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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 3, 2015

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The sister, right, and wife, left, of Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, who is held by the Islamic State group militants, cry at a protest in front of the Royal Palace in Amman, Jan. 28, 2015. Jordan offered a first-ever prisoner swap to the terrorist group to save al-Kaseasbeh, along with a Japanese hostage. (Photo credit: Raad Adayleh/AP)

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Jordan to execute jihadi prisoner after pilot killed

By Jonathan Beck

Military vows revenge after Islamic State releases video showing Jordanian coalition pilot burned alive; King Abdullah cuts US trip short, returns to Amman; eight killed in Negev crash

William Schabas (YouTube screenshot)

Outgoing head of UN Gaza probe pans Netanyahu, Liberman

By Marissa Newman

William Schabas calls PM, FM ‘masters of extravagant, ridiculous statements’; says he was ‘obstacle’ to commission’s work

As Gaza investigator quits, PM urges UN to shelve report

By Marissa Newman and Lazar Berman

Head of UN Gaza inquiry quits, cites Israel’s bias claims

By Lazar Berman

Hamas supporters in Gaza march against Egyptian ban

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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Stav Shaffir (photo credit: Hagai Hirschfeld)

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The defiantly hopeful Zionism of Stav Shaffir

By David Horovitz

Never mind ‘Bottlegate.’ Israel’s youngest female MK alleges systematic corruption involving tens of billions a year, going back decades, in the state budget. Naturally, she insists, her party will root it out if elected. And ensure a better future for Israel

Kulanu candidate: Zionism created the Palestinians

By Marissa Newman

Kulanu’s Oren announces support for same-sex marriage

By Jonathan Beck

Likud again ahead of Zionist Camp in new poll

Adin Steinsaltz

Tu Bishvat: Connecting with the living world

Trees provide sustenance and inspiration — and cutting one down may have once launched a Jewish-Roman war

Laura Ben-David

My journey alongside Bnei Menashe

These new Israelis are learning Hebrew, retraining for jobs and taking their first trip to the Western Wall

Pity that poor Israeli diplomat

When Netanyahu gets invited to address Congress and all hell breaks loose, guess who has to sweep up

Abraham H. Foxman

What’s at stake with Iran?

As Teheran continues to build its weapons delivery system, new sanctions will send a critical message

A patient uses the NaNose breathalyzer (Photo credit: Courtesy Technion)

Mobile SniffPhone will detect cancer on a user’s breath

By David Shamah

Diagnostic system developed by Technion professor is to pair with tiny smell-sensitive sensor that can go anywhere

A controversial caricature published in Palestinian daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah depicts a luminous character next to the words 'Prophet Muhammad' (photo credit: courtesy/MEMRI)

Abbas calls to probe Palestinian daily over Muhammad cartoon

By Elhanan Miller

Palestinian president says publication in official PA paper a ‘grave mistake,’ but caricaturist insists he did nothing wrong

Italian neo-Nazis at a recent soccer match. (Illustrative image: YouTube screenshot)

Landmark report shows Italian Jewry fearful of anti-Semitism

By Rossella Tercatin

More than half of Italian Jews considered anti-Semitism a ‘large problem’ in 2012, survey shows; demographer warns things have only gotten worse

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

Campaign notebook: February 3

An election campaign defined by what isn’t being said

By Haviv Rettig Gur

At a Tel Aviv International Salon-Times of Israel Knesset debate, the nation’s bewilderment over the Palestinians was unmistakable

Yair Lapid with Yesh Atid members Yael German and Miki Levy announced a new legislation plan to fight corruption in Israeli politics outside the Ma'asiyahu Prison in Ramle, on February 2, 2015. (Flash90)

Lapid proposes new anti-corruption legislation

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF Lt. Eitan Fund during a decorations and citations ceremony at the Palmachim air base, February 2, 2015 (photo credit: Flash90)

Soldier who ran into Gaza tunnel to save comrade cited for heroism

By Stuart Winer

Sixty-seven medals handed out to soldiers for outstanding service during 50-day conflict with Hamas-led fighters

The Syrian hackers seized satellite imagery, weapons lists, personnel rosters, and the names and birth dates of fighters, among other things. (Illustrative woman image via Shutterstock)

Syrian hackers pose as beautiful women to steal rebel plans

By Lazar Berman

Opposition members tricked into clicking on matchmaking photos, sharing pictures, allowing spyware onto their computers

This undated file image posted on a militant website on, January 14, 2014, shows fighters from the al-Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) marching in Syria. (AP)

Analysis

East Jerusalem mother of two joins Islamic State

By Avi Issacharoff

Palestinian security forces arrest 15 for links to terror group; wanted Sinai Islamist leader said hiding in Gaza

President Reuven Rivlin attends the inauguration of a museum dedicated to the Jewish victims of a 1929 massacre in Hebron, February 2, 2015. (photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO)

Settlers, protesters scuffle as president makes rare Hebron visit

By Stuart Winer

Rivlin calls for national unity while inaugurating new museum in memory of 1929 massacre victims in flashpoint West Bank city

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, center left, shakes hands with his Canadian counterpart John Baird during their meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Canada’s foreign minister, a friend of Israel, to step down

By ToI Staff and AP

John Baird set to resign Tuesday; said Palestinians made ‘huge mistake’ with ICC bid

Greece's new Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis arrives for a handover ceremony at the Finance Ministry in Athens, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015 (photo credit: Petros Giannakouris/AP Photo)

New Greek finance minister accused of anti-Semitism

By Raphael Ahren

In 2005, Yanis Varoufakis was suspended from Australian radio show for promoting ‘negative stereotypes about Jews’

Illustrative photo of a Holocaust survivor (photo credit: Kobi Gideon / Flash90)

Bank workers accused of swindling Holocaust survivor

By Marissa Newman

Two Jerusalem employees suspected of befriending 97-year-old woman, encouraging her to write checks totaling NIS 800,000

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh. (Screen capture: YouTube/MEMRITVVideos)

Iran boasts of rocket aid to Palestinians, Hezbollah

By Stuart Winer

Commander of aerospace force says technology to mass-produce missiles exported to Tehran’s anti-Israel allies

Mellanox headquarters in Yokne'am (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Israel 5th in Bloomberg tech ranking, ahead of US, UK

By David Shamah

The country needs a billion-dollar ‘tech unicorn’ to break through to the top, say experts

Almond trees in bloom at Sataf, near Jerusalem (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Top five

Eat a date and drink some wine for Tu Bishvat

By Jessica Steinberg

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'Bacchants Riding On Panthers,' thought to be created by Michelangelo (screen capture: YouTube)

Michelangelo’s last surviving bronzes ‘identified in UK’

By AFP

Vincent Harris, CEO of Austin-based firm Harris Media (photo credit: YouTube screen cap)

Likud hires top Republican strategist ahead of elections

By Adiv Sterman

Benjamin Netanyahu and wife, Sara, celebrating his 65th birthday in Jerusalem, October 21, 2014. (photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)

Comptroller to release report on spending at prime minister’s residence

Sing it on the mountainFifth Masada opera festival announced

By Jessica Steinberg

A flock of starlings near the southern Arab Israeli city of Rahat, in the northern Israeli Negev desert, on February 2, 2015. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Birds of a featherStarlings form dark cloud over Negev

Some 250 supporters of the far-right National Democratic Party marching on May Day in Rostock, Germany, are accompanied by riot police, May 1, 2014. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images/via JTA)

Ticket to ReichNazis board wrong train, miss rally

By Marissa Newman

State Comptroller Yosef Shapira (left) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) in December 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewOut of comptrol

By Joshua Davidovich

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