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What Matters Most On Thursday, July 25, 2013

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Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit (center) on the day he was released in a prisoner exchange, October 18, 2011. Hamas military leader Ahmed Jabari can be seen directly behind his right shoulder. (photo credit: Flash90)

Analysis

IDF sent troops to capture Hamas military chief in 2008, in failed bid for Shalit bargaining chip

By Avi Issacharoff

Special forces were dispatched to Gaza to ambush Ahmed al-Jabari, in an operation whose details are revealed here for the first time

Palestinians wait with their luggage to cross into Egypt at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, July 2013. (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)

Egyptian border restrictions on Gaza toughest yet

By Mohammed Daraghmeh and Ibrahim Barzak

The Prince of Cambridge, George Alexander Louis, July 23, 2013. The boy will be third in line to the British throne. (photo credit: AP/John Stillwell, Pool)

Middleton, Shmiddleton. Britain’s new royal heir is not a Jew

By Miriam Shaviv

Despite the claims of dubious experts, unnamed Sephardi rabbis, and an Iranian news agency, Prince George will not be England’s very first Yiddishe monarch

Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

The Holy Anti-Semitic Month of Ramadan

Across the Arab world, a month meant for spiritual reflection has become the time for watching TV shows that vilify the Jews

China, Bibi, and keeping the numbers real

To grasp the impact of releasing Palestinian terrorists, try glimpsing it through the eyes of one bereaved mother

Let’s talk about the animals

In the outcry over Poland’s stance on ritual slaughter, no one is talking about reducing the suffering of livestock

File: Ashkenazi chief rabbi David Lau, July 24, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90/Yonatan Sindel)

Yitzhak Yosef, David Lau win chief rabbi posts

By Debra Kamin and Joshua Davidovich

Both sons of former chief rabbis continue family dynasties, both candidates seen as mainstream

Former Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (C) seen with his son Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (L) and and Shas party leader Aryeh Deri, on the eve of Yitzhak Yosef's victory as the new Sephardic Chief Rabbi, at Rabbi Ovadia's family home in Jerusalem, on July 24, 2013. (Photo by FLASH90)

Praise, contempt follow chief rabbi election

A rabbi casts his vote for the elections of the new chief rabbis of Israel, in Jerusalem on July 24, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Reporter's Notebook

As ‘shameful’ rabbinate campaign ends, some look for seeds of victory in defeat

By Raphael Ahren

The process of choosing the chief rabbis was so unpleasant, say critics, that the imperative for reform may now prove overwhelming

Mohammad Dahlan in 2006 (Michal Fattal/Flash90)

Former Fatah leader sues ‘tyrannical’ Abbas for corruption, intimidation

By Stuart Winer

Using Israeli law firm, Mohammed Dahlan petitions International Criminal Court, demanding lost job and property

A view of Spertus's 'Voices & Visions' exhibition. (photo credit: Menachem Wecker/Times of Israel)

Art review

A collection of great names, but not great works

By Menachem Wecker

Two US Air Force F-16C Fighting Falcons conducting tactical training exercises. (Department of Defense/Jacob N. Bailey, US Air Force)

US delays delivery of F-16s to Egypt

By Robert Burns

Administration still mulling overall policy in wake of Morsi’s ouster, has not touched military aid

Hezbollah fighters in military uniform carry the coffin of one of their own, Hassan Faisal Shuker, 18, who was killed in a battle against Syrian rebels in the town of Qusair, Syria, in May, 2013 (photo credit: AP)

Hezbollah burying hundreds of its fighters in Syria, rebels claim

By Elhanan Miller

Shiite movement said resorting to use of mass graves to evade backlash from victims’ families amid growing criticism of its role in bolstering Assad

A street corner in the majority Alawite city of Latakia (photo credit: CC BY-Yazan Badran/Flickr)

Assad asked Liberman not to oppose Alawite state

By Lazar Berman

Syrian president worried Israel might be troubled by movement of thousands of Sunnis to Syrian Golan, according to the Guardian

From left, Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer and Bob Filner, three Jewish politicians seeking to move on after misdeeds. (photo credit: United States Congress/Getty Images/City of San Diego/via JTA)

The shanda factor: What makes Jewish sex scandals different?

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Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos (AP/Petros Giannakouris)

Nazi anthem played at far-right Greek charity event

By Derek Gatopoulos

Chabad rabbi gunned down in Russia’s Dagestan

By Stuart Winer

Three electrocuted at northern kibbutz fish farm

By Stuart Winer

Rap itJay-Z may bring the holy grail to TLV

By Sam Whitefield

Former Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (C) seen with his son Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (L) and and Shas party leader Aryeh Deri, on the eve of Yitzhak Yosef's victory as the new Sephardic Chief Rabbi, at Rabbi Ovadia's family home in Jerusalem, on July 24, 2013. (Photo by FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewSon of a rabbi

By Joshua Davidovich

Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi speaking on state television, July 3. (photo credit: Screenshot AP/Egypt State Television)

Arabic media reviewA demonstration against terror

By Michael Bassin

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