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What Matters Most On Tuesday, December 30, 2014

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Benjamin Pogrund, center, next to Nelson Mandela (courtesy Benjamin Pogrund)

Interview

Is Israel an apartheid state? Answers from someone who’d know

By Raphael Ahren

In South Africa, Benjamin Pogrund was jailed for opposing the regime. Now, in Israel, he abhors the occupation but insists there’s no comparison

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Algiers, December 23, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Farouk Batiche)

Palestinians submit revised statehood draft to UN

By AFP and ToI Staff

Washington calls resolution ‘unconstructive,’ signaling it will veto the bid when it comes up for a Security Council vote

Palestinians say Jews will be a minority by 2016

Reported text of draft UN resolution on Palestinian statehood

Hamas accuses Palestinian government of failing Gaza

By AFP

Kira Radinsky, voted by MIT Technology Review one of 35 innovators under 35, is winner of the Technology Pioneer Award. Photo: Flash90

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Uri Pilichowski

The terror attack that didn’t make the news

Someone picked up rocks, saw his innocent daughter and made a decision to hurt her and her friends

My strange, everpresent, Jewish whiteness

No matter how Jews want to identify themselves, many of them reap the benefits of white privilege

Stephen Hawking and the Golem

There’s a world of difference between the ability to create and the power to control

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, seen with their son Avner (C) as he prepares to begin his IDF service, December 01, 2014. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu’s son lightly injured during IDF training

By Stuart Winer

Concerned prime minister rushes to hospital to check on Avner, who’s serving in a combat intelligence unit

Illustrative: Detail from 'Noli me tangere' by Titian, c. 1512, depicting a meeting between Jesus and Mary Magdalene. (public domain via wikipedia)

‘Lost Gospel’ depicts a married political activist Rabbi Jesus

By Michael Posner

Illustrative photo of an Israeli crowd. (Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Israel’s population at 8.3 million at close of 2014

By JTA

6.2 million Jews live alongside 1.7 million Arabs, while 176,600 babies were born over past year

Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog (L), with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November 2013. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Analysis

Likud is from Mars, Labor is from Venus

By Haviv Rettig Gur

It’s not yet clear which parties or alliances will be on the ballot, but the battle to define what the election is about is already underway

Shas chairman Aryeh Deri at a press conference in Jerusalem, December 14, 2014. Behind him is a poster of the party's late spiritual leader, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shas chief tenders resignation over leaked tapes

By Stuart Winer and Tamar Pileggi

Party’s council of rabbis rejects move, largely seen as symbolic, and decrees that Aryeh Deri remain in his position

Illustrative photo of the IDF in the West Bank. June 19, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Majdi Mohammed)

IDF returns fire at Palestinian vehicle, injuring two

By ToI Staff and AFP

Explosive device thrown from car at troops near Beit Ummar, south of Jerusalem; Palestinian teen seriously wounded

This aerial view taken from an Indonesian search and rescue aircraft over the Java Sea shows floating debris spotted in the same area as other items being investigated by Indonesian authorities as possible objects from missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 on December 30, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Bay ISMOYO)

Bodies from missing plane pulled from sea, ending search

By DEWI NURCAHYANI and Robin McDowell

Several victims floating in Java Sea recovered by ship near where fragments of AirAsia flight spotted; ‘shadow’ of vanished jet seen on seafloor

Rachel Azaria at City Hall (Courtesy Rachel Azaria/Facebook)

Rachel Azaria said in talks to join Kahlon’s party

Deputy mayor of Jerusalem has a record of fighting for women’s rights, against religious coercion

The budding designers of Sderot, with their benefactor, bat mitzvah girl Sabina Sternklar-Davis in the middle (photo credit: Elias)

Clothes & crafts

Sderot’s budding fashionistas

By Jessica Steinberg

A New Yorker donates her bat mitzvah money for a design class for girls in the southern Israeli town

Palestinian demonstrators protest near the Israeli border fence with Gaza (unseen) as Israeli army soldiers patrol on the border, January 3, 2014. A Gaza water tower can be seen in the background. (photo credit: David Buimovitch/Flash90)

IDF to withdraw forces from some communities near Gaza

But regional council heads demand new fence for increased security amid rising tensions

Professional poker player Ari Engel says he doesn't gamble. (YouTube screenshot)

For this son of an Orthodox rabbi, poker is not gambling

By Uriel Heilman

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Illustrative: Passengers boarding an Egged bus in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Minister faces anger after putting brakes on Shabbat buses

Medical personnel disinfect a room where suspected Ebola sufferers were quarantined in the village of Freeman Reserve, Liberia, September 30, 2014. (Illustrative photo: AP/Jerome Delay, File)

Israel pledges $8.75 million to fund Ebola fight

By JTA

A link to a satirical report tweeted by former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt on Monday, December 29, 2014 (screen capture: Twitter)

Spoof goofFormer Swedish PM tweets satire as news

Google Israel CEO: We’re no monopoly

By David Shamah

A client seeks work at an unemployment office in Jerusalem (Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Survey: Plenty of jobs in Israel, but not all are good ones

By David Shamah

Emin Djinovci reincarnation of Adolf Hitler and travels everywhere with a copy of Mein Kampf. (Photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

The Boys from Kosovo?Lookalike proud to emulate Hitler

By Gabe Friedman

Aryeh Deri all smiles, after his resignation was rejected on December 30, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewClearing the Deri-air

By Yossi Nachemi

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