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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 5, 2015

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Israel's Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer, July 29, 2014 (Ron Sachs)

Israeli ambassador gets an earful from Jewish Dems

By AP and ToI Staff

Amid growing pressure on PM to cancel Congress speech, Ron Dermer told ‘Israel should never be used as a political football’

Netanyahu warns against progress on Iran’s terms to nuclear deal

By ToI Staff and AP

Kerry to hold talks with Iran foreign minister Saturday

By AFP

Israeli ambassador could be fired over tweets criticizing PM

By Stuart Winer

Jordanians chant slogans to show their support for the government against terror as they were waiting for Jordan's King Abdullah II, returning from the US, at Queen Alia Airport in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Jordan launches fresh airstrikes on Islamic State

By AP

After vowing harsh retaliation for murder of pilot, king says country will hit terrorist strongholds

Jordan king vows to step up fight after Islamic State kills pilot

By AFP and ToI Staff

Several killed as rebels barrage Damascus with rockets

By ToI Staff and AP

Westerners join Kurds fighting Islamic State in Iraq

By Vivian Salama and Bram Janssen

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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Orthodox Sex Guru misses the mark

Challenging a New York Times piece that portrays Orthodox Jews as lacking basic knowledge about intimacy

How a Swedish bat mitzvah restored my faith

When a 12-year-old girl read ‘I am a Jew’ in her native German, in Jerusalem, and chased away the despair

Will Israel be a Shariah state?

Worried by a decision in favor of blocking distribution of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Israel

Religion and state: So much more to do

The Jewish Home party foiled Yesh Atid’s efforts during a historic opportunity to reform religious life in Israel

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Stamford Hill section of London. (CC BY-dcaseyphoto/Flickr)

UK ‘sees record’ of anti-Semitic incidents in 2014

By AFP and ToI Staff

Monitoring group says sharp increase partly due to summer war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza

Malcolm Hoenlein (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

American Jewish leader: Danger of anti-Semitic ‘spillover’ in US criticism of Israel

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

In a Jerusalem meeting with Times of Israel staff, Conference of Presidents CEO Malcolm Hoenlein presses for prophylactic plan for massive aliyah

Kobi Lichtenstein (center left) leads a Krav Maga training session atop Masada, January 2015. (Courtesy)

Krav Maga pilgrims take down Brazil’s anti-Israel bias

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Deputy Commissioner Hagai Dotan (L) with Chief of Police Yohanan Danino, on May 17, 2011. (photo credit Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Seventh senior cop named in sexual harassment probe

By Stuart Winer

Coastal region commander Hagai Dotan is latest suspect in escalating scandal, accused by five female junior officers of inappropriate behavior

A pothole on Highway 1, March 18 2014 (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Amid rash of road deaths, dangers abound on Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway

By David Shamah

A bankrupt contractor has halted work on the main road into the capital for weeks, leaving an already perilous stretch even more unsafe

Moshe Ya'alon meets with Indian Minister of Home Affairs Shri Rajnath Singh, in Tel Aviv on November 7, 2014. (photo credit: Alon Basson / Ministry of Defense/ FLASH90)

Defense minister to pay first state visit to India

Moshe Ya’alon scheduled to visit New Delhi on February 17 in sign of strengthening ties

The solar field has more than 28,000 panels built in the shape of the African continent, on land leased from the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. (photo: Courtesy)

Israelis to dedicate largest solar field in East Africa

By Melanie Lidman

Gigawatt Global will formally open $23 million project to power 15,000 Rwandan homes

Illustrative photo of Palestinian security forces (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Analysis

Heaviest skirmish in years as PA forces battle gunmen near Nablus

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Unconfirmed reports of injuries in hours-long shootout in Balata, most populous refugee camp in West Bank

Screen capture from an earlier video released by French-speaking Islamic State members that may show fugitive terror suspect Hayat Boumeddiene (front row Right) who is wanted in France. (screen capture: YouTube/24/7 News online)

