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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 18, 2017

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Israeli policemen stand guard as bulldozers demolish homes in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert, on January 18, 2017. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

Video of deadly car-ramming appears to show cops fire before jeep speeds into officers

By ToI Staff and Dov Lieber

Aerial footage records muzzle flashes from one officer’s firearm; also shows alleged terrorist appear to swerve in two directions after hitting policeman

MK Ayman Odeh (center) of the Joint List and other Arab Israeli leaders stand at the scene of fatal clashes in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran, in which Odeh was injured, on Wednesday, January 18, 2017 (courtesy)

Top Arab MK says Netanyahu nixed deal, sparking Bedouin village clash

By Stuart Winer

Israeli policemen detain a Bedouin man during a protest against home demolitions on January 18, 2017, in the unrecognized Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)

Clashes ensue after cop, his alleged attacker killed in Negev

Police say car-rammer was radicalized; Arab MK wounded as home demolitions turn violent in Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran

Car-ramming ‘a terrorist attack that murdered a policeman’ – police minister

Arab leaders: Police lying, inciting racism over Umm al-Hiran violence

By Dov Lieber and ToI Staff

AnalysisCar-ramming highlights radicalism’s inroads among Negev Bedouin

By Avi Issacharoff

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)

Live updates (closed)

Obama on UN resolution: We wanted to send a wake up call to Israel

By Raoul Wootliff

In final press conference, outgoing US leader warns Trump that actions in region could have explosive reactions, not to make large policy shifts ‘off the cuff’

In this Nov. 15, 2016 file photo, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley speaks in Orlando, Florida. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Trump’s UN envoy pick Haley set to rip body’s Israel bias in Senate hearing

By ToI Staff and AFP

UN Middle East envoy says calls for Israel to annex parts of West Bank risk peace prospects with Palestinians

As Trump looks to move embassy, a Mideast expert puts out a plan of action

By Eric Cortellessa

AnalysisTrump cast his long shadow over a tepid Paris conference

Kerry: US anti-settlement moves aimed to ‘ignite a debate’

Ben Rhodes, Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting, speaks in the South Court Auditorium of the White House Complex in Washington, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama names aide Ben Rhodes to Holocaust Memorial Council

By Eric Cortellessa

White House messaging guru on Iran deal and abstention in UN anti-settlements resolution to help lead nation in Shoah remembrance

Then president-elect Donald Trump with then president Barack Obama in the Oval Office, Washington DC on November 10, 2016. (Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP)

Presidents playing good Jews/bad Jews

By Yossi Klein Halevi

The intense identification of Obama and Trump with opposing Jewish camps is extremely dangerous

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his wife Sara (C) and their son Yair seen with actress Kate Hudson at an event held at the home of producer Arnon Milchan (right), March 6, 2014. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90)

Netanyahu’s son gives testimony in PM graft investigation

Sources close to the premier confirm leaks from a second probe, examining his ties with Yedioth publisher, are significant, but claim evidence doesn’t merit indictment

Journalist named by PM in recordings meets with police

Most Israelis think Netanyahu lying about graft probes — poll

State to probe claims Mossad chief received gifts from Packer

By Stuart Winer

The day John Lewis came to my shul

The congressman’s plan to avoid Trump’s inauguration stems from a morality forged battling violent discrimination

The IDF generals’ racist campaign

Some retired military honchos are fanning fears with false claims of a demographic threat to Israeli democracy

Andrew Silow-Carroll

Obama was the face of liberal Zionism

He may have been naive, but for better or worse the President’s vision is shared by a plurality of American Jews

Issam Zeitoun, a liaison between the Free Syrian Army and international players, including Israel, speaking at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on January 17th, 2017. (Credit: Reuvan Ramaz, Truman Institute).

