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What Matters Most On Friday, April 12, 2013

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David Ben-Gurion, flanked by the members of his provisional government, reads the Declaration of Independence in the Tel Aviv Museum Hall on May 14, 1948. (GPO)

Why Israel’s first leaders chose not to call the country ‘Palestine’ in Arabic

By Matti Friedman

National archive reveals a debate on the eve of independence over whether Arabic speakers should refer to the the new Jewish state as ‘Filastin,’ ‘Sayoun’ or ‘Eesra’il’

Canon Andrew White in Jerusalem, April 10, 2013. (Times of Israel)

Analysis

The ‘Vicar of Baghdad’ comes to Jerusalem

By David Horovitz

Canon Andrew White has lived for eight years in a fortified compound in the Iraqi capital, defying the bombs to provide food, medical aid and spiritual leadership to a growing congregation — and explaining Israel and Judaism to them, too

Hey Roger Waters, you do need some education

Instead of building bridges to peace, the Pink Floyd rockstar’s boycott of Israel makes him ‘just another brick in the wall’

Factoring Hamas into the peace equation

Diplomats can keep repeating their demands for the renunciation of violence: the rulers of Gaza are only getting more brutal

An ultra-Orthodox man is seen encased in plastic on a plane. (photo credit: via Imgur)

Mile Oy Club

Plastic-wrapped man fuels theories, humor

Internet scratches its head over picture of oddly attired ultra-Orthodox flight passenger

A Syrian man who suffered an alleged chemical attack receives treatment at a hospital in Aleppo, Syria, in March. (photo credit: AP/SANA)

West has ‘hard evidence’ chemical weapons used in Syria

Diplomats cite definitive proof in one case, say WMD probably used in other instances as well; Assad stonewalling investigation

'Hidden Jews' praying at a Warsaw synagogue. (photo credit: Nissan Tsur)

Reigniting the flame of Judaism… in Auschwitz

Moran Mazor singing "Rak Bishvilo." (photo credit: screenshot/YouTube)

Israeli Eurovision contestant can’t wear Galliano

Israel Broadcasting Authority tells Moran Mazor’s agent to cancel arrangement with disgraced designer

Medical workers carry away a woman injured when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device at the entrance to the US Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, in early February (photo credit: AP/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey says terrorists planned to bomb US Embassy, synagogue

By Yoel Goldman

Police arrested 12 al-Qaeda-linked operatives — 8 Turks among them — in February

Hank Greenberg at the 1937 All-Star game.

Before Jackie Robinson, there was Hank Greenberg

US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, gestures as he meets South Korea's Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Friday (photo credit: AP/Paul Richard)

In South Korea, Kerry calls North’s rhetoric ‘unacceptable’

By Bradley Klapper

Top US diplomat says Pyongyang will gain nothing by threatening further nuclear tests; officials say Kerry depending on China to ratchet up pressure

Palestinian gunmen ride motorcycles as they drag the body of a man who was killed as a suspected collaborator with Israel, in Gaza City, November 20, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)

Rights group pans Hamas for not probing executions

By Ilan Ben Zion

Human Rights Watch says failure by Gaza rulers to prosecute killers ‘makes mockery of claims that it’s upholding rule of law’

Egyptian anti-Muslim Brotherhood protesters shout slogans during a rally to denounce the country's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, August 2012. (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

From the web

Egyptian doctors ‘ordered to operate on protesters without anesthetic’

Leaked report alleges that doctors, soldiers beat protesters inside a Cairo hospital, reports The Guardian

Deputy Education Minister MK Avi Wortzman (Jewish Home) helps serve dinner to guests at the Chicago Federation’s kosher, restaurant-style hunger program for the city's impoverished residents. (photo credit: Steve Donisch)

Helping hand

Knesset members feed Chicago’s needy

Five MKs, four of them freshmen, participate in the city’s first kosher hunger program during US visit

Raoul Wahlenberg sitting on the steps of Angell Hall, one of the primary academic buildings of the University of Michigan. (photo credit: courtesy)

Wallenberg’s American chapter shaped his heroic WWII actions

By Miriam Shaviv

More Headlines

Carter given YU journal’s Advocate for Peace prize

Celebrating life in Israel (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Top fiveBooks and B7, gin and Herzl, for an independent celebration

By Jessica Steinberg

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz putting an Israeli flag on the grave of a soldier at Mount Herzl, April 10, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Gantz’s misplaced flag sparks controversy

By Adiv Sterman

Eldest son of Shas leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef dies at 66

View of the Sea of Galilee (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

From the WebMysterious stone structure found under Sea of Galilee

Dutch open Holocaust victims’ homes to public

One of Grow Fish Anywhere's facilities in Israel (photo credit: Courtesy)

From the webThe top 65 ways Israel is saving our planet

Anti-Semitic slogans trigger violence at Ukraine rally

Finance Minister Yair Lapid (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe return of death and taxes

By Ilan Ben Zion

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