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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 19, 2015

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White House spokesman Josh Earnest during a press briefing, September 22, 2014 (screen capture: YouTube/The White House)

US admits withholding some Iran talks info from Israel

By AP

White House and State Department accuse Jerusalem of leaking details for political purposes, misrepresenting terms of nuclear deal

Kerry, Zarif to meet in Geneva as nuke talks ramp up

By AFP

Netanyahu rebuffs report Israel kept in dark on nuke talks

By Avi Lewis and Marissa Newman

Biden to be in Latin America during PM’s Congress speech

By AP and ToI Staff

Mailboxes outside the AEPi house at the University of Oregon in Eugene were defaced with swastikas in July 2014 (Courtesy: AEPi)

Anti-Semitism now ‘fashionable’ in the US, warn experts

By Cathryn J. Prince

Attacks against Jews account for close to 60% of hate crimes, despite strong cooperation between government agencies to combat the scourge

Northwestern students vote in favor of divestment

Prosecutor: French teens who defaced graves motivated by anti-Semitism

By AFP

Death threats made against Brussels rabbi

By JTA

Baruch Marzel, with beard, speaking to the press with attorney Itamar ben Gvir at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on February 17, 2015. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Profile

The extremist who could bring Kahanism back to the Knesset

By Raphael Ahren

Having survived a bid to bar him, Boston-born ultra-nationalist Baruch Marzel is set to become an MK, though his dreams of expelling Israel’s Arabs are seen more as empty threats than actual danger

Elections 2015Supreme Court says Arab MK, far-right activist can run for Knesset

By Tamar Pileggi and Marissa Newman

Liberman: Allowing Zoabi to run a ‘disgrace to democracy’

By Tamar Pileggi

Bennett to get security following melee in Haifa

By Stuart Winer

Gideon D. Sylvester

Bibi is right – Jews should come home

Guilt trips and doomsday predictions miss the mark — but Jewish destiny still beckons

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Jon Stewart, American Jew

The Daily Show host is proud, irreverent and puzzled by Israel — in other words, he’s mainstream

The gratitude of labor

God’s greatest gift to us is the ability to give to Him (Terumah)

A gala of contrast and craziness

Highlights from The Times of Israel’s anniversary celebration, a night to remember

A Kometz soldier, standing on a ladder on the Gaza side of the barrier, fixing the fence (photo credit: Netta Asner/IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

On the frontline with Gaza, fence menders face nightly peril

By Mitch Ginsburg

Under cover of darkness, the soldiers of the Kometz unit risk sniper fire, bombs, rocks and more to maintain border defense

A tractor removes snow from the roads in Jerusalem, as stormy winter weather hit the capital region. January 9, 2015. (photo credit: Mendy Hechtman/FLASH90)

Schools close as country battens down for storm

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Snow expected to descend on northern hills and Jerusalem, possibly reaching desert in the south

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister Office in Jerusalem, February 1, 2015. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)

Live updates (closed)

Netanyahu ‘preparing for criminal investigation’

By Jonathan Beck

PM hires lawyer to represent him on ‘BottleGate’ as well as alleged ‘systematic effort to have private expenses paid by the state’

Heading home after school (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash 90)

It’s OK to walk home alone

By Jessica Steinberg

Compared to their American counterparts, Israelis prefer ‘free range’ parenting over the hovering ‘helicopter’ type

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi speaks to journalists as he leaves at the end of an European Council leaders summit at the European Union (EU) Headquarters in Brussels, on February 12, 2015. (Photo credit: AFP/THIERRY CHARLIER)

Italy to vote on recognition of Palestinian state

Ruling Democratic Party of PM Matteo Renzi said to be ready to back motion in effort to restart peace talks between Israel, PA

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

How would Israeli campaign videos play in the States?

By Renee Ghert-Zand

American political communications experts offer critique of Netanyahu and Bennett’s attempts at winning votes with witty clips

People take part under heavy rain in the March of Silence called by Argentine prosecutors in memory of their late colleague Alberto Nisman in Buenos Aires on February 18, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Juan Mabromata)

Month after prosecutor’s death, masses in Argentina march for justice

By AP and AFP

Over 400,000, including opposition leaders, at silent Buenos Aires march to protest lack of answers in death of Alberto Nisman

Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara Netanyahu cast votes in the Likud primary on December 31, 2014. Photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Polls show Likud largely unhurt over PM spending report

By Marissa Newman and ToI Staff

Most Israelis say comptroller’s findings of prolfigate expenses and possible fraud at Netanyahu residences have no effect on their decision at ballot box

Israeli police and rescue workers outside the Kehilat Yaakov synagogue in Jerusalem after a terror attack there on November 18, 2014 in which three US citizens and a British national were killed. (photo credit: Marissa Newman/Times of Israel)

After bloody 2014, US issues travel warning for Jerusalem

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

Washington says violence in environs of Israeli capital reached levels ‘not seen in those areas in a decade’

US President Barack Obama speaks at the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. (Photo credit: AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama: US not at war with Islam, but with those who have perverted it

By AP and ToI Staff

Amid criticism over reluctance to blame Muslim extremists for attacks in Europe, president says moderates must clarify terrorists don’t speak for them

The kalaniyot, or anemones, blossom across southern Israel near the border with Gaza. (photo credit: Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

The South is on red alert again — in a good way

By Melanie Lidman

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Daniel Fahima, a victim of the Burgas bombing, and Dana Levy, the woman who helped him recuperate, got hitched. (screen capture: Channel 10)

Out of tragedy, happinessMan finds love in bombing aftermath

Hajj Saeed, Imam of the Al-Faruq Mosque in Copenhagen, Denmark, delivering a Friday sermon on February 13, one day before the Copenhagen terror attacks. (MEMRI TV screen capture)

On eve of attacks, Danish imam called for conflict

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on February 16, 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

AnalysisFor Netanyahu, urgency trumps niceties

Israeli soldiers seen at an IDF gathering point in a field near the Israeli border with Gaza, July 27, 2014. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

IDF chief lawyer: ICC probe not a concern

By Tia Goldenberg

Screen capture of Jango the giraffe taking a drink of water at the Ramat Gan Safari. (screen capture:YouTube/Elad Herskowitz)

Suck it upAnimals show slurping skills in safari vid

By Stuart Winer

Miryam Flint (left) and Doris Chance (right) developed a jewel-encrusted yellow star brooch that bears the word 'Pride.' (Photo credit: Screenshot)

WATCH: Best of the Times of Israel Gala — Bejeweled Jewish stars

Whitewalkers from the hit HBO show 'Game of Thrones,' similar to what the newspapers are predicting for the snow storm in Israel. (screen capture: YouTube)

Hebrew media reviewBanned from elections? Snow problem

By Lazar Berman

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