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What Matters Most On Monday, December 31, 2012

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Israeli and Palestinian peace activists marching outside Jerusalem's Old City July 15, 2011 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Two-thirds of Israelis support peace with Palestinians that ensures security, polls find

By Adiv Sterman

67% of respondents say they would support two-state solution based on the 1967 borders, with land swaps and a demilitarized Palestine

President Shimon Peres greets representatives of the Israeli Christian communities at a ceremony held at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, on December 31, 2012 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

We should talk to Hamas if it recognizes Israel, Peres says

File: Jordanian protesters chant anti-government slogans and demand from King Abdullah II swift political reforms and to end corruption in the kingdom, in Amman, Jordan, Dec. 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

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Preaching the gospel of liberalism to the Jordanian street

By Philippe Assouline

Mudar Zahran, one of the leaders of his country’s burgeoning Dignity Revolution, says spring is in the air. And, he claims, a post-Hashemite Jordan will have huge implications for the Palestinians, who may be forced to choose — Western-style secular democracy or a government led by the likes of Hamas’s Khaled Mashaal

Rabbi Sacks, God is not brain science

Casting religious belief as an evolutionary imperative undercuts the sacred charge to seek justice

When evil is in the eyes of the beholder

On the ‘genocidal liberalism’ of Western academia

Policemen at the scene of a car accident, September 2012 (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Road thrill? Israel now one of top 10 safest countries to drive in, minister claims

By Stuart Winer

Annual fatalities below 300 for first time in 50 years, says Yisrael Katz; safety experts warn that failure to take serious injuries into account skews statistics

Hanin Zoabi (photo credit: Flash90)

High Court was right to let controversial Arab MK run, legal experts say

By Raphael Ahren

Strict interpretation of the law would lead to numerous political bans, scholars say, and Israel is plenty strong enough to allow Hanin Zoabi’s radical parliamentary dissent

Muslim Brotherhood official calls on Egyptian Jews to return

‘Jewish presence in Israel contributes to the occupation of Arab land,’ says Islamist politician

An African migrant in Levinsky Park in southern Tel Aviv (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Fearing racial backlash, Shas shelves campaign video that stokes fear of Africans in Israel

By Asher Zeiger

Sources in ultra-Orthodox party reportedly believe anti-migrant sentiment worth up to three additional seats in upcoming election

Heavy water reactor facility near Arak, Iran (photo credit: CC-BY nanking2010/Wikipedia/File)

As sanctions take their toll, Iran edging toward negotiations, top US official claims

Tehran realizes economic pain will only worsen if it doesn’t cooperate, says David Cohen, under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence

US Ambassador to Yemen Gerald M. Feierstein, left, shakes hands with a Yemeni army officer during a visit to Abyan, Yemen. Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen has offered to pay tens of thousands of dollars to anyone who kills Feierstein or an American soldier in the country, according to an audio produced by the group's media arm, the al-Malahem Foundation, and posted on militant websites Saturday, December 29, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Hani Mohammed, File)

Al-Qaeda puts gold bounty on head of Jewish US ambassador in Yemen

Terror group also offers some $23,000 to anyone who kills an American soldier

Meretz party leader MK Zahava Gal-on, 2011. (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Meretz calls on center-left parties to form anti-right government bloc

By Stuart Winer

Faction leader Zahava Gal-on says Labor, Hatnua, and Yesh Atid should commit to not selling out to ‘stubborn and racist’ Likud-Beytenu

Shot by New York Photo League member Louis Stettner, "Coming to America" depicts a Jewish immigrant and his child, and was on display at San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum. (Courtesy of the Contemporary Jewish Museum)

Blacklisted Jewish photographers get a second shot

By David-Elijah Nahmod

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BlogBlogsmacked 2012

By Miriam Herschlag

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)

Hebrew media reviewEnding the year with a fight

By Joshua Davidovich

Protesters chant slogans against Iraq's Shiite-led government in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, last December (Photo credit: AP)

Arabic media reviewIraq’s Maliki ‘in the eye of the storm’

By Michael Bassin

Soldiers place flags on graves at Mount Herzl Military cemetery in Jerusalem to mark Memorial Day in 2012. (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)

Suicide the number one cause of death in the IDF, report finds

By Ron Friedman

Sarah Onyango Obama, President Obama's step-grandmother (photo credit: AP)

Presidential treatmentIsraeli docs in Africa treat Obama’s granny

By Adiv Sterman

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