Syrian oppositionist says Palestinians are ‘living in paradise’

Israel’s help is vital, says representative of Free Syrian Army in rare meeting with Israelis; Zionist Union MK insists Assad must go

Representatives of Palestinian organizations hold a press conference in Moscow following reconciliation talks on January 17, 2017. (AFP PHOTO/Alexander NEMENOV)

Hamas, Fatah announce deal to form Palestinian unity government

By AFP

Talks held in Moscow with unofficial Russian mediation; both parties urge Lavrov to convince Trump not to move US embassy to Jerusalem

Illustrative photo of IDF soldiers guarding a West Bank checkpoint, August 16, 2016. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

IDF: Palestinian tries to stab soldier in West Bank, is shot dead

Attacker pulls knife as he approaches security forces at checkpoint outside city of Tulkarem; no troops hurt

Argentina's public prosecutor, Alberto Nisman, gives a news conference in Buenos Aires, May 20, 2009. (JUAN MABROMATA/AFP/Getty Images)

Knesset remembers Argentine prosecutor Nisman amid hopes for breakthrough

By Marissa Newman

Diaspora Affairs panel marks 2-year anniversary of Alberto Nisman’s death as he probed AMIA terror cover-up; biographer says ‘Alberto’s murder has absolutely been proven,’ blames accomplices of the Iranians

Bjoern Hoecke in the Thuringia state parliament in 2016. (CC BY-SA Olaf Kosinsky via Wikimedia Commons)

German nationalist calls for end to Nazi guilt

By AP

Leading member of Alternative for Germany party says Berlin Holocaust memorial a ‘monument of shame’

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a press conference following a meeting of leaders of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) on January 14, 2017 in Perl, western Germany. (AFP Photo/dpa/ Oliver Dietze)

Merkel to face German voters on September 24

By Deborah Cole

Upcoming election expected to be chancellor’s toughest due to unpopularity of her migration policy

Former Israeli ambassador to Brazil Yossi Sheli (Courtesy/Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Ending year-long standoff, Brazil accepts new Israeli envoy

By Raphael Ahren

Having rejected Dani Dayan in 2015, Brasilia welcomes Yossi Sheli, a former businessman whose appointment was also controversial

In this Jan. 15, 2016, photo, the US Capitol frames the backdrop over the stage during a rehearsal of President-elect Donald Trump's swearing-in ceremony in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Four Jewish Democrats to skip Trump inauguration

By JTA

Representatives Jerrold Nadler, Jamie Raskin, John Yarmuth, Steve Cohen cite support for Rep. John Lewis, who launched event boycott

Husband and wife Jewish-American bluegrass duo Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg are the faces of Nefesh Mountain (courtesy)

‘Jewish Americana’ music gets its moment in the spotlight

By Gabe Friedman

The City,' a rap-driven show with hip-hop rhythms by The Victor Jackson Show ensemble, will be performed in English on March 20, 2017 (Yudan Abadi)

Rap and ‘The City’: Jerusalem hip hop opera shimmies into English

By Jessica Steinberg

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President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, September 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Rivlin to be hospitalized for 24 hours for pacemaker

A poster hung in a stairwell at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem on December 12, 2016, depicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a noose hanging in front of him and the word 'Rope' in capital letters at the bottom.

Death threats to student for artwork featuring Netanyahu in a noose

IDF Corporal Viacheslav Gargay (IDF Spokesperson)

IDF soldier killed in maintenance accident to be laid to rest

During a protest against the jailing of a Jewish seminary student who failed to comply with a national service recruitment order, Border Police officers arrest an ultra-Orthodox man, in Beit Shemesh January 17, 2017. during a protest against the jailing of a Jewish seminary student who failed to comply with a national service recruitment order. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)

7 arrested in Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh ultra-Orthodox draft protests

By Stuart Winer

Israeli actress Gal Gadot stars in Wix's 2017 Super Bowl campaign (Courtesy: Wix)

Wonder Woman at Super BowlGal Gadot, Jason Statham launch Wix’s Super Bowl ad

By Shoshanna Solomon

A section of the border fence between Israel and Egypt, January 2012. (Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)

Israel raises height of fence on Egypt border

By AFP

Eight members of modern dance troupe Vertigo show part of their newest piece, 'One. One and One," created in celebration of the group's 25th anniversary celebration (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Stepping upDance troupe Vertigo gets upgrade at 25-year mark

By Jessica Steinberg

Illustrative: Dollars and shekels. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Israeli VCs raised $1.4 billion in 2016, industry tracker says

By Shoshanna Solomon

A man hands out the free daily newspaper 'Israel Hayom' to passersby on Ben Yehuda street in Jerusalem. March 7, 2012. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewHoisted by your own poor journalism

By Joshua Davidovich

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