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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 14, 2014

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Former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy (CC BY-SA Eli Itkin/Wikimedia Commons)

Interview

Ex-Mossad chief: Peace will elude us until we treat Palestinians with dignity

By Raphael Ahren

Efraim Halevy attacks Netanyahu and Bennett for their policies on Jerusalem, says elections offer ‘a choice the likes of which we have never had’

Hatnua party leader Tzipi Livni lays the smackdown on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on 'State of the Nation' TV satire, December 13, 2014. (screen capture: Channel 2/YouTube)

Livni nettles Likud with off-color digs at Netanyahu

By Ilan Ben Zion

PM’s compatriots spring to his defense after Hatnua leader goes on satire show to call him ‘impotent,’ ‘zero’ and ‘trash’

Liberman jabs at ‘hysterical’ Likud, Jewish Home

After 30 years, Yishai looks set to divorce from Shas

Lapid says he would serve as finance minister again

Lynette Nusbacher

The torturer’s charter

Getting reliable intel — a near impossibility — could only be done by very smart, highly trained psychopaths

The real Hanukkah miracle: Reconciliation

What’s truly unique here? Oil lasting longer than expected? Been there. Military victory? Done that

Miriam Fendius Elman

After Salaita: Protecting Jewish students

As America’s professors rush to defend academic freedom, they should also work to keep racists off the faculty

Yasser Abed Rabbo speaks to journalists in the West Bank city of Ramallah on October 16, 2014. (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Palestinian official bashes ‘dictatorial’ Abbas

By Elhanan Miller

Yasser Abed Rabbo accuses PA president of intentionally undermining the Palestinian UN bid by presenting it too quickly

Sgt. Adar Barsano, 20, from Nahariya (left) and Maj. (Res.) Amotz Greenberg, 45, from Hod Hasharon, who were killed when Hamas gunmen inflitrated into southern Israel on July 19 (photo credit: Courtesy)

Hamas airs more footage it says it stole from IDF computers

By Lazar Berman

Two days after secret internal review uploaded, clip shows gunmen returning to Gaza after killing 2 soldiers, stealing their guns

The Border Police officer, covered with shirt, accused of shooting to death a Palestinian teen on May 15 is brought to District Court in Jerusalem on November 23, 2014. (Photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Court names border cop who shot Palestinian teen

By Adiv Sterman

Ben Deri, 21, is suspected of firing live round at protesters during Nakba Day demonstrations, killing 17-year-old

Dr. Ehud Galili of University of Haifa taking core samples from the newly excavated Neolithic well in Kfar Samir (photo credit: Dr Jonathan Benjamin courtesy of Dr Ehud Galili, University of Haifa and Israel Antiquities Authority)

Remains of Neolithic ‘Atlantis’ found off Haifa coast

By Ilan Ben Zion

Ravaged by rising sea levels, 7,500-year-old well at Kfar Samir sheds light on climate change, Israeli archaeologist says

Gadi Eisenkot attends a Memorial Day ceremony in May 2014. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Gadi Eisenkot confirmed as 21st IDF chief of staff

Netanyahu says new military commander is ‘the right man at the right time’; he’ll replace Gantz in February

Canon Andrew White at St. George's Church, Baghdad, with children from his congregation (screenshot: YouTube)

IS beheaded 4 Christian children, says ‘Vicar of Baghdad’

By Lazar Berman

Speaking from Jerusalem, Anglican priest Andrew White recounts murder of youths who refused to convert to Islam

MK Issawi Frej (Meretz) in Tel Aviv, July 03, 2014. (photo credit: Melanie Lidman)

IDF soldier arrested on suspicion of threatening MK

Unnamed suspect wrote on Facebook that Meretz MK Issawi Freij was asking for ‘a bullet between the eyes’

The rivalry between Hanukkah and Christmas has inspired wonderful music for both holidays. (Courtesy of the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation)

Real American Jews write Christmas music

By Hillel Kuttler

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Detail from the cover of the 25th anniversary edition of 'Hershel and Hanukkah Goblins.' (JTA)

At 25, Eric Kimmel’s ‘Hershel’ gets new edition for Hanukkah

By Penny Schwartz

Members of Six13 in their 'Shake It Off' Hanukkah video. (YouTube screenshot)

Dreidels and LadlesEight crazy Hannukah clips

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman pictured in the Knesset in 2011 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewBreaking up is (not so) hard to do

By Joshua Davidovich

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