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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 13, 2014

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A Bedouin boy rides a donkey in the village of Umm al-Hiran, in the Negev, December 19, 2013. (Photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Israel’s next major land dispute brews in the Negev desert

By Mitch Ginsburg

The $300 million, five-year Prawer Plan to resolve Bedouin land claims, opposed on both sides, will soon be welded into law. It’s unlikely to be the end of the matter

Peace negotiators Tzipi Livni and Saeb Erekat at the US State Department in Washington, July 30, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Charles Dharapak)

About that 10,000-year history in Jericho, Mr. Erekat

By Elhanan Miller

Assessing the credibility — and the impact — of the Palestinian chief negotiator’s claims to pre-Jewish family lineage in the Holy Land

Erekat: Netanyahu must prepare Israelis for sacrifices

By Lazar Berman

Let the water flow

Israel is in a position to ease water scarcity for the Palestinians and the issue shouldn’t be trapped in stalled peace talks

Schulz and Bennett: Bad diplomacy, bad manners

Bennet and Co threw an embarrassing hissy fit in response to the EU official’s blunder during his staunchly pro-Israel speech

Jonathan S. Tobin

Kerry’s perilous path to failure

When progress is measured only in terms of Israeli concessions, it’s the Jewish state that will pay the price of failure

Ki Tissa: Bloggers on the Torah reading

…building the Tabernacle, the Golden Calf, Moses asks God to reveal His attributes, and two new tablets

A worker at the Eshkol water filtration plant in northern Israel, operated by Israel's national water company, Mekorot. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Testing the waters: Did EU visitor get his numbers right?

By Mitch Ginsburg

Martin Schulz had his figures way off and his ratios close, says a leading environmentalist, stressing that complex factors play into the discrepancy between Israeli and Palestinian water use

President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz addresses the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on February 12, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash90)

Harsh reaction to Knesset speech surprises EU leader

By Raphael Ahren

President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz addresses the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on February 12, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash90)

EU leader decries MK walkout during his Knesset speech

By Gavriel Fiske and Raphael Ahren

Martin Schulz says Jewish Home is a ‘hard-line’ party that reacted to him the same way it reacted to Kerry

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister Office in Jerusalem on February 2, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu said to be sitting on $20m Turkish detente deal

By Stuart Winer and Lazar Berman

PM fears right-wing backlash over costly compensation for Mavi Marmara casualties, while Erdogan has made new demands

A rebel fighter scans the area with the scope of his rifle as he holds a position in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on February 11, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Aleppo Media Center/Fadi al-Halabi)

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Dozens of Palestinians held in PA jails for joining Syrian rebels

By Avi Issacharoff

Recent months have seen sharp radicalization among some West Bank residents, raising concerns both in Jerusalem and Ramallah

Illustrative. An Israeli tank parks in position overlooking the Gaza Strip on December 25, 2013. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)

Palestinian killed by IDF near Gaza border

By Adiv Sterman

Army says Ibrahim Suleiman Mansur had entered a restricted zone and attempted to sabotage the Israeli security fence

New high-tech initiative allows Jews worldwide join the conversation on strengthening Israel-Diaspora ties. (photo credit: Dror Garti/Flash90)

Online soapbox aims to foster stronger Diaspora ties

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Israeli government and communal leaders to stand by, ready to chat with Jews around the world and hear their ideas

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto (photo credit: Shuva Yisrael/Flash90)

Attorney general to charge prominent rabbi

By Adiv Sterman and Stuart Winer

Yoshiyahu Pinto suspected of offering $200,000 bribe to policeman in return for information about an investigation

Illustration: Credit card in use. via Shutterstock

Glitch causes mass credit card failure in Israel

By Stuart Winer

Hundreds of vendors unable to complete transactions throughout Thursday morning

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Haris Karalic, a Bosnian Muslim, bidding goodbye to his 13-year-old son Denis, who is leaving Sarajevo on a JDC rescue convoy, February 1994. (photo credit: Edward Serotta)

‘Survival in Sarajevo’ focuses a lens on wartime friendship

By Renee Ghert-Zand

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Police stopped a minibus in Rahat with 32 children filling the vehicle's eight seats. (photo credit: Israeli Police)

Police stop 8-seater with 25 toddlers

By Stuart Winer

Rankin in an interview with German television, August, 2012. (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Celebrity photographer slams ‘extremist’ Jewish lobby

By Gavriel Fiske

Sid Caesar performing in 1978 (YouTube Screen Shot)

Sid Caesar, comic genius of 1950s television, dies at 91

Donald Duck (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Quack attackArab Donald Duck fired for Israel tweet

President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz gives a speech on Wednesday to the Knesset. His comment about water usage caused Knesset members to storm out of the assembly (photo credit: Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewPinto gets a hint-o

By Yossi Nachemi

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