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What Matters Most On Friday, January 27, 2017

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US President Donald Trump discusses the potential transfer of the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in an interview to Fox News on January 26, 2017 (screen capture: YouTube)

Trump: ‘Too early’ to talk of moving embassy to Jerusalem

President says US ties with Israel were fixed as soon as he took office; cites West Bank security barrier as successful example of wall,

In call, Mattis assures Liberman of ‘unwavering commitment to Israel’

IDF: Proposed US embassy move not roiling Palestinian street

By Judah Ari Gross

Top State Department officials step down in large diplomatic shakeup

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, January 26, 2017. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu: World’s silence on Iran’s threats to destroy Israel will end with Trump

At Yad Vashem, PM vows that Israel will never let Tehran get nukes, says Iran should learn that ‘the regime that spawned the Holocaust ended up in the dustbin of history’

Hamas rewriting charter without anti-Semitism, claims official… but still rejects Israel

Shaked: Anti-Semitism killing Jews, not stalled peace talks

German schoolbook publisher apologizes for anti-Semitic illustration

By JTA

Thousands of pupils at World ORT schools participated in the World Jewish Congress #WeRemember campaign ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2017. (World Jewish Congress)

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Global initiatives virtually commemorate the Holocaust — in a very real way

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

Meaningful social media campaigns by Israel’s Yad Vashem and the World Jewish Congress make history and remembrance accessible to all ages

International Holocaust Remembrance DayFor Holocaust’s loneliest survivors, young Israelis are a lifeline

Running for the past, athletes trek to Holocaust race in Rome

By Rossella Tercatin

Elderly survivors return to Auschwitz, 72 years after liberation

By Vanessa Gera

Illustrative photo of a scientist working with a microscope. (iStock)

Hospital accidentally implants woman with wrong fertilized egg

Barzilai Medical Center says mistake discovered ‘immediately’; Health Ministry calls for investigation

Likud's Culture Minister Miri Regev (C) attends a party retreat in the southern resort city of Eilat, on January 26, 2017. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Defending Likud get-together on world Holocaust Day, minister claims it has bolstered Holocaust coverage

‘I don’t remember anyone deciding there can be no celebrations on this day,’ Miri Regev says; attacks media ‘lies’ about PM’s alleged corruption

Elie Wiesel in his office in New York, September 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

A star-studded ‘Night’ to honor Elie Wiesel in New York

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Five-hour January 29 event at Museum of Jewish Heritage will feature diverse community reading of the slim 116-page volume that changed the world

Nazi hunter says hundreds could still be at large

By AFP

US Holocaust survivors’ requests for help grew by 20% in 2016

By JTA

German schoolbook publisher apologizes for anti-Semitic illustration

By JTA

Katarzyna Markusz

She knows almost nothing about him

On the lingering trauma of the shadow of Auschwitz, from a third-generation survivor

My anti-Polish bias

Family stories of anti-Jewish attacks colored his journalistic impartiality toward a country claiming victimhood

Freedom and truth

The thorny question of why Moses lies to Pharoah condemns a system in which the truth may risk one’s life (Vaera)

Shammai Engelmayer

It’s not politics, it’s Torah

When rabbis talk about government policy from the pulpit, they don’t betray their mandate, but uphold it

Israeli rescue and security forces at the scene where a bus fell down a ravine on a road near Ma'ale Levonah, in the West Bank, on January 27, 2017. (Moshe Mizrachi/Flash90)

2 killed, 7 hurt as bus plunges into ravine in West Bank

Driver among the dead when Egged vehicle falls 70 meters; darkness, rain and difficult terrain hamper rescue

Israeli forces near Ramallah in February 2016 (Flash90)

Israeli car comes under fire in West Bank, none hurt

Multiple bullets hit vehicle near settlement west of Ramallah; soldiers searching for shooter

IDF soldiers, along with the police and Shin Bet security service, seize dozens of illegal weapons in Bethlehem and Hebron on August 23, 2016, as part of a large crackdown effort on illicit guns in the West Bank. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

IDF’s West Bank crackdown triples prices of makeshift guns

By Judah Ari Gross

In a bid to keep firearms out of terrorists’ hands, shuttering the workshops that make them became a high priority in 2016

