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What Matters Most On Friday, January 20, 2017

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US President Barack Obama (R) and First Lady Michelle Obama (L) welcome Preisdent-elect Donald Trump (2nd-R) and his wife Melania to the White House in Washington, DC January 20, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON)

Trump’s big day underway: Church, and a White House meeting

Hours before inauguration, president-elect jokes about chance of rain: ‘At least they’ll know it’s my real hair’

Promising to unify nation, Trump sweeps into Washington for swearing-in

By AFP

Incoming Trump spokesman: Announcement on embassy soon

By Eric Cortellessa

Analysis Mideast expects big changes under Trump

By Dan Perry and Bradley Klapper

President-elect Donald Trump pumps his fist as he arrives for the 58th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Live updates: Trump's Inauguration (closed)

Trump sworn in as president, vows to put America first, eradicate Islamic terrorism

By Itamar Sharon

45th president of the United States says power is being transferred ‘back to the people’; Obama, former presidents and Hillary Clinton attend ceremony

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump meeting at Trump Tower in New York, September 25, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Netanyahu tweets ‘Congrats to my friend President Trump’

PM sends (slightly premature) welcome to new US leader, meets with defense chiefs to discuss fallout if Trump makes good on pledge to relocate embassy to Jerusalem

Invites in hand, settlers see Trump inauguration as sign they’ve arrived

By Josef Federman

Trump to Kushner: If you can’t make Mideast peace, no one can

By ToI Staff and AP

Soros blasts Trump as ‘would-be dictator’ who will fail

By AFP

Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz, founder of Uri L'Tzedek: Orthodox Social Justice at a November 2014 immigrant rights protest. (courtesy)

Altering prayer to exclude Trump, rabbi taps into history of liturgical dissent

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Protesting the new president, a progressive Orthodox rabbi echoes the past by asking others to join him in no longer ‘blessing the Tsar’

Ahead of Trump inauguration, Jewish groups gear up for DC protest

Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner reportedly get green-light to drive to balls on Shabbat

By Joshua Davidovich

Celebrities join protesters in large New York rally against Trump

By AFP

A replica of the Siloam Inscription at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The original is in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum. (יעל י CC BY-SA Wikimedia Commons)

Despite detente, ancient Hebrew text ‘proving’ Jewish ties to Jerusalem set to stay in Istanbul

By Ilan Ben Zion

Netanyahu has hailed Siloam Inscription as evidence ‘etched in stone’ of Jews’ historic connection to holy city, but Israeli officials are not seeking its return

Rabbi Shu Eliovson receives a hug from Thanasis Voulgarakis at the Pikpa refugee camp in Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece. January 19, 2017. (Nave Antopolsky/iAID)

Exclusive

Jewish and Israeli organizations deliver emergency aid to refugees on frozen Greek island

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Team from Amaliah and iAID ships to Lesbos 1.5 tons of winter supplies collected from Israelis in just five days

Detail from YOLOCAUST by Shahak Shapira (yolocaust.de)

Israeli-German artist shames Holocaust memorial selfies

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Shahak Shapira’s ‘YOLOCAUST’ project combines Instagram photos with images of concentration camp victims to hard-hitting effect

The car of Yaqoub Abu al-Qia'an, following an incident initially claimed by police to be a terrorist attack, in the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev desert, southern Israel, January 18, 2017. Evidence subsequently came out that showed the incident was not a terrorist attack (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Police internal affairs launch probe into Umm al-Hiran deaths

Preliminary probe to look into initial shots fired by officers at driver who allegedly then rammed vehicle, killing cop, in Bedouin village

Poll: Half of Israeli Arab public sees racist motive behind home demolitions

Arab Israeli group vows to rebuild destroyed Bedouin homes

By Stuart Winer, Dov Lieber and ToI Staff

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

Jessica Levine Kupferberg

Stop frum-shaming Ivanka

Mock her gown or hair if you must; criticize all the Trump policies you want; but insulting her Judaism is just plain wrong

Barbara Diamond

Washington comes alive for Donald Trump

Nostalgia for a time when DC fixtures inspired awe instead of scrutiny, including the presidents with their daunting tasks

A soldier’s funeral

An IDF corporal killed in an army accident was buried, as a Christian, in a quintessentially Israeli ceremony

David S. Zinberg

‘May God bless and keep the czar…’

He prays not only for the Republic’s welfare, but also for its heart and soul — the principles of liberty and equality

Make Egypt great again!

