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What Matters Most On Thursday, December 19, 2013

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A 5th century silver drachm from Persian era Palestine with a gorgoneion on the obverse (left) and a lion and bovine on the reverse (right). Above the lion are the Aramaic letters yod, heh and dalet -- Judea. (photo credit: Vladimir Naikhin/The Israel Museum)

Israel Museum obtains world’s ‘first Jewish coin’

By Ilan Ben Zion

American donor gives Jerusalem institution collection of 1,200 silver Persian coins, including 4th century BCE drachm with earliest mention of Judea

Hundreds attend the funeral of three Palestinian men shot dead by Israeli troops in the Qalandiya refugee camp in the West Bank, Monday, August 26, 2013 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Analysis

In the West Bank, an intifada lurks beneath

By Avi Issacharoff

Wednesday night’s firefight in Jenin exposed potentially explosive tensions in the refugee camps, making talks even more pressing

Hamas man killed, 6 injured, in Jenin firefight with IDF

Second Palestinian killed during firefight in Qalqilya

By Lazar Berman

For first time, Palestinians back framework peace agreement

By AP

Neshama Carlebach

How I became a Reform Jew

An Orthodox outcast found a home in ‘the shuls I didn’t attend’

Warning: Dementia ahead

Some health tips and facts to remember for the many years ahead

Shemot: Bloggers on the Torah reading

…rescuing infant Moses, the burning bush, and Moses appears before Pharaoh

ToI's Start-Up Israel homepage

Analysis

Introducing The Times of Israel’s new Start-Up Israel website

By David Horovitz

Keeping you on the cutting edge of Israel’s thriving high-tech industry, with original content, the best of everything elsewhere on the web, and an army of insightful bloggers

Gil Gelfand shows off a Cat2See system (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli start-up may be a cat owner’s best friend

By David Shamah

A dormitory at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. (John Phelan/Wikimedia Commons)

Universities quit US academic body over Israel boycott

By Yoel Goldman

Brandeis and Penn State Harrisburg withdraw their membership in the American Studies Association, citing its politicization

Police and investigators look at what remains of the flight deck of Pan Am 103 in a field in Lockerbie, Scotland, December 22, 1988. (photo credit: AP)

Analysis

‘Palestinian group carried out Lockerbie bombing’

By David Horovitz

Gaddafi may have commissioned attack that killed 270 people 25 years ago, ex-Israeli security official tells Times of Israel, but Ahmed Jibril’s PFLP-GC carried it out

Artist's rendition of Gaia in space (photo credit: courtesy)

‘Hundreds of thousands of planets on verge of discovery’

By David Shamah

Israeli scientist Shay Zucker, working with European Space Agency scientists, sees Thursday’s launch of the Gaia satellite as a turning point in knowledge of space

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif smiles and laughs as he speaks to the media in Geneva, on November 24, 2013, after the interim nuclear deal was concluded (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster/Pool)

Iran FM: We can resume 20% enrichment within a day

Sanctions framework and anti-Iran atmosphere are ‘falling apart,’ Mohammad Javad Zarif tells students in Tehran

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi seen at a joint press conference at Prime Minister Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem. December 18, 2013. (Photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/POOL/Flash90

Meeting with Chinese FM, Netanyahu stumps for firm stance against Iran

Prime minister calls for greater trade ties, while Wang Yi highlights importance of peace talks

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at a Likud party conference in Tel Aviv in December 2013 (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Analysis

In key win for PM, vote to split Likud-Beytenu delayed

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Internal Likud court cancels planned ballot, staving off an embarrassing coalition crisis for Netanyahu

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Child abuse allegations are lies, ‘Taliban-style’ Hasidic sect insists

By Hannah Katsman and ToI Staff

In a Times of Israel interview, Nachman Helbrans sets out the philosophy of his extremist ultra-Orthodox group, which is under investigation in Canada

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Fourteen camels dead after train collision

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Israeli aid workers airlifted from South Sudan

By Gavriel Fiske and AP

MK Ahmad Tibi seen during a Knesset plenum debate on a reform that would increase the electoral threshold, July 31, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

Hurl greyArab MK attacked with steaming tea

By Gavriel Fiske

AnalysisFatah boots lawmaker after brawl with senior official

By Avi Issacharoff

Rabbi Mordechai Elon arrives at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court to hear his sentence, December 18, 2013. (photo credit: Meital Cohen/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewNo satisfaction

By Ilan Ben Zion

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