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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 11, 2017

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US President-elect Donald Trump answers questions from the media after a day of meetings on December 28, 2016 at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. (AFP/Don Emmert)

Trump compares rumors Russia has dirt on him to ‘Nazi Germany’

By AFP and ToI Staff

US president-elect rejects claims Moscow has embarrassing video of him for potential use as leverage as a ‘complete and total fabrication’

Russia denies ‘fake’ claims it’s holding information on Trump

By AFP and ToI Staff

Jared Kushner, a calming power in the new presidency

By Jennie Matthew

DC-area rabbis urge Trump to ‘reconsider’ rhetoric

By JTA

Illustrative: Anat Hoffman, director of Women of the Wall, holds a Torah scroll at the Western Wall, November 2, 2016. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

In landmark decision, High Court rules for women’s Western Wall prayer

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Government given 30 days to show ‘good cause’ why women can’t read from Torah scrolls at the holy site

President Barack Obama speaks during his farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

In farewell speech, Obama hails Iran deal as crowning foreign policy achievement

By Eric Cortellessa

Just days before start of Trump term, US president looks to inspire, reassure fearful supporters

Forceful and tearful, Obama says goodbye in emotional final speech

By Josh Lederman and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Obama: Netanyahu talks of two-state solution but his actions undermine it

By Raphael Ahren

Kerry to attend Mideast peace conference in Paris

By AFP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem on December 18, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / POOL / AMIR COHEN)

Analysis

Netanyahu’s talks with newspaper mogul could constitute bribery

By Raoul Wootliff

Recordings of meetings between PM and Arnon Mozes said to shed light on mutually beneficial deal, a range of potential criminal offenses

Newspaper publisher reportedly told PM he would keep him in power

By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff

Education Minister Naftali Bennett speaks at The Times of Israel offices in Jerusalem, January 9, 2017. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Interview

Bennett: We must seize ‘unique opportunity’ of Trump’s first weeks to tell him what Israel wants

By Raphael Ahren

While Obama left the region ‘on fire,’ incoming president is ‘open to listening’ to Israel, education minister says, backing embassy move and setting his sights on annexing 60% of West Bank

TV report: Trump’s ambassador could work from Jerusalem, with embassy still in Tel Aviv

Palestinians seek regionwide prayers to protest US embassy move

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Pope Francis to host Abbas on Saturday

By AFP

Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with Sierra Leone president Ernest Bai Koroma in Jerusalem on January 11, 2017. (Emil Salman/Pool)

Live updates (closed)

Probes into PM deepen as wife, publisher said called to testify

By Joshua Davidovich

Unnamed minister tells Channel 10 Netanyahu’s era coming to an end; Trump criticized after saying dossier leak ‘like Nazi Germany’; Rahat man held for pro car-ramming Facebook post

Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, left, and Gaza's Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh, right, arrive for a cornerstone-laying ceremony for Hamad, a new residential neighborhood in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, October 23, 2012. AP/Mohammed Salem.

Analysis

Qatar negotiating prisoner swap between Hamas, Israel

By Avi Issacharoff and Dov Lieber

Source says Jerusalem offered to free prisoners rearrested after Shalit deal, if they went to Gulf country; Hamas rejected proposal

The terrorist who crushed 4 soldiers to death hailed from the same village as those who murdered so many others, including his own son

Wait, gay people aren’t regular people?!

Orthodoxy has no real framework accepting homosexuals without throwing out Jewish law — and that is a travesty

Dawn of a renewed US-Israel alliance

He and millions of Christian Zionists will lead the charge to ensure America no longer breaks bread with Israel’s foes

Shmuley Boteach

Dylann Roof deserves to die

It takes hatred of the Charleston church murderer and his racist ilk to generate actions that stop the orgy of murder

Internet sensation Sam Barsky poses with his Stonehenge sweater on-site in England. (Courtesy/Facebook)

The Baltimore knitter who unraveled the internet

By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street after a meeting of the Cabinet in central London, January 10, 2017. (AFP/CHRIS J RATCLIFFE)

