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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 23, 2016

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Senator Bob Corker (left), speaks while flanked by ranking member Sen. Bob Menendez during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC, March 11, 2015 (photo credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Senate foreign affairs chief claims lack of oversight for Iran deal

By Eric Cortellessa

As implementation of nuclear accord proceeds, Bob Corker says there is now ‘no international coalition’ that would punish Tehran for violations

Kerry: Hezbollah has 80,000 rockets, gets most of its arms from Iran

By ToI Staff and AFP

Kerry: Iran and the world were on a collision course to war

By ToI Staff and AFP

Chinese president in Tehran for first visit in 14 years

Rafi Daugherty, with his daughter, Ettie (Kathryn Mathis)

Jewish transgender man gives birth, embraces life as a single ‘abba’

By Gabrielle Birkner

‘I didn’t think God made mistakes and I always wanted to be a mommy,’ Rafi Daugherty says

Israeli security forces attend the scene of an attempted stabbing outside the West Bank settlement of Anatot on January 23, 2016, in which the 13-year-old Palestinian girl trying to carry out the attack was shot dead. (Photo: Israel Police)

Palestinian girl tries to stab guard in West Bank, is killed

Initial probe shows that 13-year-old fought with her parents before running away, declaring that she wanted to die

NY Times raps Netanyahu for ‘unfair rebukes’ of US envoy

EU settlement labeling is ‘a win for BDS,’ Herzog tells Hollande

Netanyahu backs Ya’alon in spat over Hebron homes

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meets with Israeli correspondents at the Muqata, the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on January 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

First person

All the president’s arguments: An afternoon with Abbas

By Avi Issacharoff

The PA leader came well-prepared to his meeting this week with Israeli reporters. Some of his points may well have been right. But were they all smart?

Elizabeth Raphael

I’m a non-Jew raising a Jewish daughter

She is married to a Jewish man and wants to help him carry on the traditions of his ancient culture

Francine M. Gordon

Martin Luther King, Monsey and 17D

On a flight to Israel, offended by a request to switch seats just because she is a woman

The El Al plane attacked by Palestinian terrorists at Zurich Airport in February 1969 (Photo: Shin Bet website)

‘Switzerland struck secret deal with PLO to escape terrorism’

New book claims that in 1970, Swiss FM agreed to offer diplomatic support, free terrorists in return for release of hostages, immunity from attacks

GOP front runner Donald Trump retweets a post mocking GOP candidate Jeb Bush from an account called 'White Genocide,' which gives its location as 'Jewmerica,' on January 22, 2016. (screen capture: Twitter)

Trump retweets ‘White Genocide’ account based in ‘Jewmerica’

Leading Republican candidate draws fire online for approving post by ‘Donald Trumpovitz,’ who uses image of US neo-Nazi

US Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton (R) and Bernie Sanders participate in the Democratic Presidential Debate hosted by ABC News at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, on December 19, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/JEWEL SAMAD)

Clinton says Sanders would leave Israel vulnerable

By JTA

Adviser to Democratic presidential candidate slams rival’s proposal to normalize ties with Iran

The Tabqa Dam in Syria (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, Mohamed7799)

Islamic State said holed up in Syria’s biggest dam

Wall Street Journal says group using facility for ‘high-value’ prisoners, top officials, in belief that flood fears will deter US strikes

Mooly Eden (Courtesy)

What does the Islamic State have to do with driverless cars?

By Simona Weinglass

Former Intel Israel chief Mooly Eden explains ‘exponential’ change in 2016 and how technology can stop terrorists

Protesters throw items to police forces in the city of Ennour, near Kasserine, Tunisia, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Moncef Tajouri)

Tunisia imposes nationwide curfew amid rising unrest

By BENJAMIN WIACEK and BOUAZZA BIN BOUAZZA

Five years after overthrow of dictator, elected president warns Islamic State in Libya could capitalize on instability

Tunisian Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui (screen capture: Dailymotion)

MPs oppose Tunisian FM’s nomination over Israel posting

By JTA

Khemaies Jhinaoui was dispatched to Tel Aviv in 1996 to staff now-shuttered mission opened in wake of Oslo Accords

