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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 27, 2015

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An Israeli army tank is seen stationed near the Golan Heights village of Majdal Shams, March 19, 2014. (AFP/Jalaa Marey/File)

Live updates (closed)

Arab sources say Hezbollah ‘revenge’ will come next month

By Jonathan Beck

Nasrallah to refer to Quneitra attack in speech on Friday; IDF lowers alert after 2 rockets hit Golan Heights; Bennett under fire for adding ex-soccer star Eli Ohana to party list

Auschwitz survivor Miroslaw Celka after paying tribute to fallen comrades at the 'death wall' execution spot in the former Auschwitz concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp on January 27, 2015. (AFP/Odd Andersen)

Survivors return to Auschwitz amid warnings of resurgent anti-Semitism

By AFP

World leaders and Shoah survivors gather at site of former death camp to mark 70 years since liberation; EJC chief warns Europe is ‘close’ to a new exodus of Jews

70 years later, Hitchcock’s Holocaust footage airs

By Tamar Pileggi

France anti-Semitic attacks doubled in 2014, Jewish org says

By AFP

Hungarian premier admits country’s ‘shameful’ Holocaust role

By AFP

Stefan Weiss, with a photograph of his family, in his room at Reuth. (photo credit: Eldad Rafaeli)

Where Holocaust survivors gather to live out their days

A cluster of quaint buildings in Tel Aviv houses one of the world’s densest concentrations of survivors of the Nazi genocide

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the US Congress in Washington, May 24, 2011. (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Analysis

Netanyahu’s White House-defying speech could backfire

By Raphael Ahren

A polished address alone won’t lead lawmakers to back Iran sanctions bill. Pushed to a loyalty contest, even Republicans will side with Obama

New sanctions will improve chance of Iran deal, Israel says

By Raphael Ahren

Israel prefers no deal over bad Iran deal, FM tells Russia

By Lazar Berman

Meretz chief questions legality of Netanyahu’s US trip

By Judah Ari Gross

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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Thanking my grandfather’s liberator

Leon Bass, an African American WWII veteran, has made it his mission to tell the story of what he witnessed

Remember the past to build the future

A call to Jews to triumph over the Holocaust by making a personal effort to live as Jews

Anti-Semitism, old and new

Today, the most enduring of hatreds is converging with the most horrific of crimes — genocide

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

She discovered that vertical stripes rub some Jews the wrong way

Thane Rosenbaum

Will Auschwitz make it to eighty?

The emotional power that the Holocaust once held on humanity is losing momentum

Image of the BBC‘s coverage of the Paris terror attacks on January 7, 2015. (Photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

BBC exec: Don’t call Charlie Hebdo killers ‘terrorists’

By Tamar Pileggi

Head of corporation’s Arabic channel says term is ‘loaded,’ comments in accordance with editorial guidelines

A sign that translates as 'Charlie Hebdo - Sold Out' at a newsstand in Montpellier, France on January 14, 2015 (photo credit: AFP/PASCAL GUYOT)

Turkish court bans Facebook pages ‘insulting’ Muhammad

Ankara judiciary threatens to block entire social media network if it fails to comply with measure

European Union's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, speaks to journalists as she arrives for a Foreign Affairs Council meeting at the EU Headquarters in Brussels, on November 17, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/JOHN THYS)

Paris attacks ‘grim reminder’ of anti-Semitic threat, EU says

By ToI Staff and AFP

Marking 70th anniversary of Holocaust, Federica Mogherini commemorates ‘crime unparalleled in human history’

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

Scholars doubt European ‘tolerance law’ answer to anti-Semitism

By Marissa Newman

Legislation criminalizing ‘group libel’ wins support from major body, but critics decry shackles on free speech, question effectiveness in combating anti-Jewish hate

President Reuven Rivlin (right) meets with the parents of slain IDF lone soldiers in New York, January 2015. (photo credit: President's Spokesperson)

