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What Matters Most On Friday, January 13, 2017

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Defense Secretary-designate James Mattis answers questions at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Trump’s Pentagon chief: The capital of Israel is Tel Aviv

By Eric Cortellessa

Diverging from the signals the president-elect has been sending out, James ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis opts to ‘stick with US policy’

242 years ago, the first Jew was elected to public office in the New World

Lion of historyObama surprises tearful Biden with top civilian honor

By AFP

Netanyahu not attending Trump inauguration

By JTA and ToI Staff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas gestures on January 6, 2017, in Beit Sahur, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem. (AFP/Hazem Bader)

Analysis

Abbas met with US businessmen to set up back channel to Trump

By Avi Issacharoff

US hedge fund manager close to Jared Kushner reportedly told PA leader in Ramallah meeting that US is serious about moving embassy

Paris summit to declare two-state solution ‘only way’ to peace

By AP and ToI Staff

Abbas to hold bilateral talks in Paris ‘in coming weeks’

By AFP and ToI Staff

AnalysisIsrael-Hamas talks on return of civilians and soldiers remains fall through

By Avi Issacharoff

Approaching a year to the Israeli government's cabinet decision to create a pluralistic prayer pavilion at Jerusalem's Western Wall, the implementation is stymied in politics. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

Analysis

With a spotlight on the Western Wall, is this Israel’s Reform moment?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

In an increasingly exclusionary religious Israel, Modern Orthodox Israelis are joining forces with a flourishing Liberal Jewry. Approaching a year to the announcement of a pluralistic prayer pavilion, will this partnership see it built?

‘Christian’ is the new ‘Reform’ in maligning Orthodox Jews

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

During the ‘Jubilee,’ Reform and Israeli rabbinate will work together, says rabbi

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

To be an ally for Diaspora Jewry, an Orthodox MK walks a tightrope

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Prime Ministers Benjamin Netanyahu and Theresa May (Composite image, Flash 90, AP)

Exclusive

Netanyahu may have missed chance to quash UN vote by not calling UK’s May

By Raphael Ahren

During failed scramble to sink anti-settlement resolution, he called Boris Johnson, who helped draft the text, but not the British PM, who was reportedly ‘blindsided’ by her country’s support

74% Republicans, 33% Democrats back Israel over Palestinians — poll

By JTA

GOP senators seek to defund UN over settlements resolution

By Eric Cortellessa

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen seen at Trump Tower

By AFP

Illustrative: A man walks through a cemetery in Jerusalem in this undated file photo. (Nati Shohat /Flash90)

Israel’s burial societies refusing to bury gay people – TV report

In at least four instances, religious authorities suggest the dead be taken somewhere else or interred on outskirts of cemetery

Mourning 1st Lt Shir Hajaj z”l

It’s too easy to lose sight of the bereft in the face of a tragedy that provokes political harangues and crises of faith

Now that the fires are out

How will the government justify its allegations of a ‘terror of arson,’ given zero arrests and zero indictments?

Joseph C. Kaplan

Small things matter big time

Measure actions not by how little effort they entail, but by the profound and lasting effect they have on others

He’s not talking about perpetual tardiness, but the revolutionary covenantal time that fosters hope (Vayechi)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife, Sara Netanyahu, together with their son Yair at a Hannukah event, on December 13, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s son Yair to be questioned by police

By Raoul Wootliff

As corruption investigation expands, key coalition party said to shoot down possibility of new coalition if PM forced to resign

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks during a press conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, December 28, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg)

Justice minister: No need for Netanyahu to suspend himself

Chaya Zissel Braun, a 3-month-old baby killed in a terrorist attack in Jerusalem on October 22, 2014 (Channel 2 Screenshot)

Iran, Syria ordered to pay $178m to family of infant killed in Jerusalem terror attack

By JTA

Damages awarded to parents of Chaya Zissel Braun after US court rules both countries complicit in 2014 car-ramming

A general view shows flames and smoke at the Mezzeh military airport on the southwestern outskirts of the capital Damascus following an explosion early on January 13, 2017. (AFP)

Syria blames Israel, threatens ‘repercussions’ over airbase strike

Missiles reportedly hit weapons depot at Mazzeh airbase, considered a major strategic asset for Assad; report claims high-ranking officials killed

Screen shot of footage of alleged Israeli missile strike on the Syrian Mazzeh airbase near Damascus on December 7, 2016. (Credit: Twitter)

Airbase near Damascus said bombed by Israel

Illustrative: More than 200 French Jews immigrated to Israel aboard a special Jewish Agency Aliyah flight, July 20, 2016. (Nir Kafri for The Jewish Agency for Israel)

