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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 20, 2016

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The five-man terror cell arrested by the Shin Bet security service and IDF, which was announced on January 20, 2016. (Shin Bet)

Hezbollah cell planned attacks in the West Bank — Shin Bet

By Judah Ari Gross

Son of Lebanese terror group chief Nasrallah allegedly recruited five men arrested for planning shooting and suicide bombings

Israeli Arab convicted of membership in Nusra Front

IDF soldier shot, lightly injured during West Bank raid

Palestinian held after approaching soldiers with knife

IDF soldiers take part in an exercise in the army's Northern Command on January 20, 2016. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

Live updates (closed)

IDF to restrict Palestinian workers from some settlements Thursday

By Joshua Davidovich

Despite calm, partial ban to remain in place for third straight day following two separate attacks inside settlements

The Jordan Valley. (CC BY Trocaire, Flickr)

Israel to announce major land appropriation in Jordan Valley

Government to declare 370 acres near West Bank settlement south of Jericho as state land in largest such seizure since 2014

US backs European move to distinguish Israel from West Bank

Netanyahu has ‘friendly’ talk with US envoy day after stinging rebuke

By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff

Israel starts massive fence on southern border with Jordan

By Raoul Wootliff

Dani Dayan (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

In first public remarks, Brazilian official criticizes Dani Dayan appointment

By Raphael Ahren

Tapping ex-settler leader as envoy to Brasilia was a ‘mistake,’ president’s foreign policy adviser says; denies ‘arm wrestling’ with Israel

Benjamin Amsellem, right, a Jewish teacher stabbed by a 15-year-old with a machete who claimed Islamic State inspiration, speaks to the press as he leaves the main police headquarters in Marseille, southeastern France, January 12, 2016. (AFP/ BORIS HORVAT)

French Jewish-Muslim relations are always troubled, says historian

By JP O’ Malley

New book by Ethan B. Katz probes the complex political problems — bound up in issues of race, cultural diversity and religion — that continue to plague the Fifth Republic today

French Jews, struggling to find work in Israel, consider going home

By Cnaan Liphshiz

French police arrest suspects in Jewish politician’s murder

By JTA

Putin: Jews fleeing Western Europe should move to Russia

By JTA

Israeli singer Dana International performing at the 1999 Eurovision Song Contest held in Jerusalem. (GPO)

Podcast

TOI talks: Dana Internationalizing the foreign press

By Raoul Wootliff

On this week’s episode, the next step for Israel after Iranian sanctions relief; Margot Wallstrom is at it again; a place among the nations for Shimon Peres; and finding the Jew in David Bowie

The silence of the blades

Today, construction is halted and a husband in Otniel grieves for his wife; tomorrow will bring the sounds of joy

Nancy K. Kaufman

Abortion access and Jewish values

On Roe v. Wade anniversary, a fight is underway to defeat new laws that would threaten women’s health freedoms

Choose Sinai, not Auschwitz

Jews may come by their persecution complex honestly, but it gets in the way of building a more ethical society

When professors condemn Israel, their bias spreads across campus, and Jewish students pay the price

Lord George Weidenfeld, 95, escaped Vienna for the United Kingdom in 1938. In Britain he was helped by Christian organizations. (courtesy)

British Jewish philanthropist Lord Weidenfeld dies at 96

By AP and ToI Staff

Long-time patron of Jewish and Israeli charities, the former German refugee founded a mission last year to save Christians in Syria and Iraq

Zionist Union party chairman MK Isaac Herzog leads a faction meeting in the Knesset, January 4, 2016 (FLASH90)

Herzog: For now, two-state solution unrealistic

By Raoul Wootliff

Opposition leader says current situation means Israel must focus on security measures rather than bilateral agreement

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino on December 14, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images via JTA)

Trump pledges to move US Embassy to Jerusalem

By JTA

In about-face, leading GOP presidential candidate tells Christian network: ‘Well I am for that 100 percent’

Abu Adham (L), the father of the 15-year-old Palestinian arrested on suspicion of killing Dafna Meir, 38, in her home on January 17, 2016 (screen capture: Channel 2)

Father of alleged Otniel killer: ‘Why should I be punished for what he did?’

