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What Matters Most On Friday, February 19, 2016

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File: Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, an IDF soldier who was killed in a stabbing attack in a West Bank supermarket on Thursday, February 18, 2016 (courtesy)

Off-duty soldier killed Thursday in supermarket terror attack laid to rest

Tuvia Yanai Weissman, 21, stabbed to death while shopping with wife, baby in West Bank, is buried on Mount Herzl

Police say security flaws enabled fatal supermarket attack

By Itamar Sharon

Off-duty soldier was shopping with wife, baby when killed

Israeli court convicts radical right-wing activist of sedition

Scene of a stabbing attack at Damascus Gate outside the Old City of Jerusalem on February 19, 2016 (United Hatzalah)

Three hurt in Damascus Gate stabbing attack

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Assailant, identified as 20-year-old Palestinian man from East Jerusalem, is killed by police during assault

IDF chief under fire for saying soldiers should try not to kill young attackers

Jerusalem man suspected of intentionally running over Arab

Radical cleric, former MK detained while visiting Palestinian hunger striker

Panos Kammenos in France, 2013. (Wikipedia/dupontaignan/CC BY-SA 2.0)

Greek defense minister: Turkey won’t be Israel’s friend

Ankara wants to lead Islamic world, says Panos Kammenos, adds that Jerusalem-Athens defense alliance second only to that with US

In this Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015 file photo, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends a meeting with UN Under Secretary General and Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O'Brien in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)

Russia said unhappy with Israeli-Turkish reconciliation

'The Testament of Mary' opened in Boston's New Repertory Theatre in January of 2016. Actress Paula Langton portrayed Mary in the one-woman show. (Andrew Brilliant/NRT)

Not so virgin ‘Mary’ production condemned as blasphemous

By Matt Lebovic

A new Boston run of ‘The Testament of Mary,’ a one-woman show about Jesus’ last days, draws the ire of religious groups

Miami Jewish center cancels play criticized as anti-Israel

By JTA

Former US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro takes a ride in Israeli MobilEye's self-driving car (YouTube screen capture)

Hands-off diplomacyHands-off diplomacy

US envoy takes a ride in Israeli driverless car

Dan Shapiro says he’s ‘impressed’ with MobilEye’s technology, as car cruises autonomously on Jerusalem highway

Inspiration and perspiration

The discipline of daily routine paves the path to creative breakthrough; Jewish ritual is no exception (Tetzaveh)

Adi Weitzhandler

There goes Chinese investment in Israel

Irrational Israeli fears of a Chinese takeover may have played a role in scuttling the Fosun-Phoenix mega-deal

Saskia Swenson Moss

‘She was better than America’

A dilemma for an Israeli by choice: Should she take that job back in the States to be near her aging father?

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Broad City: So offensive, so Jewish

These millennial comedians — two raunchy, sacrilegious and proudly Jewish gals — offer hope for the future

On November 20, 2015, Brett Loewenstern posed in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem (courtesy)

Jewish ‘American Idol’ star is in the army now — the IDF

By Matt Lebovic

Conference of Presidents Executive Vice Chairman Malcolm Hoenlein presents President Reuven (Ruby) Rivlin with a Yad Torah during the COP 2016 Leadership Mission to Israel, February 18, 2016. (Avi Hayun)

Rivlin to US Jewish leaders: Don’t let Israel become a partisan issue

By JTA

Whichever party or candidate you support, Israel is an issue ‘on which everyone must agree,’ says president

A 'dopamine movie' (screenshot)

‘Brain movies’ show nicotine affects men and women differently

By David Shamah

Innovative research being done in Israel demonstrates, on film, how short-term bursts of brain activity are prompted by stimulants

US artist Frank Stella poses in front of one of his works at an exhibition devoted to him in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, February 18, 2016 (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Artist Frank Stella’s abstract synagogues on display in Poland

By AP

American painter’s work recreates nation’s Jewish houses of prayer, destroyed by the Nazis during the Holocaust

The front page of nationalist Polish weekly "W sieci" (On the web) with the title "The Islamic rape of Europe," February 18, 2016 in Warsaw. (Janek Skarzynski/AFP)

Polish magazine triggers storm with explicit anti-migrant cover

By AFP

‘The Islamic rape of Europe,’ screams right-wing weekly ‘w Sieci,’ showing dark-skinned arms reaching for blond woman

US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, in Vienna, Austria, on January 16, 2016. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool via AP)

US may soon break Iran taboo with new military discussions

By Matthew Lee and Bradley Klapper

Tehran is being included in group of 17 countries taking part in task force to reach Syria truce, despite its support for Assad

Head of the reformists' coalition list of the Iranian parliamentary elections Mohammad Reza Aref (right) accompanied by his wife, Hamideh, arrive at a campaign rally in Tehran, Iran, February 18, 2016. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

Iran reformists hold rally as election campaigns kick off

By Nasser Karimi

6,200 parliamentary candidates begin week-long run for spot in legislature, but many reformists barred from elections

A Neanderthal skull (L) and a modern human skull (R ), file photo (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Sloping head start

