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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 19, 2016

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Israeli soldiers stand guard at a junction in the West Bank on January 17, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Teen Palestinian arrested for killing Dafna Meir in Otniel

By Jonathan Beck and Judah Ari Gross

After 2-day manhunt, police and Shin Bet apprehend 16-year-old who was hiding out in a town near the scene of the attack

Netanyahu vows to destroy home of Otniel teen terrorist

By Stuart Winer

IDF arrests two Palestinians carrying guns

By Stuart Winer

Palestinian workers banned from settlements after stabbing attacks

By Judah Ari Gross

Michal Froman speaks from her hospital bed on January 19, 2016, a day after she was stabbed at her home settlement of Tekoa. (Channel 2 screenshot)

Tekoa stabbing victim says attacker wasn’t out to kill her

By Stuart Winer

Michal Froman describes ‘confusion’ in Othman Sha’alan’s eyes; attack reinforces her husband’s resolve to seek peace while battling terror

Disarmed, Tekoa stabber was shot in leg as he lashed out at captors

By Judah Ari Gross

Terrorist pretended to shop before stabbing woman, witness recalls

By Tamar Pileggi

Police arrest East Jerusalem man armed with knife

President Reuven Rivlin (L) and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein in the Knesset during a special plenum session marking the 50th birthday of the parliament building, January 19, 2016. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

In about-turn, Trump pledges to move US Embassy to Jerusalem

By Raoul Wootliff

Republican front-runner says he is ‘100 percent’ in favor of the change; Netanyahu, Shapiro meet after public spat over West Bank ‘double standards’ comments

Palestinian youth supporting the Hamas movement take part in a rally marking the 28th anniversary of Hamas' founding, in Rafah, southern Gaza strip, December 14, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/FLASH90)

Analysis

Amid ‘copycat intifada,’ fears of a suicide bombing fad

By Avi Issacharoff

With Hamas determined to weaken the Palestinian Authority, the Kalashnikov or explosive belt may supersede the knife as a symbol

US Ambassador Dan Shapiro speaks at the 9th Annual International Conference of the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv on January 18, 2016. (Matty Stern/U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv)

Israel employs double legal standard in West Bank, US envoy charges

By Tamar Pileggi

Furious Netanyahu calls critique from Dan Shapiro, on a day when murdered mother-of-six laid to rest, ‘unacceptable and incorrect’

EU softens statement, but lays line between Israel and settlements

By Raphael Ahren

Israel: Report calling for firms to pull out of West Bank endangers Palestinian jobs

By AFP and ToI Staff

American officials condemn ‘barbaric’ attacks on Israeli civilians

A left-winger and a human being who is mourning today — she’ll go back to opposing the government tomorrow

A double standard for double standards

The US ambassador criticized Israel while turning a blind eye to Palestinian violations of law and decency

Lawrence J. Siskind

Comedy for college kids? Fuhgettaboutit

With comedians staying away from campus in droves, nobody is ridiculing the reigning leftwing political orthodoxies

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls delivers a speech on January 9, 2016 near the Hyper Cacher (AFP/POOL/JACQUES DEMARTHON)

French PM: Terror attacks in France, Israel show we are ‘in world war’

By JTA

Manuel Valls says Paris ’employing all measures’ to protect its Jews in face of jihadist terrorism worldwide

Education Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at the INSS conference on January 19, 2015 (Youtube screenshot)

Bennett: Israel’s defense thinking is ‘deadlocked,’ while our enemies are improving

In attack on Netanyahu’s policy, Jewish Home leader warns reliance on IDF is not a strategy and calls for more creative thinking

File: President Reuven Rivlin in his office at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on May 5, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rivlin: Islamic State has taken root in Israeli Arab community

By ToI Staff and AFP

In the vacuum left by government neglect and Arab-Jewish distrust, jihadist ideas are spreading, president warns; urges investment in education, law enforcement

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaking at a meeting in Tehran, November 1, 2015. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)

Iran’s supreme leader warns against US ‘deceit’ in nuclear deal

In first comments since implementation, Khamenei tells Rouhani to be wary of ‘violations of arrogant states’

99% of Iran’s reformist parliamentary candidates rejected

By Arthur Macmillan

Conservative-dominated Guardian Council approves only 30 of over 30,000 reformist candidates to run in February election

