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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 26, 2013

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Regime prisoners being questioned by a member of the Free Syrian Army in the Quneitra province (photo credit: Youtube image)

‘Assad’s army has fled entire area bordering Israel’

By Elhanan Miller

Rebels now control the whole Syrian side of the Golan, activist tells Times of Israel; fighters refrain from taking Quneitra crossing for fear of political ramifications

A Christian pilgrim submerged in the Jordan River during a ceremony at the baptismal site known as Qasr el-Yahud near Jericho. (Photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

The desalination revolution

How Israel beat the drought

By David Horovitz

This country was on the brink of water catastrophe, reduced to running relentless ad campaigns urging Israelis to conserve water even as it raised prices and cut supplies to agriculture. Now, remarkably, the crisis is over

Censor THIS, why dontcha

It’s time for Israel’s military censor to take its final bow, but local press is still the freest in the region

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

#NoMoreFakebook

Time to present a family portrait that is less shiny, less happy, more honest, and more healthy

And the winner for leading apartheid is…

Even as Israeli Apartheid Week plays at a campus near you, Arab states are the true pros in institutionalized racism

After months of calm, rocket slams into Ashkelon

Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade says missile shot as revenge for death of Palestinian prisoner; UN rep ‘troubled’ by fire

A UN peacekeeper near the Israel-Syria border (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

‘UN adviser missing on Israel-Syria border is a Canadian’

By Ilan Ben Zion

Times of Israel sources name official as Carl Campeau, a legal adviser to peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Kerry: Obama won’t push peace deal during Israel visit

Upcoming ‘listening tour’ will be about hearing out sides, not imposing new approaches, US secretary of state says

Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, on January 31, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, file)

Senate to vote on moving ahead with Hagel nod

By Donna Cassata

Republicans signal they will halt delaying tactics, allowing up-or-down vote for defense secretary nominee

Chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, left, shakes hands with Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev prior to their talks in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Monday.(photo credit: AP/Pavel Mikheyev)

Iran nuclear talks kick off with low expectations

EU foreign policy head Catherine Ashton says she hopes for progress by end of meeting, but officials from six world powers harbor scant confidence for breakthrough

‘Obama to tell Netanyahu US gearing up for Iran strike’

Cairo courts Iranian tourists

World offers Iran sanctions relief to curb nukes

An Iron Dome anti-rocket defense system placed in the Dan region, on November 16, 2012. (Alon Besson/Ministry of Defense/Flash90)

Heavy rains took out Iron Dome battery in January

Anti-missile unit incapacitated by fierce winter storm but recently returned to full operational condition, IDF says

Thousands of Palestinians attend the funeral of Arafat Jaradat in the West Bank village of Si'ir, near Hebron on Monday, February 25 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

US urges restraint in wake of Palestinian prisoner’s death

By Ron Friedman

‘We expect all parties to consider the results of the autopsy calmly and without inflammatory rhetoric,’ says State Department official

‘Nasrallah flown to Iran for cancer treatment’

By Yifa Yaakov and Elhanan Miller

Unconfirmed report says Hezbollah chief transferred from Beirut in a plane sent by the Iranian presidency

Avigdor Liberman, February 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Liberman: Israel made no mistakes in Zygier case

By Ilan Ben Zion

Former foreign minister also says international community must not just rely on sanctions to stop Iran’s nuclear program

Illustrative photo of hot air balloons over Luxor, Egypt (photo credit: CC BY OsvaldoROVE/Flickr)

Hot air balloon crash in Egypt kills 18 foreign tourists

By Haggag Salama

Fire and explosion sent balloon plummeting from the sky west of Luxor, official says

A still from 'Tinghir-Jerusalem: Echoes from the Mellah' shows Aicha Elkoubi, left, and Hannah Schmouyane, Moroccan Jews who immigrated to Israel, reminisce about the old days. (photo credit: AP Photo/Les Films d'un Jour)

Morocco film searches out Jews who left for Israel

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Uri Ariel of the Jewish Home party seen with Likud representatives at coalition talks meeting earlier in the month (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Likud, Jewish Home said to be nearing coalition deal

By Ron Friedman

The Aradiov monastery in Crete (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

From the webIsraeli group to invest 500 million euros in Crete tourism project

Jewish leader’s name found on convicted killer’s hit list

Michelle Obama with and without sleeves (photo credit: Image capture YouTube)

Iran covers up Michelle Obama

Hebrew media reviewCleaning house

By Yossi Nachemi

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (right), welcomes Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem (left), in Moscow, February 25, 2013. (AP/Ivan Sekretarev)

Arabic media reviewFor Syrian regime, an apparent change of heart

By Elhanan Miller

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