UK top diplomat admits to helping draft anti-settlement UN resolution

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Boris Johnson tells Parliament that London supported vote because it also condemns terror; Netanyahu continues to blame Obama administration

Illustrative photo of closed shop in East Jerusalem, which was closed in protest of Jerusalem's municipality elections. November 11, 2008. (Daniel Dreifuss/Flash90)

Israeli Arabs launch strike over destruction of illegal houses

Schools, municipalities and businesses remain closed in protest of Tuesday’s demolition of 11 structures in Qalansawe

Image from a scene in the 2016 film 'In Between,' about Arab-Israeli women in Tel Aviv. (Credit: screenshot)

Arab-Israeli city seeks countrywide ban on film about liberal Arabs in Tel Aviv

Umm al-Fahm municipality says ‘In Between,’ about a religious Muslim girl swept up in Israel’s sin city, is ‘propaganda’ and ‘offensive to Islam’

President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and daughter Malia greet the crowd at the President's closing remarks in Chicago on Tuesday. (Ronit Bezalel/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

As sun sets on Obama presidency, Chicago Jews reflect on his legacy

By Ronit Bezalel

A relative shows a mobile phone photo of Fadi Qunbar, 28, outside his home in Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017. Qunbar was identified as the terrorist who drove a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers, killing four and wounding 16 (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Minister: Jerusalem truck terrorist’s family to lose residency

Fadi al-Qunbar’s mother, 11 other relatives to be stripped of social benefits and Israeli IDs as deterrent to would-be attackers, Aryeh Deri says

Attorneys Ilan Katz, center, and Eyal Besserglick, right, the legal team of IDF Sgt. Elor Azaria speak to press at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv following a verdict on January 4, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Elor Azaria’s attorneys slam IDF’s covert meeting with his father

By Stuart Winer

Representatives of convicted soldier say reported attempt to persuade his family to drop appeal may be a criminal offense

Illustrative: IDF troops make a late-night arrest in the West Bank on January 11, 2017. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF arrests former senior PA official in early-morning raid

By Judah Ari Gross

At least 25 other Palestinians suspected of low-level attacks arrested in overnight operations, army says

Illustrative: Dov S. Zakheim (center), co-chair of the American Jewish Committee's Jewish Religious Equality Coalition (J-REC), speaks at the Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Committee at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 11, 2017. (AJC)

At Knesset Diaspora committee meeting, US Jews work to convince the convinced

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

More Headlines

Screen capture from video showing actress Asta Baukute, a former lawmaker, gives a Nazi-style salute on the Lithuanian 'Guess the Melody' game show, January 2017. (YouTube/Manciusz)

Lithuanian show nixed over Nazi salute ‘Jew’ clue

By JTA

Chris Martin (second from left) and the rest of the members of Coldplay, pictured in India for the Global Citizen Festival in November 2016 (Courtesy Global Citizen)

Jerusalem bells aren't ringingColdplay denies Israel-Palestinian peace concert plans

By ToI Staff and Jessica Steinberg

In this June 18, 2015 file photo, Charleston, South Carolina shooting suspect Dylann Roof is escorted from the Cleveland County Courthouse in Shelby, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File)

South Carolina church shooter sentenced to death

By MEG KINNARD and Jeffrey Collins

The car of Israeli singer Margalit Tzanani after it was targeted with a small bomb in the central town of Azor, Israel, January 10, 2017. (Police spokesperson)

Small bomb explodes under singer’s car; no injuries

By Stuart Winer and David Sedley

Doctor Yuval Weiss, director-general of Hadassah Medical Center. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-Hadassah hospital director may be charged with malpractice, negligence

Google, Wix push to equip small Israeli firms with internet tools

By Shoshanna Solomon

Intuition Robotics' artificial intelligence based robot ElliQ (Courtesy)

Israel startup recruits Norse goddess as elder companion

By Shoshanna Solomon

A man reading a copy of Yedioth Ahronoth in Jerusalem on Febuary 16, 2010. The headline reads: 'This is how they assassinated him." (Kobi Gideon / FLASH90)

Hebrew media reviewGo down Mozes

By Joshua Davidovich

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