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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 1, 2014

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A file photo of Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic Jamel Al-Jamal, who was killed in an explosion in his residence in Prague-Suchdol, Thursday, January 1, 2014 (photo credit: AP/CTK, Krumphanzl Michal)

Palestinian ambassador in Prague killed in blast

By Karel Janicek

Explosion reportedly occurs when envoy, Jamal al-Jamal, opens a safe; Jamal’s wife stricken with shock

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a meeting of the Likud-Beytenu faction in the Knesset on December 9, 2013 (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Analysis

Entering 2014, inside Netanyahu’s head

By David Horovitz

What the prime minister just might be telling himself as the new year rolls in

New Year’s in Israel and Protestant Jewry

Christian influence on the mindset of Jews extends far beyond New Year’s revelry

LISTEN: Radio meets bloggers, hilarity ensues

TLV1 internet radio pits their team against Times of Israel bloggers in a quiz show on the highlights and lowlights of 2013

Gedalyah Reback

4 things the Jewish world has to do in 2014

An agenda for the coming year, from fighting European anti-Jewish laws to getting our act together on conversion

Rabbi Miri Gold in front of the 'Aron Kodesh' at Kibbutz Gezer's Kehilat Birkat Shalom (photo credit: Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

In first, Reform rabbis in Israel receive state salary

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Reform Movement marks bittersweet victory, awaits full parity as Culture Ministry transfers payment to Miri Gold and 3 others

The engraving found on a 3,000-year-old clay jug in Jerusalem (photo credit: courtesy)

Decoded: Jerusalem’s oldest Hebrew engraving refers to lousy wine

By Marissa Newman

Umm El-Fahm, December 31, 2011. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel reportedly offering land and its 300,000 residents to Palestinians

By Stuart Winer

Israeli Arab citizens living in northern ‘Triangle’ would find themselves in Palestinian state under swap deal to enable annexation of settlement blocs, Maariv says

MK Hilik Bar in the Knesset, March 6, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Opposition bill would forbid West Bank annexation

By Haviv Rettig Gur

With support of Labor, Meretz and Shas, the left mounts a response to a right-wing proposal to make the Jordan Valley Israeli

Celebrating the New Year of 2014 in the Israeli city of Karmiel, Dec 31, 2013. (photo credit: courtesy Artiom Degel & Conrad Levac)

Israel offers a boozy welcome to 2014

By Stuart Winer

Ambulance crews attend to dozens of revelers who had more than enough to drink

Startup idea (Startup idea image via Shutterstock)

Jewish mother’s new mantra: ‘My son, the tech ninja’

By David Shamah

A poll shows that Israelis of all ages, genders, and backgrounds dream of becoming active members of the Start-Up Nation

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Rashid Abu-Shbak arrives at a meeting in Gaza, March 2004 (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)

Egypt refuses to extradite convicted PA official

By Elhanan Miller

Gaza ex-security chief Rashid Abu-Shbak was charged with embezzlement, highlighting intra-Fatah rift between Gaza and Ramallah

President Peres, flanked by MKs Nachman Shai and Ayelet Shaked, accepts a Knesset petition on behalf of Jonathan Pollard in 2014 (photo credit: Haim Zach, GPO)

Peres vows to pass Knesset’s Pollard petition to US

An overwhelming 106 MKs signed call for White House to pardon convicted Israeli spy

Young Immigrants from Russia sing and dance at a Karaoke evening at the Putin Bar in Jerusalem (Photo credit: Anna Kaplan/ Flash90)

Two decades on, Russian immigrants a rare case of successful aliyah

By JTA

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Members of Women of the Wall perform their monthly Rosh Hodesh prayers at the Western Wall, on December 4, 2013. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

US teens win contest to pray with Women of the Wall

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Russian punk band Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, right, and Maria Alekhina smile during their news conference in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, Dec. 27, 2013. Tolokonnikova and Alekhina were granted amnesty on Monday, Dec. 23, two months short of their scheduled release after spending nearly two years in prison for their protest at Moscow's main cathedral. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Watch out, PutinPussy Rioter urges: Khodorkovsky 4 prez

By JTA

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (L) and IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz seen during a drill with the Tse'elim Division on Tuesday, December 31, 2013 (photo credit: Ministry of Defense/FLASH90)

Army prepared for Gaza campaign, defense minister says

By Marissa Newman

US Secretary of State John Kerry at a hearing on Capitol Hill on Thursday. (photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Kerry seeks framework deal in latest Mideast trip

By Deb Riechmann and Karin Laub

Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, US Secretary of State John Kerry, and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius at the UN Palais on November 24, 2013, in Geneva, after announcing an interim deal at the Iran nuclear talks. (photo credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster, Pool)

Iran and the West close to finalizing nuclear accord

By AP

Talking about training? Israel's Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (L) and IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz meet, December 31, 2013 (photo credit: Ministry of Defense/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewNew Year, same ol’ Middle East

By Yossi Nachemi

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