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What Matters Most On Friday, February 15, 2013

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An ambulance exits the Ayalon Prison in Ramle. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Zygier was granted all his rights, and was no ‘Prisoner X,’ says legal official

By Ron Friedman

Justice Ministry source says negligence charges may be filed against those who failed to prevent Mossad spy’s suicide in jail

Israeli TV: Zygier had nothing to do with Mabhouh affair

By Ilan Ben Zion and ToI Staff

Zygier killed himself in cell bathroom, Israel TV says

Israel reportedly to pay Zygier’s family millions

By Ron Friedman and Michal Shmulovich

Ruth Calderon speaks to the Knesset, Tuesday (photo credit: screen capture Knesset Channel)

Resonant response to maiden speech by Yesh Atid’s secular, female Talmud scholar

By Aaron Kalman

Tens of thousands watch clip of Dr. Ruth Calderon in Knesset debut quoting traditional sources, urging ultra-Orthodox and Zionist communities to better understand each other

The long march into the Israeli mainstream

The hardships that Ethiopian IDF recruits face signify that the path to integration will be long and arduous

Sara Yael Hirschhorn

Jack Teitel’s punishment: an example for whom?

The harsh sentencing of the convicted former American obscures the lenience meted out to native Israeli offernders

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits in the garden of his Jerusalem residence in June 2012. (photo credit: GPO/Flash90)

Cold scoop

PM’s ice cream habit costs thousands

By Ilan Ben Zion

Prime Minister’s Residence received special NIS 10,000 budget for financing the head of state’s sweet tooth

A Hamas parliament session in Gaza City, October 6, 2008. Hamas said on Wednesday that parliament members were visiting Bulgaria to meet with government officials there. (photo credit: Ashraf Amra/propaimages/Flash90)

Bulgaria boots out visiting Hamas delegation

By Michal Shmulovich and Stuart Winer

Officials come to the group’s hotel and escort members to the airport; Islamists had claimed they would be meeting political leaders in first such EU talks

Syrians who fled their homes with their families gather around a fire to warm themselves at a makeshift vegetable store in a camp for displaced persons in the village of Atmeh, Syria in December. (photo credit: AP/Muhammed Muheisen)

Not even the Nazis did what Assad’s doing, says ex-Syrian PM

By Michal Shmulovich

Defected leader claims Iran is ‘actively running’ Syria days after reports surfaced that Islamic Republic, Hezbollah are building networks of militias there

Former Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer (photo credit: Courtesy JPC)

Fischer: Haredim, Arabs have got to get to work

By David Shamah

Outgoing Bank of Israel chairman’s economic overview: Things are okay for now, but there are big problems on the horizon

US Secretary of State John Kerry (right), and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon address reporters after their meeting at the US Department of State in Washington, D.C., February 14 (photo credit: US State Department)

Mideast issues top agenda at Kerry meeting with UN chief

By Ron Friedman

‘US leadership will remain crucial in the period ahead,’ says Ban Ki-moon

Orel Ben Ari, left, the head of the Tel Aviv Refugee Clinic (the Public Clinic), pictured with a young Eritrean man who had fled to Israel after sustaining several physical and emotional traumas in Egypt, including the loss of his hand, before being granted asylum in Europe. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel)

Volunteer medical clinic for migrants gets big boost from government

By Michal Shmulovich

An Egyptian watchtower overlooking the Israeli border with Egypt (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israeli delegation visits Cairo for security talks

By Ron Friedman

Defense officials reportedly hold brief meeting with Egyptian counterparts while their aircraft waits on the runway

Illustrative photo of Bat Yam (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Top Five

Making it new in Bat Yam

By Jessica Steinberg

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Members of the jury of the World Press Photo contest listen to questions during a press conference as the winning picture by Paul Hansen, Sweden, for Dagens Nyheter, is projected on a screen in Amsterdam in February. (photo credit: AP/Peter Dejong)

Photographer wins top award for Pillar of Defense picture

A man looks at a poster reading "Census of Jews" displayed in an exhibition at the Shoah Memorial in Paris, Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. The French state prepares to give back seven stolen Nazi-era paintings - 4 of which are in the Louvre - to two Jewish families, after a decade-long tug of war. (photo credit: AP/Jacques Brinon)

France to return 7 paintings looted during WWII

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat speaking at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations at the Inbal Hotel, Jerusalem, in 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Jerusalem mayor: No split city has ever worked

By Philip Podolsky

Illustrative photo of soccer game between Beitar Jerusalem and Hapoel Tel Aviv (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Israeli soccer player barred from entering Dubai

A man reading a news report about the reported Mabhouh assassination in 2010. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewPrisoner why

By Joshua Davidovich

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