Abu Adham says had he known 15-year-old son stabbed Dafna Meir to death, it’s ‘very possible’ he would have turned him in

Illustrative: Palestinian police in the West Bank (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

PA says it foiled 200 terror attacks since October

Security chief says his agency is working together with ‘Israeli, American counterparts’ to prevent PA’s collapse and IS rising in its stead

Swedish MPs with representatives of Israel advocacy groups at a January 19, 2016 meeting in Stockholm, including vice chairman of WZO David Breakstone (2nd from right), MP Hanif Bali (3rd from right), MP Mikael Oscarsson (6th from right), and former Israeli MK Dov Lipman (7th from right). (courtesy)

Swedish MPs challenge Wallström to debate over Israel comments

By Josefin Dolsten

Illustrative photo: President Reuven Rivlin welcomes new immigrants from the US and Canada at Ben Gurion Airport, August 12, 2014. The arrivals, on a Nefesh B'Nefesh 'Soldiers Flight', were set to join the Israel Defense Forces. (Photo credit: Mark Neyman/GPO/ FLASH90)

IDF will no longer draft immigrants aged 22-26

By Judah Ari Gross

Six-month service for new Israelis more hassle than it was worth, army officer says; those interested in serving may still volunteer

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Knesset during a special plenum anniversary session on January 19, 2016. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Israel strives for quiet, and ‘ultimately, for peace’

By Marissa Newman

At Knesset anniversary session, PM defends decision to keep Palestinian workers out of settlements; Edelstein says Israel’s democracy ‘in danger’

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders speaking at the University of Chicago on September 28, 2015. (JTA/Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Former US diplomats, security officials excoriate Sanders on IS, Iran

By Eric Cortellessa

Clinton campaign releases joint statement from 10 allies lambasting Democratic rival as unprepared to manage foreign policy

St. Elijah's Monastery on the outskirts of Mosul, Iraq, October 1, 2006. (Col. Juanita Chang/U.S. Army via AP)

Islamic State razes oldest Christian monastery in Iraq

By Martha Mendoza, Maya Alleruzzo and Bram Jansen

The site of a 6th-century Persian massacre, St. Elijah’s Monastery falls victim to IS’s relentless campaign of destruction

A tent in the village of Susya, July 19, 2015 (Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)

B’Tselem says field director arrested south of Hebron

By Raoul Wootliff

Bust comes after police detain two left-wing activists for allegedly informing on Palestinians who sold West Bank land to Jews

Bulletproof Stockings. From left to right: Dana Pestun, Dalia G. Shusterman, Perl Wolfe, Elisheva Maister. (Shervin Lainez)

Bulletproof Stockings offers a different take on Hasidic girl power

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

Cartoon encouraging attacks on Israelis published on Fatah Facebook page, the political party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, October 2015 (PMW)

Israel eyes world coalition to force social media platforms to block incitement

By David Shamah

Illustrative: Pakistani rescuers shift an injured man to a hospital following an attack by gunmen in the Bacha Khan university in Charsadda, about 50 kilometers from Peshawar, on January 20, 2016. (AFP Photo/Hasham Ahmed)

At least 21 dead in Taliban attack on Pakistan university

Anti-Christian graffiti found on the walls of Jerusalem's Dormition Abbey reads 'Death to the heretical Christians, the enemies of Israel,' January 17, 2016. (The Dormition Abbey)

Israeli teens arrested for defacing church with anti-Christian graffiti

By Raoul Wootliff

File: British police officers patrol outside St. Pancras international railway station in London, Monday, Dec. 7, 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

War of the wordsUK boy’s school assignment spells terror alert

By Renee Ghert-Zand

File: Health Minister Yaakov Litzman. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Israel seeks to let general practitioners prescribe cannabis

Illustrative: Local Jewish communities in the Bay Area show their support for the LGBTQ community at the San Francisco pride parade. (Daniel Dreifuss/Flash 90/File)

American LGBTQ group cancels event with Israelis, later backtracks

By JTA and ToI Staff

Slovenian chain succumbs to BDS, pulls Israeli fruits

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting, Jerusalem, December 27, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Justice minister calls for an independent Kurdistan

By Tamar Pileggi

6-year-old NJ boy walking to synagogue killed by streaking car

By JTA

A Kornit digital garment printer (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Israeli tech aids Amazon with its new target: the T-shirt business

By David Shamah

Naftali Bennett speaking at the INSS Conference in Tel Aviv, January 19, 2015. (screen capture: YouTube)

Hebrew media reviewBennett’s big bruise-up

By Ilan Ben Zion

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