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What Matters Most On Friday, February 20, 2015

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on February 16, 2014 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

PM hires top lawyer, readies for criminal probe of spending

By Jonathan Beck

Ex-caretaker claims to have incriminating evidence against Netanyahu, wife on financial impropriety at official residence

Menny Naftali, former caretaker at the Prime Minister's Residence, on February 4, 2015 (photo credit: Flash90)

Former PM household caretaker testifies overnight with police

Members of the Small Hands choir of the Beit Shalom congregation speaking about Anne Frank at the Holocaust Education Center in Fukuyama, Japan, December 27, 2014. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

In Japan, Holocaust used to teach dangers of nationalism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Neither the Shoah nor Japan’s wartime crimes are mandatory subjects in Japanese schools

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a faction meeting at the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem. Israel says any pact that stops short of totally dismembering Iranian programs with weapons-making potential is deeply flawed. (Photo credit:AP/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Netanyahu: ‘What is there to hide’ in Iran deal?

By AP and ToI Staff

After US admits to withholding details, PM says he knows specifics of proposed pact; Kerry to be out of town during Congress speech

Jeb Bush ‘anxious to hear’ PM’s speech on Iran

By Lazar Berman and AP

State’s Psaki to head White House communications

By Jim Kuhnhenn

UN: Iran nuke probe stalled

S. Daniel Abraham

Voting on whether Israel remains Jewish

An anguished call to voters to elect a government willing to implement a two-state solution

Talli Rosenbaum

Sex, Judaism and mindfulness

Relations can become a chore rather than a way to connect and experience pleasure together

Why I, a Muslim, am going to a synagogue

He will join hands with other Muslims to form a human chain at the site where a Danish Jew was shot dead

Amy Skopp Cooper

And his name shall be Avishai

Reflections on a visit to the Mt. Herzl military cemetary

An illustration of a cancer cell. (Credit/Shutterstock)

Research shows strong ties between gum disease and cancer

By David Shamah

‘Troublemaking’ bacteria that is a major factor in periodontitis prevents the body from properly fending off cancerous cells, Hebrew U research shows

View of the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem covered in snow, February 20, 2015. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Roads to Jerusalem reopen after heavy overnight snowfall

By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff

Skies clear over central hills after 10 inches falls on capital; heavy rains Friday night

Tzipi Livni and Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice President of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organization, in Jerusalem on Thursday, February 19, 2015. (photo credit: Courtesy Conference of Presidents)

Unlike Netanyahu, Livni says, she keeps criticism of US ‘quiet’

Zionist Union co-leader slams PM’s upcoming US visit; tells American Jews Palestinian state the only way to solve refugee issue

Rabbi Barry Freundel leaves the DC Superior Court House in Washington, February 19, 2015. (AP file Photo/Cliff Owen)

Most of Freundel’s victims won’t see justice

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

While the once prominent DC rabbi pleaded guilty to 52 charges of voyeurism, there are over 100 more barred by the statute of limitations. One victim speaks out

Rabbi Barry Freundel, former spiritual leader of Kesher Israel (YouTube/Kesher Israel, screen capture)

DC rabbi accused of taping nude women pleads guilty

By AP and ToI Staff

Rabbi Rachel Timoner, associate rabbi of the Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles, tapped to take over the pulpit at Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, NY. (photo credit: Courtesy Leo Baeck Temple/JTA)

Rabbi to repair the world with new Brooklyn congregation

By Uriel Heilman

An Israeli police officer secures the scene after a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv on January 21, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Oded Balilty)

Tel Aviv bus stabber who injured 17 indicted

Palestinian terrorist wanted to become a ‘martyr,’ kill as many Israelis as possible, court documents show

View of the construction site of the new Palestinian city of Rawabi, on February 23, 2014.

Analysis

Waterless, the first planned Palestinian city sits empty

By Avi Issacharoff

PA refuses to convene the Joint Water Committee, saying it would also benefit settlements, while Israel won’t connect Rawabi pipelines unilaterally

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a speech in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 4, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/Abbas Momani)

US trial over attacks could hurt Palestinian war crimes push

Lawsuit’s implication of PA in terrorism could damage efforts to garner international support

Palestinian women wait at a bus stop in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shuafat, on December 16, 2014 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

City Hall almost done mapping East Jerusalem

By Elhanan Miller

The development budget of Arab neighborhoods has grown almost tenfold since 2004, says mayor’s adviser David Koren

Participants in London's Coexist Pilgrimage on February 19, 2015. From left to right: Julie Siddiqi, John Witcombe, Margaret Cave, John Bercow MP, Ibrahim Mogra, Krish Raval, Shoshana Boyd Gelfand, Remona Aly, Michael Wakelin and Jonathan Wittenberg (credit Richard Verber/World Jewish Relief)

London’s faithful walk together in show of solidarity

By Jenni Frazer

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A Saudi cleric claims the sun revolved around the Earth and not the other way around. (Photo credit: Screenshot from al-Arabiya video of the lecture)

Scienced!Cleric: Sun revolves around Earth

Actor Ewan McGregor, posing here during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, will direct Philip Roth’s “American Pastoral.” (photo credit: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

Obi-Wan JewnobiMcGregor to direct ‘American Pastoral’

By Gabe Friedman

The Taxibot in trial use at Frankfurt airport. (photo credit: Youtube screenshot/Ohad Doron)

Israel’s fuel saving ‘Taxibot’ deployed in German airport

Herman Rosenblat (screen capture: YouTube)

Herman Rosenblat, Holocaust memoir fabricator, dies at 85

By JTA

Rock and bulkie rollHair metal homage to LA’s delis

By Anthony Weiss

UC Davis student court overturns divestment resolution

By JTA

Crowdfunding guru Jon Medved (photo credit: Courtesy)

Israel looks to help Chinese firms with early-stage start-ups

By David Shamah

Illustrative: a computer (Pexels)

Votiro keeps Gaza porn-video hackers, and other baddies, at bay

By David Shamah

Snow graces the hills outside Jerusalem on February 20, 2015 (photo credit: Ilan Ben Zion/Times of Israel staff)

Hebrew media reviewNews in deep freeze as snow covers Israel

By Adiv Sterman

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