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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 19, 2017

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The late Fred Turbide, who took his own life after he was fleeced by an Israeli binary options firm, with his wife Maria Chaves-Turbide (Courtesy)

Fleeced by Israeli binary options firm, Canadian man dies by suicide

By Simona Weinglass

Fred Turbide of Edmonton, Alberta, was a devoted husband and father of four who was looking forward to enjoying his retirement with his family. Then the ‘brokers’ of 23Traders got hold of him

US President-elect Donald Trump speaks at the Chairman's Global Dinner in Washington, DC on January 17, 2017. (AFP Photo/Jim Watson)

Trump: ‘I did not forget’ Jerusalem embassy move pledge

By Alexander Fulbright

US president-elect tells Israel Hayom daily that he doesn’t ‘break promises,’ intends to go through with relocation

In final remarks, Obama says chance for two-state solution passing by

By Eric Cortellessa

Jerusalem mayor vaunts Trump, campaigns for embassy move

By Raoul Wootliff

Trump’s UN envoy pick says settlements could ‘hinder peace’

By Eric Cortellessa

Illustrative photo of police tape at the JCC in Nashville, Tennessee, after the community center received a bomb threat on January 9, 2017. (Screenshot: The Tennessean)

FBI to probe wave of bomb threats to US Jewish institutions

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Federal authorities to investigate second string of hoax attacks targeting JCCs across country after 32 community centers, synagogues receive threats

Swastika drawn in snow at home of Canadian Jewish newspaper columnist

By JTA

Auschwitz museum appeals for personal SS documents

By JTA

German populist’s call to end Nazi guilt ignites outrage

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (C) and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (2R) attend an opening ceremony for the new Harel tunnels on the main Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway on January 19, 2017. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Live updates (closed)

Prosecutors seeking 3-year jail term for soldier who killed wounded stabber

PM sends get well wishes to IDF chief after surgery; rabbi allows Ivanka to ride in car for Shabbat inauguration event; Trump aide: Announcement soon on moving embassy

Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan attends a Knesset House Committee meeting on September 20, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police minister maintains Bedouin car-ramming was terror attack

Gilad Erdan says ‘unequivocal conclusion’ is Umm al-Hiran killing was intentional, cites intelligence findings and driver’s behavior

Israeli Arabs on strike over Bedouin home demolitions

After Umm al-Hiran violence, Arab lawmakers push 10-year demolition freeze

Shin Bet ‘still investigating’ if Umm al-Hiran driver had IS ties

By Judah Ari Gross

Bedouins cry following the destruction of houses on January 18, 2017 in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran. (AFP/ MENAHEM KAHANA)

Reporter's Notebook

Fear and loathing in Umm al-Hiran

While most Israelis were coping with another ‘terror attack’ in which a policeman was killed, at the partly demolished Bedouin village a very different narrative held sway

After fatal Negev clashes, police minister calls for probe into Arab MKs’ ‘incitement’

Army Radio DJ fired over support for driver who killed cop

Hundreds across country protest ‘bloodshed, home demolitions’

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit attends a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Knesset, July 18, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Loyalist or prosecutor? Netanyahu graft probes put AG in uneasy spotlight

By Marissa Newman

As the PM’s former cabinet secretary, Avichai Mandelblit ought to recuse himself from the investigations, some charge; but the state’s top lawyer denies bias

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister Office in Jerusalem on January 15, 2017. (Amit Shabi/POOL)

AnalysisLegal path to depose PM is tortuous, but indictment would likely end his career

By Raphael Ahren

Benjamin Netanyahu (left) with MK Ze'ev Elkin during a Likud faction meeting at the Knesset on December 1, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Senior minister, former news site editor testify in PM graft probe

By Raoul Wootliff

Tweeter-in-Chief

Presidential dignity that inspires trust should come with the office, but the 45th American president-elect is too far gone

A time for strategy, not emotion!

