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What Matters Most On Friday, February 21, 2014

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US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to an Israeli reporter in an interview aired Thursday, February 20, 2014 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Newfound Jewish roots gave Kerry a ‘deep’ bond with Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Secretary of state, who only learned his grandparents were Jews in 2004, says he understands Israelis’ reluctance to sign a deal

US: Peace framework will recognize Israel as Jewish state

Kerry, in Paris, continues Mideast peace push

Settlement freeze ‘unacceptable,’ right-wing MKs warn PM

By Adiv Sterman

Workers from Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital protesting outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem over its funding crisis, February 9, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

How did Hadassah get into this mess?

By David Horovitz

The strike is over, but the debt crisis remains, and it’s the hospitals’ deals with Israel’s HMOs that are to blame for that, says the women’s organization’s executive VP

Morally driven Judaism for Israel

David Hartman’s philosophy would benefit the religious discourse and attitude of the Jewish State

‘Apartheid Wall’ is absurd, but it works

“Palestinian Terror Week” doesn’t exist, which may be why hasbara isn’t so effective

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman speaks during a session of the Conference Of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, on February 18, 2014 (Photo credit: Flash 90)

Liberman’s Diaspora speech panned as ‘poorly researched’

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Some US Jewish leaders baffled by talk of bringing 3.5 million olim in a decade, spending $1m. a day on education overseas

File: Americans rally in support of Israel, Chicago, November 2013. (photo credit: Courtesy JUF Chicago/JTA)

Poll: US approval ratings for Israel remain high

By JTA

Robert Halfon (screen capture: YouTube)

Analysis

MP: Britons will never back preemptive strike on Iran

By David Horovitz

Conservative Robert Halfon says UK is so scarred by Iraq war, it will only support resort to force if it is directly attacked

President Shimon Peres meets with Marcia Fudge, chair of the US Congressional Black Caucus, at the president's residence in Jerusalem, February 18, 2014. (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)

From small-town mayor to pro-Israel congresswoman

By Raphael Ahren

A pro-Israel group brought Marcia Fudge to Israel when she was still the mayor of Warrensville Heights, Ohio. Today she heads the Congressional Black Caucus

Jan Koum (R.) talks to David Rowan at DLD Munich 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)

Immigrant founder’s past a major part of Whatsapp’s DNA

By David Shamah

In a recent interview, Jan Koum, a Ukrainian-born Jew, explained how his experiences figured in the app that Facebook bought for $19b.

Will WhatsApp turn into another Facebook? (photo credit: Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

My love affair with WhatsApp. Does it have to end?

(L. to R.) Sweden's Ambassador to Israel Carl Magnus, Tzav 8 co-founder Yael Shany, and Ireland's Ambassador to Israel Eamonn McKee take a 'high-tech selfie' at the Tzav 8 event in Netanya. (photo credit: Courtesy)

Israel’s tech ambassadors head to Barcelona

By David Shamah

Entrepreneurs abroad have the opportunity to promote company and country, say organizers of Tzav 8

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Illustrative photo of Israeli soldiers walking past Palestinian flags near the West Bank city of Jericho. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Analysis

Largest tourism project in West Bank gets underway

By Avi Issacharoff

Billionaire Munib al-Masri’s Gate of Jericho plan to feature a series of high-level hotels over 740 acres outside Jericho

Palestinian actors Leem Lebany as Nadja and Adam Bakri as Omar (photo credit: Courtesy 'Omar')

Chosen films

‘Omar’ and its mustache-twirling Jews hit US theaters

By Jordan Hoffman

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A conceptional illustration of a potential Mars colony (photo credit: Courtesy NASA)

Omission to MarsNo Red Planet for you, Muslims told

By Gavriel Fiske

Henry Cavill portrays Superman in 'Man of Steel.' (AP/Warner Bros. Pictures, Clay Enos)

Hezbollah: Jews invented Hollywood to ‘take over the world’

Delegation of Presbyterian leaders at the Ma'ale Adumim SodaStream factory, in February 2014. (photo credit: Yosi Leon/courtesy)

Presbyterian delegation visits SodaStream plant

By Gavriel Fiske

ID2's 'Class of 2014' (Photo credit: Netanel Tobias)

Former NZ PM Helen Clark ‘blown away’ by Israeli ingenuity

By David Shamah

United Torah Judaism MK Meir Porush handcuffs himself to the microphone on the lectern in the Knesset plenum, during a speech about efforts to draft Haredim, on Tuesday, July 23, 2013. (photo credit: Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewDisloyalty dissed

By Marissa Newman

Anti-government protesters take a break on a barricade at Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014 (photo credit: AP/ Marko Drobnjakovic)

Arabic media reviewArabs look at Kiev and see Damascus

By Elhanan Miller

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