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What Matters Most On Friday, January 23, 2015

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US President Barack Obama, November 13, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Christophe Archambault)

Netanyahu ‘spat in our face,’ White House officials said to say

PM ‘will pay price’ for spat over Congress address; Obama said to have asked him to tone down pro-sanctions rhetoric; Wash. Post: Kerry’s enthusiasm for defending Israel may wane

Obama, Kerry won’t meet Netanyahu during Washington visit

By AP and Lazar Berman

Contradicting Kerry, Mossad denies it opposes new Iran sanctions

By Lazar Berman

Top European diplomats argue against new Iran sanctions

By Lazar Berman

The body of Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz is carried during his funeral at Imam Turki Bin Abdullah Grand Mosque on January 23, 2015 in Riyadh (photo credit: AFP/STR)

Peres, Rivlin mourn loss of Saudi king

By ToI Staff and AFP

Israeli leaders praise Abdullah’s leadership, promotion of Mideast peace process; kingdom holds funeral for late monarch

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah dies aged 90

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

Obama offers condolences on death of Saudi king

By AP

Saudi’s new monarch to follow in brother’s footsteps

By AFP

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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It was one of his first shifts on the ambulance and he held the stabbing victim’s head as she bled profusely

Michael Fumento

Ebola and the lessons unlearned

Despite doomsday predictions, the epidemic is on the wane, and anyone with Web access could have predicted it

Auschwitz survivor Renee Gancz stands next to a portrait of her self at age 38 in her Tel Aviv apartment, January 20, 2015. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/The Times of Israel)

A journey to Auschwitz with Renee

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Israel's Ambassador Ron Prosor addresses the United Nations General Assembly, January 22, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Richard Drew)

UN conference on anti-Semitism strikes cautiously hopeful note

By Cathryn J. Prince

Toulouse rabbi who lost daughter in 2012 terror attack says he’s certain more will be done after recent Paris killings

French Jewish philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy addresses a special session of the United Nations General Assembly on anti-Semitism, January 22, 2015 (AP/Richard Drew)

At UN, French-Jewish philosopher decries ‘radical inhumanity’ of anti-Semitism

By Carole LANDRY

Dutch former minister Herman Heinsbroek (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Dutch ex-minister: World peace if Israeli Jews move to US

By JTA

Herman Heinsbroek says it was ‘a historical error to give the Jews their own country’ in Islamic Middle East

An ad appearing on social media for a protest outside the Argentinean embassy in Israel on Jan. 23, 2015, to demand the truth about the death of Alberto Nisman (photo credit: JTA)

Argentina’s Jewish leader: Nisman was fine when we met days before his death

By ToI Staff, AP and JTA

Protest over death of AMIA terror-attack investigator planned for Tel Aviv Friday; President Fernandez, in volte face, now rules out suicide

An undated photo of Amedy Coulibaly, jihadist killer of four Jews in a Paris kosher supermarket and of a French policewoman, and his wife Hayat Boumedienne who is sought by police. (Photo credit: Screenshot/Itele)

Kosher market killer Coulibaly buried near Paris

By AFP

Authorities say body of terrorist who murdered 4 Jews, policewoman was not accepted by home country Mali

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (L) tours Israel's northern region amid tensions on the Lebanese border on Friday, January 23, 2015 (Photo credit: Defense Ministry)

Ya’alon: Israel won’t tolerate provocations in the north

By Itamar Sharon

Defense minister tours border region amid heightened tensions; IDF chief: We are prepared for any action needed

Lt. Col. Dotan Razili, a 25-year veteran of the IDF, during a Company and Battalion Commander Course (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

In prepping for Hezbollah battle, army draws lessons from Gaza

By Mitch Ginsburg

Future company and battalion commander officers learn how to unravel the urban, asymmetric threat

IDF forces in the Golan Heights on January 20, 2015, two days after the attack on Syria in which several Hezbollah members were killed. (photo credit: Basal Awidat/Flash90)

Analysis

Sorry about the Syria strike, Iran. At least until the elections

By Avi Issacharoff

Why did Israel unofficially apologize to Iran for killing its general? Because Israeli leaders are skittish about an escalation of hostilities before March 17

Balad Chairman MK Jamal Zahalka (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Arab parties finalize unity deal

By Lazar Berman

New faction will be headed by political newcomer Ayman Odeh, and is expected to win some 12 seats in March’s elections

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, left, presenting Dustin Brown of the Los Angeles Kings with the Stanley Cup at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, June 13, 2014. (Andrew D. Bernstein/NHLI via Getty Images/ via JTA)

Hockey always king for NHL’s Jewish commissioner

By Hillel Kuttler

Dr. Werner Vogels talks cloud tech at the AWS event (Photo credit: DLD)

Amazon to buy Israeli hardware firm for $350m

By David Shamah

Annapurna Labs will help the online retail and cloud services giant reach customers more quickly and efficiently, an industry source says

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Raghad, in the blue blazer, holds her baby in this photograph of the Saddam Hussein family from 1980s. Her new jewelry line was inspired by her father and her husband (Wikimedia Commons)

Blood diamondsSaddam’s daughter creates jewelry line

By Judah Ari Gross

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, center, and Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, right, carry a Torah scroll in the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, January 22, 2015 (photo credit: Elram Mandel/Foreign Ministry)

Diplomatic corpusIraqi Torah’s aliya to Foreign Ministry

By Raphael Ahren

New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver outside federal courthouse after his arraignment on bribery and corruption charges, Jan. 22, 2015 (Photo credit: Yana Paskova/Getty Images/JTA)

Silver’s arrest a 2nd strike for NY Orthodox power brokers

By Uriel Heilman

Tzohar women at the 'Guf Rishon' conference, January 2015. (photo credit: courtesy image)

Religious women hold trailblazing conference on family sexuality

A Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone equipped with Red Bend's 'dual-persona' operating systems (photo credit: Courtesy)

US giant buys Israeli company for Internet of Things tech

By David Shamah

Meretz party's 2015 campaign video. (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Shake ya tailfeatherMeretz MKs bust a move in new clip

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, September 23, 2014. (photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewPromises of revenge

By Marissa Newman

Israeli start-up Pricence accepts first prize in the 2014 MasterCard Israel Technology Award event. (Courtesy)

MasterCard gives Israeli start-ups credit for innovation

By David Shamah

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