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What Matters Most On Thursday, June 20, 2013

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Brad Pitt in 'Israel' in 'World War Z' (photo credit: Paramount Pictures)

In Turkey, ‘World War Z’ is no World War Zion

By Jordan Hoffman

The summer zombie blockbuster, which opened June 21 in the US, is the greatest piece of cinematic propaganda for Israel since ‘Exodus.’ So how come one version censors references to the Jewish state?

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, speaks during a meeting with Hasan Rouhani in Tehran, Iran, on June 16, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Office of the Supreme Leader)

Iran’s president-elect implicated in 1994 Argentina bombing

By Yoel Goldman

2006 indictment named Rowhani as part of Khamenei-led panel that authorized attack against the Jewish AMIA center that killed 85

Netanyahu: Iran’s ‘feet should be held to the fire’

By Raphael Ahren

Iran picks southern site for new nuclear reactor

Ya’alon: Force Iran to pick survival or the bomb

By Ilan Ben Zion

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Sit back. Shut up. And enjoy the show

To all those who are dissing the Peres extravaganza: here is what we’re celebrating

Joshua Davidovich

Shut up? I don’t think so

The last thing journalists should do about the Shimon Peres birthday celebration is stifle their criticism

Abraham H. Foxman

Danon and Bennett: Doing double damage

The economics minister and deputy defense minister are laying obstacles to peace while also harming Israel’s global standing

The graffiti on this grave in a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem reads 'Muhammad is dead' (Photo credit: Miriam Alster, Flash 90)

Outwitted by a bunch of 12-year-olds

By Mitch Ginsburg

Why the army and the Shin Bet are proving humiliatingly incapable of putting a stop to the plague of ‘price tag’ Jewish extremist attacks on Muslim, Christian and Jewish targets

Kjell Magne Bondevik (photo credit: CC BY, Mikael Risedal/norden.org, Wikimedia Commons)

Interview

Norway opposes sanctions against Israel, former PM says

By Raphael Ahren

A man mourns the dead in the Bar Noar shooting in Tel Aviv, August 2, 2009. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Informant in Bar Noar case escapes protective custody

By Yoel Goldman

Police believe the state’s witness jumped out of a window; authorities out searching for him

Smoke rises from a fire that resulted from fighting in the Syrian village of Quneitra, near the border with Israel, on June 6, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Rebel group won’t fight Israel if it enters Syria

By Yoel Goldman

‘We’ll leave the fighting to Hezbollah and Bashar Assad’s men,’ says spokesman

Protesters hold up signs and chant slogans as they gather outside the house of businessman Yitzhak Tshuva, in Ramat Poleg, Netanya, in a May 18 protest calling for a change in the goverment's gas export policy (Photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash 90)

Analysis

Govt. gas export decision unlikely to satisfy everyone — or anyone

By David Shamah

Israel will allow only 40% of its gas reserves to be shipped out, less than had been promised to companies, and more than what some Israelis are prepared to allow

Yachimovich slams ‘underhanded’ gas export decision

By Yoel Goldman and David Shamah

Flags seen during the Gay Pride parade in Tel Aviv, June 7, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In its first pride parade, Ashdod comes out of the closet

It’s been said that if you’re gay in Ashdod, you eventually move to Tel Aviv. But the city’s youth are determined to change that

A sex worker in Tel Aviv. The State Department’s 2013 report on Trafficking in Persons found that Israel led a 'sustained strong law enforcement actions against sex and labor trafficking.' (photo credit: Flash90)

US cites Israel among countries fighting human trafficking

By ToI Staff and AP

Justice Minister Livni embraces State Department report; Russia and China lambasted for severe violations

Enosh Cassel and his brother Channan during their 2011 backpacking trip to Nepal (photo credit: courtesy Enosh Cassel)

‘My Hero Brother’: Crowd-funding a dream trek

By Leeor Bronis

More Headlines

You talkin' to us?Tough guy De Niro likes tough Israel

Workers at the Hanita Coatings facility in northern Israel (Photo credit: Courtesy)

BIRD makes matches for Israeli tech and US business

By David Shamah

This guy's boxer briefs don't stay on for very long in this Size Doesn't Matter video ad promoting Tel Aviv tourism. (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Making a splashTel Aviv’s sexy shower scene

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon (photo credit: IDF Spokesman/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewGas and hot air

By Ilan Ben Zion

British Prime Minister David Cameron (photo credit: UK Department for International Development/Flickr)

Arabic media reviewCameron’s coup against Assad

By Michael Bassin

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