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What Matters Most On Thursday, January 26, 2017

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President Donald Trump reading the first of three executive orders he signed in the Oval Office, January 23, 2017. (Ron Sachs/Pool/Getty Images)

Trump said set to halt funding for UN agencies, other groups that give PA, PLO full membership

By Eric Cortellessa

President preparing executive orders that would also stop payments to organizations linked to terror-sponsoring states, NY Times says

Netanyahu, Giuliani meet in run-up to summit with Trump

By ToI Staff and JTA

Sara Netanyahu congratulates Melania Trump on new role as first lady

AnalysisPalestinians say Obama’s last-minute $221 million payout frozen by Trump

By Avi Issacharoff and AP

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with former mayor of New York City, Rudolph 'Rudy' Giuliani, at PM Netanyahu's office in Jerusalem on February 1, 2015. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)

Live updates (closed)

PM to be questioned for 3rd time tomorrow in graft probes

Yedioth publisher grilled for sixth time by police; Mexican president cancels White House talks amid row over wall; State Department senior managers quit en masse

Arab League says Israel showing ‘contempt’ with settlement plans

By AFP and ToI Staff

Germany: New settler homes cast doubt on Israel’s commitment to 2 states

UN holds off action over new settlement construction

By AFP and ToI Staff

Then-Economy Minister Naftali Bennett (left) with then-finance Minister Yair Lapid in the Knesset, March 11, 2014. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

‘Stop playing with the generals,’ Lapid told Bennett during Gaza war

By Raoul Wootliff

Fresh leaks from secretive security cabinet reveal sharp strife among top ministers during the 2014 conflict

Then defense minister Moshe Ya'alon (R) seen with Education Minister Naftali Bennett during a plenum session at the plenary in the Knesset on May 25, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Ex-defense chief Ya’alon slams Bennett as ‘minister of leaks’

Young Israelis gathered at the Rose Garden in front of the Knesset, to smoke weed, on the international '4:20' marijuana smoking day, in a demonstration to legalize the drug, in Jerusalem, on April 20, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

First-time offenders would be fined NIS 1,000 ($265)

Marijuana on way to being decriminalized after minister backs move

By Raoul Wootliff

Gilad Erdan accepts anti-drug body’s recommendation to cut down on prosecution for recreational use; cabinet likely to make move official

Israeli women smoke cigarettes while spending time at a cafe in central Tel Aviv. (Kobi Gideon / FLASH90)

Health Ministry seeks to implement far-reaching smoking crackdown

A worker tends to cannabis plants at the Tikun Olam growing facility in Israel. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)

Decriminalization seen as boost for medical marijuana research

By Shoshanna Solomon

Syrian children gather around a fire as the Syrian government starts to clean up areas formerly held by opposition forces in the northern city of Aleppo on December 27, 2016, in the Shaar district. (AFP/George Ourfalian)

Israel said readying to take in 100 orphaned Syrian refugees

Children will receive temporary residency, becoming permanent residents after 4 years; will be integrated into Arab Israeli families

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu adresses the Knesset during a Q&A session, January 25, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police said likely to recommend indicting PM in gifts probe

By ToI Staff and Raoul Wootliff

Officials are also weighing investigating Netanyahu as a criminal suspect in submarine affair, according to TV report

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses MKs during the annual Question Time in the Knesset on January 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

PM faces down MKs over criminal probes, rebuffs resignation calls

By Raoul Wootliff

Leader of the opposition Isaac Herzog addresses the Israeli parliament during a question period at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament, January 25, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Herzog slams PM over graft probes: Hand in your keys and quit

A general view of TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries in Jerusalem, Israel, October 11, 2013. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Suffering from missteps, drugmaker Teva struggles to heal own ills

By Shoshanna Solomon

A constant fixture of Israelis’ saving plans, pharma firm’s shares have plummeted as its CEO embarked on aggressive acquisition adventures, wiping billions from portfolios

Illustrative. Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces in Jenin on February 6, 2016. (Haytham Shtayeh/FLASH90)

IDF soldier wounded in Jenin during arrest raid

By Judah Ari Gross

Residents fire shots, throw pipe bombs at army troops; suspected gunsmithing workshop shuttered in Hebron

