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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 8, 2013

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A man waves from the knee-deep water that covers the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, Jan. 8 (photo credit: Flash90)

Massive rainfall drowns Tel Aviv highway, trains

Some lanes reopen on Ayalon, Namir; officials make plans to divert air traffic to Uvda airport in Negev; Sea of Galilee rises 22 cm in single day

Man rescued after kayaking on the Ayalon

By Stuart Winer

Elderly man dies in fire

By Stuart Winer

Dozens of dogs rescued after mudslide hits Jerusalem shelter

Buying bread (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Times of Israel poll V

For 43% of likely voters, economic issues — not the Palestinians or Iran — are top priority

By Stephan Miller

In new Times of Israel poll, only 16% put Palestinian issue top, 12% cite the Iranian threat, and 7% choose concerns about regional instability

Times of Israel poll IVLivni is out of touch with her potential voters, poll indicates

By Stephan Miller

Livni announces she won’t sit in a right-wing coalition with ultra-Orthodox

By Stuart Winer

Hopes for a center-left bloc collapse as party leaders trade recriminations

By Stuart Winer

Israeli in the US – American in Israel

Describing – and showing – the experience of visiting a home away from home

A Torah in space: Ten years without Ilan Ramon

Commemorating the Israeli fighter pilot who brought the message of Israel into space

“Unfortunately, many of us don’t see each other as human beings," says 21-year-old Siavosh Derakhti. (Courtesy of Expo)

In tense Swedish city, young Muslim crusades against anti-Semitism

By Josefin Dolsten

Umm Osama, interviewed on Hamas's al-Aqsa TV in Gaza last month (photo credit: MEMRI screenshot)

Encouraging our children to kill themselves for Palestine is a mother’s most glorious duty, says wife of Hamas MP

‘None of us want to die in our beds,’ says Umm Osama, of herself, her husband and her children. ‘We pray that Allah will grant us Paradise’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Channel 2's Yaakov Elon on Monday. (photo credit: image capture from Channel 2)

Netanyahu says he will ‘never divide Jerusalem,’ could accept a centrist coalition

By Greg Tepper and Ilan Ben Zion

In Channel 2 interview, prime minister says he doubts most Israelis would cede partial sovereignty in capital, sets out preconditions for Palestinian state

The Ayalon River flows alongside the flooded Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, Jan. 8 (photo credit: Flash90)

Traffic app glitch sends drivers to flooded highway

By David Shamah

30-minute commute turns into three-hour nightmare as Waze ignores road closure

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad gestures as he speaks at the Opera House in central Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013 (Photo credit: AP/SANA)

Assad is ‘evil, beyond brutal, not rational,’ US State Department says

Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland sounds off on Syrian president

US President Barack Obama, center, walks away from the stage in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, after announcing that he is nominating Deputy National Security Adviser for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, John Brennan, second from the left, as the new head of the CIA. (photo credit: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

Obama digs in for a fight on Hagel, Brennan picks

US president prepares to defend nominees to head Pentagon, CIA

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

With Western Wall unity crumbling, a refusenik hopes to meld women’s rights and tradition

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Police officers investigate the scene of a car accident on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Highway, in which three men were killed on Monday, January 7. (photo credit: Flash90)

Three killed in car crash outside Jerusalem

Balad MK Hanin Zoabi (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Election committee bans Balad, far-right party ads

By Ilan Ben Zion

Illustrative image of a crossword puzzle (photo credit: CC-BY, MiniSQUL, Flickr )

Puzzling geographyPalestinian Xwords are clueless on Israel

By Stuart Winer

Arabic media reviewAssad speaks, the Arab world analyzes

By Elhanan Miller

Yesh Atid party head Yair Lapid (right) and Labor Party chairwoman Shelly Yachimovich (photo by Yossi Zeliger/Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewCold air, hot air

By Ilan Ben Zion

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