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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 19, 2013

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The rabbi and the rock: Dov Lipman in his Knesset office (photo credit: Courtesy)

Interview

Dov Lipman’s rock solid struggle for a better Israel

By Raphael Ahren and David Horovitz

The first US-born MK in 30 years discusses his improbable rise, and the endemic corruption in Israeli politics he and his newly empowered party insist they’ll tackle

A scene from the Australian television program on Zygier (photo credit: screen capture/ABC News via YouTube)

‘Zygier hanged himself from a wet sheet in the shower’

By Asher Zeiger

Court releases part of investigation into Mossad agent’s death, concludes that it was suicide, but allows for legal possibility of other cause

Tombstone of Ben Zygier at Chevra Kadisha Jewish Cemetery in Melbourne, Australia (photo credit: AP/Andrew Brownbill)

Breaking silence, Zygier’s relatives urge Israel to ‘tell us what happened’

Ahmad Tibi addresses the Knesset on May 21, 2012. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

MKs who broke spy gag order unlikely to face investigation

By Ilan Ben Zion

A candelabra comes home for shabbat

A family heirloom that is helping rekindle the spark that the Spanish Inquisition tried to extinguish

Neo-Nazi march turns out to be no fun at all

The Lithuanian marchers were hateful, numerous, young, and largely unchallenged.

Rafi Eitan, a former senior Shin Bet and Mossad officer, ran Pollard (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Interview

‘Sharon was about to leave two-thirds of the West Bank’

By Elhanan Miller

Prime minister was drafting plan for a unilateral pullout when he fell ill, says his former adviser Rafi Eitan, and Netanyahu should tell Obama he’s ready for similar ‘mosaic separation’

A sign warns of mines near the Syrian border with Israel in the Golan Heights. (photo credit: Flash90)

IDF said set to build field hospital on Syrian border

By Ilan Ben Zion

After 7 wounded Syrians allowed in on Saturday, military is preparing for onrush of refugees, and wants to treat the injured on Golan Heights frontier rather than inside Israel

Jewish foreign minister defends AMIA probe with Iran

By JTA and Gabe Fisher

Hector Timerman says he did not betray Judaism with Argentine ‘truth commission’ into bombing, says he has no debt to Israel for sheltering father

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov (left) with UK Foreign Minister William Hague in Brussels (photo credit: Yves Logghe/AP)

Bulgarian FM to EU colleagues: Sanction Hezbollah

By Raphael Ahren

Presenting evidence from Burgas bombing probe in Brussels, Nikolay Mladenov urges Europe to finally blacklist the Shiite group as a terror organization

Illustrative photo of an F-16. (photo credit: CC BY Ronnie Macdonald, Flickr)

Israel supplying advanced weaponry to Turkey

By Michal Shmulovich

Military deal, the fulfillment of an order that was halted after the Mavi Marmara incident, is first of its kind since 2010

Israeli Border Police on patrol in Hebron earlier this year (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Violence flares in West Bank ahead of Hebron mass-protest

By Michal Shmulovich

Throngs of demonstrators gather in Ramallah to demand release of Palestinian hunger striker Samer Issawi, who’s said to be close to death

Pope Benedict XVI with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an official departure ceremony at Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, Friday, May 15, 2009 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Netanyahu writes Pope Benedict a letter of gratitude

Prime minister offers outgoing pontiff appreciation for building relations between Jews, Christians

Polish State Archives general director Władysław Stępniak signs Friday's agreement at a ceremony attended by PSA official Ania Krochmal and Jewish Records Indexing representative Krzysztof Malczewsk. (YouTube screenshot)

Poland deal massively expands access to prewar Jewish records

By Nathan Burstein

Agreement signed by State Archives in Warsaw will allow for free digital research into family and community pre-Holocaust histories

Geza Weisz, right, and Imanuelle Grives on the set of "Only Decent People" in Amsterdam last year. (Courtesy of Topkapi Films via JTA)

Dutch film tests Jewish, black taboos

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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'Jews start with so many disadvantages in every country, and do so well,' Julie Burchill observes. (Courtesy of Daniel Morgenstern)

Radio IsraelPlaying ‘Hatikvah’ on a ‘Desert Island’

By Miriam Shaviv

Lawyers for Beit Safafa residents display construction plans at a press conference on Monday, February 18 (Matti Friedman/Times of Israel)

New expressway inflames quiet Jerusalem neighborhood

By Matti Friedman

Look and Cook on a Manhattan billboard (photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli cookbook a star in Apple’s new ad campaign

By David Shamah

Obama and Peres toasting at the ceremony where Obama presented Peres the Presidential Medal of Freedom in June 2012. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewSa’argate

By Yossi Nachemi

Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, right, is pictured with Ennahda party leader Rached El Ghannouchi at the opening of a meeting with representatives of Tunisian political parties in Carthage, outside Tunis, in February 2013. (photo credit: AP/Hassene Dridi)

Arabic media reviewAssad as confident as ever

By Elhanan Miller

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