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Above politics, or out of politics? (L.A. Times) Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni, head of the Kadima Party, is fighting for her political life.

Project Better Place gets another $350 million (N.Y. Times) The significant infusion of cash into a project to build an electric car grid in Israel is a vote of confidence in a company that seeks to transform the auto industry.

California city loses shul (L.A. Times) The departure of Temple Emanu El has left one of California's largest cities without an organized Jewish presence.

'Indiana Jones' rabbi a fraud (Washington Post) A lengthy investigation calls into question the stories of a legendary rabbi celebrated for rescuing Torah scrolls lost during the Holocaust.

Jewish murderer slated for execution (Yeshiva World News) The Jewish man who murdered a Florida wildlife officer is slated to be executed by lethal injection on Feb. 16. Breaking News The Israeli medical and rescue team in Haiti will finish operations on the devastated island nation in the next few days, according to the Israel Defense Forces. The Jewish Federations of North America is moving its annual conference in 2010 to New Orleans and holding it earlier than planned. Original blueprints of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp went on display at Yad Vashem. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach wants to purchase the mansion next door to his New Jersey home that belongs to the Libyan government and turn it into a Jewish learning center. Anti-Semitic incidents increased dramatically around the world and particularly in Western Europe during 2009, according to an annual report. Four men have been arrested in connection with two arson attacks on a synagogue on the island of Crete. Israel is looking into the possibility of adopting orphaned Haitian children. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planted a tree in a West Bank settlement to mark the Tu b'Shevat festival. A new audio statement allegedly from Osama bin Laden threatens more attacks on United States targets "as long as you maintain your support to Israel." An Israeli oil exploration team said it has found oil at a drilling site north of the Dead Sea. Israel has prepared a response to the Goldstone report, which accuses Israel of committing war crimes during the Gaza war. The Russian government has chosen a book about a Jewish teenager who survives Auschwitz for distribution as part of a government-funded youth program. Protests lodged by several regional Jewish organizations prevented the nationalist Jobbik party from holding a mass pre-election meeting inside a defunct synagogue. Leon Weliczker Wells, a Holocaust survivor who testified at both the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials, has died. At least 18 left-wing demonstrators were arrested in eastern Jerusalem during one of the largest protests there in recent months. A Museum of Tolerance will open in the heart of Jerusalem within four years, though at half the size and cost previously planned. A farmer, a social worker, two teachers and a lawyer who helped rescue German Jewish history from oblivion were recognized.