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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 29, 2013

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Nicolas Anelka makes the 'quenelle' gesture on December 28 (screenshot: YouTube)

France deplores soccer player’s ‘disgusting’ Nazi-like salute

Nicolas Anelka made ‘quenelle’ salute after scoring in English league game; European Jewish Congress slams ‘hateful’ behavior

Nicolas Anelka makes the 'quenelle' gesture on December 28 (photo credit: screenshot)

French soccer player uses Nazi-like ‘quenelle’ salute to celebrate goal

The landing site of a rocket fired into Israel's territory from Lebanon in August (photo credit: Kobi Snir/Flash90)

Two Katyusha rockets land in northern Galilee

By Mitch Ginsburg and ToI Staff

No wounded or damage reported; IDF retaliates with artillery fire at Lebanese targets; two additional rockets fall short, land inside Lebanon

UN troops vow to catch Lebanese rocket launcher

By Raphael Ahren

Netanyahu: Lebanese government, Hezbollah responsible for rockets

Angry mourners bury slain Lebanese politician

By AP

More than an academic boycott

The vote to break ties with Israeli universities harms Palestinians and threatens the foundations for future coexistence

St James’s Church, I hate your hatred

The survivor of a brutal terror attack responds to a London church’s Christmas display

Adin Steinsaltz

Who will be our rabbis?

Where are the rabbis in Israel who care about the prostitutes at Tel Baruch beach?

Three of SpaceIL's founders -- Yariv Bash, Yonatan Winetraub, and Kfir Damari -- with a model of the spacecraft they propose to send to the moon (photo credit: Alon Hadar)

Israel a step closer to the moon, with propulsion deal

By David Shamah

The lightest and smallest craft to ever lift off and reach the moon could net Israel $30 million from Google, its sponsors say

US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro on October 21, 2013. (Flash90)

Pollard’s fate unconnected to peace talks, insists US envoy

Ambassador Dan Shapiro urges Israelis not to believe media reports suggesting Kerry offered to release jailed spy

Israelis, some of whom have lost relatives to Palestinian terrorism, hold aloft placards and pictures of terror victims during a protest against the upcoming release of Palestinian prisoners, outside the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, Saturday, December 28, 2013 (photo credit: Hadas Parushl/Flash90)

Israel publishes list of Palestinian inmates to be freed

Among prisoners slated for release this week are killers of 76-year-old gardener, celebrated professor and other civilians

Illustrative photo of immigrants from USA and Canada arriving at Ben Gurion Airport on August 14, 2012. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Anti-Semitism seen driving massive rise in French aliyah

By Gavriel Fiske

19,200 new immigrants came to Israel in 2013, with marked increases from Western Europe, but a decline from UK, US

Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog speaks during a faction meeting in the Knesset on December 23, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Herzog: Freeze settlements, don’t release prisoners

By Stuart Winer

Labor party leader and opposition head says continued West Bank construction is counterproductive to peace efforts

Iranian nuclear head Ali Akbar Salehi speaks to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in October 2012. (photo credit: CFR screenshot)

Iran nuclear chief: We’ve kept new centrifuges offline

By AP

Tehran said to be holding back on installing new devices due to November deal with Western powers

Shopping online avoids a lot of the hassles found in the stores (photo credit: Sophie Gordon/Flash 90)

Top five

Forget the shopping cart, the groceries are online

By Jessica Steinberg

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Hackers work on apps and bug fixes at the Wikimedia Israel Hackathon (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli Wiki hackers help out ‘the family’ at Hackathon

By David Shamah

Apps and bug fixes developed in Israel will eventually help Wiki users around the world, says the head of Wikipedia Israel

African asylum seekers participate in a protest march in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, December 28, 2013 (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Thousands of African migrants demonstrate in Tel Aviv

‘March for freedom’ against government policy staged for second week in a row

Use almonds to make a vegan cheese, usable for spreading or sandwiches (photo credit: Melanie Fidler/Flash 90)

Food for thought

Almond joy in a vegan cheese

By Phyllis Glazer

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Floods in Tel Aviv on December 11, 2013, after a major winter storm hit Israel. (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)

Winter storm to hit Israel early this week

President Shimon Peres attempts to sing 'Jingle Bells' in a taped greeting for Christmas 2013 (screen capture: YouTube)

Bungle bellsPeres doesn’t know the words

Flies seen at sunset. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Bugging Iran‘Israel sent us dead insects,’ says Iran

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting, in Jerusalem on December 08, 2013. (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/POOL/FLASH90)

PM seeks budget boost for Gaza periphery

By Stuart Winer

Six-year-old girl robs Saudi Arabian jewelry store. (Screenshot)

Tiny Thief6-yr-old steals $150,000 in Saudi

Illustrative photo of Egyptian soldiers standing guard during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, in 2012. (photo credit: AP/Petr David Josek)

Blast hits near military facility outside Cairo

By AP

Bereaved Israeli families demonstrate with signs saying 'stop the release of terrorists,' in front of the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, Wednesday, December 25, 2013 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewLather, release, repeat

By Ilan Ben Zion

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