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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 21, 2013

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The new border fence as seen from the Druze village of Majdal Shams (Photo credit: Moshe Shai/ Flash 90)

Israel’s Alaska, the Golan, stays calm amid the gathering storm

By Mitch Ginsburg

Residents of the Heights see the bloody transformation across the border in Syria, but believe they — and the army — can cope with ‘whatever the future throws at us’

53 killed in bombing near Baath HQ in Damascus

By AP and ToI Staff

Russia offers to broker Syria talks

Syria claims to down Israeli drone over Lebanon

By Elhanan Miller and Ilan Ben Zion

Alon Liel served as the Foreign Ministry's director-general from November 2000 until April 2001. Jewish Home MK Yinon Magal is accusing Liel of treason for his encouraging Palestinian statehood recognition. (photo credit: courtesy)

‘Joint Israel-West Bank’ reality is an apartheid state

By Raphael Ahren

If Obama intends to ignore the looming ‘apartheid cliff’ on his visit, he’d be better off staying home, adds Alon Liel, who also served as Israel’s envoy to Pretoria

Thousands demonstrate for release of Palestinian prisoners

By Stuart Winer

Palestinians: Settlers broke into houses, torched cars

By Ron Friedman

Power line demolition sparks violence in West Bank

By Adiv Sterman

Calev Michael Myers

The neighboring Kingdom of Mahmoud Abbas

The perverse justice of a Nablus court should give pause to supporters of Palestinian statehood

Tzipi Livni did the right thing

Hatnua’s participation in the government offers hope for progress towards peace

George Galloway speaks after winning his former Bradford West seat in March 2012 (photo credit: AP/PA, Anna Gowthorpe)

British MP ditches debate because rival is Israeli

Anti-Israel politician George Galloway claims he was misled about opponent’s identity in Oxford University face-off

The Ayalon Prison complex in Ramle, central Israel. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

‘Zygier hung dead for an hour before jailers found him’

By Ilan Ben Zion and Ron Friedman

Prison guards reportedly fell asleep at the monitors and didn’t notice their charge had committed suicide

AnalysisBeing away from his growing family ‘may have been factor in Zygier’s suicide’

By David Horovitz

President Shimon Peres speaks at a ceremony at Tel Hai, in northern Israel, on February 21, 2013. (photo credit: Mark Neiman/GPO/La'am)

Peres urges EU to brand Hezbollah as terrorists

By Ilan Ben Zion

President warns Lebanon not to initiate violence against Jewish state, says Shiite group threatens Beirut more than Israel

Nicosia, Cyprus (photo credit: Mihai Doarna/Wikimedia Commons/File)

Terror suspect in Cyprus admits to Hezbollah ties

By AP and ToI Staff

Iran denies connection to terror plot in Nigeria

By Yoel Goldman and JTA

Reports of alleged conspiracy to strike Israeli and American targets are fabricated, says deputy FM

Leader of the Jewish Home party Naftali Bennett seen at a party conference in Jerusalem. February 20, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jewish Home preparing for new elections

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Likud officials remain confident that the national religious party will join the coalition despite lingering differences

Illustrative photo of Egyptian soldiers standing guard during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, in 2012. (photo credit: AP/Petr David Josek)

Egypt’s military growing impatient with Morsi

By Hamza Hendawi

Army officials threaten to intervene politically, if necessary, to prevent a national collapse

From the web

Israel awards first Golan oil drilling license

Globes: Company headed by former national infrastructure minister beleives large deposits exist in the region

A portrait of President Shimon Peres etched into a wheat field at Kibbutz Tal-Yossef, February 2013. (photo credit: Assaf Suleman)

Back to his roots

Peres has a field day

By Stuart Winer

Unusual artist traces enormous portrait of the president in a kibbutz wheat field

The Axelrods onstage (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

3,000 years in the making

Ah, a Jerusalem premiere

By Jessica Steinberg

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Finance Minister Yair Lapid, left, and Economy Minister Naftali Bennett at the opening session of the Knesset in January, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewWho said bromance is dead?

By Joshua Davidovich

This image taken from video obtained from Bambuser, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows smoke and fire after a fighter jet crashed into a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Bambusa)

Arabic media reviewLebanon splinters over ‘Orthodox’ law

By Michael Bassin

A Byzantine-era industrial site unearthed beneath the streets of modern Jaffa. (Photo courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority/ Flash90)

Ancient liquor factory emerges from beneath Jaffa streets

By Ilan Ben Zion

Ben Zygier's Australian passport (Screenshot Channel 10)

Zygier case raises concerns of dual loyalty for Aussies

By Dan Goldberg

President Shimon Peres, right, shakes hands for photographers with Republican Senator Marco Rubio during their meeting in Jerusalem in February, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

GOP senator: Jerusalem is ‘of course’ Israel’s capital

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