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What Matters Most On Friday, February 1, 2013

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Arguably America's first celebrity mayor, Ed Koch steered New York through some of the city's toughest times. (photo credit: New York Post via Zeitgeist Films)

Koch film opens hours after ex-NYC mayor’s death

By Renee Ghert-Zand

A documentary arriving in US theaters on Friday offers a timely look at one of New York’s most influential and polarizing leaders

Former NYC mayor Ed Koch dies at 88

By Deepti Hajela

Analysis

Why Israel might have felt the imperative to strike in Syria

By Mitch Ginsburg

A peek through the fog in the wake of Wednesday’s unconfirmed attack, and an assessment of the likely fallout

Ex-general says targeted Syrian site produced non-conventional weapons

By Yoel Goldman

Top Syrian general says war with Israel will never end

By Ilan Ben Zion and AP

US warns Damascus against transferring arms to Hezbollah

By Ron Friedman and AP

Joshua Hammerman

Ending gun violence in America is nothing less than the Civil Rights movement of our time

The soldier I won’t be

While he’s at college next year, many of his Israeli peers will be required to fight for their lives

Medical workers carry away a woman injured when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device at the entrance to the US Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, in early February (photo credit: AP/Burhan Ozbilici)

Suicide bomber hits US Embassy in Turkey, killing two

By AP and Ilan Ben Zion

Attacker and security guard killed; authorities suspect outlaw Marxist group responsible; Netanyahu sends condemnation and condolences

Art Modell, the late owner of the Baltimore Ravens, embraces star linebacker Ray Lewis in 2001. (photo credit: Courtesy of the Baltimore Ravens via JTA)

Can purple cholent power the Ravens to Super Bowl supremacy?

By Chavie Lieber

President Shimon Peres meets with United Torah Judaism's Yaakov Litzman, in Jerusalem, January 31 (photo credit: Mark Nayman/GPO/Flash90)

Peres to wait till Saturday night to ask Netanyahu to form new government

By Aaron Kalman

75 incoming MKs from four parties back PM; UTJ says it supports anyone who backs its agenda, but asks president to greenlight formal coalition talks only after Shabbat

Illustrative photo of an Israeli F-15 Eagle fighter jet (Edi Israel/Flash90/File)

Israeli warplanes reportedly conduct ‘mock raids’ over Lebanon

By AP and ToI Staff

Lebanese news outlet says Israeli jets are flying low over the southern and eastern areas of the country bordering Syria

Former US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton at a press conference in November 2012 (photo credit: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Clinton accuses Iran of spurring Syrian violence

Outgoing American secretary of state blames Tehran and Hezbollah for ongoing bloodshed in civil war

Former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama's choice for defense secretary, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination. (photo credit: AP/Susan Walsh)

Defending record, Hagel vows to maintain Israel’s military edge

By AP and ToI Staff

Defense secretary nominee regrets use of term ‘Jewish Lobby’ in describing pro-Israel groups

A smuggling tunnel on the Gaza-Egypt border (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)

Heavy rains force Hamas to close Gaza tunnels

By Ilan Ben Zion

Islamist faction shuts smuggling routes after collapses kill several Palestinian workers

In footage recorded by a hidden camera, the head of Britain's Union of Hebrew Congregations advises an alleged victim of sexual abuse not to go to the police. (Channel 4)

London Haredim slam TV exposé on sexual abuse in community

By Miriam Shaviv

Leadership claims Channel 4 documentary distorts rabbis’ response to allegations of misconduct against children

Prof. Dr. Berndt Feuerbacher (photo credit: Sivan Faraj)

Space, the final frontier for peace?

By David Shamah

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The Iron Dome missile defense system in action, November 15, 2012 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThreat level midnight

By Joshua Davidovich

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez speaks during a cabinet meeting at the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Thursday, November 15, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Miraflores Presidential Press Office)

Venezuela spying on its Jews, documents reveal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, (l) speaks with then-cabinet secretary Zvi Hauser at a weekly cabinet meeting in July 2009. (Ariel Jerozolimski/Flash90/File)

Netanyahu’s cabinet secretary resigns

By Yoel Goldman

Jaffa (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Police suspect man of killing 74-year-old sister

Thousands of Egyptian protesters gather in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Friday, January 25 (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

UN voices outrage over reported Tahrir Square rapes

Accidental hero Guy Preissler speaks to Channel 2 News (photo credit: image capture/Channel 2)

Resourceful Israeli stops runaway bus in NYC

By Philip Podolsky

Condoms (photo credit: CC BY Robert Elyov/Flickr)

We've got you coveredStress-free condom shopping in Dubai

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