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What Matters Most On Sunday, February 14, 2016

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left and US Vice President Joe Biden meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on January 21, 2015. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu hints at Israel visit by VP Biden

By ToI Staff and AP

PM says staffers of US vice president are arriving in Israel, but no official dates have been set

Netanyahu denies EU claim he backs new peace push

Minister urges Israel to begin annexing parts of West Bank

Getting the ball rollingPalestinians to launch all-sports TV channel

By AFP

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

Palestinian shot after rushing police with knife near Jerusalem

By Judah Ari Gross

No cops injured, as man killed during attempt to attack officers at a checkpoint outside Har Homa

2 Palestinian teens killed as IDF soldiers come under fire

By Judah Ari Gross and Tamar Pileggi

Palestinians trying to evade border cops hurts 3 near Jerusalem

Twin reports of stabbing attacks sow confusion in Jerusalem

By Judah Ari Gross

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks at Liberty University, founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, March 23, 2015 in Lynchburg, Va., to announce his campaign for president. (photo credit: AP/Andrew Harnik)

Cruz rejects evangelical backer’s controversial Hitler comments

By Eric Cortellessa

Presidential hopeful takes issue with Mike Bickle over whether the Nazi leader was sent by God, but doesn’t reject his endorsement

Republican hopefuls get personal in decisive debate

By Julie Pace and Will Weissert

Sanders says Clinton is coming ‘unraveled’ by his progress

By Catherine Lucey and MICHELLE RINDELS

ObituaryJustice Antonin Scalia dead at 79

By Mark Sherman

This file photo taken on December 7, 2015 shows a German edition of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" at the Berlin Central and Regional Library (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)

A 'long and yet pathetic book' by an 'obsessive psychopath'

Why Jews didn’t blink an eye when ‘Mein Kampf’ first came out

By Raphael Ahren

Prewar Germany had no shortage of Jewish newspapers, but not one reviewed Hitler’s book. They didn’t want to ‘waste time with such nonsense,’ one scholar says, though some Christians went to town on it

A bus involved in a fatal accident on Route 1 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Live updates (closed)

Late night shooting at Damascus Gate; two gunmen ‘neutralized’; nobody else hurt

Death toll rises to six in collision on the major Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway caused when bus hits truck on shoulder near Anava intersection

Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (Amanda Borschel-Dan/The Times of Israel)

Interview

Israel illiteracy rampant among young Jews, US Jewish leader warns

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Malcolm Hoenlein says Birthright alone can’t steel Jewish youth for the battle against anti-Semitism on American campuses

Birds are seen sitting on iron rods from the rubble of destroyed buildings amid heavily damaged buildings in the war ravaged city of Homs on February 5, 2016. (Joseph Eid/AFP)

Analysis

Russia and Saudi Arabia on course to collision in Syria

By Avi Issacharoff

As America fades from the scene and Assad’s army gains ground, Ankara and especially Riyadh may rise to the challenge

Opposition activists say Turkey shelling Kurds in Syria

By AP

Iran warns against Saudi intervention in Syria

By AFP

Syrian troops capture village near northern city of Aleppo

By Bassam Mroue

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

I want to tell you about my Israel

Conjuring a society that is rude, compassionate, resilient, flawed and always full of hope

Talli Rosenbaum

10 Valentine’s Day tips for intimacy

Long-term, committed relationships can lose the passion — here’s how to keep the flame burning

Stephen M. Flatow

When a Palestinian kills a US citizen

The Justice Department’s office for victims of foreign Terrorism has ignored the killers of 64 Americans

Pamela Rae Schuller

I’m not your mitzvah project

Opening the door to include those with disabilities does not go far enough; nobody wants to be ‘just tolerated’

A humanoid robot at a demonstration in Tokyo, Japan. Illustrative photo (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Top Israeli researcher: Robots could take over most jobs within 30 years

Society faces its biggest challenge in finding meaning in a life mostly run by machines, warns Rice University’s Moshe Vardi

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on February 10, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)

Former prime minister Olmert to go to prison on Monday

By Tamar Pileggi

Convicted of taking bribes and obstructing justice, he’ll be the first Israeli premier to serve time behind bars