Video may show woman tied to Paris kosher shop attack

By Stuart Winer

Authorities believe Hayat Boumeddiene features in footage from French Islamic State group

Lawyers: Evidence shows Saudi Arabia aided 9/11 hijackers

By Larry Neumeister

Victims’ attorneys say they possess compelling evidence of kingdom’s support of al-Qaeda in 2001

Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman. (Natacha Pisarenko/AP)

Former spy to testify on death of Argentinian prosecutor

By Stuart Winer

Antonio Stiusso had helped Alberto Nisman, found dead in his apartment, investigate bombing of Jewish center

Israel's Ambassador Ron Prosor addresses the United Nations General Assembly, January 22, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Richard Drew)

UN Security Council condemns killing of Spanish peacekeeper

By AP

Israeli envoy blasts council’s failure to censure Hezbollah over attack, or mention deaths of IDF soldiers

Labor leader Isaac Herzog in a screen capture from the clip in which he challenges Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a pre-election debate. (photo credit: Screen capture, Zionist Camp Facebook page)

Live updates (closed)

Herzog calls on Netanyahu to debate him

By Jonathan Beck

No answer from PM by evening; PA official says ‘Abbas ‘is in love with negotiations’ but some Palestinians believe left wing Israeli gov’t will deflate PA’s diplomatic onslaught

Mark Mellman. (Screen capture/YouTube)

Interview

‘Yair’s an aggressive guy,’ says Yesh Atid’s campaign guru

By Raphael Ahren

US-Jewish strategist Mark Mellman on how he deals with the challenge of a second centrist party focusing on socioeconomic issues

Caveman models in the Nahal Me’arot Nature Reserve in northern Israel on May 6, 2013. Israelis and Palestinians are genetically similar but evolved into different cultures that must be understood to reach peace, Prof. Eyal Winter says. (Photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Digging through evolution for the key to peace

By JP O’ Malley

The author of a new book on decision making says it will take people looking beyond ethnocentrism for a true Israeli-Palestinian detente to emerge

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A Metro-North train collided with an SUV in Valhalla, NY, leading to six fatalities, including the driver of the car, February 3, 2015 (Photo credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images/JTA)

Driver in Metro-North crash was Jewish mother of 3 from NY

By JTA

Maestro Lahav Shani. (Courtesy Lahav Shani)

Conductor, composer cut to the heart with ‘Pulse’

By Jessica Steinberg

In this Friday, Jan. 23, 2015 file photo of Malek Jaziri of Tunisia, he plays a shot to Nick Kyrgios of Australia during their third round match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith,File)

Tunisian tennis player withdraws rather than face Israeli

By AP

This photo taken Jan. 15, 2015 shows Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus speaking at the Republican National Committee meetings in San Diego. (AP/Lenny Ignelzi)

Republicans urged to forgo Israel trip backed by US Christian group

By JTA

An ultra-Orthodox couple at a cemetery (illustrative photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Former NY Jewish cemetery head pleads guilty to embezzling $1.9 million

By JTA

Former Brandeis University president Frederick Lawrence. (Brandeis University/JTA)

Amid freedom of speech scandal, Brandeis head steps down

By Uriel Heilman

New immigrants from USA and Canada arrive on a special 'Aliyah Flight 2014' on behalf of the Jewish Agency and the Nefesh B'Nefesh organization, at Ben-Gurion airport in central Israel, August 12, 2014. (Gideon Markowicz/FLASH90)

New project to help olim begin conversion before aliyah

By JTA

Screenshot of the Perfecto testing platform (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli mobile testing firm set to go on hiring spree

By David Shamah

French soldiers as they patrol near the Louvre Museum in Paris, January 10, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Laurent Cipriani, File)

Lights, cameras, no actionJittery Paris puts brakes on flicks

By AP

An Israel Police officer and a Border Policeman in front of the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, November 19, 2014 (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)

Hebrew media reviewBad boys in blue

By Yossi Nachemi

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