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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 11, 2016

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Republican Presidential candidate Ted Cruz speaks at Exeter Town Hall January 20, 2016 in Exeter, New Hampshire. (Darren McCollester/Getty Images/AFP)

Jewish groups press Cruz to explain controversial backer

By Eric Cortellessa

Republican hopeful touts endorsement of Mike Bickle, who seeks to convert the Jews and says God sent Hitler to hunt them

Analysis Why Sanders’ victory is no big deal to Jews – or America

By Daniel Treiman

Sanders raises $5m in day after New Hampshire victory

By AFP

After wins, fresh challenges ahead for Trump and Sanders

By AP

Natan (Anatoly) Sharansky is escorted by US Ambassador Richard Burt after Sharansky had crossed the border at Glienicker Bridge on Feb. 11, 1986 at the start of an East-West spy and prisoner exchange in Berlin. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)

The day Sharansky crossed the bridge

By Rachel Sharansky Danziger

The prisoner of Zion’s daughter marks 30 years to his release by thanking all those who made it possible for her to be born

An illustrative photo of a Filipina worker helping an elderly woman on November 2, 2010. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

When grandma’s caretaker is a debt slave

By Simona Weinglass

There are 55,000 foreign caretakers in Israel. Almost all of them arrived as modern-day indentured servants, owing thousands of dollars to loan sharks and corrupt employment agents. Why is nobody taking care of the caretakers?

Illustrative picture of an Australian and Israeli passport. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Most Israelis want a passport to prosperity abroad

By Raoul Wootliff

As new laws in Spain and Portugal draw applicants, poll shows carrots and sticks both serve as spurs

Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, alongside advocate Yossi Cohen (right) in the Jerusalem Regional Labor Court, October 29, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Sara Netanyahu to fight back on court decision over Menny Naftali

By Adiv Sterman

Prime Minister names Nadav Argaman as new Shin Bet head; UN human rights investigator says Israel using excessive force against Palestinians

File: Knives and contents of a backpack used by attackers in a stabbing in Ramle on February 4, 2016. (Israel Police)

2 Arab girls charged with attempting to murder security guard

14-year-olds from Ramle allegedly stabbed the man at the central bus station because they ‘wanted to die as martyrs’

Israeli dentist gets 20 months for delivering cash to Hamas

By Raoul Wootliff

Haredi soldier jailed for 7 months for beating detained Palestinians

Settler arrested for ax attack on Palestinian vehicle

By Adiv Sterman and Judah Ari Gross

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Jews on Bernie and Mike: Meh

Why neither presidential hopeful will get the Jewish vote just because he’s a member of the tribe

Bibi’s selectively bold leadership

In changing prayer at the Wall, Netanyahu proved that where there’s a will there’s a way: Now, what about peace?

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Needed: A remorseless Judaism

A call to Jewish religious educators to deliberately create an atmosphere of rebellion among their students

Iranians hold an anti-US slogan during celebrations in Tehran's Azadi Square (Freedom Square) to mark the 37th anniversary of the Islamic revolution on February 11, 2016. Posters depict President Obama and Secretary Kerry with Pinocchio-style liars' noses, and the text 'Unreliable' (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Iranians take missile selfies, deride US to mark revolution

By AFP

Anniversary comes 2 weeks ahead of crucial parliamentary elections, where President Rouhani hopes for shift away from hard-liners

Jamal Hakrush, slated to become the first Muslim Arab to rise to the rank of deputy commissioner in the Israel Police, on February 11, 2016. (Israel Police)

Israel police to appoint first Muslim deputy commissioner

New unit to combat disproportionate amount of crime in Arab community, will include 1,300 officers, dozens of new stations

Gilad Ach, director of the right-wing 'Ad Kan' organization, in the West Bank (screen capture: Channel 2/Uvda)

The shadowy right-wing group infiltrating lefty organizations

By Marissa Newman

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon looking at Torah scrolls in Bern, Switzerland, on February 10, 2016. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

Ya’alon said seeking return of bodies from Gaza alongside Turkey détente

Call for return of Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin said to come as condition for easing blockade on Gaza, considered a prerequisite for reconciliation with Ankara

Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset on February 10, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Situation not ripe for two-state solution

By Adiv Sterman and Marissa Newman

PM tells Knesset Israel can’t afford to sign an agreement with Palestinians until they agree to recognize Jewish state, demilitarize their own

Likud MK Anat Berko attends a Foreign Affairs and Security committee meeting in the Knesset, November 19, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

The 'P' word

Likud MK: Palestinians can’t even say ‘P’

Anat Berko doubts legitimacy of Palestinian statehood claim due to absence of consonant in Arabic; Meretz MK responds: ‘Are you an imbecile?’

