injured five police and saw two right-wing activists arrested

Shmuel Fortman Hapartzy, the Cain and Abel School for Prophets founder and teacher speaks to students in Tel Aviv, on December 4, 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Tel Aviv school aims to turn Joes into Jeremiahs

By Tia Goldenberg

To the derision of critics, the Cain and Abel School for Prophets will offer a diploma in Jewish soothsaying

Shas spiritual leader wants voters to take a break from Torah study, help ‘bend’ the PM

Netanyahu ‘won’t have a coalition without us,’ says 92-year-old Rabbi Ovadia Yosef amid escalated rhetoric between his party and Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu

A mass burial in Syria on Saturday from a video uploaded by the Local Coordination Committees (photo credit: screen capture/Youtube)

Syria sees bloodiest day since conflict’s start as nearly 400 reported killed

By AP and Gabe Fisher

Rebel groups report 220 executed by army outside Homs; diplomats meet in Moscow

Caves of Qumran (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Qumran, the land of buried treasure

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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Participants in a protest against the high costs of raising young children, in Tel Aviv in 2011. (photo credit: Yossi Zeligerf/Flash90)

On eve of 2013, Israel’s population stands at cusp of 8 million

Official denies report marking Ron Dermer as next envoy to US

The Palestinian side of the Rafah border terminal between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. (photo credit: Sarah El Deeb/AP)

Egypt transfers thousands of tons of building materials to Gaza

Soldiers walk through the remains of a makeshift structure in the West Bank outpost of Oz Zion on Saturday, Dec. 29 (photo credit: Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe folly on the hill

By Ron Friedman

Then-Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi signs into law the country's Islamist-backed constitution in December 2012. (photo credit: AP/Egyptian Presidency)

Arabic media reviewMorsi tries to calm a troubled Egypt

By Elhanan Miller

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