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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 2, 2014

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-finance minister Yair Lapid, July 2013. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)

Harsh Netanyahu-Lapid meeting heralds likely elections

PM presents finance minister with five demands, accuses him of ‘sabotage’; Lapid: Demands unacceptable, Netanyahu ‘dragging Israel to elections’

Recriminations flare as government collapsesYair Lapid ‘failed miserably’ with the economy, Likud charges

Likud to support dissolving Knesset, heralding new elections

By Haviv Rettig Gur and Ricky Ben-David

Lapid accuses Netanyahu of selling out to ultra-Orthodox

Then-minister of education Gideon Sa'ar (left) and then-minister of environment Gilad Erdan (right) flank Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they make calls to potential voters ahead of national elections, in Tel Aviv, January 17, 2013. (Gideon Markowicz/ Flash90)

Analysis

Israel’s unstable, fractious politics: It’s the voters’ fault

By Haviv Rettig Gur

The coalition wasn’t felled by ego or inexperience alone, and the political volatility that characterized the past 18 months isn’t going away

Benjamin Netanyahu casting his vote in Jerusalem for the 2009 Knesset elections (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Analysis

A plague on all their houses

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: Israeli voters might be forgiven for thinking their leaders are more interested in power for power’s sake than in the effective governance of the nation in a region fraught with dangers. Israeli voters would be correct

An Israel Police officer and a Border Policeman in front of the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, November 19, 2014 (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Rain and vigilance reduce Jerusalem violence to a simmer

By Mitch Ginsburg

Modified police tactics have sharply reduced the intensity and duration of Palestinian protests, leading some to conclude an intifada is not on the horizon

Three Palestinians held in West Bank hit-and-run

By Stuart Winer

Brotherhood members in Jordan accused of planning attacks on Israelis

By Elhanan Miller

Assailants throw rocks at Israeli bus in West Bank

From rebbetzin to maharat

She took on key leadership roles in her Jewish community, but found she was always just the rabbi’s wife

Am I going to jail?

His occupation is rabbi, his crime is performing weddings — the sentence could be two years in prison

Mari Sartin-Tarm

Finding the words for my infertility

What’s worse than finding out pregnancy may be impossible? The thought of being judged by others

This 1961 file photo shows Adolf Eichmann standing in his glass cage in the Jerusalem courtroom where he was tried and convicted of war crimes committed during World War II. (AP Photo,b/w file)

Eichmann’s final barb: ‘I hope that all of you will follow me’

By Mitch Ginsburg

Rafi Eitan, the Israeli intelligence officer who seized him in Argentina, tells TV documentary of Nazi war criminal’s last mumbled words before he was hanged

Italy's Mario Balotelli kicks the ball over Uruguay's Martin Caceres at the 2014 World Cup, June 24, 2014 (AP/Ricardo Mazalan)

‘Jewish’ soccer star Mario Balotelli under probe for ‘anti-Semitic’ post

By ToI Staff and AP

Football Association investigates Liverpool striker for Instagram image which read ‘grabs coins like a Jew’

Gill Rosenberg posing with a friend in a photo which is presumed to have been taken in Iraq and which was uploaded to Facebook on November 9, 2014 (Facebook image)

Israeli woman dispels reports of capture by Islamic State

By Marissa Newman and Lazar Berman

Gill Rosenberg, who traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight alongside Kurds, posts on Facebook that she’s ‘totally safe and secure’

File: World Bank headquarters in Washington DC (Photo credit: Courtesy World Bank)

World Bank training deal could bring Israeli tech to – Iran?

By David Shamah

Cyber-security, water, and agriculture innovation from Israel will be part of the global institution’s program to stem poverty worldwide

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, arrives for the opening of a museum for late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday, November 9, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Abbas Momani)

Abbas decides to go it alone

By Elhanan Miller

The PA president has effectively closed the door on negotiations with Israel, but Hamas has little cause to rejoice

Palestinian representative Riyad Mansour addressing journalists after a UN Security Council meeting, May 2014. (UN/Devra Berkowitz)

UN Security Council to consider ‘Palestine’ resolution

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinian envoy to world body says draft demanding Israeli pullout to ’67 lines to be presented by mid-month

Roger Cukierman, president of the umbrella group for France’s Jewish organizations (photo credit: courtesy World Jewish Congress/JTA)

French Jewish umbrella group opposes protests of Palestine vote

By JTA

CRIF president calls for ‘calm, dialogue and negotiation’ ahead of non-binding parliament vote Tuesday

Illustrative photo of an Ultra Orthodox Jewish man reading a "Pashkvil"-- an information poster -- in the ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Meah Shearim, August 19, 2014. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Orthodox Jews convene to stop domestic and sexual abuse

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Landmark conference in Jerusalem brings together religious professionals and lay people to shine light on dark side of their communities

Israeli flags stand next to the menorah, the symbol of the State of Israel, at the Knesset (photo credit: Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Analysis

An idiot’s guide to the nation-state controversy

By Haviv Rettig Gur

A bird’s-eye view of the facts, arguments and motivations behind the proposed legislation that is roiling Israeli politics

A 1.5 acre property sitting on a mountain in Guanacaste, surrounded by tropical forest and overlooking the Pacific Ocean (Courtesy Kosher Casas)

Mi casa, su kosher casa

By Jessica Steinberg

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A Mediterranean offshore drilling facility (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

‘Egypt thwarts Islamic State-linked bid to hit Israeli targets at sea’

Guy Hever (fifth from right, with glasses) and friends several weeks before his disappearance in 1997. (Courtesy of Rina Hever)

Israel resumes search for missing soldier Guy Hever

Rabbi Barry Freundel has been known as a national leader on conversion and a strict moralist. (JTA)

DC rabbi charged with voyeurism fired by synagogue

By JTA

Yonatan Hilo appeals his 20-year sentence for murder at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on December 1, 2014. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Victim appeals prison sentence for killing rapist

Naftali Bennett (L), leader of the Jewish Home party, seen with fellow Jewish Home minister MK Uri Ariel (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Jewish Home MKs threaten split to right-wing camp

By Marissa Newman

Alec Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria Photo credit: Thomas Georges Biard/CC-BY-SA-3.0)

Affirmative actionAlec Baldwin gives nod to YES in ad

By Jessica Steinberg

Yair Lapid and Benjamin Netanyahu (composite of two campaign photos)

Hebrew media reviewElection fever on the rise

By Ilan Ben Zion

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