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What Matters Most On Tuesday, February 23, 2016

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Palestinian women pass by a mural depicting late Palestinian Authority president Yasser Arafat and jailed Tanzim leader Marwan Barghouti at the Qalandiya checkpoint. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Army intelligence warns Fatah militants may join terror wave

In briefing last month, security cabinet reportedly heard that without peace talks, violence could spiral further

Minister slams comments attributed to IDF intel chief

By Raoul Wootliff

AnalysisRash of Gaza suicides points to rising poverty, despair

By Avi Issacharoff

Gaza women turn heads with bike rides

By Adel Zaanoun

Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Malcolm in the middle

By David Horovitz

For 30 years, Malcolm Hoenlein has run the US Jewish community’s most influential organization. He meets with presidents and PMs, security chiefs and business leaders, kings and princes. In an outspoken interview, he discusses Iran, IS, Europe’s Jewish future and a West in retreat

A copy of 'Hitler, Mein Kampf -- A critical edition' stands on a display table in a bookstore in Munich, Germany, Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. This annotated edition is the first version of Adolf Hitler's notorious manifesto to be published in Germany since the end of World War II. (AP/Matthias Schrader)

Reporter's notebook

In Germany, my struggle to find ‘Mein Kampf’

By Raphael Ahren

The new annotated edition of Hitler’s anti-Semitic screed is the country’s second-best selling nonfiction book — with demand so outstripping supply that it’s nowhere to be seen in bookstores

Tuvia Yanai Weissman with his wife Yael and four-month-old daughter. Weissman was stabbed to death by Palestinian terrorists at a West Bank supermarket on February 18, 2016. (Facebook)

Live updates (closed)

Widow of slain off-duty soldier not angry at army

By Marissa Newman

Yael Weissman hails IDF decision to let troops take weapons home; Tuvia Yanai Weissman, killed in stabbing attack, was barred from taking rifle on leave

Treblinka survivor Poldek (Leon) Rytz, 89, dances with wife Ester Dyna Rytz, 86, in 2007 in Sweden. (courtesy)

There are still Treblinka survivors living. One tells his tale

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Now in Sweden, 89-year-old Leon ‘Poldek’ Rytz remains active in spreading his tale of survival in the face of genocide

Death of last Treblinka revolt survivor points to post-witness era

President pays tribute as last survivor of Treblinka revolt is laid to rest

Polish town saves Jewish cemetery from developers

By JTA

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)

IDF probing why soldier killed in supermarket attack was unarmed

By Judah Ari Gross and Joshua Davidovich

After murder of unarmed Tuvia Weissman, army orders troops to take their weapons with them when they go home

IDF razes West Bank homes of two Palestinian terrorists

Weapons seized, 19 arrested in overnight West Bank raids

By Raoul Wootliff

After killing Dafna Meir, teen terrorist ‘went home to watch movie’

By Judah Ari Gross

The City of Gold is bleeding

Counter the violence in Jerusalem by walking in the streets, shopping at local businesses, and helping others

Achinoam Nini’s message of harmony

In pulling support from the singer’s concert, JNF Canada caved in to hate mongers and violated Zionist values

Which early-Zionist thinker was the best hipster?

It’s a hot topic at her local hair salon: those guys had great beards and awesome glasses

Tallis, tefillin and tacos

Trying to figure out his inexplicable urge to wake up, wrap his arm in leather and face east

File: Benjamin Netanyahu, right, meets with then-Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Rome on June 13, 2011. (Amos Ben Gershom / GPO/FLASH90)

Netanyahu begged Italy for help healing Obama rift, cable shows

By Joshua Davidovich

US listened in as Israeli PM turned to Silvio Berlusconi after ties were strained following East Jerusalem construction announcement during 2010 Biden visit, according to WikiLeaks release

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon attends the joint US-Israeli Juniper Cobra drill in Haifa on February 22, 2016. (Ariel Harmoni/Defense Ministry)

Defense minister: American aid package to be finalized in ‘weeks’

