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What Matters Most On Friday, February 14, 2014

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Rafael Advanced Defense Systems' surface-to-air missile system is on display in Singapore Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Joseph Nair)

Star Wars-style laser shield aims to protect all of Israel from short-range rockets

By Satish Cheney

Rafael unveils Iron Beam defense system to intercept drones, rockets and missiles; will complement Iron Dome

Viber screenshot (Photo credit: Courtesy)

'Billion-dollar club' has a new member

Japanese Internet giant snags Viber for $900m

By David Shamah

The biggest-ever buyout of an Israeli tech company by an Asian firm will likely lead to more Asia-Israel deals, experts say

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lights the Hanukia together with Rabbi of the Western Wall Shmuel Rabinovitch, at the Western Wall on the second night of the Jewish holiday of Hannuka. November 28, 2013. (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)

Analysis

The key to Mideast peace, neglected by the world

By Raphael Ahren

Recognition of the Jewish state is Netanyahu’s ‘first and most unshakable demand,’ but the Palestinians say they’ll never accept it — and the international community is clueless

ExclusivePA tells Kerry no to framework deal in current form

By Avi Issacharoff

Kerry’s Jewish brother: Attacks on John ‘vile’

By JTA

Obama to meet Jordan’s king in California desert‎

By AFP

My valentine to American Jewish men

Oh, those New York shtarkers with their confident manliness and ethnic pride

Ayatollah Strangelove and drone porn

How freaked out was he by that video? So freaked out he actually agreed with Benjamin Netanyahu

Orange M&Ms (photo credit: Mars Incorporated)

Israelis sue over artificial dye in orange M&Ms

Level of ‘Sunset Yellow’ coloring breaches Israeli health limits, class-action suit claims

Gregg and Abby Wilentz celebrating their anniversary at the AMHSI campus. (photo credit: courtesy of the Wilentz family)

Valentine's Day

An Israeli high school plays Diaspora cupid

The Alexander Muss school, which caters to overseas teens, has an uncanny track record for producing married couples

Tri-level truffles in heart shapes at the Chocolate Festival, opening Thursday at the Tel Aviv Train Station complex (Courtesy Chocolate Festival)

Top five

It’s time to do what you love

By Jessica Steinberg

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men examine knives used for slaughtering chickens (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)

Denmark Jewish leader: Laws won’t ban all ritual slaughter

By JTA

Community head says new regulations outlaw killing without stunning, but would permit other halachic methods

Ilan Halimi, kidnapped and murdered by an anti-Semitic gang in Paris in 2006, (Courtesy of Stephanie Yin/JTA)

Ilan Halimi’s killer attacks prison guard in France

By JTA

Youssouf Fofana, serving life sentence for torturing French Jew to death, tries to stab warden

Visitors search for treasures at the Yeshiva University's annaul Seforim Sale. (courtesy)

NY Jewish book sale unique forum for pluralism, love

By Aryeh Younger

At the annual Seforim Sale, it is not unusual to see a secular Jew exchanging ideas with a hassid over the same text

Israelis settlers and right-wing activists hold evening prayers after attending a march in the area known as E1 near the Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, on February 13, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Housing Minister: We marched to support PM in talks

By Adiv Sterman

Uri Ariel denies Thursday’s rally of thousands calling for more settlement construction was meant to pressure Netanyahu

Yossi Kabessa shows off his gold medal (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Young Israeli scientist wins top award, $100k prize

By David Shamah

An innovative system to detect pollutants in urban water system nets Yossi Kabessa honors in the Global Young Scientists Summit

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Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly in 'Noah' (Paramount Pictures)

Chosen films

Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’ has weathered the storm

By Jordan Hoffman

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A group of Israeli entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley have started a petition for a non-stop SFO-TLV flight. (screen shot graphics by Eyal Shahar/courtesy)

Waze and meansSilicon Valley to Silicon Wadi, direct?

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Tehran TV host mocks Obama (photo credit: MEMRI screenshot)

Sticks and stonesIran TV host mocks Obama’s bricks

By ToI Staff and AP

A scene from the first episode of the animated web series 'Purple and Nine.' (Courtesy of Gangly Sister)

Nerds are coolGirls get animated about science

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Jerry Seinfeld (photo credit: YouTube screen grab)

Toy TroubleSeinfeld: ‘Lego Movie’ stole my jokes

By JTA

Workers of Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem protest outside the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, on Monday, February 10, 2014. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewNursing a grudge

UN-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi at a press conference during the Geneva II negotiations at the European headquarters of the UN, in Geneva, Switzerland, on Thursday, February 13, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Valentin Flauraud)

Arabic media reviewSyria talks looking bad

By Elhanan Miller

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