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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 28, 2016

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US President Barack Obama speaks during the Righteous Among the Nations Award Ceremony at the Israeli Embassy January 27, 2016 in Washington, DC. / AFP / Brendan Smialowski

At Holocaust event, Obama casts himself as defender of the Tribe

By Eric Cortellessa

‘We are all Jews,’ president says at ceremony honoring Righteous Among the Nations, as he reiterates his commitment to Israel’s security and the fight against anti-Semitism

Obama at Holocaust event: We are all Jews; we must all fight anti-Semitism, evil

‘We are all Jews’: Full text of President Obama’s Holocaust Day remarks

Israel’s 2015 report on anti-Semitism paints dismal picture

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

A Hamas tunnel discovered by soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade in the northern Gaza Strip on July 18, 2014. (IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

Israelis near Gaza border: Hamas tunneling is shaking our floors

By Tamar Pileggi

Communities near the Palestinian territory report increased subterranean activity, fume at IDF inaction, as Hamas rebuilds its cross-border terror tunnels after 2014 war

File: Israel Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich speaks with reporters during a press conference in the northern Israeli city of Carmiel on January 5, 2016. (Screen capture: Israel Police)

Live updates (clOSed)

25 dead as migrant boat sinks off Turkish coast

By Adiv Sterman

Netanyahu, Bennett, Regev criticize Im Tirzu campaign to ‘out’ left-wing artists; Palestinian with knife arrested near Hebron; residents near Gaza border report hearing digging noises

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin welcomes new immigrants from the USA and Canada, on August 12, 2014. (Mark Neyman/GPO/Flash90)

Sure you can make it in Israel — if your parents help, say economists

By Simona Weinglass

In today’s Israel, say Taub Center researchers, hard work and talent will not provide upward mobility, with a few exceptions. New immigrants ‘need to have a plan’

A knife used in a Palestinian stabbing attack in Givat Ze'ev on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 (Foreign Ministry/Twitter)

Israeli man seriously wounded in stabbing attack

By Adiv Sterman and Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian terror suspect arrested at scene in Givat Ze’ev, north of Jerusalem; crowd reportedly attacks him, tries to block ambulance taking him to the hospital

Palestinian teen pulls knife on soldiers, is arrested

By Adiv Sterman

Hunger-striking Jewish extremist loses consciousness

By Adiv Sterman

Hamas lawmaker arrested in the West Bank

By Stuart Winer

Avraham Bronstein

Donald Trump, football, and chained women

Jewish law sometimes hurts people, and that’s even to be expected, but the perpetual question is at what price?

A parent’s siddur play prayer

The prayer book is a songbook for life’s peaks, a balm for its lows, and the guiding soundtrack throughout

Knocking on Hillel’s door

According to the sage, Jews should become good people by learning Judaism’s lessons and personalizing them

Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss, step-sister to Anne Frank. (YouTube/Jewish Museum London)

Anne Frank’s stepsister: Trump ‘acting like another Hitler’

By Stuart Winer

Eva Schloss calls on international community to take in more Syrian refugees

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with university students in Tehran, Iran, July 2015. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Khamenei airs Holocaust denial video on international Remembrance Day

Iran’s supreme leader says Europeans are silenced when they try to question historically accepted account of genocide against Jews

File: Illustrative photo of an Iran Air Boeing 747 passenger plane. (CC BY-SA/Wikimedia/Mike P)

Iran: European airlines set to resume flights to Tehran

By Nasser Karimi

Protesters shout as they demonstrate against Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's visit in Paris, Wednesday, January 27, 2016 (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Hundreds in Paris protest Rouhani’s visit to France

By Rina Bassist

Demonstrators carry photos of Iranian activists imprisoned or executed in the two years since president took office

The campaign launched by the right-wing organization Im Tirtzu on January 27, 2016, singling out Israeli artists associated with the left-wing. (Screen capture: Im Tirtzu)

Right-wing MKs flog ‘fascist’ group for ‘outing’ lefty artists

By Tamar Pileggi

Im Tirtzu blasted over campaign listing members of Israel’s cultural elite who have expressed support for left-wing causes

Chief of Police Roni Alsheich, at the National Police Headquarters, Jerusalem, December 03, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Police chief denies cover-up over ignored tip-off on Tel Aviv killer

By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff

Hours after deadly shooting spree, two sisters spotted Nashat Milhem in a bloodied sweatshirt taking the bus home, but cops failed to follow up

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at Georgetown University in Washington on November 19, 2015. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Poll: 10% in US ‘less likely’ to vote for a Jew for president