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

PM praises Likud support amid graft probes, vows to stay in office

After 3-hour grilling, Netanyahu says he’ll be leading Israel ‘for many years’; denounces ‘pressure campaign’ against him

Police arrive at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 27, 2017, to question Benjamin Netanyahu for the third time in two corruption investigations. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Police question PM for 3rd time over gifts, deal with media magnate

Former chief rabbi of Israel Yona Metzger at the Jerusalem District Court during his corruption trial on July 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Facing outcry, bribe-taking ex-chief rabbi forgoes speech on ‘Dignity of Rabbinate’

Yona Metzger was not disinvited from conference after pleading guilty Tuesday and accepting prison time for corruption

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)

Trial delayed for Israeli held in Arab country after cash raised

Ben Hassin, who fought IS as a volunteer, jailed for killing cabbie who threatened him; ‘blood money’ could spare his life

A building site in the Gilo neighborhood in south-western East Jerusalem, October 2, 2011. (photo credit: Uri Lenz / Flash90)

Israel okays 153 homes in East Jerusalem neighborhood Gilo

By ToI Staff and AFP

Announcement comes 2 days after over 2,500 settlements housing units approved throughout the West Bank

Fliers with swastikas that appeared on printers at the University of California, Berkeley, January 2017 (NBC screenshot)

Hacked printers at 3 US colleges produce anti-Semitic fliers

By JTA

Printers at Stanford, Vanderbilt and California, Berkeley targeted by suspected hackers

A complex in Wilmington, Del., housing four Jewish organizations was evacuated after receiving a bomb threat. (Courtesy of Siegel JCC in Wilmington)

FBI sees bomb threats to JCCs as hate crime, not terrorism

By JTA

Calls targeted over 30 Jewish community centers in 20 states in January, but in no case was a bomb found

The entrance to the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work makes you free'). (Joel Saget/AFP)

Company says Auschwitz game meant to raise Holocaust awareness

By JTA

Czech escape room, resembling a gas chamber disguised as a shower, causes wave of outrage

Schulikowska Jadwiga was separated from her mother shortly after her birth in 1945. After being taken to Kloster Indersdorf, she was adopted by a Polish couple. She finally met her birth mother in the 1908s. (Courtesy Museum of Jewish Heritage)

For the ‘lost children’ of the Holocaust, a lifelong quest to be found

By Cathryn J. Prince

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Mayim Bialik, (l), and Madeleine Albright both tweeted about joining a Muslim registry on January 26, 2017. (Shutterstock/Getty Images via JTA)

Madeleine Albright, Mayim Bialik vow to join Trump Muslim registry

By JTA

Detail from YOLOCAUST by Shahak Shapira (yolocaust.de)

Citing success, creator takes down YOLOCAUST webpage

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Rod Stewart performing in Hamburg, Germany in October 2013. The singer will perform on June 14 in Tel Aviv (CC BY-SA Wikimedia commons)

Scottish soccer fans call on Rod Stewart to cancel Israel show

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, second left, and his wife Sara, second right, tour in Tel Gezer and Magshimim Forest, together with their sons, Yair, right, and Avner, left, during the holiday of Sukkot, October 21, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/ GPO/ File)

Driving for BibiReport: PM looking for student to drive his kids on Shabbat

Terminal 1 at JFK Airport (Wikimedia Commons, Doug Letterman, CC BY 2.0)

US man accused of attacking Muslim airline employee at JFK

By AP

Watching an array of performers at the virtual reality Forbes 30 Under 30 concert in the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem on April 6, 2016 (Courtesy Sasson Tiram)

Forbes to hold Israel’s second Under 30 Summit in April

By Shoshanna Solomon

Shaanan Streett (left), Guy Mar and Yair Cohen Harounoff of Hadag Nahash with Hadar Marks (top) at Galgalatz radio station. (Courtesy Galgalatz)

Traffic JamIconic Israeli song gets crowd-sourced rewrite

By Jessica Steinberg

Clockwise from left: Dana Berger, Tamar Eisenman and Yula Be’eri. (Flash90, YouTube)

Pop powerIsraeli women rockers offer Super Bowl alternative

By Gabe Friedman

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

Hebrew Media ReviewIllegal cigars, legal weed

By Adiv Sterman

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