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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 15, 2020

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Names of deceased relatives from Alexandria are read out inside the newly renovated Eliyahu Hanavi synagogue in Alexandria, Egypt, February 14, 2020. (David Lisbona)

'I'm an Egyptian. Where else should I go?'

Homecoming: Alexandria synagogue hosts Egypt’s largest Jewish prayers in decades

180 members of Egyptian-Jewish Diaspora return to fete renovated Eliyahu Hanavi shul, even as country’s tiny Jewish community prepares for a Jew-free future

Margot Frank (right) with her Amsterdam rowing team in 1941; photo altered to spotlight Margot (photo: Roos van Gelder, courtesy of The Anne Frank House)

No wallflower: Margot Frank comes out of her sister’s shadow in new photos

By Matt Lebovic

With ‘suicide drones’ and rocket attacks, Navy simulates war with Hezbollah

By Judah Ari Gross

Times of Israel joins the 3rd Flotilla of missile ships as it holds an exercise preparing for possible conflict off the northern coast

Palestinian demonstrators clash with Israeli forces during a protest in the village of Kfar Qaddum, near the West Bank city of Nablus February 14, 2020. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)

1 soldier, 4 Palestinians injured in West Bank protests

Sol Graf exits through the barbed wire at the former site of Auschwitz-Birkenau, January 28, 2020. (Yaakov Schwartz/ Times of Israel)

Analysis

Yaakov Schwartz

75 years after staring death in the eye, survivors seek closure in Auschwitz

A delegation led by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation brings back former prisoners following a massive January 27 event marking the camp’s liberation

Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Liberman speaks at a faction meeting at Neve Ilan west of Jerusalem, September 22, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Liberman: Everyone in right-wing bloc is preparing for the day after Netanyahu

Yisrael Beytenu chief expects PM to resign following March election, says he’s ‘in denial’ over his future, claims Bennett, Shaked ‘dream’ of coalition without Netanyahu

Likud Arabic campaign ad paints Arab MKs as lazy do-nothings

TV: During cabinet meeting, ministers assailed AG for election interference

Israel media reviewSallying fourth: 6 things to know for February 14

By Joshua Davidovich

Uncovered dinosaur egg fossils (AP Photo/Luisa Ferreira)

Hot news

Israeli scientists say dinosaur egg fossils point to warm blood

New research technique employed at Hebrew University allowed team to gauge temperature in which eggs were formed — and thus whether mother could regulate her body heat

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks at the US Conference of Mayors' Winter Meeting, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

New York’s mayor endorses Bernie Sanders for president

By Jonathan Lemire

De Blasio says ‘I am standing with Bernie because he stands with working families, and always has… Bernie is the candidate to take Trump on and take him down’

Republican Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, left, accompanied by Democratic Representative Steny Hoyer of Maryland, speaks at the 2017 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference at the Verizon Center in Washington, March 27, 2017. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

AIPAC says bipartisan congressional leadership will address annual conference

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks at a campaign event in Durham, North Carolina, February 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

AIPAC distances itself from group behind anti-Sanders ads

Then-Labour leadership candidate Lisa Nandy in January 2019. (YouTube screenshot)

UK Jewish Labour Movement backs Lisa Nandy for party head; Thornberry drops out

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The leader of Labour Friends of Palestine and a harsh critic of Israeli policies towards Palestinians, Nandy has said she was ‘ashamed’ by anti-Semitism in the party

An Oxford English Dictionary is shown at the headquarters of the Associated Press in New York, August 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File)

Oxford dictionary gets new Jewish-themed entries; some are likely to offend

By Gabe Friedman

Joshua Hammerman

The Moses Primary

Which Democratic presidential hopeful would the Torah pick to run against Trump? The one with money…and the one no money

Israel isn’t a country, it’s a family

How else can you explain the scolding, honking, shoving, eavesdropping and chiming in of strangers who aren’t strangers?

