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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 9, 2014

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Iranian TV airs a program in February 2014 showing computerized shots of Tel Aviv being bombed by Iran in retaliation for an American or Israeli strike on Iran. (screen capture: YouTube)

Iranian TV airs simulated bombing of Tel Aviv, US aircraft carrier

By Ilan Ben Zion

Clip shows simulated strikes on Ben Gurion Airport, Haifa, USS Abraham Lincoln in retaliation for hypothetical attack on Iran

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

US dismisses Iranian warship report

By ToI Staff and AP

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon on a recent tour of the Gaza border (Photo credit: Alon Basson/ Ministry of Defense/ Flash 90)

Ya’alon: If Hamas won’t prevent terror, it will pay the price

Speaking after IDF strike against Gaza-based terrorist, defense minister vows Israel ‘will not tolerate disruption of our citizens’ lives’

AnalysisIAF strike critically wounds Gaza terrorist

By ToI Staff and Avi Issacharoff

AnalysisHamas deploys crack troops to Israeli border

By Avi Issacharoff

Rocket from Gaza explodes in southern Israel

Matthias Kuntzel

How the media fools itself about Iran

Presenting Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Zarif as a moderate is a case of Western wishful thinking

Jonathan Zausmer

David Horovitz’s defeatism on John Kerry

Taking issue with an editorial that characterized the US Secretary of State as ‘petulant’

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman: I want a Palestinian deal, but not at any price

By Gavriel Fiske and Haviv Rettig Gur

Foreign minister bashed by Jewish Home as ‘left of Livni,’ but insists, ‘I’m being realistic and pragmatic, as I am on every issue’

A supermassive black hole about 70 million times bigger than the earth's sun, located at the center of spiral galaxy M81. (NASA/CXC/Wisconsin/D.Pooley & CfA/A.Zezas; Optical: NASA/ESA/CfA/A.Zezas; UV: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CfA/J.Huchra et al.; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CfA)

Israeli astronomers adjust date of initial cosmic heating

Tel Aviv University study shows black holes warmed gases throughout space later than believed — a phenomenon astronomers can now observe

Pardes students discuss a Jewish text about constructive conflict (photo credit: Andrea Wiese/courtesy of Pardes Institute)

9 Adar encourages conflict, constructively

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Former CIA head James Woolsey (screen capture: Channel 10)

Ex-CIA chief: Anti-Semitism likely in Pollard case

By AP and ToI Staff

Woolsey says other Americans convicted of similar crimes were released after a short while, but it’s been 25 years for Israeli spy

Finance Minister Yair Lapid, November 05, 2013. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/FLASH90)

Lapid threatens to quit coalition over draft law

By Gavriel Fiske

Yesh Atid says it will leave the government if there are no criminal sanctions for ultra-Orthodox who evade service

Hadassah University Hospital in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem (Courtesy)

Health minister offers Hadassah hospitals a lifeline

Debt recovery plan outlined as work slowdown at Jerusalem medical center drags on; other hospitals strike briefly in solidarity

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Italian craftsmen repair the centuries-old roof of the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem (photo credit: Moshe Shai/FLASH90)

In Church of the Nativity restoration, rivals find unity

By AFP

It may still be an eyesore by Pope Francis’s visit in May, but site’s renewal represents rare agreement among competing Christian faiths

Illustrative photo of anti-Semitic French comedian Dieudonne performing the anti-Semitic quenelle gesture (screen capture: YouTube)

French comic with disputed ‘Nazi’ gesture defiant

By AP and ToI Staff

‘It’s a gesture of emancipation, of panache,’ says Dieudonne, now facing an eighth trial for inciting hatred against Jews

Zakary, Elyse and Ethan Kadish on a family vacation to Greece in 2012, before Ethan's brain injury. (Courtesy Kadish family/JTA)

Zakary Kadish is his brother’s keeper

By Suzanne Kurtz Sloan

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BlogSlavery 101 for the biracial child

By Malynnda Littky-Porath

A protester throws a gas canister back at anti-riot police during a protest against the Turkish government's newly proposed restrictions on the use of Internet, on Istiklal avenue in Istanbul, on Saturday, February 8, 2014 (photo credit: AFP Bulent Kilic)

Turkish protesters clash with police over online censorship

By AFP

Illustrative photo of an Israeli desalination plant. (Ben Sales/JTA)

From the webIsrael is creating a water surplus using desalination

Police scale back search for ‘abducted’ schoolgirl

The Spanish Inquisition Tribunal, a 19th-century work by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. (Wikimedia Commons/CC BY)

Spain gives 1492 expellees a right of return

By JTA

Mario Balotelli cries on AC Milan's bench, Saturday, February 9, 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)

Bawling BalotelliRacist chants and soccer star’s tears

A firefighter puts out the last of the fire started by a car bomb that killed one person. Police suspect criminal motives for the bombing (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewInflated trauma and no one to treat it

By Yossi Nachemi

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