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What Matters Most On Wednesday, February 17, 2016

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Russian Air Force Su-30SM (Alex Beltyukov / Wikipedia)

Russia said set to deliver advanced fighter jets to Iran

Arms deal comes following Moscow’s reported agreement to deliver S-300 anti-aircraft batteries to Tehran on Thursday

US had detailed cyber-attack plan in case Iran talks failed

Russia, Iran ready to ‘reinforce’ military cooperation

By AFP

Iran warns Saudi Arabia against sending troops to Syria

By AFP

Excavation director Ronit Lupo of the Israel Antiquities Authority next to the remains of an ancient house dating back 7,000 years, in the Shuafat neighborhood, northern Jerusalem. (Assaf Peretz/Israel Antiquities Authority)

Jerusalem was inhabited as far back as 7,000 years ago, archaeologists find

By Raoul Wootliff

Discoveries in the city’s north suggest the existence of a well-established settlement dating to the fifth millennium BCE

12,000-year-old village discovered in Jordan Valley

By Raoul Wootliff

Illustrative photo of a doctor with a cancer patient (via Shutterstock)

Breakthrough cancer cure has deep Israeli roots

By David Shamah

Technology employed by US researchers to help leukemia patients, hailed worldwide this week as potentially ‘extraordinary,’ was originated by Weizmann Institute’s Prof. Zelig Eshhar

Illustrative photo of an operating room. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Has an Israeli start-up solved the mystery of sepsis?

By David Shamah

Flames are seen following an explosion after an attack targeted a convoy of military service vehicles in Ankara on February 17, 2016. (AFP / STRINGER)

Live updates (closed)

Report: Israel strikes Syrian army posts

By Joshua Davidovich

Reuters says three IDF rockets hit targets near Damascus

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak at a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, on February 16, 2016, after a joint cabinet meeting. (AFP /Odd Andersen)

Merkel: Now’s not the time for major progress to Palestinian state

By Raphael Ahren

German leader’s position dovetails with that of visiting PM, who heaps scorn on ‘bizarre’ French peace proposal

German Chancellor Angela Merke and the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu talk prior to a lunch as part of a one day governmental meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, Pool)

Merkel: Germany won’t normalize ties with Iran unless it recognizes Israel

By Raphael Ahren

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah addresses Lebanese TV viewers in a speech broadcast Tuesday, February 17, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)

Analysis

Battered by Syria war, Nasrallah warms to an old theme: Israel

By Avi Issacharoff

Having lost the Arab world’s admiration, Hezbollah’s leader opts to turn on the charm and threaten his longtime foe

Then-IDF chief of staff Gadi EIsenkot, front left, visits a Golani Brigade exercise in the Golan Heights on Oct. 27, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Israel: Army has ‘effective deterrence’ against Hezbollah

By AP

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah during a rare public appearance, in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon in November 2013. (AP/Bilal Hussein)

Nasrallah threatens to bomb chemical facility, kill thousands of Israelis

By Tamar Pileggi

How anorexia made me empathetic

What it’s like to give up counting carbs and a jutting collarbone for love and health

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Shut down the Kotel!

The agreement for yet another barrier at the Western Wall is a tragedy: It is not and shouldn’t be a synagogue

Robert P. Barnidge, Jr.

The hypocrisy of an Arab peace bid

France’s efforts to kickstart talks ignore the Arab world’s avowed commitment to eliminating Zionism

Matt Sienkiewicz

Bernie, Israel, and US Jewry’s big fail

Sanders is a J-Street kind of guy, who sidesteps his Zionist identity to avoid polarized debate on the Jewish state

Prime Minister Menachem Begin, left, with President Jimmy Carter, center, and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt at Camp David in September 1978. (CC BY-SA Jeff Kubina/Flickr)

In a first, new Egyptian schoolbook teaches peace deal with Israel

In other changes to curriculum, Mubarak’s role in Yom Kippur War is played down, content added during Muslim Brotherhood’s rule is removed

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, left, greets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside 10 Downing Street ahead of a meeting in London, September 10, 2015. (AFP/Leon Neal)

Britain formally unveils proposal to discourage anti-Israel boycotts

By Ari Solomon and JTA

Guidance threatens ‘severe penalties’ for those in breach; minister behind the move visiting Israel this week

Palestinian workers on November 11, 2015, at a date packaging factory in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank. This produce will be labeled if exported to the EU as 'Product of the West Bank (Israeli settlement' (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

