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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 4, 2016

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The ID cards of the three Palestinians who stabbed and fired at Border Policewomen at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on February 3, 2016, killing Hadar Cohen (Channel 2 screenshot)

Damascus Gate killers planned to attack group of civilians, police believe

One of the Palestinan gunmen had posted on Facebook that he intended to carry out a shooting, Channel 2 reports

Guard stabbed by 13-year-old girls in Ramle attack

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Clashes as army raids West Bank hometown of Jerusalem attackers

By Raoul Wootliff

AnalysisQabatiya finds itself back on the terror map

By Avi Issacharoff

Police escort two Jewish minors, suspected of taking part in the murder of Muhammed Abu Khdeir, at the Jerusalem District Court, Jerusalem, June 3, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Minors handed life sentence, 21 years for Abu Khdeir murder

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Killers were instrumental in 2014 kidnapping, burning-to-death of Palestinian teen, court rules; Abu Khdeir family slams second defendant’s lighter sentence

File: Israel Border Police on patrol in Hebron (photo credit: Najeh Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Ex-border guard who beat laughing Palestinian loses appeal

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meets with families of Palestinian terrorists in Ramallah on Wednesday, February 3, 2016. (screen capture: Ynet)

Abbas meets families of terrorists just after deadly Jerusalem attack

Palestinian Authority president promises to help get Israel to return bodies of 11 Palestinians who carried out deadly attacks on Israelis

Members of the 'Original Women of the Wall' pray at the Western Wall on February 3, 2016. (©2016 Raya Meltz, morayaDESIGN)

Activist women say new plan ‘banishes’ them from Western Wall

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

In the face of her ‘sisters’ disappointment, head of Women of the Wall Anat Hoffman explains why the Diaspora passion for equal rights they brought from America is not taking root here

Illustrative image of Turkish soldiers standing guard near the Turkish-Syrian border, on September 4, 2015. (AFP/Ozan Kose)

Live updates (closed)

Russia suspects Turkey preparing to enter Syria

By Adiv Sterman

Two minors sentenced for helping kidnap, kill Palestinian teen in 2014; hundreds at funeral for Border police cadet Hadar Cohen, 19, killed in Jerusalem attack

Illustrative: Portrait of Ruth Colian, head of the ultra-Orthodox female political party, UBizchutan: Haredi Women Making Change in front of the Knesset buildings in Jerusalem, on January 25, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Why is a secular woman battling in court for female ultra-Orthodox would-be pols?

By Marissa Newman

And why are the female activists for whom Tamar Ben-Porath is challenging the Agudat Yisrael coalition faction waiting in wings rather than leading the fight?

President Barack Obama speaks to members of the Muslim-American community at the Islamic Society of Baltimore, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, in Baltimore (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

In first US mosque visit, Obama slams ‘inexcusable’ anti-Muslim rhetoric

By AFP, AP and ToI Staff

Criticizing language used by Republican candidates, president calls on Americans not to be ‘bystanders to bigotry’

President Barack Obama speaks to members of the Muslim-American community at the Islamic Society of Baltimore, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, in Baltimore, Md. Obama was making his first visit to a U.S. mosque at a time Muslim-Americans say they're confronting increasing levels of bias in speech and deeds. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

OU hails Obama mosque trip for embracing religious diversity

By JTA

The heavy burden of day school tuition

How one Ontario school helps parents struggling to finance Jewish education — a potential model for North America

Laura Ben-David

PHOTO ESSAY: Raising our spirits

Musical theater, by women for women, interrupts the heavy gloom of terror, to tell of a dramatic fight for Israel

Micah Lakin Avni

Wanton incitement and insult from Abbas

As long as the Palestinian president refuses to condemn terror, the US must cease all financial aid to his cause

Julie Rosenzweig

The carnage we’re okay with

With speed bumps serving as crosswalks instead of decelerators, no wonder Israeli traffic deaths are on the rise

Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a CNN and the New Hampshire Democratic Party hosted Democratic Presidential Town Hall at the Derry Opera House on February 3, 2016 in Derry, New Hampshire. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)

Jewish candidate Sanders opens up on ‘strong religious’ feelings

By JTA and AP

Democratic White House hopeful describes faith as sense of responsibility for others; Clinton addresses rabbi’s question on Hasidic saying

Bernie Sanders' cameo appearance in the 1999 film 'My X-Girlfriend's Wedding Reception' (screen capture: YouTube)

Cult classicBernie Sanders played a rabbi in a ’90s film

Screenshot of the CBS News website taken February 3, 2016, showing a headline about a shooting and stabbing attack by three Palestinian assailants in Jerusalem.

Israel slams ‘slanted, false’ CBS headline on Jerusalem attack

By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff

‘3 Palestinians killed as daily violence grinds on,’ US news outlet initially reports after Palestinians fire on police, killing one officer and wounding another

A screenshot of a fake, anti-Israel edition of the New York Times distributed in New York City on February 2, 2016.

