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What Matters Most On Monday, February 2, 2015

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From left, Yaakov Peri, Haviv Rettig-Gur and Michael Oren at a political debate on February 2, 2015. (screen capture: Times of Israel)

Live updates (closed)

Kulanu’s Oren announces support for same-sex marriage

By Jonathan Beck

Candidates go toe to toe on peace, foreign policy and Israel’s standing at TOI debate; state watchdog to publish report on PM’s spending; new poll gives Likud lead

In ‘bottlegate’ affair, A-G requests files on PM residence finances

By Lazar Berman

Herzog: Likud is panicking, lying about Labor ties to V15

By Lazar Berman

Likud accuses left of breaking election laws

By Lazar Berman

A clay tablet from 572 BCE, the earliest known text documenting the Judean exile in Babylonia, now on display at the Bible Lands Museum (photo credit: Ardon Bar-Hama courtesy of The Bible Lands Museum)

‘By the rivers of Babylon’ exhibit breathes life into Judean exile

By Ilan Ben Zion

Never-before-showcased clay tablets documenting the first diaspora go on display at Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum

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’s the security, stupid

Voters need to know candidates’ approach to keeping Israel safe: Stand Alone, Alliance or Reformist

Trash talk diplomacy

US-Israel relations have hit a new low, and yet as far as Iranian nukes goes, their interests are identical

It’s Netanyahu or you!

The current government pumps money into the settlements while the rest of the country burns

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and Jihad Mughniyeh (photo credit: @khamenei_ir, Twitter)

Analysis

Receding shadows reveal more of Iran’s covert wars

By Mitch Ginsburg

As the clash between Israel and the Islamic Republic comes to light, a complex network of regional struggles emerges

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint news conference in Jerusalem on October 13, 2012. (Photo credit: Emil Salman/POOL/Flash90)

Netanyahu: UNIFIL failing to report weapons smuggling

An anti-Israel rally in Berlin's Adenauerplatz on Friday July 18, 2014 (Illustrative photo: Micki Weinberg/The Times of Israel)

German judge rules: Anti-Zionism is code for anti-Semitism

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Protester who chanted against Zionists during summer demonstration convicted of incitement against a minority; will appeal

Walid Obeidat (L), the Jordanian ambassador to Israel, toasts with Shimon Peres, at the time the president of Israel, at Obeidat's welcoming ceremony held at the President's residence in Jerusalem. October 17, 2012. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/FLASH90)

Jordan reinstating envoy after recall over Temple Mount tensions

By AFP and ToI Staff

Three months after spat over status of holy site, Ambassador Obeidat slated for return to Israel; Netanyahu welcomes ‘important step’

Israeli soprano Chen Reis sang at the Vatican's Christmas mass at the behest of Pope Francis in December 2014. (Paul Marc Mitchell)

How a Jewish Israeli soprano found holiness in front of the Pope

By Jenni Frazer

This combination of two photographs shows the detail of a poster of an undated photograph of Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, left, used during a demonstration calling for his release from the Islamic State group, and a still image from video, right, of Sajida al-Rishawi, an Iraqi woman sentenced to death in Jordan for her involvement in a 2005 terrorist attack on a hotel that killed 60 people. (photo credit: AP Photo)

Brother of Jordanian jihadist’s Israeli victim opposes her release to IS

Hussam Abu-Garuf was killed in a 2005 Amman bombing, in which inmate Sajida al-Rishawi played a role

MK Masoud Ghanaim at his office in Sakhnin, January 26, 2015 (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

Interview

‘No matter how left-wing,’ Arab parties won’t join coalition

By Elhanan Miller

Still, Masud Ganaim, No. 2 in the new joint Arab list, says he prefers Livni and Herzog over ‘racist’ Netanyahu government

Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett and Hatnua head Tzipi Livni, of the Zionist Camp, spar over giving up land for peace in this screen grab from a video uploaded February 1, 2015 . (Photo credit: screenshot/YouTube)

Up close & personalBennett, Livni spar over Golan Heights

Hungarian Jews on the Judenrampe (Jewish ramp) after disembarking from transport trains at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944 (The Auschwitz Album)

BBC denies hiding names of ‘hundreds’ of Nazi guards

By Marissa Newman

Email from 2006 claimed network had policy of protecting former Auschwitz workers used as sources for documentary film

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men study at the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak on May 11, 2010 (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Large brawl breaks out in Bnei Brak yeshiva

By Tamar Pileggi

Students hurl furniture, deploy tear gas as tensions erupt between long-time rival factions at Ponevezh

A fairly typical plate of food from an IDF mess hall (photo credit: Courtesy IDF Flickr account)

IDF adopts new, vegan-friendly menu

By Jessica Steinberg

The military moves to offer its soldiers fresh vegetables, less mayonnaise and more whole wheat

Close up on an anti-flu inoculation (Photo credit: Nati Shohat /Flash90)

Superbugs may meet their match in TAU discovery

By David Shamah

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are a growing problem, but an Israeli innovation could stop them in their tracks

Israeli violinist Itamar Zorman (Richard Blikoff)

Young Israeli violinist an heir to the ‘bagel club’

By Rachel Delia Benaim

More Headlines

London man, former soccer player fight for Islamic State

An Iranian Holocaust cartoon (photo credit: Channel 2 screen capture)

Je suis antisémiteIran hosts Holocaust cartoon contest

Israel's Ambassador to Washington Ron Dermer, formerly senior adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Patriots gameDermer, Shapiro back Pats in Bowl

Dead Sea salt company Salt 424 hosts various salt tastings to show off the flavors of its tasteful mineral (Courtesy Salt 424)

Dead Sea salt soarsBiblical mineral to Bloody Mary topper

By Rebecca Wojno

This ASCII art image depicts the words 'You sound like a Jew in a gas chamber' as a smiling guitar (screen capture: Maxwell Yezpitelok/Twitter)

Sweet and lowTrolls abuse Coca-Cola web campaign

By Judah Ari Gross

Cannabis plants at a growing facility in northern Israel, 2010. (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Australian cannabis tech firm teams up with Hebrew U

By David Shamah

Thinking past the elections. Avigdor Liberman said that his party, Yisrael Beytenu, won't sit in a left-wing government. Here he is seen announcing his party list on January 19, 2015 (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewAll the scandal that’s fit to print

By Yossi Nachemi

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