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What Matters Most On Friday, February 6, 2015

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Jordanian students shout slogans on February 5, 2015 in the capital Amman during a rally against the Islamic State group and in reaction to the burning alive of Jordanian pilot Mu’ath al-Kaseasbeh by the group's militants. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)

Jordan vows to ‘eradicate’ Islamic State

By Mussa Hattar

FM Nasser Judeh says government is ‘upping the ante’; thousands take to streets in Amman to decry burning murder of pilot

Jordanian jihadi cleric condemns IS for pilot’s death

By AP

35 Islamic State fighters said killed in Jordanian airstrikes

By ToI Staff and AFP

25 IS-linked jihadists said killed in Sinai

In this May 24, 2011, photo, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks with House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio on Capitol Hill in Washington. (photo credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Analysis

Should Netanyahu cancel his speech to Congress?

By Raphael Ahren

PM’s options amid crisis with the White House include calling his visit off, postponing it, remaking it, or taking a friend. For now, he’s set to proceed as planned

Pelosi will attend PM’s speech ‘for now’; 3 Dems back out, Biden uncertain

By AP and Lazar Berman

Dems confront Israel, raising Netanyahu speech stakes

Obama invokes Crusades, Inquisition in condemning IS

By Nedra Pickler

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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The Shoah’s relevance in Ghana and Ethiopia lies largely in the real risk of neighbors killing neighbors

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The Ten Commandments establish the ‘corporate culture’ of Jewish existence (Yitro)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Jordan's King Abdullah II, during the former's surprise visit to Amman on January 16, 2014. (AP/Yousef Allan/Jordanian Royal Palace/File)

PM phones Jordan’s Abdullah to condemn pilot’s murder

By Lazar Berman

Netanyahu offers condolences to Hashemite ruler, praises decision to return Amman’s ambassador to Israel

Palestinian gunmen of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades march during a military parade to mark the 50th anniversary of the Fatah movement in the Qalandia refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

PA studies details of each terrorist act before issuing salaries

Newly obtained documents show meticulous process by which martyrdom status, payment levels, honorary ranks are determined

Illustrative photo of Bedouin homes in an unauthorized village in the Negev (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

From the web

EU said to fund illegal Palestinian construction in West Bank

Europe has built 400 Palestinian homes in areas of the territories that are meant to be controlled by Israel, Daily Mail reports

Israel's Chief of Police Yohanan Danino in Jerusalem on November 13, 2014. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90.)

Zionist Camp urges appointment of female police commissioner

By Adiv Sterman

In wake of sexual harassment scandals, MK Shelly Yachimovich says women must be 50% of police top brass

A homeless person in New York (illustrative photo: CC BY rduta/Flickr)

Where will NY’s poor Jews turn now?

By Julie Wiener

Abrupt demise of FEGS, the city’s major Jewish social service organization, stuns community

Illustrative photo of security forces standing guard near the World Trade Center Montevideo, which houses offices of the Israeli embassy, on January 8, 2015 (AFP/Mario Goldman)

Iranian diplomat in Uruguay said linked to Israeli Embassy blast

Montevideo expels envoy for involvement in bombing in early January

Members of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis in the Egyptian Sinai read out sentences before they behead four men accused of spying for Israel, August 2014 (screen capture: YouTube)

25 IS-linked jihadists said killed in Sinai

Egyptian airstrikes reportedly target Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, a week after deadly attacks against soldiers

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Turkish FM pulls out of Munich forum to avoid Israelis

By AFP and ToI Staff

Mevlut Cavusoglu says decision to boycott security conference is unrelated to ties with Germany

Arab MK Hanin Zoabi at a hearing on her case at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, December 9, 2014 (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Elections 2015

Zionist Camp joins bid to ban Hanin Zoabi from running

Meretz defends controversial MK’s right to ‘push boundaries of free speech’; Herzog and Livni’s list also moves to disqualify far-rightist Baruch Marzel

Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog (L), with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November 2013. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Elections 2015

Conflicting polls place Likud, Zionist Camp in lead

Yedioth Ahronoth survey has Labor-Hatnua beating out ruling party by one seat; Maariv poll gives Likud four-seat edge

A digital thermometer displays an internal temperature of 74 degrees Celsius in this salmon, which was cooked inside a block of ice in a Goji oven (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli tech will reinvent the microwave, says start-up

By David Shamah

Zapping food is so 1960s. With Goji’s RF technology, dinner will come out perfectly done in minutes

Groundwork BioAg's mycorrhizal fungi mixed in with ordinary soil. (photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli-developed ‘fancy fungus’ helps plants grow

By David Shamah

Mycorrhiza is a secret sauce that can help many crops thrive. An Israeli firm has developed a way to use it more effectively

Israeli surfers walk out of the water after competing in a night surfing competition in the Mediterranean sea in Ashdod, southern Israel, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Winter breakers

Israeli surfers take to sea at night

By AP

Some 40 people brave the cold to compete in second annual nocturnal surfing contest

Israeli army veteran Yinon Cohen, 31, surprised his ski instructors at Challenge Aspen with his determination to ski unaided except for his prosthetic legs. (photo credit: JTA/Nina Zale)

At Aspen, wounded IDF vets learn to ski — and overcome obstacles

By Uriel Heilman

More Headlines

New Jersey state sergeant's teen daughter's anti-Semitic social media posts 'not viewed as a threat' by local police. (photo credit: via Twitter)

No charges for NJ cop’s daughter who posted Hitler selfies

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

maodolteeillustrative photo of Indian train Shutterstock.com

Israeli plunges to death from India train while taking selfie

German Chancellor Angela Merkel stands in front of a historic picture of the Auschwitz concentration camp as she gives a speech during the International Auschwitz Committee’s remembrance ceremony in Berlin to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, on January 26, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Tobias Schwarz)

Hungary Jewish leader laments comment linking Merkel, Nazis

By AP

Avram Grant in August 2009. (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Avram Grant’s Ghana reaches Africa Cup final despite fan violence

By AP and ToI Staff

Amy Pascal attends the premiere of Columbia Pictures’ 'The Interview' in Los Angeles, December 11, 2014 in Los Angeles (photo credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images, via JTA)

Amy Pascal out at Sony Pictures

By JTA

British jihadist Imran Khawaja (Screen capture: BBC News)

Walking deadUK jihadi who faked death gets 12 years

By AP

Benjamin Netanyahu in his child-less "Bibi-sitter" ad uploaded to YouTube on January 31, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube/Benjamin Netanyahu)

Bibi on boardNetanyahu joins Instagram

By Lazar Berman

Pope Francis talks with reporters during his flight from Sri Lanka to Manila, Philippines, January 15, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Alessandra Tarantino, Pool)

Papal punishmentPope okays spanking kids, if dignity is kept

By Nicole Winfield

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his wife, Sara, in an undated photo (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/Flash90, File)

Hebrew media reviewBottle-gate, Congress-gate, Police-gate

By Marissa Newman

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