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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 9, 2016

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Joint (Arab) List members Jamal Zahalka (left), Basel Ghattas (center) and Hanin Zoabi (right) at the weekly Joint (Arab) List meeting at the Knesset, on February 8, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Knesset suspends Arab MKs for meeting Palestinian terrorists’ families

By Tamar Pileggi

Ethics Committee boots Balad’s Zoabi and Ghattas for 4 months and Zahalka for 2 months, but they can still vote in plenum and Knesset panels

Justice minister, ultra-Orthodox balk as MK suspension bill races ahead

By Marissa Newman

Joint List slams ‘miserable, anti-democratic’ suspension of its MKs

Army Radio host under fire for terrorist families ‘comparison’

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks at the 2014 Values Voter Summit September 26, 2014 in Washington, DC (Mark Wilson/Getty Images/AFP)

Cruz’s evangelical backer seeks to convert Jews, predicts new concentration camps

By Eric Cortellessa

GOP candidate has been touting endorsement from Mike Bickle, who notoriously said God sent Hitler to hunt Jews for not accepting Jesus as messiah

A voter casts her ballot at the Canterbury Town Hall, February 9, 2016 in Canterbury, New Hampshire. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump, Sanders look to emerge from New Hampshire with wins

By Julie Pace and KATHLEEN RONAYNE

Republican front-runner leads a field in flux, while Clinton is at a disadvantage in two-person race for Democratic nomination

Bloomberg confirms he’s considering White House run

By AFP

Candidates sprint to NH finish, but brace for marathon campaign

By Josh Lederman and Jill Colvin

For the Clintons, New Hampshire is the state of 2nd chances

By Lisa Lerer and KATHLEEN HENNESSEY

A photo of Kibbutz Shaar Haamakim as it was in 1963, when Bernie Sanders volunteered there for several months. (Ben Sales/JTA)

50 years on, Bernie Sanders still champions values of his Israeli kibbutz

Shaar Haamakim was a bastion of socialism when the Vermont senator volunteered there in the ’60s, and continues to preserve ‘social democratic values’

Sanders discussed Mideast with J Street, Arab American Institute

By JTA

President Reuven Rilvin and Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (center front) pose with new Israeli sharia judges during a ceremony at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on Tuesday, February 9, 2016 (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Live updates

President Rivlin welcomes new sharia judges

Army surrounds West Bank village in search for stabber; PM envisions Israel surrounded by fences to keep out ‘carnivorous animals’

Nathan Leopold, left, and Richard Loeb, center, sitting in the courtroom with their defense attorney, Clarence Darrow, right. on July 24, 1924. (Courtesy of Chicago History Museum/via JTA)

Pair of privileged Jewish teens first used ‘affluenza’ defense in 1924

By Curt Schleier

In wake of wealthy drunk driver Ethan Couch’s light sentence for killing four, PBS on Tuesday airs ‘The Perfect Crime’ about the murderous Leopold and Loeb case

Our fight for Jewish pluralism in Israel

A US progressive coalition aspires to bust the Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly on religious life in Israel

Could Jennifer Lopez be Jewish?

J. Lo’s surname as well as her mother’s name link the megastar to the forcibly-converted Jews of Spain and Portugal

‘Of course I remember you’

On an encounter, so many years later, that proves you never know how a gesture might change the world

Must I care for my neglectful mother?

Does a child have any obligation to support an aging parent who failed to protect her offspring from abuse?

Members of the Syrian government forces look on as hundreds of civilians and Syrian rebel forces begin evacuating the last opposition-held district of Waer in the central city of Homs, under a deal with the Syrian regime, December 9, 2015. (AFP/Louai Beshara)

UN probe accuses Syria of ‘exterminating’ thousands of prisoners

By AFP

New report says Assad regime guilty of a crime against humanity, calls for sanctions against those responsible

Illustrative. Palestinian youth throw stones towards Israeli security forces during clashes in the West Bank town of Hebron on October 4, 2015. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

UK ‘concerned’ over punishment of minor stone-throwers in fatal attack

By Raphael Ahren

In meetings with IDF’s chief prosecutor, British Embassy says it continues to raise issue of imprisonment of 5 Palestinians who critically injured Adele Bitton

Israel's UN ambassador, Danny Danon, and his colleagues display what he calls 'terror dolls,' right, which he says are being used to teach hatred among Palestinian children, on Tuesday, January 26, 2016, at the UN (AP Photo/Cara Anna)

Israel: Palestinians using UN chief’s words to justify terror

By Agencies and ToI Staff

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks at a conference in memory of former chief of staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on February 9, 2016. (Adi Cohen Zedek/IDC Herzliya)