Israeli group accuses US of labeling settlement products

Report says 1995 law, which originally referred to Palestinian-made goods, extended to include Israelis in West Bank

Former President Bill Clinton speaks at a private campaign stop with members of the South Florida Jewish community on behalf of his wife, Hillary Clinton, February 15, 2016 (Courtesy, Hillary for America)

Bill Clinton tells Florida Jews Hillary will prioritize Israel ties

By Eric Cortellessa

Former president stumps for his wife at community gathering in vital battleground state

Illustrative: An IDF soldier aims his weapon at a Palestinian protester before arresting him on February 15, 2016 at the Amari Palestinian refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Ramallah (AFP / ABBAS MOMANI)

IDF soldier gets 9 months for torturing Palestinian detainees

By Tamar Pileggi

Combat soldier from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion found guilty of administering electric shock to suspects in the West Bank

Foreign workers at the Neema office in Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station (Photo by Liron Rotem)

Zionist Union MK calls hearing on debt-slave foreign workers

By Simona Weinglass

Following Times of Israel exposé on illegal fees caregivers are made to pay, Itzik Shmuli vows to tackle manpower companies turning elder care into ‘a kind of human trafficking’

Arab Israeli Islamist leader Sheikh Raed Salah takes part in a large anti-government demonstration in Sakhnin, October 13, 2015 (AFP/JACK GUEZ)

Radical cleric starts hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinian journalist

Raed Salah says he is supporting Mohammed al-Qiq, who has been refusing food for almost 3 months

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at an official ceremony in the Presidential Complex in Ankara, on December 24, 2015. (AFP/Adem Altan)

Analysis

How Syria and natural gas are pushing Israel and Turkey back together

People standing outside the Olympia concert venue in Paris, a few hours ahead of a concert by US rock group Eagles of Death Metal, on February 16, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / JOEL SAGET)

Eagles of Death Metal perform in Paris for attack survivors

By Fiachra GIBBONS

Three months after Bataclan killings, US band members met with deafening cheers. ‘Ain’t nobody going to stop us’

Owner Hany Baransi discusses the machete attack on his Nazareth Restaurant & Deli in Columbus, Ohio. (YouTube)

Ohio diner owned by Arab-Israeli reopens after machete attack

By JTA and ToI Staff

Defiant Hany Baransi declares: ‘We Israelis are used to this… people attacking us and wanting to kill us’

The WhatsApp platform has been used to circulate unsubstantiated rumors that Iran will attack Israel within the next 24-48 hours, April 30, 2018. (CC BY-SA/Jan Persiel, Flickr)

After blogs and Facebook, military censor sets sights on WhatsApp

By Raoul Wootliff

Israel Police and United Hatzala resist request to let the censor join journalists’ distribution groups

The colored sands at the crater, a great place for making one's very own sand art (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

In Yeruham, Israel’s smaller crater is big news

By Jessica Steinberg

More Headlines

Lady Gaga as ZIggy Stardust, courtesy of RealSense tech nology (Screenshot)

The Israeli tech in Lady Gaga’s Ziggy Stardust makeup

By David Shamah

'Hijarbie' is a Barbie doll dressed in modest Muslim fashion by Haneefa Adam. (Instagram)

Righteous fashion‘Hijarbie’ gives doll modest Muslim makeover

By Renee Ghert-Zand

A velvet spider. (photo credit: CC-BY, Jon Richfield, Flickr)

Jumbo jittersIsraeli study: Fear of spiders makes them look bigger

PA Mufti of Gaza, Hassan al-Laham, in an interview on official PA TV on February 8, 2016 (YouTube)

Saving faceGaza mufti explains how men should hit their wives

Kiryat Shmona Mayor Nissim Malka (YouTube screen capture)

Kiryat Shmona mayor suspected of taking bribes

By Adiv Sterman

Sacramento Kings forward Omri Casspi drives to the basket between Minnesota Timberwolves players during the second half of an NBA game in Sacramento, California, on April 7, 2015. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP)

Israel’s first NBA player Omri Casspi having breakout season

Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman. (Ron Kampeas/JTA)

With a Shabbat caucus, Nevada Jewish vote in question

Nicolas Sarkozy, former French president and leader of France's Republican Party speaks during a meeting on June 3, 2015. (AFP Photo/Lionel Bonaventure)

France’s Sarkozy probed over alleged illegal campaign funding

By Nicolas Gaudichet and Andréa Bambino

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rises to speak in the Knesset on February 8, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewSuspending MKs, suspending disbelief

By Joshua Davidovich

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