Join our Community

Support ToI and remove all ads

Learn more

English
Français
עברית

Get The Daily Edition
Account
Sign In
- Sign in
- Join our Community

Open Search form

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners

Input search

English
Français
עברית

Latest Articles
Latest Alerts
Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
Podcasts
Video
Newsletters
Partners
Community
- Join our community
- Sign in
- About The Times of Israel
- Advertise on The Times of Israel
- Contact us
- Download our App
  - For IOS users
  - For Android users
- Get the Daily Edition
- Follow us
- © 2026 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved
  
  Terms and conditions Privacy policy

Input search

The Daily Edition

What Matters Most On Friday, February 5, 2016

Facebook
Twitter

View previous edition

View next edition

MK Hanin Zoabi speaks to the press on February 17, 2015 (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Arab Israeli MKs meet relatives of Palestinian terrorists

Netanyahu says he seeks to punish lawmakers for meeting, which aimed to advance release of attackers’ bodies held by Israel

Netanyahu files ethics complaint against Arab MKs who met terrorists’ families

Arab MKs hit back at ‘fascist’ criticism over meeting with terrorists’ families

Court delays demolition of terrorists’ homes

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, right, stands to answer a question from the audience alongside host Anderson Cooper during a Democratic primary town hall sponsored by CNN, Wednesday, February 3, 2016, in Derry, N.H. (AP/John Minchillo)

Balancing humility and ego

How a New Hampshire rabbi opened Hillary Clinton’s heart – in his own words

Jonathan Spira-Savett invoked saying of 18th century Hasidic rabbi at televised town hall meeting to ask Democratic presidential candidate about humility

Twitter goes nuts for Hillary’s response to a rabbi on CNN

By Gabe Friedman

Revealed: The mystery kibbutz that once hosted Bernie Sanders

By JTA

At prayer breakfast, Obama cites WWII rescuers, Jewish fight for civil rights

By JTA

Giving away the Kotel

The day Progressive Judaism let Haredim control a public treasure and left a group of Orthodox women adrift

When learning is too relevant

How to analyze the tortes and criminal cases of the Talmud before regular knife attacks changed everything

Joshua Hammerman

Sanders brings back Old Jew Chic

Are Bernie’s staunchest supporters, young enough to be his grandchildren, entranced by his age or his authenticity?

Doing and hearing

The Torah mandates actions, but there is no prescribed spirituality; people find their own paths to God (Mishpatim)

Wadi Ara (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Police hunt missing Wadi Ara teen armed with knife

Youth threatens to harm himself before leaving home; authorities tell public to be vigilant, call hotline with any information

Israeli security forces arrest a Palestinian man during clashes in Qabatiya, near Jenin in the north of the West Bank, on February 4, 2016 (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

Palestinian youth said killed in Hebron clashes with IDF

Army says troops fired at assailant preparing to hurl firebomb; village of Qabatiya closed for second day after 3 residents killed young policewoman

Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich at the scene of a shooting and stabbing attack near Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, February 3, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

After attack, police mull keeping cadets from Damascus Gate

Hadar Cohen, 19, was still in training when she was killed in Jerusalem Wednesday, but officials say she reacted like a veteran

The family of Hadar Cohen, 19, at her funeral in Yehud, on February 4, 2016. Cohen was killed by Palestinian gunmen near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem on February 3. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Slain policewoman, 19, hailed as heroine at her funeral

By Tamar Pileggi

Minister praises Hadar Cohen’s bravery during Jerusalem attack; ‘How much longer will we endure this senseless hatred?’ asks her sister

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a wounded Israeli border police officer at the Hadassah Hospital in Mount Scopus on February 4, 2016. Mirilashvili was injured a day earlier in a shooting and stabbing attack near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. Her colleague Hadar Cohen was killed. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu visits wounded border policewoman

Emergency services at the site of a stabbing attack in Ramle, January 4, 2016. (Magen David Adom)

13-year-old girls remanded after stabbing guard in Ramle

By Tamar Pileggi

Girls say assault was ‘revenge for the situation in the Al-Aqsa Mosque,’ and in protest of Israel’s ‘killing of Palestinians’

Col. Ariella Ben Avraham, Israel's chief military censor and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon on August 30, 2015 (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Military censor seeks control over blogs, Facebook posts

Like established media outlets, bloggers now required to submit all security-related posts for advance review

IDF infantrymen congregating around a tunnel entrance in Gaza, July 24, 2014. (Courtesy IDF Flickr)

Comptroller pans ‘severe failures’ on Gaza attack tunnels

Draft of special report says government failed to react to emerging threat months before war in broke out in the Strip

Brasilia, Brazil's capital (CC BY Carla Salgueiro/Flickr)

With no Israeli ambassador in Brazil, PA opens embassy there

By JTA

Topped with a golden dome, the building resembles Dome of the Rock on Temple Mount in Jerusalem

US Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton (R) and Bernie Sanders smile after participating in the MSNBC Democratic Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham on February 4, 2016. (AFP/Jewel Samad)

Clinton tells Sanders his Iran policy would endanger Israel

In debate in New Hampshire, ex-secretary says Democratic rival’s approach would put Iranian troops ‘right at Israel’s doorstep’

US Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton (R) and Bernie Sanders participate in the MSNBC Democratic Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham on February 4, 2016.
(AFP / Jewel Samad)

In debate, Clinton goes on offensive against resurgent Sanders

By Jennie Matthew

Ohio Governor John Kasich announcing his 2016 presidential candidacy at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, on July 21, 2015. (Ty Wright/Getty Images/AFP)

