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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 7, 2015

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Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog (Photo credit: Flash 90)

Herzog: Netanyahu must cancel his speech to Congress

By Itamar Sharon and AP

Labor leader warns PM ‘throwing Israel’s security under the bus’; Jewish Republicans threaten to ‘shame’ politicians who boycott address

Angry over Netanyahu’s speech, Democrats hope to limit harm

By Charles Babington

Biden will not attend Netanyahu’s Congress speech

By ToI Staff, AP and AFP

Netanyahu was misled over Congress invite, deputy FM indicates

By ToI Staff and AP

In this May 30, 2013, photo, Kayla Mueller is shown after speaking to a group in Prescott, Ariz. (Photo credit: AP/The Daily Courier, Matt Hinshaw)

US says no proof for IS claim American woman killed in airstrike

By AFP

Jihadists claim Kayla Jean Mueller, an Arizona aid worker held captive in Syria, was buried under rubble following coalition attack

Jordan says pilot’s murder a ‘turning point’ in IS fight

By AFP

Jordan’s king thrusts country to center of IS war

By Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh

Islamic State: Female US hostage killed in Jordan airstrikes

By ToI Staff and AP

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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On the disclosure that the head of a human rights investigation into Israeli ‘crimes’ had been paid by the PLO

Don’t use Bibi as cover for your war-mongering

Netanyahu’s alarmist rhetoric will only obscure the fact that war is a likely option if diplomacy fails

Jake Wallis Simons

Where Jew-hatred hides in plain sight

News outlets in the UK are allowing ‘criticism of Israel’ to be used as a cover up for anti-Semitism

Yukiya Amano of Japan, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna, Austria, June 2, 2014 (AP/Ronald Zak)

IAEA: Iran nuclear deal unlikely by March deadline

Agency head Yukiya Amano says Islamic Republic has not addressed concerns regarding its alleged attempts to develop atomic weapons

US businessman S. Daniel Abraham and financier of the V15 group speaking with Channel 2 news on February 6, 2015. (screen capture: Channel 2)

US billionaire behind V15 campaign denies support for Herzog

Daniel Abraham says he does not fund Zionist Camp, claims he is helping Israel obtain ‘the best PM it can have’

Comedians Roy Bar-Natan, right, and Shani Cohen read a script ahead of a recording of "Eretz Nehederet," a biting TV satire show, in Herzliya, Israel, January 26, 2015 (Photo credit: Ariel Schalit/AP)

Popular TV show casts cutting comedy eye on March election

The program that is at its best when Israel is at its worst, ‘Eretz Nehederet’ returns to the screens as country prepares for the polls

A still shot from footage taken by Israeli NGO Regavim showing a school in Area C bearing an EU flag. (Photo credit: Regavim)

PM orders demolition of EU-funded Palestinian ‘settlements’ in West Bank

By JTA and ToI Staff

European Union official defends unlicensed construction in Area C, says Palestinians have a right to build there

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015 (AP/Amr Nabil)

Abbas forms committee to oversee ICC cases

By AFP and ToI Staff

Former chief negotiator Saeb Erekat to lead new body, charged with gathering documents for war crimes allegations against Israel

Palestinian security officers in the West Bank city of Nablus (Wagdit Ashtiyeh/Flash90)

Analysis

The Israeli decision that could ignite the West Bank

By Avi Issacharoff

The government’s ongoing freeze of tax transfers to the PA, punishment for Abbas’s ICC gambit, could be far more dangerous than anything The Hague might do

Yemeni people hold a rally to protest against Shiite rebels' announcement of taking over the country in Taiz, Yemen, Friday, Feb. 6, 2015 (photo credit: AP/Anees Mahyoub)

Shiite rebels take power in Yemen, fan fears of civil war

By Ahmed al-Haj

Houthis finalize control, dissolve parliament; concerns rise that unrest will strengthen local al-Qaeda

Houthi Shiite Yemenis wearing army uniforms hold their weapons during a rally to show support for their comrades in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Hani Mohammed)

Tribes protest ‘coup’ by Shiite militia in Yemen

By AFP

Police tape is hung near the site where a suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a restaurant in Baghdad al-Jadida, east of the capital, on February 7, 2015 (Photo credit: Sabah Arar/AFP)

Baghdad bombings kill 37, wound 86, Iraqi officials say

By AP

Series of explosions rip through the capital hours before years-long nightly curfew is to be lifted

This undated photo provided by Channel 8 and Go2Films shows Ori Gruder, left, and rabbi Yisrael Aharon Itzkovitz swimming in their clothes in a ritual bath, which is created for publicity purpose for "Sacred Sperm," a film Gruder directed. (photo credit: AP Photo/Gliad Kavalerchik)

‘Sacred Sperm’ film explores ultra-Orthodox Jewish taboos

By Tia Goldenberg and ISAAC SCHARF

New documentary is an intimate, informative and at times awkward study of the insular community and its approach to sexuality

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon in the Knesset on December 8, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ya’alon backs same-sex marriage in Israel

Defense minister says state must work to advance LGBT rights, allow gay and lesbian individuals to raise family

Israeli archaeologist Yoram Haimi, right, has been warning of threats to important historical artifacts at the Sobibor death camp in Poland, September 2013. (Courtesy of Yoram Haimi/JTA)

No new building on mass graves, say Sobibor activists

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Gas chamber discovery at the Nazi extermination camp spurs calls to review museum project

Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi is flanked by Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, left, and RespectAbility board member Doc Sweitzer at the 2013 launch of A Better Bottom Line, a National Governors Association guide for employing people with disabilities. (Courtesy of RespectAbility/JTA)

Disabilities rights are where gays were 20 years ago, says activist

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The Pieter Schelte, one of the largest ships in the world, ports in Rotterdam, January 8, 2015. (screen capture: AFP)

Dutch owners change name of vessel called after Nazi

By JTA and ToI Staff

US Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department in Washington, DC, December 10, 2014. (photo credit. AFP/JIM WATSON / FILES)

Kerry ranked least effective US diplomat in past 50 years

In this January 29, 2015 picture Jozef Paczynski, left, 95, a former Auschwitz prisoner who was the barber to camp commandant Rudolf Hoess, stands next to Eva Mozes Kor, 81, a Jewish survivor of experiments by the sadistic German doctor Josef Mengele, in Krakow, Poland. (photo credit: AP Photo/Alexandra Fletcher)

Barber considered slitting Auschwitz commandant’s throat

By Vanessa Gera

PFLP terrorist hijacker Leila Khaled, left, with ANC officials in South Africa on February 6, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube/BDS South Africa)

Palestinian hijacker compares IS to Jewish extremists

By AFP and ToI Staff

German soldiers march into Athens in 1941 (Photo credit: CC-BY-SA Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-164-0357-29A / Rauch)

Greece’s other dispute with Germany

By Yannick Pasquet

Yisroel Schulman (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

Head of NY Jewish legal aid group resigns over financial scandal

By JTA

Israelis holding Jewish National Fund signs in the West Bank settlement of Michmash in January 2014 (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Dutch JNF branch celebrates planting 1.5 million trees in Israel

By JTA

Anna Chipczynska (photo credit: Andrzej Chomczyk/JTA)

Grave shiftWarsaw’s Jewish cemetery defender

By Penny Schwartz

US House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, January 29, 2015 (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM)

Pelosi meets Knesset speaker, recalls former ties

By JTA

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