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What Matters Most On Tuesday, January 31, 2017

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

Netanyahu to meet Trump at White House on February 15

By Raphael Ahren

Hours after saying he’ll urge Iran nuke deal rethink, PM ‘appreciates kind invitation’ and will discuss cooperation vital to security of US and Israel

Trump says ‘chance’ he’ll move embassy, but admits there are ‘two sides’

By Eric Cortellessa

PA hasn’t given up on Trump, senior official says

In new White House, a look at Trump’s inner circle

View of caravan houses in the illegal outpost of Amona on January 16, 2017. (Lior Mizrahi/Flash90)

Amona residents given 48 hours to leave outpost as evacuation looms

By Marissa Newman and Judah Ari Gross

IDF says it is ready to carry out eviction order once government gives green light, after settlers on West Bank hilltop are served with notices ahead of court-ordered demolition

A mobile home in the outpost of Amona. (Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Outpost bill makes return to Knesset after coalition overrides opposition objections

Israeli settlers protest the planned eviction of the Amona outpost, in front of the Knesset, January 30, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

As outpost bill resurfaces, settlers bemoan failure to halt ‘final’ eviction

By Raoul Wootliff

White House press secretary Sean Spicer speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, January 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

White House: ‘Nitpicking’ over Holocaust statement ‘pathetic’

By Eric Cortellessa

Defending Trump’s omission of Jews from remembrance day comment, Sean Spicer says president ‘went out of his way’ to recognize tragedy, cites Netanyahu’s embrace of administration

Jewish aide wrote White House Holocaust statement — report

Holocaust museum resorts to explaining Holocaust in statement seemingly aimed at White House

By Ricky Ben-David and Eric Cortellessa

No point in feud with Trump over Holocaust statement — top minister

By Marissa Newman and Eric Cortellessa

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

Netanyahu must not be Donald Trump’s yes-man

By David Horovitz

Op-ed: The PM says he’ll be leading Israel and the Jews for years to come. That requires doing more than basking in the unfamiliar pleasure of a presidency that doesn’t like the Iran deal and calls Islamic terrorism by its name

Illustrative: Protesters rally at a demonstration against the new ban on immigration issued by US President Donald Trump at Logan International Airport on January 28, 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images/AFP)

Orthodox, liberal denominations unify around opposition to Trump ban

By JTA

In rare show of unity, OU and RCA join Reform, Conservative movements in condemning executive order barring entry to citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries

When Jewish immigrants were detained, and Jews took to the streets

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Stranger in own landYemenite Jew among detainees at JFK due to Trump ban

Top Democrat pushes vote on repealing Trump’s travel ban

By Eric Cortellessa

President Donald Trump fired on January 30, 2017 his acting attorney general, Sally Yates, after she ordered Justice Department staff not to defend his executive order banning travel from seven Muslim countries. (AP)

Trump fires acting attorney general for ordering staff not to defend refugee ban

By Agencies and ToI Staff

White House says Sally Yates, a Democratic appointee, ‘betrayed’ Justice Department by refusing to enforce ‘legal order’ to protect US citizens

After firing acting AG, Trump replaces interim US immigration chief

By AFP

Obama praises anti-Trump protesters across US

By Josh Lederman

Thousands protest as British PM stands firm on Trump invite

By Alice Ritchie

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Cybertech Israel Conference and Exhibition, in Tel Aviv on January 31, 2017. (Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Netanyahu: Ties with Mexico ‘much stronger than passing spat’

PM doubles down on denial that his tweet praising border walls was a comment on Trump’s plan to keep out Mexican migrants

Israel, Mexico presidents to speak to smooth over rift

Israeli diplomat, Mexican deputy FM meet to smooth over wall spat

Mexican Jews voice wall-to-wall outrage over Netanyahu tweet

By Rich Tenorio and AFP

Members of theHamas's armed wing, stand in front of a model of a Gaza Strip-made M75 rocket newly displayed at the al-Jalaa square on March 10, 2014 in Gaza City. ( AFP photo/Mahmud Hams)

Live updates (Closed)

Hamas has restored military capabilities destroyed in 2014 war

By Gavin Rabinowitz

Army prepared to carry out Amona evacuation as settlers get 48-hour warning; Palestinians say Trump ignoring their overtures

This 360-degree panoramic image, the first of three extremely high-resolution images featured in the GigaGalaxy Zoom project launched by ESO within the framework of the International Year of Astronomy 2009, shows the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy edge-on from the perspective on Earth. (Wikipedia/ESO/S. Brunier/CC BY 4.0)

Our galaxy’s dash through space seen as tale of attraction and repulsion

By Shoshanna Solomon

Meet the Dipole Repeller, a large, low-density region that a Hebrew U-led team of researchers says helps explain the Milky Way’s motion

