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What Matters Most On Monday, December 2, 2013

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Great Synagogue in Rome, Italy on December 1, 2013 (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

PM, under attack, insists he ‘won’t be silent’ on Iran

By Adiv Sterman

In speech to Rome’s Jews, Netanyahu warns sanctions pressure is collapsing, easing Tehran’s path to the bomb

Olmert: PM has ‘declared war on the US government’

By Raphael Ahren

Senators work on new Iran sanctions bill as White House lobbies against

US official: Netanyahu’s response to Iran deal ‘weak and desperate’

By Adiv Sterman

Yaki Gantz (kneeling, far right) and a Bezeq-sponsored delegation at a ceremony in Poland in July to dedicate a new gravemarker for Jews killed in the Holocaust who were buried in Christian graves. (photo credit: Nissan Tsur)

Former intel agent discovers Jews in mass ‘Christian’ graves

Guide Yaki Gantz is using his secret service past to help piece together the identities of Holocaust victims in unmarked graves in small cemeteries across Poland

Diplomatic missteps aside, the Prime Minister is losing control of his party and faces growing vulnerability at home

Shmuley Boteach

Sexual repression that leads to sexual problems

The ancient Jewish texts teach erotic lust is to be encouraged not suppressed

Giving birth to body acceptance

Body image obsession affects the religious Jewish world as well

Pope Francis and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet when the pope visits Israel in May (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu gives pope his late father’s book on the Inquisition

By Lazar Berman

In their first sitdown, Francis and Israeli premier discuss peace talks with Palestinians; pontiff voices hope for lasting peace

Shimon Peres at his Jerusalem residence (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Peres addressed 29 Arab and Muslim foreign ministers

President applauded at Gulf Security Conference in Abu Dhabi after speaking via satellite from his office in Jerusalem

Bathers at the beach in Tel Aviv take advantage of the unusually hot and dry winter, November 27, 2013 (photo credit: Joshua Davidovich/Times of Israel)

Israel experiencing one of the driest winters on record

Most locations around the country have recorded less than 10 milimeters of rain through the end of November

A photojournalist takes a photo of riot policemen during clashes in east Jerusalem in February of 2011. (Illustrative photo: Ruben Salvadori/Flash 90)

IDF accused of deliberately targeting journalists

By Lazar Berman

Military rejects Foreign Press Association report that soldiers threw stun grenades and shot rubber bullets at reporters

Newly elected leader of the Israeli Labor party Isaac Herzog meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah. December 01, 2013 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Analysis

In Ramallah, Herzog seeks Labor’s return as dovish alternative

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Newly elected opposition leader envisions party as a front runner in next elections, hopes to champion peace prospects and advance real change in society

Israeli new Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog speaks during a press conference flanked by his party officials Erel Margalit, right, and Omer Bar-Lev after their meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. (photo credit: AP /Majdi Mohammed)

Israel’s new opposition leader meets Abbas in Ramallah

An African migrant in Levinsky Park in southern Tel Aviv (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

‘South Tel Aviv is South Sudan now’

As African migrants flood the area, Jewish residents say they feel forgotten by their government

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Canadian PM affirms support for Israel, announces visit in January

In staunchly pro-Israel speech at Toronto fundraiser, Harper says ‘shared civilization depends on survival of Jewish homeland’; hundreds protest Bedouin Prawer Plan outside event

Boyd Melson delivers a left hook (photo credit: courtesy)

Real men donate their purses to charity

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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tours the Dead Sea in 2011. (Photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

PM’s water bills sky high, report finds

By Adiv Sterman

At the awards ceremony for Innovation Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. (L. to R.) Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director and Under-Secretary General of the the United Nations; Sivan Yaari, Founder and President of Innovation Africa; John W. Ashe, President of the United Nations General Assembly; Yiping Zhou, Director, United Nations Unit for South-South Cooperation UNDP New York (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Lighting up Africa with Israeli technology

By David Shamah

Houston Rockets players attempt to sing the dreidel song (screen capture: YouTube)

Spin moveNBA team flubs dreidel song

By Lazar Berman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a flower on the coffin of Israeli legendary singer Arik Einstein (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewSobbing over spilled water

By Joshua Davidovich

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