Lebanese politician Michel Aoun in 2015 (screen capture: YouTube)

Analysis

The mess that is Lebanon

By Avi Issacharoff

After 18 months of deadlock, the divided country may have a new president. Which won’t heal any rifts

Palestinian members of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, at a rally to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the Islamist movement’s creation, at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, on December 12, 2014. (AFP/Said Khatib)

IDF official: Hamas ready for fresh hostilities with Israel

Army source says Islamist terror group has revived its cross-border tunnels, rocket firing systems and intelligence gathering efforts

Illustrative: US President Barack Obama pays his respects in the Hall of Remembrance as marines lay a wreath on his behalf during a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum on March 22, 2013 (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

Obama to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day at Israeli embassy

In an unusual step, the president will attend a ceremony to recognize four Righteous Among the Nations

Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, center, appears with his wife Yeganeh Salehi and mother Mary Reazaian in Germany on January 20, 2016, following his release from Iranian custody (screen capture: YouTube)

White House facing questions over $1.7 billion to Iran

By Bradley Klapper

Republicans want probe into payment to Tehran that Obama administration denies was bribe to secure release of 5 Americans

A lemon-scented eucalyptus tree towers over a quiet street in Petah Tikva, one of only a few of this species of eucalyptus in Israel. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Trees rooted in Tel Aviv’s history

By Melanie Lidman

More Headlines

Illustrative. A Boeing 747 El Al plane. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

El Al makes history with its first all-woman cockpit

In this May 14, 2015, file photo, Cleveland Cavaliers head coach David Blatt, center, talks with Timofey Mozgov (20) and Kyrie Irving (2) during the first half of Game 6 in a second-round NBA basketball playoff series against the Chicago Bulls in Chicago. (AP/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Cavs boot Blatt, promote assistant Tyronn Lue

By AP and ToI Staff

A ground-based missile interceptor being loaded into a silo in Alaska in 2007. (illustrative photo: Sgt. Jack W. Carlson III/Department of Defense)

What a dudUS Air Force nuke operators damaged missile

By Robert Burns

The La Loche High School in La Loche, Saskatchewan, Canada, site of a school shooting on January 23, 2016. (screen capture: Google Street View)

Five killed, two hurt in Canada school shooting

By AFP

A memorial stone for Anne Frank and her sister Margot on the grounds of the former Prisoner of War (POW) and concentration camps Bergen-Belsen in Bergen, north of Hanover, central Germany, on June 21, 2015. (AFP / NIGEL TREBLIN)

Anne Frank biopic to premiere at Berlin film fest

By AFP

French MPs Meyer Habib (right) and Claude Goasguen wear kippas in parliament, January 2016, in solidarity with French Jews (YouTube screenshot)

French pro-Palestinian Jew: Kippa signals ‘allegiance to Israeli policies’

By JTA

Family members gather at the rear of a hearse carrying the casket during the funeral for Dr. Robin Goldman, a 58-year-old pediatrician found slain inside her multimillion-dollar Scarsdale, NY, home on January 21, 2016. (AP/Kathy Willens)

Hundreds attend funeral for NY pediatrician said killed by her husband

By JTA

Julian Edelman of the New England Patriots takes the field against the Kansas City Chiefs during the AFC Divisional Playoff Game at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts on January 16, 2016. (Jim Rogash/Getty Images/AFP)

Patriots’ Julian Edelman named 4th-best Jewish football player of all time

By JTA

A picture taken on January 20, 2016 shows a smart-phone using the Israeli anonymous messaging app Blindspot in Tel Aviv. (AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Israeli anonymous messaging app under fire over cyber bullying

In this July 17, 2004 file photo, tourists visit the ruins of Adolf Hitler's headquarters in the bunker Wolf Lair in Gierloz, northeastern Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

AdolflandPolish court axes lease on Hitler’s bunker

Gas mask kits, first distributed in Israel in 1990 (photo credit: Shay Levy/Flash90)

No ifs, ands or buttsIDF makes ‘ass’ out of Home Front Command

By Ilan Ben Zion

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