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What Matters Most On Monday, January 18, 2016

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The family of Dafna Meir at her funeral in Jerusalem on January 18, 2106. Meir was stabbed to death at the entrance to her home in the settlement of Otniel on January 17. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Otniel stabbing victim Dafna Meir laid to rest in Jerusalem

Family and friends mourn mother of six, an ‘endlessly generous’ nurse, who was killed in front of her kids in her home Sunday

Dafna Meir, slain mother of 6, had premonitions of tragedy

Slain mother Dafna Meir lauded for heroics fighting off stabber

Five Palestinians detained amid hunt for Otniel stabber

By Stuart Winer

Medics wheel a wounded Michal Forman into the emergency room of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center on January 18, 2016. Froman, who is pregnant, was wounded in a stabbing attack in the settlement of Tekoa (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Pregnant woman moderately wounded in Tekoa stabbing

By Judah Ari Gross, Joshua Davidovich and Stuart Winer

Teenage terrorist shot by an armed civilian near the scene; attack comes a day after a woman was killed in a similar attack

Hadassah Froman (Facebook)

Mother-in-law of pregnant stabbing victim urges coexistence

The late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at a 1964 press conference about the movement he led until his 1968 assassination. (Wikimedia Commons)

Fierce tugs in the war over Martin Luther King’s legacy on Israel

By Matt Lebovic

Activists on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide stake claim to the civil rights leader, as calls of ‘From Gaza to Ferguson’ ramp up nationwide

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot (Miriam Alster/Flash90, File)

IDF chief: Iran deal raises specter of proxy wars with Israel

By Judah Ari Gross and Ilan Ben Zion

Eisenkot tells security conference Hezbollah, backed by Tehran, remains ‘central threat’; warns West Bank violence will continue for years

Iran blasts new US sanctions linked to its missile program

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Nuclear watchdog chief in Iran for talks after deal

By Arthur Macmillan and Andrew BEATTY

J Street takes aim at GOP senators who opposed Iran deal

By JTA

In this Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015 file photo, Israeli border police check Palestinians' ID cards at a checkpoint as they exit the Arab neighborhood of Issawiyeh in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Live updates (closed)

EU says agreements with Israel ‘inapplicable’ beyond Green Line

By Jonathan Beck

Announcement by 28-member bloc’s council also calls on PA to increase transparency, resume control of Gaza Strip

David Keyes (Courtesy)

PM to tap US-born human rights activist as new spokesman

By Raphael Ahren

Before David Keyes started ‘punking’ Iranian and Saudi officials, New York Times hailed him as a ‘pioneer in online activism’

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Remembering Dafna Meir together

The slain nurse who counseled women on health and Jewish law is being mourned online by the many whose lives she touched

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

Memories from a sealed room

When the Scud attacks began in 1991, their newborn faced a threat worse than Saddam: his bumbling parents

Malynnda Littky-Porath

When you call me that, smile!

Horrified at the term ‘kushi’, she went to Israel’s top linguistic authority seeking a beautiful way to say black

Israel’s real DNA problem

Time to stop smearing the diplomatic corps and start conducting real foreign policy, not just media campaigns

US President Barack Obama speaks about the release of Americans by Iran in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, January 17, 2016. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

US, Iran to ‘deepen’ coordination in search for Jewish American

By AP, JTA and ToI Staff

Obama vows Washington will not rest until CIA contractor Robert Levinson, missing from Iran for nearly nine years, is found

President Barack Obama speaks about the release of Americans by Iran, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama celebrates return of prisoners, announces sanctions

By Julie Pace and KEVIN FREKING

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders participates in the NBC News -YouTube Democratic Candidates Debate on January 17, 2016 at the Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina (AFP/TIMOTHY A. CLARY)

Bernie Sanders calls for normalizing ties with Iran

By JTA

During contentious Democratic debate, presidential candidate says goal ‘has got to be as we’ve done with Cuba’

Undated file photo of Iranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi (left) and cameraman Arasto Givi (right), during a scene of the film 'Writing on the City,' overlooking Tehran, Iran. (Keywan Karimi via AP)

Two poets flee Iran to escape lashings, prison

By Jon Gambrell

Rights groups say crackdown on expression part of battle between hardliners and moderates in run-up to election

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, January 17, 2016. (Amit Shabi/Pool)

Netanyahu tweaks controversial NGO transparency bill

By Tamar Pileggi

PM says groups receiving foreign government funding won’t be required to wear tags in Knesset; but all donations must be disclosed

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers in the West Bank on January 17, 2016 (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Netanyahu vows killer of Otniel mother will be caught

