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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 15, 2013

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The Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council (CC BY-US Mission Geneva/Flickr/File)

Ten months after Foreign Ministry ceased all cooperation

Israel renews contacts with UN Human Rights Council

By Raphael Ahren

Jerusalem envoy speaks with president of Geneva-based group, with which it broke ties in 2012; Venezuela chosen to oversee review of the Jewish state

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 and family said to be living on a warship

By Elhanan Miller

Mistrust of security detail and fear of opposition siege in Damascus lead the Syrian president and his inner circle to sea, al-Watan reports

Another election and still no representation

Under Israel’s electoral system, lawmakers are not duty-bound to represent the interests of the country’s citizens

A true partnership, a true democracy

Efforts are underway by Arabs and Jews to reverse the trend of Arab voter apathy

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listening as President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting in Washington in March 2012. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Fed up, Obama says Israel ‘doesn’t know its own best interests’

US president, unhappy over settlement building, said to say he has come to expect such self-defeating behavior from Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, March 20, 2010. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

UN chief urges Israel to call off E1 settlement

A graphic showing the countries affected by the 'Red October' virus (image courtesy Kaspersky Lab)

Israel among targets of ‘monster’ espionage virus

Russian hackers’ ‘Red October’ active for 5 years, infecting hundreds of ‘high profile’ targets including a ‘diplomatic institution/embassy’ in Israel

Activists and Border Police at the Bab a-Shams tent village, Tuesday (photo credit: Lemapal/Twitter)

Palestinians attempt return to E1 tent village

By Aaron Kalman

Several arrested as activists march to outpost previously evacuated by Israeli security forces

An aerial view of Herodium, the site of King Herod's Palace and the king's burial tomb, near Bethlehem in the West Bank (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Israel to reconstruct King Herod’s tomb

By Michal Shmulovich

Herodium, site of the biblical monarch’s monumental palace and tomb, will be rebuilt outside Bethlehem at a cost of $50,000

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks at a public gathering in the northeastern city of Bojnurd, Iran, in October. (photo credit: AP/Office of the Supreme Leader)

Iran says ayatollah’s ban on nuclear weapons binding

Top spiritual leader’s ruling should end the debate over whether Tehran is pursuing atomic arms, Islamic Republic says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks down on Israel's north during a helicopter ride, January 13, 2013 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu: If Israel withdraws, Iran will move in

Prime minister says Abbas not a peace partner as long as he ’embraces Hamas’; predicts large deficit won’t necessitate tax hikes

Marina Weisband at a press conference in 2011 (photo credit: CC-BY: Tobias M. Eckrich)

Rated arrrr

Jewish Pirate voted ‘sexiest politician’

By Raphael Ahren

Playboy survey honors Marina Weisband, although she quit her position with the German Pirate Party back in April

Moshe Friedman and his wife, Lea Rosenzweig, hold an improvised press conference outside Antwerp's Benoth Jerusalem, an all-female Haredi school forced by a Belgian judge to educate their sons. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)

Anti-Zionist provocateur wins case, makes enemies in Antwerp

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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An Arab Israeli woman casts her vote at a polling station in the Arab village of Abu Ghosh in 2009. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Arab voter turnout projected to drop below 50%

By Ilan Ben Zion and AP

A different hail to the chiefObama gets Israeli kudos, set to song

By Jessica Steinberg

Labor Party campaign stickers saying "Bibi is good for the rich, Shelly is good for me" posted on top of a campaign poster depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewPapers playing politics

By Ron Friedman

Men help a wounded civilian after a mortar attack in the Saif al-Dawlah neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013 (photo credit: Andoni Lubki/AP)

Arabic media reviewSyria’s ‘day of child-killing’

By Elhanan Miller

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