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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 29, 2015

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Illustrative: IDF military vehicles along the Israeli border with Lebanon, on January 28, 2015. (photo credit: Basal Awidat/Flash90)

Hezbollah conveys to Israel it does not want escalation

United Nations delivers message to Israeli leaders; officials on both sides of border announce return to routine

Soldiers killed in northern border attack buried

By AFP and ToI Staff

Netanyahu blames Iran for recent Hezbollah attacks

By Judah Ari Gross

As Security Council meets, Spain blames Israel for peacekeeper’s death

By AFP and AP

Israeli soldiers operating in the Mount Dov region on January 28, 2015, shortly after two soldiers were killed in a Hezbollah ambush (photo credit: AP Photo/ Ariel Schalit)

Analysis

Will an eye for an eye suffice?

By Mitch Ginsburg

Hezbollah’s deadly attack on an Israeli army convoy was carefully chosen as punishment for the Quneitra strike

AnalysisNeither side wants war, but that was true last time around too

By Avi Issacharoff

Lebanese rebuke Hezbollah for dragging country into clash

By Elhanan Miller

US: Israel has right to self-defense against Hezbollah

By AFP and ToI Staff

A skull fragment found at the Manot Cave in northern Israel belonging to the oldest known anatomically modern human who migrated out of Africa (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel staff)

Ancient skull found in north sheds new light on journey out of Africa

By Ilan Ben Zion

55,000-year-old fragment discovered in cave near Nahariya a ‘connecting link’ between ancient and modern humans

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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The victory of politics over spirituality

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Red alert — south and north

On the dual Israeli reality of a life steeped in beauty and joy, and permeated by anxiety and sadness

What’s next for Gaza’s settlers

A community displaced to Ariel by the disengagement, has remained steadfast in their pioneering spirit

Jason Fredric Gilbert

10 reasons to vote for the pot party

Reason 7 to put the Green Leaf party in power: It will make Israel safer

Visitors at the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, January 26, 2015 (AP/Alik Keplicz)

Bad Taste

Italian Jewish leader held in Auschwitz

By JTA and ToI Staff

Rome community head, TV crew found themselves locked in after hours, triggered alarm and were questioned by police

Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer presents his credentials to President Barack Obama at the White House, December 4, 2013. (photo credit: Twitter/Amb. Ron Dermer)

White House lashes Israeli envoy over Netanyahu speech

Ron Dermer accused by ‘outraged’ officials of harming US-Israel ties; Bush-era ambassador to Israel calls him a ‘political operative’

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on November 3, 2014. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Analysis

FM’s call for ‘disproportionate’ military action sensibly lost in translation

By Raphael Ahren

With his party sliding, Liberman is fighting for his political life, and urging tactics against Hezbollah the PM is not about to adopt

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at a cornerstone laying ceremony for a new neighborhood in the southern Israeli town of Sderot. January 28, 2015. (Photo credit: Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Analysis

Why a war in the north could mean the fall of Netanyahu

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Recent conflicts in Lebanon and Gaza ended inconclusively, to public dismay. A repeat during an election campaign could have decisive political consequences

File photo: Eli Ohana (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

Soccer star Eli Ohana drops out of Jewish Home list

After sharp backlash over appointment, party chief Bennett praises Ohana’s ‘humility’ in withdrawing; Danny Dayan also quits party

Arab MK Hanin Zoabi at a hearing on her case at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, December 9, 2014 (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Right-wing parties seek to bar MK Zoabi from elections

By Judah Ari Gross

Controversial Arab lawmaker has faced sanctions over statements deemed supportive of Palestinian terrorism

Agata Trzebuchowska plays Anna, a nun who discovers she is actually a Jew named Ida, just days before taking her vows, in Pawel Pawkikoski's new film. (courtesy: Music Box Films)

Oscar-nominated ‘Ida’ attacked by Polish nationalists

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Producers of that film and others refuse to cave to pressure to alter stories they say tell ‘bitter truths’

Alex Speiser, 86, from Tel Aviv, accompanied by his daughter and grandson, Etti and Roi Naor, on a tour of Auschwitz on January 28, 2015. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

In the cold of Auschwitz, Israeli survivors relive harrowing ordeals

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Ben Gurion robotics students work on a Helmsley Trust-funded project (Photo credit: Courtesy)

No ‘Queen of Mean,’ Leona Helmsley’s billions help Israelis

By David Shamah

With over a billion dollars given away and another four to go, one of the world’s biggest charitable trusts is very active in Israel

President Reuven Rivlin (R.) and China's former Ambassador to Israel Gao Yanping at an event in Tel Aviv commemorating National Day, the 65th anniversary of the founding of modern China (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli VCs rush to China seeking investments, exits

By David Shamah

As local investors take a ground-breaking trip to meet Chinese VCs on their own turf, reports say another Israel-China mega-deal is in the works

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Kate Siegel (right) and her Crazy Jewish Mom. (Courtesy)

My Yiddishe Momme‘Crazy Jewish Mom’ texts go viral

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Handler writes on January 29, 2014, 'A Muslim allowed a topless Jew to sit on his camel. And we say we can't live side by side?' Perhaps peace is right around the corner. (Screen capture: Facebook)

Riding high (NSFW)Topless, on a camel, for peace

By Judah Ari Gross

Joel Grey and daughter Jennifer Grey attend the “Trust Me” world premiere, April 20, 2013 in New York City. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Tribeca Film Festival)

Better late than neverJewish actor Joel Grey comes out at 82

By JTA

IDF soldiers secure the Israel-Lebanon border, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015 after Hezbollah attacked an Israeli military convoy, killing two soldiers. (Photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

Hebrew media reviewAfter the storm, press counsels calm

By Joshua Davidovich

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