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What Matters Most On Monday, December 16, 2013

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Shlomi Cohen, 31, an IDF soldier who was killed by a rogue Lebanese soldier in a cross-border shooting, Sunday, December 15, 2013 (photo credit: Facebook)

Soldier killed by Lebanese sniper laid to rest

By Lazar Berman and Ilan Ben Zion

Israeli, Lebanese officers to meet to discuss attack that killed Shlomi Cohen, 31; defense minister warns Lebanon government

A soldier at the border fence between Israel and Lebanon (photo credit: Hamad Almakt/Flash 90)

IDF soldier Shlomi Cohen killed in Lebanon border shooting

By Ilan Ben Zion

Inscription on the Jobar Synagogue, near Damascus, Syria (photo credit: screen capture YouTube)

Plundered Syrian Torah scrolls said held by Al-Qaeda-linked rebels

By Elhanan Miller

Looters demand the release of prisoners held by Assad in return for Judaica stolen from ancient Damascus synagogue

A win-win strategy for shared civil society

A social planning approach that will improve conditions for Israel’s Arab minority and strengthen the nation overall

Innovation is paving the way to peace

Independent of peace talks, Israeli-Arab business initiatives are overcoming political obstacles and offering hope

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Whose blood is cleaner?

Trying — really trying — to see the refusal of Ethiopians’ blood donations as something other than just plain racist

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner

Schooling the ASA on boycotting Israel

The American academic group’s resolution is not just ignorant and discriminiatory, it’s also illegal under U.S. law

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a meeting of the Likud-Beytenu faction in the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 09, 2013. Photo by Miriam Alster/FLASH90

Netanyahu to Reform Jews: Western Wall belongs to all

By ToI Staff and JTA

In speech via satellite at URJ biennial, Netanyahu stresses Israel is homeland for all Jews; says Iran must be stopped

African immigrants seen at a detention facility located in the south of Israel. August, 2012. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

African migrants flee new Holot detention center

By Stuart Winer and Lazar Berman

Hundreds of demonstrators, prevented from boarding buses to Jerusalem, begin walk to capital to protest their detention

EU Foreign Policy chief Catherine Ashton, left, and Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference in June. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO/Flash90)

EU offers ‘unprecedented’ aid to Israelis, Palestinians for peace deal

By Raphael Ahren

Foreign ministers promise closer cultural, scientific, business ties and enhanced security cooperation if an agreement is reached. But Jerusalem is unimpressed

An IDF armored personnel carrier is seen clearing a snow-covered street in Jerusalem after a major snow storm hit the city over the weekend, December 15, 2013 (photo credit: Meital Cohen/Flash90)

Route 1 to Jerusalem reopens after overnight closure

No school in capital, Safed and some Golan and Galilee towns; electric company says all homes will be hooked up to power over Monday

A man skies down a Jerusalem street, December 2013. (screen capture: YouTube/Omer Schwartz)

Downhill daredevilWatch: Man slaloms in snowy Jerusalem

By Stuart Winer

A car damaged by a tree which fell due to a heavy storm in Jerusalem. December 14, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset committees to brainstorm weather readiness

MKs to look at ways of preventing a repeat of events over weekend which left the capital isolated and tens of thousands without power

Artist Clayton Pettet (photo credit: Tumblr)

Art imitates life?

Artist to lose virginity in live show

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Drawing ire from gay rights activists and religious, a UK art student’s one-off performance is set for end of January in London

Former Israeli Arab Knesset member Azmi Bishara (photo credit: Flash90)

Arab ex-MK on the lam brokers Hamas-Fatah talks

Azmi Bishara, a wanted fugitive, makes a comeback at a high-level Palestinian conference in Qatar on the peace talks

'Dressing Sydney' runs through December 31, 2013. (photo credit: courtesy)

How Jewish immigrants stirred up fashion Down Under

By Menachem Wecker

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boards a plane to Russia, Tuesday, May 14, 2013 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Cabinet okays panel to look at personal wings for PM

By Gavriel Fiske, Haviv Rettig Gur and Stuart Winer

Kanye West attends a show for the Alexander Wang collection during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York in September. (photo credit: AP/Dario Cantatore/Invision)

What anti-Semitism?Farrakhan defends Kanye on Jews

By JTA

Soldiers and emergency workers drive armored personnel carriers in Jerusalem, December 14, 2013. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewHeating up on a cold night

By Joshua Davidovich

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