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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 17, 2015

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Belgian para-commandos patrol near a synagogue in the center of Antwerp, Belgium, on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Virginia Mayo)

Belgium sends troops to Jewish sites, Britain boosts patrols amid raised terror fears

By AP and ToI Staff

150 paratroopers deployed to Antwerp’s Jewish quarter, other targets; Charlie Hebdo terrorist hastily buried in eastern French city

Belgian Islamist cell was ‘hours away from attack’

By AFP, ToI Staff and AP

Rampant anti-Semitism a major aliyah factor, French Jewish leader says

By JTA

Kerry lays wreath at Paris kosher market

By JTA and AFP

ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda (CC BY-SA 3.0, Max Koot Studio/Wikimedia)

ICC prosecutor opens probe into alleged Israeli war crimes

By AFP, AP and ToI Staff

Liberman slams ‘scandalous decision’, calls to dismantle ‘hypocritical’ international criminal court

US pans ICC war crimes probe of Israel as ‘tragic irony’

By AFP, AP and ToI Staff

FM calls to dismantle ICC after launch of ‘war crimes’ probe

By AFP, AP and ToI Staff

Swedish FM calls Israel’s behavior ‘unacceptable’

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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Edmon J. Rodman

How big of a ‘We’ were the Jews in ‘We shall overcome’?

Ahead of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a Jewish Angeleno recalls a rough summer in ‘65 of pursuing justice in Alabama

US President Barack Obama speaks during a press conference with Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron in the East Room of the White House on January 16, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Photo credit: AFP/MANDEL NGAN)

Obama warns of military showdown if Iran talks fail

By Josh Lederman

US president urges Congress not to jeopardize diplomatic efforts, vowing to veto additional sanctions

The Saudi-Iraqi border near the location of a recent attack by suspected Islamic State fighters. (screen capture: Daily Mail)

Saudi Arabia plans to build wall to keep IS out

By ToI Staff and AP

Kingdom erecting 600-mile barrier in response to threat from jihadist group which attacked a security patrol this month

The flowers of the Gilboa (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel travels

In the Gilboa Mountains, the wildflowers defy King David’s curse

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan on July 15, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Adem Altan)

Erdogan lashes out at ‘provocative’ Charlie Hebdo

By AFP

Turkish leader says publication does not have the freedom to ‘wreak terror’ by depicting Prophet Muhammad

‘3,000 people in Turkey linked to Islamic State’

By AFP

Turkish intelligence report warns of numerous sleeper cells, possible attacks ‘anywhere, anytime’

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (L) talks to Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sabah al-Khaled al-Sabah during a meeting at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo on January 15, 2015. (photo credit: Mohamed el-Shahed/AFP)

Abbas says he’s planning new UN statehood bid

PA leader asks for financial aid from Arab League; France to draft separate proposal for two-state solution

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks to Channel 2 Friday, January 16, 2015. (Photo credit: Channel 2 screenshot)

Liberman: Breakthrough on peace possible by end of year

FM says Abbas must go, warns Israel will not transfer frozen taxes until he’s out

Demonstrators burn the French flag on the Temple Mount on January 16, 2015 after Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem to protest the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad in the French publication Charlie Hebdo this week. (screen capture: Shehab News Agency/Facebook)

Protesters burn French flag at anti-cartoon rally on Temple Mount

By AFP and ToI Staff

500 Muslim worshipers gather at holy site to protest French magazine’s portrayal of the Prophet Muhammad

Former Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hammad (photo credit: image capture from YouTube video uploaded by Middle East Info)

Analysis

Cracks appearing in Hamas leadership in Gaza

By Avi Issacharoff

Radical secret wing targets Fatah in the Strip; attempts to reconcile with Iran and Hezbollah rebuffed

Hatnua party leader Tzipi Livni (left), Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog (center) and economic reformer Professor Manuel Trajtenberg at a press conference on December 31, 2014 announcing Trajtenberg's participation in the joint Labor-Hatnua list for the upcoming March 2015 Knesset elections. (photo credit: Amir Levy/Flash90)

Elections 2015

Arab parties said to reject Herzog’s coalition invitation

Factions suggest tacit support for Zionist Camp if it wins elections, seek spending in Arab sector; 2 Arab parties hold primaries

'What do you think Katz's Deli would say about this?' asks El Cuchitril owner Juan Pablo Gorman at his Buenos Aires cafe. (courtesy)

Deli delight turns foodie trend in Buenos Aires

By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs

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Jim Clancy speaking in a YouTube interview in 2010 (screen capture: YouTube/Roxanna Samii)

CNN’s Jim Clancy resigns after controversial Israel tweets

By JTA

Defendants apologize for setting fire to German synagogue

By JTA

Saudi liberal blogger Raif Badawi was sentenced in May 2014 to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for criticizing Saudi Arabia's clerics and ridiculing the country's morality police on his blog. (Amnesty International Canada/Screenshot from campaign ad)

Saudi delays more flogging of blogger on medical grounds

Illustrative photo of a mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath (Mayyim Hayyim / JTA)

NYC Reform rabbi reclaims — and reimagines — the ritual bath

By Miriam Groner

Illustrative image of FBI agents (AP/Winslow Townson)

US Muslim citizen settles case over post-9/11 attacks arrest by FBI

By Rebecca Boone

Illustrative photo of anti-Semitic graffiti (CC BY-zeeweez, Flickr)

From the webHolocaust memorial day posters defaced in east London

Illustrative image of sign at a Duke University campus. (Photo credit: Shutterstock via JTA)

Duke nixes plans to allow Muslim call to prayer from campus belltower

By JTA

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