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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 4, 2013

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A Hezbollah flag hangs on yellow police tape sealing off the scene where Hassan al-Laqis, a senior commander for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, was gunned down outside his home, some two miles (three kilometers) southwest of Beirut, Lebanon on Wednesday, December 4, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Analysis

Hezbollah accuses Israel of killing top operative

By Yifa Yaakov and Avi Issacharoff

Statement warns Israel will ‘bear consequences’ after rocket commander Hassan al-Laqis shot dead; Israel denies involvement; Lebanese media claim Israel tried to kill him in 2006

AnalysisThe murder and the mystery

By Avi Issacharoff

Iran deal prevented regional war, Hezbollah chief says

By Adiv Sterman

Illustrative. Centrifuges enriching uranium. (Public Domain/US Department of Energy/Wikimedia Commons)

White House: Final Iran deal could include enrichment

By JTA

Comments by National Security Council spokeswoman confirm months of reports regarding Obama administration’s position

Iran ordered to pay $9 million to Jerusalem attack victims

By Lazar Berman

Iran FM says Netanyahu ‘desperate’ after Geneva

By AP

‘Iran in talks with Russia for two more nuclear plants at Bushehr’

The death and life of Conservative Judaism

It remains the denomination with the most compelling and authentic responses to the intersection of tradition and modernity

A state for the Jewish people

If peace talks fail yet again, Israel should plan to divorce itself from the Palestinians – with or without an agreement

Why the UK should expel UN official Richard Falk

A long history of anti-Semitic incitement should make the choice clear for Downing Street

A Palestinian honor guard stands at the grave of the late Palestinian Authority president Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

French experts say Arafat wasn’t poisoned

By Lazar Berman

Specialists conclude that Palestinian leader was not killed by radioactive substance, sources tell AFP

The late Israeli comedian Sefi Rivlin (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israeli comedian Sefi Rivlin dies at age 66

Rivlin, who won the Golden Mask Prize for lifetime achievement, succumbs to throat cancer after years-long battle

Palestinian protesters hold up flags and a sign reading "boycott occupation and its products" during a protest at a Rami Levy supermarket in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Modiin Illit, October 24, 2012 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

‘Half the EU supports settlement product labeling’

By Elhanan Miller

European diplomats are also considering cutting funding to the Palestinian Authority should peace talks collapse

Religious Jews visiting the Temple Mount, March 27, 2013. (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Aiming to stymie pilgrims, rabbis reiterate ban on Temple Mount visits

By Raphael Ahren

Endorsement of decades-old decree has nothing to do with politics or Muslim sensitivities but is only based on religious law, Rabbinate source says

An Israeli soldier stands in the City of David (Ir David) in East Jerusalem, next to the Arab neighborhood of Silwan (photo credit: Matanya Tausig/Flash90/File)

Hasmonean-era house unearthed in Jerusalem

By JTA

Structure dating back to the second century BCE found in the City of David area, a few dozen yards from the Temple Mount

Flanked by Broadcom Corporate Vice-President Dr. Shlomo Markel (L.), Broadcom Chairman and CTO Dr. Henry Samueli (C.) shakes hands with Tel Aviv University President Prof. Joseph Klafter at the signing of an agreement between TAU and the Broadcom Foundation that will focus on finding breakthrough solutions for cyber threats (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Broadcom Chairman’s success recipe: Israeli start-ups and hockey

By David Shamah

Israel is one of the first places his company looks for new technologies, said Henry Samueli, who also owns the Anaheim Ducks

Casimir Nozkowski's childhood bedroom was in the women's balcony of what was once a synagogue at 70 Hester Street. (photo credit: Casimir Nozkowski)

What it’s like to grow up in a synagogue — literally

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer presents his credentials to President Barack Obama at the White House, December 4, 2013. (photo credit: Twitter/Amb. Ron Dermer)

New envoy Ron Dermer presents credentials to Obama

By Lazar Berman and JTA

Chef Eyal Shani (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Using his noodleMaster chef to play sous chef for charity

Sufganiyot, the dangerous Hanukkah treat (photo credit: Courtesy of Yissachar Ruas)

Dough-verloadMan hurt by Hanukkah doughnut

By Lazar Berman

Sefi Rivlin (center) joking around with some students at the College of Management in Rishon Lezion on October 27, 2013. The iconic comedian died on Tuesday at the age of 66 (photo credit: Markowicz/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewLaughing no more

By Yossi Nachemi

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