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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 15, 2015

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, January 11, 2015 (photo credit: AP/Matthieu Alexandre)

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Netanyahu compares France to pre-Inquisition Spain

By Elhanan Miller

Participants in PM’s closed Paris meeting with Jewish leaders say he was insulting and smug, decry his excessive reliance on parliamentarian Meyer Habib

Turkish PM says Netanyahu same as Paris terrorists

By AFP and ToI Staff

Netanyahu urges mass immigration to Israel

Jewish leaders skeptical of Europe’s tough talk on anti-Semitism

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

The tombstone of Rabbi Haim Leib Barit atop a pile of gravestones at the Brest Fortress in Belarus. (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

In a town built on Jewish headstones, still no fixing what the Nazis destroyed

By Ilan Ben Zion

Ariel Sharon’s parents were born here. Menachem Begin grew up here. And then the Nazis came. More than 70 years later, even efforts for a monument to the annihilated Jewish community of Brest are frozen, with just one charity group pressing ahead

Labor party leader Isaac Herzog on December 14, 2014. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Analysis

The dark side of Labor’s upbeat primary

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Isaac Herzog has led Labor to impressive heights in national polls ahead of the March elections. So why didn’t he get his own way with his party’s shrinking base?

Elections 2015Herzog promises political ‘revolution’ as he launches ‘Zionist Camp’ campaign

By Lazar Berman

Shaked is top vote-getter in Jewish Home primaries

Kahlon says his party will back peace, but there’s ‘no partner’

By Lazar Berman

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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British Jews reject ‘fortress Judaism’

This is not the 1930s — with the lowest levels of anti-Semitism in Western Europe, Britain is safe for Jews

A European Intifada

Allowing radical Islam to fester will lead to widespread violence that will have nothing to do with Palestine

Hillel is taking on BDS’s circus of hate

The campus organization is dedicating major resources to empower Jewish students to stand up for Israel

Haviva Ner-David

What is the Talmud’s message when it relates that the dregs of society ascended from Babylon to Israel?

The building of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in Jerusalem (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox mother of 7 arrested for refusing divorce

By Judah Ari Gross

Police handcuffed ‘G’ to her hospital bed for 20 hours; MK Aliza Lavie calls case ‘shocking’

A photo of Palestinian supporters raising a t-shirt to the US Consulate General sign in Jerusalem on September 21, 2011 (AP Photo/ Dusan Vranic)

‘US Consulate in Jerusalem arming Palestinian guards’

By Mitch Ginsburg

Israeli report says developments violate agreements; guards say the chief security officer is establishing ‘a militia’

Illustrative: Masked Hamas members carry a model of a rocket during a rally in the central Gaza Strip on December 12, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Analysis

Hamas hardliner runs secret Gaza terror cells targeting Fatah

By Avi Issacharoff

Islamist terror group’s former interior minister, Fatahi Hamad, seen behind recent series of bombings, aims to prevent Palestinian unity progress

Yisrael Beytenu party leader Avigdor Liberman speaks at a press conference in Tel Aviv on January 15, 2014. (photo credit: Ben Kelmer/Flash90)

Liberman unveils party slogan placing Israeli Arab city in Palestine

Yisrael Beytenu head says making some Israelis into Palestinians by remarcating the border is better than Jewish Home’s proposed annexation which would leave Arabs disenfranchised

The scene of an anti-terror raid in the Belgian town of Verviers, in east Belgium, January 15, 2015 (photo credit: Screen capture)

Times of Israel live, January 15, 2015 (closed)

Two alleged jihadis killed in Belgian anti-terror raid

By Jonathan Beck

Police swoop down on Islamists in Verviers; suspects reportedly plotted attack in Brussels, were linked to Paris supermarket killer

Supreme Court Justice Miriam Naor (left) embraces outgoing Supreme Court President Asher Grunis on January 15, 2015. (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

Supreme Court president Asher Grunis steps down

After final ruling dismissing terrorist’s appeal for compensation for abuse in prison, justice hands over reins to Miriam Naor

Filipino Muslim students, religious and community leaders stage a protest in Marawi City in southern Philippines on January 14, 2015. (Photo credit: AFP/ MARK NAVALES)

Filipino protesters burn Netanyahu poster at anti-cartoon rally

By AFP and ToI Staff

Some 1,500 people demonstrate in Muslim-majority cities against new Charlie Hebdo Muhammad sketch

$The three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped and killed in the West Bank by Hamas terrorists in June 2014, from left to right: Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel. (Courtesy)$

Prize memorializing murdered teens promotes unity, not uniformity

By Renee Ghert-Zand

William Schabas, right, and members of a Serbian delegation at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands in March. Schabas heads a UN Human Rights Commission inquiry into war crimes during the 2014 Gaza conflict (photo credit: AP/Jiri Buller)

Daniel Tragerman’s mother, other Israelis testify to UN’s Gaza inquiry

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Unofficial delegation, including parent of 4-year-old killed at kibbutz, presents Israeli side of the 50-day conflict; Israel formally boycotting ‘biased’ forum

A woman and her son feed birds in Stockholm, Sweden on February 15, 2011. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Threats to Sweden’s Jews double after Paris attacks

By AFP

Police increase security around Jewish institutions as members of 20,000-strong community voice concerns

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during a speech in Beirut, November 3, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/Imam Mahdi)

‘Hezbollah has capabilities beyond imagination’

By Adiv Sterman

Lebanese terror group’s chief says his organization is fully prepared for a military confrontation with Israel

Journalists photograph the new Acura NSX vehicle at the 2015 North American International Auto Show (Photo credit: Courtesy NAIAS)

Israeli tech drives car innovations at Detroit auto show

By David Shamah

Local innovations enable manufacturers to build quality cars more cheaply, help salespeople sell parts and services over the Internet, and ensure safer driving

B&H, New York City's most popular camera store, is run by Orthodox Jews and shuts down for Shabbat. (YouTube screenshot)

NYC electronics store earns gelt with Orthodox business model

By Stephie Grob Plante

More Headlines

An illustrative photo of a man praying at a synagogue. (photo credit: Aaron Kalman)

Going to synagogue can make you healthier, new study suggests

By JTA

Illustrative photo of newborn babies in an Israeli hospital nursery. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)

Labor Party‘Answering Hitler’ with great-grandkid 100

By Lazar Berman

Illustration (Photo credit: Shutterstock)

A love supremeIran to set up official marriage site

By AFP

The Supreme Court in session. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Elections 2015High Court rejects bid to annul 3.25% Knesset threshold

By Itamar Sharon

President Reuven Rivlin (photo credit: Flash90)

Rivlin reaffirms commitment to West Bank settlements

By Judah Ari Gross

Deadpool comic featuring Sarah Silverman (Scott Koblish/Marvel Entertainment)

Booked comedianSarah Silverman gets comics cameo

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Michael Douglas, left, with Michael Bloomberg, last year's recipient of the Genesis Prize. (Courtesy Genesis Prize)

Lucky starMichael Douglas wins Genesis Prize

Zionist Union MKs Shelly Yachimovich (L), Stav Shaffir (C) and Tzipi Livni (R) on January 14, 2015. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewThe ‘Zionist Camp’ and its win for women

By Marissa Newman

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