By JTA

Half of respondents in survey say they are less likely to choose a candidate who doesn’t believe in God

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras, at the King David hotel in Jerusalem, January 27, 2016. Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu: Possible Turkey detente unrelated to Greece ties

By Raphael Ahren

At joint press conference, PM tells Greek counterpart that friendship can turn into ‘genuine alliance for peace, progress and security’

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon briefs the Security Council during a meeting on the situation in the 'Middle East and Palestine,' January 26, 2016, at the UN in New York. (AFP/United Nations/UN Photo/Loey Felipe)

UN chief rebuffs Netanyahu’s claim that he stokes terror

By ToI Staff and AFP

Ban Ki-moon’s aide says international body’s leader stands by comments that ‘Palestinian frustration’ drives violence

Israeli soldiers carry the carry the coffin of Cpt. Yishai Rosales, at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem, on January 7, 2016. Rosales died at a training exercise on an army base in southern Israel on Tuesday. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

IDF chief sacks battalion commander, 5 others for deadly training accident

By Judah Ari Gross

Army says ‘severe professional failure’ led to death earlier this month of officer Yishai Rosales, killed by errant shell

The defacement used by hackers to attack Israeli websites as part of the OpIsrael cyber-attack on April 7, 2015. (screen capture: yossiyonah.org.il)

The death of spam? BGU researchers figure out path to botnets

By David Shamah

The annoying ‘zombie armies of the Internet’ may have met their match in technology developed by scientists at Deutsche Telekom Innovation Labs@BGU

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during COP21, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris, France, on November 30, 2015. (AFP/Martin Bureau/Pool)

Israel, PA deny Palestinian delegation met with Netanyahu

By Lee Gancman and Raphael Ahren

Palestinian media reports say two sides met in Jerusalem to discuss ‘calming the situation’

Israeli police outside the Kehilat Yaakov synagogue in Jerusalem after a terror attack there on November 18, 2014. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindler/FLASH90)

E. Jerusalem man jailed for urging attacks on Israelis

Muhammad Abd al-Latif, 24, told Facebook followers to ‘kill them, death to the settlers’ after a November 2014 terror attack

Kishon, on a film set in 1964 (Courtesy the Israeli Center for Documentation of the Performing Arts at Tel Aviv University)

5 films, short and satirical: Homage to Ephraim Kishon as he would have liked

By Jessica Steinberg

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A artist's rendering of the planed Blue Line of the Jerusalem light rail system (Jerusalem Municipality)

Jerusalem approves second light rail route

A Norwegian advert featuring teddy bears resembling Muammar Gaddafi and Adolf Hitler that was banned in January 2016.

Cuddly fuhrerNorway bans anti-asthma Hitler teddy bear ads

A still from David Bowie's 2016 music video 'Lazarus.' (Screen capture: YouTube)

StarmanBowie’s last single said to feature tribute to Kabbalah

Egyptian actor and prankster Shady Hussein hands a policeman an inflated condom on January 25, 2016. (YouTube)

Seeds of dissentVideo of Egyptians giving police condoms goes viral

By Hamza Hendawi

Detail from 'Palestinian Roots' by Ahmad Al Abid, which hangs in York University's Student Centre. (http://yusc.ca/mural/palestinian-roots/)

Jewish Canadian mogul pulls support over ‘anti-Semitic’ mural

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Then-Cleveland Cavaliers head coach David Blatt calls a play during the first half of Game 6 of basketball's NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors, in Cleveland, Tuesday, June 16, 2015. (AP/Tony Dejak)

David Blatt’s future: Teams where ex-Cavs coach could land

By Gabe Friedman

A kangaroo jill and her joey (public domain, Tom Lind via Wikimedia Commons)

Pouch bombAustralian accused of planning kangaroo bombing

By AP

Aharoni Amitai near the inscriptions that were uncovered, January 26, 2016 (Miki Peleg, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)

1,700-year-old rabbis’ tombstones reflect Jewish life in Galilean city

Emergency workers inspect the scene of a deadly crash in southern Israel on February 3, 2015 (Shalom Ben Tzur/Zaka Spokesperson)

UN committee grants ZAKA consultative status

By Tamar Pileggi

Trendlines executives and board directors at the IPO of Trendlines Group in Singapore, November 12, 2015 (Courtesy)

Singapore a short-cut to China, say visiting officials

By David Shamah

Israeli police stand outside a pub on Dizengoff Street in central Tel Aviv, on January 2, 2016, a day after two people were killed in a shooting there (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewHotline sting

By Joshua Davidovich

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