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What Matters Most On Friday, January 29, 2016

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An Israeli 'Ethan' drone, in the service of the Israeli Air Force (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

In huge Israeli intel breach, US, UK have spied on air force for 18 years

By hacking encrypted transmissions of Israeli planes and drones, NSA and GCHQ intelligence services ‘monitor IDF operations in Gaza, watch for potential strike on Iran’

Israel ‘disappointed, not surprised’ by massive US, UK spying exposé

Iran says it flew drone over US aircraft carrier

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

Israeli generals said among 1,600 global targets of Iran cyber-attack

Illustrative: A Palestinian youth crawls in a tunnel during a graduation ceremony for a training camp run by the Hamas movement on January 29, 2015, in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. (AFP photo/Said Khatib)

Analysis

Gaza prepares for war

By Avi Issacharoff

As it rebuilds its attack tunnels, Hamas vows it will operate ‘inside the territory of 1948’ in the next round of fighting with Israel

Haniyeh: Hamas ‘heroes’ tirelessly digging Gaza tunnels

By ToI Staff and AFP

4 children said killed in crossfire in Egypt’s Rafah

By ToI Staff and AFP

Coca Cola to open Gaza factory ‘within weeks’

President Barack Obama speaks at the House Democratic Issues Conference in Baltimore, Md., Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama promises party faithful: Democrats will win

By Andrew Taylor

President says US is ‘doing a lot better’ than when he took office, citing progress against IS and curbing Iran’s nuclear program

In GOP debate, Rubio reiterates pledge to revoke Iran nuclear deal

By JTA

Republicans debate without Trump, who taunts from afar

By Ivan Couronne

'Who to root for more?'Biden: Republican election chaos a ‘gift from the Lord’

By Andrew Taylor

Screenshot from the music video for "Courageous Sister," released in September 2015 (screenshot/YouTube)

Songs in praise of stabbing are huge hits on Palestinian street, and may be motivators too

‘Lovers of Stabbing,’ most popular of stream of gruesome anthems, has over 5 million views on YouTube; manager of band asserts it directly inspired recent attack

MK’s car hit in rock attack as he visits bereaved family

David Adelman, president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines, introducing Hillary Clinton before a speech at federation headquarters, January 25, 2016. (Josh Tapper)

Iowa federation chief navigates politics of battleground state

David Adelman, who stepped in at the microphone during Hillary Clinton’s coughing fit this week, is one of many young Jews leading a surge in communal life in Iowa

Rugelach with a side of politics in shared Shabbat for campaign staff in Iowa

Sanders runs new ad knocking Goldman Sachs

Freed reporter Rezaian humbled by efforts that won his release from Iran

By AFP

The value of real people-to-people work

Advocacy groups, farmers, and after-school programs model coexistence, and their efforts need funding

Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi

Loving God, loving Torah, loving others

Her dear teacher, Eugene B. Borowitz, crafted the theology that returned God to the religiosity of liberal Jews

To thank before we think

How to fight envy, focus of the 10th commandment, and hold on to the social harmony that the other 9 create (Yitro)

Joshua Hammerman

PHOTO ESSAY: Jerusalem after dark

The psalmist urges counting the towers of the holy city, so he strolled the walls, with his camera

Palestinian workers on November 11, 2015, at a date packaging factory in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank. This produce will be labeled if exported to the EU as 'Product of the West Bank (Israeli settlement' (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

US issues telling reminder of labeling rules on Israeli products from West Bank

By AFP and ToI Staff

Days after ambassador slammed Israel’s policies, State Department stresses requirement to distinguish between Israel, settlement goods

Jewish Home lawmaker Uri Ariel at a press conference in Jerusalem on January 11, 2015 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Minister condemns US for demanding West Bank products be labeled

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon speaks on Channel 2's 'Meet the Press' program, December 26, 2015 (screen capture)

Ya’alon says Hebron homes dispute harms state, settlers

Defense minister criticizes Jewish activists for ‘invading’ property in the West Bank city

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 group apologizes for ‘outing’ lefty artists

By Adiv Sterman

Im Tirtzu says it did not fully consider ramifications of listing members of Israel’s cultural elite who support left-wing causes

Culture Minister Miri Regev at Habima Theater in Tel Aviv, January 27, 2016 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Miri Regev’s cultural war heats up

By Jessica Steinberg

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasides, center and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras shake hands during a meeting at the presidential palace in the Cypriot capital, January 28, 2016. (Yiannis Kourtoglou, Pool Photo via AP)

In unprecedented meet, Netanyahu, Greek and Cypriot leaders push gas pipeline as peace catalyst

By Agencies and ToI Staff

First-ever tripartite summit aims to bolster ‘security and stability’ in region by strengthening eastern Mediterranean ties

An activist hangs from a noose-like rope from a Paris bridge to call attention to the large number of executions in Iran, January 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Zacharie Scheurer)