Rivlin meets parents of American IDF soldiers killed in Gaza

Israel and Jewish people ‘owe you a debt which can never be repaid,’ president tells parents of Max Steinberg and Liran Adir

Members of Unit 8200 training in September 2012 (photo credit: Moshe shai/Flash90)

IDF dismisses reservists who objected to ‘abuses’

By ToI Staff and AFP

In protesting ‘political persecution’ of Palestinians, 43 elite cyber defense soldiers violated ‘morals of IDF,’ army says

Then-Israel Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino (left) and then Deputy Commissioner Nissim Mor at a ceremony for officers receiving new ranks, at the Police headquarters in Jerusalem, September 22, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)

Deputy police chief suspected of sexual assault

Nissim Mor is the fifth senior police official accused of corruption or sexual misconduct in 18 months

Knesset election ballots at a polling station in Jerusalem, January 22, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

How a 28-year-old analyst is trying to fix Israel’s polls

By Haviv Rettig Gur

With some Nate Silver math and a skill for turning numbers into pictures, Nehemia Gershuni-Aylho is changing how Israelis read pre-election surveys

File photo: Eli Ohana (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

Elections 2015Former soccer star Eli Ohana to join Jewish Home

Rose Schindler, 85 (right), a survivor of Auschwitz, and her husband, Max, 85 (left), visit the former death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on January 26, 2015 (photo credit: AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

Dwindling group of survivors to mark Auschwitz 70 years on

By Vanessa Gera

Some warn that the rise in anti-Semitic hatred and violence can be linked to fading memory of the Holocaust

Illustrative: a chaplain and one of her patients at Jerusalem's St. Louis Hospital (Photo credit: Yitz Woolf)

Finding the pluralistic in pastoral care

By Jessica Steinberg

An annual conference on spiritual caregiving joins traditional practitioners with those who are carefully modernizing the chaplaincy

File: Beth Shalom in Havana, August 1, 2004. (Serge Attal/Flash90)

For Cuban Jews, improved US ties may not ease hardships

Illustrative photo of an Israel Police car in Jerusalem, June 2012 (Uri Lenz/Flash90)

6 Jerusalem residents arrested for beating Druze IDF vet

By Lazar Berman

Tommy Hasson, 21, says he was attacked by a mob wielding sharp objects for speaking Arabic

Palestinian women bake bread amid the rubble of their destroyed home in the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, September 21, 2014. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

UN halts Gaza house repairs, saying donors failed to pay up

By AFP

Virtually none of the $5.4b pledged by international donors has reached the beleaguered Palestinian territory, UNRWA says

Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) head Ari Ne'eman, the winner of this year's $100,000 Morton E. Ruderman Award in Inclusion. (courtesy)

‘Presumed competency’ gives the disabled a chance

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner speaking on TV on January 26, 2015 in Buenos Aires. (screen capture via AFP)

Argentina leader rejects Iran claims, calls to dissolve spy agency

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

Comedian Chelsea Handler is in the holy house, as she posted on Twitter: 'From the window...to the wall. Jerusalem is for lovers. Are you there Oprah? It's me chesty' (Courtesy Chelsea Handler/Twitter)

Lately... in IsraelChelsea Handler at work in Holy Land?

Reuven Rivlin, left, meeting Ban Ki-moon in New York on January 26, 2015. (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO)

Rivlin thanks UN’s Ban for fight against anti-Semitism

By Joshua Davidovich

A still from the trailer of 'Princess' (photo credit: YouTube)

Coming-out party‘Princess’ takes a bow at Sundance

A child using Acoustiguide's Opus multimedia systems at the Wallace Collection, London. (photo credit: Courtesy)

Social media next challenge for museum app maker

By David Shamah

MESH entrepreneurs gather for a group photo (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Short on tech firms, Modiin gets a push from entrepreneurs

By David Shamah

Police chief Yohanan Danino, left, whispering in the ear of Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch on Thursday November 13, 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewBoys in black and blue

By Joshua Davidovich

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