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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 30, 2016

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French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 21, 2015. (Flash90)

France: We will recognize Palestinian state if talks deadlock persists

By ToI Staff and AFP

Paris will shortly launch new effort to restart negotiations. If it fails, French will ‘live up to our responsibilities and recognize Palestine’

Israel rejects French ultimatum: ‘This isn’t how one makes peace’

By ToI Staff and AFP

Abbas welcomes French statehood plan: ‘We will no longer accept occupation’

Opposition blames government failings for French recognition threat

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton takes a photograph with a member of the audience after speaking at a rally at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, Friday, Jan. 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Clinton, Cruz feel the pressure as Iowa caucuses approach

By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY and Scott Bauer

Former secretary of state faces trouble over email controversy while Republican candidate takes flak for stance on immigration

State Department: Clinton emails contained ‘top secret’ info

By Olivia Hampton

Rubio urges against mass deportation as fix to immigration

By Thomas Beaumont

Obama looks to take fight to IS in Libya

By Andrew BEATTY and Laurent Barthelemy

A concentration camp prisoner attending a ceremony at the memorial site of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 2014. (AFP/JANEK SKARZYNSKI)

Trailblazing Connecticut course is blueprint for future Holocaust education

By Cathryn J. Prince

As UN discussion seeks best means to connect to future generations, new high school program uses current events to help students better understand horrors of the past

Dutch thrift shop returns wedding book of couple slain at Auschwitz

By JTA

Poll claims 25% of Israelis fear a second Holocaust

US appeals court revives Holocaust suit against Hungary

Michal Cotler-Wunsh

When the pope is asked to pray

Even the expressed desire for peace feels empty when it comes with smiles for those who contribute to global terror

That big fat bar/bat mitzvah party

Don’t criticize extravagance when it celebrates a joyous event — there are too few and they pass too fast

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Jewish law as the art of playing chess

Nothing is more demanding and torturous, while simultaneously being uplifting and mind-broadening

On the alleged collapse of Haredism

Ultra-Orthodoxy in the modern day is a reactionary over-correction, but the relativism it combats remains a threat

The Eitan drone, also known as the Heron TP flies during a display at the Palmahim Air Force Base in Israel, March 7, 2007. (AP/Ariel Schalit/File)

Analysis

If the US can decrypt vital Israeli transmissions, who else can?

By Judah Ari Gross

The revelation that Israel’s allies have for years been monitoring its air force feeds in real time is shocking; worse is the concern that our enemies could too

US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro talks to Channel 10 television on January 29, 2016. (screen capture: Channel 10)

US envoy deflects spy revelations, touts ‘record’ Israel-US intel ties

Technion Israel Institute of Technology campus in Haifa (Courtesy)

Dozens of Italian academics call for boycott of Israeli universities

168 members of over 50 institutions in Italy sign petition produced ‘in solidarity’ with BDS movement, single out Haifa’s Technion

A ballistic missile is seen in what Iran says is an underground base, in an undisclosed location in the country. The base is said to be buried 500 meters below ground. (Screen capture PressTV)

Iran says it has ‘doubled’ efforts to develop ballistic missiles

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Top general says US attempts to curb advancement in weapons technology have only spurred Tehran to intensify its work

A US Navy vessel in the Persian Gulf (US Department of Defense)

US decries ‘abnormal’ Iranian flyover of its aircraft carrier

By Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell

An interview with Israeli Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Ze'ev Elkin in the independent Arabic news website Elaph, published on January 29 2016. (Screen capture elaph.com)

Time is right for Arab partnerships, Israeli minister tells Saudi-owned website

Ze’ev Elkin says current conflicts prove Israel is not source of friction in region, invites visitors to see unchanged status quo at Temple Mount

Shye Ben-Tzur, right, playing with Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood at the Sacred Jerusalem Festival, September 1, 2015. (Noam Chojnowski/via JTA)

The Jew who writes Islamic spiritual music in Hebrew

By Gabe Friedman

Leader of the Joint (Arab) List Ayman Odeh (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Odeh: Herzog is unfit to lead the opposition

Arab leader calls Zionist Union chief a ‘pale imitation’ of Netanyahu; Yachimovich says she’ll likely run for party leadership

Anthony Weiner in the documentary 'Weiner' (Courtesy of Sundance Institute)

Weiners, zombies and goats: Sundance’s Jewish highlights

By Jordan Hoffman

Turkish rescue forces carry the body of a migrant child on a beach on January 30, 2016 after at least 33 migrants drowned when their boat sank in the Aegean Sea (Ozan Kose/AFP)

At least 33 Greece-bound migrants drown off Turkish coast

By AP

Coast guard rescues 75 others from the water after boat capsizes in the Aegean Sea

Swedish police surrounds an arrested group of neo-Nazis that staged an unannounced rally in Stockholm following a brawl on January 23, 2016. (AFP/TT NEWS AGENCY/Jessica Gow)

Suspected neo-Nazi gangs attack migrants in Sweden

By AFP

Police had bolstered presence in Stockholm after learning extremists planned ‘aggression on unaccompanied migrant minors’

A view of a cyber-security company complex in Beersheba (YouTube screen capture)

Israel’s cyber sector blooms in the desert

By Jean-Luc Renaudie

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Former Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo ended a January 22, 2016 show at the Lucky Strike Live in Los Angeles, California, by giving what appeared to be a Nazi salute and screaming the words "white power" to the crowd. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Cowboy from HeilPantera singer in Nazi salute storm unrepentant

By AFP

Assailant immediately before he stabbed Menachem Mendel Rivkin in Givat Ze'ev on January 27, 2016 (Channel 10 screenshot)

Terror victim shows improvement after Givat Ze’ev stabbing

The waters off the coast of Gaza. (photo credit: CC-BY-SA ProIsraeli, Flickr)

Hamas says commando killed off Gaza coast

A Russian investigator walks near wreckage November 1, 2015, a day after a passenger jet bound for St. Petersburg, Russia, crashed in Hassana, Egypt. (AP/Amr Nabil, File)

EgyptAir mechanic suspected of planting IS bomb on Russian jet

Supporters hold signs reading 'Together with Israel' at a rally called by the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain (FCJE) and the Jewish Community of Madrid, in front of the Israeli embassy in Madrid on October 18, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/PEDRO ARMESTRE)

Spain ‘deeply worried’ over Palestinian deaths by Israel

By JTA

Artwork by a young Adolf Hitler (Courtesy)

Struggling artistHitler art goes under the hammer at Nuremberg

US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking at an annual Women's History Month reception hosted by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 18, 2015. (Allison Shelley/Getty Images/via JTA)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Brandeis inspired my work for women’s rights

By JTA

Circassian guards pose for a photograph outside Basman Palace, in Amman, Jordan, January 11, 2016 (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Jordan royals’ Circassian guards a symbol of thriving minority

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama attend the UN climate change conference in Paris, France, on November 30, 2015. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Kremlin slams ‘outrageous’ White House claim of Putin corruption

By AFP

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