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What Matters Most On Thursday, September 12, 2013

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Prime minister Golda Meir and cabinet members visiting the southern command, October 29, 1973. (Photo Credit: GPO/Yehuda Tzion)

40 years since the Yom Kippur War

Golda Meir: ‘My heart was drawn to a preemptive strike, but I was scared’

By Mitch Ginsburg

Israel finally releases the late prime minister’s testimony before the Agranat Commission on her handling of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in which 2,500 Israelis lost their lives

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and president Shimon Peres attend a graduation course ceremony for IDF Naval officers at the navy training base in Haifa. September 11, 2013. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/FLASH90

Hinting at dismay with Obama, PM says Israel can rely only on itself

Citing Syria and Iran, Netanyahu says he is guided as Israel’s leader, more now than ever, by the saying, ‘If I am not for myself, who will be for me?’

Putin warns Americans against Syria intervention

By Yoel Goldman

Assad forces said to use poison gas in new Damascus attack

By Asher Zeiger

Turkish PM: Assad buying time for more massacres

Motherhood & the Days of Awe

A first-time parent during the High Holidays learns that this year she’s feeding the baby instead of nourishing her soul

Shmuley Boteach

Democracy in the Arab world? Yes, if…

‘Majority Rule’ remains the best model for all nations, but only if protections for minorities are also guaranteed

The failure to punish Assad for his atrocities sends a familiar message to all potential genocide victims: You are alone

Former Mossad chief Shabtai Shavit, September 2013 (photo credit: IDC/Adi Cohen Zedek)

Interview

US is ‘floundering’ over Syria, says ex-Mossad chief

By Elhanan Miller

Russia’s proposal makes Assad’s ouster less likely, to Israel’s detriment, says Shabtai Shavit; attacks like 9/11 won’t recur, thanks to Western vigilance

Members of Jerusalem's Ometz Lev faction (from left to right): Susan Silverman, Tehila Mazal, Shlomo Goldman, Debby Ben Ami, Naomi Tsur, Edna Friedman, Yaffa Sahalo, David Meron and Michal Okashi-Ga'ash (photo credit: Courtesy)

An (almost) all-female faction roars for change in Jerusalem

By Aaron Kalman

With an eclectic list of ‘lionesses,’ Ometz Lev says it aims to ‘advance the city’s agenda’ — not a feminist one

Prime Minister Golda Meir and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan meet with troops on the Golan Heights, on November 21, 1973. (Ron Frenkel/GPO)

40 years since the Yom Kippur War

Three years too late, Golda Meir understood how war could have been avoided

By Abraham Rabinovich

An aerial view of the NSA's Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah, Thursday, June 6, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

NSA transferred raw intelligence to Israel, document shows

By Adiv Sterman and Gavriel Fiske

Agreement leaked by Edward Snowden reveals that IDF regularly receives valuable information not filtered by NSA regarding American citizens

Illustrative: The night before Yom Kippur at the Western Wall, 2012. (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Israelis urged to brace for blistering Yom Kippur

By Asher Zeiger

Fasters told to drink plenty of water all day Friday ahead of the hottest Day of Atonement in over a decade

File: Men praying in Joseph's Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus in 2011 (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Palestinian wounded after firing at soldiers in Nablus

Troops securing Jewish worshippers at Joseph’s Tomb opened fire after coming under attack, army says

Aerial view of Jerusalem (photo credit: Qanta Ahmed/File)

Minor earthquake rattles Jerusalem and Dead Sea

Tremor measures 3.5 on the Richter scale; no reports of injuries

Illustrative photo of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man participating in a kapparot ritual, in which a chicken is swung over one's head in the belief that one transfers the sins from the past year into the chicken. (Dima Vazinovich/Flash90)

Brooklyn’s ‘crazy chicken lady’ takes on kapparot

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Cell firm putting tower in Romanian Jewish cemetery

By JTA

A run-through of Alon Livne's runway show for New York Fashion Week (Courtesy Alon Livne Instagram)

New York Fashion WeekCelebrities gush about designer Alon Livne

By Jessica Steinberg

The reactor building of the nuclear power plant just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran (photo credit: AP/Mehr News Agency/Majid Asgaripour/File)

Iran says it will cooperate with UN nuclear agency

Israeli troops rushing up to the northern frontier with the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War, October 7, 1973. (GPO/Eitan Harris)

Hebrew media reviewThe war the merrier

By Joshua Davidovich

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on March 24, 2011. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Arabic media reviewArab daily says Israel behind Russian plan for Syria

By Elhanan Miller

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