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What Matters Most On Friday, January 18, 2013

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A man hangs a huge poster with an image of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu overlooking the Ayalon freeway in Tel Aviv on Thursday (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

Final newspaper polls give right wing narrowest lead of race

By Ron Friedman and Yoel Goldman

Four days before elections, support for Likud-Beytenu is lower than ever; 15% of voters remain undecided

In Israeli politics, a new dawn for women

By Elhanan Miller

Jewish Home ordered to drop Netanyahu-Bennett ad

By Philip Podolsky

Likud-Beytenu campaign guru Finkelstein leaves Israel

By Philip Podolsky

The author, Ahmad Hashemi, with President Ahmadinejad and Azerbaijani cleric, 2011 (photo: Iranian President's website)

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Don’t be fooled: Iran wants the bomb

By Ahmad Hashemi

I was there when regime leaders made clear they’re determined to attain nuclear weapons, says Tehran’s former foreign ministry translator

UN fails in attempt to restart Iran nuclear probe

By AP and ToI Staff

Shmuley Boteach

President Obama’s appalling silence on Syria

Here’s what the leader of the free world should say when 80 students are blown to bits

A Morsi moment in the media

With some collegial shaming, the New York Times finally told the ‘apes and pigs’ comment story and got the ball rolling

The Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi gives an interview to Lebanese Al-Quds TV, in October 2010 (image capture MEMRI video)

New clips show Morsi in 2010 calling Obama a liar, urging Jew-hatred

By Ron Friedman and AP

US says Egyptian president’s subsequent pledge rejecting discrimination and incitement to violence is an important, but inadequate, first step

Hans Sachs started his renowned poster collection as a teenager in Berlin. His postwar efforts to reclaim it failed. (Courtesy of Peter Sachs)

Stolen by the Nazis, hidden by the Soviets, now on sale in New York

By Samantha Karlin

An unidentified rescued hostage receives treatment in a hospital in Ain Amenas, Algeria. (AP Photo/Canal Algerie via Associated Press TV)

Algeria says 12 dead in Sahara standoff

By Paul Schemm and ANIS BELGHOUL

Frenchman and American reportedly killed in botched rescue raid; Algerian state news service says nearly 100 of 132 hostages freed

Ariel mayor Ron Nachman, shown here in October, 2007 (photo credit: Maya Levin/Flash90)

Ron Nachman, mayor of Ariel, dies at 70

By ToI Staff and AP

Former MK loses struggle with cancer; Netanyahu eulogizes man ‘committed to the revival of the Jews in their country’

Aaron David Miller (photo credit: Courtesy)

Obama-Netanyahu relationship is ‘most dysfunctional’ ever

US president and Israeli prime minister have never been as deeply at odds and for so long, says former top US diplomat

Sen. Rand Paul in Jerusalem, January 12, 2013 (photo credit: Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Rand Paul: Cuts to Israel aid would not be ‘dramatic’

Naftali Bennett, left, speaking with Yair Lapid and Nissim Mishal on Mishal's TV program Thursday. (photo credit: Screenshot/Channel 2)

Jewish Home’s Bennett says remove some outposts

By Stuart Winer

Leader of rising right-wing party declares settlements built on private Palestinian lands can be removed, but later ‘clarifies’ that there are no such cases

British Foreign Secretary William Hague in Jerusalem, November 2010 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

London warns of ‘perfect Mideast storm,’ calls for intense peace push

By Stuart Winer

UK foreign secretary calls on Obama to launch renewed peace drive of type not seen since 1993 Oslo accords

Einat Wilf addresses the Knesset, October 15, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Is Israel’s electoral system just fine the way it is?

By Raphael Ahren

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A large campaign poster showing Labor Party leader Shelly Yachimovich in Bnei Brak. (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewWarning: Elections ahead

By Ilan Ben Zion

Mariah Carey proclaimed Shira Gavrielov's performance "sababa." (YouTube screenshot)

Diva dialogueMariah Carey shows off her Hebrew

By Nathan Burstein

Fiamma Nirenstein attends a meeting between Israeli MKs and European delegates to discuss the relations between the European Union and the Israeli parliament in 2009 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Italian politician planning to make aliyah

Gilad Shalit meets with lone soldiers in Jerusalem on Thursday (photo credit: Sasson Tiram/Nefesh B’Nefesh)

Gilad Shalit visits lone soldiers

A 1961 publicity photo of Pauline Phillips (1918-2013) (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

‘Dear Abby’ advice columnist dies at age 94

By Steve Karnowski

This undated image provided by Auroch Digital Ltd. shows the video game 'Endgame: Syria.' (photo credit: AP/Auroch Digital Ltd.)

Playing at warSyria’s civil war: the video game

Chuck Norris gives his stamp of approval to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the Israeli elections. (photo credit: screen capture/YouTube)

Good luck ChuckNetanyahu wins Norris nod

By Ron Friedman

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