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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 27, 2016

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A still image of Tel Aviv gunman Nashat Milhem drinking beer taken from a series of undated videos released January 27, 2016 by the Shin Bet security service. (screen capture)

Tel Aviv terrorist took bus home after killings, planned second attack

Selfie videos show ranting Nashat Milhem drinking, smoking, threatening more attacks and railing against Obama; three indicted for helping him hide out in Arara

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu address the press in Jerusalem on October 20, 2015 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Furious Netanyahu slams Ban Ki-moon for ‘stoking’ Palestinian terrorism

By ToI Staff and Agencies

UN chief: It’s ‘human nature to react to occupation’; PM: There’s no justification for terror, the Palestinians want to destroy Israel

Netanyahu: Anti-Israel stances fueled by hatred of ‘the collective Jew’

By AFP and JTA

US envoy to UN condemns recent West Bank terror

NPR apologizes for map that erased Israel

By Eric Cortellessa

From left, presidential candidates Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders. (Getty Images via JTA)

Ahead of Iowa caucus: A Jewish guide to the candidates

A primer on the Republicans and the Democrats vying for voters’ favor in Monday’s first true battle of the 2016 election

Rancorous presidential race comes to a head in Iowa

By Steven R. Hurst

Candidates give one last push in the Hawkeye state

By AP

Sanders to meet with Obama; Trump pulls out of GOP debate

By AP and ToI Staff

Dafna Meir (L), a 38-year-old mother of six, was stabbed to death in her home in Otniel by a Palestinian terrorist on January 17, 2016. Shlomit Krigman, 23, was stabbed and badly wounded in a terror attack in the West Bank settlement of Beit Horon on January 25, 2016, and died of her wounds a day later. (Courtesy/Facebook)

Analysis

Rather than despair at the awfulness of it all

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: As we look at the fresh graves of Dafna Meir and Shlomit Krigman, we must insist on seeking the most effective means to prevent the unconscionable loss of more wonderful people

‘Gentle, kind’ stabbing victim Shlomit Krigman laid to rest

Palestinian teen pulls knife on soldiers, is arrested

By Adiv Sterman

Israel says Hamas recruits Gazans with travel permits for terror

A still image of Tel Aviv gunman Nashat Milhem drinking beer taken from a series of undated videos released January 27, 2016 by the Shin Bet security service. (screen capture)

Live updates (closed)

UN chief rejects Israel’s claim that he promotes terror — aide

Amid uproar over remarks on ‘Palestinian frustration,’ spokesman says Ban Ki-moon believes ‘nothing can justify terrorism’

Auschwitz survivor Marta Wise wearing a pendant with a 'chai' -- life in Hebrew. (courtesy)

Israeli Holocaust survivors give voice to the murdered mute at UN ceremony

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Marta Wise and Haim Roet to share personal testimony at Wednesday’s New York observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Obama to honor four who protected Jews during Holocaust

By AP

Stashed love letters shed light on divisive Holocaust legacy

Berlin mulls uses for Goebbels’ abandoned love nest

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, right, gestures next to Italy's Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni as they attend an Iran-Italy business forum in Rome on January 26, 2016. (AFP / ANDREAS SOLARO)

Rouhani in Europe: ‘Zionist lobby’ blocking friendlier US-Iran ties

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

Iranian president says relationship with Washington could improve; Knesset speaker criticizes European leaders for giving leader warm welcome on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Iran claims to chase US ship away from exercise

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Rome’s nude statues covered up ahead of Rouhani visit

By Jonathan Beck

Rome Jewish community pans Rouhani visit

By JTA

I quit shul when the rabbi nixed prenups

He left his synagogue for failing to address the tragedy of “chained women” that plagues the Orthodox world

The power of one in the face of atrocity

A remarkable life story of surviving the Holocaust in Holland and founding Israel’s premier memorial project

Robert R. Singer

Yiddish has not yet said its last word

The Ashkenazi Jewish language is in rivival, even in the very Eastern European streets where it was born

Micah Lakin Avni

Um-Shmum revisited

It’s tempting but dangerous to dismiss the UN Secretary General justification of Palestinian terrorism

This 1961 file photo shows Adolf Eichmann standing in his glass cage in the Jerusalem courtroom where he was tried and convicted of war crimes committed during World War II. (AP Photo,b/w file)

