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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 17, 2015

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara celebrate a birthday at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 21, 2012. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Bombshell report details excessive spending by prime minister

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Political firestorm as comptroller says Netanyahus spent too much on food, cleaning at homes in Jerusalem, Caesarea; finds faulty administrative practices

Heavily armed police officers watch a woman laying flowers outside the main synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark, on February 15, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Odd Andersen)

‘I wish I didn’t have a bat mitzvah and Dan was alive’

Mother of girl who celebrated at Copenhagen synagogue recalls the attack that claimed life of Jewish guard

Danish Jewish radio silenced ‘for security reasons’

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Obama, Danish PM vow to confront terror, anti-Semitism together

By AFP

30,000 attend Copenhagen vigil for shooting victims

By Soren Billing and Peter Harmsen

Iron Dome project manager Brig. Gen. (Res) Danny Gold (right), with Times of Israel's David Horovitz (left) at ToI's New York Gala, February 15, 2015 (photo credit: Peter Halmagyi)

Times of Israel Third Anniversary

Times of Israel Gala hails pioneers who ensure Israel ‘thrives amid the challenges’

By ToI Staff and Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Crowd of 1,200 pack event at Waldorf Astoria in New York, with optimistic guest of honor Peres taking starkly different line from Netanyahu on Iran, European Jewry

Why I am with Likud

Four months after escaping an assassination attempt, he feels Likud is the best party to protect Israel

Voting on democracy

In the ever-ugly rhetoric of elections, one can only hope that Israel’s democratic nature survives

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin at the president's residence in Jerusalem, September 22, 2014 (photo credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Arabs an inseparable part of Israel, president says

By Elhanan Miller

In rebuke of FM Liberman, Rivlin says it’s up to Israeli Jews to prove country can be both Jewish and democratic

MK Hanin Zoabi speaks to the press on February 17, 2015 (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Firebrand Arab MK appeals ban in Supreme Court

By Tamar Pileggi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) meets with US Rep. Dennis A. Ross (R-FL) at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 17, 2015. (photo credit: Haim Zach/GPO)

PM bent on Congress speech, but ‘open’ to arguments against

By Stuart Winer

Netanyahu hosts Republican lawmakers, says emerging Iran deal ‘isn’t a partisan issue’

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman arrives at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on February 9, 2014, (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Liberman says he’ll legislate death penalty for terrorists

By Raphael Ahren

Slamming government for releasing security prisoners, FM says Israel ‘constantly creates and strengthens their hope’

Uri Orbach votes in the Jewish Home primary on November 13, 2012. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Uri Orbach recalled for his sharp wit and uncommon sincerity

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Popular minister’s passing sparks flood of fond memories of one of Knesset’s most beloved personalities

A Palestinian hacker on the backdrop of the Dome of the Rock on April 8, 2013 (photo credit: Sliman Khader/ Flash 90)

Gaza ‘porn star video’ spread malware in Israel, says report

By David Shamah

US cyber-security firm Trend Micro releases details of a unprecedented phishing scam that targeted top Israeli sites

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during a speech in Beirut, November 3, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/Imam Mahdi)

Hezbollah admits fighting Islamic State in Iraq

By Stuart Winer

Shiite group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, calls for Arab unity to defeat Sunni jihadis, claims IS backed by Israel

A picture, posted on the Fatah movement's official Facebook page, of Fatah fighters preparing a rocket for launch (photo credit: Facebook/Palestinian Media Watch)

Fatah Facebook page glorifies rocket fire at Israel

In series of photos, PA President Abbas’s party also hails violence against soldiers, celebrates looming ‘end of Israel’

Sally Hawkins, left and Imelda Staunton, right, pose for photographers with Mike Leigh, winner the BAFTA Fellowship, in the winners room, during the British Academy Film and Television Awards 2015, at the Royal Opera House, in London, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015. (Photo by Jonathan Short/Invision/AP)

Jewish-led UK artists’ boycott greeted with derision

By Jenni Frazer

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Illustrative photo of an Israel policeman's uniform (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Yet another senior cop suspected of sex abuse

By Stuart Winer

An Israeli soldier plays his guitar while he waiting for a bus. (photo credit: Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

From our blogsWhy am I seeing more music-related start-ups in Israel?

By Alan Weinkrantz

Charred grape seeds found in Halutza could yield the lost makings of a fine ancient wine. (Photo credit: Israel Antiquities Authority)

Byzantine-era seeds of ‘Gaza wine’ found in Negev

Screen capture from a satirical video clip produced by the Zionist Union youth division, lampooning expenses at the Prime Minister's Residence. Subtitle reads "They really have difficulties maintaining the house." (screen capture: YouTube/Louiz Green)

Needy NetanyahuA shekel for the poor prime minister

By Stuart Winer

Funeral of Jewish Home Minister Uri Orbach, February 16, 2015. (Photo credit: Channel 2 screenshot)

Hebrew media reviewGoings and comings

By Joshua Davidovich

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