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What Matters Most On Wednesday, June 12, 2013

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Rabbi Ruth Gan Kagan brings in Shabbat with her daughter and the Nava Tehila band (photo credit: Tal Chalutz)

Can Jerusalem keep all its residents happy on Shabbat?

By Jessica Steinberg

As some neighborhoods battle non-kosher eateries and open-for-sabbath activities, others aim to create pluralistic places for all. The future mosaic of the city may hinge on the results

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a press conference in Warsaw in 2010. (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/Gpo/Flash 90)

Diplomatic fiasco as PM’s office sends out unvetted statement on peace process

By Lazar Berman

Foreign Ministry workers blast release of joint statement with Poland that denounces ‘unilateral steps’ — thus implying endorsement of settlement freeze

‘Israel faces growing isolation if US peace push fails’

By Lazar Berman and Raphael Ahren

PM: 5 suicide attacks, 30 kidnapping attempts foiled in past year

Coalition chief heading caucus that seeks to retain entire West Bank

By Raphael Ahren

Becoming the “Build-Up Nation”

Compassion, not technology, should be Israel’s leading export, even to unfriendly nations, even when it’s dangerous

Bibi’s verbal gymnastics

A prime minister who is perpetually going in two directions spends a lot of time backtracking, disavowing and blaming

Uri Levine, co-founder and president of Waze when the Israeli startup was purchased by Google for $1.5 million in 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

You have reached your destination: Why Waze went with Google

By David Shamah

The inside story of a billion-dollar deal that ensured the brains behind the most lucrative app ever would stay in Israel

Waze co-founder Uri Levine at a Jerusalem conference in May 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Google snags Israeli map app Waze

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: Female soldiers train in the Negev desert. (Gili Yaari / Flash90)

Bawdy barracks

Female soldiers act frisky in new video

By ToI Staff and AP

Evidently undeterred by criticism of raunchy photos posted on Facebook, latest amateur clip online shows Israeli recruits, in their barracks, using rifles as stripper poles

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Egyptian then-president Hosni Mubarak at Sharm el Sheikh, May 11, 2009. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/Flash90)

What’s left of Israel’s peace with its neighbors?

By Elhanan Miller

Ties with Jordan and Egypt are cool and growing colder, diplomats say, with new challenges adding fragility to relations already freighted with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Then Mossad chief Tamir Pardo in 2012 (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Mossad head holds secret meeting in Turkey

By Aaron Kalman

Tamir Pardo in Ankara to discuss Iran, Syria

An Iranian clergyman talks with men in the eastern city of Birjand, Iran. (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

Days before vote, huge majority of Iranians favor Sharia law

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Pew study signals strong support for religious influence in politics; another survey finds deeply unfavorable views of Islamic Republic worldwide

Hasan Rowhani (photo credit: AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iranian reformists rally around common candidate

By Nasser Karimi

Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting in the Kremlin earlier this month (photo credit: AP/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Putin defends Iran nuke program but pans anti-Israel rhetoric

By Michal Shmulovich and AP

Russian leader slams Tehran for rejecting Moscow’s offer to enrich its uranium and criticizes US for ‘exaggerating’ Iranian threat

Michael Shannon plays Richard Kuklinski in "The Iceman," a film by Israeli-born director Ariel Vroman (photo credit: screen capture/YouTube)

‘The Iceman’ cometh: Ariel Vromen hits the big time

By Michal Shmulovich

Spectators gaze at 'Spirit Light of the Forest,' created in Montreal by Lucion Media. Located in front of Jaffa Gate, seven huge bubbles come together to form a mosaic of light and shadow (photo credit: Leeor Bronis/Times of Israel)

Photo essay

Jerusalem sees the light

By Leeor Bronis

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Burekas and pastries of all shapes (photo credit: Aaron Kalman/Times of Israel)

Cut and pastryRabbinate regulates bourekas shapes

By Aaron Kalman

Highway 6, also known as Trans-Israel Highway and Cross-Israel Highway, and officially titled Yitzhak Rabin Highway, stretches 138 kilometers from the north to the south of Israel (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Pray-n-goRoute 6 offers spiritual pit stop

By Ron Friedman

Rabbi David Lazar, left, showing a Torah scroll to Swedish government minister Stefan Attefall at the Great Synagogue of Stockholm, November 2011. (photo credit: Regeringskansliet, The government of Sweden/JTA)

Swedish Jews hold first gay wedding

Richard Falk (photo credit: AP/Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi/File)

UN investigator Falk says he won’t step down over remarks

By AP, JTA and ToI Staff

Hagai Felician (second from left), the prime suspect in the 2009 gay youth club shooting, at the Tel Aviv magistrate's court, on Thursday, June 6, 2013

Hebrew media reviewPride and prejudice

By Joshua Davidovich

Members of the Lebanese Red Cross carry a Syrian man who was wounded in Qusair during battles between the rebels and Syrian government forces, Saturday, June 8, 2013 (photo credit: AP)

Arabic media reviewSyrian civil war at a ‘tipping point’

By Michael Bassin

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