Aliyah from Europe unaffected by Israel’s security situation – study

By JTA

Increase in emigration to Israel seen from Belgium, France, Italy, but no jump from Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom

Mmusi Maimane, who heads South Africa's Democratic Alliance party (screen grab Facebook)

South African parties tussle over senior politician’s Israel trip

By Raphael Ahren

Mandela would turn in his grave if he knew opposition leader visited Jerusalem, ANC says, challenging rival party to say if it believes Israel practices apartheid

Screen shot of massive protest in Jabaliya, Gaza, on January 12, 2017, over severe power cuts in the middle of the winter. (credit: Twitter)

Chaos, clashes in Gaza, as residents protest power cuts

Thousands march through streets of Jabaliya in the northern Strip; several injuries reported

Screen capture showing the moments after a Palestinian teenager was fatally shot, allegedly by a border policeman during Nakba Day disturbances, May 15, 2014. (YouTube/Defence for Children Palestine)

Cop accused of killing Palestinian teen agrees to plea deal

Border Police officer Ben Deri will admit using live fire during 2014 Nakba Day protest, causing death of Nadeem Siam Nawara, 17

Singer Gal De Paz at a rehearsal in Tel Aviv. January 10, 2016. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

Blues musicians look to strike a chord in Tel Aviv festival

Annual concert series highlights the growing indie rock scene in the White City, says local singer Gal De Paz

Singer Meir Banai died Thursday, January 12, after a long battle with cancer, and was buried in Jerusalem on Friday (Courtesy Meir Banai official Facebook page)

Obituary

Meir Banai, 55, led Israeli music into a more soulful space

By Jessica Steinberg

The acclaimed singer, who died Thursday after a long battle with cancer, was among the first to mold a sound that has since become standard

Meir Banai during a performance in Jerusalem in 2006 (Flash90)

Acclaimed Israeli singer Meir Banai dies aged 55

The Indian government is trying to promote Ayurveda, an ancient medical system that utilizes herbs, like the one pictured in this illustrative photo, to achieve holistic health. (Getty Images)

India sells Israel on Ayurveda as an alternative alternative medicine

By Melanie Lidman

Students at the Harlem Hebrew Language Academy are immersed in a bilingual environment from the moment they walk through the doors -- even the kindergarteners. (Cathryn J. Prince/Times of Israel)

The halls are alive with the sound of Hebrew

By Cathryn J. Prince

More Headlines

This picture taken on December 2, 2016, in Oswiecim (Auschwitz), Poland, shows barracks at the former Nazi concentration camp.(AFP/Bartosz Siedlik)

Unprecedented work underway to preserve Auschwitz

By Bernard OSSER

Reform Rabbi Tamir Nir was raised in an Orthodox home in Alon Shvut, a Jewish settlement in the Gush Etzion bloc. (Noam Feiner)

InterviewHow a yeshiva boy found religion as a Reform rabbi

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Sen. Jeff Sessions arrives to testify at his confirmation hearing to be attorney general of the US before the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 10, 2017, in Washington, DC. (AFP/Molly Riley)

Reform movement comes out strongly against Sessions nod

By JTA

A view of the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem (Flash90)

Supreme Court blocks rabbinical court from overturning religious divorce

By JTA

Israeli Embassy in UK worker Shai Masot filmed secretly in January 2017 (Screen capture: YouTube)

Israeli embassy employee quits over plot to ‘bring down’ UK lawmakers

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani arrives at the Trump Tower for meetings with US President-elect Donald Trump, in New York on November 17, 2016. (AFP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Trump taps Giuliani for cybersecurity duties

Ari Rath in 2013. (CC BY-SA Franz Johann Morgenbesser, Flickr)

Former Jerusalem Post editor Ari Rath dies at 92

By ToI Staff and AP

A chili pepper field in India where NRGene has been developing breeds of chili peppers that farmers can plant in drip irrigation-watered fields. NRGene mapped the chili pepper genome last year (Courtesy)

Israel’s NRGene announces accords with Monsanto, Illumina

By Shoshanna Solomon

Former NBA All-Star Amar'e Stoudemire rests during a basketball training session with his Hapoel Jerusalem in Jerusalem on October 7, 2016. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

Ex-NBA star Stoudemire: ‘Never felt more at home’ in Israel

By Josefin Dolsten

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a statement to the press after during a visit to the IDF West Bank Division, January 10, 2017. (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Hebrew Media ReviewIsraeli journalism critiques itself over PM graft affair

By Adiv Sterman

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