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What Matters Most On Monday, February 17, 2014

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Foreigners wait to cross to Egypt at the Israeli side of the Taba crossing near the Red Sea resort of Eilat, Sunday, Feb 16, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Analysis

Taba terror attack sends dual murderous message

By Mitch Ginsburg

The Islamists’ blast reverberated across the border — a fatal strike on Egyptian tourism, and a symbolic message to Israel

Egypt refused Israeli medical help for Taba bus blast

South Korean church mourns after Egypt bombing

By AP and ToI Staff

Al-Qaeda-linked group claims Sunday’s Taba bombing

By Lazar Berman and AFP

Rescue personnel at the scene of an explosion that killed five and injured 11 in the northern city of Acre, Monday, February 17, 2014 (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)

Death toll raised to five in Acre building explosion

By Lazar Berman and Itamar Sharon

Young boy and parents among those killed; 11 others injured; police probing whether blast was caused by sabotage

Sanctions on Israel? Lessons from South Africa

Boycotts ultimately make negligible dents in a modern economy, but keep an eye on their psychological impact

The problem with Hasbara

Israel is a great place, but terrible at explaining why that is

Economy Minister Naftali Bennett. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

John Kerry isn’t an anti-Semite, Bennett says

By Raphael Ahren

Minister disavows claim by his party’s own MK Moti Yogev, tells US Jewish leaders they must speak out against boycott efforts

Illustrative: International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors (2nd and 3rd left) and Iranian technicians at the Natanz nuclear power plant, south of Tehran, on January 20, 2014. (Kazem Ghane/IRNA/AFP/File)

Iran opens ‘center for nuclear emergencies’ at Natanz

Various other ‘nuclear projects’ also inaugurated at uranium enrichment facility, Iranian news agency announces

Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, right, shakes hands with Fatah official Azzam al-Ahmad during their meeting in Damascus, Syria, September 2010 (photo credit: AP/Bassem Tellawi)

Hamas will endorse two-state deal, Fatah leaders assert

By Elhanan Miller

West Bank officials returning from Gaza say Islamist rulers will back accord with Israel, despite statements to the contrary

The building of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate in Jerualem (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset moves to decentralize conversion to Judaism

By Haviv Rettig Gur

While rabbinate warns bill endangers ‘halachic validity’ of conversions, backers say it restores local rabbis’ ‘traditional role’

The endangered mountain gazelle. (Wikimedia Commons/Bassem18)

Mountain gazelle makes Golan comeback after tough times

By Aron Dónzis

Regional antelope species, considered a symbol of Israel, marks 3rd year of encouraging increase

Governor of the Bank of Israel Karnit Flug during a meeting of the Finance Committee in the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 06, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash90)

Bank chief blames slowdown on ultra-Orthodox, Arabs

By AP

Karnit Flug says that low rates of employment among Haredi men, Arab women hinder Israel’s long-term economic growth

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John Kerry of John Kerry Solutions Ltd. (screen capture: YouTube)

Big wigs

Kerry-mocking site now jeers in English

By Debra Kamin and ToI Staff

John Kerry Solutions Ltd., a settler-produced site unveiled last month, portrays secretary of state as a bumbling idiot

Niv Adiri at work. (photo credit: courtesy of Niv Adiri)

Israeli nabs BAFTA award for ‘Gravity’ sound

Niv Adiri is also nominated for an Academy Award; will be country’s lone representative at the March 2 Oscar ceremony

Cantor Eric Moses, wife Melissa, and children. (courtesy)

10 years after the big C, cantor’s family celebrates musically

By Daniel Horowitz

More Headlines

Illustrative photo of undercover rabbis in Guy Ritchie's 'Snatch' (screen capture: YouTube)

Tallit & daggerMossad appoints spy rabbi

By Ilan Ben Zion

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, second left, flanked by newly released Palestinian security prisoners, greets the crowd in Ramallah, on October 30, 2013 (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Palestinian says he plotted fake terror attack to get PA salary

By Marissa Newman

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)

Two more arrested in connection with TA shooting

By Adiv Sterman

Michal and Shimon Gross, January 23, 2014. (Flash90)

Brothers poisoned by pesticide sent home from hospital

Knesset Members from Meretz and party activists gather outside the Knesset in Jerusalem before the voting on the state budget, June 17, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Meretz kicks off campaign to recruit new members

By Adiv Sterman

The wreckage of the bus blown up near the Taba crossing on the Egypt-Israel border, February 16, 2014 (photo credit: AFP)

Hebrew media reviewBombs away

By Joshua Davidovich

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