Palestinian opens fire on West Bank road, none hurt – army

By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff

Minister nixes residency for family of Jerusalem truck terrorist

Palestinian opens fire on troops in drive-by attack, is shot

By Judah Ari Gross

Attic red-figure column krater depicting Herakles on Mount Olympus between the Gods Greece, Classical Period, attributed to the Naples Painter, ca. 460 BCE, pottery BLMJ 4963. (Vladimir Naikhin, Bible Lands Museum)

Ceramics shine light on ancient Greece, but collection’s cloudy history lurks

By Ilan Ben Zion

Rare kraters and amphorae in Borowski collection go on display at Bible Lands Museum, though some ask how items made it to Jerusalem

Staring at the tombstones

He travelled to Otwock and Karczew to finally uncover his family’s hidden Holocaust stories

UK campuses now no-go zones for Jews

Islamist theocrats, aided by left wing apologists and right wing populists, are stoking hatred and sowing fear

Grow up

The US Embassy question infantilizes and distracts the key parties from the real need: a lasting peace of mature partners

Barukh Hyman Hidvegi

In the desert with a hole in my heart

On moving and memory and the very essence of community

Israeli national Ben Hassin, who was jailed for killing a taxi driver in an unnamed Arab country, where he went to fight Islamic State. (courtesy)

Over $100,000 raised to free Israeli imprisoned in Arab country

ZAKA-led drive secures most of funds needed to help release Ben Hassin, jailed for killing cabbie while volunteering to fight IS

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks during a joint press conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda (unseen) in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, January 18, 2017. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

Abbas: ‘Dangerous consequences’ for new settlement construction

By ToI Staff and AFP

After Israel announces 2,500 new West Bank homes, PA president said working to have international forums impose a halt

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

Minister admits questions remain, but insists Umm al-Hiran ramming was terror

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Erdan turns to internal police probe, Shin Bet to provide answers; Knesset nixes parliamentary inquiry into incident

From left to right: Zionist Union MK Amir Peretz, Jewish Home MK Shuli Mualem and Zehava Shaul, mother of Oron Shaul, at the Knesset, January 25, 2017 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Families of fallen soldiers lament government inaction

Parents of Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, whose remains are held by Hamas in Gaza, exhort MKs behind new lobby to ‘do something’

Michael Shinagel, former dean, was the longest-serving person in the position in Harvard's history. Here he is pictured in his office. (Rich Tenorio/Times of Israel)

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

How an escape from the Nazis colored the career of Harvard’s longest-serving dean

By Rich Tenorio

Moshe Kantor (right), European Jewish Congress President, with Antonio Tajani, the newly elected president of the European Parliament. (courtesy EJC)

Top EU lawmaker urges vigilance amid rise in anti-Semitism

By Marissa Newman

At Holocaust remembrance event, Antonio Tajani says ‘no Jew should be forced to leave Europe’; Tony Blair warns ‘any sense of security is false’

View of Lebanon as seen from the Israeli side of the border near Rosh Hanikra, in northwestern Israel, November 10, 2016 (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

Lebanon claims to expose 5-strong Israeli spy cell

By Itamar Sharon

Officials say group including Lebanese, Nepalese nationals and Palestinian refugee sent intel to Israeli embassies, tried to recruit members

Israel Nature and Parks Authority officials inside a stalactite cave recently discovered in Israel's northern Galilee region. (Screen capture: YouTube)

Rare stalactite cave found in Galilee, but visitors not welcome

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men yell and protest Liberal Jewish men and women as they hold a prayer service in front of the Western Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City, on June 16, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Shas moves ahead with anti-Reform Western Wall bill

By Raoul Wootliff

Proposal could face ministerial vote next week; Chief Rabbinate claims High Court does not have jurisdiction over holy sites

This file photo taken on October 19, 2016 shows Jewish worshippers performing the annual Cohanim prayer (priest's blessing) at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on October 19, 2016. (AFP/Gil COhen-Magen)

Israel advances Western Wall train plan

By AFP and ToI Staff

Transportation minister orders planning, feasibility studies into extending Tel-Aviv-Jerusalem high-speed line to include Old City station

In this undated handout photo, provided by Tales of Jewish Sudan, Lily Ben-David, far left, along with mother and aunt (back row) attend a neighbor's wedding in Khartoum. (Courtesy of Lily Ben-David, Tales of Jewish Sudan, via AP)

