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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 2, 2016

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks to supporters as his wife Jane O'Meara Sanders looks on February 2, 2016 in Concord, New Hampshire. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Sanders jubilant after nearly edging out Clinton in Iowa

By AFP, AP and ToI Staff

Jewish Democratic hopeful says ‘political revolution’ has begun; Clinton barely ekes out win, declares victory before results finalized: Cruz trumps Trump

Hinting at endorsement, Adelsons give Cruz maximum donation

By JTA

From Abbi to ZoeThe Jewish celebrity vote: Bernie or Hillary?

By Gabe Friedman

Huckabee ends presidential bid after dismal Iowa result

By AP

A Beit Horon resident reads the memorial set up for Shlomit Krigman on January 27, 2016. Krigman was killed in a terror attack in the West Bank settlement earlier in the week. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)

In settlement stabbing attack, a killing foretold

By Judah Ari Gross

Residents of Beit Horon in the West Bank said the writing was on the wall for a terror attack before Shlomit Krigman, 23, was killed. A week later, they claim, security is still inadequate

‘Kill 500 Israelis,’ mourners demand at funeral of PA gunman

Kerry stresses ending incitement in call with Abbas

By JTA

Army lifts day-long closure on Ramallah

By Lee Gancman, Judah Ari Gross and Avi Issacharoff

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, speaks during a meeting with Hasan Rouhani in Tehran, Iran, on June 16, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Office of the Supreme Leader)

Interview

Why Iran really, truly doesn’t want the bomb… for now

By Raphael Ahren

Tehran can wreak much more havoc as a non-nuclear power, says proliferation expert François Heisbourg

FBI creates Persian Facebook page for case of missing Jewish agent

Hezbollah drugs-for-guns ring busted in international sting

Iran: $100 billion in assets ‘fully released’ under nuclear deal

By AP

Storming Al-Aqsa…virtually

Why media literacy matters in the war against modern-day incitement

Steven E. Zipperstein

How Obama distracted American Jewry

US Jews quibbled over Israel instead of taking a non-partisan stand against big, bad, nuke-seeking Iran

Confessions of an Orthodox pluralist

More freedom and not less is what guarantees the Torah’s future, even when it seems to run counter to tradition

Avi Issacharoff

Ramallah semi-closure highlights murkiness of Israel’s aims

Op-Ed: From closure to easing of restrictions to total removal of roadblocks within 24 hours — a message is sent but its content is unclear

View of Haifa under heavy smog (Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)

Minister vows ‘drastic’ measures after Haifa pollution report

By Tamar Pileggi

Research finds infants in area have smaller-than-average heads; environmental protection chief says state may shutter factories if second study confirms figures

Outgoing Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein (right), State Comptroller Yosef Shapira (second right), Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (second left) and incoming Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit (left) during the swearing-ceremony for the new attorney general, February 1, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

New attorney general vows to uphold autonomy, fight corruption

By Tamar Pileggi

Avichai Mandelblit promises to maintain independence as country’s top legal officer

File: Destroyed buildings at the illegal outpost of Migron on September 12, 2012. (Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Contested West Bank land purchases ‘fraudulent,’ claims report

14 recent purchases of Palestinian land for settlements may have been faked by pro-settler group, police investigation said to claim

Soldiers from Israel's Civil Administration demolish a number of structures deemed illegal in the southern Hebron Hills on February 2, 2016. (Nasser Nawaja/B'Tselem)

High Court halts razing of Palestinian homes in West Bank firing zone

By Raoul Wootliff and AFP

Injuction ordered after Defense Ministry began demolition Tuesday morning; human rights group behind petition says buildings funded by EU

Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein inaugurates a sculpture marking the 2005 evacuation from the Gaza Strip in the Knesset on February 1, 2016. (Knesset spokesman's office)

Rebuffing protest, Knesset unveils Gaza evacuation statue

By Marissa Newman

Sculpture marking dismantling of 25 settlements in 2005 finds place in parliament; speaker says it’s not permanent, not political

Meir Ettinger, the alleged head of a Jewish extremist group, at the Magistrate's Court in Nazareth Illit on August 4, 2015, a day after his arrest. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Detention extended for Kahane grandson; 2nd far-rightist to go free

By Adiv Sterman and ToI Staff

Meir Ettinger to remain in custody for 4 more months; Defense Ministry won’t extend detention order for Eviatar Slonim

Israeli security forces frisk Arab Israelis near the Central Bus Station in Herzliya, January 5, 2016, as the city was on high alert. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90

Knesset okays cops to stop and frisk without reasonable suspicion

Opponents say Ethiopians, Arabs will be targets of police as new powers allow them to search individuals on basis of ‘fear’

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert at the courtroom of the Magistrates Court in Jerusalem, February 2, 2016. (Gili Yohanan/POOL)

Olmert convicted after pleading guilty to witness tampering

By Raoul Wootliff

In first admission of wrongdoing, former prime minister convicted of obstructing justice by trying to silence secretary

An Israeli ski patrol member skis at the Mount Hermon ski resort on the Golan Heights, on January 21, 2016. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Skiing on the edge of Syria’s war

By DAPHNE ROUSSEAU

Within sight of a brutal civil war and surrounded by IDF soldiers on patrol, Jews and Arabs nevertheless flock to Israel’s only ski resort atop the Golan Heights’ Mount Hermon — braving the threat of errant shells and hoping for peace across the border

A Jordanian official is reflected in a broken mirror at the devastated site of the wedding hall at the Radisson SAS Hotel, where one of the three bombings took place in Amman, Jordan, in November 2005. (AP/Amr Nabil)

Jordan’s economic troubles may leave it vulnerable to Islamic State

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Yitzi Teichman warms up with the Lakers on January 31, 2015 (YouTube screenshot)

Star for a dayLA Lakers sign Jewish teen with brain cancer

By JTA

And adult male leopard tortoise. (Wikipedia/Charlesjsharp/CC BY 3.0)

From the webSome hunter-gatherers had a taste for tortoises, Israeli study says

Palestinian Authority envoy to Brazil, Ibrahim Alzeben (YouTube screenshot)

PA envoy in Brazil attends Holocaust memorial

By JTA

Russ & Daughters’ Houston Street shop has been operating since 1920. (Flickr via JTA/Jeffrey Bary/CC BY 2.0)

Lower East Side icon ‘Russ & Daughters’ expands to Brooklyn

By JTA

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, speaking at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, March 2, 2015. (David Ramos/Getty Images via JTA)

Net worthFacebook’s Zuckerberg richer than Koch brothers

By JTA

Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli, in Cannes in 2011. (Shutterstock)

A high BarBar Refaeli on the curriculum for national civics final

By Daniel Douek

Nick Sugimoto at the OurCrowd conference, January 25, 2016 (Courtesy)

Honda gets ready to join other auto giants in ‘Mideast Detroit’

By David Shamah

Can Jewish ‘wisdom’ become the new religion of corporate America?

By David Shamah

Pollution in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, April 15, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewA shrill cry by the bay

By Ilan Ben Zion

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