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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 6, 2016

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

Mother asks God to grant ‘long life’ to guard stabbed by her daughter

Day after two 13-year-old Israeli Arab girls carry out attack in Ramle, mother apologizes to lightly injured guard and to all of Israel

Thousands at West Bank funerals of trio who killed border policewoman

By ToI Staff and AFP

Arab MKs call killers of Israelis ‘martyrs,’ ‘victims of the occupation’

Palestinian youth said killed in Hebron clashes with IDF

A performance by the Mangueira samba school in Rio. (Riotur)

How Brazil’s Jews samba through the madness of Carnival

By Marcus M. Gilban

From Rio to Sao Paulo, the South American country’s famed street parties offer plenty of ways to get your feathered boa grooving

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)

Clinton, Sanders neck-and-neck in Democratic race, poll shows

By AFP

A mere two points separate rival candidates ahead of New Hampshire primaries, down from a 31-point spread

New Hampshire may be now or never for Jeb Bush

By AFP

Republicans circle Rubio as stakes grow in New Hampshire

By Josh Lederman and Jill Colvin

Clinton’s millions in speech income remain a mystery

By Julie Bykowicz and Lisa Lerer

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

Analysis

Abbas signals solidarity for terrorism, as Gaza talks of war again

By Avi Issacharoff

PA chief, like Arafat before him, seems to be riding terrorist tiger; meanwhile, Hamas getting its tunnels ready for possible pre-emptive strike

Egypt flooded Hamas tunnels at Israel’s request, minister says

UN chief ‘ashamed’ over stalled Mideast peace process

By AFP and ToI Staff

Israel, Hamas ‘exchange calming messages’ on Gaza

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

You can only do this

Everywhere and everyone is a target, so you may as well buy bourekas, ride the bus, and rely on near-miss miracles

Phyllis Chesler

Setting the record straight

On how Anat Hoffman betrayed the original Women of the Wall and their desire to pray at the Kotel

David Sarna Galdi

The miseducation of Israel

A high school literature curriculum doesn’t make a couple fall in love any more than it keeps them from doing so

Heddy Breuer Abramowitz

Loud Whispers: Renana Laub

A debut exhibit showcases visual expressions and murmuring that seem to percolate from just beneath the artist’s skin

A collapsed crane lies on the street on Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Jewish trader killed by NY crane collapse

By JTA and AP

38-year-old David Wichs is crushed to death when a huge construction crane collapses on his car in Manhattan

Visitors walk by a religious ornament with the "manji" sign, the mirror image of a swastika, which comes from the ancient Sanskrit and has been widely used for centuries to denote Buddhist temples on maps and elsewhere, at a temple in Tokyo, February 3, 2016 (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan weighs change to swastika-like temple symbol

By Mari Yamaguchi

With 2020 Olympics approaching, officials worry foreigners may confuse traditional Buddhist icon on maps with Nazi emblem

Ayelet Zurer in 'Man of Steel,' which she called a wonderful experience' -- from the 'fabulous wardrobe' to working with Russell Crowe (Courtesy official Facebook page for Ayelet Zurer)

Face value

‘Superman’ actress sues when replaced by younger model

By JTA

Ayelet Zurer, 46, alleges owners of Golbary clothing store chain said her looks had deteriorated before firing her

Rescuers are seen entering an office building that collapsed on its side from an early morning earthquake in Tainan, southern Taiwan, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016. A 6.4-magnitude earthquake has struck southern Taiwan, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. (AP Photo)

11 dead, hundreds rescued as strong quake rattles Taiwan

By Wally Santana

Firefighters rush to rescue survivors after 6.4-magnitude trembler shakes southern city of Tainan

Singers, actresses and journalists featured on the Im Tirtzu list of 'culture moles' performed on Friday February 5, 2016, at the 'Blacklisted' event. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Leftist groups blacklisted by Im Tirtzu hold party in protest

By Melanie Lidman

1,000 people gather in Tel Aviv for concert and demonstration against radical right-wing group’s ‘shaming’ of left-wing cultural figures

