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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 31, 2013

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Illustrative: Palestinians celebrate at the welcome reception for released Palestinian prisoners, at the Muqata'a in Ramallah, in the early hours of Tuesday, December 31, 2013. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Dismay in Israel and joy in PA as Palestinian prisoners released

By Yoel Goldman

Thousands greet freed inmates in Ramallah; Abbas: No final agreement with Israel until all prisoners are freed

Kerry ‘deceived’ Israel over prisoner releases, TV report claims

Sharp rise seen in West Bank Palestinians killed by IDF

West Bank cars torched, house vandalized in suspected ‘price tag’ attack

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

Analysis

Nicolas Anelka, sex, and the triumph of hatred

By David Horovitz

Top-flight soccer players often compare the sheer joy of scoring a goal to orgasm. But for a French Muslim soccer player influenced by a cynical anti-Semite, cold-hearted enmity, easily and chillingly, prevailed over ecstasy

European Jews ask soccer authorities to combat racism

By Samuel Petrequin

French ‘quenelle’ comedian faces trial for gas chamber slur

By JTA and ToI Staff

NBA star Parker apologizes for anti-Semitic salute

By AP

Miriam Herschlag

10 posts we all read in 2013

We laughed, we cried, we shared these far and wide

Shmuley Boteach

Rejecting the rabbi as spiritual sissy

What the Jewish people needs is bold, practical leadership, not sympathetic tears

We should have chosen ‘settlement freeze’

Right-wing voters had a hand in the absurd decision to release convicted terrorist-murderers

The Reichtag building, which hosts Germany's parliament Bundestag, is reflected in a puddle on a rainy autumn day in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Nov. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Nazi-looted art in the German parliament building?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The Jordan Valley. (CC BY Trocaire, Flickr)

With Kerry in town, minister to expand Jordan Valley settlement

By Raphael Ahren

Gideon Sa’ar, MKs will launch ‘actual construction on a new neighborhood,’ a move likely to anger visiting US secretary of state

‘Kerry’s framework to address all core issues’

By Deb Riechmann

Better a boycott than rocket fire, defense minister says

By Stuart Winer

In rebuff to annexation bill, PM says no to unilateral moves

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks out at the Allenby Border Terminal with Jordan in the Jordan Valley in 2009 (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

In rebuff to annexation bill, PM says no to unilateral moves

Day after Jordan Valley plan wins condemnation, Netanyahu says continuation of talks in Israel’s interest

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon speaks at an economics conference in Tel Aviv on December 30, 2013 (photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense/Flash90)

Better a boycott than rocket fire, defense minister says

By Stuart Winer

Blasting ‘Western ignorance’ on region and questioning Palestinians’ desire for peace, Moshe Ya’alon lays out hard-line stance

The Israel Start-up Map (Photo credit: courtesy)

Israel’s tech successes 2013: The rest of the story

By David Shamah

Besides the big deals like Waze, Trusteer, etc., there were less heralded, but vitally important developments this year

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A man walks past posters advertising a New Year's Eve party in Tel Aviv, Israel, Monday, Dec. 30, 2013. In Israel, the somber, soul-searching and autumnal new year of the lunar Jewish calendar overshadows the Gregorian’s Jan. 1. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli revelers torn about New Year’s

By Dan Perry and Daniel Estrin

Even in circles where the pull of the outside world is strong, the feeling remains that January 1 is someone else’s party

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Jewrotica chose 10 Sexiest Rabbis for 2013 (Courtesy of Jewrotica)

Sexy and they know itThe rabbis who steam up the pulpit

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Jehuda Reinharz (photo credit: screenshot YouTube)

Brandeis community protests former president’s pay

By JTA

Ron Prosor, permanent representative of Israel to the UN, addresses the Security Council. (photo credit: United Nations)

Israeli envoy urges UN to act over Lebanon attacks

By Stuart Winer

A Palestinian woman waits in the northern Gaza Strip for released prisoners to come through the Erez Crossing, December 31, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)

Hebrew media reviewFree at last, free at last

By Ilan Ben Zion

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