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What Matters Most On Thursday, April 25, 2013

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Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, head of the IDF Military Intelligence research and analysis division, at a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee hearing at the Knesset in 2012 (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Analysis

Why did the IDF’s top analyst drop his Syria WMD bombshell?

By Mitch Ginsburg

Was Itai Brun’s public declaration that Assad’s forces have used nerve gas an effort to push US intervention? Or was it an extraordinary gaffe?

Rebel general claims Mossad operating in Syria

By Ron Friedman

Hagel surprised by Israel’s new intel on Syria

By Robert Burns

Syria: We would never use nerve gas, even against Israel

Ben Zygier in IDF uniform (YouTube screenshot)

State won’t press charges over Mossad spy Zygier death

By Stuart Winer

Justice Ministry says there’s not enough evidence to show a causal link between prison negligence and suicide of jailed agent in his cell

Eytan Meyersdorf

Hypocrisy at its finest

Who has given Rivka Carmi the mandate to decide who decides who is an Israeli?

Boston, it definitely ain’t over

The hunt for the Tzarnaev brothers may have ended but assessing and confronting the threat to US security has only just begun

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert leaves Jerusalem District Court in July 2012 after he was cleared of charges of double-billing on trips abroad in the "Rishon Tours" case, and cleared of charges of illegally taking money from American businessman Morris Talansky. (Photo credit: Flash90)

Analysis

State’s lawyers outgunned by Olmert, Liberman? Not at all, says ex-top prosecutor

By David Horovitz

Women of the Wall director Lesley Sachs is detained by police for wearing a prayer shawl at the Western Wall on April 11, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Women of the Wall ‘ecstatic’ over court win

By Matti Friedman

Jerusalem court rules that police were wrong to arrest five members of the group, in decision that could alter the status quo at the holy site

US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) seen with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, April 7, 2013. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Kerry pushes economic plan for Palestinian peace

By Gavriel Fiske

Coca-Cola among companies that would invest heavily in multi-billion dollar initiative bringing international businesses, infrastructure projects to the West Bank

US President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, King Hussein of Jordan at the peace treaty signing ceremony in the Arava Desert, October 1994. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Jordan’s emboldened Islamist MPs challenge alliance with Israel

By Elhanan Miller

Increasingly ‘disobedient’ parliamentarians defy King Abdullah by stepping up hostility to Jewish state

Former Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman makes his way to Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on April 25 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Evidence phase begins in Liberman trial

Prosecution seeks to declare Ze’ev Ben Aryeh a hostile witness; former ambassador’s tip-off to his boss led to indictment

The grandchildren of late Hamas MP Umm Nidal sing the virtues of jihad and martyrdom on Hamas's al-Aqsa TV. (photo credit: image capture from MEMRI TV video)

In Hamas TV show, Gaza children sing praises of suicide bombing

Grandchildren of late Islamist MP extol virtues of jihad and sacrificing one’s life for the homeland

Minister of International Relations Yuval Steinitz with Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide (R) in Jerusalem, April 4, 2013. (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

Israeli diplomacy in disarray as Foreign Ministry strike looms

By Raphael Ahren

PM’s trip to China and president’s visit to Vatican under threat as staffers, angry about pay and their ministry being ‘hacked to pieces,’ prepare to expand already damaging sanctions

A passenger has his luggage checked by security personnel at Ben Gurion Airport. (AP/Ariel Schalit, File)

Israel approves email checks at the border

Attorney general says security personnel may search online accounts of foreigners attempting to enter the country

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Gene Sperling, the chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, speaking at the Reform movement's Consultation on Conscience on April 23. (Photo credit: Courtesy Religious Action Center)

White House turns to Jewish groups for budget battle help

Cranes at Haifa's port (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewStrikes brewing

By Aaron Kalman

The body of Maad Hammad is taken for burial in Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Hammad was killed when Iraqi security forces backed by helicopters raided a Sunni protest camp before dawn Tuesday, April 23, 2013, prompting clashes that killed scores of people in the area and significantly intensified Sunni anger against the Shiite-led government. (Photo credit: AP/Emad Matti)

Arabic media reviewIraqi violence: ‘A rolling flame ball’

By Michael Bassin

Traffic policemen at work. September 29, 2010. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Minor offenseCops pull over 10-year-old driver

By Stuart Winer

The El Ghriba Synagogue in Tunisia (photo credit:upyernoz via CC/JTA)

Tunisia ups security ahead of annual Jewish pilgrimage

Ori Sagi, owner of the Alexander microbrewery. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Microbrewers burned as Knesset okays high beer tax

By Ilan Ben Zion

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