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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 17, 2017

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UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson (L), US President-elect Donald Trump (C) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (AFP PHOTO / DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS AND Scott Heppell, AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Britain denounced for defending Israel in international forums

By Raphael Ahren

After UK blocks EU from endorsing Paris conference communique, Palestinian and European officials accuse Theresa May of aligning with Jerusalem to cozy up to Trump

Fears of new resolution dulled, UN Security Council to gather Tuesday

At Peres memorial, Netanyahu says peace won’t come ‘from above’

By Marissa Newman

Labour leader wants probe into Israel’s influence on UK politics

By JTA

US billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson (L) meets with Benjamin Netanyahu during a ceremony at the Congress Hall in Jerusalem, August 12, 2007. (Flash90)

Adelson expected to testify in Netanyahu probe — report

By Raoul Wootliff

Police to ask Israel Hayom’s billionaire owner if he knew of PM’s alleged quid pro quo deal with publisher of competing daily

Israel Hayom editor questioned by police in Netanyahu corruption case

PM and publisher said to discuss how deeply to cut Adelson daily’s circulation

AG: Releasing full Netanyahu-Mozes tapes could hinder probe

By Tamar Pileggi

Benjamin Netanyahu and Arnon Mozes (Composite image: Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Poll shows most Israelis think Netanyahu lying in corruption probe

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Security Council meeting ends with no resolution on Israel; Ambassador Danon says UN efforts push peace further away

MK Tzachi Hanegbi during a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on March 15, 2016 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Likud minister: Trump could edge Palestinians toward peace

By Raphael Ahren

Tzachi Hanegbi rejects annexation bids, says Israel should focus on retaining settlement blocs in final agreement

Birds of a feather, right-wing politicians flock to Trump inauguration

By Raphael Ahren

Kerry defends Obama administration’s record on Israel

Trump: Mideast peace elusive because Palestinians are ‘given so much’

By Tamar Pileggi

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816 (Wikipedia)

Eclipse ‘stopped the sun’ for biblical Joshua, Israeli scientists say

Researchers claim to pinpoint the exact date — October 30, 1207 BCE — and explanation for an astounding event in the Battle in Gibeon

Women rabbis: It’s a matter of decency

Rabbis who won’t listen to women’s distress over their status fail a cardinal Jewish duty to ease suffering

Just let those kids convert

Instead of holding bar/bat mitzvahs for non-Jewish youngsters, we can make it easy for them to become Jews

Shira Pasternak Be'eri

A promenade of gold

A pledge to return to the once peaceful paths linking Jewish and Arab Jerusalem, for if coexistence is possible, it must be here

She’s determined to triumph over depression and suicidal ideation, and to help others do the same

Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen during a hearing in Washington, February 4, 2014. (AP/Cliff Owen)

2 Jewish Congressmen join Trump inauguration boycott

By AP and ToI Staff

Rep. Steve Cohen rails at president ‘semi-elect,’ who he says ‘does not deserve to be president’; Nadler: Trump ‘flaunts his illicit behavior’

This combination of pictures shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, delivering a speech at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 8, 2016; and President-elect Donald Trump, right, at the DeltaPlex Arena, December 9, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (AFP)

Putin: Those besmirching Trump ‘worse than prostitutes’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Turkish police officers at Istanbul's headquarters prior to a news conference regarding the arrest of a suspect in the New Year's nightclub attack in Istanbul, January 17, 2017. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Suspect confesses to Istanbul massacre ‘on behalf of IS’ — Turkey

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Governor says ‘well-trained terrorist’ an Uzbek national who spent time in Afghanistan; 4 others thought linked to jihadist also held

Illustrative: Israeli soldiers stand by an armored personnel carrier near the Israel Gaza border, May 4, 2016. (AP photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

IDF soldier killed in maintenance accident in northern Israel

Corporal Viacheslav Gregory, 20, sustains fatal injuries while working on APC; military opens probe

Rod Stewart performing in Hamburg, Germany in October 2013. The singer will perform on June 14 in Tel Aviv (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons)

You're in my park

Veteran rocker Rod Stewart announces Tel Aviv show

One of the best-selling music artists of all time to wrap up 2017 world tour with show in Yarkon Park in June

Glasgow Jewish singers take part in an annual Pesach concert wearing their Shalom Tartan ties. (Fiona Brodie)

Scottish Jewish tartans interlace faith, country and pride

By Maayan Hoffman

An Israeli system engineer keeps watch over a production line at the Teva factory in Jerusalem. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israel Innovation Authority calls for more tech labs

By Shoshanna Solomon

New program will encourage corporations to set up innovation labs, to foster startups and get government benefits

The President of Germany's Constitutional Court Andreas Vosskuhle, second left, is flanked by judges of the court's Second Senate as he reads the verdict rejecting a ban of Germany's right-extremist NPD party at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, southwestern Germany, on January 17, 2017. (AFP/POOL/Uli Deck)

German top court rejects bid to outlaw far-right party

National Democratic Party, accused of racism and anti-Semitism, too unpopular to succeed, judges say; Holocaust survivor group warns ruling could spur extremists

An IDF soldier from the Artillery Corps launches an Elbit Skylark 1, known in the IDF as a Sky Rider, during Operation Protective Edge in late 2014. (CC BY-SA2.0 Matanya/Wikipedia)

Hezbollah claims to find crashed Israeli drone

IDF was reportedly searching for Skylark UAV, which went missing in southern Lebanon on Monday

Former US president Barack Obama speaks during a news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, December 16, 2016. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

A year into nuke deal, White House says Iran ‘upholding its commitments’

By Eric Cortellessa

Four days before Trump administration takes over, Obama’s team lauds agreement as ‘making the world safer’

Customers sit at the Carousela restaurant, which was supervised by Hashgaha Pratit - Hebrew for private supervision - to check it abides by kosher practices, on June 8, 2016, in Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood.(AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)

Rabbinate concedes kosher supervision industry needs ‘fixing’

By Marissa Newman

More Headlines

Illustrative. A man performs the Nazi salute outside an event hall at Texas A&M University on December 6, 2016, where the leader of the so-called alt-right movement, Richard Spencer, was speaking. (Ricky Ben-David/Times of Israel)

Alt-lifeWhite supremacist outed for having Jewish wife

Even Frankel, Educational Programs Manager of the nonprofit organization Start-Up Nation Central, front and center, gives young professionals an in-depth look at Israel’s tech industry during Masa Israel Journey’s “Masa Fast Forward” conference at the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv on Sunday, January 15, 2017 (Courtesy)

Masa holds startup event for young professionals

By Shoshanna Solomon

Reince Priebus (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Iran nuclear deal ‘on life support,’ Priebus says

By JTA

Eliana Girard, a dancer who was worked with Cirque du Soleil and Taylor Swift, at the Western Wall with Birthright (Courtesy Elana Mariani)

You belong with meAfter Cirque and Taylor Swift, dancer finds Birthright

By Jessica Steinberg

Jean-Michel Jarre, the godfather of electronic music, will come to Israel in April 2017. (Courtesy M. Kuenster)

Zero GravityFrench godfather of electronic music to play at Masada

By Jessica Steinberg

Sheikh Raed Salah, center, marches with supporters outside the Jerusalem District Court on October 27, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Islamist leader Raed Salah released from prison

By Tamar Pileggi

Avichai Mandelblit during his tenure as military advocate general. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewA general heads to the hospital, an attorney general defends himself

By Ilan Ben Zion

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