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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 12, 2016

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to volunteers at a United Steelworkers Union Hall, Bettendorf, Iowa, December 22, 2015. (Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP)

Clinton received plan to secretly galvanize Palestinian protests

By Eric Cortellessa

Former envoy to Israel emailed proposal to then-US secretary of state that Palestinian, Israeli women should spark Tahrir-style protests to push sides into talks

Shaked tells US not to worry about NGO bill

Clinton confronts rival Sanders as Iowa polls tighten

By Lisa Lerer and Ken Thomas

Michael Bloomberg tests waters for possible presidential run

By JTA

A copy of 'Hitler, Mein Kampf -- A critical edition' stands on a display table in a bookstore in Munich, Germany, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. This annotated edition is the first version of Adolf Hitler's notorious manifesto to be published in Germany since the end of World War II. (AP/Matthias Schrader)

Germans’ huge interest in ‘Mein Kampf’ shows a will to ‘cope with the past’

By Raphael Ahren

Top Israeli scholar surprised but unfazed by high sales of new annotated version; publisher tells Times of Israel it is deliberately making no money from what it calls an educational project

President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference with Philippines' President Benigno Aquino III in Manila, Philippines, November 18, 2015, (AP/Susan Walsh)

Obama vows to veto bill to restrict Iran sanctions relief

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

White House warns legislation could derail Iran deal as pressure mounting in DC to take a tough stance toward Tehran

Iran’s deputy nuclear chief denies that Arak reactor was sealed

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Iran removes core of Arak reactor, looks to sanctions relief

By Stuart Winer

Iran disputes UN finding that it worked on nuclear arms

Illustrative: Armed French soldiers secure the access to the 'La Source' Jewish school in Marseille, southern France, on January 12, 2016. (AFP/Boris Horvat)

Live updates (closed)

After attack, French Jews spar over whether to lose skullcaps for safety

By Joshua Davidovich

Marseille community head says protective measure necessary after teacher stabbed by Islamic State-inspired teen, but French chief rabbi retorts head covering should stay on

The Pater, surrounded by his American-born wife Yvette and baby Elliot Jager, circa 1956. Inset from the cover of 'The Pater: My Father, My Judaism, My Childlessness.' (courtesy)

When a Jewish fatherless child cannot father a child

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

After 30 years of abandonment, author Elliot Jager reconnects with his aging Holocaust survivor father, and navigates his faith amidst infertility

Donald Trump and Jewish values

How well does the candidate scores when graded for honesty, modesty, charity and who his supporters are?

Am I indigenous?

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Golden Globe shout-out to native peoples implied support for the Palestinian narrative

Israeli NGO bill nothing like US law

Justice Minister Shaked is mischaracterizing her proposed law, a law that clearly discriminates against the left

A preposterous Haredi demand

On a move to provide full-time yeshiva learners’ with state-financed life insurance

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aboard the new submarine 'Rahav' at the Israeli navy base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

PM, president turn out to welcome Israel’s newest submarine

$400 million INS Rahav, which arrives in Haifa from Germany, said to expand Israel’s purported nuclear ‘second-launch’ capabilities

A Hamas tunnel discovered by soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade in the northern Gaza Strip on July 18, 2014. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Hamas may have nearly as many terror tunnels as before 2014 war — report

Israel often talks of finding technological solution to tunnel threat, but has not allocated the budget to do so, Haaretz says

Policemen secure an area at the historic Sultanahmet district, which is popular with tourists, after a suicide bombing that killed 10 in Istanbul, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

10 dead in likely suicide terror attack in Istanbul

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Cause of explosion in historic Sultanahmet district, popular with tourists, still being investigated; police block off area

The Eitan (Heron TP) UAV (Tsahi Ben-Ami/Flash90)

Germany said interested in buying Israeli drones

Berlin eyes IAI’s Eitan unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, which has a range of 4,600 miles and can stay airborne for 70 hours

File: Israeli security forces and emergency personnel gather at the site of a reported car-ramming attack on Israeli Border Policemen at the Beit Anun junction, north of the West Bank city of Hebron, on November 1, 2015. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

