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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 16, 2016

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrives for the final plenary meeting at UN's IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria on July 14, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/POOL/JOE KLAMAR)

Zarif: Iran nuclear sanctions to end today — it’s a ‘good day’

By AFP

Iranian FM expected to make announcement with Kerry, Mogherini in Vienna, after IAEA’s anticipated confirmation that Tehran has met terms of atomic deal

Israeli source: Iran will first invest freed-up funds in military

Anticipating end to sanctions, Iran’s FM heads to Vienna

By AFP

Israel faces no existential threats, says departing Mossad chief

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 general scoffs: US sailors cried when we captured them

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Revolutionary Guards officer says servicemen briefly held this week were only released after ‘Americans humbly admitted our might and power’

Israelis attend a street party at the Simta Bar on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv on January 15, 2016, in support of the bar where two Israelis were killed and several more injured in a shooting attack two weeks ago. (Photo by Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Tel Aviv turns out to support bar where Israeli Arab shot 2 dead

Mayor Huldai joins show of solidarity at Simta, the Dizengoff pub where Alon Bakal and Shimon Ruimi were slain by Nashat Milhem on Jan. 1

New footage emerges of Tel Aviv gunman dancing at wedding

Two alleged accomplices of TA terrorist released to house arrest

Poll: Arab Muslim youths say IS, Qaeda distort Islam

By AFP

Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom (Youtube screenshot)

Sweden’s Israel-bashing FM named in Stockholm housing scandal

Anti-corruption group wants Margot Wallström probed for bribery, after she bypassed waiting period when renting home from trade union

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a joint press conference with the European Union's foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, in Jerusalem, on November 7, 2014. (Photo credit: Amit Shabi/POOL/FLASH90)

Israel said scrambling to counter new EU decision on settlements

Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Liberman leads a party meeting in the Knesset, October 19, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Liberman: B’Tselem, Breaking the Silence are ‘traitors’

Masimba Musodza

British fits of anti-Semitic morality

Attacks against Israel, with Jews as proxy, should generate outrage; instead, they are ‘the good fight’

Intersectionality and the occupation

As long as the pro-Israel camp ignores Palestinian suffering it will continue to alienate progressives

An open letter to Open Hillel

Opening Hillel to anti-Zionist groups will actually diminish thoughtful debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post reporter currently in Iranian custody. (screen capture: YouTube/Washington Post)

US says Iran freeing 4 prisoners including Washington Post reporter

By AP and AFP

Tehran releases four Iranian-Americans as part of prisoner exchange, including journalist Jason Rezaian; US reportedly to free 7 Iranians

French special forces take position in the surroundings of the Splendid hotel following an attack by al-Qaeda linked gunmen on January 16, 2016 in Ouagadougou. (AFP/OUOBA_AHMED)

Burkina siege over with at least 23 dead from 18 nations

By Romaric Ollo HIEN

126 people freed when security forces end jihadist assault, retake hotel and adjacent cafe popular with Westerners, UN personnel

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right) meeting in Tehran with Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniyeh. (AP)

Analysis

‘Hamas rejects Iran offer of funding in return for backing in Saudi row’

By Avi Issacharoff

Proposal splits leadership of Palestinian terror group, but political chief turns it down for fear of offending Sunni states

Pope Francis addresses the crowd during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square in the Vatican on November 18, 2015. (AFP/Andreas Solaro)

What Pope Francis synagogue visit says about Catholic-Jewish relations

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

Men pray at the gravesite of the late Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson on his 20th yahrzeit in Queens, N.Y., July 1, 2014. (Adam Ben Cohen/Chabad.org)

Chabad Rebbe’s death certificate on auction block

By JTA

Menachem Mendel Schneerson’s 1995 Health Department document currently going for $1,300

Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach during a visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, early 1990s. (Shlomo Carlebach Legacy Trust)

Carlebach’s guitar and other effects to be auctioned

By JTA

US President Barack Obama delivers remarks in celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month at Adas Israel Congregation, May 22, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

In U-turn, US Navy gives clearance to Jewish dentist

By JTA and ToI Staff

Gershon Pincus says he is overjoyed at move, which ends ban due to weekly phone calls to close family in Israel

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz speaks to a town hall meeting sponsored by the Conservative Leadership Project at the USC Alumni Center in Columbia, SC South Carolina January 15, 2016. (AFP/TIMOTHY A. CLARY)

Cruz comes under fire for comments on ‘New York values’

By Karen Matthews

Jab by Texas senator against Trump during debate angers residents of Democratic-leaning city; tabloid ads call on Cruz to ‘go back to Canada’

Paramedics carrying Shmuel Rada, father of Tair Rada to attend the dedication of a synagogue in his daughter's name on Thursday, January 14 2016. (Screen capture Channel 2)

Father of slain schoolgirl dies a day after synagogue is dedicated to her

Hundreds attend funeral for Shmuel Rada, whose 13-year-old daughter Tair was killed at her school in 2006

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at an official ceremony in the Presidential Complex in Ankara, on December 24, 2015. (AFP/Adem Altan)

Top Turkish official: Ties with Israel to be normalized soon

Hurriyet reports that bilateral agreement is mostly ready, ambassadors to be exchanged as soon as deal is signed

The Shafir pool (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

Up close and personal with the lesser water boatman and the non-biting midge

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

More Headlines

Toulouse's French Tunisian forward Wissam Ben Yedder kicks the ball during the French League Cup football match between Toulouse and Marseille (OM) on January 13, 2016 at the municipal stadium in Toulouse, southwestern France. (Pascal Pavani/AFP)

Marseille supporters urged to wear kippahs to upcoming match

Actor Theo Barklem-Biggs plays Shmilu in 'Samuel-613.' (YouTube)

Film about wayward Hasidic Jew nominated for BAFTA

By Renee Ghert-Zand

State Comptroller Yosef Shapira (left) shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) in December 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

State comptroller grills PM over ‘Bibi Tours’ affair

An EdenShield GateKeeper system (Courtesy)

Israeli start-up keeps bad bugs at bay, no poison needed

By David Shamah

The moon rises behind the star of a Christmas Tree in central Rome on December 22, 2015. (AFP/TIZIANA FABI)

Pie in the skyEuropean space boss has ‘crazy’ Moon Village plan

By Mariëtte Le Roux

Marc Gafni (Shawn Jones)

Spiritual teacher cancels California workshop amid sex misconduct claims

By JTA

A customer holds a handful of Powerball tickets at Kavanagh Liquors on January 13, 2016 in San Lorenzo, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)

PowerbossNursing home magnate hands out 15,000 lottery tickets

By JTA and ToI Staff

A poster informs about pool rules in a public swimming pool in Munich, southern Germany, on January 12, 2016. (Sven Hoppe/DPA/AFP)

Male refugees banned from German pool over harassment complaints

By Frank Jordans

Lord Greville Janner speaks to al-Jazeera in 2007. (YouTube, al-Jazeera)

UK prosecutors drop sex-abuse case against late Jewish politician

By AP

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