Avigdor "Yanush" Ben-Gal in a Channel 1 interview in 2014 (YouTube screen grab)

Yom Kippur War hero Avigdor Ben-Gal dies at 80

General commanded defense of Golan Heights against overwhelming odds, led IDF’s Northern Command, helped plan Entebbe rescue

Palestinian workers seen during construction work on new building apartment buildings in the Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa, East Jerusalem, on October 28, 2014. (Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Peace Now says 2015 saw dip in settlement construction

Watchdog reports work begun on 1,800 new housing units in the West Bank last year, down from 3,100 in 2014

The windshield of a Palestinian vehicle, which was smashed by an Israeli settler with an ax outside of the Karnei Shomron settlement on February 10, 2016. (Zachria Sadah/Rabbis for Human Rights)

Israeli indicted for road rage ax attack on Palestinian

By Tamar Pileggi

Court says Shlomi Katsav shattered truck driver’s windshield after being cut off on a West Bank highway last week

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

PM set to defend controversial gas deal in High Court

By Tamar Pileggi

Netanyahu will testify in effort to stave off opposition petition seeking injunction against the major energy agreement

File: US rock group Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes (L) and guitarist Dave Catching pay tribute to the victims of the November 13 Paris terror attacks at a makeshift memorial in front of the Bataclan concert hall on December 8, 2015 in Paris. (AFP/Miguel Medina)

Survivors torn as Eagles of Death Metal return to Paris

By Solange UWIMANA

After surviving the jihadist rampage at the American band’s November 13 concert, some hope Tuesday’s show will offer closure

Stephan Templ, who was convicted of defrauding the Austrian government out of $700,000 in connection with a Holocaust restitution application. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Austria keeps ‘troublemaker’ Jewish historian in jail despite evidence said to clear him

Stephan Templ imprisoned for fraudulent Holocaust restitution claim, but forms held by state show he did nothing wrong, Guardian reports

This photo, taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January, 1945, shows a group of children behind barbed wire fencing in the Oswiecim (Auschwitz) Nazi concentration camp. (AP Photo)

Suspected Auschwitz guard dies in Croatia

By AFP

Poland-born Jewish American historian Jan Tomasz Gross speaks to Polish media on August 28, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

Poland moves to strip Jewish Holocaust scholar of award

By Tamar Pileggi

American-Polish professor Jan Tomasz Gross could lose prestigious honor for asserting Poles’ complicity in the Holocaust

Mayim Bialik at the 21st Annual Critics' Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California, January 17, 2016. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images/via JTA)

Orthodox fashionistas predict a modest Oscars red carpet

By Lucy Cohen Blatter

More Headlines

Channel 10 anchor Miri Michaeli Schwartz poses at 8.5 months of pregnancy. (Screen capture Miri Michaeli/ Instagram)

Seating for twoPregnant Israeli shames indifferent London commuters

Israeli-French singer-songwriter Yael Naim (R), flanked by French TV host and Master of Ceremony Virginie Guilhaume (L) gestures after receiving the female artist award during the 31st Victoires de la Musique, the annual French music awards ceremony, on February 12, 2016 at the Zenith concert hall in Paris. (Bertrand Guay/AFP)

Very NaimYael Naim is France’s singer of the year

Audrey Azoulay in the French Senate on February 12 2016 (Screen capture YouTube/French Senate)

New French culture minister is Jew of Moroccan descent

Well-wishers bring flowers and light candles to honor the shooting victims outside the main Synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark on February 15, 2015. (AFP/Odd Andersen)

Danes to honor terror attack victims amid tight security

By AFP

Warren Weinstein, a 72-year-old American development worker kidnapped in Pakistan by al-Qaida, on Devember 26, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo via AP video)

From the webThe killing of Warren Weinstein

President Barack Obama delivers a Valentine's Day message to wife Michelle, January 12, 2016. (EllenTV screenshot)

Valentine's heatObama recites love poem to Michelle on national TV

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE

US Secretary of States John Kerry, right, gestures beside Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a news conference in Munich, southern Germany, on February 12, 2016. (AFP/Christof Stache)

Hebrew media reviewIs it the second cold war yet?

By Joshua Davidovich

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