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What Matters Most On Friday, January 16, 2015

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File. Belgian police exit a building in Verviers, eastern Belgium, on January 15, 2015. (AFP/Belga/Bruno Fahy)

Belgium, Germany, France conduct anti-terror raids

By AFP and AP

Brussels wraps up operation; 12 people allegedly linked to the Paris market killer detained in France; 2 suspects held near Berlin

Busted Belgian terror cell linked to Islamic State, official says

By ToI Staff and AFP

FM: Will EU condemn Belgium, France for ‘excessive force’?

By Marissa Newman and AFP

Hollande: Muslims ‘main victims of fanaticism’

By AFP

Marc Hecker at his office in the French Institute of International Relations in Paris, January 13, 2015 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

Interview

France lacks the means to grapple with terror, Paris expert says

By Elhanan Miller

Marc Hecker, a specialist on pro-Palestinian networks in France, says homegrown terrorists not tied with the struggle for Palestine

Hyper Cacher victim’s father knew his son ‘would fight’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, January 4, 2015. (photo credit: Marc Israel Sellem/POOL/Flash90)

Elections 2015

PM nixes unity government with Zionist Camp party

By Marissa Newman

Netanyahu blasts Labor-Hatnua party list, says there is a ‘huge gulf’ between Likud and new ‘radical left, anti-Zionist’ political bloc

Elections 2015Livni hints Zionist Camp may not sit in coalition with Likud

By Marissa Newman

Elections 2015Zionist Camp up 3 seats over Likud in latest poll

By Lazar Berman

After primary, Jewish Home head sets sights on premiership

By Stuart Winer and Ilan Ben Zion

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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Fight or flight and French Jewry

No one should urge Jews to flee; no one of any race or religion should flee; we must all fight

Free speech for me but not for thee

Using a university’s commitment to freedom of speech to advance a hateful agenda is disgraceful

Jewish educator Yiscah Smith in Jerusalem on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Former Orthodox educator builds life as woman in Jerusalem

By ISAAC SCHARF

Yiscah Smith, once active in the Chabad movement, now lectures on journey after sex change

Yehudit Shilat, the third-highest woman on the Jewish Home party’s Knesset election slate, spoke vehemently against homosexuality in a radio interview last year. (Photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Jewish Home candidate: Gay agenda ‘suicide’ for society

By Tamar Pileggi

Josh Block (standing), president and CEO of The Israel Project, with staff in the Washington, DC office, in December 2014. (Ben Zehavi/The Times of Israel)

DC-based command center fights Israel’s war of ideas

Kulanu party leader Moshe Kahlon surrounded by the party's Knesset candidates at a campaign kickoff event in Givat Brenner, January 15, 2015 (photo credit: courtesy/Facebook)

Campaign notebook: January 15

Kahlon kicks off campaign, wants to appeal to everyone

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman speaks at a press conference in Tel Aviv on January 15, 2014. Photo credit: Ben Kelmer/Flash90)

Analysis

A settler himself, FM Avigdor Liberman drops the A-bomb

By Raphael Ahren

Yisrael Beytenu boss, fighting for his political life, accuses would-be annexationist Naftali Bennett of risking an apartheid state

A man reads the latest edition of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo at a cafe in Dunkirk on January 14, 2015 shortly after the edition went on sale (photo credit: AFP/PHILIPPE HUGUEN)

German paper apologizes for fake Charlie Hebdo anti-Semitic cover

By AP

Berliner Zeitung publishes cartoon showing rabbi making Holocaust joke

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, holding the latest edition of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, leaves the Elysee Palace after a weekly cabinet meeting on January 14, 2015 in Paris. (AFP/Patrick Kovarik)

France’s stance on Palestine recognition unchanged by attacks

By Raphael Ahren and JTA

In conference call with US Jewish leaders, French PM Valls says attacks on Jews in his country unrelated to Israeli-Palestinian conflict

US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power talks during a previous Security Council meeting, on December 22, 2014 at the United Nations in New York. (Don Emmert/AFP)

US, UN, EU, Russia to meet on Mideast in late January

By Edith M. Lederer

Lassana Bathily appearing on French television news channel BFMTV in the days after the attack on the Hyper Cacher supermarket in Paris on January 9, 2015. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Kosher supermarket attack ‘hero’ gets French nationality

By AFP

Muslim employee who helped hostages will be naturalized after hundreds of thousands sign online petition

A scene from Israeli short "Aya", Israel's entry in the short film category for the Academy Awards (photo credit: Courtesy 'Aya')

Israeli short ‘Aya’ nominated for Oscar

By Jessica Steinberg

For 2015, Academy places Jerusalem Film Festival on par with Cannes and Sundance as arbiter of short films

'The Grand Budapest Hotel' leads the 2015 Oscar nominations. (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ leads Oscar nominations

By JTA

'The Grand Budapest Hotel' leads the 2015 Oscar nominations. (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Zweig's revival

Novelist inspired ‘Grand Budapest’

By Gabe Friedman

Academy Award nominations for whimsical film will likely raise the profile of author Stefan Zweig, friend of Freud and Herzl

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Popular British children's program Peppa Pig (screen capture: YouTube)

UK politicians mock publisher over ban on pigs in books

By AFP

Benzion Klatzko (Photo credit: Courtesy)

‘Jewish Facebook’ looking for a few good mensches

By David Shamah

Rounds multi-user chat interface screen (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Samsung, Verizon rush to invest in Israel’s ‘next WhatsApp’

By David Shamah

Cristina Guggeri's photomontage of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the toilet. (screen capture: www.areashoot.net)

Duties of officeWorld leaders imagined on toilet

By Judah Ari Gross

Incoming Supreme Court Chief Justice Miriam Naor with President Reuven Rivlin (R) during her swearing-in ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, January 15, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel swears in new chief justice Miriam Naor

Italian aid workers abducted in Syria last summer, Greta Ramelli (L) and Vanessa Marzullo arrive at Ciampino airport in Rome early on January 16, 2015. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)

Italian aid workers abducted in Syria freed

By AFP

Twitter account of CNN’s Clancy deleted

By JTA

Zemingo CEO Tsiki Naftaly (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Second-rate mobile apps abound, says Israeli expert

By David Shamah

Jewish Home celebrates the end of its primaries on January 15, 2015. (Ben Kelmer/Flash90)

Hebrew Media ReviewOn elections, Hebrew press takes a page from BuzzFeed

By Yossi Nachemi

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