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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 25, 2014

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Saddam Hussein during Iran-Iraqi war in the 1980s. (Public domain, Wikimedia Commons)

‘Saddam gave orders to fire chemical weapons at Tel Aviv if he was toppled in First Gulf War’

Tapes reveal Iraqi dictator told generals to launch missiles with WMD warheads at Jewish state should he be cut off from his military staff

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during their meeting on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 24, 2014. (PMO)

Netanyahu: Iran has spent $160 billion on nuclear weapons drive

Israeli PM states Rouhani engaged in ‘campaign of fraud’; also says his government won’t dismantle Jordan Valley settlements

A year of great progress for new politics

Twelve months into its Knesset term, Yesh Atid is moving ahead on its goals for education, housing, army service and more

What we need to learn from the Holocaust

Israel needs to make the right choice between “the whole world hates us” and “we must never again allow genocide”

Scarlett Johansson with Sodastream's Daniel Birnbaum (photo credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images for SodaStream/via JTA)

Scarlett Johansson rejects criticism of her SodaStream role

By ToI Staff and Debra Kamin

Actress counters BDS cries of apartheid, saying firm, with plant in West Bank, employs Israelis and Palestinians as ‘bridge to peace’

US Secretary of State John Kerry, right, poses with Swiss President Didier Burkhalter for photographers in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 24, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Gary Cameron)

Kerry: Peace ultimately requires full IDF pullout from Palestinian areas

By Ilan Ben Zion

US secretary of state tells Davos conference that benefits of talks’ success, dangers of their failure, are enormous for whole world

Irving Finkel, curator in charge of cuneiform clay tablets at the British Museum, poses with the 4000 year old clay tablet containing the story of the Ark and the flood during the launch of his book 'The Ark Before Noah' at the British Museum in London, Friday, Jan. 24, 2014. The book tells how he decoded the story of the Flood and offers a new understanding of the Old Testament's central narratives and how the flood story entered into it. (photo credit: AP/Sang Tan)

British Museum: Prototype for Noah’s Ark was round

By Jill Lawless

Curator Irving Finkel calls 4,000-year-old Mesopotamian tablet telling flood story ‘one of the most important human documents ever discovered’

Islamic Jihad members firing rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip. (photo credit: CC BY-SA Amir Farshad Ebrahimi, Flickr)

Analysis

Hamas may be fighting a losing battle to stop Gaza rocket fire

By Avi Issacharoff

Rival groups are defying the Islamist government’s efforts to maintain calm, precisely as Hamas itself once defied the PA

An Egyptian girl holds a poster of Egypt's Defense Minister, Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, in Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the 2011 uprising, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014. Egyptian riot police have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi protesting as the country marks the third anniversary of the 2011 uprising, as supporters of the military gathered in rival rallies in other parts of the capital. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Divided Egypt marks 3rd anniversary of uprising

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and Sarah El Deeb

At least 25 killed in clashes with police around the country amid rival protests by supporters, opponents of military-backed government

An Egyptian street vendor sells masks of Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in Cairo, January 15, 2014. (photo credit: Khaled Desouki/AFP)

Analysis

The drifting sands of terror in Egypt

By Avi Issacharoff

The murderous attacks that hit the Sinai peninsula have not abated; they’ve just shifted to the country’s major cities

A Mantis Vision system (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Samsung, Flextronics pour $10m into 3D start-up

By David Shamah

Mantis Vision’s technology could be used to develop 3D TV – something the electronics giants are definitely interested in

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French film 'White Bird in a Blizzard' is so bad it's good. (Sundance Film Festival)

Chosen films

The best and Jew-est MOT films from Sundance 2014

By Jordan Hoffman

Lakhdar Brahimi at the UN, November 2012 (photo credit: AP/Richard Drew)

In Geneva, Syria’s warring sides meet face-to-face

By AFP and AP

For the first time since negotiations began, rival delegations sit silently in same room as UN envoy lays groundwork for talks

This January 2013 citizen journalism image shows rebels from al-Qaeda affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, as they sit on a truck full of ammunition, at Taftanaz air base, that was captured by the rebels, in Idlib province, northern Syria. The photo was authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting. (photo credit: AP Photo/Edlib News Network, ENN, File)

Israel fears it is next target of al-Qaeda-linked jihadis in Syria

Concern at spillover terrorism from 30,000 fighters is prompting Jerusalem to re-evaluate its neutrality on Syrian war

A view of the picturesque Tzaanan Pool. (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

Where cyclamen blush in ancient Tzaanan

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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Adolf Hitler (left) shakes hands with Heinrich Himmler somewhere in Germany on May 18, 1944. From left to right: Hitler, Minister Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Admiral Karl Doenitz, Himmler and Field Marshal General Erhard Milch. (AP)

Himmler’s private documents resurface in Tel Aviv

By AFP

A Sikh dentist treats a patient in Quebec (YouTube screenshot)

'Non' to Bill 60Religious freedom fight hits YouTube

By Renee Ghert-Zand

An Israeli navy missile ship (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Fire aboard Israeli Navy ship injures 15

Jehuda Reinharz (photo credit: screenshot YouTube)

Brandeis pays former president $4.9 m. in deferred compensation

By JTA

New York mayor Bill de Blasio (Courtesy BilldeBlasio.com)

NYC mayor, in AIPAC speech, vows to defend Israel

Strawberries, chocolate and cream on the pastries at Gaya Bertele (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Top FiveLove your yeast dough, and other baking tips

By Jessica Steinberg

An illustrative photo of a spray-painted swastika on a window (ADL/JTA)

Vandals cause French billboard firm to scale back JDate campaign

By JTA

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the Executive Committee of the PLO in Ramallah, in January (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Abbas, Medvedev negotiating $1b. Gaza gas deal

Italian and UN officials eulogized Shlomo Venezia, who survived the horrors of Auschwitz by unwillingly taking part in them. (Photo credit: Courtesy Rubinstein PR)

Eyewitness account from Auschwitz gets its first Mandarin translation

By JTA

A young man displays the quenelle in front of the main gate of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Does French Jewry’s leader think fighting quenelle is futile?

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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