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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 14, 2016

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Former president Shimon Peres, seen during an interview in his office in the Peres Center for Peace, Tel Aviv, September 29, 2014 (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

His 'heart is strong,' says his son

Former president Peres suffers mild heart attack, ‘doing well’

By Raoul Wootliff

Statesman, 92, taken to Sheba Medical Center after paramedic determines irregular heart beat, spokesperson says

An armed French soldier securing the access to the La Source Jewish school in Marseille, southern France a day after a teenager, armed with a machete and a knife, wounded a teacher slightly before being stopped and arrested, Jan. 12, 2016. (Boris Horvat/AFP/Getty Images, via JTA)

'The dissemination of hate online has changed everything'

‘Miracle’ of safety for Marseille Jews shattered by string of attacks

By Cnaan Liphshiz

‘We are living in a state of war,’ says ex-community president. ‘Now every aspect of communal life happens under protection by the military’

French teen charged in machete attack on Jewish teacher

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

French Jewish politician died of asphyxiation

By ToI Staff and JTA

France’s Hollande: ‘Intolerable’ for Jews to hide skullcaps

By AFP and ToI Staff

Plainclothes police aim their handguns towards suspects outside a cafe after a series of blasts hit the Indonesia capital Jakarta on January 14, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO)

Live updates (closed)

PM: Swedish FM’s remarks on response to Palestinian attackers are outrageous

Netanyahu slams Wallstrom for saying that Israel should investigate ‘extrajudicial killings,’ calls comments ‘unjust and just wrong’

This photo released by the Iranian state-run IRIB News Agency on Wednesday, January 13, 2016, shows detention of American Navy sailors by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the Persian Gulf, Iran. (Sepahnews via AP)

Iran airs clip of captive US sailor apologizing for ‘mistake’

By AP and ToI Staff

State TV releases footage of Americans surrendering on their knees; VP Biden says ‘nothing to apologize for’

Iran naval chief: We were ready to fire at US aircraft carrier

By ToI Staff and Agencies

US, Iran forge new relationship as nuke deal advances

By Matt Lee and Bradley Klapper

Kerry thanks Iran for resolving sailor dispute ‘peacefully’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

During the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April of 1945, guards with the SS were paraded for work in clearing the dead. (Wikimedia Commons)

Uncovering Holocaust perpetrators where few have looked

By Matt Lebovic

Muslim Nazis, female death camp guards, and Dutch ‘bounty hunters’ are coming out of the archival closet, even as fewer Shoah eyewitnesses remain alive to testify

A delusional email to Hillary Clinton

Thomas Pickering’s proposal that the US covertly foment Palestinian protests is jaw-dropping in its naivete

Manfred Mann’s mistake

The band that canceled because Israel is ‘too dangerous’ would be safer avoiding those deadly London streets

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Jewish students don’t need ‘safe spaces’

What college kids really need are the resources and respect that empower them to be thinkers and doers

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

The abuse of Jewish law

Using halacha to justify murder stems from the dangerous failure to study the moral values taught in Genesis

Catching some Zzz's (Pixabay)

Obesity’s link to lack of sleep is gut-wrenching problem, study shows

By David Shamah

Intestinal bacteria helps keep fat at bay – but late-night hours at the office is seen to prevent them from doing their job

Israelis protest outside the Magistrate Court in Tel Aviv against the court’s decision to sentence a convicted rapist to community service rather than jail. The decision has sparked a storm of protest among rape victims’ groups and a Facebook page calling for the resignation of one of the judges. (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

What Israel’s spate of high-profile sex scandals says about its culture

By Simona Weinglass

Carl Magnus Nesser, Swedish ambassador to Israel (courtesy Swedish Embassy)

Israel calls in Swedish envoy over ‘extrajudicial killings’ comments

By Raphael Ahren and Raoul Wootliff

Foreign Ministry head Dore Gold accuses Stockholm’s Wallstrom of ‘actively encouraging terror,’ as her call for probe into deaths provokes fury in Jerusalem

Dani Dayan attending a protest against the evacuation of a West Bank outpost at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, June 5, 2012. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

Netanyahu to Brazil: Settler leader only ambassador we’ll offer

By JTA

Prime minister says if Dani Dayan won’t be accepted by Brasilia, there will be no Israeli envoy there at all

Tourists walk at the site of Tuesday's explosion in the historic Sultanahmet district in Istanbul, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Israel said to refuse to condemn Istanbul suicide bombing

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Although reconciliation talks proceeding, Jerusalem reportedly won’t denounce blast that killed 10 tourists because Ankara doesn’t condemn terror attacks on Israelis

Armed Indonesian police commandos arrive at the area outside a damaged Starbucks coffee shop after a series of explosions hit central Jakarta, January 14, 2016. (AFP Photo/Romeo Gacad)

Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly Jakarta attacks

By Olivia Rondonuwu and Nicholas Perry

Coordinated bombs, shootings leave two dead; police say assault ‘followed pattern of the Paris attacks’

Israeli soldiers patrol a street, east of the West Bank city of Nablus, on October 3, 2015, as they search for the suspects in the slaying of an Israeli couple. (AFP/ JAAFAR ASHTIYEH)

Officer injured in stabbing attack near Nablus

By Raoul Wootliff and Judah Ari Gross

Attacker shot and killed while stabbing soldier following assault on military vehicle

Police escort two Jewish minors, suspected of taking part in the murder of Muhammed Abu Khdeir, at the Jerusalem District Court, Jerusalem, June 3, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Prosecutors urge life sentences for killers of Palestinian teen

By AFP and ToI Staff

Father of murdered Mohammed Abu Khdeir calls for culprits’ homes to be demolished in line with policies for Arab terrorists

Flag of the Gaza-based Palestinian faction Harakat al-Sabireen

Iran-backed jihadi group claims it’s operating in West Bank, Jerusalem

Gaza-based Sabireen says it will wage war against Israel everywhere, denies being a Hezbollah-style Iranian proxy

Hamas security forces next to an Egyptian watch tower on the border between Egypt and Gaza, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, September 21, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

All’s quiet on the southern Gaza front — and that’s bad

By Judah Ari Gross

While soldiers stationed near the north of the Strip face rocket fire and other attacks, in the south, Hamas keeps a lid on Salafists and prepares for next round of fighting

Jewish Home MK Bezalel Smotrich during a Knesset committee meeting, January 11, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Legislators seek to outlaw IDF-critiquing Breaking the Silence group

By Raoul Wootliff

Bill proposed by MKs from various parties calls organization, which exposes what it claims are immoral army actions, ‘subversive,’ says its uses ‘non-democratic methods’

A drawing submitted to a Holocaust denial cartoon contest sponsored by Iran in 2015.

Israeli officials urge UN to condemn Iran Holocaust cartoon contest

By Tamar Pileggi

First place in Holocaust denial comic competition wins $50,000; Knesset speaker conveys Israel’s ‘revulsion’ to secretary general

Likud MK Amir Ohana. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

In the grim vision of Likud’s newest MK, peace concessions can be deadly

By Marissa Newman

Indonesians take a selfie photograph as they gather during a countdown event to celebrate the New Year in Jakarta on December 31, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / Bay ISMOYO)

Worst-kept secret: Israel, Indonesia do business together

By David Shamah

Despite no official relations, Jerusalem has built up substantial ties with world’s largest Muslim country

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The Barbaras advertisement (Screenshot from Barbaras’ website, JTA)

Most wanted shirtEl Chapo wears Jewish fashion; you can too

By JTA

Not on the road, againManfred Mann cancels Israel show: Too dangerous

Matisyahu speaking at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City, January 8, 2016. (Amir Norman, JTA)

Matisyahu in his own words, on music, Judaism, shaving

By Gabe Friedman

Israeli model Bar Refaeli in Jerusalem, June 18, 2015 (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Bar who?Supermodel Bar Refaeli alleges identity theft

Lila Kagedan is the first graduate of Yeshivat Maharat to use the title rabbi. (Courtesy of Lila Kagedan)

Rabbi Lila Kagedan set to make history with job at Orthodox shul

By Uriel Heilman

The Israel Navy's Dakar (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Emotions bubble to surface over plan to name new sub after sunken Dakar

By Stuart Winer

Ahmed Dawabsha in his room at Tel Hashomer Hospital in Ramat Gan, December 23, 2015 (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)

Real Madrid invites Palestinian arson survivor for visit

By Mohammed Daraghmeh

The flag of England waves behind the flag of the United Kingdom, in Southsea, England on July 20, 2008. (THOR/Creative Commons)

Rebranding?Lawmakers bruit ‘Jerusalem’ as official English anthem

By ToI Staff and AFP

Prof. Yoseph Imry, one of this year's Wolf Prize winners (GPO)

Israel’s ‘pre-Nobel’ Wolf Prize awardees announced

By David Shamah

Benjamin Netanyahu attends an event held at the International Conference Center in Jerusalem on January 12, 2016. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Likud cancels one-man primaries, declares Netanyahu victor

Lt. Gen. Jack Jacob, shown sitting in his New Delhi home, likely saved hundreds of thousands of lives while serving as chief of staff of the Indian Eastern command during the 1971 Bangladesh war. (Ashish Sharma/Open/JTA)

Jack Jacob, Indian Jewish war hero, dies at 92

By Raoul Wootliff and JTA

This photo released by the Iranian state-run IRIB News Agency on Wednesday, January 13, 2016, shows detention of American Navy sailors by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the Persian Gulf, Iran. (Sepahnews via AP)

Hebrew media reviewIsraeli media to the US: ‘Told you so’

By Judah Ari Gross

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