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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 8, 2013

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President Barack Obama speaks with Haim Saban at the Saban Forum on December 7, 2013 (photo credit: Saban Forum screenshot)

Obama: Iran can have peaceful nuclear program, ‘modest enrichment’

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and Ricky Ben-David

At Saban Forum, president depicts Netanyahu’s demands as unrealistic, but stresses Tehran must be thwarted, and doesn’t need advanced centrifuges or underground facilities

Peres: I would meet Rouhani; Iran is not an enemy

By Lazar Berman

AnalysisInflexible on Iran, empathetic on Palestine

By Raphael Ahren

From the webIran pressing ahead with uranium enrichment technology

Former Knesset Minister Yaakov Peri, a former head of the Shin Bet. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

Peri: ‘We have a partner, but not an easy one’

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Cabinet minister and former Shin Bet head counters skepticism of other ministers over Palestinian readiness for peace

Kerry: New US security proposal tackles every potential threat

Bennett: Any peace agreement that excludes Hamas is ‘a joke’

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Defense minister: There’s ‘no partner’ for peace

It’s the regime…

Negotiations with Iran and Syria were never about stopping a nuclear program or dismantling chemical weapons

15 Jewish women hotter than Bar Refaeli

These women changed games, rebelled, didn’t take no for an answer and made the world a better place

Looking beyond dreams of literary stardom to notice that he’s actually co-authoring a work of staggering genius

Avraham Burg in 2008. (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)

Avraham Burg panned for breaking ‘nuclear ambiguity’

By Gavriel Fiske

Right-wing group accuses former Knesset speaker of treason for admitting Israel possesses ‘nuclear and chemical weapons’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama embrace at a ceremony welcoming the US leader at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 20, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Analysis

Candid on differences with PM, Obama sets out optimist’s Mideast vision

By David Horovitz

Even Iran can change, the president insists. Indeed so, Netanyahu would likely retort, so why have you not shown more determination to get rid of the Islamists?

Iran's heavy water nuclear facilities near the central city of Arak, 150 miles (240 kilometers) southwest of Tehran (photo credit: AP/ISNA/Hamid Foroutan/File)

IAEA inspectors visit Iran’s Arak heavy water facility

By AP

A Palestinian man hangs a picture of Nelson Mandela next to a portrait of Yasser Arafat at a memorial service in Jerusalem's Old City, December 8, 2013 (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

For Palestinians, Mandela was ‘one of us’

By Elhanan Miller

Palestinians highlight South African leader’s role as fighter, not peacemaker, Ramallah professor says

Illustrative photo of a rally against the Prawer Plan, which aims to resettle thousands of Bedouins to recognized communities, November 30, 2013. (photo credit: David Buimovitch/Flash90)

Hundreds protest in Jaffa against Bedouin resettlement plan

Large rally also planned in Haifa; comes a week after violent protests against Prawer Plan led to 40 arrests and 15 injuries

View of the Arab-Israeli town of Baqa al-Gharbiya. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Anti-Islamic graffiti found in northern Arab town

By Gavriel Fiske

Vandals spray ‘Mohammad is a pig’ on Baqa al-Gharbiya mosque in suspected ‘price tag’ attack

This photo from Jan. 1, 1959, taken on Pamela Graff Wolfson’s second birthday, helped reunite her with Israeli cousins she never knew existed. (photo credit: Masha Poplinger/JTA)

From scrawls behind a photo, a family tree grows

By Hillel Kuttler

Netanyahu: Economy strong, wealth gaps must shrink

By Gavriel Fiske

Prime minister tells cabinet Israel’s economy has grown faster than that of other OECD countries over the past decade

Anti-antivirus users and the risks they pose

By David Shamah

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Evgeny Kissin shows off his new Israeli identification card and passport (photo credit: Yontatan Sindel/Flash 90)

High noteTop pianist takes Israeli citizenship

By Jessica Steinberg

Cigar image via Shutterstock

Hard science‘Foreskin doesn’t increase pleasure’

This photo provided by NBC shows, from left, Sophia Ann Caruso as Brigitta, Ariane Rinehart as Liesl, Michael Nigro as Friedrich, Grace Rundhaug as Marta, Carrie Underwood as Maria, Ella Watts-Gorman as Louisa, Peyton Ella as Gretl, and Joe West as Kurt, in 'The Sound of Music Live!'. (photo credit: AP Photo/NBC, Will Hart)

TV reviewBroadway wins in live ‘Sound of Music’

By Mark Kennedy

Celebrity chef, Nigella Lawson, arrives at Isleworth Crown Court in London, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Nigella Lawson’s brand: blemished but unbowed

President Barack Obama, speaking (with Haim Saban) at the Saban Forum in Washington on December 7, laughs when asked if he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would analyze the Geneva deal with Iran differently. (photo credit: Saban Forum screen shot)

Hebrew media reviewA season of cold weather is drawing near

By Joshua Davidovich

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