(L to R) Israeli NGO leaders, Hagai El-Ad, Reut Michaeli, Yuli Novak, Tania Hary and Jafar Farah, attend a press conference on February 5, 2016 in Tel Aviv. (AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Left-wing NGOs condemn harassment, death threats

By AFP

Illustrative photo of two Iranian women casting their ballots during the presidential and municipal councils elections in a polling station in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 14, 2013 (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran reverses ban on 1,500 election candidates

By AP

Hard-line Guardian Council had earlier disqualified almost all relative moderates from running for parliament

Eduard Tumansky, third from left, with fellow Simcha musicians, September 3, 2013. (Courtesy of Simcha)

The Jews who built this city on rock and roll (and klezmer)

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Syrian refugees are pictured in a camp as Syrians fleeing the northern embattled city of Aleppo wait on February 6, 2016 in Bab al-Salam, near the city of Azaz, northern Syria, near the Turkish border crossing. (AFP/BULENT KILIC)

With 55,000 en route, Turkey pledges ‘open borders’ for Syrian refugees

By AFP

Ankara, already home to 2 million displaced by civil war, vows to keep helping those ‘fleeing aggression, Assad and Russian air strikes’

Syrian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Walid Moallem speaks during a news conference with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Vladimir Makei in Damascus on February 9, 2015. (photo credit: AFP/LOUAI BESHARA)

Syrian FM: Foreign troops who come here will go home ‘in coffins’

By AP

Illustrative: A Twitter app on an iPhone screen. (AP/Richard Drew/File)

Twitter moves to actively seek out terrorist supporters

By AP and ToI Staff

Company has suspended over 125,000 accounts since mid-2015 ‘for threatening or promoting terrorist acts’

Pouring cocktails at Gatsby in Jerusalem (Courtesy: Koby Sharvit)

Party Time!

Jerusalem festival to wash those winter blues away

By Jessica Steinberg

Annual Sheon Choref offers weekly wine tasting, beer brewing and more throughout February in the nation’s capital

Absalom's Tomb with the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in the background, Kidron Valley, Jerusalem (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

In Jerusalem’s Kidron Valley, a warning to disobedient children

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

More Headlines

David St. Vincent (Facebook)

UK travel writer found dead; critiqued Iran, opposed Assad

By AP and ToI Staff

Raphael Schumacher (Facebook)

Tragic playItalian investigators unraveling mystery of strangled actor

By AP and ToI Staff

Students attending a Hillel Rio event. (Facebook)

Rio-surrectionBrazil Hillel fakes closure in publicity stunt

By JTA

Seeing DoubleBernie Sanders, Larry David to appear on SNL

By JTA

The Empire State Building. (Serge Attal / Flash90)

Drone hits Empire State Building

By AP

A flyer advertising a Hungarian Veteran's Day event scheduled for February 6, 2016 featuring an SS officer titled 'Remembering the Heroes.' (courtesy)

Wiesenthal Center raps Hungary for neo-Nazi memorial

Amy Shumer and Seth Rogen in a Bud Light commercial ahead of the Super Bowl on February 5, 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Seth and Amy Make a PromoRogen, Schumer and Rudd star in Super Bowl beer ad

By JTA and ToI Staff

A 'stumbling block' in Heidelberg, Germany. Illustrative photo (CC-BY SA The Profitcy/Wikipedia)

Jewish cemeteries, Holocaust memorials vandalized across Germany

By JTA

Rue Saint-Honore, Apres-midi, Effet de Pluie by Camille Pissarro (Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

California A-G seeks Nazi-stolen artwork

By AP

An original railway carriage stands at the Judenrampe platform at Auschwitz (Adam Jones/Wikimedia Commons)

Ex-Auschwitz SS guard, 93, faces German trial in April

By AFP

This May 28, 2012 file photo shows a newspaper with a photograph of Etan Patz at a makeshift memorial in the SoHo neighborhood of New York where Patz lived before his disappearance on May 25, 1979. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Etan Patz parents seek reversal of ’04 conviction in murder case

By JTA

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