The pharaoh who ‘knew not Joseph’ was hostile to his legacy and driven to undo his reforms; the rest is (biblical) history

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump meeting at Trump Tower in New York, September 25, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Analysis

Brave new Anglosphere: Israel revels in fresh support from US-UK-Australia triumvirate

By Raphael Ahren

PM Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro , January 19, 2017. (Haim Zach/GPO)

Netanyahu bids terse farewell to US envoy

PM meets with outgoing ambassador Dan Shapiro, thanks him for ‘years of joint work’ and contribution to US-Israel alliance

John Kerry bids farewell to State Department employees after delivering remarks at the US Department of State in Washington, DC, on January 19, 2017. (State Department)

Departing Kerry pleads for US diplomats to keep ‘making ripples’

By AP and AFP

Israelis holding signs of the Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael) take part in a Tu Bishvat tradition of planting trees in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Michmash, Wednesday, January 15, 2014. (Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

State Comptroller slams bloated JNF, concerns of criminal activity

Government watchdog says organization’s operational arm has little government oversight, may have conflicts of interest

Elor Azaria, an Israeli soldier who shot a Palestinian terrorist in Hebron, sits in the courtroom before the announcement of his verdict at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, January 4, 2017 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Prosecutors want 3-5 years in prison for Hebron soldier

Elor Azaria’s refusal to show regret for shooting a disarmed, injured Palestinian attacker could influence sentencing

Israeli Border Police officers stand guard as Palestinian farmers use tractors to work the land in the village of Qusra in the West Bank, with the Esh Kodesh outpost in the background, on November 19, 2013. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Palestinians rescue Israeli man, 3 soldiers from West Bank town

By Judah Ari Gross

Mayor, activist protect settlers who were surrounded by residents of Qusra, near Ariel; IDF says it’s investigating

The Roman amphitheater in the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria, March 31, 2016. (AFP/Joseph Eid, File)

IS carrying out new demolitions at Palmyra — antiquities chief

By AFP

Maamoun Abdulkarim says jihadist group damaged amphitheater, destroyed 16-columned structure in ancient city

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and his wife, Sara, host Polish President Andrzej Duda (second from right) and his wife, Agata Kornhauser, at the president's residence in Jerusalem on January 18, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Polish president: Jews safer in Poland than Western Europe

Andrzej Duda rejects country’s collective guilt in Holocaust, insisting ‘we were conquered, we had no free choice’

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)

Milchan said to tell cops Netanyahus demanded champagne, cigars

According to new leaks from police investigation, PM and his wife used the code words ‘pinks’ and ‘leaves’ to make orders

AG on PM probes: No one is above the law; I am doing my duty

State prosecutor defends AG’s conduct in Netanyahu probes

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

By Raphael Ahren

More Headlines

View of the new Harel tunnels on Route 1, the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem highway, on January 19, 2017. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway reopens with new tunnels, bridge

French far right National Front (FN) political party leader Marine Le Pen, member of the European Parliament, and candidate for the 2017 French Presidential elections presents her New Year's wishes to the press at her campaign Presidential headquarters, in Paris, France, January 4, 2017. (Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images)

French far-right leader Le Pen ahead in presidential poll

By JTA

Activists take part in a ceremony marking the second anniversary of the controversial death of Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman, in Buenos Aires, January 18, 2017. (AFP/EITAN ABRAMOVICH)

Tributes held two years after mysterious death of Argentine prosecutor

By JTA and ToI Staff

President Reuven Rivlin speaks during an event hosting Israeli ambassadors to European countries, at the President's residence in Jerusalem, January 1, 2017. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Reuven Rivlin returns home after receiving pacemaker

Uri Geller offers his psychic and punning services to Apple, September 2014. (screen capture: YouTube)

Paranormal CaptivityHow Uri Geller persuaded the CIA he can read minds

By David Sedley

A fish and tabouleh kebab at Da Da & Da, created for the two weeks of Kitchen Without Borders, in support of Syrian refugees (Courtesy Kitchen Without Borders)

Comfort foodIsraeli chefs cook up Syrian dishes to help refugees

By Jessica Steinberg

President-elect Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City, January 9, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)

Hebrew media reviewWelcome to Trumpland

By Ilan Ben Zion

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