Gotcha journalismJewish lefties claim fake anti-Israel ‘New York Times’

By JTA

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)

Israel clamping down on ‘illegal’ EU building in West Bank

Europeans said helping Palestinians establish ‘territorial contiguity’ without Israeli permission; EU: Construction is ‘humanitarian’

EU ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen (left) meets with Uriel Lynn, head of the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce, February 2, 2016 (Courtesy)

EU: €155m in R&D deals proves there’s no boycott of Israel

By David Shamah

In this Friday, Jan. 29, 2016 photo, Dr. Elan Karten poses for a portrait at his office in Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

‘Gay conversion’ therapists say they find demand in Israel

By Daniel Estrin

Orthodox practitioners allowed to continue, even though Health Ministry calls practice scientifically dubious and potentially dangerous, and US bids to curb it

A police car stands outside a refugee shelter on February 4, 2016, in Attendorn after a raid during which a suspect was arrested. (AFP/dpa/Bernd Thissen)

Germany arrests jihadists planning ‘serious act,’ hunts 2 more

By AFP

Raids against Algerians linked to Islamic State target sites, including refugee shelters, where some suspects lived

Well-wishers bring flowers and light candles to honor the shooting victims outside the main Synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark on February 15, 2015. (AFP/Odd Andersen)

Four charged with helping gunman attack Copenhagen synagogue

By AP

Prosecutor says suspects assisted Omar El-Hussein in murder of Dan Uzan and attempt to kill two police officers

Hamas fighters attend a funeral procession in Gaza City on January 29, 2016, for seven members of the terror group killed when an attack tunnel into Israel collapsed. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

Analysis

Despite tunnel bluster, Hamas insists it doesn’t want war

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

Senior official in terror organization dismisses recent statements lauding new attack tunnels, says calming message sent to Jerusalem via diplomatic backchannels

Mahmoud al-Zahar speaks at a Hamas rally in Gaza on December 14, 2015. (YouTube screenshot)

Hamas official brags, then denies, tunnels reach into Israel

By ToI Staff and AFP

Relaxing in a hammock at Villa Vitrage, where the Olshinski family helps defray costs by asking paying guests to pay for homemade soup (Courtesy Refanah)

Non-profit offers free ‘tzimmer’ stays to cancer patients

By Jessica Steinberg

A scene from the film 'Son of Saul' (Cannes Film Festival)

Why a Holocaust restitution group funded this Oscar-nominated film

By Cnaan Liphshiz

For the Claims Conference, helping to bankroll ‘Son of Saul’ was a prescient gamble

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

Knesset rejects proposal to probe Haifa pollution

By Adiv Sterman

While study released this week suggests link between heavy industry and birth defects, Health Ministry data shows infants in area have average head sizes

Apo and the Apostles, a band of musicians from Bethlehem and the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City (Courtesy Apo and the Apostles)

The Bethlehem band that made party rock a personal anthem

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Beit Shemesh firefighters rescue a 17-year-old would-be thief trapped in a store's chimney during a botched overnight robbery, February 4, 2016. (Screen capture/Beit Shemesh Fire and Rescue Services)

Getting the shaftTeenage thief rescued after getting trapped in chimney

Temple Israel in Portsmouth is the oldest Jewish house of worship in New Hampshire; today it's a Conservative synagogue. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

Who are the 10,000 Jews of New Hampshire?

By Uriel Heilman

Jerry Seinfeld performs in Tel Aviv on December 19, 2015. (Photo by Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

People of the joke bookJewish jokes dominate in New York mag’s top 100

Maite Perroni and her mother in Tel Aviv (Courtesy Voices of Israel)

Mucho appreciationLatina stars dip into hummus, and the Jordan

By Jessica Steinberg

The “Rabbi for Trump” Facebook page. (Screenshot from Facebook)

Placing his bet‘Rabbi for Trump’ drops support for The Donald

By ToI Staff and JTA

Tel Aviv's Kiryat Atidim tech hub. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

How a Silicon Valley firm can ‘prosper’ from Silicon Wadi

By David Shamah

Illustrative photo of swastika graffiti. (Flash90)

Jewish-owned Seattle business targeted with swastikas

By JTA

Illustrative photo of an Orthodox Jew walking past the Ahavas Torah Synagogue in the Stamford Hill area of north London on March 22, 2015. (AFP/Niklas Halle'n)

Anti-Semitic incidents down 22% in UK from record high, monitor says

By JTA

South Koreans watch a TV news program with file footage of North Korea's rocket launch plans, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea said to push ahead with long-range missile test

By Hyung-Jin Kim

Still for WIX super bowl 2016 commercial (YouTube screenshot)

Panthers and Broncos and bears, oh myIsrael’s Wix unveils 2016 Super Bowl ad

New York City real estate heir Robert Durst leaves a Houston courtroom, Aug. 15, 2014. (AP/Pat Sullivan)

Robert Durst pleads guilty to gun charge, setting up possible murder trial

By JTA

Border Police officer Hadar Cohen, 19, was killed in a terror attack at Damascus Gate outside of Jerusalem's Old City on February 3, 2016. (Israel Police)

Hebrew media reviewA heroine’s death

By Ilan Ben Zion

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