Isabel Pereira was kicked off Sweden's Big Brother reality show after she declared "I hate Jews." (Screenshot)

Sweden sees anti-Semitism rise as ‘Big Brother’ contestants confess Jew hatred

By Josefin Dolsten

Two reality TV show participants show get booted for anti-Jewish statements, another has history of neo-Nazi support, as leaders cite growing threat to community of 20,000

2 years after deadly school shooting, Jews in Parkland still don’t feel secure

By Josefin Dolsten

European Jewish leaders call for better policing of online hate speech

By David Rising

US film crew chasing lost Holocaust trove story in Poland may face charges

By AP

Shuba, or dressed herring, also known as 'herring under a fur coat.' (Rachel Ringler/ via JTA)

Russian comfort food is making a comeback in Israel

By Rachel Ringler

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends a forum titled 'Common Security in the Islamic World' in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, August 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian, File)

Iranian FM: Trump, led by novice advisers, brought region close to war

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Zarif claims ‘cowardly’ killing of Soleimani backfired, served as ‘the beginning of the end of the US in the region’; says Pompeo sent Tehran ‘inappropriate,’ threatening letter

Zarif says Iran could reverse nuclear breaches if Europe gives economic relief

By AFP

Syrian military chopper downed over rebel area, killing crew

By AFP

Pompeo calls for action against Iran after US Navy seizes weapons sent to Yemen

By ToI Staff and Agencies

A subway passenger wearing a protective facemask sleeps on a train in Shanghai on February 14, 2020 (NOEL CELIS / AFP)

China virus deaths pass 1,500; US plans to evacuate citizens from cruise ship

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Embassy says some 400 Americans will be extracted from quarantined Diamond Princess in Japan; Tokyo this week rejected similar request from Israel

A security guard wearing a protective face mask checks the temperature of a cleaning woman amid coronavirus fears in Hong Kong, Feb. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Egypt reports Africa’s first case of coronavirus, as death toll nears 1,400

By ToI Staff and Agencies

More Headlines

Harvey Weinstein arrives at a Manhattan courthouse for his rape trial in New York, February 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Prosecutor says Weinstein saw victims as ‘complete disposables’

By Tom Hays and Michael R. Sisak

Illustrative: Passengers at Yitzhak Navon train station in Jerusalem, December 18, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Woman sues Israel Railways for being asked to move for men’s prayers

Economy minister Eli Cohen arrives to the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on December 17, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Report: Israel asks UK to include West Bank and Golan in planned free trade deal

Bill Clinton speaks in a clip from "Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations." (Screenshot from Newsweek via JTA)

New documentary featuring Bill Clinton examines anti-Semitism in US, Europe

An illustrative photo of people listening to a speaker at a synagogue. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images via JTA)

US Conservative movement apologizes for male-only list of innovative rabbis

By Josefin Dolsten

US Attorney General William Barr listens as President Donald Trump speaks at the White House, November 26, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump ignores his attorney general’s request to stop tweeting about DOJ

By MICHAEL BALSAMO, Colleen Long and Zeke Miller

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, shakes hands with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani,during the 56th Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on Friday, Feb. 14, 2020. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool photo via AP)

Official says US, Taliban reach Afghan truce agreement

By Matthew Lee and Robert Burns

Illustrative: Rescue and medical teams at the scene at a construction site in Kiryat Gat where a worker died in a working accident, December 29, 2019. (Flash90)

Man impaled by metal rods in fall from building in Abu Ghosh

Manchester City's head coach Pep Guardiola reacts after a missed chance to score during the English League Cup semifinal second leg soccer match between Manchester City and Manchester United at Etihad stadium in Manchester, England, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson)

Manchester City given two-season European soccer ban over financial breaches

People visit the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland, Feb. 12, 2020. (AP/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish government accepts new Jewish museum chief, ending yearlong standoff

By Vanessa Gera

French-Polish director Roman Polanski looks on on stage after the preview of his last movie 'J'accuse' (An Officer and a Spy) in Paris, November 4, 2019. (Thomas SAMSON/AFP)

Full board of France’s Cesar film awards steps down over Polanski nominations

By Thomas Adamson

File: Estee Ackerman holding certificates representing the five medals she won in this month's US Open in table tennis (Courtesy of Estee Ackerman)

Teen Orthodox table tennis phenom may skip Olympics as trials are on Shabbat

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