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What Matters Most On Wednesday, January 25, 2017

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks a plenum session in the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 25, 2017. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

New settlement homes are just a ‘taste,’ Netanyahu tells MKs

By Raoul Wootliff

‘We are going to be doing many things differently from now on,’ prime minister says, confirms he’ll discuss settlement building with Trump

In break from Obama, White House keeps mum as Israel expands settlements

By Eric Cortellessa

PA: Trump encouraged Israel to okay 2,500 settlement homes

By Tamar Pileggi

In rare move, Australia criticizes settlement expansion

By Raphael Ahren

The flax-retting area at Unterschleissheim, as it looked during the Holocaust. (Peter Vahlensieck)

Researchers uncover vast numbers of unknown Nazi killing fields

By Noah Lederman

The ‘Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos,’ set for completion in 2025, has now documented 42,500 sites of Nazi persecution — over eight times more than predicted. And the number keeps on rising

US President Barack Obama, right, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hold a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, Monday, March 17, 2014 (photo credit: Saul Loeb/AFP)

Trump administration to review $221m. payment to Palestinians in Obama’s last hours

By AP

State department says will look at last-minute release of funds, blocked in Congress, to assess whether adjustments are needed to align with president’s priorities

AnalysisPalestinian sources deny report US assured PA it won’t move embassy

By Avi Issacharoff and ToI Staff

2 journalists arrested covering anti-Trump riot face felony charges

By Stuart Winer

Arab League says Israel showing ‘contempt’ with settlement plans

By AFP and ToI Staff

Ilan Hassin appeals to the Israeli public on January 24, 2017, for donations to save his son Ben's life. On the screen are the details to make donations (Channel 2 screenshot)

Father of Israeli anti-IS fighter held for murder in Arab state pleads for help

By Alexander Fulbright

Israeli-Canadian Ben Hassin, 21, has been jailed since 2015 for allegedly killing cabbie who threatened him in country with which Israel has no diplomatic ties

Illustrative photo of a resort in the Sinai Peninsula, October 16, 2016. (Johanna Geron/FLASH90)

Israelis ordered to leave Egypt’s Sinai immediately

By Tamar Pileggi

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in the assembly hall of the Knesset on January 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Live updates (closed)

Shots fired at IDF position in West Bank; none injured

By Ilan Ben Zion

In separate incident, Palestinian killed in alleged bus stop attack, army says; Israel reportedly set to take in 100 orphaned Syrian refugee children

Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with IDF chief Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz (standing directly behind him) and then-defense minister Moshe Ya'alon (seated right), monitoring IDF ground operations in Gaza during a meeting at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv on July 18, 2014. (Haim Zach/GPO/Flash90)

Preempting biting report, PM says he ran 2014 war ‘responsibly’

By Raoul Wootliff

Netanyahu hits back at claims he failed to consult with security cabinet, underestimated Gaza cross-border tunnel threat

Former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger at the Jerusalem District Court during his trial for taking bribes, fraud, and involvement in criminal activities, July 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-Israel chief rabbi to serve jail time in plea deal for fraud

Under bargain, Yona Metzger will confess to slew of corruption charges in exchange for reduced prison sentence of 3.5 years, NIS 5 million fine

Organizer of Just Beyond our Borders Yoav Yeivin (left), scholar of Syria and activist Prof. Nir Boms (center) and CEO of Amalia Moti Kahana (right). (Dov Lieber/Times of Israel)

The ‘never again’ imperative: Why and how Israelis are helping Syrians

More than half a decade into devastating civil war, activists say empathy in Jewish state for northern neighbor has soared in recent months

Karlie Kloss, Joshua Kushner are seen in the West Village on April 26, 2016 in New York City. (Alo Ceballos/GC Images)

Who is Jared Kushner’s brother, and could his $2.7b company fail under Trump?

By Gabe Friedman

Joshua Kushner owns a tech company that sells health care through the Affordable Care Act, which the president has vowed to repeal

At dawn of the Trump era, two Jewish tribes descend on Washington

Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Of ‘fascists’ and ‘libtards’

Ah, for old Facebook, where she collected debates, instead of fearing the virtual violence in her feed

Stephen M. Flatow

Mideast History 101 for Tim Kaine et al

No, the US has not supported a 2-state solution for the past 60 years

Trump and the people of the passport

That Mexico wall is a lousy idea, but this president may be just the man to pull off long overdue immigration reform

Illustrative: German police (AFP Photo/dpa/Jens Büttner)

Germany busts alleged far-right plot to attack Jews, refugees

By AFP

Police raid 12 homes linked to members of extremist ‘Reichsbürger’ movement, arrest 13 people, including several who bought weapons

Yesh Atid MK Aliza Lavie speaks during an Interior Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, June 14, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

MK blasts European report alleging ‘systematic’ Israeli killings in Gaza

By Stuart Winer

Aliza Lavie says Council of Europe’s assessment of the Palestinian enclave was designed to harm and ‘demonize’ the Jewish state

IDF soldiers by the Gaza border, near Kibbutz Nir Am, in southern Israel, on January 13, 2016 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

