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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 9, 2013

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From left to right, 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry winners Arieh Warshel, Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus (photo credit: CC BY Wikipedia, Harvard University)

3 Jewish professors — two of them Israeli — share 2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry

By Gavriel Fiske

Kibbutz-born Arieh Warshel fought in ’67 and ’73 wars; Pretoria-born Michael Levitt taught at the Weizmann Institute for most of the 1980s; Martin Karplus fled as a child to the US from Nazi-occupied Austria. Prestigious prize awarded ‘for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems’

Tiny Israel a Nobel heavyweight, especially in chemistry

By Haviv Rettig Gur

‘Unparalleled brain drain’ as Israeli universities deteriorate

Million-dollar prize puts spotlight on the brain

By David Shamah

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (photo credit: AP/John Minchillo/File)

‘Iran to limit nuclear program in exchange for eased sanctions’

Tehran will offer to curb enrichment, centrifuges at Geneva talks next week, WSJ reports; Yuval Steinitz: Iran’s so-called gestures a ‘joke’

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, walks with Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon after Ya'alon landed at the Pentagon after a test flight on a V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, in June 2013 (photo credit: Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo/Department of Defense)

Defense minister: Iran sanctions must not be eased

By Gavriel Fiske

The sound of J Street clapping

Lacking substantive criticism, opponents resorted to mudslinging about the applause decibels at last week’s conference

Not just a face

Reflections on ending up as the most visible member of Women of the Wall

Israeli infantry soldiers on the Golan Heights, near the Syrian border (Photo credit: Flash 90)

For first time, two IDF soldiers hurt by mortar fire from Syria

The two suffer light injuries and are treated on site; IDF assesses shells were result of fighting between Assad army, rebels

Pope Francis attends a vigil for peace in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, on Saturday, September 7, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Riccardo De Luca)

Pope Francis: I’ll come to Israel

By Haviv Rettig Gur and Lazar Berman

In meeting with Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, leader of world’s Catholics promises to visit, doesn’t say when

Shas founder Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (center) flanked on the left by MK Eli Yishai and on the right by MKs Aryeh Deri and Ariel Atias, at the rabbi's house in Jerusalem, October 2012. (photo credit: Shas/Flash90)

Shas backs ‘member of our ethnic group’ for Jerusalem mayor

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Just two days after Ovadia Yosef’s death, leaders invoke rabbi’s name in urging election of Sephardi, ‘God-fearing’ Moshe Lion over incumbent Nir Barkat

Fatah terror chief Marwan Barghouti, serving five life terms for murder during the Second Intifada, is escorted by Israeli police into Jerusalem's Magistrate Court to testify as part of a US civil lawsuit against Palestinian leaders, in January 2012. (Flash90)

Analysis

Make Barghouti your deputy, Fatah leaders urge Abbas

By Avi Issacharoff

PA chief is pressed to appoint convicted murderer as vice president in bid to expedite his release from Israeli jail

Mahmoud Abbas celebrates the return of released Palestinian security prisoners in August 2013 (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Netanyahu ‘rejects Palestinian, American call’ for early prisoner release

Prime minister also fends off right-wing pressure to cancel the phased series of releases amid spate of West Bank violence

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, seen during a meeting with Khaled Mashaal, Hamas' then chief in exile, center, and Gaza-based leader Ismail Haniyeh in Ankara, Turkey, on June 18, 2013. (AP/Yasin Bulbul, Prime Minister's Press Office)

Hamas leader: Muslim struggle needed to ‘free Jerusalem’

On state visit to Turkey to meet Erdogan, Khaled Mashaal says current talks between Israel, PA endangering ‘Holy City’

Yair Lapid speaks to Charlie Rose in New York, Monday, October 7, 2013 (photo credit: Joyce Culver)

Lapid charms the lefties at NY’s 92nd Street Y

Centrist finance minister cites the US government shutdown as an example of the importance of reaching out beyond party lines

President Barack Obama (photo credit:AP/Cliff Owen)

US expected to slash aid to Egyptian government

Move follows particularly violent weekend, underlines dramatic shift for Obama administration

Illustrative photo of a ritual circumcision (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel reaches out to Turkey over European anti-circumcision resolution

Jerusalem hopes cooperation between the two countries will ease current tensions and help rescind Council of Europe decision

Photographer Yossi Loloi (photo credit: Courtesy of Yossi Loloi)

Warning: Nudity

Super-sized women are living sculptures for Italian artist

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani waves after his swearing-in ceremony at the parliament, in Tehran, August 4, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)

A love supremeGuardian poll: Nobel Prize for Rouhani

By Adiv Sterman

Raw reviewEating very pricey sushi in Ramallah

By Avi Issacharoff

This image released by ModernTribe.com shows a Thanksgivukkah card celebrating Thanksgiving and Hanukkah. Pictured here is 'American Gothikkah.' (photo credit: AP Photo/ModernTribe.com)

Gobble tov! US Jews ready for Thanksgivukkah

By Leanne Italie

In this Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011 file photo, members of the English Defense League (EDL) gather for a rally in London. (photo credit: AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Leaders of far-right UK group quit over extremism

By Jill Lawless

Hebrew media reviewHamlet in Jerusalem

By Joshua Davidovich

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

Arabic media reviewGoodbye Brotherhood, hello military dictatorship

By Elhanan Miller

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