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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 7, 2016

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The remains of Torah scrolls set alight at the Givat Sorek outpost in the West Bank on February 6, 2016 (Courtesy: Karmei Tzur security department)

Police say makeshift West Bank synagogue torched by arsonists

Netanyahu calls on world to condemn burning of holy books just as it condemns graffiti and desecration of mosques

PM: Israel will bring to justice those who burned Torah scrolls

Suspected Palestinian arsonists set fire to Torah scrolls in West Bank

Jordan tells Israel to halt Western Wall expansion plans

Security forces at the scene of a stabbing attack in the Bedouin city of Rahat on February 6, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

Jewish grandma stabbed by terrorist in southern Bedouin town

Shlomit Gonen, 65, moderately injured by Arab youth as she shops with her family at market in Rahat

Soldier lightly injured in Ashkelon stabbing

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Ashkelon stabber identified as Sudanese national

By AFP and ToI Staff

Police fan out in manhunt for Rahat stabber

By Daniel Douek

US Secretary of State John Kerry boards his plane on departure from Ben Gurion International Airport on January 6, 2014. (photo credit: Matty Stern/US Embassy of Tel Aviv/Flash 90)

State Dep’t: Kerry not coming to Israel soon or planning new peace bid

Secretary’s spokesman dismisses Israeli TV report on imminent fresh negotiating effort, calls on ‘both sides to reduce violence’

Netanyahu said worried Obama may go against Israel as term expires

Israeli TV: Kerry set to come to Israel to try to restart peace bid

Israel, US gear up for large-scale missile defense drill

By Judah Ari Gross

The remains of Torah scrolls set alight at the Givat Sorek outpost in the West Bank on February 6, 2016 (Courtesy: Karmei Tzur security department)

Live updates (closed)

A-G to police: Look into Arab MKs’ meeting with terrorists’ families

Mandelblit tells force’s intelligence branch to examine possible criminal offenses by three lawmakers from Joint List

From left: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, former secretary of state Madeleine Albright and Senator Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) at a campaign event at Rundlett Middle School on February 6, 2016 in Concord, New Hampshire. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)

Albright: Sanders ‘not knowledgeable’ on foreign policy

By Eric Cortellessa

Former US secretary of state lambastes Democratic challenger, says he never attended her briefings on Capitol Hill

Sanders in 1990: US must pressure Israel on Palestinians

By ToI Staff and JTA

Rubio wilts under assault in Republican debate

By Jennie Matthew

Bern!On SNL, Larry David mocks Sanders’ socialism

By David Bauder

Hollywood gift guru Lash Fary presents the goody bags for the 2013 Oscars (screen capture: YouTube)

And the winner is...And the winner is...

Trip to Israel, worth $55,000, is star gift in Oscar ‘goody bag’

10-day ‘first class’ visit to the Holy Land is the most valuable freebie in $200,000 array given to this year’s nominees

Jonathan A. Greenblatt

The French initiative

A rethink by the Palestinians about what they can offer in negotiations may be the key to statehood and peace

Betsalel Steinhart

More than one way to be a Jew

Orthodox kids enhance a progressive service in an ancient Ein Gedi synagogue by joining them in the Aleinu prayer

With the Rambam in Helsinki

Have you heard? Thomas Aquinas, the greatest Catholic theologian, quotes Maimonides the rabbi…dozens of times

Women’s prayer: A voice from the heart

A request: if she’s arrested for her passion, wearing tallit and tefillin at the Kotel, please send funds for bail!

Dani Dayan. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Settler leader ‘will not be envoy to Brazil,’ top Likud MK admits

Tzachi Hanegbi says would-be diplomat Dani Dayan, rebuffed by Brasilia, will serve instead in ‘equally important country’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, February 7. 2016. (Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

Netanyahu looking to oust MKs who meet terrorists’ families

PM says he will pursue legislation after Joint List lawmakers observed moment of silence while meeting relatives of Palestinian killers

Arab MK Hanin Zoabi at a hearing on her case at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, December 9, 2014 (photo credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Lawmaker Zoabi gets 6-month suspended sentence, fine for insulting cops

Arab MK gave up immunity, apologized as part of plea deal over 2014 incident; calls whole case ‘unneeded’

Refugees push each other as they wait for tents as Syrians fleeing the northern embattled city of Aleppo wait on February 6, 2016 in Bab al-Salama, near the city of Azaz, northern Syria, near the Turkish border crossing. (Bulent Kilic/AFP)

Analysis

Closing in on Aleppo, foreign Shiite fighters tighten grip on Syria

By Avi Issacharoff

Palestinian youth supporting the Hamas movement take part in a rally marking the 28th anniversary of Hamas' founding, in Rafah, southern Gaza strip, December 14, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/FLASH90)

Analysis

Gaza staying out of current ‘intifada,’ Hamas claims

By Lee Gancman and Avi Issacharoff

Terror group says it doesn’t want to go to war with Israel, despite cheering violence from sidelines

Mohammed al-Qiq, a Palestinian prisoner who carried out hunger strike, talks to a man in a hospital in the northern Israeli town of Afula on February 5, 2016. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Palestinian hunger striker rejects release deal

Mohammed al-Qiq says he’ll only give up fast for immediate freedom; Hamas officials warn of violence if he dies

Policemen arrest a supporter of the Pegida (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the Occident) movement during a demonstration in Calais, northern France on February 6, 2016. (Philippe Huguen/AFP)

Neo-Nazi anti-Islam protesters arrested at Calais rally

By AFP

Some 20 arrested at Pegida movement demonstration in northern French city after authorities banned the gathering

File: Backdropped by the illuminated Chain Bridge, people light candles in front of the cast iron shoes at the Holocaust Memorial on the quay of the River Danube, during International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. (Balazs Mohai/MTI via AP)

Jewish group condemns Hungary far-right’s WWII remembrance

By AP

Event in which speakers lauded pro-Nazi wartime leader a ‘blatant attempt to glorify the perpetrators of the Holocaust’

The largest kosher slaughterhouse in the United States is located in Postville, Iowa, and has been renamed Agri Star. (Josh Tapper)

Scandal-ridden Iowa kosher slaughterhouse is back in business

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Nursery flowers watered with drip irrigation in Israel. (Martin Fischer/CC/via JTA)

Israel’s plant nurseries face stiff fines for employing Jews on Shabbat

The Assad family in a photo taken at un unknown date. Hafez Assad and his wife, Aniseh Makhlouf are seated in front. behind them, from left to right: Maher, Bashar, Bassel, Majd, and Bushra Assad. (Public Domain

Aniseh Assad, mother of Syria’s president, dies at 86

Many foreign workers are employed as cleaners (Shutterstock)

This won't washOutrage over ad pricing cleaners by ethnicity

By Daniel Douek

A Palestinian man plays with a dog during the first dog show in Gaza City, on February 5, 2016, organized by dog owners in the Gaza Strip. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

Ruff day?In first, Gaza City goes to the dogs

This picture taken from North Korean TV and released by South Korean news agency Yonhap on February 7, 2016, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (center), looking at the locket launch of the satellite Kwangmyong 4. (AFP/North Korean TV via Yonhap)

North Korea triggers fresh fury with rocket launch

By AP

This hipster is worried. Why shouldn't you be? (worried hipster via Shutterstock)

Hebrew media reviewDon’t worry, be… actually, go ahead and worry

By Joshua Davidovich

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