Eichmann begged Israel to spare his life, new papers reveal

By AFP and ToI Staff

Nazi convicted of playing a key role in the Holocaust wrote to Israeli president after trial that he was only following orders

A group of 'League Children' upon their arrival in Denmark, 1939. (Courtesy)

Holocaust Remembrance Day

Chance discovery gives new life to little-known tale of Shoah salvation

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben Dahan at the scene of a stabbing attack outside IDF Headquarters in central Tel Aviv, on October 8, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Interview

Israel interested in ties with Sudan, deputy defense minister says

By Raphael Ahren

Eli Ben Dahan calls for expulsion of terrorists’ families, even in violation of international law. ‘Killing Jews is also illegal,’ he argues

File: Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi giving a sermon. (screen capture: YouTube)

IDF officers: Islamic State will turn its attention to Israel

By Judah Ari Gross

In briefing, Hezbollah deemed a key threat though it is unlikely to get much funding from Iran, Hamas said preparing next war, more terror at settlements feared

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon speaking at a press conference in Athens with Greek counterpart Panos Kamenos on January 26, 2016 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Ya’alon: Turkey buying IS oil, letting jihadists enter Europe

Defense minister urges Ankara to join anti-Islamic State alliance, slams presence of Hamas offices on Turkish soil

Samy Mohamed Hamzeh, 23, is seen in an undated photo provided by the Waukesha County (Wis.) Sheriffs Department. (Waukesha County (Wis.) Sheriffs Department via AP)

FBI: Man who plotted attack also wanted to kill Israelis

Samy Mohamed Hamzeh, arrested trying to buy machine guns, accused of planning to shoot IDF soldiers, civilians in West Bank

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz speaks during a Knesset plenum session on September 7, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Steinitz: Israel’s Electric Authority hit by ‘severe’ cyber-attack

Some computers shut down since Monday, says energy minister; ministry and cyber authority ‘handling it,’ but problem not yet solved

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the CyberTech 2016 conference in January (Courtesy)

Netanyahu: Islamists use cyber-tech to ‘push humanity backwards’

By David Shamah

Israel is the modern cyber-bulwark against groups that are medieval in outlook but modern in their methods, says the prime minister

Screenshot from an Iranian TV report purporting to show a new Hamas tunnel that reaches into Israeli territory, June 28, 2015. (Screenshot/Al-Alam)

Analysis

Hamas tries to keep lid on tunnel disaster as death toll rises

By Avi Issacharoff

Terror group blames Israel for cave-in that left seven dead and four missing

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest against the military draft in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood, December 22, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

6 arrested during ultra-Orthodox protest against IDF draft

Jerusalem demonstration comes after 2 Haredim detained for failing to show up to army induction center

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, author of 'Nurturing the Wow' (courtesy)

How to transcend baby poop to become a spiritual parent

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

More Headlines

Rapper B.o.B. (YouTube screen capture)

Flat-out insultingRap star B.o.B.’s latest track backs Holocaust denier

By JTA

Footage from a video of two IDF soldiers on leave shooting at a camel while driving past it in late November 2015. The soldiers were arrested by Military Police on December 7, 2015. (Screenshot)

2 elite IDF soldiers jailed for shooting, killing a camel

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. greets a visitor after speaking at the Fort Museum Opera House in Fort Dodge, Iowa, January. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

November come she willSanders channels Simon and Garfunkel in ‘America’ ad

By JTA

Abe Vigoda attending the TV Land Awards in New York City, April 10, 2011. (Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

Abe Vigoda, known for ‘Barney Miller’ role, dies at 94

By JTA

A dog rescues her pups from under a rain-drenched container (Courtesy)

A dog's best friendsSoldiers help mother rescue pups from floodwaters

Israeli tech executives and government officials inaugurate the new MassChallenge program in Jerusalem, January 25, 2016 (Hanan Bar-Assulin)

MassChallenge to open ‘start-up friendly’ accelerator in Jerusalem

By David Shamah

Denmark's Minister of Integration from the Liberal Party Inger Stoejberg sits in Parliament, in Copenhagen on Tuesday Jan. 26, 2016. (Peter Hove Olesen/ POLFOTO via AP)

Denmark approves plan to seize migrants’ valuables

By JAN M. OLSEN

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hold a joint presser at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on October 20, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/MENAHEM KAHANA)

Hebrew media reviewPointing the finger

By Raoul Wootliff

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