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What Matters Most On Friday, January 25, 2013

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Netanyahu, on election night, surrounded by party members (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

The dirty art of coalition assembly

By Mitch Ginsburg

There is inherent tension between the right person for the ministerial job and the political expediency of the nomination

Yair Lapid speaks to supporters in Tel Aviv after the release of election exit polls, January 2013. (photo credit: Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)

Netanyahu offers Lapid Foreign or Finance Ministry

By Yoel Goldman

Yesh Atid chief’s advisers warn against Treasury position, saying upcoming budgetary cuts could hurt his image

Netanyahu and Lapid ‘discuss whether Shas should be in coalition’

By Stuart Winer

Likud minister: ‘Unnatural’ for Lapid to demand top diplomat role

By Yoel Goldman

Final results could make it easier for PM to form right-center coalition

When Holocaust memory is a fig leaf for modern hate

No memorial to the horrors of the past should alleviate, or mitigate, guilt for the crimes of the present

In frozen Ukraine, warming up to my Jewish forefathers

I am not a Jew. My father’s family was, however, and part of this trip was about connecting to my distant paternal heritage

The Assad family in 1994. Front: Hafez Assad and Anisa Makhlouf. Rear, left to right: Maher, Bashar, Bassel, Majid, and Bushra Assad (Wikipedia)

Assad’s mother fled Syria, US ambassador confirms

Anisa Makhlouf reportedly reunites with her daughter, Bushra Assad, in the United Arab Emirates

Palestinian students hold rifle-shaped wooden sticks during a graduation ceremony for the first group of schoolchildren's military training organized by the Hamas education ministry in Gaza City, Thursday, January 24 (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)

3,000 Gaza teens graduate Hamas terror school

By Ibrahim Barzak

Islamist PM hails first products of high school course as ‘generation that will liberate the land’

Ehud Barak at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos (photo credit: WEF screenshot)

Barak: Israel ‘learned a lesson’ from global failure to stop Assad

Our friends tell us, ‘Don’t worry,’ promise support in times of crisis, says defense minister, but events in Syria show there are no guarantees of international action

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, December 26, 2012. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Abbas wants to meet Israeli party leaders before they join government

PA president to invite senior politicians from various factions, especially newcomers, in effort to keep negotiations on the agenda

President Shimon Peres (R) meets with Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (photo credit: President Spokesman/GPO/Flash90)

Peres: Iran resolved to ‘rule over the Middle East’

President lauds Obama-led sanctions, says Arab League should assemble a military force to stop the bloodshed in Syria

John Kerry will head back to Capitol Hill to brief the full Senate on Thursday (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite/File)

Kerry heading here to try to restart peace talks

By Yoel Goldman

Incoming secretary of state says ‘progress’ is needed; Likud minister says negotiations with the Palestinians are on the next government’s agenda

French court sides with Jewish group against Twitter

Judge orders micro-blogging giant to reveals details of authors of anti-Semitic abuse

A Channel 4 documentary scheduled to air Wednesday comes at a particularly sensitive time for London's Haredi community. (Illustrative photo: Flash90)

UK Haredi chief caught telling alleged victim not to tell police about abuse

By Miriam Shaviv

Channel 4’s hidden camera records Rabbi Ephraim Padwa advising accuser not to seek help from the authorities

A screenshot of a video shows the Palestinian man who was allegedly abused by Border Police officers (photo credit: image capture/Channel 2)

Court wrangles over Border Police abuse case

By Stuart Winer

Video clip, filmed by one of four accused men, shows terrified Palestinian weeping as he is taunted and threatened

Posters of Shas leader Aryeh Deri adorn the entrance to Abu Ghosh, January 24, 2013 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

In the hummus capital outside Jerusalem, Arab nationalism challenges apathy

By Elhanan Miller

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Yair Lapid, chairman of the Yesh Atid party, outside his home on January 22 (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewYair’s choice

By Joshua Davidovich

Palestinian supporters of Hamas at a rally marking the terrorist organization's 25th anniversary in the West Bank city of Ramallah, December 15, 2012 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Shin Bet reports increase in terror attacks in 2012

By Philip Podolsky

President Barack Obama and his choice for defense secretary, former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel, left, and Leon Panetta in the East Room of the White House, January 7, 2013 (photo credit: Charles Dharapak/AP)

After Iran clarification, Democrats rally behind Hagel

By Donna Cassata

Skirmishes break out between protesters and security forces, unseen, near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Egypt opposition: Uprising goals have not been met

By Aya Batrawy and MARIAM RIZK

An image of Anne Frank from the Beyond the Story iPad app of The Diary of a Young Girl (Photo credit: Courtesy Beyond the Story)

Seeing the world through Anne Frank’s eyes — via an iPad

By David Shamah

Former prime minister Ariel Sharon (photo credit: Sharon Perry/Flash90/File)

Ariel Sharon undergoes brain scan

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