Abu Dhabi. (Wikimedia/CC BY 3.0/Ralf Roletschek)

Israeli energy minister said to make secret visit to Abu Dhabi

Yuval Steinitz holds talks on Iran, threat of Islamic State during rare trip, TV report says

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks during the Iowa Republican Party's Lincoln Dinner, Saturday, May 16, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Bush slams Clinton, Slaughter over proposal to ‘shame Israel’

By Eric Cortellessa

While GOP presidential hopeful castigates rival, veteran US diplomats say former secretary of state unlikely to have considered idea

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers the convocation at the Vines Center on the campus of Liberty University, January 18, 2016 in Lynchburg, Virginia. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump courts evangelicals, says Christianity ‘under siege’

By Shahzad ABDUL

Wreckage of the car blown up in a gang hit near the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in Tel Aviv, January 19, 2016; Police spokesman's office

Three hurt, two seriously, in gangland Tel Aviv-area bombing

Injured include senior figure in Amir Mulner crime organization; blast near Tel Aviv Stock Exchange rocks Ramat Gan

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting with Indian External Affairs Sushma Swaraj in Jerusalem, January 18 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Visiting Indian FM: Israel-India ties have ‘much more potential’

Netanyahu tells Sushma Swaraj that Jerusalem ‘wants to do more’ in science, tech, defense, agriculture and health cooperation

Crowds gather around Sara Garfunkel (C), mother of late Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman, as she holds a candle during a vigil on the first anniversary of her son's mysterious death in Buenos Aires, on January 18, 2016. (AFP Photo/Eitan Abramovich)

Thousands call for justice at memorial for slain Argentine prosecutor

By Ilan Ben Zion

Candlelight vigil organized by Jewish community honors AMIA bombing investigator Alberto Nisman on anniversary of his killing

Alberto Nisman gives a news conference in Buenos Aires on May 20, 2009. (AFP Photo/Juan Mabromata)

One year on, Nisman death still roils Argentina’s Jews

By AFP

Knesset Speaker MK Yuli Edelstein meets with Pope Francis in Rome, January 17, 2015. (Knesset spokesperson)

In Rome, Knesset head thanks pope for urging pilgrims to Holy Land

By Stuart Winer and Tamar Pileggi

During trip, Edelstein meets with Francis, asks Italian couterpart to block upcoming visit by Iran president

Joint (Arab) List MK Ahmad Tibi, left, speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a Knesset session, February 13, 2012. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

PM announces crackdown on illegal arms, but blocks inquiry to probe their origin

By Simona Weinglass

More Headlines

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert seen at the Jerusalem Supreme Court on January 19, 2016, to appeal his sentence in the Talansky Case. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

Pleading for shorter prison term, Olmert decries ‘vendettas’

Illustrative: Israeli high school students on school trips to Poland, where they learn about the Holocaust. (Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

9 arrested for alleged price fixing of Poland school trips

By JTA

Zionist Union MK Stav Shaffir performs during the 50th anniversary of the Knesset on Tuesday, January 19 2016. (Knesset)

Political partyKnesset celebrates 50 years with MK talent show

Premier dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov in his solo performance of 'Brodsky/Baryshnikov,' opening Tuesday night in Tel Aviv's Suzanne Dellal Center for Dance and Theater. (Courtesy Janis Deinats)

BrodmanceBaryshnikov returns to Tel Aviv with solo show

By Jessica Steinberg

Australian pop star Sia lands in Israel on Wednesday ahead of her Thursday, August 11 performance (Courtesy SiaLovers/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Sia thereAussie singer Sia to play Tel Aviv in May

By Jessica Steinberg

The Adass Israel School in Melbourne, Australia (screen capture: Google Maps)

State unable to extradite Australian educator wanted for sex abuse

Swedish Foreign minister Margot Wallstrom talks with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier during a EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels on January 18, 2016. (AFP / JOHN THYS)

Sweden’s Israel-bashing FM probed in housing scandal

By AFP and ToI Staff

Peres thanking staff at the Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer, January 19, 2016: Office of the spokesman for the 9th President of Israel

Peres released from hospital after heart problems

A gamified 'race narrative' by GamEffective (Courtesy)

Work may not be fun but it can be a game, says Israeli firm

By David Shamah

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)

Hebrew media reviewMourning ‘imush’

By Raoul Wootliff

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