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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 17, 2013

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China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi addressing the United Nations in September. photo credit: UN/Paulo Filgueiras)

As China FM visits, high tech may take backseat to diplomacy

By Raphael Ahren

Wang Yi to travel to Israel, West Bank; seeks to study region for Beijing even as Netanyahu wants expanding economic cooperation to be at fore

Former Soviet Prisoner of Zion Natan Sharansky with prime minister Shimon Peres, foreign minister Yitzhak Shamir, and Ariel Sharon, after his release from prison in the Soviet Union, on arrival in Israel on February 11, 1986. (Photo credit: Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

Analysis

After Peres, president Sheetwho?

By David Horovitz

Imagining Sharansky, Rivlin or Ben-Eliezer at the Nelson Mandela memorial ceremony

The inhumanity of Israel’s asylum policy

The ‘anti-infiltration’ legislation passed last week breaches a High Court ruling and violates Jewish values

Isolated in holiness

‘Ironically and beautifully, the pure white layer of snow leads to a thawing of the frozen heart’

Richard Falk calls Israel genocidal — again

The senior UN official continues making his scurrilous claims and it’s up to the United States to put a stop to it

Isaac Herzog at a news conference in Tel Aviv, November 22, 2013, after winning the Labor Party leadership (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/FLASH90)

Interview

A political prince sets his sights on the crown, politely

By David Horovitz

Tel Aviv University (CC BY-SA/MathKnight/Wikipedia)

US scholars endorse boycott of Israel

By Stuart Winer and JTA

Academic embargo passes American Studies Association membership poll by wide margin; ADL slams move as ‘morally bankrupt’

Sudanese refugees march toward Jerusalem in protest of the new Holot detention center for illegal migrants on Monday, December 16, 2013. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Protesting migrants make way to Jerusalem with police escort

Some 100 demonstrators being bused to capital after fleeing ‘open’ detention facility and spending night in kibbutz shelter

An IsrAID worker with African refugees (photo credit: courtesy)

Israeli aid workers caught up in South Sudan coup attempt

By Lazar Berman and Yifa Yaakov

IsraAID mission reports it is taking shelter until fighting eases as country’s president claims he’s defeated revolt

The Knesset on December 16, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

After epic storm, Jerusalem partly returns to life

Schools and public transportation partially resume Tuesday; city hall to open for business; still no school in Safed, Gush Etzion

A home without power in Jerusalem on Saturday. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After absence during storm, heads roll at electric company

Israeli soldiers stand guard in Rosh Hanikra, Israel, near the border between northern Israel and Lebanon, on Monday, December 16, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

Analysis

A lone gunman, but no isolated incident

By Avi Issacharoff

The killing of Shlomi Cohen Sunday night may not have been orchestrated by Hezbollah, but it underlines the increasing tension on the Israel-Lebanon border

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

Francoise Hollande speaking at the Knesset last month (Screenshot: Knesset Channel)

Hollande: US Senate will ‘squash’ Iran if it evades talks

By Yoel Goldman

French president reiterates his commitment to preventing Islamic Republic from obtaining nukes; pledges support for Israeli-Palestinian progress

Interior of new upscale London kosher eatery, 1701. (photo credit: courtesy)

Restaurant review

Kosher London restaurant changing way world views Jewish cuisine

By Miriam Shaviv

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A man fires his handgun (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

NRA misfireHolocaust invoked in NJ gun safety debate

By JTA

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

Make Iran deal contingent on finding Levinson, says family

Who doesn't like a bowl of matza ball soup? (Or Hiltch/CC BY)

Florida prison services ordered to provide kosher meals

By JTA

This photo of a special service at New Montefiore Cemetery in West Babylon, New York, shows damaged Torah scroll fragments being buried in a religious ceremony on Sunday (photo credit: AP)

Damaged Iraqi Torah scrolls buried in Long Island

By Frank Eltman

People waiting in line for food packages at a distribution center for needy in Lod on September 11, 2012. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

More than 1.7 million Israelis below poverty line

By Gavriel Fiske

New York businessman Jacob Ostreicher, right, consults with attorney Abel Montano at a courthouse in Bolivia, where he was being held without charges (photo credit: AP/File)

Bolivia releases Jacob Ostreicher after two years

By JTA

Sudanese refugees march toward Jerusalem in protest of the new Holot detention center for illegal migrants on Monday, December 16, 2013. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewFight over the flight

By Ilan Ben Zion

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