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What Matters Most On Saturday, December 28, 2013

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Jonathan Pollard speaks during an interview at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, NC, May 1998. (AP/Karl DeBlaker/File)

‘Kerry offers to release Jonathan Pollard’

By Yoel Goldman

TV report claims US secretary proposed freeing spy-for-Israel, but doesn’t have Obama’s okay; radio report says Kerry merely offered to look into possibility

Kerry to return to Middle East next week

As peace talks plow on, right tries to make a legislative stand

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Israel slightly delays releases of third round of prisoners

By AP and ToI Staff

A photo of a painting by Shalom Koboshvili, 'Taking the bride to the bath house (mikveh),' watercolor on paper (Wikimedia Commons/public domain)

Plumbers in Portugal find 14th-century ritual bath

By JTA

The mikvahs of the city of Coimbra may be among the oldest such structures ever discovered in Europe

Finding the words beyond the cancer

Unblocking creativity while writing a memoir about illness

Reflections of a one-armed warrior

Nearing the fourth anniversary of a life-altering injury and reviewing the most important lesson of all

Mahmoud Abu Danash (right) and his wife Lubna stand beside the bed of their son, Muath, in the ICU at Holon's Wolfson Medical Center on Wednesday, December 25, 2013. (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

Muath from Hebron recovers after surgery, next to kids from Ghana, Gaza

By Ilan Ben Zion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90/File)

Netanyahu visits hospital with sinus infection

Doctors in Hadera inspect prime minister suffering from headache, nasal congestion, release him after two hours in good condition

Portrait of a Palestinian youth in the narrow streets of the Balata refugee camp (photo credit: Rishwanth Jayapaul/Flash90)

Analysis

From these alleyways, the anger will flow

By Avi Issacharoff

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (AP/Office of the Supreme Leader)

Iran calls for direct bilateral talks with US

By Nasser Karimi

Top Khamenei adviser claims it’s in country’s interest to hold separate negotiations with Western powers, who are at odds over ‘various international issues’

A Lebanese Army soldier stands next to a destroyed car at the scene of an explosion in central Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Dec. 27, 2013, in which Mohammad Chatah, a senior aide to former Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri, was killed. (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Analysis

Hezbollah fires a warning shot with Chatah murder

By Avi Issacharoff

The assassination of a prominent Lebanese figure and Saudi ally won’t be the last blow in the bloody rivalry between the terror group and its opponents

Amsterdam musicians dressing up as Black Pete, the slave of the Dutch Santa Claus, Sinterklaas. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

How culpable were Dutch Jews in the slave trade?

By Cnaan Liphshiz and Iris Tzur

A nonconformist Dutch Orthodox rabbi thinks it’s time for his largely silent community to discuss its robust ties that bound

Protesters shout slogans as they carry a banner that reads "Government, resign" in Ankara, Turkey, in December (photo credit: AP/Burhan Ozbilici)

EU voices concern over Turkish graft scandal

By AP

Call to handle issue in ‘transparent, impartial manner’ comes amid opposition criticism that gov’t is trying to stifle probe

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Mitzpe Ramon Sculpture Gardens (photo credit: Shmuel Ba-Am)

Israel travels

Seven of the JNF’s best

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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Egyptian rapper Myam Mahmoud poses for a portrait in downtown Cairo. Mahmoud, an 18-year-old Egyptian, rapped her way to the semi-finals of the Middle East’s hit TV show Arabs Got Talent. While she didn’t win the program, Mahmoud did succeed in shining a spotlight on the social ills that plague Egypt today. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Rapping for rightsEgyptian rapper speaks for women

Bronius Bradauskas (photo credit: Juliux/Wikipedia)

Lithuanian lawmaker: Jews only want to take money

By JTA

Soldiers setting up an Israeli field hospital in the Golan Heights (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)

In budget row, Israel may put medical care for Syrian war-wounded on ice

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, center, attends talks in Geneva on Iran's nuclear program, November 22, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Fabrice Coffrini)

US, Haaretz offer condolences to Zarif on mother’s passing

Lebanese mourners carry the coffin of a senior commander of the Lebanese group Hezbollah (photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

‘Israel not to blame for Hezbollah commander’s death’

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

Jet-setting Edgar Bronfman flexed muscles for Jewish causes

By JTA

Lebanese firefighters extinguish burned vehicles at the scene of an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Dec. 27, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Bilal Hussein)

Arabic media reviewAn adviser killed, a movement ostracized

By Elhanan Miller

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