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What Matters Most On Friday, December 13, 2013

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The Dome of the Rock is seen in the background in Jerusalem's Old on a snowy winter day on Friday, December 13, 2013. (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

‘Worst storm in decades’ batters Jerusalem

Ben Gurion Airport briefly halts operations; electric corp. declares national state of emergency; tens of thousands left without power; northern Israel, West Bank, Gaza also hit

Illustrative photo of a stone throwing attack in East Jerusalem, February 8, 2013 (photo credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90)

Snow-coated stones hurled at Jerusalem residents

In this image from TV, U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Cuban President Raul Castro at the FNB Stadium in Soweto, South Africa, in the rain for a memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela, Tuesday Dec. 10, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/SABC Pool)

Judy Gross to Obama: Castro handshake was fine, now help free my husband

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Wife of Alan Gross, jailed for four years in Cuba, tells Times of Israel: I wish my government cared as much for him as Israel showed it cared for Gilad Shalit

Irena Kalhousová

Geneva is not Munich

Unlike Czechoslovakia in 1938, Israel is neither helpless to defend itself, nor is it alone in the world

15 reasons why Kerry REALLY keeps coming back to the region

People eat Osem Ketchup? That is just not acceptable

Thamsanqa Jantjie, the man accused of faking sign interpretation next to world leaders at Nelson Mandela's memorial, during an interview with the Associated Press in Johannesburg, South Africa,Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Danger signs

‘Mandela signer faced murder rap’

By ToI Staff and AP

Thamsanqa Jantjie, schizophrenic interpreter who stood feet away from Obama, reportedly has extensive criminal record including kidnapping, rape

Roger Waters. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

ADL sadly concludes that Roger Waters is an anti-Semite

After musician’s comparison of Israeli policies with those of the Nazis, Abe Foxman, who had previously defended British rocker from critics, calls him ‘narrow-minded bigot’

Undated photo of CIA contractor and retired FBI agent Robert Levinson (AP/Levinson family)

Jewish ex FBI-man missing in Iran was on rogue CIA mission

By ADAM GOLDMAN and Matt Apuzo

Washington has maintained that Robert Levinson disappeared on a business trip, but probe shows he was on an unapproved CIA mission to collect intel on Tehran

Negotiators from Iran and six world powers meeting in Geneva on November 22, 2013. (photo credit: US State Department)

Iran halts nuclear talks for ‘consultations’

By ToI Staff and AP

Negotiators call off Vienna session after US blacklists a dozen overseas companies and individuals for evading sanctions on Tehran

Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a Jerusalem hotel on December 13, 2013. The suite's balcony overlooks the Old City walls of Jerusalem and the Jaffa Gate area amid a major snow storm (Photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/Flash 90.)

Kerry meets Netanyahu in snow-covered Jerusalem; follows talks with Abbas

By ToI Staff and AP

On 9th visit, US secretary of state pressing for ‘framework agreement’ by end of January, reportedly wants summit talks with PM and PA chief

Palestinian Hussein Rawarda, 16, who stabbed IDF soldier Eden Atias on a bus in Afula on Wednesday, November 13, 2013, is led away by police. (Screenshot: Channel 2)

Palestinian teen killer of IDF soldier indicted

By Adiv Sterman and Yifa Yaakov

Hussein Rawarda, from West Bank city of Jenin, says he stabbed Eden Atias, 19, to avenge imprisoned relatives; his father condemns killing

European Commission official Kristalina Georgieva, 2nd from the right, visiting a Palestinian camp in Baalbeek, Lebanon, May 2013 (photo credit: European Union)

Analysis

EU shows it’s unhappy to fund divided, dysfunctional Palestinians

By Elhanan Miller

Brussels blames Israel for economic stagnation, but impatient with both sides for peace deadlock, and increasingly frustrated by Fatah-Hamas rivalry

IDF troops practicing the evacuation of a wounded soldier on a sling-like stretcher (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Medical corps trains to save lives in future war with Hezbollah

By Mitch Ginsburg

At Galilee drill replicating conditions on the northern front, IDF physicians and paramedics introduce new techniques designed to reduce combat deaths

An IDF C4I Corps soldier monitors for hacker activity (Photo credit: Courtesy)

IDF turns ‘old’ smart card tech into new cyber-defense ID system

By David Shamah

A member of Dor Transilvan (screen capture: YouTube)

Romanian FM: ‘Burn kike’ song merits prosecution

By JTA

Christmas carol that praised killing of Jews during Holocaust and was broadcast on public TV condemned by Israeli, Romanian officials

The still-crowded grave of Arik Einstein in Tel Aviv's Trumpledor Cemetery (photo credit: Gideon Markowitz/Flash 90)

Top five

Go cemetery hopping — it’s not all that grave

By Jessica Steinberg

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Egyptian Armed Forces Commander in Chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, whom many Egyptians are urging to run for president, April 2013 (photo credit: AP/Jim Watson/Pool/File)

Egypt’s army chief: Sadat appeared to me, and told me I’d be president

French comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala performing the quenelle in 2008 (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

'Heil' stormModern ‘Nazi salute’ sweeping Europe

CERN's main site, from Switzerland looking towards France (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons, public domain dedication)

CERN accepts Israel as full member

PunkTorah's Rabbi Patrick 'Aleph' Beaulier is considering starting an online conversion to Judaism program. (Courtesy of Patrick "Aleph" Beaulier)

Digital worldTo convert to Judaism, click here

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Walking in a winter holy land. A man walks down a snowy street in Jerusalem on Thursday evening (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Hebrew Media ReviewFrozen roads and frozen policies

By Yossi Nachemi

Syrian rebels prepare to fire locally made rockets in Idlib province, northern Syria (photo credit: AP/Edlib News Network ENN)

Arabic media review‘Who moved my weapons?’

By Elhanan Miller

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