Jewish groups join protests greeting ‘executioner’ Rouhani in Paris

By Rina Bassist

Human rights activists express disapproval at president’s warm welcome with mock hanging near Eiffel Tower

Adva Bitton at the funeral of her 4-year-old daughter Adele on February 18, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

5 Palestinians jailed for 15 years for stoning that led to toddler’s death

By Marissa Newman

Military court strikes plea bargain with stone-throwers, which stipulates they will compensate family of 4-year-old Adele Bitton

The reactor building at the Russian-built nuclear power plant in Bushehr, in southern Iran, as the first fuel is loaded, August 21, 2010. (Iran International Photo Agency via Getty Images/via JTA)

UN official: Iran, Israel could ratify nuke test ban treaty

By Edith M. Lederer

Lassina Zerbo says nations’ agreement on matter may pave way for a nuclear free zone in Middle East

Appearing on January 28, 2016 at Brown University in Providence, Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky (left) and Hollywood legend Michael Douglas held a conversation on Jewish identity and pluralism. (Elan Kawesch/The Times of Israel)

On tour, Douglas and Sharansky urge ‘a more inclusive’ Jewry

By Matt Lebovic

Italian Education Minister Stefania Giannini and the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI), Renzo Gattegna, sign a document to strengthen Holocaust studies in Italian schools on January 19 in Krakow. (Courtesy of Italian Ministry of Education/Pagine Ebraiche)

Italian poll questions efficacy of International Holocaust Day

By Rossella Tercatin

The percentage who consider January 27 ‘useless’ has doubled in two years; 16% of Italians think observance should only be for Jews

Pope Francis pauses after laying a wreath of flowers in the Hall of Remembrance at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem on May 26, 2014. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

Vatican officials say pope likely to visit Auschwitz

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative photo of migrants walking from the main station in Dortmund, Germany, to a hall where they get first attendance, September 6, 2015. (AP/Martin Meissner)

Germany reaches migrant deal, with restrictions on relatives

By Geir Moulson

Refugees who didn’t face ‘immediate personal persecution’ can’t bring family for two years; Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia deemed ‘safe countries’

LG G3 phones (Courtesy)

Millions of LG phones at risk, Israeli team discovers

By David Shamah

For second time in a month, researchers at cyber-security firms BugSec and CyNet discover a major security problem that leaves tens of millions at risk

Grayling Stefek, 5, has his blood drawn during a free lead testing event and family fun night for children on Tuesday, January 26, 2016, at Eisenhower Elementary school in Flint, Michigan. (Conor Ralph/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP)

Flint’s Jewish community celebrates outpouring of support in water crisis

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

More Headlines

A vulture tagged by the Israeli parks authority that was captured as a 'spy' by people in southern Lebanon, January 25, 2016 (screen capture: Twitter)

Free as a birdUN mediates return of Israeli ‘spy’ bird from Lebanon

By AFP

A poisoned seagull being treated at the wild animal hospital at the Ramat Gan Safari, January 28, 2016. (Ramat Gan Safari website)

Hundreds of seagulls found dead on Sea of Galilee beach

Participants in an Israel trip aimed at Jewish mothers sponsored by the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project. (Aviram Waldman/JTA)

Founder of ‘Birthright for Moms’: Jews should move to Israel before end of days

By JTA

People walk with umbrellas in central Jerusalem as light snow begins to fall, January 25, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Man dies from hypothermia as cold snap chills country

By Stuart Winer

A general view of the presidential palace in Tikrit, Iraq which Saddam Hussein ordered built for his mother in 1991 and is considered the largest and most elaborate of the palaces built during his rule, handed over to local Iraqi authorities on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005. (AP Photo/Bassim Daham)

Debt-ridden Iraq mulls sale of Saddam’s properties

Satmar rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum (screen capture: YouTube/The Lakewood Scoop)

Satmar rabbi to visit Israel with money for army draft opponents

The University of Florida (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, FightingRaven531)

Heads of Florida university student body veto divestment call

By JTA

Israeli Doctors for Human Rights protest near the Knesset in Jerusalem against force feeding, June 16, 2014. (Flash90)

World medical body will not expel Israel

By JTA

The view from atop of the Cheops Pyramid in Giza taken by German tourist Andrej Ciesielski , who scaled the structure illegally. (screen capture: YouTube)

Dizzying heightsDaredevil tourist scales the heights for pyramid scheme

Jerry Seinfeld performing in Tel Aviv, December 19, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

A very festive peopleSeinfeld: Israelis are ‘all-or-nothing’ types

The SenseGo team (Courtesy)

Hebrew U’s ‘Smart Socks’ can help save diabetics’ feet

By David Shamah

A Unitronics automated parking solution in action (Courtesy)

The sky’s the limit for parking downtown

By David Shamah

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