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What Matters Most On Thursday, February 18, 2016

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One of the knives used in a stabbing attack at a supermarket in the Sha'ar Binymain industrial park, north of Jerusalem, on February 18, 2016. (Israel Police)

Live updates (closed)

Israeli stabbed in West Bank attack succumbs to wounds

By Adiv Sterman

Second civilian injured at Sha’ar Binyamin industrial zone in serious condition; suspected Palestinian assailants, aged 14 and 15, shot, detained

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Sumter, South Carolina, on February 17, 2016. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Trump says he’d be ‘neutral’ with Israelis and Palestinians

By Eric Cortellessa

Leading Republican presidential hopeful suggests Israeli-Palestinian peace accord may be impossible: ‘Sometimes agreements can’t be made’

‘Torture works,’ Trump declares before S. Carolina primary

By AP

Rapper’s comments at Sanders rally spark controversy

By Ken Thomas and KATHLEEN FOODY

After anti-Semitic post, Ted Nugent joins Jewish gun rights group

By JTA

Members of the Conservative Friends of Israel delegation and the Peers Group of the All-Party Britain-Israel Parliamentary Group meet with PLO officials in Ramallah, February 17, 2016. (James Gurd)

'There were certainly fireworks,' says trip organizer

Sparks fly as PA officials blame visiting UK MPs for entire Palestine conflict

By Raoul Wootliff

‘It’s difficult to see that these people could be a basis for negotiation,’ says deputy head of Conservative Friends of Israel after Ramallah dust-up

Netanyahu praises UK for ban on anti-Israel boycotts

By Tamar Pileggi

UK anti-terror police question student over ‘Free Palestine’ badge

UK’s Labour probes claims of anti-Semitism at its Oxford club

By ToI Staff and Eylon Aslan-Levy

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon at the Munich Security Conference on February 14, 2016 (Ariel Harmoni/Defense Ministry)

Israel must not be ‘trigger-happy’ in blocking attacks, defense chief says

By Tamar Pileggi

Moshe Ya’alon backs army chief after uproar over proper use of force amid wave of Palestinian terrorism

IDF chief: Troops shouldn’t fire repeatedly at girls wielding scissors

By ToI Staff and AFP

Palestinian minor indicted for thwarted stabbing in Jerusalem

UN: Hamas tunnel threats not helpful for Gaza reconstruction

By AP and ToI Staff

Shops and shacks in the Calais refugee camp in February 8, 2015. (Jenni Frazer/The Times of Israel)

Muddy squalor and makeshift mosques as UK clergy visit Calais ‘jungle’

By Jenni Frazer

British rabbis and imams on a fact-finding mission take home horror over third-world conditions at notorious refugee camp

East quad of Brooklyn College, in New York City. (Gabriel Liendo/Wikimedia Commons)

Brooklyn College students demand ‘Zionists off campus’

By JTA

Group of activists barges in on faculty meeting, calls Jewish professor ‘Zionist pig,’ demands end to ‘racist’ classes

U. of Illinois student apologizes for vandalizing menorah

By JTA

Kansas City JCC erecting memorial to shooting victims

By JTA

Poland’s threat to strip scholar of state honor sparks anger

By Vanessa Gera

Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Pope John Paul and the scandal of love

The Pope’s friendship with a married woman is a welcome model of the integration of human and divine love

Hebrew School is not the answer

Even the best programs are failing to transmit Jewish identity to kids — the answer is to focus on adult ed

Israel-Greece-Cyprus: New bloc on the block

Israel’s strengthening of ties with the 2 Mediterranean nations offers a counterweight to Turkish ambitions

Chicken, with a side of inspiration

His chance encounter with a group of Evangelical Christian pastors was a divine message that Israel is not alone

Illustrative: a knife (YouTube screenshot)

18-year-old stabbed to death on her doorstep in Tel Aviv

By Itamar Sharon

Teenager’s twin sister and her boyfriend suspected of involvement in her killing

A couple in bed (iStock via JTA)

Risk-taking key to good sex and relationships, says Orthodox therapist

Firefighters try to extinguish flames following an explosion after an attack targeted a convoy of military service vehicles in Ankara on February 17, 2016. (AFP / STRINGER)

Ankara car bombing leaves at least 28 dead, 61 injured

Erdogan convenes security meeting, Davugtolu cancels foreign trip after military vehicles apparently targeted in rush hour attack

Turkish forensic experts inspect the explosion scene in Ankara on February 18, 2016 a day after a car bombing that targeted military vehicles. (AFP / ADEM ALTAN)

Turkey says Ankara bomber was Syrian linked to Kurdish fighters

By AFP

An IDF drone landing in an airfield on the Golan Heights, on January 20, 2015. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Report: Israeli missiles hit Syrian army outpost near Damascus

