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What Matters Most On Friday, January 11, 2013

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Except for asking an occasional follow-up question, "The Gatekeepers" director Dror Moreh lets his subjects speak for themselves. (Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)

How I persuaded six intelligence chiefs to pour out their hearts

By Mitch Ginsburg

Dror Moreh, whose The Gatekeepers has been nominated for an Oscar, tells the Times of Israel how he conducted the revelatory interviews in his acclaimed documentary, and the impact the spy heads’ revelations had on him

Two Israeli documentaries nominated for Oscar

By Jessica Steinberg and AP

The ‘Gatekeepers’ open up

By David Horovitz

Jewish filmmakers rack up Oscar nominations

An Israeli woman looks at a flyer for Tzipi Livni's Hatnua party, Jerusalem, December 23, 2012 (photo: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Latest polls confirm high level of undecided voters, indicate fall in support for Tzipi Livni

By Stephan Miller

Echoing The Times of Israel’s pre-election poll, Maariv says 25% of the electorate has yet to make up its mind ahead of January 22 vote

Naftali Bennett, the grandmother in the candy store

Stubborn Palestinians? Global isolation? Law breakers? Never you mind, dearie!

Israel’s jihad is mine

Hamas is an enemy of Islam, the Prophet and the Palestinians

Plunging into life

A quest for the unfathomable color of the infinite sky and vast ocean

Still life of snow on lemon tree

A Jerusalemite finally gets her fill of winter and she’s got the photos to prove it

Edgar Feuchtwanger, right, with co-author Bertil Scali, observed Hitler's rise to power from close by, then fled Munich with his family after Kristallnacht. (Courtesy of Editions Michel Lafon)

Former Jewish refugee recalls his neighbor from hell: Hitler

By Rebecca Benhamou

In this Feb. 21, 2007, file photo, then-Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., speaks during an appearance at Bellevue University, in Bellevue, Neb. In January 2013 Hagel was slated to be the next US Secretary of Defense. (photo credit: AP/Nati Harnik)

Analysis

Hagel’s ‘refreshing candor’ may be his greatest liability as secretary of defense

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Will the proudly outspoken former senator learn to keep quiet when more than his career is on the line?

President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Monday to announce his nomination of John Brennan, second from the right, as the new CIA director, and former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel, second from the left, as the new Defense Secretary. (photo credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Opposition to Hagel isn’t dying down after nomination

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour (photo credit: AP)

Jordanian PM: If we were to let in Palestinians from Syria, Israel would try to send more of them our way

By Elhanan Miller

Hashemite kingdom, which holds general elections in two weeks, has closed its borders to ‘brethren’ fleeing Assad, fearing major influx

A worker prepares ballot boxes for the previous elections, at a warehouse in Shoham, near Tel Aviv, January 8, 2013 (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Likud-Beytenu to play hardball with settlers if they don’t vote for the list, report says

Netanyahu’s party said infuriated by settlers who join Likud to influence primary results but then vote for the competition

Tzipi Livni, the leader of the Hatnua party (photo credit: Flash90)

Netanyahu bringing about ‘the demise of the Jewish state,’ Livni charges

Hatnua party leader says Israeli voters must choose Palestinian independence over a single state where Jews are in the minority

This undated image provided by Sotheby's shows a section of a Torah created in Italy in 1457-1465. The illuminated manuscript, known as the Frankfurt Mishneh Torah, was auctioned for upwards of $2.9 million on April 29, 2013. (photo credit: AP)

$11 million worth of Jewish art to be auctioned in NYC

By Ula Ilnytzky

Philanthropist Michael Steinhardt’s collection said to be the largest to come on the market in 50 years

Shani Boianjiu, like her protagonist character, was a weapons instructor in the IDF (photo credit Nicky Kelvin/Flash 90)

From the bookshelf

The girl who nearly ran over a cliff in the army

By Sara Sherbill

More Headlines

The People of Forever Are Not Afraid

Book of The TimesThe People of Forever are not Afraid, by Shani Boianjiu

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey arrive for their news conference at the Pentagon on Thursday, January 10, 2013. (photo credit: Evan Vucci/AP)

Almost impossible to prevent Assad from using chemical weapons, US Army chief says

By Lolita C. Baldor

Ladislaus Csatary (screenshot from the Sun)

Witness found in trial of Hungarian war criminal Csatary

Gearing up for the elections? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a snowball fight with his family in Jerusalem on Thursday (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewSnow news is good news

By Yossi Nachemi

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