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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 6, 2015

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Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Palestinian Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal seen during the congress of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012 (AP/Kayhan Ozer)

Hamas leader Mashaal said deported from Qatar

By Elhanan Miller

Reconciling with key Arab countries against Brotherhood, Doha boots political chief; Israel welcomes news, Hamas denies it

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat visits the Jerusalem Municipality maintenance department as it prepares to clear the snow which is expected to fall in Jerusalem this week. January 5, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalemites stock up on supplies ahead of blizzard

By Lazar Berman

Routes 1 and 443 to the capital will be closed as soon as snow begins; as much as two feet of snow predicted in higher areas

John Calvin, a gay, Christian Palestinian asylum seeker, who currently resides in Canada, says he fears for his life after he was issued a deportation order on December 31, 2014. (Photo credit: CTV News Edmonton screen shot)

Interview John Calvin in desperate battle to remain a refugee

‘Israeli kindness changed my life,’ says Hamas escapee in Canada

By Elhanan Miller

Gay, Christian-convert son of a Palestinian militant family tells Times of Israel he found compassion where he least expected it, and most needed it

‘Most Palestinians believe Israel wants to destroy Al-Aqsa’

By Elhanan Miller

Hamas ‘totally opposed’ to Abbas plan for new UN bid

By AFP and ToI Staff

Soldiers protest criminal investigations into Gaza war

By Tamar Pileggi

Kira Radinsky, voted by MIT Technology Review one of 35 innovators under 35, is winner of the Technology Pioneer Award. Photo: Flash90

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Join Shimon Peres, Bar Refaeli, Gal Gadot, Alan Dershowitz and more for an unforgettable evening

Gerald M. Steinberg

Human rights, European money and the ICC

Make no mistake: The Palestinians are waging well-funded, carefully planned legal war against Israel

Laura Ben-David

What to expect when you’re expecting snow

…in Israel, that is

Two flamingos were killed by a falling branch at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo during the December 2013 snowstorm. (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Jerusalem zoo braces for snowfall of biblical proportions

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Zoological gardens staff scrambles to ensure animals remain safe during this week’s looming winter storm

Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, May 27, 2014. (Flash90)

Police recommend trying former defense minister for graft

After 6-month probe, police say there is sufficient evidence to prosecute Labor stalwart Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, 10 others

Illustrative: The headquarters of the Israel Police's Lahav 433 anti-corruption unit in Lod. (Flash90)

Liberman’s missing former aide suspected of money laundering

By Adiv Sterman

Michael Falkov disappeared in Ukraine half a year ago, prompting speculation he was murdered or faked his own death

Former US president Barack Obama speaks during a press conference in the briefing room of the White House December 19, 2014, in Washington, DC. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)

US weighs cutting aid to Palestinians over ICC move

By AP and ToI Staff

Obama administration to review $440 million in annual funding after Abbas’s ‘counterproductive’ bid to join international court

An Egyptian army vehicle patrols along the border with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in the divided border town of Rafah on November 4, 2014. (Mohamed El-Sherbeny/AFP)

Analysis

Egypt to expand Gaza buffer zone to up to 2 kilometers

By Avi Issacharoff

Hundreds of families in Rafah to be evicted as Cairo ramps up crackdown on arms smuggling to Islamists in the Sinai

Leaders of the Likud at a party conference in Tel Aviv, January 5, 2015 (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Elections 2015

Netanyahu derides Herzog, Livni as too weak to protect Israel

By Lazar Berman

At event to introduce Likud’s Knesset list, PM also promises reforms to guarantee 4-year governments, stabilize Israeli politics

MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) outside the closed entrance to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City on October 30, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Moshe Feiglin quits Likud, may form new party

By JTA and ToI Staff

Economy Minister and Jewish Home party Naftali Bennett. (Photo credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash 90)

Bennett defends actions during 1996 Lebanon operation

By Lazar Berman

Jewish Home leader, then IDF officer, accused of panicking, setting off chain of events that ended with 106 dead civilians

Leader of the Kulanu political party Moshe Kahlon (R) and Rachel Azaria hold a joint press conference in Jerusalem on January 6, 2015. (photo credit: Ben Kelmer/Flash90)

Rachel Azaria joins Kahlon’s Kulanu party

By Lazar Berman

Deputy mayor of Jerusalem has a record of fighting for women’s rights, against religious coercion

Berlin skyline (CC BY-SA A.Savin/Wikimedia Commons/File)

Israeli attacked in Berlin downplays Islamist threat

By ToI Staff and AP

Shahak Shapira fears Israeli right will use incident ‘to strengthen nationalism,’ says he’s resolved to stay in Germany

Aryeh Deri and Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, March 17, 1999. (Flash90)

Analysis

As its leader Deri fights for his political life, Shas teeters with him

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Attendees play a video game wearing Oculus Rift virtual-reality headsets at the Intel booth at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), in Las Vegas, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Jae C. Hong, File)

Start-ups hope to make big impression at biggest-ever CES

By David Shamah

The Israel Export Institute has some special help for companies seeking to navigate North America’s top tech event

CyberArk staff and Nasdaq officials celebrate the company's IPO in June 2014 (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli start-ups focus on IPOs in 2014 exits, report finds

By David Shamah

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In this Sept. 8, 1945 file photo, Bess Myerson, of New York, holds the scepter after being crowned Miss America 1945 at the annual Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, N.J. (photo credit: AP)

Bess Myerson, first Jewish Miss America, dies at 90

By Christopher Weber

Soon to be a rare sight in Israel? (illustrative picture credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90)

Message to Israelis: Your cash is no good here

By David Shamah

Hipster Hitlers (photo credit: hipsterhitler.com via JTA)

Nipsters uniteGerman neo-Nazis go hipster

By Gabe Friedman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) shakes hands with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after they exchange documents during a signing ceremony at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on May 12, 2014 (Photo credit: AFP PHOTO/POOL /Toru Hanai)

After decades of distance, Japan seeks closer ties with Israel

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Hezbollah deputy secretary general Naim Qassem (photo credit: AP/Grace Kassab)

Top Hezbollah official admits spy infiltrated group

By Adiv Sterman

Illustrative photo of anti-Semitic graffiti in Europe (CC BY-SA Beny Shlevich/Flickr)

Anti-Semitic arson suspected in France synagogue attack

By JTA

A panel at the 2013 annual meeting of the American Historical Association (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

American Historical Association rejects anti-Israel resolutions vote

By JTA and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Snow in Jerusalem in 2013. (photo credit: Mitch Ginsburg/Times of Israel)

Hebrew media reviewThe great white hype

By Joshua Davidovich

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