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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 21, 2014

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UNESCO's Director General Irina Bokova poses with the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Rabbi Marvin Hier and the original poster for the exhibit on the Jewish people's 3,500-year connection to the land of Israel, in January, 2014. (photo credit: Courtesy Simon Wiesenthal Center)

Interview

Author of UNESCO’s nixed Israel exhibit decries ‘appalling betrayal’

By Raphael Ahren

UN organization showed its ‘contempt for the Jewish people and its history,’ Robert Wistrich fumes. And the US is ‘passively complicit’

The invitation to the cancelled UNESCO event on 3,500 years of Jewish connection to the Land of Israel

UNESCO’s scrapping of Israel exhibit ‘a slap in the face of every Jew’

By Rebecca Benhamou

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses the Knesset, Monday, January 20, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash 90)

Harper: Support for Israel is morally and strategically right

By Lazar Berman

In Knesset speech of emphatic solidarity, Canada’s PM slams ‘disgraceful’ hatred of Israel, urges Palestinians to seek peace, says his sanctions on Iran will remain

Harper tells Israel: ‘Through fire and water, Canada will stand with you’

Canada’s visiting PM Harper pledges $66 million to PA

By Adiv Sterman

Romania: Palestinians should recognize Israel as Jewish state

By JTA

A wine buyer’s guide for the rest of us

As the host accepts your bottle of wine, he is indeed judging and he probably knows you bought it for 4 for 100 shekels

Giving her children the gift she never had: siblings

Sharon’s coma and the value of life

Jewish bioethics teach that life itself is of infinite value; sometimes choosing it over death is the greater show of courage

A cartoon published in The Economist portrays US President Barack Obama shackled to a Jewish-controlled Congress.

Economist removes ‘anti-Semitic cartoon’ after criticism

By Yoel Goldman

Readers take editors to task for publishing an image depicting Barack Obama shackled by a Jewish- or Israeli-controlled Congress

French soccer star Nicolas Anelka performing the quenelle, a Nazi-like salute, after scoring a goal at a match in London, December 28, 2013. (photo credit: Christopher Lee/Getty Images/via JTA)

Soccer player Anelka charged for anti-Semitic gesture

By AP and ToI Staff

French star faces minimum five-game ban for celebrating goal last month with quenelle salute; has not apologized

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a meeting of the Likud-Beytenu faction in the Knesset on December 9, 2013 (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Times of Israel Poll II

Growing pessimism, dip in job approval, complicate Netanyahu’s path forward

By Stephan Miller

Times of Israel poll finds dramatic swerve to pessimism among young voters and the right, trends that should worry Israel’s second-longest serving prime minister

The NASA space shuttle Discovery lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in 2011. (photo credit: NASA)

Israel said to eye sending second astronaut spaceward

By Gavriel Fiske

Officials hold talks with US, Russia, EU and China to launch Israeli to space station, 11 years after Ilan Ramon was killed in Columbia disaster

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Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Ex-Australian FM slams successor for pro-settlement stance

By Raphael Ahren

Julie Bishop’s comments to The Times of Israel show ‘an ignorance of international law,’ says her immediate predecessor, Bob Carr

Jordanian Foreign Minister and President of the United Nations Security Council Nasser Judeh, right, has a conversation with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as a Security Council meeting began at UN headquarters on Monday, January 20, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Craig Ruttle)

After uproar, UN withdraws Iran invite to Syria talks

By RYAN LUCAS and Zeina Karam

Rebels threatened to boycott Geneva II following surprise invitation; Ban Ki-moon ‘deeply disappointed’ in Iranian statements

A Lebanese army soldier walks through the site of a car bombing in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. (Photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

Explosion hits Hezbollah neighborhood in Beirut

Four reported killed in suspected suicide bombing in Haret Hreik neighborhood

The city of Eilat. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Salafi group takes responsibility for Eilat rockets

Two rockets fired into Israeli territory Monday night; no injuries reported; forces still searching for landing site

The 'Omar' cast at Cannes, with director Hany Abu-Assad in the center (photo credit: Courtesy 'Omar' by Hany Abu-Assad Facebook page)

Walking this year’s red carpet, thorny global politics

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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 allowed to work as a singer

By ToI Staff and JTA

Republican US House member Louie Gohmert (photo credit: US House of Representatives)

The book of BibiUS rep: Netanyahu the next King David

By Lazar Berman

Israeli and American soldiers participate in a joint earthquake drill in Holon on October 21, 2012. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

With quake fears looming, Israel races to protect ancient sites

By Daniel Estrin

'Wish I Was Here' with Zach Braff, Joey King and Pierce Gagnon (photo credit: Lawrence Sher)

Sundance Film ReviewZach Braff brings schmaltz into the 21st century

By Jordan Hoffman

Illustrative photo of an Iranian warship (Alex Hicks, Wikimedia Commons)

In first, Iranian warships en route to Atlantic

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses the Knesset on Monday (photo credit: Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewExplosions seen and heard

By Yossi Nachemi

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