Stabbing thwarted as attacker shot dead

By Stuart Winer

Assailant tries to stab IDF soldier near Hebron; in separate incident, Palestinian reportedly shot dead in clash near Bethlehem

Educator Dr. Dalia Fadila, photographed in Tira (Courtesy)

Maverick educator seeks to change Israeli Arab world from within

Housing Minister Yoav Gallant (second from left) and MK Ayman Odeh (second from right) stop at Eilabun, a village 15 kilometers (9 miles) south-west of Safed, during a tour of Arab villages in the Galilee, January 12, 2016. (Courtesy)

Housing minister, Arab lawmaker get close look at Galilee housing problems

Yoav Galant visits northern villages with Joint List head Ayman Odeh to study obstacles to development

File: Shimon Peres in Tel Aviv, November 30, 2015 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Peres: We have to close our eyes a bit, and make peace

By Yardena Schwartz

The former president, 92, insists Abbas remains a partner

Police apprehending a terror suspect in Nahariya on January 11, 2016. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Nahariya terror suspect was not planning attack

By Raoul Wootliff

Police release Taibe woman, 28, who was apprehended in northern city after Monday hunt

Ezra Nawi (Uri Zakhem/Wikipedia)

Far-left activist Ezra Nawi wasn’t fleeing, says attorney

Police arrest Nawi at airport on suspicion of helping Palestinian Authority kill Arabs selling land to Jews

Muhannad Halabi, 19, the terrorist who killed two Israelis on October 3, 2015 in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem's Old City. (Israel Police)

Palestinians raise NIS 250,000 to rebuild terrorist’s home

Muhannad Halabi, 19, murdered two Israelis in Jerusalem in October and wounded a 2-year-old; his house was destroyed by IDF on Friday

People watch a news report on North Korea's purported first hydrogen bomb test at a railroad station in Seoul on January 6, 2016. (AFP Photo/Jung Yeon-Je)

Love the bomb

N. Korea: We don’t threaten, but we’ll wipe out US

By AFP

International experts continue to dismiss Pyongyang’s claim that it detonated a miniaturized thermonuclear bomb

Amit Katz in front of her award-winning cartoon (Eliana Block/Times of Israel)

Israeli teens pay homage to Charlie Hebdo in cartoon contest

By Eliana Block

High school students caricature the state of the country, including religious marriage, on anniversary of attack on French satire magazine

Police officers stand guard in front of the 'La Source' Jewish school in Marseille, southern France, after a Jewish teacher was attacked by a teenager wielding a machete, January 11, 2016. (AFP/BERTRAND LANGLOIS)

Marseille Jew fended off stabber with ‘holy book’

By AFP

French PM denounces attack by IS-inspired Turkish teen as ‘revolting anti-Semitic aggression’

Brig. Gen. Eli Ben-Meir, left, shakes hands with Brig. Gen. (res.) Itai Brun, right, as Ben-Meir takes over as head of the IDF's Research Brigade, during a ceremony, with head of army intelligence Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi, on January 4, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Top army intel officer calls it quits amid report of internal struggle

By Judah Ari Gross

IDF denies departure of Brig. Gen. Eli Ben-Meir from head of Research Brigade related to professional dispute

Illustrative image of a researcher checking fMRI images. (Wikimedia commons)

Brain can be trained to regulate negative emotions, Israeli study finds

Ben Gurion University researchers say simple exercises can create new neural connections, helping the brain ignore irrelevant information

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office, Jerusalem, January 10, 2016. (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL)

As no foul play declared in B’Tselem blaze, Netanyahu mocks accusers

Investigators conclude fire at right group offices was caused by electrical short and not arson; PM: ‘Maybe they’ll still blame me’

Labor MK Stav Shaffir in the Knesset on July 22, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Opposition MK accuses state of funneling money to anti-Arab attackers

By Marissa Newman

Police say no evidence to back Stav Shaffir’s allegation about right-wing groups funding price-tag actions; settler group denies claims