Tourism Minister Yariv Levin (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

After insult, Reform Jews boycotting Israel’s tourism minister

By JTA and ToI Staff

Meeting with Yariv Levin in US next week canceled; Likud minister derided Reform Jewry as ‘dying world,’ invoked Chelsea Clinton’s marriage as proof

Three of the most famous Jews buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, were activist Erna Rosenberg (left), Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter (center), and author Bernard Malamud. (Wikimedia Common)

The mysterious Jews of Mount Auburn Cemetery

By Matt Lebovic

Syrian refugees fleeing the northern embattled city of Aleppo on February 6, 2016 (AFP / BULENT KILIC)

More than 1 in 10 Syrians killed or injured, report says

Nearly half the population said to be refugees within and outside Syria, and civil war has dropped life expectancy from 70 to 55

Yelena Schmuleson, Ronald Peet and Liba Vaynberg in 'The Golem of Havana' by Michel Hausmann. (Jenny Abreu)

The golem rises again, this time in Spanish with a Yiddish lilt

By Renee Ghert-Zand

94-year-old former SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp Reinhold Hanning, center, leaves the building after the opening of his trial in Detmold, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016. (Bernd Thissen/Pool Photo via AP)

Ex-SS guard on trial in late push to punish Nazi crimes

By David Rising

40 Auschwitz survivors to testify in case of 94-year-old Reinhold Hanning, who faces 170,000 counts of accessory to murder

The gavel of the speaker of the Knesset. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Podcast

TOI talks: Free to do what we want to do, nearly

By Raoul Wootliff

In this week’s episode: Arab lawmakers make everyone angry; religious freedom at the Western Wall; Israel feels the Bern; army plans to censor Facebook; and why Hollywood can’t get enough of Israel

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Beyonce performs onstage during the Pepsi Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show at Levi's Stadium on February 7, 2016 in Santa Clara, California. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images/AFP)

Divas duePop goddess Beyoncé set to hold two Israel shows in August

Football player Cristiano Ronaldo in an Israeli ad for Hot cable internet (YouTube screen capture)

HOT waterRonaldo attacked on Twitter over Israeli ad

The view from the swimming pool of Beresheet Hotel in Mitzpe Ramon, Israel (Facebook)

Academy rewardsHow that $55,000 Israel trip for Oscar nominees could look

By Gabe Friedman

Illustrative photo of Orthodox Jews in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City (Serge Attal/Flash90)

Orthodox man, 25, stabbed in Brooklyn

By JTA

Books on a shelf inside the National Library of Israel, which holds more than 5 million books, and is located on the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. July 06, 2011. (Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Flights of faithIsrael’s Isaac Newton papers gain UNESCO recognition

Mayim Bialik guest stars in a Valentine's Day episode of the 'YidLife Crisis' web series. (YouTube)

Speed (Pre)DatingMayim Bialik does mammeloshen in Yiddish valentine

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Illustrative photo of a playground (Times of Israel/Mitch Ginsburg)

East Jerusalem community inaugurates first ever playground

The pride parade in Tel Aviv, June 2010. (photo credit: Omer Messinger/Flash90)

High Court ruling ends gay Palestinian’s asylum nightmare

JVP partners Kobi Rozengarten, Gadi Tirosh and Raffi Kesten (Courtesy)

As markets crash, VC tech investments in Israel stay strong

By David Shamah

Testing a phone app (Pixabay)

ExclusiveIsraeli start-up helps HP move into app testing market

By David Shamah

Ohood Al Roumi, the newly appointed Minister of State for Happiness of the United Arab Emirates, named by Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum on February 10, 2016. (WAM via AP)

Joy divisionUAE names women ministers for happiness, tolerance

By AFP

Sara Netanyahu, wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the Jerusalem Labor Court on October 29, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewFull-court press

By Joshua Davidovich

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