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What Matters Most On Friday, January 22, 2016

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Jewish settlers stand on the roof of a building after entering two homes in the center of Hebron on January 21, 2016. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

Security forces evacuate settlers from Hebron buildings

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Border Police extract dozens of Jews from two homes they occupied on Thursday, post guards outside

Rightist MKs threaten coalition over Hebron settler evacuation

Ya’alon: Settlers broke the law, politicians’ rhetoric is reckless

Clashes as settlers enter Hebron buildings they claim to own

By Judah Ari Gross

US Secretary of State John Kerry, before attending the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2016. (AFP/POOL/Jacquelyn Martin)

Kerry: Some Iran sanctions relief likely to go to terrorists

By AP

But US secretary of state says Tehran will use much of the freed up billions to upgrade infrastructure and pay off debts

Christie promises to let Israel vent about Obama

By AP

US negotiator: Israel rift over Iran deal was ‘very painful’

By JTA

Bernie Sanders’ religion a non-issue for Iowa voters

By Josh Trapper

Illustrative: Israeli police walk outside of Jerusalem's Old City (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

American-Israeli accuses cops of abuse during weed probe

By Judah Ari Gross

Family claims it was dragged into drug case, had its ‘aliya dream turned into nightmare,’ over joke text message; police: we have ‘serious evidence’

Rabbi Yoel Glick (Rabbi Elie Kaplan Spitz)

Interview

A rabbi and meditation teacher sets out to rediscover the path to God

By Yossi Klein Halevi

For 3,500 years, beginning with prophets and seers, Jews knew how to bring the Divine experience into their daily lives, says Yoel Glick. But that knowledge got buried in ‘mountains of commentary.’ Now, says Glick, he’s uncovering the gems

My aliyah dream became a nightmare

A drug-related police raid on his home traumatized his family and destroyed his faith in Israel

Helen Maryles Shankman

Fun with Dick and Jane

Survivor parents meant that a carefree childhood was a pipe dream…until she found it in books

Renewable energy

Taking a day off every 7 teaches not laziness, but a profound freedom from the yoke of daily concerns (Beshalach)

Former IDF chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi in Tel Aviv on March 24, 2015. (Flash90)

Poll: Party with Lapid, Kahlon, ex-IDF chief could beat Likud

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

But second survey shows Gabi Ashkenazi would trail Netanyahu for PM, though he would likely unseat opposition leader Herzog

'Kalaniyot,' or anemones, blossom across southern Israel in late January and February. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Slow down and smell the South

By Melanie Lidman

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Treat Israel like moderate Arab states do, PM tells EU’s Mogherini

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

Netanyahu slams European ‘double standards’; says more Swedes than Israeli Arabs have joined Islamic State

Protected bus stop in Jerusalem designed with legally required distance between the shelter and the street. (Shekel)

Jerusalem balances security at bus stops with accessibility for disabled

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Municipality asks disabilities expert for help in designing car-ramming barriers

Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses members of the Arab League in Cairo, Egypt, on January 21, 2016. (AFP/STR)

Chinese leader calls for Palestinian state with East Jerusalem capital

By ToI Staff and AFP

Xi Jinping, on tour of the region that includes Iran visit, tells Arab League that China supports peace process

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks to Israeli journalists in the West Bank city of Ramallah, January 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Abbas says Israel snubbed his attempt to meet Netanyahu

By Avi Issacharoff

Jerusalem denies claim as ‘an attempt to evade responsibility’; Palestinian leader insists PA is not inciting violence

Amir Hekmati waves after arriving on a private flight at Bishop International Airport, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016, in Flint, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

After 4 years in Iranian jail, ex-US Marine arrives home

By Mike Householder

Amir Hekmati says incarceration ‘wasn’t good’; family says he was tortured, kept in solitary cell for long periods

A woman and her children look on as migrants and refugees wait to cross the Greece-Macedonia border in the rain on November 27, 2015 near Gevgelija. (AFP PHOTO / ROBERT ATANASOVSKI)

44 drown in migrant boat sinking off Greek coast

By Helene Colliopoulou and Hui Min NEO

German Chancellor Angela Merkel to press Turkey to play a bigger part in resolving crisis

The illegal, yet 100% halachic Jewish wedding of Mark Halawa and wife, Linda Brunnel in Israel, 2014 (Courtesy of Yonit Schiller)

Israeli groups win grants to champion marriage outside rabbinate

By JTA

Funding from various Jewish federations to go toward encouraging alternative wedding ceremonies

What do people like about escape rooms? The puzzling clues and race against the clock, according to the owners of escape rooms in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem (Courtesy Escape Room Tel Aviv)

Escape rooms offer puzzle-solving release from Israeli reality

By Eliana Block

More Headlines

Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, confirmed in March 2016 as the oldest man in the world. (Courtesy of family)

But can he prove it?Haifa Holocaust survivor, 112, may be world’s oldest man

By JTA

Israeli chess champion Boris Gelfand, left, plays against Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharanksy and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, far right, in 2010 (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool/Flash90

Rook banningSaudi grand mufti declares chess forbidden

Republican presidential candidate and businessman Donald Trump gesturing during the Republican Presidential Debate, hosted by CNN, at The Venetian Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, December 15, 2015. (AFP/ROBYN BECK)

Pretty please?Pittsburgh chiropractor’s last wish: Dump Trump

By JTA

Illustrative photo of Danish pork chops (YouTube screenshot)

Meat the requirementsDanish city makes pork mandatory in public institutions

By JAN M. OLSEN

Vibe food bloggers Luiz Hara, Manu Balanzino and Sam Linsell watch Israeli chef Avner Laskin saute locally-grown cherry tomatoes (Courtesy Chaim Yosef)

Veggie mightVisiting food bloggers swoon over vegetables

By Eliana Block

File: Ultra Orthodox Jews search in a pile of garbage at Jeruslem's Givat Shaul city dump, after losing a very expensive engagement ring, on January, 21, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Diamond in the roughVolunteers go dumpster diving for bride-to-be’s ring

Altair chips (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Sony to buy chip firm Altair to bolster its IoT business

By David Shamah

Prof. Nissim Garti of Hebrew University's Institute of Chemistry at the Faculty of Science developed NSSL (Nano Sized Self-assembled Liquid vehicles) technology, a platform based on nano-droplets that are created spontaneously, and are thermodynamically stable, clear as water, and soluble in any proportion to water. (Photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)

‘Nano-superpower’ Israel to show off its tech in Tel Aviv

By David Shamah

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks to Israeli journalists in the West Bank city of Ramallah, January 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewAgreeing to disagree

By Joshua Davidovich

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