Interior minister Aryeh Deri in the Knesset, January 11, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Knesset approves Deri’s return to Interior Ministry

Parliament okays Shas lawmaker’s appointment 54-43, 22 years after he was convicted of bribery in same office

National Police Commissioner Dan Eliasson holds a press conference after Swedish police ordered an investigation into allegations that officers covered up sexual assaults by mostly immigrant youths at a music festival in Stockholm, at a conference in Sälen, Sweden, on Jan. 11, 2016. (AFP / TT NEWS AGENCY / Henrik Montgomery)

Swedish police take flak for covering up refugee sex attacks

By AFP and AP

After paper exposes incidents at music festival, Stockholm official says ‘large part’ of those detained were from Afghanistan

Protesters from the PEGIDA movement (Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the Occident) march during a rally in Leipzig, German, on January 11, 2016. (AFP/Tobias Schwarz)

German police arrest far-right extremists after Leipzig rampage

By AFP

Israeli author Dorit Rabinyan, sits at her house in Tel Aviv, Israel, January 11, 2016. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)

As interest soars, author of banned Jewish-Arab romance deflects spotlight

By Daniella Cheslow

Salah Abdeslam, suspected of involvement in the November 13, 2015. terror attacks in Paris, with his friend Hamza Attou seen entering a convenience store at 9:45 a.m. on 14 November near the France-Belgium border. (Screen capture: BFM TV)

New footage shows alleged Paris terrorist hours after attack

By ToI Staff and AFP

Salah Abdeslam seen calmly buying snacks at a gas station convenience store just after shootings, bombing in French capital

A convoy of aid from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) waits on the outskirts of the besieged rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya, on January 11, 2016. (AFP/Louai Beshara)

Aid trucks make way into starvation-hit Syria towns

By AFP

Humanitarian assistance allowed into Madaya outside Damascus, where over two dozen people are reported to have starved to death

Israeli security forces search for the gunman who shot Israeli civilians at a pub in central Tel Aviv on Friday, January 1, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

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Illustrative photo of a couple having a wedding picture taken at the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem, April 2011. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

660,000 Israelis unable to get married here

By ToI Staff and JTA

David Bowie at a press conference at the 36th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 13, 1983 (Ralph Gatti/AFP/Getty Images, via JTA)

Tree to treeDavid Bowie was into Kabbalah, and sang about it

By Gabe Friedman

File. An image from a video released by the US Defense Department the American bombing of an Islamic State cash stockpile in Mosul, Iraq on January 11, 2016. (Screen capture: Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System)

Money to burnUS bombs pile of Islamic State cash in Iraq

By Robert Burns

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Exits for Israeli tech firms hit near record levels, report shows

By David Shamah

Illustrative image of someone purchasing medicinal marijuana in Tel Aviv. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

Medical cannabis set to hit pharmacy shelves

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest against the military draft in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood, December 22, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Two arrested for harassing ultra-Orthodox IDF draftees

Illustrative: A Google self-driving connected car. (Courtesy)

From the webIsrael brings tech expertise to protecting connected cars

Knesset Economics Committee Chair MK Eitan Cabel (Zionist Union) in a committee meeting about the controversial natural gas deal, December 2, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

High Court slams Zionist Union’s late petition against gas deal

Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a Likud party meeting at the Knesset on January 11, 2016. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

His own worst enemyNetanyahu to battle self in NIS 4m leadership poll

By Tamar Pileggi

People stand in front of a Dolce e Gabana shop window in downtown Rome's Via Condotti, January 8, 2016. (AFP/FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)

Under wrapsDolce and Gabbana unveils Muslim couture

By AFP

Geza Rohrig in Auschwitz in 'Son of Saul.' (courtesy)

A yiddishe headThe kippah on the red carpet

By Jessica Steinberg

#Parshachat merges Torah talk and the disability experience on Twitter (Illustrative: iPhone; Pixabay)

iPhone homeApple’s Siri voice assistant learns Hebrew

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