Army chief hints at hidden efforts to counter Gazan tunnels

By Judah Ari Gross

Eisenkot says some 100 engineering vehicles are sniffing out Hamas’s underground passages, notes terror group not directing West Bank violence

Hossein Jaberi Ansari, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, speaks during a weekly press conference, Tehran, Iran, December 14, 2015. (AFP/ATTA KENARE)

Iran: We still fund Hamas, because fighting Israel is our policy

Claim by Tehran official contradicts recent comments by senior member of terror group that ‘we haven’t gotten anything from them since 2009’

Education Minister Naftali Bennett (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Haim Hornstein/Flash90)

PM, Ya’alon said to nix Bennett call to attack Hamas tunnels

Hamas leaders have bragged in recent days that attack tunnels, destroyed by the IDF in 2014, now again reach into Israel

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks during a plenum session in the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament, before the Knesset votes on the proposed law requiring Left-wing foundations and organizations to reveal their sources of funding, on February 8, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Controversial NGO transparency bill passes first vote

By 50-43, Knesset advances law which would require organizations to detail funding if over 50% comes from foreign governments

Illustrative: Members of the European Parliament take part in a voting session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on February 2, 2016. (AFP/Frederick Florin)

50 European MPs slam NGO bill as ‘inherently discriminatory’

By Raphael Ahren

Legislation passes first reading; raked over coals by EU lawmakers, Human Rights Watch

Hamas, Fatah agree on tentative steps toward reconciliation

Sides determine who will control Gaza crossing, commit to national unity government and elections

Hani Alami (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Denied 3G for years, Palestinians lost touch – and hope – says expert

By David Shamah

That it took Israel years to grant 3G data frequencies to the Palestinian Authority was a bad, dangerous business decision

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

Palestinian girl, 16, pulls knife on police at Damascus Gate

No injuries reported, would-be assailant arrested; in separate incident, Palestinian girl armed with knife arrested outside West Bank settlement

President Reuven Rivlin meets on February 8, 2016 with the family of slain border policewoman Hadar Cohen, who was killed five days earlier in a terror attack at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Hadar was a hero, president tells family of slain policewoman

Rivlin hails bravery of newly enlisted officer who was killed as she fought three Palestinian terrorists in Jerusalem last week

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest against the military draft in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood, December 22, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ultra-Orthodox rioters clash with police in Ashdod

Military cops need to be rescued as anti-IDF draft protest turns violent; cars overturned, damaged by stone-throwers; 3 attempts to arrests fail

Witness Angela Orosz-Richt, born in Auschwitz, sits in the courtroom in Lueneburg, Germany Tuesday June 2, 2015 . (Philipp Schulze/Pool Photo via AP)

Auschwitz-born survivor urges other victims to speak out

By AFP

Angela Orosz, 71, decided to testify at ex-Nazi’s trial after seeing another survivor publicly forgive him, making her ‘blood boil’

Then-Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Chaim Herzog addresses the UN General Assembly on November 10, 1975, at the vote to label Zionism as 'racism,' at the United Nations, New York. (UN Photo/Michos Tzovaras)

1975 anti-Semitism speech to UN even more relevant today, UK historian says

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Ted Nugent (CC BY-SA, Larry Philpot of www.soundstagephotography.com via Wikimedia Commons)

Jewish groups blast Ted Nugent for anti-Semitic gun control post

Roger Edde, leader of the Lebanese Peace Party, in an interview on al-Mayadeen TV on January 20, 2016. (screen capture: MEMRI)

Lebanese politician brands Palestinian attackers ‘suicide seekers’

Cate Blanchett in 'The Monuments Men' (AP/Columbia Pictures/Claudette Barius)

Cate at the Kotel?Oscar trip could see 26 VIPs, and their companions, here

By Jessica Steinberg

Rabbi Yosef Greenberg delivers a prayer to the US Senate on February 3, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)

Alaska rabbi blesses Senate with wish for US leadership on terrorism

By JTA

A Glide video chat on an Android Wear watch (Courtesy)

Glide app brings Jetsons vibe to Android smart watches

By David Shamah

An Indian Sikh devotee offers prayers at the Golden Temple, Sikh's holiest shrine in Amritsar, India, August 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Sanjeev Syal)

That's a wrapSikh actor says barred from US flight over turban

By AFP

Beyoncé Knowles is expected to perform in Israel this summer (Lolcakes25/ CC BY SA via wikipedia)

Divas dueSummer concert rumors: Beyoncé, Madonna, Britney?

By Jessica Steinberg

John Tishman, whose company built World Trade Center, dies

By JTA

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)

Israel joins global condemnation of North Korea rocket launch

Joint List party member Hanin Zoabi is removed by Knesset security from the plenum session after refusing to leave the podium, February 8, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewOut of the Knesset, into the frying pan

By Raoul Wootliff

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