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What Matters Most On Wednesday, December 11, 2013

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Adolf Hitler at Prague Castle, March 16, 1939 (photo credit: Bundesarchiv/ Wikipedia)

Reporter's notebook

Ancestry, guts and betrayal: Musings from a Prague winter

By David Horovitz

History hangs heavy on a visit to the Czech Republic, 75 years after it was sacrificed by the great powers to Hitler and soon after Iran’s supreme leader has declared that we Israelis are not human beings

US Secretary of State John Kerry testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Dec. 10, 2013 (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Top senator says new Iran sanctions will have to wait

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil and AP

Word of delay comes after Kerry warns lawmakers that applying ‘gratuitous’ pressure could give Tehran an excuse to back out of Geneva deal

Iran’s Rouhani puts kibosh on meeting with Peres

Iran: Guards chief criticizes foreign minister

By Nasser Karimi

From the webIran sees progress in talks with powers on nuclear deal implementation

The Red-Dead pipe dream

A new Israeli, Palestinian, Jordanian cooperation scheme won’t deliver affordable water and won’t save the Dead Sea

Israel supporters need not apply

A UN employment application includes a political litmus test that discriminates against pro-Israel job applicants

Rabbi Lau for president

Why the former Chief Rabbi should fill the office and is singularly capable of healing the rifts in Israeli society

J.R.R. Tolkien's band of displaced dwarves come to life in 'The Hobbit' film trilogy (photo credit: courtesy Warner Bros.)

Are Tolkien’s dwarves an allegory for the Jews?

By Matt Lebovic

A view of Gibraltar (photo credit: Chen Leopold/Flash90)

500 years on, duke apologizes for Jews’ expulsion from Gibraltar

By JTA

D. Alonso Gonzalez de Gregorio y Alvarez de Toledo says sorry to Jewish community for Spanish ancestors’ deeds

Israeli chemist Arieh Warshel accepts the Nobel Prize in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday, December 10, 2013 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Israeli professors awarded Nobel Prize in Stockholm

By Adiv Sterman

Arieh Warshel and Michael Levitt won the award for development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin at Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on June 25, 2012 (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/Flash90)

Israel, Russia to launch talks on free trade zone

By Haviv Rettig Gur

‘You can’t put all your eggs in one basket,’ says one official, linking initiative to settlement spat with the European Union

A toddler rides a tricycle through puddles on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, Wednesday, December 11, 2013 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jerusalem braces for snow as torrential rains sweep Israel

By Lazar Berman

Meteorological Service issues severe flood warning; Mt. Hermon buried under a blanket of white; some schools close in the north

US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Thursday, December 5, 2013. (photo caption: AP/Mohamad Torokman, Pool)

Analysis

Palestinians reject US proposal for 10-year IDF presence in Jordan Valley

By Elhanan Miller and Avi Issacharoff

Official PA daily reports Kerry-Abbas meeting last week turned ‘worse than bad’ after plan was pitched

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, second from right, with European Jewish leaders, December 9, in Athens. (photo credit: Sabrina Paraskevopoulou)

Greek PM to Jewish leaders: This is not the Weimar Republic

By Raphael Ahren

Antonis Samaras honored for his fight against neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, but worries remain that after upcoming elections ‘things will deteriorate’ for community

An illustrative photo of a patient receiving an injection. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90/File)

Measles vaccine developer warns Jewish anti-vaxxers

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Ultra-Orthodox communities refusing the 50-year-old vaccine were linked to a third of US measles cases last year

Illustrative photo of clergymen gathering at Manger Square outside the Church of Nativity for Christmas celebrations in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, December 24, 2012 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Bethlehem’s Christians put a patriotic spin on a traumatic siege

By Elhanan Miller

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Anne Frank tree cutting destroyed in Germany

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TV presenter Yoav Limor in a moment of supreme embarrassment (screen capture: Channel 2)

Loose whipsTV host mortifies with sexy comment

The blue and white equality sign

Proud IsraelisLGBT online activists go blue-and-white

By Adiv Sterman

Einat Wilf addresses the Knesset, October 15, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Former MK: Peace Now shunned me over watchdog gig

By Lazar Berman

The memorial service for former South African president Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, near Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Bernat Armangue)

Hebrew media reviewMadiba and mad weather

By Ilan Ben Zion

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