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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 22, 2013

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The bus in Bat Yam after a bomb on board exploded Sunday. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Disaster averted as bomb explodes on bus after passengers evacuated

Device in apparent Bat Yam terror attack blew up as sapper was defusing it; public told to be on alert for further bombings

Former prime minister Ehud Barak (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

‘US spied on Barak’s home from apartment across the street’

By Gavriel Fiske and AP

This is ‘very grave if true,’ says senior MK, calling it ‘classic espionage’ that Israel would not carry out against the US

Officials demand Pollard release in light of US spying

By Haviv Rettig Gur

US releases more documents on NSA surveillance program

By Kimberly Dozier

Israel plays down news that US spied on its prime ministers

By Yoel Goldman and ToI Staff

While the world dithers, Syrians die

The ongoing crimes being committed against civilians make it more urgent and necessary than ever to intervene in Syria

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

The Grinch who misses Christmas

In December, the airport looks like Santa Claus blew himself up smack dab in the middle of the terminal

Knesset: Do your job, fight poverty

The latest OECD report shows that hunger and poverty continue unabated in Israel

A proper blessing for Christmas?

A ‘mix-and-match’ Jewish identity denigrates the value of Jewish ethnic distinctiveness and responsibility

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

Knesset speaker nixes on-site Christmas tree

By Haviv Rettig Gur

‘You’re welcome to place one in your office,’ Edelstein tells Christian Arab lawmaker Hanna Swaid, who calls the decision ‘crazy’

A girl lights candles in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity (Nativity candles photo via Shutterstock)

Are Bethlehem’s Christians losing grip on their city?

African asylum seekers at the Holot detention center in southern Israel on December 21, 2013 (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

African migrants march in Tel Aviv, demand refugee status

Demonstration comes days after asylum seekers walk out of new detention facility in protest of government’s detention policy

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas listens to Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby, right, as he attends a meeting with Arab foreign ministers requested by Abbas at the league's headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Arab League rejects Kerry security plan for West Bank

By ToI Staff and AP

Organization says US proposal skewed in favor of Israel and prolongs its military presence on territory of future Palestinian state

Maj. Gen. (res.) Avi Mizrahi, former commander of the IDF's Central Command (photo: Flash90)

Former IDF general: Israel must control Jordan Valley

By Stuart Winer

Foreign force would not be able to keep area safe from missiles, terror infiltrators, warns ex-West Bank commander

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, second left, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, third right, are pictured during talks last year over Iran's nuclear program in Geneva, Switzerland (photo credit: AP/Fabrice Coffrini)

Iran ‘pessimistic’ on Geneva nuclear talks

Negotiations on implementing the interim Geneva agreement have been ‘making progress but slowly,’ Iranian deputy FM says

Israeli singer Rita in 2011 (photo credit: Meir Partush/Flash90)

From the web

‘No quarrel’ between Iranian and Israeli people, says Rita

CNN: Persian-Israeli singer talks with Christiane Amanpour about Iranian-Israeli relations and her gold record in Farsi

Michael Oren (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-Anne Mandlebaum)

Michael Oren to Congress: Boycott the boycotters

By Gavriel Fiske

In op-ed in Washington political magazine, former ambassador suggests US lawmakers could help ‘fight back’ against BDS movement

Illustrated photo of students in Jerusalem in 2013. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Five teens suspected of raping 12-year-old girl

By Gavriel Fiske

Tel Aviv police open case after receiving video of incident, say more arrests likely in ‘brutal’ case

A section of New York's Bayside Cemetery in Queens before a UJA-Federation-funded cleanup. (photo credit: Courtesy of the Community Association for Jewish At-Risk Cemeteries/JTA)

Poor planning leaves US Jewish cemeteries abandoned

By Julie Wiener

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Edgar Bronfman Sr. (CC BY-SA LadyLorna860/Wikipedia)

Jewish communal leader Edgar Bronfman dies at 84

By JTA

President Shimon Peres, center, with Christian schoolchildren in Ramle, on December 22, 2013 (photo credit: Mark Neiman/GPO)

'Tis the seasonPeres raises a toast to Christmas

By Gavriel Fiske

The interior of the Bradford Reform Synagogue. (Photo credit: CC, BY-SA, Bradford4life/Wikipedia)

From the webBradford synagogue saved by city’s Muslims

Single-malt whiskey (photo credit: CC-BY-Sansvase, Wikimedia Commons)

From the webStartup raises funds for first whisky distillery in Israel

Hello, NSA? Then Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaking on the phone in March of 2007. Recent reports allege the NSA eavesdropped on Israeli government officials, including Olmert. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewLand of the free, home of the spies

By Yossi Nachemi

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