Israeli scholar helps rewrite humanity’s timeline

By Marlowe HOOD

New study shows modern humans arrived in Eurasia and bred with Neanderthals far earlier than previously thought

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

Trump slams Iraq invasion, after first supporting it

By AFP

Continuing his criticism of ex-president Bush, Republican front-runner calls 2003 war ‘worst decision anybody has made’

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reads from a statement about Pope Francis during a campaign rally in Kiawah, South Carolina, February 17, 2016. (AFP / JIM WATSON)

Pope says Trump ‘not a Christian’; Trump calls critique ‘disgraceful’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pontiff criticizes man who wants ‘to build walls, not bridges’; Candidate outraged that a religious leader has questioned his faith, says Francis is being misled

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton meets with employees of the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and casino in Las Vegas, February 18, 2016. (AP/John Locher)

Facing tight race, Clinton questions Sanders’s party ties

By Lisa Lerer and Ken Thomas

Democratic front-runner slams independent Vermont senator after the latter criticizes her husband’s trade and welfare reforms

Willis Carto (screen capture: YouTube/JTA)

Holocaust-denying WWII vet buried in Arlington National Cemetery

By JTA

Former GI said Hitler defeat’s was America’s; Simon Wiesenthal Center founder calls Willis Carto’s interment a ‘national disgrace’

An El Al Boeing 737-800 on approach to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport in 2012. (Andre Wadman/Wikipedia/GFDL 1.2)

Wing breaks on El Al plane in Amsterdam, none hurt

737 jet with 150 passengers on board was being pulled to its take-off runway when plane hit airport fence

File - an optometrist fits a patient with glasses (PIxabay)

Israeli start-up presents: The optometrist in your iPhone

By David Shamah

6over6 is developing technology that will help buyers of glasses over the Internet – and vision-impaired residents of the developing world – see a lot more clearly

(Left to right) Amir Naiberg of Yeda Weizmann; Prof. Mudi Sheves of the Weizmann Institute; Stefan Oschmann of Merck; and Belén Garijo of Merck (Courtesy)

Merck, Weizmann Institute sign strategic deal on cancer research

By David Shamah

Quietly, the German pharmaceutical and tech firm has emerged as a major international player in Israel

Arie Abecassis (left), and Eyal Bino (right), cofounders of ICONYC Labs, an accelerator program that helps launch Israeli startups in New York. (Courtesy of ICONYC Labs)

Meet the guys helping Israeli entrepreneurs make it big in the Big Apple

By Beth Braverman

More Headlines

A large menorah in Evanston, Illinois (screen capture: YouTube)

What a mensch When Bernie fought for a menorah at City Hall

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert (L) arrives at Ma'asiyahu Prison in the central Israeli city of Ramle on February 15, 2016 as he begins serving a 19-month sentence for bribery and obstruction of justice. (AFP/Jack Guez)

Most Israelis want Olmert to serve full sentence

French politician Elie Hatem interviewed by Al Arabiya on February 12 2016. (Screen capture MEMRI)

Ex-aide to Jean-Marie Le Pen: ‘Zionists, Freemasons’ control French media

Yeshiva University, New York. (Wikimedia Commons)

From the webYeshiva U. gives away half its endowment to shed Einstein Medical School

Vari Hall, York University, Toronto, Canada. (Wikipedia/Andrei Sedoff/CC BY 3.0)

Jewish students warned away from Toronto’s York U

By JTA

Nadav Halperin and Hodaya Lowenstein (Facebook)

Special needs couple ask to wed at the Knesset

By JTA

Retired soccer star Eyal Berkovic in 2010 (Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Soccer legend Eyal Berkovic accused of sexual harassment

Paramedics outside a Tel Aviv home in which an 18-year-old woman was murdered, allegedly by her sister and the latter's boyfriend, on February 18, 2016. (Channel 2 News)

Teen, her boyfriend confess to killing her twin sister

By Itamar Sharon

Illustrative: Chickens on a free-range farm. (Wikipedia/woodley wonderworks/CC BY 2.0)

Most Israeli poultry infected with bacteria tied to food poisoning

By JTA

German Nazi-hunter Beate Klarsfeld (L) receives her new Israeli passport and ID from Interior Minister Aryeh Deri during a ceremony at the Interior Ministry in Jerusalem, February 15, 2016. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld, 77, gets Israeli citizenship

By AFP and ToI Staff

Palestinian Mohammed Baraka, who has become something of a local hero for his strength, pulls a bus tied to a rope as he performs a trick in Deir el-Balah, in central Gaza, on January 4, 2016. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

Pulling buses with his teeth, Gaza’s Jason Statham

By Adel Zaanoun

Illustrative: In this photo from April 1, 2010, activists from a civil organization reenact an execution scene in front of the Saudi Arabia Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, as they protest a possible beheading of a Lebanese man accused of witchcraft in Saudi Arabia. (AP/Bilal Hussein, File)

Abra-you're under arrestSaudi religious police undergo anti-witchcraft course

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