GOP hopeful Kasich defends Israel over peace talks, settlements

By JTA

Ohio governor criticizes Obama administration’s handling of relations with Jewish state, says there’ll never be permanent peace with Palestinians

Rabbi David Senter outside Temple Israel in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)

Once Orthodox, New Hampshire rabbi now finds Conservative home

By Uriel Heilman

Iranian school-girls attend President Hassan Rouhani's speech to parliament before presenting the proposed annual budget in the capital Tehran, on January 17, 2016. (AFP / ATTA KENARE)

Rising number of Iranian girls as young as 10 forced to marry

By AFP

UN Committee on the Rights of the Child urges Tehran to repeal legislation permitting child sex abuse

Rio 2016 Olympic Games Organizing Committee Medical Director Joao Grangeiro (right ) speaks during a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on February 2, 2016. (AFP/Vanderlei Almeida)

Brazil’s anti-terror chiefs ready for ‘worst’ at Rio Olympics

By Pierre AUSSEILL

85,000 security personnel will protect summer games, after attacks in Paris and elsewhere raise the stakes at major events

In this Jan. 27, 2016 photo, a worker breaks defective glass bottles to be recycled at the Phoenicia Glass Works Ltd. factory in the southern Israeli town of Yeruham. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Photo essay

Deep in Israel desert, shimmering glass mountains

By Oded Balilty

Backpackers hanging out at the Little Tel-Aviv hostel (Courtesy Little Tel-Aviv Hostel)

Budget travelers get a warm welcome at Israel’s newest hostels

By Eliana Block

More Headlines

Leader of the Yachad political party Eli Yishai on his campaign tour, March 08, 2015. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)

Ex-Shas chief: Next, Reform Jews will be ‘putting tefillin on dogs’

By JTA

Bruce Springsteen with drummer Max Weinberg in concert. (photo credit: CC-BY-SA, Craig ONeal, Wikipedia)

Land of hope and dreamsBruce to ‘The Promised Land’? Just rumors, for now

By Jessica Steinberg

Budapest's parliament building (Wikipedia/AngMoKio, CC BY-SA 2.5)

Budapest names promenade for late Jewish congressman Tom Lantos

By JTA

Peyton Manning (left) and Cam Newton are set to face off in Super Bowl 50 on Sunday, February 7, 2016. (Christian Peterson/Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)

Super MitzvahSuper Bowl 50: US rabbis bet theirs is the chosen team

By Gabe Friedman

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 20, 2015 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

UN chief to speak at New York synagogue’s Shabbat service

By JTA

Illustrative photo of Hasidic men walking in Brooklyn. (Gedalya Gottdenger/Creative Commons/JTA)

Hasidic Jews help save woman who leapt off George Washington Bridge

By JTA

Image posted online after the disappearance of Italian graduate student Giulio Regeni in Cairo, Egypt. Reggeni was found with signs of torture by the side of a highway on the outskirts of the Egyptian capital on Feb. 4, 2016. (screen capture: Twitter)

Tortured body of Italian student found outside Cairo

By AFP

Israeli football player Eran Zahavi. (photo credit: Alon Shafransky/PARAZAR)

Turf peaceIsraeli player speaks up for pope’s soccer match

By JTA

At risk? Israel's electric grid (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash 90)

Hack attacks on electricity, water systems already here, says expert

By David Shamah

The University of Chicago (photo: Google Maps)

Jewish frat boys at Chicago U sent each other Islamophobic emails

By JTA

A girl paints a mural that educates people about a mosquito control project in the village of San Diego, in La Libertad, Salvador, on February 4, 2016.(AFP PHOTO/MARVIN RECINOS)

Israel issues new rules for blood donors who visit Zika-hit areas

By ToI Staff and AFP

FIsh in a Subflex cage (Tal Flanzman)

The Israeli tech start-up out to beat the ‘fish cartel’

By David Shamah

View Edition by Date

January	February 2016					March
Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa	Su
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29

The Times of Israel

Daily Edition

Free to Your Inbox

The email is either missing or invalid.

By signing up, you agree to our terms You hereby accept The Times of Israel Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and you agree to receive the latest news & offers from The Times of Israel and its partners or ad sponsors.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Israel & the Region
Jewish Times
Israel Inside
Tech Israel
Real Estate Israel
The Blogs
podcasts
video

terms and conditions
privacy policy
about us
advertise with us
Jobs at The Times of Israel
contact us

Community

Join our community
Sign in

Get the Daily Edition

Enter your email address

Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Follow us on Whatsapp Follow us on X Follow us on Youtube Follow us on Telegram Follow us on Threads Follow us on Bluesky

© 2026 The Times of Israel, all rights reserved

Concept, design & development by

Developed by

Powered by

Never miss breaking news on Israel

Get notifications to stay updated

You're subscribed

Register for free
and continue reading

Registering allows you to manage your newsletters and alerts and helps us improve your experience. It takes just a few seconds.
Already registered? Enter your email to sign in.

Email address

Please use the following structure: example@domain.com

Or Continue with

By registering you agree to the terms and conditions. Once registered, you’ll receive our Daily Edition email for free.

Send me The Times of Israel Daily Edition

Register to continue

Email address

Or Continue with

Log in to continue

Email address

Something went wrong.
Please try again in a few minutes..

Sign in or Register

Email address * Password *

Incorrect password. Please try again or choose an option below.

I forgot my password / Send me a sign in link

Or Continue with

check your email

Check your email

We sent an email to you at .

It has a link that will sign you in.

Click the link in that email to complete your registration.