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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 13, 2016

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The site where a Palestinian woman tried to stab an Israeli soldier before being shot dead, in Hebron, on February 13, 2016 (AFP / HAZEM BADER)

Palestinian teen tries to stab soldier in Hebron, wounds local man, is shot dead

17-year-old girl pulls knife on troops, moderately injures local Palestinian who tries to stop her; soldier very lightly wounded

America’s UN envoy lands in Israel to push two-state solution

UN rights observer charges Israel with excessive force against Palestinians

Quartet eyes peace push, warns chances for 2-state solution fading

In this Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016 photo, a hole is photographed in a plane operated by Daallo Airlines as it sits on the runway of the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia. (AP Photo)

‘Sophisticated’ bomb on Somalia plane passed airport X-ray

Device that left hole in jet’s fuselage cleared security, though older scanners may be to blame; Al-Shabab claims attack

Evangelical Christian Pastor Mike Bickle (video screenshot)

What Hitler did was an utter atrocity

The pastor who endorses Ted Cruz denies he is anti-Semitic, says support for Israel is central to his ministry

Cruz-backer Bickle pledges commitment to Israel, Jews, explains his Hitler comments

By Eric Cortellessa and ToI Staff

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev speaks during a panel discussion at the second day of the 52nd Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 13, 2016. (AFP / Christof)

Russia PM says world has slipped into ‘new Cold War’

By Frank Zeller

Dmitry Medvedev criticizes expansion of NATO and EU influence deep into formerly Soviet-ruled eastern Europe

Kerry: Refugee crisis ‘a near existential’ threat to Europe

By AFP

Assad vows to reclaim whole of Syria, warns could ‘take long time’

By Sammy Ketz and Christian Chaise

US: Assad ‘deluded’ in claiming military solution

By AFP

IDF medical personnel treat their 'patients,' smart dolls that mimics the human respiratory and circulatory systems, in the Medical Simulation Center at Tel Hashomer Hospital in Ramat Gan on February 11, 2016. (Adi Brown/IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

With new simulation program, IDF doctors train to save real lives

By Judah Ari Gross

Amid a relentless wave of Palestinian terror and violence, the army’s West Bank medics are utilizing a state-of-the-art hospital center to hone their skills

Israel’s ‘witch hunt’ of the foreign press

Charges that the government is trying to clamp down on the international media are absurd

My journey with Parkinson’s

Coping with a disease that severely hampers mobility by choosing to dance like no one is watching

Bernie Sanders participating in the PBS NewsHour Democratic presidential candidate debate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Feb. 11, 2016. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Sanderswontsky

Why won’t Sanders own his Jewishness?

By Gabe Friedman

Democratic candidate passed up perfectly good opportunity to tout possibility of being first Jewish president

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets the crowd after speaking during a town hall meeting at Denmark Olar Elementary School in Denmark, S.C., Friday Feb. 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Black Democrats question Sanders’ commitment to Obama

Leonard Nimoy (left) and William Shatner in a 'Star Trek' poster, 1968 (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Lived long and prospered

Kirk and Spock bonded over real life anti-Semitism

In a new book, William Shatner says his longtime friend and colleague Leonard Nimoy was profoundly affected by anti-Jewish sentiment

Israeli chef Shahar Lubin, owner of Daluva, a “Middle Eastern gastropub” in Hanoi, Vietnam. (Emily S. Adams/JTA)

Hummus in Hanoi: Israeli chef brings Mideast cuisine to Vietnam

Palestinian members of the armed wing of the Hamas movement gather around a mock Israeli tank on January 31, 2016 in Gaza city during a gathering to pay tribute to Gazans who died in a tunnel collapse. (AFP / MAHMUD HAMS)

Israel said to have spent $250M trying to thwart Hamas tunnels

By ToI Staff and Judah Ari Gross

Finding cross-border tunnels a ‘central’ priority’ for IDF, TV report says, amid heightened concern over Gaza rulers’ capabilities