Objectively, the 6 principles Kerry laid out in his address are in line with Netanyahu’s own positions

Micha Odenheimer

We don’t need no climate science

We can learn all we need to know about global warming from subsistence farmers struggling for survival

Dan Shapiro, Julie Fisher and Liat Shapiro accompany President Obama to Air Force One after the funeral of Shimon Peres, September 30, 2016. (US Embassy Tel Aviv)

Interview

Departing, US envoy’s wife reflects on motherhood and the modern diplomatic spouse

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Pro- and anti-Trump demonstrators protest in front of Trump Tower on November 20, 2016, in New York. (AFP/KENA BETANCUR)

Ahead of Trump inauguration, a grassroots movement of rabbinic ‘resistance’ sprouts

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

With calls for an #InaugurationFast, liberal American rabbis navigate political and spiritual waters to lead their flocks in protest of the incoming administration

Sixth & I, a nondenominational synagogue, in Washington, DC. (Courtesy of Sixth & I /via JTA)

Facing inauguration and women’s march, DC synagogues split on entering the fray

The US capital’s temples tiptoe the fine line between politics and Jewish values

An Egyptian newspaper vendor holds copies of local newspapers fronted with a picture of President-elect Donald Trump with Arabic headline that reads, "Trump era", November 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Analysis

Mideast expects big changes under Trump

By Dan Perry and Bradley Klapper

From Cairo to Tehran, Syria to the Gulf, key players eye the prospect of once-unimaginable new alliances under the incoming US administration

The Arrow 3 missile defense system that was delivered to the Israeli Air Force on January 18, 2017. (Defense Ministry)

Air force gets first Arrow 3 missile defense battery

By Judah Ari Gross

Israel enters ‘new age’ as US-Israeli system designed to shoot down ballistic missiles goes operational

Members of the Women of the Wall group praying outside the entrance to the Western Wall after they were denied entry to the site for refusing to undergo body searches, despite a recent Supreme Court ruling outlawing the searches. January 19, 2017. (Courtesy of Women of the Wall)

Women of the Wall denied entry to Western Wall

Members of group kept away from site after refusing to undergo body searches, which the High Court had banned

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks at a conference at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya January 2, 2017. (Flash90)

IDF chief hospitalized for unspecified treatment

Gadi Eisenkot’s condition was discovered 2 months ago; deputy Yair Golan assumes post of acting chief of staff

Palestinian activist Mohammed al-Taluli (top), 25, chants slogans during a protest at the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip on January 12, 2017, against the Palestinian enclave's ongoing electricity crisis. (AFP Photo/Mohammed Abed)

Hamas halts electricity protests, but anger remains

Harsh security crackdown and aid from Qatar have put an end to widespread demonstrations in the Gaza Strip

In this image made from video, a high-rise residential building collapses following a large fire, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, in Tehran, Iran. (IRINN via AP)

Collapse of burning Tehran high-rise kills 50 people

30 firefighters among dead at Iconic Plasco building, which was erected by a Jewish businessman who was executed in the 1979 revolution

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Composite image of US President-elect Donald Trump (r), January 9, 2017 in New York (AFP PHOTO / Timothy A. CLARY AND Tobias SCHWARZ) and close-up photograph of the head of Neopalpa donaldtrumpi, named for its apparent resemblance to Donald Trump (CC BY Dr. Vazrick Nazari, Wikipedia)

Bug with a rugTiny moth with distinctive ‘hairdo’ named after Trump

By AFP

Likud member Ayoub Kara arrives for a meeting at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on December 30, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Likud MK Ayoub Kara to become Israel’s first Druze minister

A Passover Haggadah printed in Prague in 1556. (National Library)

National Library makes ‘historic’ acquisition of rare Hebrew texts

By Ilan Ben Zion

Rabbi Berry Nash, right, prays as Montana Rep. Dave Fern, R-Whitefish, wears boxes containing Torah versus called Tefillin on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017 in Helena, Mont. (AP/Matt Volz)

Rabbis plan response to white supremacist threats in Montana

New England Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady is famous for his extremely healthy diet. (YouTube screenshot)

Tom Brady ad highlights Israeli-developed video tech

A scene from an episode of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” featuring Tovah Feldshuh, left, and Patti LuPone. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Upping the Jewish ante5 Jewish moments in epic ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ episode

By Linda Buchwald

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 Photo/Menahem Kahana)

Hebrew media reviewPress puts the ‘um’ in Umm al-Hiran

By Joshua Davidovich

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