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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 18, 2015

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US Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman speaks to the press in Jerusalem on February 22, 2014. (screen capture: YouTube)

EU officials confirm Israel not fully briefed on Iran talks

US State Department reported to say Israelis would ‘twist details’ to undermine negotiations

Ex-envoy: US should offer Israel ‘nuclear guarantee’ to cool Iran fears

By Raphael Ahren

Iran says it is accelerating ‘peaceful’ nuclear progress

By ToI Staff and AP

AnalysisCentrifuges are key in US-Israel Iran deal dispute

A worker at Jerusalem's Glida Metudela ice cream parlor, where Benjamin Netanyahu was a major customer, places a sign reading "Bibi's pistachio." (Photo by FLASH90)

Analysis

Contemptous, excessive spending by Netanyahu? Ho-hum

By David Horovitz

Many Israelis don’t like the PM or his self-indulgent lifestyle. But Tuesday’s State Comptroller report is unlikely to drastically impact his reelection chances

A supporter of the Zionist Union party holds up an orange with a sticker reading, 'Bibi, you're squeezing me.' Activists held a group breakfast in front of Benjamin Netanyahu's home in Jerusalem on February 10, 2015, in a demonstration over a report that the prime minister had spent NIS 20,000 on breakfast for 20 guests. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Campaign notebook: February 18

In substance-free election, PM’s spending looms large

By Haviv Rettig Gur

When candidates and the media focus on insubstantial issues, the real matters at hand are swept aside

Netanyahus’ ex-housekeeper won’t take fall for spending report

By Stuart Winer

Despite hefty spending, PM may be in biggest stew over electrician

By Marissa Newman

Rivals bash Netanyahu over spending as Likud claims innocence

By Marissa Newman

If only the dancing girls at the Kotel knew…

The singing Orthodox girls praying have electric energy, but don’t realize they owe it to the Women of the Wall

They just don’t get it

On the news story that one UK daily thought was more important than the deadly shooting at a Copenhagen synagogue

Aryeh Ben David

It’s time for Jews to stop trying to categorize, and start working together

Yitzi Loewenthal

The walking mezuza

Dan Uzan, who was shot outside a Copenhagen synagogue, was a ‘hero without tefilin’

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

All I want for my 40th birthday

Feeling only gratitude at her own life, she is marking the milestone by helping a family recover from terror

Gold coins found off the coast of Caesarea by divers (photo credit: Clara Amit, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

Massive trove of ancient gold coins found off coast

Largest find ever, of over 2,000 coins dating back 1,000 years, uncovered by divers near Caesarea after storm; more treasure believed waiting

Heinrich Himmler at Dachau in 1936. (Friedrich Franz Bauer/Wikimedia Commons/German Federal Archive)

Italian town makes Himmler its poster boy in tourism brochure

By Rossella Tercatin

Stanford University's undergrad senate approved a measure to divest the institution's holdings in companies that operate in the West Bank, a resolution they had struck down just a week before. (Photo credit: Kazuhisa Otsubo/CC BY 2.0/Flickr)

Stanford senate passes Israel divestment measure

By Judah Ari Gross

Student senators had rejected bid last week, but say ‘hostile environment’ influenced the outcome

The wife of Zidan Saif, killed in the Har Nof terror attack in November 2014, meets Koby Zidan Chester at the TOI Gala on February 15, 2015, a two-month-old baby boy born to Alexander and Jennifer Chester from New York, who named their child after the fallen policeman. (Photo credit: Screenshot)

WATCH: Best of the Times of Israel Gala — Meeting the Saifs

A New York Jewish couple meets the family of the man after whom they named their son — Zidan Saif, a Druze policeman who was killed during the terror attack at the Har Nof synagogue

Women protest while holding signs that read in Spanish 'We are all Nisman, No to Fear,' referring to the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman, outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. (photo credit: AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Live updates

300,000 expected at march for slain Argentine prosecutor

By Lazar Berman

Court allows extremists Marzel, Zoabi to run; Jewish guard Dan Uzan laid to rest in Copenhagen; Netanyahu continues to take flak for reports of overspending

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (left), and then-Maj. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot when Eisenkot learned he had won the appointment to head the Israel Defense Forces, November 27, 2014. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense)

Eisenkot announces new round of General Staff posts

By Mitch Ginsburg

The moves, establishing a new head of the Southern Command and Planning Directorate, are in line with his predecessor’s thinking

Adele Bitton. (Courtesy)

Toddler injured in 2013 attack dies of pneumonia

Adele Bitton, 4, loses her life after developing respiratory complications; was critically hurt in West Bank rock-throwing attack

File: Oslo's Bergstien Street synagogue. (photo credit: CC BY Metro Centric, Flickr)

Norwegian Muslims volunteer to protect synagogue

By Stuart Winer

After deadly attack at prayer site, activists intend to form a human ‘peace ring’ of protection after weekend services

People seen walking by the walls of Jerusalem's Old City Walls as snow begins to fall, Wednesday, January 7, 2015 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel braces for major winter storm

Residents warned to prepare for disruptions as snow expected to fall in higher elevations across the country

Chani Lerner-Mor voted for the Likud Party in every Israel election until this year, when she threw her support to Jewish Home. (photo credit: JTA/Ben Sales)

Elections 2015

Meet the voters transforming Israel’s political landscape

A Samsung Smart TV (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli start-up to stream games to Samsung Smart TVs

By David Shamah

Playcast’s ‘game-changing’ technology lets players download top-selling video games without the need for a console

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'Tzipi Livni?' a disappointed pizza customer asks in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's latest campaign ad released Feb. 17, 2015. The man wanted Isaac 'Bougie' Herzog, but didn't realize that it only comes with Tzipi Livni as well. (Screen capture)

Food for thoughtNew Likud ad gets personal with Livni

By Judah Ari Gross

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

2 high-ranking cops get boot over sexual harassment

By Judah Ari Gross

Haredi recruits march during a swearing-in ceremony at Ammunition Hill, Jerusalem, May 26, 2012 photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Netanyahu pledges no jail time for Haredi draft-dodgers

By Stuart Winer

Twitter users like @diamatron, seen taking a selfie at a concentration camp in Poland, have provoked widespread criticism. (screen capture: Twitter)

Never again?Beware the Holocaust-themed selfie

By Gabe Friedman

Dozens of graves defaced in northern French cemetery

By AFP

Likud lawyer David Shimron at a press conference in Tel Aviv on the state comptroller report, February 17, 2015 (photo credit: Ben Kelmer/Flash90)

Hebrew media review50 shades of intemperate spending

By Joshua Davidovich

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