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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 9, 2014

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The Knesset voting to dissolve itself on December 8, 2014. (Courtesy Knesset spokesperson)

Knesset votes to dissolve, sets new elections for March 17

With 93 in favor and none opposed, Israeli lawmakers scrap 19th Knesset, formally putting end to fractious coalition

Likud okays vote on early party primaries

AnalysisAs Knesset dissolves, ultra-Orthodox parties show they’re back

By Haviv Rettig Gur

MK Peretz calls for Hatnua merger with Labor

By Marissa Newman

Ridley Scott's Moses is a master military leader in 'Exodus: Gods and Kings.' (20th Century Fox)

Ridley Scott trades out God for nature’s fury in scientific ‘Exodus’

By Jordan Hoffman

Tinseltown is getting all Old Testament on us December 12 with its new treatment of Moses and Pharoah. A conversation with the consulting rabbi

Shmuley Boteach

Burying a friend younger than me

If only this young man had lived a bit longer, he too might have learned life’s most important lesson

The problem with Israel advocacy on campus

Pro-Israel groups need to stop preaching to the choir and start engaging in meaningful education on the conflict

The suspected assailant, right, exchanging words with a Jewish man inside the Chabad headquarters in New York on December 9, 2014. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israeli stabbed in New York Chabad headquarters

By Marissa Newman

Levi Rosenblat from Beitar Illit injured in upper body; police shoot assailant after tense standoff caught on tape; attacker dies of his wounds

Arab MK Hanin Zoabi at a hearing on her case at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, December 9, 2014 (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Justices rebuke MK Zoabi over ‘unprecedented’ Israel-bashing

By Elhanan Miller

Arab politician’s call to besiege the country cannot fall under free speech, Supreme Court judges opine in unusually political session

Members of the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra. The RSO is spearheading a project honoring Righteous Among the Nations through commissioned new works from Israeli composers. (courtesy)

Israeli orchestra honors Italian who saved 5,000 Jews from Nazis

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

West Bank violence, fueled by Hamas, in decline, defense chief says

By Marissa Newman

Moshe Ya’alon accuses terror group leaders in Gaza and Turkey of enflaming territories; says Israel drew ‘red lines’ with Syria, Hamas rearming

A courtroom at the International Criminal Court, The Hague (photo credit: CC BY Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Flickr)

Palestinians become observers at ICC meeting

By AP

Move regarded as step before joining war crimes tribunal; ambassador hails ‘enhancement’ of Palestinians’ status

Limor Livnat speaking in the Knesset on July 28, 2014. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Likud minister Livnat quits politics

‘I’ve had enough,’ says veteran, becoming 3rd top party member to quit in two years; last week she lamented Likud’s drift to right

Oradour-sur-Glane, France in June 2004 (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons/Dennis Nilsson)

German court throws out case against former Nazi

By AP

Ruling finds insufficient evidence against 89-year-old for involvement in 1944 slaughter in France

Yosef Abramowitz stands in front of the damaged portion of the Trans-Israel pipeline (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israel's Exxon Valdez

Pipeline disaster called ‘crude reminder’ of oil’s dangers

By David Shamah

Pixellot screenshot (Photo credit: Courtesy)

China’s Baidu invests $3 million in Israeli start-up

By David Shamah

The Internet giant sees promise in Pixellot, which has developed a unique take on video filming and production

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Blog8 steps for an eco-friendly Hanukkah

By Dasee Berkowitz

NBC4 reports on a gift-wrapping paper print carried by Walgreens, December 7, 2014. (NBC4: screen capture)

Do Nazi itWalgreens pulls ‘swastika’ gift wrap

'Hanukkah Song Mashup - Dance Spectacular' featuring Elliot Dvorin and the Key Tov Orchestra (YouTube screenshot)

Latke LindySwinging Hanukkah wins YouTube

By Renee Ghert-Zand

In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, in Chicago, the mummified body of Minirdis, a 14-year-old Egyptian boy lies in his opened coffin after J.P. Brown and his team of curators at the Field Museum opened the coffin for the first time. (photo credit: AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Second lifeMuseum lifts lid on ancient mummy

By Caryn Rousseau

Cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen launches another crowdfunding campaign, this time to fund his anti-Semitism efforts (Courtesy Yaakov Kirschen)

Heckling the hatersDry Bones league vs. the anti-Semites

By Jessica Steinberg

Israeli soccer player Obeida Khatab (screen capture:YouTube/Omar Khtab)

Pro soccer player arrested in deadly hit-and-run

By Stuart Winer

Will there be a new defense minister? Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (L) speaks to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) on December 8, 2014 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewLet the electioneering begin

By Yossi Nachemi

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