European officials accuse Israel of ‘systematic unlawful killings’ in Gaza

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley testifies during her confirmation hearing for US Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) before the Senate Foreign Relations committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, January 18, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB)

Nikki Haley confirmed as US envoy to United Nations

By AFP

South Carolina governor’s nomination approved overwhelmingly in Senate, affording Trump another key cabinet member

Illustrative: A monument at a Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie, Poland is found desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti, March 2012 (Jedrzej Wojnar/AP)

Anti-Semitism seen on the rise in Poland

By AFP

University of Warsaw researchers discover sharp spike in negative attitudes, acceptance of hate speech toward Jews

Joint (Arab) List leader MK Ayman Odeh holds the body of Yaqoub Mousa Abu Al-Qia’an, in a funeral that took place on January 24, 2017, near the village of Umm al-Hiran. (Joint List Spokesperson)

Thousands attend funeral of Bedouin driver killed at Umm al-Hiran

Mourners decry ‘murder’ of local teacher whom police branded ‘terrorist’ after he drove his car into cops in unclear circumstances, killing one

Ronen Bergman's article on Iran's role in the 1992 and 1994 Buenos Aires bombings, in Majalla magazine

Saudi magazine prints Israeli journalist’s account of Iran role in Buenos Aires bombings

Periodical owned by publishing house close to King Salman features lengthy investigative article with Tel Aviv dateline

Egyptian women hold their national flag and a poster bearing portraits of President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi and Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi, as they celebrate the sixth anniversary of the 2011 uprising that overthrew former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Cairo's Tahrir Square on January 25, 2017. AFP/STRINGER)

Six years after uprising, Sissi insists Egypt ‘on right track’

By AFP

President calls on country’s younger generation to work for continued ‘reform, construction and development’

President Donald Trump talks with reporters in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, before signing an executive order on the Keystone XL pipeline. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Trump moving forward with border wall, weighs ban on refugees

By AP and ToI Staff

President reviewing proposals for Mexico wall, suspension of visas for people from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen

IDF soldier Elor Azaria, who was convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead a prone and wounded Palestinian assailant, in a case that has deeply divided Israel, sits with his parents as he waits for his sentence hearing at a military court in Tel Aviv January 24, 2017. (AFP/Debbie Hill)

‘We’ve suffered enough’: Father of Hebron soldier appeals for leniency

By AFP and ToI Staff

Charlie Azaria gives emotional testomony at sentencing hearing for his son, who shot dead a wounded and disarmed Palestinian stabber

Illustrative. An IDF Merkava tank operating along the Gaza border on August 6, 2014 (Miriam Alster/ Flash 90)

IDF shells Hamas position in Gaza after troops come under fire

By Judah Ari Gross

Tank strikes terrorist group’s post in southern Strip; no injuries reported among Israeli soldiers

Likud party MK David Amsalem, chairman of the Interior Affairs Committee leads a committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, November 8, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

MK apologizes after Hollywood mogul threatens libel suit

David Amsalem, who accused Arnon Milchan of trying to bring down Netanyahu, touts his parliamentary immunity from prosecution

Students and campus allies attend the Interfaith Leadership Institute in Chicago, Illinois, 2016. (Courtesy of Interfaith Youth Core)

In a ‘what do I do now’ moment, Jewish college students work to build cross-cultural bridges

By Renee Ghert-Zand

More Headlines

Screen shot from a spoof promotional video for the Netherlands from the Dutch television talk show 'Sunday with Lubach.' (YouTube screen capture)

Orange you entertained?Dutch Jewish comedian rips Trump in viral video

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Then-Defense Moshe Ya'alon aboard the INS Tanin submarine as it docks for the first time at the Haifa Port, September 23, 2014. (Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense/ FLASH90)

Ya’alon grilled by police over purchase of German subs — report

By Raoul Wootliff

Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy in an upcoming movie about the widowed first lady. (courtesy Protozoa Pictures)

Golden gloryNatalie Portman gets Oscar nod for ‘Jackie’ biopic

By ToI Staff and JTA

Illustrative: Basketball (CC-BY-SA Kadellar/Wikimedia commons)

Ultimate comebackUS Jewish day school coach revives collapsed player

By JTA

Spokeswoman for the Popular Front of the Forces of the Islamic Revolution and former Iranian health minister Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi. (CC BY-SA, Wikimedia Commons)

Woman floated as hardline candidate for Iranian presidency

By Alexander Fulbright

The Illusive team (Illusive Networks)

Israel’s Illusive nabs Microsoft Ventures backing

By Shoshanna Solomon

DarioHealth Corp. has developed a smart device to monitor glucose levels in the blood. (Courtesy)

DarioHealth seeks sales bump for smart diabetes monitor

By Shoshanna Solomon

Times of Israel investigative reporter discusses binary options fraud, January 22, 2016. (Dennis Zinn)

Simona Weinglass on prosecuting binary options firms

Naftali Bennett speaks at the Local Government Conference, in Tel Aviv, on January 25, 2017. (Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewMaking hay even before the sun shines

By Joshua Davidovich

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