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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 5, 2013

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Prime Minister Netanyahu, who has demanded a permanent Israeli presence in the Jordan Valley, with IDF officers in the region in 2011 (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/ Flash90)

Land for peace with the Palestinians: Essential or suicidal?

By Mitch Ginsburg

Amid familiar and fresh challenges in an unstable Middle East, two former senior officers differ utterly over the dangers, the benefits and the contours of a possible Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank

Amman said to back Israeli demands on Jordan Valley

By Lazar Berman

Ex-Shin Bet chief: Iranian threat dwarfed by danger of failed peace talks

Palestinian businessman arrested for ‘insulting’ Abbas

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Jerusalem, Thursday, December 5, 2013 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

In Jerusalem, Kerry offers reassurances on Iran deal

By Lazar Berman and AP

Top US diplomat says it won’t be hard to verify Tehran’s compliance; echoes Netanyahu in saying Israel must be able ‘defend itself, by itself’

A Jew with no religion

The Pew report omitted the single core feature that binds Jews together: namely, arguing with fellow Jews

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Something is rotten in the state of Israel

It’s time for the masses to go out and protest the scandalous price of a personal hygiene product

Vayigash: Bloggers on the Torah reading

…Judah pleads on behalf of Benjamin, Joseph reveals himself, Jacob comes down to Egypt, Joseph saves Egypt from famine

Soldiers setting up an Israeli field hospital in the Golan Heights (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Exclusive

IDF using life-saving new field treatment for Syrian war wounded

By Mitch Ginsburg

500-plus Syrians treated, Northern Command’s chief medical officer Tarif Bader reveals; says he neither knows nor cares whether casualties are Assad supporters or rebels

Syrian President Bashar Assad (photo credit: AP/CBS)

‘Assad gained a year in power with chemical deal’

By Elhanan Miller

Mohammed Dahlan, left, speaks at the European Parliament, December 3, 2013 (photo credit: courtesy/Fernando Vaz das Neves)

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Israel agreed to absorb 200,000 refugees, ex-Fatah leader says

By Elhanan Miller

Former Gaza strongman says current talks have ‘zero chance of success’; calls on Arab League to impose Palestinian unity

Lebanese mourners carry the coffin of a senior commander of the Lebanese group Hezbollah (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Analysis

‘Hezbollah will retaliate for hit on its commander’

By Lazar Berman and Avi Issacharoff

Lebanese Shiite organization set to strike Israel after senior commander shot dead, Al-Akhbar reports; others not so sure

A rainy winter day on Jaffa Road, in the center of Jerusalem, on December 5, 2013. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Storm drenches Israel, ending long dry spell

Rain expected to continue through the weekend; Mount Hermon sees first snowfall of the season; Sea of Galilee up 1 cm

Yuval Diskin, ex-head of the Shin Bet. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/ Flash90)

Spat between Netanyahu, ex-Shin Bet head turns snarky

By Gavriel Fiske

Yuval Diskin snipes that the prime minister’s inflated expenses are necessary so he can concentrate on the Iranian threat

Israeli actress and model Gal Gadot (photo credit: Featureflash / Shutterstock.com)

Gal Gadot is Hollywood’s new Wonder Woman

‘Fast and Furious’ star, a native of Rosh HaAyin, lands coveted role in the new Superman/Batman flick

Illustrative photo of cancer research at a lab at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. (Keren Freeman/Flash90)

Yeshiva University researchers show radiation can kill HIV

By Gavriel Fiske

New treatment shows ‘real potential’ as a possible cure for the virus, team leader says

Preparing for the heist in 'Closer to the Moon.' (photo credit: courtesy Mandragora Movies)

Romanian film tells true, curious tale of Jewish bank-robbing intellectuals

By Jordan Hoffman

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Omri Casspi (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90/File)

Charm offenseObama fetes Omri Casspi for Hanukkah

Environmental Protection Minister Amir Peretz (photo credit: Flash90)

Israeli minister on rare official visit to Turkey

By Stuart Winer

Never againSensei to the Orthodox

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Hanukkah lighting ceremony at the infamous Steri Prison in Palermo, Sicily, the former seat of the local Inquisition. (photo credit: courtesy/ Shavei Israel)

Hanukkah lighting held at former Inquisition prison

By Lazar Berman

Duncan Sennett delivers his bar mitzvah speech (screen capture: YouTube)

Civil riteBar mitzvah boy talks up gay marriage

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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