Lawrence Grossman

Holocaust memory without Jews

Trump’s purely universalist message stripped the Shoah of its actual victims — and hence much of its meaning

Chana Gable Selmon

Yemenites in Brooklyn

In the aftermath of 9/11, every foreign national was suspect — until you sat together for a cup of tea

How the heroes have fallen

The passing of Yair Akov at 91 signals the end of a generation that paid a terrible price to ensure Israel’s survival

Illustrative: A missile launched from the Alborz mountains in Iran on March 9, 2016, reportedly inscribed in Hebrew, 'Israel must be wiped out.' (Fars News)

UN Security Council to hold urgent talks on Iran ballistic missile test

By AFP and ToI Staff

US requests emergency consultations after Israeli envoy to UN calls for action; Netanyahu says he’ll press Trump to reimpose sanctions

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the Cybertech Israel Conference and Exhibition, in Tel Aviv on January 31, 2017. (Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90)

After Iran tests ballistic missile, Netanyahu urges rethink of ‘failed’ nuke deal

By ToI Staff and Eric Cortellessa

Alexandre Bissonnette is escorted to a van January 30, 2017, in Quebec City, after appearing in court for Sunday's deadly shooting at a mosque. (Jacques Boissinot/The Canadian Press via AP)

Quebec mosque shooter charged with 6 counts of murder

By Tracey Lindeman and Rob Gillies

French Canadian suspect, 27, known for far-right nationalist views, support for France’s National Front head Marine Le Pen

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas poses for the family photo, during the 28th African Union summit in Addis Ababa on January 30, 2017. (AFP/ZACHARIAS ABUBEKER)

Abbas to Africa: Put Palestinian plight ahead of forging ties with Israel

Speaking at summit in Ethiopia, PA leader accuses Israel of doing all it can to undermine two-state solution

Rae Kushner, grandmother of Jared Kushner, testifies in a 1982 interview about er experience in the Holocaust. (Screenshot)

Jared Kushner’s grandmother on being a refugee: ‘The doors of the world were closed to us’

By Josefin Dolsten

Ultra-Orthodox men walk past piles of garbage caused by a strike of the Jerusalem municipality, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood, on January 30, 2017.(Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Jerusalem strike intensifies as daycare centers join municipal walkout

Standoff between city, Treasury deepens on day 3 of wage row that sees capital without garbage collectors, welfare services

Yuval Rotem, director-general of the Foreign Ministry, October 13, 2016. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Foreign Ministry chief to visit Turkey for first bilateral talks in years

Yuval Rotem heads delegation to Ankara to meet Turkish officials, Jewish community leaders as ties warm 6 years after Mavi Marmara raid

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis greets Jordan's King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein during an honor cordon at the Pentagon, Monday, Jan. 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump courts Jordan’s king amid embassy, refugee concerns

By Josh Lederman

Abdullah II in Washington for high-level talks in test for US president on juggling Arab allies, immigration ban

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Damas Pakada, an Israeli soldier of Ethiopian origin who was allegedly assaulted by police officers, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, May 4, 2015. (Photo: Haim Zach/GPO)

AG weighs reopening case against cop who beat Ethiopian

Avichai Mandelblit finds ‘certain inaccuracies’ in his predecessor’s decision to close criminal probe against officer

Illustrative photo of Palestinian woman who sits next to her luggage as she waits to cross to the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing, in Rafah, Gaza Strip, October 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Palestinian asylum-seekers rush toward Canada’s open arms

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A photo of Asher and Irit Shahar with their son Omri taken before Omri's death in June 2012. (Courtesy)

Couple suffers setback in bid for grandchild from sperm of late soldier son

By Renee Ghert-Zand

Israeli musician Ilan Ben Ami at the Tel Aviv District Court on December 6, 2015 (Flash90)

Tel Aviv musician convicted of murdering wife with hammer

Falcons on a plane (YouTube screenshot)

Flight of fancySaudi prince buys his 80 falcons a plane seat apiece

Amos Gilad. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Mossad spook to replace Amos Gilad in powerful defense post

By Judah Ari Gross

A photograph of the new Manchester Civil Justice Center from Bridge Street (Public domain Skip88, Wikimedia commons)

UK judge keeps ex-Haredi man now living as woman away from kids

Pope Francis walks towards the main entrance with the lettering 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work Sets You Free) at the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Oswiecim, Poland on July 29, 2016 (AFP PHOTO/FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)

Belgians face decade in prison for Auschwitz theft

By AFP

The Wall separating Mexico-US border wall, seen from the Mexico side (CC BY Wonderlane, Flickr)

Hebrew media reviewIsraeli press scorns Netanyahu for building a wall with Mexico

By Ilan Ben Zion

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