Hamas security forces next to an Egyptian watch tower on the border between Egypt and Gaza, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, September 21, 2015. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Hamas says Egypt briefly opens Gaza border crossing

By AP

In this photo provided by Egypt's state news agency MENA, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, addresses parliament in Cairo, Egypt, February 13, 2016. (MENA via AP)

Sissi claims Egypt has completed transition to democratic rule

By ToI Staff and AP

In speech interrupted by shouts of ‘We love you, Mr. President!’ he also declares Palestinian cause is vital to all Egyptians

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Israel: EU ties back on track after settlement labels row

By Tamar Pileggi

Mogherini assures PM the bloc’s directive is not an effort to dictate terms of peace efforts, Jerusalem says

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls answers Members of Parliament's questions during a session of Questions to the Government, on January 21, 2015 at the French National Assembly in Paris. (AFP PHOTO / STEPHANE DE SAKUTI)

French PM: More major attacks in Europe ‘a certainty’

By AFP

Manuel Valls says continent has entered new era, characterized by the lasting presence of ‘hyper-terrorism’

Illustrative photo of a lecture by a member of Breaking the Silence. (Gili Getz)

‘IDF petitions court for Breaking the Silence secret testimony’

Group argues its sources for soldiers’ alleged illegal activity are protected, NRG reports, while army official says the military will not drop the issue

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

Israeli educators battle government over textbook content

By Daniella Cheslow

Three authors remove their names from chapters they wrote, claiming bureaucrats altered work to include nationalist slant

The current members of Quinta and a Half (left to right) Ayala Fossfeld, Doron Ben-Ami, Micah Hendler, Yarden Cohen and Oz Weiss (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

The a cappella antics of Quinta and a Half

By Jessica Steinberg

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Barry Manilow (photo credit: CC-BY-Weatherman90, Wikimedia Commons)

Barry Manilow hospitalized after oral surgery complication

By JTA

A image of a map from an Iranian smartphone app released February 9, 2016, allows users to avoid Tehran's morality police. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Fighting back Iran’s newest hit app helps users dodge morality police

Ilan Halimi, kidnapped and murdered by an anti-Semitic gang in Paris in 2006, (Courtesy of Stephanie Yin/JTA)

Rabbi, Muslim rapper release song in memory of slain French Jew

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Nazareth restaurant owner Hany Baransi on Friday, Feb. 12, 2016 describes a machete attack the night before in his restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. (Doral Chenoweth/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)

FBI: Too soon to state motive in attack at Israeli-owned Ohio diner

By KANTELE FRANKO

The Murphy Ranch in 2006 (Wikimedia Commons/Matthew Robinson)

From the webParts of would-be Nazi headquarters in LA being demolished

Still image from a November 2010 video showing Robert Levinson, which was received by his family. (YouTube: Help Bob Levinson)

‘Free Robert Levinson,’ Senate appeals to Iran in unanimous vote

By JTA

Illustrative photo of masked Bahraini anti-government protesters carrying Molotov cocktails ahead of a march in Manama in 2012. (photo credit: AP/Hasan Jamali)

Bahrain at impasse five years after failed uprising

By Taieb Mahjoub

Dani Dayan attending a protest against the evacuation of a West Bank outpost at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, June 5, 2012. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

Israel denies dropping ex-settler leader as Brazil envoy

By AFP and ToI Staff

An emoji of two men holding hands

Frowny faceIndonesia wants gay-themed emojis removed

Pope Francis, left, embraces Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill after signing a joint declaration on religious unity at the Jose Marti International airport in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Feb. 12, 2016 (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, Pool)

In historic meet, Pope and Patriarch call to defend Mideast Christians

By Nicole Winfield

Worshippers at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman in Uman, Ukraine (CC BY-SA Nahoumsabban, Wikimedia Commons via JTA)

Ukraine threatens visa bans over Israeli minister’s Crimea trip

By JTA

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