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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 23, 2013

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Illustrative: The existing nuclear facility in Bushehr province, Iran (photo credit: AP/Mehr News Agency/Majid Asgaripour/File)

Iran selects 16 new sites for nuclear plants

By AP and ToI Staff

Locations chosen in part for their resistance to military airstrikes; state TV reports new uranium reserves discovered

Iran opens military preparedness exercises

Iranian diplomat defects to Norway

Iran: UN report proof of peaceful nuclear program

Former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Obama's choice for defense secretary, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 31 (AP/Susan Walsh)

Analysis

Hagel’s damaged brand

By Haviv Rettig Gur

While they will no doubt lose the confirmation battle, Republicans have already achieved victory in the policy war

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

Kerry meets Palestinian officials ahead of Obama visit

By Philip Podolsky and Aaron Kalman

Three-year-old seeks hammer costume

He’s no fan of Purim disguise, but his granddaughter wants to be ‘something scary’

Curtis Sinclair

Why has Martin Kobler still got a job?

The head of the UN’s mission in Iraq is helping keep 3,000 Iranian dissidents in ‘concentration camp’ conditions

Smoke rising from the Sarafovo Airport in Burgas, Bulgaria, after a terror attack on an Israeli tour bus, July 18, 2012. (photo credit: JTA/Burgasinfo)

Israel grapples with terror threats to its tourists in nearby countries

By Ron Friedman

Ahead of Passover vacation rush, security officials working with Greek, Cypriot, Bulgarian counterparts to counter possible Hezbollah plots

Illustrative photo of ritual Jewish circumcision. (Max Yelinson/Flash90)

German prosecutor drops charges against circumciser

‘Good news,’ says rabbi who was indicted after a Cologne court ruled to ban ritual last year

President Shimon Peres and FC Barcelona president Sandro Rosell at a press conference in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2013 (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)

Palestinians refuse to team up with Israel against soccer greats

By AP and ToI Staff

Amid West Bank violence, football association president says dream of friendly match against FC Barcelona has to wait until end of occupation

Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces in the West Bank, Friday; the violence continued on Saturday, with one Palestinian demonstrator reportedly wounded near Nablus. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Palestinians report three badly injured in West Bank clashes

By AP and ToI Staff

Two protesters said to be shot by live fire amid violence between settlers and Palestinians at Qusra; IDF says bullets fired by settlers, not troops

Dror Moreh (photo credit: Facebook)

I represent Israel, not Netanyahu, ‘Gatekeepers’ director says

By Ilan Ben Zion

Oscar-nominated Dror Moreh dismisses criticism from Likud politicians of his film documenting views of former Shin Bet chiefs

Before and after satellite images of the Syrian nuclear reactor at al-Kibar, which was reportedly struck by Israel in 2007.(AP/DigitalGlobe)

Syrian rebels claim to seize nuclear facility

By Yoel Goldman

Al-Kibar site, described as a research center, is believed to have housed a nuclear reactor destroyed by Israel in 2007

Illustrative photo of hamantaschen. (Beryl Shereshewsky/ via JTA)

New Purim ‘fill’-osophy: cheese, chili and mint

By Chavie Lieber

A man covers his face with a mask of Egypt President Mohammed Morsi during a protest in front of the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Markus Schreiber)

Egyptian Brotherhood hits back at opposition leader

By Yoel Goldman and AP

After ElBaradei threatens to boycott parliamentary elections, Morsi’s party accuses him of running away from a ‘popular test’

Jerusalem pine tree, Masrek (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

Israeli history: it’s all about roots

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

More Headlines

A road in northern Israel being paved with DSI's RuBind (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Safer and greener: Israel’s high-tech highways

Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, center, arrives for meeting with political parties in an effort to end a crisis exacerbated by a political assassination two weeks ago, outside Tunis, Monday, Feb. 18 (photo credit: AP/Hassene Dridi)

Tunisia’s Islamist party chooses new prime minister

Israeli Navy vessels escort the Mavi Marmara to the port of Ashdod, May 31, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Turkish media: Israel mulling apology for flotilla raid

Helga's Diary by Helga Weiss

A new Anne FrankDiary of a Nazi death camp childhood

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves to spectators at a wrestling match in Tehran on February 23, 2013. (photo credit: image capture/YouTube video)

American wrestlers shake hands with Ahmadinejad

Former pope's butler Paolo Gabriele is received in a private audience by Pope Benedict XVI, at the Vatican, in December 2012 (photo credit: AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

Italy gripped by conspiracy theories over pope’s resignation

By ToI Staff and AP

Syrian rebels stand in the rubble of damaged buildings due to government airstrikes, in the neighborhood of Karam Tarab near Aleppo International Airport, in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, February 13, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

In Aleppo, battle for control over airport intensifies

By AP and Yoel Goldman

An American predator drone (photo credit: AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

US sets up drone base in Niger to help war in Mali

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