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What Matters Most On Wednesday, October 29, 2014

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and President Barack Obama embrace at a ceremony welcoming the US leader at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, on March 20, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

US anger at Netanyahu said ‘red-hot’ as ties hit new low

As Israel’s relationship with its critical ally enters ‘full-blown crisis,’ The Atlantic reports, senior American officials refer to Israeli PM as a ‘chickenshit,’ hell-bent on career preservation

PM says personal attacks won’t deter him from defending state

Relations with US top priority, Rivlin says amid reports of crisis

Lapid balks at funding settlements, halting high-level meet

By Stuart Winer

US President Barack Obama talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while walking from the Oval Office to the South Lawn Drive of the White House, after their meeting May 20, 2011. (Photo credit: Avi Ohayon/Government Press Office/FLASH90)

Analysis

Obama and Netanyahu: A fractured alliance becomes open conflict

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Previously, despite fundamental policy differences, there was a clear sense of shared purpose between the two. Now that is collapsing, and the implications are far worse for Israel than for the US

UN Security Council to meet on Jerusalem tensions

By JTA

Helen Maryles Shankman

Lord of the fruit flies

On succumbing to the dark allure of a pumpkin — and the divine retribution that followed

Sherwin Pomerantz

Do 1,000 new units really block peace?

With all the deadly conflict in the region, the fuss over building in existing communities is disingenuous

Dismissal for narrative reasons

Hundreds of Arab employees were illegally fired or suspended for their political views this summer

Honorary consuls of Israel visiting near the Gaza border, October 28, 2014 (photo credit: Shlomi Amsalem)

Unpaid envoys champion Israel in places official diplomacy can’t reach

By Raphael Ahren

Israel’s little-known honorary consuls don’t have diplomatic immunity, and aren’t even Israeli, which some say makes for better diplomacy

Brains do not actually have a dominant hemisphere, but individual functions can be associated with one more than the other. (left brain image via Shutterstock)

‘Left-brained’ people really might be less creative

By Andrew Tobin

Enhanced ‘evaluation’ activity in certain areas of brain may suppress generation of ideas, Israeli study shows

Palestinian laborers ride a bus en route to the West Bank from working in Tel Aviv area, Israel, Monday, March 4, 2013. (AP/Ariel Schalit)

Israel denies barring Palestinians from buses

By AFP and ToI Staff

Attorney general calls on defense minister to explain directive sending West Bank laborers home through Eyal crossing

Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini (C), along with Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (R), visits the southern Israeli port city of Ashdod, on July 15, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/David Buumovitch)

New EU foreign policy chief’s first destination: Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Federica Mogherini takes over from Catherine Ashton on November 1. Days later she’s coming to Jerusalem and Ramallah

US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman; Britain's Director General, Political, at the Foreign and Commonwealth Offic Simon Gass; Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov; German representative in the Iran nuclear talks Hans-Dieter Lucas; French Foreign Ministry Political Director Nicolas DeRiviere; and Chinese Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Wang Min, attend a E3+3 meeting on Iran's nuclear program at the United Nations in New York on September 19, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/TIMOTHY A. CLARY)

Analysis

An Iran deal in which both sides can claim victory

Recent comments by the US nuclear negotiator suggest an agreement could be close at hand

Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Tzipi Livni during a plenum session in the Knesset in June 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)

Analysis

What’s wrong with Netanyahu’s coalition?

By Haviv Rettig Gur

On the first day of the Knesset’s winter session, a unified, effective governing coalition was nowhere in sight

This Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2014, photo shows the apartment building in Aurora, Colo., which police say is the home of two of the three teenage girls who, according to U.S. authorities, were en route to join the Islamic State group in Syria when they were stopped at an airport in Germany. (photo credit: AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

US girls accused of trying to join jihadis were ‘stupid’

By AP

Father of teenager stopped on way to Syria says daughter was confused about what her role would have been in Islamic State

Illustrative photo of a mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath (Mayyim Hayyim / JTA)

For prospective Orthodox converts, process marked by uncertainty

By Uriel Heilman

Lack of clarity about prerequisites for conversion in US poses difficulty for those wishing to become Jews

Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau (L) and Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef. (photo credit: Flash90)

Converts won’t be recognized if new bill passes, chief rabbis warn

By Lazar Berman

In meeting with PM, rabbis dig in against Knesset bill meant to expand access to rabbinate conversion process

Poland's President Bronislaw Komorowski (L) welcomes Israel's President Reuven Rivlin at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland on October 28, 2014. (Photo by Mark Neyman/GPO)

‘Israel won’t surrender’ in the face of evil, Rivlin says in Warsaw

By Lazar Berman

An Egyptian Army vehicle with a tank heads to the closed Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza strip, in Sheikh Zuweyid, northern Sinai, Egypt, Monday, May 20, 2013 (AP Photo/Roger Anis, El Shorouk Newspaper)

Egypt begins work on Gaza buffer zone

By AFP

Official says move, which entails demolition of hundreds of homes, is ‘vital for national security’

Hilik Magnus, the founder and director and Magnus International Search and Rescue, on a mission in southern Chile (photo credit: courtesy Hilik Magnus)

The ray of hope for Israelis lost in the world

By Mitch Ginsburg

More Headlines

Germany's Weisbaden Museum (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Oliver Abels -- CC BY 2.5)

Why is a German museum hanging a Nazi-looted painting backward?

By Lazar Berman

Pope Francis addresses faithful from the window of his study overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican during his Sunday Angelus prayer on July 13, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)

Were Pope’s evolution remarks a break from Catholic teaching?

By Lazar Berman

Illustrative photo of captive Nazi troops marching as American forces advance in Belgium, December 1944. (photo credit: US Signal Corps/public domain)

Book reviewWhile Jewish DPs languished, Nazi criminals given refuge by US

By Jack Schwartz

Illustrative photo of an internet cafe (photo credit: CC BY SA, by McZusatz, Wikimedia Commons)

Many Israelis ‘would dump family, sex – and mom — before Internet’

By David Shamah

US Vice President Joe Biden (AP/Markus Schreiber/File)

Joe Biden to address US Jewish federations

By JTA

Christian Bale in "Exodus: Gods and Kings." (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Moses, the 'schizophrenic'An ‘Exodus’ from the Biblical account?

David Strathairn stars in Georgetown University production of 'Remember This: Walking With Jan Karski.' (Rafael Suanes/Georgetown Univ.)

Oscar-nominated actor reprises Jan Karski role in Warsaw

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Hebrew media reviewThe chickenshit hits the fan

By Ilan Ben Zion

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