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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 16, 2014

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The Taba border crossing between Israel and Egypt (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Four killed in bombing of Israel-bound bus at Egypt border

By ToI Staff and AP

Explosion rocks tourist bus en route to Eilat, leaving 3 Koreans, 1 Egyptian dead; terror alert is raised in Sinai

A Palestinian worker inside a smuggling tunnel, beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in the southern Gaza Strip, in February 2013 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Egypt said to target Gaza tunnels in new campaign

A supporter of Egypt's ousted president Mohammed Morsi reads the Quran as she sits next to a tent with posters of Morsi in Cairo, Egypt, in August. (photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

Morsi trial halted after lawyers protest glass defendant cage

By AFP and AP

Illustrative photo of a couple having a wedding picture taken at the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem, April 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Orthodox couples opt for illegal halachic weddings

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Dissatisfied by old school patriarchy, many modern religious couples are marrying outside the Israeli rabbinate

Jason Fredric Gilbert

The missing picture

Saying goodbye is never easy, especially to something (literally) close to your heart

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Let’s eat grandma!

Newborn babies are not meals, but in case of nutritional emergency…

Who are you calling ultra?

Why is it that only the guys in the black hats and the girls with sheitels have this distinguishing label?

Illustrative: The Portuguese town of Belmonte, where many Crypto-Jews were centered. (photo credit: CC BY Ken and Nyetta, Flickr)

Portugal may open gates for descendants of expelled Jews

Following Spain, Portugal prepares to grant citizenship to descendants of those expelled or forced to convert to Christianity

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas greets reporters as he arrives at Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Abbas: We don’t want to divide Jerusalem, or flood Israel with refugees

By Raphael Ahren

PA president tells young Israelis that two municipalities can share capital, denounces unequal water rights, acknowledges anti-Israel incitement

Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto (Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90).

Top cop allegedly took thousands from popular rabbi

By Aron Dónzis

Benefits purportedly received by Menashe Arviv include monthly stipend, assistance for son in acquiring US residency

Ismail Haniyeh, former Hamas prime minister, in the Gaza Strip (Abd Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

NATO peacekeepers to get same treatment as IDF, Hamas says

Islamist terror group’s Gaza PM says he won’t be bound by any agreement reached between Israel, Palestinian Authority

The car in which 27-year old Taher Lalah was shot to death by masked gunmen in central Tel Aviv (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Four detained in connection with Tel Aviv killing

By Michal Shmulovich

In suspected gang hit, 27-year-old Taher Lalah gunned down in broad daylight near a crowded beachfront center

A Jewish couple enjoys Valentine's Day at the waterfront in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: Dima Vazinovich/Flash90)

People of the heart

Israelis say ‘I love you’ most on Twitter

Valentine’s Day data from social media site shows Jewish state ahead of Sweden, Norway; Saturdays in Dec. were peak time for tweeting Hebrew love

Mor Gelfand, 24, who was hit in the chest by a stray bullet on Valentine's Day. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Woman shot in chest after boyfriend proposes

Mor Gelfand, 24, suffers moderate injuries on Valentine’s Day from what police suspect was stray bullet fired by hunters

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Life and laughter from Oscar-nominated film about survivor, 110

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SlickLogin CEO Or Zelig and VP R&D Ori Kabeli (Youtube screenshot)

Google buys Israeli security start-up SlickLogin

By David Shamah

In this combination of photos taken between Feb. 9 and Feb. 13, 2014, spectators at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, show their national pride with face paint. (photo credit: AP Photo)

In Sochi, as at all Olympics since 1936, politics lurks

A model presents a designer dress during the Fashion Forward show in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, October 17, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Kamran Jebreili)

Dubai vying to be world’s next fashion capital

The car in which 27-year old Taher Lalah was shot to death by masked gunmen in central Tel Aviv (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewCrime but no punishment

By Ilan Ben Zion

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