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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 16, 2014

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Jordan's King Abdullah II, during the former's surprise visit to Amman on January 16, 2014. (AP/Yousef Allan/Jordanian Royal Palace/File)

Jordan’s king urges Israel to seize moment created by Kerry

By Adiv Sterman and Elhanan Miller

Netanyahu makes surprise visit to Amman at ‘critical point’ in peace talks, amid reports that Israel wants to hold onto a fourth settlement bloc

Amid Ya’alon-Kerry row, Peres praises US peace efforts

By Ilan Ben Zion

Kerry shrugs off defense minister’s withering critique

By Marissa Newman

Palestinians fire on Israeli car near Nablus

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop with FM Avigdor Liberman in Jerusalem, January 13, 2014 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir)

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Australia FM: Don’t call settlements illegal under international law

By Raphael Ahren

In candid interview, Julie Bishop expresses skepticism about the peace process, says boycott Israel activists are ‘anti-Semitic’

High-level ‘Nazi’ slingers

Oops — Israel’s law proscribing the use of the epithet would accidentally jail half the cabinet

How Israelis are beating the high cost of living

Local prices on stuff from soap to electronics are insane, but plenty of people have found ways to pay less [Start-Up Israel content]

Yona Israel Goldman

Tu Bishvat: The nut of the matter

Sometimes getting a holiday wrong is a way of getting it right

Rose Fostanes after being declared winner of the singing contest X-Factor in Tel Aviv, Tuesday, January 14, 2014 (photo credit: Tal Givony/Handout/Flash90)

Israel’s Filipina ‘X-factor’ champ not allowed to work as a singer

Rose Fostanes, the upset winner of the nationally televised contest, only has an employment permit as a caregiver

Looking over Hany Abu-Assad's shoulder at a view of Nazareth (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Palestinian movie, partly filmed in Israel, gets Oscar nod

By Debra Kamin and Jessica Steinberg

Hany Abu-Assad was born in Israel, and he filmed some of ‘Omar,’ a West Bank love story, in Nazareth. But he calls his film Palestinian, and so does the Academy

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto (photo credit: Shuva Yisrael/Flash90)

Top cop probed over alleged benefits from prominent rabbi

By Adiv Sterman

Affiliates of Yoshiyahu Pinto said to provide kickbacks to anti-corruption unit’s director in case involving FBI, NY congressman

Graffiti reading "We will avenge your spilled blood, Qusra" on the walls of a mosque that was set ablaze in an apparent "price tag" attack in the Palestinian village of Deir Istiya in January 2014. (photo credit: Zakariya/Rabbis for Human Rights)

Washington condemns ‘price tag’ attack on mosque

By ToI Staff and AP

United Nations cites four-fold rise in settler violence against Palestinians in eight years

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

Iron Dome downs five rockets headed for Ashkelon

By Yoel Goldman

3 additional projectiles from the Gaza Strip land in open areas; IAF retaliates with airstrikes, reportedly injuring 5 Palestinians

Former Canadian justice minister Irwin Cotler speaks to the media during a press conference in Jerusalem, Dec. 30, 2009 (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

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PA state-sponsored hate speech must stop, human rights expert says

By Elhanan Miller

Incitement should be combated by peace-seeking NGOs, Canada’s former justice minister Irwin Cotler believes

Hamas officials Sami Abu Zuhri (right) and Mushir Al-Masri in Gaza (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)

Hamas: Egypt ‘delusional’ in thinking it can crush us

By Elhanan Miller

Spokesman for Gaza group speaks out after report on Cairo’s plan to undermine it

Illustrative photo of the Central Bus Station in south Tel Aviv. (Zuzana Janku/Flash90/File)

Man indicted for attempt to murder Eritrean toddler

By Adiv Sterman

Mordechai Michael Zaretsky, 59, allegedly stabbed 1-year-old girl near the central bus station in south Tel Aviv

Britain's Ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, presents the 2012 TeXchange winners (Photo credit: Mati Milstein/British Embassy)

London calling: Israelis to compete in UK tech contest

By David Shamah

The second edition of TeXchange, which gives 15 of Israel’s most innovative start-ups access to money and connections in Britain, kicks off next month

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"Ravit," by Naomi Leshem (Courtesy Naomi Leshem)

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Get out and do something for Tu Bishvat

By Jessica Steinberg

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Neil Young performing at Farm Aid, one of his longstanding gigs, in 2010 (Courtesy Wikipedia)

Rockin' in the free worldNeil Young to rock Tel Aviv this summer

By Jessica Steinberg

Yossi Klein Halevi wins National Jewish Book Award

By JTA and ToI Staff

Anat Kamm sits in the Tel Aviv District court on April 12, 2011. (photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Early release for ex-soldier who leaked secret info

By Adiv Sterman

An aerial view of the NSA's Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah, Thursday, June 6, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

On-line or off, cyber-spies can get you, Israeli expert says

By David Shamah

Nova Palestina, Brazil (photo credit: Youtube screenshot)

In Brazil, an illegal settlement is dubbed ‘New Palestine’

By Marissa Newman

Menashe Arviv (left) is alongside Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, September 16, 2013 (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewPolice, pols and plenty of cash

By Ilan Ben Zion

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