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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 12, 2015

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, September 15, 2010. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

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PM pulled out of deal for demilitarized Palestine, shared Jerusalem, in 2011

By Avi Issacharoff

Peres — acting with Netanyahu’s support — was set to finalize framework with Abbas when PM changed his mind, sources say; PMO denies account

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

Elections 2015

Elections committee votes to disqualify firebrand Arab MK

Hanin Zoabi, who provoked outrage with implied support for Hamas attacks, ruled unfit to run for Knesset; battle now moves to Supreme Court

Joint Arab List members (from left to right), Ayman Odeh, Masud Ghanayem, Jamal Zahalka and Ahmad Tibi sit together during a press conference in Tel Aviv on February 11, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/GIL COHEN-MAGEN)

Elections 2015Joint Arab List kicks off Hebrew-language campaign

By Adiv Sterman

Michael Oren. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

An American politician in Jerusalem

By Haviv Rettig Gur

How Michael Oren, a frustrated, dyslexic New Jersey teen, became a bestselling author, Israel’s US ambassador, and almost certainly the newest English-speaking MK

Parties release slew of new campaign ads

By Judah Ari Gross

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Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman (Photo credit: Flash 90)

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The ‘Russian’ vote is disintegrating

By Stephan Miller

Voters of Russian origin are overwhelmingly right-wing, but no longer as committed to Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu

Workers of Israel Chemicals demonstrate outside the company headquarters in Tel Aviv on March 20, 2014, March 20, 2014. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/FLASH90)

Factory layoffs leave Likud members in the cold

By Daniel Bernstein

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on January 14, 2015. (Photo credit: GPO/Amos Ben-Gershom)

Elections 2015

Netanyahu agrees to debate, on his terms

PM indicates he’ll only hold TV discussion with either Livni or Herzog, who lead Zionist Union — not heads of other parties

Screen capture of the JStreet home page, featuring a petition against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as 'the spokesman for all Jews'

ADL pans J Street’s ‘Bibi doesn’t speak for me’ petition

By Stuart Winer

Anti-Defamation League says liberal group’s criticism of controversial upcoming address to Congress is ‘inflammatory’

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Durban university students seek to expel Jews

By Adiv Sterman

Demand focuses on those who don’t identify with Palestinians; petition ‘totally unacceptable,’ vice chancellor says

The center of the Bedouin city of Rahat in southern Israel, February 16, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Cop accused of killing unarmed Bedouin man

By Stuart Winer

Sami al-Jaar was shot dead during a January drug bust in Rahat; police had initially denied pulling the trigger

Journalists stand on a hill overlooking the Gaza Strip at the height of Operation Protective Edge, July 13, 2014 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel ranks lowly 96th in press freedom rankings

Jewish state’s media ‘able to be outspoken,’ but crackdowns on Palestinians a factor in placement below Kuwait, Mozambique

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Hogwash‘Modern Jews not descendants of pigs’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu examines what is said to be the world's oldest prayer book, now on display at the Bible Lands Museum, 2104. (photo credit: Chaim Tzach)

Hebrew media reviewThrowing the book at Netanyahu

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