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What Matters Most On Monday, December 8, 2014

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Members of the Knesset House Committee approve the final draft of a bill to dissolve the Knesset, Monday, December 8, 2014 (Knesset spokesperson's office)

Reporter's notebook

On its last day, a Knesset gripped by election fever

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Hours before a vote that will see many lawmakers out of a job, passions flare over last-minute budget allocations to defense and settlements

Lapid, Herzog butt heads over who will lead ‘center bloc’

By Marissa Newman and Avi Lewis

Danny Danon submits candidacy for Likud leadership

Minister insists Syria strike wasn’t aimed at voters

By Stuart Winer

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at his Ramallah office, with an imge of the Temple Mount in the background (Photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

PM slams Abbas’s ‘impossible fantasies’ on ‘return’ of 6 million refugees

PA chief vows he’ll never recognize ‘Jewish’ Israel, claims he disabused Obama of notion of ‘moderate’ Muslim Brothers, says Hamas ‘liars’ begged for ceasefire in summer

Abbas announces broad probe into Palestinian NGOs

By Elhanan Miller

PA: Gaza Health Ministry stole medical aid in summer conflict

By Marissa Newman

Netanyahu: Palestinians are not ready for peace

By Raphael Ahren

Moshe Kahlon (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

No platform? No party? No problem

By Melanie Lidman

How is ex-Likud minister Moshe Kahlon winning over lots of potential voters who know little of what he stands for; how high can he fly; and what does his rise say about Israeli politics?

Naama Levitz Applbaum

Infertility lessons from Pumbedita

Advice for those coping with difficulties bearing children: Talk about it

Yes, we need these elections

Citizens have a real chance to determine how a new government will reduce poverty, violence and discord

Haredi women’s place: Not in politics

Ultra-Orthodox women should seek social change via other channels — the Knesset is too spiritually dangerous

Helen Maryles Shankman

In search of shop class

Memo to Jewish day schools: Plumbers are as necessary as hedge fund managers

Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, prays during Eid al-Adha prayers at a mosque in Damascus, Syria, October 4, 2014. (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Analysis

After airstrikes, the more Assad talks the less he is likely to do

By Avi Issacharoff

President’s failed bid for support after Israeli jets reportedly hit military sites near Damascus shows opposition loathes him even more than they do Israel

A still from a video said to show an Israeli strike on Syria on December 7, 2014. (Screen capture: Youtube)

Two Hezbollah members said killed in airstrikes on Syria

By Marissa Newman and Stuart Winer

A picture said to show a fireball after an alleged Israeli strike on sites inside Syria on December 7, 2014. (Screen capture: Channel 2)

Syria strike said to target advanced air-defense missiles

By Stuart Winer

But Hezbollah-affiliated media denies that the bombed sites housed surface-to-air system, claims targets were not destroyed

US Secretary of State John Kerry addresses the Saban Forum, December 7, 2014 (Saban Forum screenshot)

Moderate Arab leaders want peace with Israel, Kerry says

By ToI Staff, AP and AFP

Secretary of state says fight against terror opening up new possibilities, urges two-state solution, defends nuclear talks with Iran

Illustrative photo of swimmers competing in the Women's 50m Backstroke semi-finals during the 12th FINA World Swimming Championships in Doha, December 6, 2014 (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/Marwan Naamani)

Israeli flag not omitted from Qatar swimming championship

Israeli security personnel at the site where an Arab man from the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat drove his car into a crowd of people waiting at a Jerusalem Light Rail station, November 5, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinian victim of Jerusalem car-ramming attack dies

By Marissa Newman

Two others killed in November 5 incident on light rail; widow says he was handcuffed and his treatment delayed

Erez Biton, a celebrated Israeli poet, at the Sharon Hotel in Herzliya on November 19, 2014 (photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/Times of Israel)

The illuminator of blinded landscapes

By Mitch Ginsburg

An official at the Cave of Skulls in an undated photo provided by the IAA. (photo credit: courtesy IAA)

Six busted for plundering artifacts from Dead Sea cave

By Ilan Ben Zion

Palestinian antiquities thieves caught digging for scroll fragments in Judean Desert’s Cave of Skulls could get 5 years

Leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan at a demonstration against Israeli "violations" on the Temple Mount in the capital Amman on November 28, 2014. (Photo credit: AFP / KHALIL MAZRAAWI)

‘Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood smuggling weapons to Palestinians’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israel reportedly relays information to Amman about covert operations of Islamist cell; Jordan king warns of 3rd intifada

Gal Mekel in his days as Dallas Mavericks #33 (photo credit: Courtesy NBA)

Big D to Big Easy

Israeli cager Mekel signs with Pelicans

Point guard inks contract in New Orleans after losing previous opportunity over visa-related issue

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A patient purchases medicinal cannabis in Tel Aviv (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

‘Designer strains’ of cannabis could cure more ills

By David Shamah

Pastor John Hagee at 2014 CUFI Summit (courtesy)

Hagee: Meant to call Obama anti-Israel, not anti-Semitic

By JTA

A photo of a Jewish and a 'Palestinian' boy overlooking Jerusalem and embracing each other, 1993. The picture was later uncovered to be a farce. (screen capture: YouTube)

The story behind a staged coexistence picture

Illustrative photo of male lion (photo credit: Jerusalem Biblical Zoo/Yarah Tamari)

Mane kampfLions maul neo-Nazi activist in Spain

By Marissa Newman and AP

African asylum seekers at the Holot detention center in southern Israel on December 21, 2013 (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Knesset panel approves easing of migrant detention law

Illustrative: An Israeli Air Force jet conducts training maneuvers in 2013. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewWhat we talk about when we talk about airstrikes in Syria

By Joshua Davidovich

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