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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 4, 2015

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Moaz Kasasbeh seen in a video released by the Islamic State on February 3, 2015. (Screen capture: via YouTube)

Islamic State burns Jordanian pilot alive

By Lazar Berman

After gruesome video released, Jordanian state TV confirms Lt. Moaz al-Kasasbeh killed on January 3, Amman vows revenge

AnalysisBrutal killing shows Islamic State suffering setbacks

By Avi Issacharoff

Two jihadi prisoners executed as Jordan rages over burned pilot

By AP and AFP

Liberman praises Jordan’s execution of al-Qaeda prisoners

By Marissa Newman

Avigdor Liberman (left), and Benjamin Netanyahu sharing a private word in January 2013. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Live blog (closed)

Diplomats recalled over anti-Netanyahu, -Liberman tweets

By Lazar Berman

Victims of Negev crash laid to rest; another senior police commander suspected of harassment; PM blasts Iran deal

Dan Walsh, the owner and curator of the Palestine Poster Project Archives, which was nominated for inclusion into the UNESCO International Memory of the World Register, but blocked by the UNESCO director general, with one of the posters (screen capture: YouTube)

Exclusive

UNESCO head nixes ‘offensive, unacceptable’ Palestine poster collection

By Raphael Ahren

In first, body’s director-general vetoes inclusion of incendiary material in world heritage list, arguing it ‘could fuel’ anti-Semitism

Israel’s fragile forests

It’s time for renewed commitment to a harmonious relationship between the people of Israel and the land of Israel

I share in your sorrow

The horrific traffic accident that killed 8 Bedouin women evokes unbreakable bonds of friendships formed long ago

Natan Odenheimer

Trolling in the deep

A misguided social media campaign falsely portrays Brandeis University as being unsafe for Zionists

Martin Gilbert speaks in Manchester, England, October 16, 2009 (photo credit: AP/PA, Dave Thompson, File)

Obituary

‘Pugnacious Zionist’ Martin Gilbert was the chronicler of modern Jewry

By Jenni Frazer

Churchill’s biographer, who died Tuesday, described in a 2004 interview how he fell under the spell of history

Sir Martin Gilbert (photo credit: courtesy)

Churchill biographer, Holocaust historian Martin Gilbert dies, 78

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Benjamin Netanyahu receiving a standing ovation from Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner during a speech to Congress on May 24, 2011. (photo credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Biden, other Democrats may skip Netanyahu’s speech

By Judah Ari Gross

J Street lobby urges Boehner to postpone controversial Congressional address till after the Israeli elections

Jibril Rajoub (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)

Senior Fatah official compares Netanyahu to Hitler

Jibril Rajoub says PA President Mahmoud Abbas No. 1 target for ‘neo-Nazi’ Israelis — ‘the slayers of the prophets’

Former New York Supreme Court judge Mary McGowan Davis, named August 25, 2014 to the UN inquiry into the Israel-Hamas conflict (photo credit: Courtesy UN/Jean-Marc Ferre)

NY judge takes over UN Gaza probe after Israel critic resigns

By Lazar Berman

Mary McGowan Davis replaces William Schabas, who stepped down amid Israeli accusations of ‘conflict of interest’ over his work for the PLO

Former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy (CC BY-SA Eli Itkin/Wikimedia Commons)

Ex-Mossad boss: Fear-mongering Netanyahu is antithesis of Churchill

By Raphael Ahren

PM is nothing like his role model, says Efraim Halevy. He’s leading Israel to a third intifada, and his calling Iran’s nuclear drive an existential threat is a ‘terrible mistake’

Emergency workers inspect the scene of a deadly crash in southern Israel on February 3, 2015 (Shalom Ben Tzur/Zaka Spokesperson)

After deadly crash, Bedouin town marks day of mourning

Schools, local businesses shuttered in Hura, as eight local women slated to be buried

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif shakes hands with US State Secretary John Kerry in Geneva, Jan. 2015 (photo credit: AFP / POOL / RICK WILKING)

US, Iran discussing nuclear talks compromise

By AP and ToI Staff

Iranian president tells lawmakers that sides have ‘narrowed the gaps,’ West ‘realized it should recognize’ Iranian rights

Alberto Nisman gives a news conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on May 20, 2009. (AFP/Juan Mabromata)

Arrest warrant for Argentine president found at dead prosecutor’s home

By JTA and ToI Staff

Documents found in garbage show Alberto Nisman sought to prosecute top officials for covering up Iran’s involvement in 1994 AMIA bombing

A man reads, in a newsroom in Paris, the latest issue of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on January 13, 2015 (photo credit: AFP/Bertrand Guay)

Elections 2015

Elections panel to rule on Charlie Hebdo distribution

By Marissa Newman

Arab parties file petition against Yisrael Beytenu to bar the party from handing out copies of satirical magazine

Auschwitz survivor Renee Gancz on a tour of Jewish Krakow on January 28, 2015. (courtesy)

Reflections on a journey to Auschwitz with Renee

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

More Headlines

Overflowing containers of dried fruits -- from near and far -- at Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

Forbidden fruitJewish Home’s Tu Bishvat gifts banned

File. A female IDF officer is rushed to Haifa's Rambam Hospital after being injured in a landmine explosion in the Golan Heights on February 4, 2015 (screen capture: Channel 2)

IDF officer injured by landmine in Golan

By Judah Ari Gross

File: Soldiers stand guard outside the Jewish Community Center in Nice, France, February 3, 2015. (AFP Photo/Valery Hache)

French soldiers attacked outside Jewish community center

By Jamey Keaten

A staged selfie taken by rapper Tamer Nafar (photo credit: Tamer Naffar via Twitter)

Thug lieFake selfie shows cops chasing rapper

By Stuart Winer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister Office in Jerusalem, February 1, 2015. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

PMO staff track media reports on Netanyahu family

By Stuart Winer

Emergency workers on site of a traffic accident that killed 8 and injured 20 in the south of Israel (photo credit: Shalom Ben Tzur/Zaka Spokesperson)

Hebrew media reviewHorror on the roads, fury at Islamic State

By Yossi Nachemi

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