By ToI Staff and AFP

Politicians from across spectrum express horror over killing of Dafna Meir in front of her children in her West Bank home

Col. Yariv Ben-Ezra, commander of the IDF's Judea Regional Brigade, works with his officers in the field as they search for the man who stabbed and killed an Israeli woman in her home in the Otniel settlement in the West Bank on January 17, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Terrorist stabs Israeli woman to death in her West Bank home

By Judah Ari Gross

Newly elected Argentinian President Mauricio Macri visits family of assassinated prosecutor Alberto Nisma at his home on January 17, 2016. (Courtesy)

As tides shift, daughters of killed prosecutor meet Argentine president

By Ilan Ben Zion and JTA

Year after suspected assassination, Mauricio Macri promises ‘justice’ for special prosecutor Alberto Nisman

Pope Francis is greeted as he arrives at Rome's synagogue, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

At Rome synagogue, Pope denounces violence done in God’s name

By Nicole Winfield

Visit comes amid spate of Islamic extremist attacks, often targeting Jews and Christians in Europe, Africa, Mideast and elsewhere

Pope Francis, flanked by Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni, right, during his first visit to a synagogue as pope on January 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope touts ‘unbreakable bond’ with Jews in visit to Rome synagogue

By AP and AFP

This file photo taken on November 17, 2015 shows Czech President Milos Zeman delivering a speech on the 26th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution on November 17, 2015 in Prague. (Michal Cizek/AFP)

Czech leader: Muslim integration ‘practically impossible’ in Europe

By AFP

‘Let them have their culture in their countries and not take it to Europe, otherwise it will end up like Cologne,’ warns President Milos Zeman

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks to the press at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on December 29, 2015. (Amit Shabi/Pool)

Olmert seeks sweeping deal ahead of Supreme Court appeal Monday

Prosecutors meet with former PM’s attorneys into the night in bid to merge, mitigate multiple corruption sentences

Hazem Khairat (YouTube screenshot)

Foreign Ministry welcomes new Egyptian ambassador

By Raphael Ahren

Dore Gold says arrival of first Egyptian emissary since 2012 is an ‘important step’ in relations between two countries

Portrait of then-incoming El Salvador Ambassador to Israel Werner Matias Romero Guerra at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, November 9, 2015. (Isaac Harari/Flash90)

El Salvador denies claims it is moving embassy to Ramallah

Rumor spreads as Foreign Ministry plans to ax its mission to Central American nation to free up funds

Frank Reese, owner of the Good Shepherd Poultry Ranch in Kansas. (Victor Wishna/JTA)

America’s tastiest chicken will soon be kosher

By Victor Wishna

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File: An old Jewish woman with children at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1, 1944. (Wikipedia/Hannolans/CC BY-SA 3.0 DE)

Former Auschwitz medic, 95, to go on trial next month

By AFP

An illustrative photo of a Kuwait Airways plane taking off from Berlin-Tegel Airport in Germany in September 2014. (screen capture: YouTube)

Kuwait Air ends New York service Monday over refusal to carry Israelis

By JTA

Illustrative: Heavy dust turns the Tel Aviv sky orange at midday on September 8, 2015, in the worst sandstorm yet recorded in the country. (Times of Israel)

Dense dust storm expected Monday

Tourists leave the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur, about 25 miles south of Cairo, Egypt, on August 19, 2011. (AP/Coralie Carlson, File)

Pyramid schemeParticles could reveal how Egyptian pyramid was built

American Idol contestant Harrison Cohen. (Facebook)

Ladies' men‘Foxy’ grandpa shares dating advice at ‘Idol’ audition

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Crowdfunding guru Jon Medved (photo credit: Courtesy)

Equity crowdfunding not just about money says guru Medved

By David Shamah

Mega supermarket chain workers protest in Tel Aviv, on January 17, 2016. The court issued Sunday order a temporary stay of proceedings mega network. Meanwhile, the workers' council announced that Mega decided to disable the activity of all branches of the Mega on Monday. Photo by Flash90

Ailing Mega supermarket chain wins 30-day reprieve

A Jerusalem hacker at work attacking web sites (Photo credit: Sliman Khader/FLASH90)

Hackers promise sophistication, subterfuge — even sex, say experts

By David Shamah

Devorah Stubin, 22, who had been missing for three days, was found dead in a New Jersey river, in what appears to have been a car accident, on January 16, 2016. (Courtesy)

Missing NJ Jewish woman found dead in local river

By JTA

Israeli security at the scene of a terror attack near the Israeli settlement of Otniel, on January 17, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 and Times of Israel)

Hebrew media reviewA mother slain, a protector remembered

By Joshua Davidovich

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