By Joshua Davidovich and Judah Ari Gross

Kicking off joint US-Israeli drill, Ya’alon says US and Russia understand Israel will only intervene in Syria to protect its interests

Doreen Alhadeff (right) signing her Spanish citizenship papers in the presence of public notary Pedro Bosch (left) and Jesus Cantero Morenos, his legal assistant, on February 2, 2016 in Torremolinos, Spain. (Joseph S. Alhadeff)

500 years after expulsion, Jewish American claims Spanish citizenship

By Janis Siegel

Variety pulls pro-BDS ad accusing Israel of apartheid

By JTA

Jewish Voice for Peace calls on Oscar nominees to reject free Israel trip offered in ‘swag bags’

Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party, leads the weekly Jewish Home party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on February 22, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Uproar as Bennett dedicates academic year to ‘united Jerusalem’

By Marissa Newman and Joshua Davidovich

Education minister’s plan slammed by opposition lawmakers; Herzog: We must separate from Palestinians ‘who hate us’

Police escort Yosef Ben David (in green), one of the Jewish suspects in the murder of Muhammed Abu Khdeir, in the Jerusalem District Court on June 8, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

State finds Israeli killer of Palestinian teen fit for sentencing

Psychiatric report rejects defense claim that Yosef Ben David was not responsible for his actions on night of Muhammed Abu Khdeir’s murder

Professor Hossam Haick talks to a researcher in his lab at Technion University in Haifa, Israel, February 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Arab Israeli prof plugs education to boost community’s standing

By Tia Goldenberg and Areej Hazboun

Technion nanotechnology expert Hossam Haick says despite challenges elsewhere, Israeli academia judges him on ability, not ethnicity

Syrian volunteers and their relatives wave the national flag and portraits of President Bashar Assad as they celebrate at the end of a paramilitary training conducted by the Syrian army on February 22, 2016. (AFP / LOUAI BESHARA)

Syrian government, rebels sign on to truce agreement

By AFP and AP

Deal brokered between US and Russia allows fighting to continue against Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other ‘terror groups,’ causing doubt ceasefire will take hold

Teachers protesting over wages in Ramallah on February 23, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)

PA tries to stop teachers from reaching Ramallah protest

By Daniel Douek

Educators are blocked by checkpoints; government has yet to make good on its promise to raise salaries after 2013 strike

Goel Ratzon, a polygamist cult leader, seen at the district court room in Tel Aviv on October 28, 2014. (Motti Kimchi/POOL)

MKs bid to tackle ‘harmful cults’ that ensnare 20,000 Israelis. But it’s not so simple

By Marissa Newman

More Headlines

Matan Barami standing next to a Tracense system. (Courtesy)

Israeli-developed ‘nano-nose’ can sniff out bombs, drugs

By David Shamah

Oracle makes it rain for Israeli cloud-tech firm to tune of $500m

By Raoul Wootliff

Ultra-Orthodox men clash with police in Jerusalem during an August 14, 2015, protest against the opening of the Yes Planet cinema complex on Shabbat. (screen capture: Channel 2)

Jerusalem stores fight ‘political’ Shabbat closure order

Illustrative photo of a wedding. (Shutterstock via JTA)

Sans rabbiA very millennial Jewish love story

By Julie Wiener

The Adass Israel School in Melbourne, Australia (screen capture: Google Maps)

Judge orders new psych test for teacher wanted in Australia

By Tamar Pileggi

Undated file photo shows Adolf Hitler (right), and his mistress Eva Braun posing on the terrace of the Berghof, in Berchtesgeden, Germany. (AP, File)

Flawed manhoodHitler suffered from ‘microsized member,’ book says

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) gives a concession speech in Henderson, Nevada, on February 20, 2016. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Feeling the BernSanders reaches out to Israelis on Facebook, gets earful

By JTA

The Lighthouse building under construction in Raanana (Roni Perl)

A nearly free, free-form tech start-up accelerator is set to launch

By David Shamah

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)

Hebrew media reviewWill more guns make a difference for Israelis?

By Ilan Ben Zion

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