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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 13, 2013

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Ben Zygier (photo credit: Screenshot ABC TV via YouTube)

Australia probes report of Mossad agent who killed himself in Israeli jail

By Asher Zeiger and ToI Staff

Melbourne native, Ben Zygier, known as ‘Prisoner X,’ reportedly traveled to Iran, Syria, Lebanon

Senior Australian official calls in Israeli envoy over ‘Prisoner X’

By Asher Zeiger

MKs protest ‘suppression of news about jail suicide of Australian’

From the webAustralian suspected spy fingered as ‘Prisoner X’

US President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, gestures as he gives his State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Feb. 12 (photo credit: AP/Charles Dharapak)

Analysis

In agenda-setting speech, Obama significantly puts Palestinian peace low

By Haviv Rettig Gur

The State of the Union sets out expectations. So it means something that the president mentioned Israel just once in 6,500 words, and the Palestinians not at all

Obama pledges ‘steadfast’ support for Israel in State of the Union

By Ron Friedman and AP

Senate panel approves Hagel for Pentagon chief

By Donna Cassata

Former Israeli envoy to US: Hagel a ‘bad’ choice

By Raphael Ahren

Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi

David Hartman’s fierce embrace

Paying tribute to a teacher with a ‘redemptive vision for religious pluralism, the State of Israel, and the Jewish People’

Diplomacy is a matter of national security

Cutting foreign ministry funding puts Israel at grave risk on the ‘lawfare’ battlefront

MK Rabbi Dov Lipman sitting in the plenum hall of the Knesset during an introduction day for new parliament members, February 03, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

US-born MK calls on ultra-Orthodox to serve country

By Raphael Ahren

Quoting Torah sources, first American expat legislator in 30 years exhorts Haredim to embrace army service and join labor market

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the Natanz enrichment facility in 2008 (photo credit: www.president.ir)

Tehran announces new, faster uranium centrifuges at Natanz

By AP and Gabe Fisher

IAEA inspectors currently in Iran for talks over alleged testing of triggers for atomic weapons

Illustrative photo of an Israel Police car in Jerusalem, June 2012 (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Jerusalem terror alert continues into Wednesday

By Stuart Winer

Police and emergency services remain on high alert after general warning of a possible attack in the capital

A hooded Beitar Jerusalem fan seen outside the Teddy stadium in Jerusalem ahead of a match on Sunday, February 10 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Police arrest 7 for Beitar clubhouse torching

By Ron Friedman

Suspects belong to a group of hardcore fans of the Jerusalem soccer club known as La Familia

Ron Prosor addressing the Security Council in November 2012 (photo credit: screen grab http://webtv.un.org)

UN envoy urges EU to add Hezbollah to terror list

By Ilan Ben Zion

Be brave like Richard, not blind like Napoleon, Ron Prosor says at UN Security Council

Tom Tamar Pauer's film describes her kids as "My German Children" -- but that's not necessarily how they see themselves. (Courtesy of Tom Pauer Productions)

German-Israeli explores case of mixed-up identity

By Renee Ghert-Zand

A documentary premiering Wednesday on Israeli TV examines the struggles of a family with roots on both sides of Hitler’s Germany

A member of the Abdel Aal family is rescued after his family house collapsed during an Israeli forces strike in the Tufah neighbourhood, Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 18. (AP Photo/Majed Hamdan)

Rights group accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza

By AP and ToI Staff

Human Rights Watch says Israel carried out unneeded airstrikes on Gaza; Israeli watchdog group slams HRW’s ‘baseless claims’

Image of a Iranian Qahar 313 fighter alleged to be photoshopped into the foreground (photo credit: screen capture www.khouznews.ir)

Layers of deceit

Iranian ‘jet’ outed as Photoshop chop job

The Atlantic says a recently released image of the Islamic Republic’s advanced stealth fighter is a fake

Danielle Goldstein has big plans for equestrian in Israel, but continues to train in her native US because of its superior facilities. (Courtesy of Danielle Goldstein)

Israeli show jumpers begin equest for greatness

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Yigal Carmon, Washington DC, 2015 (courtesy)

InterviewThe Arab Spring is great, says leading Israeli analyst

By Elhanan Miller

On a large television screen in front of Pyongyang's railway station, a North Korean state television broadcaster announces the news that North Korea conducted a nuclear test on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Jon Chol Jin)

Arabic media reviewDon’t confuse us with the Brotherhood, says Moroccan PM

By Elhanan Miller

On a large television screen in front of Pyongyang's railway station, a North Korean state television broadcaster announces the news that North Korea conducted a nuclear test on Tuesday. (Photo credit: AP/Kim Kwang Hyon)

Hebrew media reviewNuclear bombs and bombshells

By Ilan Ben Zion

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