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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 3, 2013

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In this Thursday Feb. 25, 2010 file photo, Hezbollah leader sheik Hassan Nasrallah, left, speaks with Syrian President Bashar Assad, and Iran's then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad upon their arrival for a dinner in Damascus, Syria. (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Syria and Hezbollah won’t join the fight if Israel strikes Iran, top-level report predicts

Foreign Ministry says Assad can’t help Tehran for fear of losing power, Israel would launch massive ground operation in Lebanon if attacked

Avigdor Liberman, pictured at the Lebanese border village of Ghajar in 2009 (photo credit: Hamad Almakt / Flash 90)

AnalysisOp-Ed

Defense minister Liberman? The plot thickens

By David Horovitz

Though he said he intended to return to the foreign ministry after the elections, the Yisrael Beytenu head may have had his sights set on the defense job — where a strong performance would cement his prime ministerial credentials. A sharpened indictment has put a halt to those ambitions… for now

The national unity government scenario

The Jewish Home party’s dramatic ascent could prompt Netanyahu to link arms with the left

Harold Goldmeier

Mourning a lone – but never lonely – soldier

Military death — once so far from this American’s experience — is now wrenchingly close and deeply personal

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Suck it, Mayans: I’m still here

Choosing, for a change, to do 2013 as if the world isn’t going to end

Daniel Mahgerefteh, an Iranian Jew who was murdered in Tehran in December 2012, reportedly after he 'dishonored' the family of a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard by refusing to marry his daughter (photo credit: Channel 2 screen capture)

Daughter of Iranian soldier said involved in December murder of Tehran Jew

By Greg Tepper and Ilan Ben Zion

Iran’s Jews fearful following murder of Daniel Mahgerefteh, the second member of the community killed in as many months

Sheets of newly printed ballots at a printing house in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

New poll puts Jewish Home tied as second-largest party

By Stuart Winer

Israel Radio survey shows right-wing surge at expense of center-left parties; Labor’s Yachimovich vows not to join coalition with Netanyahu

An Instagram color-corrected photo of a driver using Waze in the Philippines. (Raramaurina/Flickr)

Apple reportedly looking to buy Israeli map app Waze

By Michal Shmulovich

iPhone maker may see local startup as solution to mapping woes; company wants $750 million, but Apple offering $400-$500 million, according to reports

An Israeli F-16 fighter jet (photo credit: Ofer Zidon/Flash90)

At 180 mph, just as they touched down, IAF crew forced to eject from F-16

Pilot, navigator ditch plane just as wheels hit the tarmac at Ramat David air base; no injuries reported; IAF grounds F-16s for technical checks

Young Israeli soldiers at the shooting range, 2011 (photocredit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Soldier shot in chest, stomach, leg in accidental shooting at rifle range

The bombed Israeli tour bus in Burgas, Bulgaria, July 2012 (photo credit: Dano Monkotovic/Flash90)

Bulgarian police say they know identity of Burgas bomber’s helper

By Stuart Winer

Three terrorists who attacked Israeli tour bus in July used faked identity papers but now authorities are reportedly on the trail of one of them

US calls on Israel, Palestinians to ‘make a fresh start’ and rekindle peace talks

Now is the time for ‘real leadership’ and an end to ‘counter-productive unilateral actions,’ says State Department spokeswoman

A man runs through the debris after a mortar shell hit a street, killing several people, in the Bustan Al-Qasr district of Aleppo, Syria, December 2012 (photo credit: AP/Narciso Contreras)

UN amends figures, says over 60,000 — not 45,000 — dead in Syrian civil war

By AP and Ilan Ben Zion

International body reports that at least half a million have fled their homes since start of conflict nearly two years ago

Ross loves Rachel, in plate form (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Doing the dishes

Where Ross loves Rachel, on a plate

By Jessica Steinberg

A new Jerusalem gallery opens, dedicated to contemporary ceramics, drawings, sculpture and video art

Illustrative photo of anti-Semitic graffiti (CC BY-zeeweez, Flickr)

Swastika, anti-Semitic slogans spray-painted on Toulouse building

French city was the site of March 2012 attack that killed Jewish teacher and three school-children

Karen Allali of the Jewish Guides and Scouts of France and Jean-Charles Zerbib (far right), an official of the Unified Jewish Social Fund, speak in Marseille, where Jewish groups are struggling to absorb cutbacks in government funding. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)

French Jews pay a price for government effort to curb extremism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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Jewish federations praise fiscal cliff agreement for sparing America’s ‘most vulnerable’

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Ettun with his Water Esc quartet from Boston (Courtesy Ehud Ettun)

A jazz bassist brings the blues back home

By Jessica Steinberg

Yemeni soldiers, December 2012. (Photo credit: AP/Hani Mohammed)

Arabic media reviewYemen’s opposition: Saleh must leave the country

By Michael Bassin

The Likud-Beytenu attack ad targeting the Jewish Home party members' policies on women that appeared in Haaretz on Thursday. The caption reads 'The Jewish Home is against women.' (photo credit: image capture from Haaretz)

Hebrew media reviewAddling attack ads and a diminishing threat

By Ilan Ben Zion

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