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What Matters Most On Saturday, January 27, 2018

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MK Yair Lapid leads a Yesh Atid faction meeting at the Knesset, January 8, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Lapid: Poland was complicit in the Holocaust, new bill ‘can’t change history’

By TOI staff and AP

Yesh Atid leader, son of survivor, condemns law prescribing jail time for using phrases such as ‘Polish death camps’; Poland played active role in WWII killing of Jews, he stresses

The main gate of the former Auschwitz extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland, with the infamous sign reading 'Work sets you free.' (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images/via JTA)

Polish lawmakers vote to outlaw references to ‘Polish death camps’

By AP and TOI staff

Stephan Templ outside a building in Vienna which he claimed from the Austrian state, October 27, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

In jail, Austrian historian writes book slamming Holocaust restitution system

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Former Nazi concentration camp survivor Raymond Renaud of France holds a white rose during the wreath-layin ceremony on occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, Friday, Jan. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

World remembers Holocaust amid signs of rising hatred

Tillerson pays respects at Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial in Poland; Merkel laments ‘disgrace that no Jewish institution can exist without security’

German chancellor Angela Merkel looks on after addressing the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) on January 24, 2018 in Davos, eastern Switzerland. (AFP PHOTO / Fabrice COFFRINI)

Merkel: Ongoing need to protect Jewish institutions ‘a disgrace’

File photo: A picture taken on April 28, 2015, shows a barbed wire fence at a former Nazi concentration camp. (Joe Klamar/AFP)

Austrian arrested for yelling ‘Heil Hitler’ at rabbi at concentration camp site

By AFP

Aaron Elster stands in front of his hologram. (Ron Gould/via JTA)

Holocaust testimony

At this Holocaust museum, you can speak with holograms of survivors

By Ellen Braunstein

Left: Children and staff of Maison St. Christophe (Saint Christopher's Orphanage) during World War II; Mary Elmes, who secretly brought Jewish children to be saved from Auschwitz. (Courtesy Midas Films)

Holocaust Heroes

After saving Jewish children from Auschwitz, this humble heroine chose obscurity

By JP O’ Malley

Mary Elmes, only posthumously honored for her heroism, quietly turned down the France’s Légion d’Honneur. A new book explores the modest Quaker’s life-saving efforts

Pig farm to be removed from Roma Holocaust site

By AFP

Like Jeremy Corbyn, UK chief rabbi also didn’t mention Jews in Holocaust remarks

By Cnaan Liphshiz

US President Donald Trump visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on May 23, 2017. (AFP Photo/Gali Tibbon)

Trump releases 2018 Holocaust day statement, this time mentions Jews

By Eric Cortellessa

‘We take this opportunity to recall the Nazis’ systematic persecution and brutal murder of six million Jewish people,’ the president says

One third of American Holocaust survivors live in poverty, aid group says

By JTA

Republican Senate hopeful linked to Holocaust deniers

By JTA

Minneapolis airport unveils Holocaust exhibit ahead of Super Bowl

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a press conference in Istanbul, December 13, 2017. (AFP/Yasin Akgul)

‘Oslo Accords are dead,’ Abbas tells Israeli left-wing leader

PA president tells Meretz head Zehava Galon that Trump had promised him a ‘good deal’ before ‘punishing’ Palestinians; hopes alternative peace mediator can be found

Israeli Arabs attend a march on May 12, 2016 -- Israel's 68th Independence Day -- calling for the right of return for Palestinians. (Dov Lieber)

TV report: Israel now wants Trump to reject Palestinian ‘right of return’

Borut Pahor speaks at the Slovenian parliament in Ljubljana, Friday, November 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Matej Leskovsek)

Slovenia president throws doubt on recognition of Palestine

By AFP and TOI staff

Palestinians in the Aida refugee camp near Bethlehem hang effigies of Donald Trump and Mike Pence, January 27, 2018 (Facebook)

Trump, Pence effigies hanged and burned in Palestinian protest

Demonstration in refugee camp near Bethlehem meant to show ‘rejection’ of US cuts to UNRWA, according to Palestinian TV