Syrian military source denies strikes; no immediate reports on casualties or nature of targets

This undated photo provided by the Georgia Interior Ministry shows part of a seizure of radioactive substances including iridium-192 and europium-152. Police in Kutaisi, Georgia arrested two people involved in the smuggling in February 2011 (photo credit: AP/Georgia Interior Ministry)

‘Highly dangerous’ radioactive material in Iraq stolen – report

By Tamar Pileggi

Fearing an Islamic State dirty bomb, officials are searching for Ir-192 that went missing from a US-owned facility in Basra

Illustrative photo: This image, from a video posted on September 18, 2013, shows Syrians in protective suits and gas masks conducting a drill on how to treat casualties of a chemical weapons attack, in Aleppo, Syria. (AP)

Kurdish forces say IS fired chemical weapons at them

Officials say jihadist group used chlorine-laden mortar shells in assault on peshmerga troops near Iraqi town of Sinjar

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaking at a meeting in Tehran, November 1, 2015. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP, File)

Khamenei blames Zionist ‘network’ for US and EU policy

In new critical assault, Iranian supreme leader says ‘Death to America’ slogans are inevitable Iranian response to American ‘open hostility’

An Israeli Air Force "Ethan" drone (Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)

US, UK didn’t crack Israeli drone encryption, officials say

Sources tell Channel 2 some of the released info was already out in the open, deny coded systems were breached

Illustrative photo of gambling in a casino (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

PM bets on casinos to revive flailing Eilat

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Netanyahu says plan will save city from economic failure, create jobs; Bennett warns against Israel becoming Vegas

Self-defense footage staged by Krav Maga black-belt Gili Ganani (via Facebook)

In security footage, young Israeli woman ‘beats up’ 3 men harassing her

Gili Ganani, 19, a black belt in Krav Maga, appears to be striking powerful blows for female self-defense; in fact, it’s all staged ‘to raise awareness’

Haim Btiton, the driver in a fatal bus crash on February 14, seen at the court in Jerusalem on February 17, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Bus driver implicated in fatal highway crash put under house arrest

By Tamar Pileggi and Judah Ari Gross

Haim Bitton agrees to be monitored by his mother while police probe collision on Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway that killed 6

Akiva Tor, Director for Special Projects at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs looks on as Col. (Ret.) Adv. Pnina Sharvit Baruch speaks at the annual Conference of Presidents meet-up in Jerusalem, February 15, 2016. (Tamir Hayoun)

Can Jewish communities unite in the fight against BDS?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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Rabbi Dovid Goldstein, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of West Houston and a chaplain in the Texas prison system, with death-row inmate Jedidiah Murphy, who donned tefillin for the first time to celebrate his bar mitzvah. (Courtesy Chabad.org)

Last ritesTexas death-row inmate wraps tefillin for first time

By JTA

Illustrative photo of a Muslim woman adjusting her hijab. (AP/M. Spencer Green, File)

Miami Jews concerned as hijab-wearing Muslims ask about shuls

By JTA

Theeb (right) and his brother Hussein on the coming-of-age, Jordanian-made Bedouin western, 'Theeb' (Courtesy 'Theeb')

But not for TheebJordanian Bedouin ‘western’ snags Oscar nomination

By Jessica Steinberg

A screenshot from the primetime miniseries Madoff, airing February 3-4, 2016 on the ABC Television Network. (Giovanni Rufino/ABC via Getty Images)

'Fraud' portrayalMadoff: ABC miniseries ‘absurd mischaracterization’

By JTA

Manny Pacquiao answers questions during a post-fight news conference after losing to Floyd Mayweather, Jr. in their welterweight unification championship bout on May 2, 2015 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Jamie Squire/Getty Images/AFP)

Boxer Pacquiao sorry for saying gays ‘worse than animals’

By AP, AFP and ToI Staff

Gal Mesika chatting with New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, June 2015. (Neria Gerevitch, via JTA)

Punt away!Israeli soccer player earns tryout with NFL

By JTA

Pope Francis waves during a meeting with young people at Morelos stadium in Morelia, Michoacan State, Mexico on February 16, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/ALFREDO ESTRELLA)

Only humanPope loses cool after falling on kid in wheelchair

By AFP

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, greeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow, September 21, 2015. (Israeli Embassy in Russia/Flash90/via JTA)

Russian investor brings $50m fund to ‘innovative’ Israel

By David Shamah

File: Illustrative image of a hammer. (CC BY-SA Michael Jastremski, via Wikimedia Commons)

Man charged with hammering wife to death over TV interruption

Tourists seen playing at a casino in Las Vegas. May 20, 2013. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewWill Netanyahu’s Eilat casino wager pay off?

By Adiv Sterman

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