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What Matters Most On Monday, October 21, 2013

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Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz (right), slipping the general's rank on Pundak's left shoulder. (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's blog)

Israel’s newest general, 100 years old, finally heals his wounds

By Mitch Ginsburg

For two-thirds of his long life, Yitzhak Pundak battled to restore the reputation of the defenders of Kibbutz Nitzanim in the War of Independence. Finally, as he neared his centenary, he succeeded, and a promise by Moshe Dayan was honored at long last

Backdropped by Jerusalem's Old City Walls, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a press conference with Mayor Nir Barkat following Barkat's endorsement of him, a day before the general elections, on January 21, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

In municipal elections, a race with national implications

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Setting the stage for face-offs between Israel’s left and right, its secular and religious, Tuesday’s vote is a microcosm of big party politics

You’re donating what?!

The decision to donate a kidney to a stranger was inspired by her community’s values

Malynnda Littky-Porath

I was a dirty forex whore

Just how low can an English speaker sink while waiting for that good paying job? Not as low as you think

Municipal meltdown

Low voter turnout in local elections is largely due to a lack of political accountability and the system badly needs changing

Dresden's New Synagogue, scene of a 2012 neo-Nazi daubing (photo credit: Wikipedia Commons)

82 attacks in four years on German synagogues

By JTA

Official figure may be too low; most incidents involve daubing of Nazi slogans

A man on a bus near Beitar Illit holds up one of his sidelocks that had been cut off by a knife-wielding Palestinian, October 20, 2013. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Palestinian pulls knife on bus, cuts off Haredi man’s sidelock

By Stuart Winer

Assailant rushes other passengers but escapes when bus stops

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Home Front, emergency services to boost preparedness after series of quakes

Following 4 tremors in 4 days, Minister of Home Front Defense Gilad Erdan holds meeting to discuss readiness for natural disasters

Palestinians clashing with troops near the Ofer military prison in April. (photo credit: issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Former Shin Bet head warns of ‘Palestinian Spring’

By Lazar Berman

Yuval Diskin says conditions in place for a massive uprising in West Bank; urges inclusion of Egypt and Jordan in peace talks

A released Palestinian prisoner is welcomed as he arrives at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 2013 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Analysis

30 more Palestinian prisoners to be released, sources say

By Lazar Berman and Avi Issacharoff

Second wave of convicted terrorists expected to be set free October 29, despite pressure from right

Section of a tunnel discovered running from the Gaza Strip to Israel, October 13, 2013. (photo credit: Times of Israel/Mitch Ginsburg)

Hamas officially admits to digging tunnel under Israel-Gaza border

Spokesman for military wing says ‘Khan Younis tunnel’ dug to force Israel to release prisoners, like in Shalit deal

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during an interview with state television in September 2013, in Tehran, Iran (photo credit: AP/Presidency Office/Rouzbeh Jadidoleslam)

Rouhani: ‘Zionists resort to sabotage when Iran succeeds’

By ToI Staff and AP

Iranian president says Tehran has already achieved diplomatic success on nuclear front

An Israeli soldier looks through binoculars at a Syrian village from an army post on the border between Israel and Syrian on the Golan Heights (photo credit: AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Two mortar shells land on Golan Heights

By Lazar Berman

No injuries or damage reported after Tel Fares hit

Illustrative: A prostitute on a street in south Tel Aviv on January 1, 2013. (Flash90)

Thousands of slaves in Israel, global study finds

By Lazar Berman

Global Slavery Index finds Jewish state doing relatively well, but problem persists

Israeli Bedouin protest against the state's impending confiscation of lands, in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, in the Negev, June 13, 2013 (photo credit: Dudu Greenspan/Flash90)

Israel protests EU poster claiming ethnic cleansing of Bedouin

By JTA

Ambassador says organizers of conference in Brussels ‘systematically refused’ to host prime minister’s representative

President Shimon Peres meeting with Pope Francis I at the Vatican in Rome, Italy on April 30, 2013. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

‘Netanyahu won’t meet Pope Francis this week’

Diplomatic source contradicts earlier statement by Netanyahu’s office

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hatnua party leader Tzipi Livni at the joint press conference where Livni announced she was joining Netanyahu's government as minister of justice, February 19, 2013. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Ministers back Jerusalem bill that could hamper peace talks

Proposal, opposed by Netanyahu, would negate any compromise on capital if negotiations didn’t receive prior approval of 80 MKs

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (photo credit: Orel Cohen/Flash90/File)

NYC mayor Bloomberg wins first ‘Jewish Nobel’

By Lazar Berman and JTA

Inaugural million-dollar award to be given to Bloomberg for public service and philanthropy

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Rihanna poses outside a mosque in Abu Dhabi (photo credit: Instagram)

Rude girlRihanna offends at Abu Dhabi mosque

By AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits with his wife Sara and son Yair at his 64th birthday party at the Prime Minister's Office in 2013. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO)

When I'm 64An early B-day for Bibi

Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai speaks at the Tel Aviv World Cities Summit (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Tel Aviv’s start-up DNA, as seen from abroad

By David Shamah

Drawings by Al Hirschfeld are displayed in an exhibit on the artist at the Library for the Performing Arts in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

‘Line king’ Al Hirschfeld exhibition opens in NYC

By Ula Ilnytzky

Bat Yam mayor Shlomo Lahiani at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on Sunday. Lahiani was removed by the court as mayor, but can still run in Tuesday's elections (photo credit: Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewOn steady ground

By Yossi Nachemi

Illustrative photo of Egyptian security forces standing guard at a Coptic Christian church, October 20, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Amr Mohsen)

Arabic media reviewIn Cairo, it’s students versus security

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