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What Matters Most On Friday, January 30, 2015

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Kulanu Chaverim -- Na Nach members register for the March 2015 elections, January 28, 2015. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Elections 2015

Anti-porn crusaders, hippie Hasids, among 26 parties registered for elections

By Lazar Berman

Registration closes for March 17 elections, with new alliances and new outsiders joining the familiar parties vying for Knesset seats

Campaign notebook: January 30After last-minute lineup tinkering, elections begin in earnest

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Liberman slams Netanyahu’s decision to ‘contain’ attack

Elections 2015After Hezbollah strike, polls put Likud in the lead

Palestinian youth crawls under a barbed wire obstacle during a graduation ceremony for a training camp run by the Hamas movement on January 29, 2015 in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Photot credit: AFP/ SAID KHATIB)

15,000 young Gazans complete Hamas terror training camps

By Tamar Pileggi

Recruits aged 15 and up taught how to kidnap soldiers, use weapons, and infiltrate into Israel through tunnels

IDF nabs 2 armed Palestinians on Gaza border

By JTA

Abbas to visit Stockholm next month

By AFP

Senators waiting on Palestinian aid pending review of ICC moves

By JTA

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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Amalek: The face of evil

There are some enemies with whom it’s not possible to negotiate peace (Beshalach)

Shmuly Yanklowitz

How will redemption arrive?

A clarification on his view of Moshiach after making public his mixed feelings about messianic yearnings

Israeli conductor Israel Yinon (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Renowned Israeli conductor dies on stage during concert

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel Yinon, 59, collapses at Lucerne event; cause of death unclear

An Egyptian army vehicle patrols along the border with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in the divided border town of Rafah on November 4, 2014. (AFP/MOHAMED EL-SHERBENY)

26 slain as militants pummel Sinai with rockets, bombs

By AP

Mortars fired at police headquarters, housing compound and checkpoints in restive north of peninsula; Islamic State affiliate takes credit for attack

Recently auctioned for $56,250 in Boston, this postcard was written by Albert Einstein during his 1923 visit to Palestine, and it includes a comical self-portrait of the physicist above the clouds (photo credit: Jared Wickerham/The Times of Israel)

Rare Einstein postcard from Jerusalem fetches 56K

By Matt Lebovic

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara celebrate the Mimouna in Or Yehuda in April 2013. (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)

PM’s wife accused of pocketing thousands in bottle refunds

By Lazar Berman and Jonathan Beck

Sara Netanyahu may have committed theft when she kept up to NIS 24K in state money; couple spent NIS 100K on alcohol in two years

Yazidi fighters head to battle Islamic State militants, on the summit of Mount Sinjar, in Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014. (Photo credit: AP/Dalton Bennett)

Yazidi militia makes public request for Israeli help

By JTA and Lazar Berman

Kurdish religious minority ‘loves the Jewish people,’ says commander, as he tries to fight the Islamic State

The funeral procession of late prosecutor Alberto Nisman enters the cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Nisman buried in same cemetery as victims of AMIA bombing he probed

By JTA and ToI Staff

Argentinian prosecutor’s two daughters among mourners; along funeral route, people hold signs saying ‘Justice’ and ‘Thank you’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits wounded soldiers at Rambam hospital in Haifa, on January 30, 2015, following their injury in a January 28 Hezbollah attack in northern Israel near the Lebanese border. (Photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

PM: Easier to mend US ties than bad Iran nuclear deal

Netanyahu says spat over Congress speech is ‘a procedural issue’ that can be resolved, after phoning Democratic leaders to explain position

The charred remains of what appears to be a Citroen Berlingo, struck by Hezbollah forces on January 28, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Ariel Schalit)

Civilian vehicles likely saved lives in Hezbollah attack

By Mitch Ginsburg

Army’s use of non-armored vehicles on border roads has come under scrutiny after Wednesday’s fatal strike but they enabled soldiers to scramble to safety

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

‘IDF was warned of border strike ahead of Wednesday attack’

Channel 10 report says Israeli military moved checkpoint as precaution, but vehicles were hit and two soldiers killed nonetheless

NGO: Israel to build 450 new units in West Bank

By AFP and ToI Staff

Housing Ministry says tenders were approved in the past, reissued automatically after construction did not take place; PLO condemns ‘war crime’

Khawla Al-Khatib, holds a poster of her imprisoned 14-year-old daughter, Malak, in the village of Beitin near Ramallah (Majdi Mohammed/AP Photo)

Jail term for 14-year-old Palestinian girl stirs controversy

By Judah Ari Gross and AP

IDF says rock-throwing serious crime, but group decries sentence handed down to Malak al-Khatib as excessive

Hamas gunmen in Gaza with suspected collaborators in August 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/euronews)

Human rights watchdog: Hamas, PA tortured hundreds in 2014

By Lazar Berman and AFP

Annual report from Human Rights Watch also blasts Israel’s settlement policy, military conduct, treatment of Bedouins and African migrants

A flyer distributed by the New York Police Department of Etan Patz, who vanished in New York on May 25, 1979. (photo credit: courtesy NYPD/AP)

35 years later, landmark missing-child trial set to begin

By Jennifer Peltz

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An ibex chats up a Tristram’s grackle at the Ein Gedi nature reserve .(Shmuel Bar-Am)

Running wildIbex is latest Israeli animal escapee

By Lazar Berman

MediSafe screenshot (Photo credit: Courtesy)

‘Med-friend’ MediSafe helps patients pop pills properly

By David Shamah

IBM executives and members of the first and second groups in the Alpha Zone Accelerator cut a blue ribbon inaugurating the second accelerator class, January 2015 (Courtesy)

IBM fetes its ‘children’ on accelerator Graduation Day

By David Shamah

Republican Texas State Representative Molly White (photo credit: Facebook)

Greet Muslim visitors with Israeli flag, Texas lawmaker tells staff

By JTA

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

Austrian anti-Semitic attacks nearly doubled in 2014 — watchdog

By JTA

An armed man entered Dutch national broadcaster NOS demanding airtime, on January 29, 2015 (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Armed ‘hacker’ enters Dutch TV station, demands airtime

By AP

Protesters shout 'Arrest Kissinger for war crimes' as former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger (left) arrives for testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, in Washington, DC, January 29, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Protesters heckle Kissinger, denounce him for ‘war crimes’

By AFP

Rabbi Barry Freundel has been known as a national leader on conversion and a strict moralist. (JTA)

Synagogue launches religious court case to evict Rabbi Barry Freundel

By JTA

Illustrative photo of new cars at the port of Eilat on their way to being sold in Israel, July 2009. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

From the webAll-time record car deliveries for Israel in January

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