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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 17, 2013

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US President Barack Obama talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while walking from the Oval Office to the South Lawn Drive of the White House, after their meeting May 20, 2011. (Photo credit: Avi Ohayon/Government Press Office/FLASH90)

AnalysisOp-Ed

Storm warning

By David Horovitz

When a hardline reelected Israeli leadership meets an inflexible second-term president

The Amenas natural gas field in the eastern central region of Algeria, where Islamist militants took hostages Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013 (photo credit: BP/AP)

Foreigners among hostages said killed in Algeria

By Paul Schemm and Aomar Ouali

Britons, Filipinos among those reported dead after Algerian army retakes gas plant from Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists

Natan Odenheimer

Palestinian refugees: the faces behind the numbers

An unplanned detour in Jordan put a human face on a key part of the neighborhood in which Israelis live

What’s a left or center-left voter to do?

A look at all the options — none of them perfect

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi (center) meets with Republican Sen. John McCain (center left) at the Presidential Palace in Cairo on Wednesday, January 16, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Egyptian Presidency)

Morsi: My anti-Semitic statements were ‘taken out of context’

By AP and Ilan Ben Zion

Egyptian president tells visiting American senators that remarks were criticism of Israel’s ‘racist’ policies

A Free Syrian Army fighter treads on a photo of Syrian President Bashar Assad in Aleppo, Syria, on Tuesday, January 15, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Andoni Lubaki)

More than 100 massacred in Syria, activists say

By Bassam Mroue

Reports describe grisly slaying of Sunnis by Assad loyalists near Homs

Illustrative: An asteroid (Courtesy NASA)

Hebrew U. stakes claim in space with namesake asteroid

By David Shamah

Asteroid 271,763, now known as ‘Hebrewu,’ was found by one of the world’s most prolific asteroid discoverers and an alumnus of the university

President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on March 5, 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Netanyahu brushes off Obama critique

By Ilan Ben Zion

Prime minster says only the Israeli people will determine who best represents their interests

Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett at a meeting at Jerusalem's Great Synagogue on January 16, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Bennett to US envoy: No chance of peace deal under Netanyahu

By Ilan Ben Zion

Jewish Home leader meets with Ambassador Dan Shapiro to discuss post-election politics

Sheets of newly printed ballots seen at a printing house in Jerusalem, January 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Near-final polls disagree on size of Likud, right

By Gabe Fisher and Aaron Kalman

With less than a week before vote, right-wing bloc predicted to win as many as 72 seats and as few as 65

Eli Yishai (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Shas warns Jewish Home will promote ‘mixed marriages’

By Aaron Kalman

As elections draw near, leaders of Orthodox parties square off over conversion, civil weddings

Yair Lapid in his home this week. (photo credit: AP/Oded Balilty)

Interview

Newcomer Lapid says he won’t join coalition for free

By Dan Perry and Josef Federman

TV anchor turned head of fledgling Yesh Atid party vows to demand prime minister take care of ultra-Orthodox, peace process

Illustrative photo of an Iranian warship (Alex Hicks, Wikimedia Commons)

Iran to deploy warships to Mediterranean in show of force

By Joshua Davidovich

Navy commander says 24th fleet to fan out across the region and ‘counter threats’ to the Islamic Republic

Chulent (Kobi Gideon/Flash 90)

Food for thought

Let’s freek

By Phyllis Glazer

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Floating on the Dead Sea (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Dead Sea rises for first time in 10 years

A screenshot from PressTV

No joking matterIran pegs PM’s wife as commando

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pauses during a news conference in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, in which he confirmed that American citizens are among the hostages taken by an Al Qaeda-linked group that seized a gas field in Algeria. (Photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Arabic media reviewWesterners held hostage at Algeria gas field

By Michael Bassin

On the rise. Bathers at the Dead Sea (photo credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewDrowning in numbers

By Ron Friedman

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