Sudanese Jews recall long-lost world with nostalgia

By ISMA'IL KUSHKUSH

The David’s Sling missile defense system undergoes a final round of tests on Dec. 21, 2015 in Israel. (AP Photo courtesy of Israel Ministry of Defense/via JTA)

Upgraded David’s Sling aces new anti-missile tests

By Judah Ari Gross

Defense Ministry hails successful joint trial with US as ‘important milestone’ for anti-ballistic missile battery

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, left, and Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly, speaking at the Homeland Security Department in Washington, January 25, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Trump says torture works, vows to ‘fight IS fire with fire’

By Bradley Klapper, Desmond Butler and Deb Riechmann

Administration said to be looking at resuming waterboarding, reopening CIA-run ‘black site’ prisons outside the United States

President Donald Trump takes the cap off a pen before signing executive order for immigration actions to build border wall during a visit to the Homeland Security Department in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Jewish groups decry Trump draft order temporarily barring some refugees

By JTA and ToI Staff

Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner dance at the Freedom Ball, in Washington, January 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Is Ivanka Jewish? In Israel, she has a Trump card

By Daniel Estrin

Since Donald Trump’s election, Israel’s rabbinical establishment seems more eager to rethink restrictive conversion rules

Hadassah founder Henrietta Szold meeting with Tehran Children in Israel in February 1943. (Jewish Agency for Israel via JTA)

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Tehran Holocaust refugees generating new interest amid global migrant crisis

By Cnaan Liphshiz

Thousands of Jews escaped to Uzbekistan during WWII; 800 children made tortuous journey via Soviet Union, India, Egypt and Iran to pre-state Israel

More Headlines

Members of the Palestinian Hamas security forces take part in a graduation ceremony in Gaza City on January 22, 2017. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)

Hamas court in Gaza convicts members of Abbas’s Fatah movement

By AFP

Petr Tolstoy, deputy speaker of the Russian parliament, speaking in 2016 (Screen capture: YouTube)

Senior Russian lawmaker: Jews still seeking to destroy our churches

By JTA

Image from WJC's "We Remember" campaign projected on screen at Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, January 24, 2017 (Courtesy)

Rivlin, Netanyahu join thousands in Holocaust remembrance campaign

Supporters of Austrian presidential candidate Alexander Van der Bellen dance behind a sign reading 'No Nazi at the Hofburg' during a rave outside of Hofburg palace on the eve of elections in Vienna, Austria, May 21, 2016. (AFP/Joe Klamar)

Austrian man jailed for selling pro-Hitler songs online

By AP

A Nazi symbol is seen painted on a memorial stone at a cemetery where Poles are buried in Bykivnia near the capital Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017. The inscription reads SS Galitchina, a reference to the Galicia division of the Nazi SS organization made up mostly of ethnic Ukrainian volunteers during WW II (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Vandals paint Nazi graffiti on Polish graves in Ukraine

By AP and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump, left, congratulates then senior counselor to the president Stephen Bannon during the swearing-in of senior staff in the East Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Jewish Breitbart writer to join Trump administration

By JTA

Israeli flags stand next to the menorah, the symbol of the State of Israel, at the Knesset (photo credit: Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Mideast marvelIsrael cracks US magazine’s ‘Great Powers’ list

Illustrative. The bay of Vai in Crete, Greece. (CC BY, Wikimedia)

Earthquake near Greek island felt in Israel

By AP and ToI Staff

Syrian residents fleeing the violence gather at a checkpoint, manned by pro-government forces, in the Maysaloun neighborhood of the northern embattled Syrian city of Aleppo on December 8, 2016. (AFP/Youssef Karwashan)

Trump says he will ‘absolutely do safe zones in Syria’

US President Donald Trump holds up an executive order to start the Mexico border wall project at the Department of Homeland Security facility in Washington, DC, on January 25, 2017. (AFP/Nicholas Kamm)

Trump moves forward with border wall, weighs refugee cuts

By Julie Pace, Vivian Salama and Rachel Zoll

Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Image dated January 1, 1971. (Photo by CBS via Getty Images)

Mary Tyler Moore turned the world on to fully imagined Jewish characters

President Donald Trump shows off a signed executive order to reinstitute a policy barring any recipient of US assistance from performing or promoting abortions abroad with money they receive from non-US sources, January 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Belgians join Dutch move to outflank Trump’s anti-abortion plans

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