Former US president Barack Obama at Temple Emanu-El in New York City on January 24, 2018. (Gili Getz/Facebook via JTA)

Obama: ‘Skyrocketing’ settlement means Palestinian state ‘almost impossible’

By TOI staff and JTA

At NY synagogue, former president says accelerated building for Jews turning West Bank map into ‘Swiss cheese’; that’s why he didn’t veto UN anti-settlement resolution

File: US special envoy Jason Greenblatt (C) shakes hands with Palestinian Water Authority chairman Mazen Ghunaim during the launch of a project to improve access to wastewater treatment and water for Palestinian farmers, on October 15, 2017, in the city of Jericho, in the West Bank. (AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)

USAID chief: ‘No decisions made’ on cutting Palestinian aid

Former US president Barack Obama speaks as he campaigns for Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Virginia Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam during a campaign event at the Greater Richmond Convention Center October 19, 2017 in Richmond, Virginia. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)

Journalist says Obama, Farrakhan photo suppressed at request of black lawmakers

By JTA

Alan M. Dershowitz

Do you really think I would sell out Israel?

Critics of my visit to Qatar should stop dishing out personal insults and support a fact-finding commission

Jordanna Gessler

Why Holocaust studies matter

Education helps prevent the hate, discrimination, and prejudices that led to the worst human history

Gheula Canarutto Nemni

Who likes Internat’l Holocaust Remembrance Day?

Plenty of Jews dislike the memorial day — they’d rather build life than wallow in death

Gino Bartali was more than a cyclist

The Italian racer used his celebrity status to save Jews from the Nazis

Eritrean demonstrators chanted "Refugees, not infiltrators," outside of the Rwandan Embassy in Herzilya on January 22, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/ Times of Israel)

Nearly 800 US Jewish clergymen urge Israel to halt refugee deportations

Rabbis, cantors write to Netanyahu: ‘We Jews know far too well what happens when the world closes its doors to those forced to flee their homes’

Left to right: Naomi Strand of Northwest Detention Center Resistance (NWDCR), Kim Berman of Kadima, and Wendy Pantoja of NWDCR after the award ceremony. (Tomas Madrigal)

Seattle synagogue gives inaugural ‘tikkun olam’ award to immigrant rights group

By Gregory Gutterman Scruggs

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Afghan medical staff treat men and women wounded after a car bomb exploded at the Jamhuriat Hospital in Kabul on January 27, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / WAKIL KOHSAR)

Afghanistan: At least 63 killed, 140 injured in ambulance car bomb

By AFP

Palestinian forces inspect a roadside bomb found in the West Bank on Saturday, January 27, 2018. (Ma'an news agency)

Palestinian security forces uncover 12 roadside bombs in West Bank

A Palestinian man looks at a discovered tomb consisting of nine burial holes, which was found by Abdelkarim al-Kafarna, in his backyard in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza City, Friday, January 26, 2018. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Soaked to the boneHeavy rain unearths ancient graves in backyard in Gaza

By AP

In this October 15, 2017 photo provided by the United Jewish Appeal via Canadian Press, Barry and Honey Sherman pose for a photo in Toronto, Canada. (United Jewish Appeal Federation - Greater Toronto/Canadian Press via AP)

Police say Canadian Jewish billionaire, wife apparently murdered

'P is for Palestine' by Golbarg Bashi, illustrated by Golrokh Nafisi, published November 2017 (drbashi.com)

Store that sells ‘P is for Palestine’ children’s book faces heat from the left

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu aboard the new submarine 'Rahav' at the Israeli navy base in Haifa, on January 12, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu to be questioned in submarine affair — report

US President Donald Trump, sitting next to US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, speaks during a working lunch with ambassadors of countries on the United Nations Security Council and their spouses, April 24, 2017, in the State Dining Room of the White House. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Nikki Haley slams ‘disgusting’ rumor of affair with Trump

By TOI staff and AFP

Amir Benayoun, the Israeli singer who composed the music for 'The Last One,' an ode to Holocaust survivors (Courtesy YouTube)

US grants visa for Israeli singer to perform at UN for Holocaust Day

By JTA

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